Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. ' They have cornered copper. ChaunceyM. DePew has returned from Europe. \ An explosion of aB.& 0. freight engine near Mansfield, 0., Friday, killed five people. *' Washington City was visited ( by a severe stormJSunday, which did considerable damage. At Davison, Ga., Tuesday, C. P. Ketchens shot and killed his father for abusing his mother. The town of Sigourney, la., suffered a loss of $250,000 by fire in its business portion Tuesday night. The Brotherhood will request the Southern roads employing negro firemen to substitute White men. Malarial fever has broken out among the Texas convicts, and out of S2OO, 922 are sick with the disease. The bitter county-Beatwar in Wichita county, Kan., which has continued for years, has at last been settled. The steamship Gaelic arrived at San Francisco from China, Thursday evening, with 708 Chinese passengers. At Niagara Sunday, Charles A. Percy went through the whirlpool rapids. He lost his boat and barely saved his life. A lightning and hail storm in western Pennsylvania did great damage to crops, Monday night, and killed two men. Frank Corfrey and Miss Minnie Taffley were drowned in the Schuylkill river, at Philadelphia, Thursday night, by the overturning of their row-boat. A number of workmen employed in the Hoosac Tunnel were overcome by coal gas from a passing locomotive. It is thought that two of them will die. An explosion of a puddling furnace at the Keystone rolling-mill, Pittsburg, damaged the mill, SIO,OOO. One workman, named McMunn iyas slightly injured. Jacobs & Proctor’B Grand Opera House, at Syracuse, N. Y., and adjoining property were destroyed by fire at 3:15 Thursday morning. Loss about $250,000. Walter Grantham, a salesman from Chicago, and his two sisters, were drowned at Cary, 111., Friday, by the capsizing of a boat, from which they were fishing in Fox river: Mrs. Snell, the widow of the Chicago millionaire who was murdered in his own room by (it is supposed) William Tascott, has offered a reward of $20)000 for the apprehension of Tascott. George Q. Cannon, the Mormon apostle, surrendered himself, Monday, in court, and was sentenced to six months in the penitentiary and a fine of $350 on two indictments of unlawful cohabitation. Peter Rodenhauer, of Quincy, 111., barricaded himself in his house with a Winchester rifle and two shotguns at hand, and defied arrest for violation of the fishing laws. He was finally arrested and jailed. Gen Harrison attended the reunion of his old regiment, the 70th, at Clayton, Ind., Thursday, and made the “boys” a speech. He walked in the procession with his old comrades and segmed to greatly enjoy the occasion. Owing to the illness of his son, upon whom a painful operation was recently performed, the Hon. Carl Schurz will be obliged to prolong his stay in Germany. The son is stopping at Kiel, and is convalescing. Mr. Schurz hopes to be able to start on his return by the end of October. 7 The flood in the Savannah river has covered the rice plantations near Savannah, and the rice crop is nearly, if not quite, a total loss. Reports from the country districts state that the lowlands are all under water and roads and bridges carried away so that travel is almost impossible. The family of Joseph Noice, living in Moundsville, W. Va., had sausage for breakfast Monday. Three children ate heartily. Half an hpur afterward they were taken violently ill. Dr. John R. Davis was called, and he pronounced the complaint trichinae. The.„children are very ill, and the chances for their recovery are poor. - Andrew Rhuel, a well-to-do-farmer of near Manchester, Mo., shot and killed Fred and Annie Fink, Friday, and then blew his own brains out. Rhuel had made derogatory remarks of Miss Fink, for which he was soundly threshed by her brother Fred. * Rhuel then procured a revolver and killed the brother .and tfister in cold blood. Miss Mary C. Murray, of Brooklyn, has engaged counsel to bring an action for $50,000 damages against George Monford, a millionaire of Bridgeport. Conn., for breach of promise. She also brings suit, against Monford for SIO,OOO, the value of some diamond jewelry, which, she alleges, he took from her after he hid changed bis mind about marrying her. A premature explosion of blast in the south face Of the Wick’S tunnel, on the Montana railway, south of Helena, Mont.,, Tuesday, killed ten men and seriously wounded five. The accident was caused by the concussion of a giant cap, fired as a warning in the north face, the headings being now close together. This is the first casualty recorded in the tunnel, which is over a mile in length, Charles A. Pillsbury & Co., of Minneapolis, the largest milling firm in the world, has just finished a division of $40,000 among their employes. This has been made in pursuance of a profit-

