Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. A new, rich gold vein haft been opened near Bozeman, Mont. A. M. Wilson, county and state tax collector at Atlanta, Ga., is $20,000 short. Great numbers of sheep on the Montana ranges have been destroyed by wolves. ■ , / Another strike dfemployeftOi X erkes’ street railway lines at Chicago is imminent. .. , The Mayor of Decatur., Ala., has applied for help for the yellow fever sufferers there. . Postal clerk J. H. Hawkins was arrested at Pittsburg, Wednesday, for robbing the mails. There is great destitution among the farmers of Ramsey county, Dakota, and immediate help is needed. Mias Frances E. Willard was re-elect-ed president of the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union. A vessel just arrived at Bangor,Maine, reports the loss of an unknown schooner on Jeffreys bank with all on board. Young Talmage, son of the late general manager of the Wabash system, is on trial for murder at Keylerville, Mo. In New. York Sunday, James Brennan, a policeman, was shot and killed by Harry Carlton, a thief, who was arrested. Albert A. Shaver, ex-Courity Treasurer of Clare county, Michigan, is under arrest, charged with misappropriating SIB,OOO. There was a collision on the Chicago & Alton near San Jose, 111., Thursday, in which one man was killed and three wounded. 1 . George Gordon, a tramp, who had registered illegally at New York, was sentenced Tuesday to Sing Sing for two and one-half years. At Mt. Vernon, Ky., Wednesday, in a fight between town men and employes of Robinson’s show, three men were fatally hurt. The schooner Makah, of Astoria, Ore., was wrecked off the coast of Oregon last week, and it is supposed that all the hands were lost. A natural gas explosion at the Findlay (O.) Pressed Brick Works, Monday, yrecked the building and fatally injured J. M. McClellan and W.C. W ilson, Jr. A passenger train on the Iron Mountain Railroad was held up by train robbers near Newport, Ark., Sunday. Two hundred dollars were taken from the passengers. At Owensburg, Ky., Friday, John Williamson put his mouth to the muzzle and his foot off the hammer of his gun to see if it was loaded. It was, and John is no more. It is said that the anarchists of the country ard quietly making preparations for a public demonstration on the anniversary of the hanging of the five anarchists at Chicago. Mrs. Thomas J. Lynch, a beautiful young woman, delirious with typhoid fever, jumped from the. window of her room in the Hotel Bristol, New York, and was killed. Reports from the Cheyenne reservation are to the effect that unless aid is soonextended to them by the Government great numbers of the Cheyennes will die of starvation. At the Convention pf the American Missionary Association at Providence, R. L, the year’s receipts were announced to have been 1414,196.16, and the disbursements $828,758.48. _ _ There were three failures in Chicago Monday, A. J. Cole & Co., glove dealers, for $30,000, Diez & Peters, contractors,for $72,000, and W. H. Everill, furniture manufacturer, for $6,000. Assistant Postmaster Michael A. Sheldon, of Hudson, N. Y., arrested on the charge of pilfering from the mails, has made a full confession. It is believed his stealings amount to $3,000. David Crack, said to be 107 years old was married Tuesday at Marlboro, Prince George’s county, Mu., to Susana Oaks, a widow of seventy-five years. Crack says he is a vetern of the war of 1812. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided, in the Pennsylvania case, that a State cannot collect a tax on messages sent by a telegraph company, unless they are wholly within the State. Ann Irvine, ft miser, of Sioux Falls; Dak., died Thursday . night amid filth and squalor. A search of her dwelling revealed bonds, notes, mortgages, deeds, etc., amounting in the aggregate to $13,500. At Boston twenty-one women in convention Sunday nominated Miss Alice D. Stockton, of Wheaton, as candidate of the Equal Rights party for Governor . of Massachusetis. She is twenty-six * years of age. Two ladies from Pennsylvania, visiting their brother, A. McKinley, near West Liberty, la., were killed by a Bur- ■> lington and Cedar Rapids passenger train at a crossing. The boy driver was also killed. Moxie Monheimer, a Chicago Herald compositor, has broken the type-setting . record. His “string" for six days, of forty-five and one-half hours, is 101,000 emu. He worked altogether on “straight” copy. ~ .. ■' At Athens, 0., the public schools closed, Mond<y, on account of the prevalence of diphtheria. There was one death on Friday. The prevalence of wet weather seems to increase the virulence of the disease. A sharper is swindling people in Ohio by telling them that a relative has died leaving a large estate, and then collect-

