Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1888 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

. DOMESTIC. Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton is becoming blind. The yellow fever in Florida is rapidly abating. Minneapolis millers predi't that flour will sell at $lO a barrel, organized in San Francisco. The Union carriage works at Trenton, N. J., burned Thursday. Loss, $90,000. A heavy and general snow storm prevailed in northern Michigan, Tuesday. A thirteen-year-old white girl eloped with a negro at Hubbardston, Mich.,Saturday. Robert J. Burdette, the humorist, has been licensed to preach by the Baptist Church. —> the Cincinnati Com-~~mercial-Gazette, haa purfchAflfed the Toledo Commercial. The tohacco crop in West Virginia is nearly destroyed by early frosts. In ope county the loss is $15,000. Kate, the daughter of Hon. W. Q Gresham, was married at Chicago, Tuesday evening, to W. H. Andrews. Mabel Vaughn, daughter of a retired New York merchant, eloped with her father’s coachman, at Newark, N. J., Monday. The dry goods establishment of J. P. Quinn & Co., Little Rock, was burned Thursday night. Loss $130,000; insurance, $75,000. At the Mormon Conference at Salt

Lake Friday reports were made show-—mg-theihembership of the church to be rapidly increasing. A secret military order of Anarchists, knows as the National Order, of Videttes, has been discovered'in Conley and Sumner counties, Kansas. A strike of several hundred street railway employes at Chicago is causing great inconvenience. Their demand is for more wages and less work. A collision of a freight and a passenger train, at Martinsbur W. Va., Sunday night, killed two postal clerks and a brakeman and injured six others. It has been learned that extensive smuggling operations in opium, wheat and other valuable products have been carried on from Manitoba to Dakota. Near Pekin, 111., Sunday Matthias Bechtold, while gathering nuts in a tree, was shot and killed by a young man named Kissner, who fired at a squirrel. Great destitution is said to prevail in Ramsey county, Dakota, on account of the destruction of the wheat by frosts. A general call for aid has been sent out. At Medina, O.; Thursday, Mrs. Mary 1,. Garrett, who was convicted last week of the murder of her two imbecile stepdaughters. was sentenced to hang ,on

January 24, 1889. The Traders bank at Chicago was closed Tuesday. The liabilities are about $1,000,000. The failure is due to a steady and constant decrease in the business of the bank. Farmer C. M. Inman, of Pultney, Vt., Monday loaded his shotgun with slugs, and went out and shot Farmer Patrick Sinnot to death. This was the ending of a line-fence quarrel a year oid. _ __A-fanrity named Richter, living between Geneva and Ohiowa. Neb., consisting of the husband and wife and five children, and an unknown tramp, were all. burned to death Saturday -night. ' ~7'

Fburmenandone.wQman were lost on Lake Michigan near Sanilac, Mich., Tuesday by the capsizing of their boat in a storm. Several other disasters are reported from that vicinity as a result of the severe weather. > The charge is made that United States prisoners in the county jail at Buffalo, N. Y., are being almost starved and that the jailer makes $2 a week out of the $3 allowed for boarding each prisoner. An investigation is being made, An explosion of natural gas occurred in the new Water Works at Cleveland, O. early Friday morning, fatally injuring five men. The explosion was in the main shaft at a depth of ninety feet in a section of the tunnel running under the lake.

The banking house of Shanklin & Austin, of Trenton, Mo., the oldest bank in North Missouri, has closed its doors. The immediate cause was the failure of the Traders’ Bank, of Chicago. The bank has been doing business since 1850. Its depositors will not push it. At the fair grounds at Nutztown, Pa,, Friday, there were so-called Roman chariot races, with an irpmense crowd in attendance. One of the teams, lour horses driven abreast, became frightened and rushed madly through ths crowd, badly hurting eight people, two of whom will probably die.

