Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. There are thirteen cases of small-pox at ltell vi lie 111. It is denied that an effoYt is being made to depose Powderly. Evangelist Moody will Bpend the entire winter on the Pacific. Fifteen hundred men took-ovt naturalization papers at Chicago Monday. John Savage, the poet, died at his home in Pennsylvania, Wednesday. Up to the 1< th there had been 3,139 yellow fever cases dt Jacksonville and 299 deaths. A soap box containing the decomposed remains of five babies was found in Chicago Saturday. A big oil well has been struck near Findlay, Ohio, with a capacity of 9,000 barrels a day. v'' Mm. Parsons, the widow of the executed Anarchist will go to England to make speeches.

EdwaTd Deputy, a wealthy burner of Fairmount, 111., has become violently in- * sane over politics. Thomas Wardell, a wealthy coal mine operator at Macon, Mo., was killed by striking miners Friday. A trench for a water main caved in Friday at Youngstown, 0., badly injuring four men, two fatally. The shortage of Jule List, absconding secretary of the Duckworth Building Association, Cincinnati, amounts to about $30,000. Fifteen deaths haye resulted at Oxford Junction, la., within the past week from diphtheria, and numerous cases are developing every day. Pauline McCoy, a negro girl aged 19," was hanged at Union Springs, Ala., Friday, for the murder of a 14-year-old white girl last February. Mrs. Drum, forty years old, and Principal of the Courtlandt, Kan., public school, has eloped with Charles Wallace, aged twenty-five. Arthur' Clark’s carriage works at Oshkosh, the largest in the West, have failed. The nominal asserts are $200,000 with liabilities a little less. The son of William'Hegeman, a Long Island farmer, became insane over too close application to his theological studies, and, Wednesday, committed suicide. A big colony is being organized in

Kansas to settle in the Oklahoma Terriritory. Able lawyers have been retained and their right to settlement will be carried to the highest courts. Years ago H. C. Cooley, of Bevier. 111., left his wife and went to sea. Last week he returned and found her married to Richard Dunkard. She left him and went back to her first love. Marion Asbell, one of the richest men in Parsons, Kas., has been sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment for swearing falsely in a divorce case that his wife was guilty of infidelity. The slandered woman died of a broken heart. A explosion of natural gas occurred in the new Water Works at Cleveland, 0., early Friday morning, fatally injur? ing five men. The explosion was ini the main shaft at a depth of ninety feet in a section of the tunnel running under the —lake.— .........r— him.. A masked mob took Pat Bradshaw from jail at Somerset, 0., with the intention of lynching him, because of general worthlessness, particularly his ill treatment of his aged mother. He was spared because of his good record as a soldier. ; ■

The St. Clair county, 111., grand jury has returned an indictment into court charging Clovis Soucy, ex-supervisor of Cahokia township, with the embezzlement of $40,000. Soucy is one of the best known men in the county, and has . been Supervisor of the township for ten years. 77 —•$ — An ovation was tendered Mr. Joseph Gent, a wealthy manufacturer and influential citizen of Columbus, Saturday night, upon his return from an extended tour of foreign countries. A delegation of several hundred citizens accompanied by a brass band met him at the depot 1 and escorted him to his Residence, where a general reception was heldThe United States Circuit Court at San Francisco announces two decisions under the Chinese exclusion act. The court holds that the act is constitutional, and that its provisions, apply to Chinese now in port on to those on the way from .China, and to those still in China. It is estimated that this decision will affect about thirty-three thousand Chinese. The matter will be carried to the U. S. Supreme Court. The Kane county (Ill.) grand juyy has returned indictments for conspiracy against John A. Bouereisen, Thomas Broderick, Alexander Smith, John A. Bowles, August Kaegele and George Godding. They are charged with conspiracy to injure the property of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company by the use of dynamite, at Aurora, during the late strike of locomotive engineers and firemen on that road. They are all members of the Brotherhood, and Baueveisen, is chief engineer of division No. 23,Locomotive Engineers. The Grand Jury at Rawlins, Wyo., Terr., have found twenty-one indictments against conauetore and brakemen of the Union Pacific Railroad, most of whom reside in Rawlins. They ran from that place to Green fiiver, dn charge of freight trains. They are accused of robbing these freight trains of valuable merchandise in transit between San Francisco and Eastern cities. The robberies are Supposed to Cover a period be-

tween twelve and fifteen months, and thousands of dollars’ worth of valuables are missing. Four prominent business men are involved. V . It was said at the N. Y. Custom House Saturday that under the decision of the United States Circuit Court at Philadelphia, in the case of John Wanamaker against the United States, the Government would, propablv have to refund anywhere from 15,000,000 to $10,000,000. Thfi suit was brought tP recover $l4B, alleged excess of duty paid on some silk ribbon that had been imported and the court held that the plaintiff was entitled to recover. In the case in question the claim was that the silk ribbon was imported to be used in ornamenting bonnets and the court decided that under the wording of the act the ribbon was only liable for a duty of 20 per cent, instead of 50, and thst the difference must be refunded. A large number of ' actions will probably "be brought at once, as this Was a test case. At the annual celebration at Quincy, Ills., Wednesday night, an amphitheater containing a thousand people fell in with a crash. The night was very dark, and through it all arose the groans and cries of the imprisoned multitude. Those who had the presence of mind at once set about extricating thoefPwho were tied down by the debris. Stretchers were procured as quickly as possible, and the wounded conveyed from the scene to the adjacent houses, which were changed to impromptu hospitals. As fdr as could be learned there were not less than five hundred persons injured, and half of that number received serious wounds. The only fatal injury reported was that of Albert W.. Wells, an attorney of that city and a candidate for the Legislature. No hope is entertained for his recovery.

FOREIGN. Father Sehlever, the inventor of Yolapiuk, is dead. * Twenty-five persons were killed by an explosion of gunpowder at a village festival, near Madras, Sunday. China advices per steamer Perkins state that on the night of Aug. 13 a flood caused by great rains inundated twenty villages, drowning more than 10,000 persons, and a large number of animals in the Len-Li-Ho district.