Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. y A hail storm damaged Osceola, Mich., to the extent of $20,000. The latest novelty in Chicago criminal circles is female sand-laaggers. Another gas pipe bombwas found on the Burlington tracks in Chicago. Frank Linnehurg shot his wife and himself at Vernon, Mo. Both will die. A recent letttr estimates Gould’s wealth at only $75,000,000, instead of $100,000,000.Augast Johnson, a Dane, is isolated in a Chicago hospital, suffering from tubercular leprosy. Royal Bacid, a well-to-do farmer living near Akron, 0., was swindled out of fl ,000 in a confidence game. White and colored miners indulged in a riot hear Round Mountain, Ala., on Saturday, and a number were killed. * Seth Green, famous as a sportsman and pisciculturist, fish comissioner of New r York State, died at Rochester, Sunday. The boiler of a saw mill exploded near -Shelby, Mich., Friday, killing three persons an® seriously injuring two others. It is claimed that California will produce 1,500,000 hoses of raisins this year, against 'BOO,OOO last year and 300,000 three years ago. The Pennsylvania Iron Mills, at Lancaster, which'dosed down a week ago on account of tariff legislation, have partly resumed operations. Charles’CV/ocker, the California millionaire an«L Vice President of the Southern Pacific railroad company, died at Mewterey, ‘Cal., Wednesday. The residence of George Wiggs, oil Chicago, was entered &v burglars one, night last week, who secured plate surafi •diamonds to the amount of $3,000. Three masked men attempted to rob a Union'Pacific passenger train, Tuesday, hut were put to flight : by the trainmen aft.er'f.iirty or forty divots had been fired. The -wedish-American Naturalization Club of Chicago Isas naturalized over I,pGC Scandinavians'this year, and expects to bring in ar/nnymore before'dection.

The wholesale agricultural implement houses of Martin & Co. and Kraaari & ■Go., at Peoria, I®., were 'bu rated, last week. The total 'loss amounts to -$2 0,•000. Insurance atbout $125,000. Also •elevator A. Loss,>sl2s,ooo. Peter Shoenhofer, son of a Chicago 'brewer, dived iarto shallow water, thinking it deep. His spine wss broken near the neck. His recovery ie deemed 'improbable. Hiie' father offers $2,000 for : his cure. Burglars entered the residence of ■ 'George Q. Allen.at Chester Biopot, Yt. 'One held a revolver at the heads of Allen and his wife, while another ransacked the house, securing -$1,500 in ■money and valuables.

There is trouble again in Pfoo county, ■Kentucky, between the. Hatfields and 'McCoys. In a recent skirmish three •of the Hatfield dorces were hilled and two wounded-; while three of the Mc‘.Coy forces were wounded. L. T. Foreman was sentenced a •quarter of a century ago to ki;•years in the penitentiary for stealing a horse in ;Ralls county. Missouri. He escapedrbefore incarcerated, and has jest .been •captured at Hannibal, Mo. The store of Wallack Kelly and 'boarding house of Summers & (Lynch, in West Charleston, YV. Va., burned Friday morning at :8 o’clock. Wallace and 'bisi mother, Rachel Wallace, who were •sleeping over the-store, pertsiheudn the flames. Incendiarism supposed. * Will Johnson and Alice Sylvester, two young people of Clarkson, Ky., -started to drive to the minister in a neighboring town to be married. Thursday their bodies were found lin a ravine, it was evident that they diad driven off the embankment in tbe dark and eo -met deatfia.

Iter. L. J. Cooper, a Methodist minister of Newark, Kendall county, Illinois set fire to his house to destroy his wife and daughter. They escaped, and a few hours later he was found hanging dead ih a nefeßbor’s barn, Living also taken:l paris green. He had been insane for; several weeks and twice before attempt-' ed suicide. A dispateh from Clinton, la., says that the merchants of that place, under the influence of the Chicago, Burlington & Ouincy railroad strikers, have been boycotting that road by refusing to ship goods over it. Officials of the road have decided to retaliate, and the boycotting merchants have been notified that unless the boycott is raised the road will stop running trains into the city. The Supreme Court of Washington Territory has decided the law granting suffrage to women unconstitutional. The court took the ground that the word citizen in the organic act can mean nothing else than male citizen. It is the second suffrage law passed in the

territory and the second time it has been declared unconstitutional, An appeal will be taken to the United [States Supreme Court; The greater portion of the immense building known as the Convent of the Sacred Heart, in New York, was destroyed by fire last week. The loss will not fall short of $400,000, with an insurance for half the' amount. The building .occupied land two blocks long : and one block in depth. The oldest one was erected in 1544 and.ls.j2, and contained lecture rooms, the chapel and dormatories, the parish school, a free school and music hall.. All were de-

stroyed, including forty pianos and the valuable library. Thousands of dollars’ worth of vestments were destroyed. Mother Duffy, the treasurer, was * too much excised to give any account of the origin of the fire when seen Tuesday morning. All the inmates of,th<Pbuilding are safe so far as known: They were cared for at Manhattan College. The North Chicago rolling-mills, at south Chicago, shut dot\ n Wednesday for an indefinite period, throwing out of employment some fifteen, hundred men. Manager Potter states'that the suspension of work is but temporary; that railroads are withholding their orders on account of the present state of politics, and it became necessary to. shut down for the time being. He also states that it is quite probable that the company may resume work the latter part of this month!

FOREIGN. At a breakfast Thursday morning Emperor William gave a toast to German unity, and said that 46,00 >,OOO Germans would rather die than to deliver a single stone of Alsace-Lorraine to France. The Toronto and Hamilton Young Men's Liberal Club held a great meeting in favor of reciprocity last week. Wilford Laulier, leader of the Liberal party, asserted that Canada had not advanced an iota since confederation was established. The fifty-seventh birthday of Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, was celebrated in New Yerk Saturday night by a banquet by Austrian societies. I All the Austrian ships in the harboT were decorated with Hags. Senator Cochran, of Ottawa, Out.. who has just returned from a Visit to the Mormon settlement near Ft. McLeod, Northwest Territory, reports that already five hundred people have come over from Salt Lake to settle in their new Canadian Colony. Mr. ‘Ckirr, the chief among them, and who is married; to one -of 'Brigham Young’s* fifty-two children, -says the of the colony will be thousands next year. . The judges constituting the comncis: sion to enquire into charges against Mr. Parnell and others, met in the Law Courts, Wednesday, and appointed October Iftas the dav for opening the -com- - applications must be made before September 17. Notices te this effect have been served on Mr. Leedie, representing Mr. Purnell, and Mr. Saames, acting for the Times. It wi£ be impossible for the t/ial-of ParnelFfj.action for libel against the Times to be opened before January, and the Times has power to' further delay the trial umtii February 17. It looks as if the Judicial Commissioners in London had nun a race with Me. Parnell in Scotanohand won.