Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Prairie fires rage in Dakota. St. Ixrnis cattle have Texas fever. White Caps have broken out in Ohio. Milwaukee gambling houses are closed. A sauerkraut trust is the latest at St. Louis. ~ v Harriet Beecher Stowe Is probably fatally ill. 7* New York and Massachusetts report heavy frosts. , Forty Arkansas counties have gone against license. t , Election troubles in Indian Territory have been renewed. A crocodile was captured in the Hudson river near Troy Thursday. The bodies of two men were seen in the Niagara whirlpool last week. Mrs. Mary Moore, of New York, has been left $5/ 00 by Henry C. Willett, a rejected lover. * Lester Wallaek, the w ell-known actor anddheatrical manager, died at Stanford, Conn., Thursday. Bill Miller, a Hopkinsville (Ky.) negro, who bit off the head of a snake, has died in great agony. The federation of miners and the Knights of Labor are about to merge into one organization. An effort was made at St. Louis, Thursday night, to steal the body of Maxwell, the murderer of Preller. Several blocks were destroyed by fire at San Francisco, Sunday. Loss, $1,250,000. The Texas State board has refused to receive the new capitol building, claiming that it built according to concract. „ . William McGregor, aged nine, and Myron Brown, aged seven, robbed the postoffice at Williamsburg, Ky., and confessed it when arrested. Captain J. S. Lewis, editor of the Republican, shot and fatally wounded L C. Johnsou in a personal quarrel, Tuesday, at Woodside, Mass. There is an alarming epidemic of hog cholera in the western part of Macon county, 111., where nearly 803 hogs have died wtithin the past week. At Raleigh, N.G., Monday, Henry and John Tanner and Alonzo Smith, all colored, accused of murder and horse stealing were taken from the jail by a mob and lynched. George Goodwin, aged fifteen, was the umpire in an amateur game of ball in New York on Sunday, and was beaten nearly to death by the players for the decision he made. John Robinson’s circus train was run into by a freight train near Waynesville, 0., Sunday, and wrecked. Five persons were instantly killed and seveneen others injured. The quarrels of the Sioux, Crows, Plegans and Grosventres have recently Decome violent, and a bloody war, in which the four tribes intend to take part, seems imminent. The postoffice at Wyoming, 0., a suburb to Cincinnati, twelve miles from the city, was entered by burglars, Saturday morning, and the safe blowm open. -The burglars aecured S4OO in money and stamps.

Judge Ney, under the lowa prohibitory law, decides that a man can not law. fully manufacture cider for use in his own family, and instructs the grand jury to indict if they find that such a thing has been done. The shaft and bronze figure of the "Grant Monument, St. Ebulß, were placed in position Friday and cemented, after which the figure was veiled. The new monument will be unveiled with appropriate ceremonies further on. About thirty silk weavers arrived in New York Friday on the steamer Germanic, and are detained at Castle Garden. They said they were sent over by the weavers of the bid country, who are on a strike, and who had paid their passage. A special from Forest City, Ark., gives details bf a bloody affray at Millbrook on election day, during which one white man was fatally and six others slightly wounded. It is charged that thejnegroes attempted to steal the ballot-box and finding the whites on guard,' gave them a volley and fled. The fire was returned by the whites, but without effect. An immense, blood-red flag was carried through the streets of Cleveland Monday and behind it marched a score of anarchists. At night theflag is bedraggled and five of the fellows who followed it are in the lock-up. These were anarchists, Who slipped into the Labor Day parade and unfurled the flag, but they were set upon by the indignant workmen, driven out and arrested for inciting a riot. They were pretty badly handled. The worst wreck that '’has ever occurred on the Kansas City, tit* Joe & Council Bluffs was the result of a collision between two freight trains Thursday about six miles south of St. Joseph, Mo. Both trains were running at a high rate of speed, and their crews jumped in time to save their lives. Every car was derailed. The trains were loaded with merchandize and nearly the entire cargo is a total loss. The damage toengine, cars and freight w;jll be in the neighborhood of SIOO,OOO. An exciting scene took place at Elizabeth, N. J., Wednesday night at a Republican banner raising. Colonel Fairman, the principal speaker, referred to President Cleveland as “a Buffalo hangman,’’wiereat Councilman Smith,Democrat, became very angry, called Fair-