ing an assessment, generally about $8 50 from each to pay the expense of prosecuting their imaginary' claims. Samuel H. Albro, of New 'York,, whose nomination as Superintendent of Indian Schools failed of confirmation by the Senate, has been re-appointed to that by the President. He will at once ent6r upon the duties of his' Office. 4 Lieut. Graydbh’s company, at Indianapolis,- has sold to France the right to use his dynamite shell for $1,006,000. Graydon’s invention consists in using asbestos around the shell to prevent explosion from* heat or concussion before it leave the gun. ■" Frank Whitlock a negro, of Searcy Station, Ala., went hunting while intoxicated. He laid down to sleep with his cocked gun pointing toward him. His dog in a playful mood stepped on the trigger and Frank is now in the happj hunting grounds. * President Cleveland submitted to an interview, Monday, on the Lord Sackvilte letter. He says the proper steps will be taken regarding it, but that he has no fears of its political effect. It is conceded that Minister West will have to retire from the country. Miss Fannie Morris, residing near Grantsville, W. Va., while preparing dinner caught her dress on fire, burning her fatally. Her sister, who held a babe in her arms, tried to quench the flames, but in her haste severely if not fatally burned the child. James Talmage, son of the late A. A. Talmage, general manager of the Wabash Railway, was convicted of murder in the second degree at Keytesville, Mo., Thursday, for killing a telegraph operator named C. P. Tidd, one year ago, and sentenced to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. Colonel W. C.* Forry, United States Land Swamp Commissioner, was arrested at lowa Falls, lowa Thursday and taken to Andora, charged with treating a personal friend to a drink of whisky. He admitted it and was fined SIOO and costs by Mayor Ward. It was a political prosecution. Daniel Hand, an aged, and wealthy resident of Guilford, Conn., has given to the American Missionary Association of New York City the sum of $1,000,000 to be held in trust by the Association and the interest to be devoted to the education of colored people in the old slave States of the South. Thomas Axworthy, City Treasurer of Cleveland, Ohio, and one of the most popular Democrats in Northern Ohio, has gone wrong and to Canada, leaving a shortage in the neighborhood of $200,000.. His entire shortage is about $429,060, but his bondsmen will realize a part of it from his vessels, real estate and other property. Charles W. Waldron, the ’ Hillsdale, Mich., banker, who recently fled to Europe, left E. L. Koon, his partner, in shape to loose about $120,000. Mr. Koon has already paid about $50,000. Now Waldron, in a letter, offers to pay the $70,0( 0 outstanding if a satisfactory arrangement can be made relieving him from prosecution. At Yankton, Dak., Monday, an accident occurred at the Insane Hospital by which Christopher Thompson was instantly killed, Jacob Lee fatally hurt, Superintendant Keen dangerously injured and Michael Curry slightly hurt. The accident was the result of the caving in of the walls of one of the two new wings to the hospital. ' An east-bound freight train on the Pennsylvania Road jumped the track near Tyrone, Tuesday, - apd thirty-five cars of grain were almost totally wrecked. Two boys from Altoona, John Aplin and Edward Fawcett, who were stealing a ride, were caught in the jam and crushed to death. The loss to the company was very heavy. Estimates of this year’s potato crop make it the largest ever grown in this country.. For Indiana ths average yield is 68 bushels to the acre and total yield of 6,791,500 bushels; Illinios 118 average, 17,732,568 bushels total; Ohio 96 average, 15,068,448 total; Kencucky 7.7 average, 4,0 9.544 total. The total for the United States is estimated at 216,646,059 bushels.

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 C. Fardin, who left Chicago about two weeks ago, taking with him a considerable amoufit of money belonging to the Citizens’Building and Loan Association, has not yet been heard from. It is known that he has. since sent a message to his wife, but she pretends utter ignorance as to his present whereabouts. The experts who have been examining the books of the association claim that instead of. $3,001, as at first supposed, Nardin’s shortage will amount to between $12,000 and $15,000. Information from Guthrie,Todd county, Ky. gives the details of an inhuman tragedy that occurred near 'there Saturday. A colored man named Smith, became infuriated at his wife and beat her to death. Being pursued by the Sheriff* he then grabbed up their little child and fled, and upon reaching the barnyard ■ threw the child into a pond, where it was drowned. The officer attempting to 1 arrest him, Smith also sprang into the

water, resolved to perish rather than to be taken alive, but help was called and he was drawn out and carried to Springfield Tenn., where he is now m jail. . Hermann Baade, a section foreman on the Burlington road, started for Dubuque, Monday afternoon, on a hand car, having with him his Wife, three children and a friend. When rounding a sharp curve they were run down by a special making a quick run between St. Paul and Chicago. The handcar was thrown from the track, and Mrs- Baade, and her two sons, aged seven And ‘thirteen, instantly killed. Mr. Baade And his friend escaped. When the train struck the car, Mrs. Baade threw her baby down a bank twenty feet high and saved its life. .FOREIGN. Two hundred Rouses are in ashes and 1,500 persons are homeless and destitute by a fire at Huenfield Weman, Tuesday. A mutiny occurred among the convicts in a prison at Orbitello. Thirty prisonersand several jailors were kiiled or wounded? ||A Kouban Cossack was arrested Saturday for having in his possession explosives, with which he intended to try and kill the Czar. Five thousand working women of the Whitechapel district in London have sent a petition to the Queen to close all the disreputable houses in the neighborhood. A wholesale system ohfreight robbery has just been discovered on the Mexican Central Railroad, and it is believed that the total loss to the company will be in the neighborhood of SSO,W O. It is stated that the president of the Geographical Society of Lille, France has received news from Africa that Henry M. Stanley has been massacred, With all his expedition, excepting two men. The rumor is not credited in Lon don. . The new Salt Trust at London has already put up pure common salt from sixty cents to $2.25 per ton, and lump export salt from $2 to $3.75. There is a great outcry in the press, and it is certain that there will be a fierce demand fi r a legislative remedy when Parliament meets next month. ~ The Daily News correspondent at Nice confirms the report about Americans living with the King of Wurtemburg. The correspondent tried to interview one of the persons in question, but he we 3 shown the door. He says that the King’s intimate counselor for the past six years is also an American. A dispatch from Bonny river, Africa, givqs a revolting story of savage atrocities and cannibalism. The„_Okrikan tribe, in revenge for some iniury, invited a party of Ogonis to a friendly palaver, and then entrapped and massacred them. A cannibal festival of the most horrible and indescribable character followed. Then an attack was made upon the undefended villages, and the most barbarous outrages were committed. It is estimated that over 150 persons, including women and children, were killed and eaten.