sharing plan adopted four years ago. For two years there have been no profits to divide, but the past year has been profitable, and the .firm keeps its promise. This believed to be the largest amount ever divided under the profit sharing system, i * , The Northern Kentucky Methodist j Conference, in its closing session Monday, adapted by a strong majority a resolution deplaring the liquor traffic the foe Of “the home, the school, the church, and the Nation: the inspiration of lawlessness and anarchy; the missionary of ignorance, crime and want; the great enemy of common humanity,” and urging the church members be not controlled by any party organization controlled by it. It also declared against any license law. Fire was discovered at B. Rockwell’s general store, at Junction City, Kansas, Wednesday. A gale was blowing at the time, and the flames spread rapidly to other business places, doing total damage of about $125,000. While the blaze was at its fiercest, rain began to fall in torrents, and in a short time, the wind having died away, the fire was under control. While clearing away the debris a workman came upon the bodies of Albert Franks and Milo Everleigh,clerks in the store of B. Rockwell & Co. How the young men lost their lives is not known, but it is supposed that they had made an effort to extinguish the flames and were overcome by smoke. News comes of a horrible catastrophe at Devine station, Texas. Saturday, Callie, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Byrd Smith, was sent by her mother to start a fire in the cooking stovg. The girl poured oil over the coals of fire, and the kerosine can exploded, scattering the burning oil over the girl and her two sisters, Delia and Dosia, and her brother, all of whom w T ere standing around the stove watching her. The mother hearing the screams of the children ran into the kitchen and found her four children in flames. In her frantic efforts to save her children she was terribly burned about her arms and face. The children all died of their injuries hi a few hours. Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, died at the Willard pauper hospital, New York, Wednesday evening, from yellow fever. He arrived at New York from Oaklawn, Fla., where he has an observatory, on Monday, and was immediately prostrated with the disease which the best physicians unhesitatingly pronounced as yellow fever. Other doctors doubted that the disease was yellow fever, but their doubts w r ere removed when the patient was seized with the black vomit and died from its effects. The professor had engaged passage for Europe, intending to sail on the 15th. His family are still at Oaklawn, Florida, where no cases of yellow fever have been reported. Late advices from the Northwest report great suffering and many deaths from starvation among the Indians of the Canadian Northwest Territories. From the Peace River district several cases of cannibalism are reported where, to save their own lives, heads of families have killed and eaten their children. Last year Parliament voted the sum of $354,000 for supplies for the destitute treaty Indians of the Northwest, but from what has been learned it appears that dishonest agents who were intrusted with the distribution have approprited the greater portion of the grant. Gabriel Dumont, Riel’s lieutenant, has again been attempting to stir bad feeling among the Indians with, it it said, considerable degree of sucees. Two men, named Steele and Mockabee,! both drunk, boarded the east-bound C. and 0., train at Mount Sterling, Ky., Sunday afternoon and fought all the way to Stepstone, where the conductor, for the safety of those in his charge, put the men off and told them to fight it out. They drew their pistols and exchanged five shots each. The fifth shot from Steele’s pistol passed through Mockabee’s brain, killing him instantly. They were cousins. One lived at Soldier and the other at Enterprise. There were no arrests. Mockabee was the most to blame for the trouble. After the killing Steele boarded the train and proceeded home, the train having waited until the duel was over. A deplorable state of affairs exists on Tug river, whose waters divide the Hat-field-McCoy settlements. Business is comparatively paralyzed, and will be until the trouble is adjusted. Men who are not in any way engaged in the feud are afraid®to venture out of their own neighborhood for fear of being shot from ambush. Friday the McCoy crowd made a raid on Hatfield territory, and as usual got worsted. Two of the McCoy gang were killed. During the past month the West Virginians have raided the Kentuckians twice and have lost five men killed outright, while the Old Commonwealth shows an unbroken frorc. A total; annihilation of one or the other of the factions would seem to be the only thing that will restore Tieace. Now, as in the past, the Kentuckians resprt to arms when compelled to. The West Virginians have always been the aggressors, but when molested the Kentuckians have on each occasion showed the intruders they were at home. «