man an idiot, and toid him to shut up. Smith was instantly surrounded by a throng of excited people, and was struck and jostled into the, gutter. A general row was only averted by the arrival of the police, who separated the warring fyitinns. - ( An extensive pombjnation has been formed of Chicago, St. Paul, Pittsburg and New York capitalists, lot the purpose of handling, milling and marketing rice, with the ultimate design of controlling the entire rice product of tfie South; $2,5 0,000 have been subscribed, and an immediate investment of $200,000 has been made in New Orleans in elevators for the storage of rice, a mill for cleaning-and in facilities for handling it. The proprietors say it is not a trust, but- a “private business enterprise.” . A special to the Post-Dispatch from Little Rock, Ark., says a big sensation has been created by the stealing of ten ballot-boxes from the office of the County Clerk. The safe was blown open to get them. The boxes were from Bodgett, Big Rock, Eastman, Eagle, Owen, Eouch, Bayou, Mata, Ellis, Gray and Maxwell townships. The burglary was the of work experts. A special election in the county will be called in .consequense of the theft. Excitement is running high. Hundreds of negroes are gathering about the Clerk’s office and a riot is imminent. The ballot-box from Old River township, while being taken to the county seat, was stolen by a gang of masked men.

On Thursday night the Congaree River, S. C., rose fifteen feet, overflowed its banks and inundated thousands of acres oi cotton and corn lands. For ten days it has rained there daily. The wet weather has prevented the opening qf cotton and has rotted the fibre in the pod. It is still raining, and cotton buyers estimate that if the rain continues 25‘per cent, of the crop will be lost. It is the first time in many years that a freshet has occurred at this season, and fit is very disastrous. The rivers did not begin rising until Thursday' night. Friday evening a steamer Could pass over the lands where cotton and com were growing the day before. Friday night the Congaree was twenty feet above low water and rising. The Broad and Saluda Rivers are also up. The damage will reach $1,000,000. FOREIGN. In a railroad collision near Dijon, France, Wednesday, nine persons were killed and thirteen badly injured. Receiving Teller* Andy, of the Bank Nationelle, Quebec, has been missing since Saturday afternoon, when he disappeared from the bank. His cash is $12,000 short. A privately organized expedition of several Indian travelers, headed by Lieutenant Swavne, an English army officer of many years experience in the India Survey Service, left London Thursday for Zanzibar for the purpose of endeavoring to discover the fate of Henry M. Stanley, the famous IrishAmerican explorer who is believed to have shared jdvingstane’-s-iaie in Central Africa. A dispatch from Zanzibar says the natives of Tana resisted the landing of a German force, and a German man-of-war afterward bombarded the tow'n. when the natives were compelled to retire. The Germans, after effecting a landing, drove the Arabs and natives into the bush. Twenty Arabs were killed. The trouble arose from the precedure of the German East Africa Company. The Sultan of Zanzibar has sent an armed force under General Mattsows to restore order at Tana. An English gunboat and English vice-consul are about to go to the scene of the trouble. The Canadian Customs Department has decided to enforce a fine of S4OO against the American Schooner Gladiator, seized by Canadian customs Authorities while "towing in waters. The owners of the Gladiator contended that they had a permit to tow in Canadian waters, but investigatloh by the department showed that the permit was a special one issued to the Gladiator early in 1887 to*tow a raft of logs which was broken up in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The department then decided that the schooner was clearly liable to a fine orforfeiture. - * -—- An infant went into spasms on hearing the shrill whistle of a steamer at Bullock’s Point, R. 1., recently, and died in a short time. The parents threaten to sue ior damages, claiming that the whistling was unnecessary.