Two hundred persons were precipitated from a temporary, floor laid on the joists and walls of a church edifice at Reading, Pa., Sunday, during the comer stone laying ceremonies. Over one hundred of the number were injured, some of them quite severely. The -distance they were thrown was about seventeen feet. The marriage of Baron Barthold fioyningen Huene, First Lieutenant of the Regiment of Cheveliers Gardes of Her Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias, to Miss Annie Lothrop, the eldest daughter of George V. N. Lothrop, recently minister to Russia, took place at St. Paul's church at Detroit, Thursday evening. About $8,000,000 was paid into the New York City Treasury Tuesday by

tax payers, the largest sum ever received on the first day, for tax settlements. Among the largest payments were Trinity Church, $409,000; A stor & Tate, same amount;, Goeleb & Tate $250,000; New York Central and Vanderbilt family, $675,000. In the contest-so the L. C. Smith cup and State championship at ! the Ohio League Trapahoot, at Dayton, Thursday, fourteen contestants, each shooting at fifty single blue rocks, Heikes and Hart tied at 48, in the shoot-off tied at 47, and in another attempt tied at 49. They then agreed to shoot to a finish the next time they met. A premature explosion of blhst in the south face of the Wick’s tunnel, op 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. James 11. Goodman, a New York lawyer, has fled from the wrath oi people whom he has victimized, and is supposed to be in Canada. The total of his stealings, so far as known, foots up $23,700, taken from women and orphans. Goodman, among other things, stole SIO,OOO from liis wife. He also got money from orphans and widows by swindling them out of life insurance policies.

An amusing incident has just been brought to light in connection with the “Q” strike. Dan Cummings was one of the Brotherhood leaders when the strike began. As it did not succeed, he went into the grocery business at Lincoln, Neb., where he found he could ship to the best advantage over the “Q,” and did so. For this he was expelled from the order, and he 'is now back on the road on a regular run. Business failures throughout the Unites States for the third quarter of the year, as furnished by R. G. Dun & Co., amount in number of 2,461, with liabilities of a trifle over $22,000,000. The failures for the third quarter of 1887 numbered 1,938, with liabilities aggregating the enormous sum of $73,000,000. For the nine months of 1888 the failures numbered 7,550, with liabilities of over $90,000,000, as against 6,850 failures and $128,000,000 of liabilities in the same period of 1887.

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, in session at Cleveland, elected officers, Thursday, the Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs, of Brooklyn, being chosen President, and E. W. Blatchford, of Chicago, Vice President. The resignation of Dr. Samuel Harris, of Yale College, as a corporate member, was. accepted; and among the corporate TYiAmhprH elected is the Rev. Dr. G, F. S. Savage, of Chicago. The next meeting of the board will be held at New York, and the Rev. Dr. Arthur Little, of Philago, was chosen as alternate to preach the annual sermon.

FOREIGN. J. Gibb Ross, a $10,000,000 ship builder of Quebec,'died Tuesday. The Nile has fallen thirty inches in a week. The river is now lower than ever known in this century, even by tradition. ■■ Emperor William has ordered'that his state carriage, horses and servants be sept to Rome for the purpose of driving him to the Vatican in state. Bishop William Taylor, the destinguished African bishop, expresses the opinion that Henry Stanley, the explorer, is all right but inaccessible. An emphatic denial has been given at the Vatican to the story that the Pope has sent a strong remonstrance to, the British Government concerning its policy toward Ir el and, and bad counseled some important concessions to the Parnell party. Disastrous floods have, occurred in the province of Moukden about 350 miles northeast of Pekin, bringing with -them immediate death to hundreds of, the natives, utter annihilation to many homes, destruction to crops and prospects of general famine (or the coming winter.

By advices received by the slteamer Belgiel it is learned that the storm on the 20th of August at Nokoragi, in Japan, caused the following damage: Number of houses demolished or half destroyed, 3,000; vessels totally lost, 85. Number of persons wounded, injured and receiving public assistance 52,000. In the American section of the InterNational Exhibition at Brussels there have been awarded fifteen diplomes d’honneur, tWenty-six gold medals and three bronze-medals of progress. Prizes have been awarded to McCoyTof Brooklyn, for pneumatic tools, and to the Indurated Fiber Company, of Mechanicsville, for paper pipes. Mr. John Dillon has written a letter on the Irish land question in which he says: “Recent events add new courage to the evictors and rack-renters who last spring were utterly beaten, but who now seem to be inspired with new hopes. The land courts are rapidly becoming, branches of the machinery for the op-' pressing of tenants, to whom they are a delusion and a snare.” 1 An Ottawa special of Saturday says: Mr. Sherman’s statements on the relations of the United States with Canada is accepted by statesmen and public men generally, irrespective of party throughout the Dominion, as an intimation that leading Republicans have decided tnat

Canada must annex or fight for her independent national existence. It id expected that Annexation Clubs will be started shortly throughout Ontario, Quebec and the maritime provinces.