Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. An extensive ranch will be established st Garden City, Kansas, for the propoftation of the buffalo. George and Harvey Blesset, fathet ahd son, were killed by Joe and Sam Logsdon, two brothers, at Millerstown, KyPeter Howe and wife, a wealthy couple of Wenona, 111., were iriurdered Sunday night. It is said the murderers ’ were after booty. George Bredenbacker, a farmer of C tralia, 111., while drunk, shot bis wife and fired at each of his children. His wife will die. Heris in jail. Elisha Williams, an old and respected •citizen of Taunton, Mass., was swindled out of $4,C00 by two bunkoists. H. L. Critchett, of Boston, has disappeared and his accounts are $25,000 short. He was a collector for the real estate firm of Daniels & Critchett. - Fred Gross started a snow slide at North Star Mine, on Solomon Mountain, Col., by blasting. He was carried o,ver a precipice 500 feet hign. His body has been found. President George H. Custer, of the New York Board of Aidermen, who was re-elected on Tuesday for another term, c|ied Thursday morning at his home in Riverdale. The deceased was a Tammany Hall Democrat of long standing. Mrs. Grant has compromised the suit with Gen. Badau. Badau claimed joint authorship of Grant’s memoirs. Mrs. Grant would not concede this.. He finally waived his claim and the amount due for assistance rendered Gen. Grant was promptly paid. The smallest steam engine-ever made has just been completed, after two years of labor, for,the Paris Exhibition. It is composed of 180 pieces of metal, ~is a shade under three-fifths of an inch in Tmight, and weighs less than one-nmth of an ounce. A watchmaker made it. Considerable damage was done'in Kansas City by the snow-storm which raged on Friday and Friday night. The storm was accompanied by a high wind, which prostrated telegraph wires in Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. Railroad travel was also impeded on most of the roads centering in Kansas City. The first anniversary of the hanging of the anarchists was celebrated at Chicago, Sunday. Police regulations prevented any procession or flying of red bunting, and there was ho outbreak of any kind. About 5,000 people gathered at the cemetery, where two or three spiritless speeches were made. There are no signs of decrease of the yellow fellow scourge at. Gainesville, Fla. most the entire population has fled, and among those who remain great destitution prevails. Assistance is called for. At Jacksonville, to date, there have been 4,4Blcaseßand3Bs deaths, It is rapidly abating at that point. One hundred switchmen in the West Albany yards of the New York Central struck, Friday morning, for $5 increase in their monthly pay. Brakemen and pin-pullers to the number of 125 have also quit work out of sympathy for the strikers, and they say they will not go back until the strikers, demands are acceded to. At Ro welt, Ky., Saturday, Henry Lowe shot himself dead before his sweetheart, Sallie Logsden, and she became a raving maniac. He had asked her to fix a day tor their wedding. She last drink of liquor; He then drew his revolver and fired into his own brain. Frederick Knorreck, his wife and eleven-year-old daughter Anna; perishedin their burning dwelling at Vernon Center, N. Y., Sunday. Several attempts to enter the house andjescue the inmates were futile. The charred remains of the three were found in the cellar, the limbs being nearly burned off. A special from Gainesville, Tex., says news was received there Monday morning from Tishomingo, capital Chickasaw Nation, that Governor Guy was assassinated late Saturday night; Advices from Chickasaw Nation are that serious trouble is brewing between the followers of Governor Guy and his opponent in the late election, Byrd. The report of the assassination of Governor Guy is not yet confirmed. An event occurred in Nevarro county, Texas, Saturday afternoon that is attracting more attention than the election. This is the feat of Mrs. George Hirsh, who gave birth to six children at one fell swoop. The Dallas reporters have just returned from the scene, and their stories show the event to be without a parallel. The mother and children are doing well. The children are healthy, perfectly formed, but small. There are four boys and two girls. The mother is a large woman, twenty-seven years of age. The father is thirty-one. They have been married five years and had three children pridr to the event ol the procession Saturday. Hirsh is German and lived eight years in Missouri before coming here. They live near Cosmal Postoffice and are poor tillers Of the soil. The boys are tagged and named R. Q. Mills. Cleveland, Thurman and Frederick Hirsh. The girls are Fannie and Victoria. Charles Audzigah was the most influential citizen in the Polish district of Jersey City trntil he got into a fight with another Pole, and the two had a duel on the street, resulting in the shooting, of a little girl who was standing in a hall

way near by. He was convicted of assault and battery, and op Friday was' sentenced to one yea? in the penitentiary. During his trial his wife, a very pretty young woman, insisted bn sitting by his side and showed her affection for him in many ways. She believed her husband was defending her when the shooting occurred. When he was convicted she thought he would be fined and released. When Judge Lippincott pronounced sentence on, him she broke down completely. She was taken home in a carriage, and was so sick that it was thought best to send jer to St. Francis’ Hospital. She died there Tuesday, the physicians, say of a broken heart.

FOREIGN. A general war is threatened in Servia over the troubles of King Milan and Queen Natalie. * Mrs. f-cott, of Dresden, Ont, driven insane by her husband, who habitually came home drunk and abused her, bate him to death, Thursday night, while he lay on a bed in a drunjren stupor. The New York World’s copyright cable dated Shanghai, China, November 11, says: The Viceroy Li Hung Chang has called for the dismissal of Mr. Denby, the American adviser of the King of Corea. No reason is assigned in the dispatch for this action. A mob kept Madrid, Spain, excited all day Sunday. The trouble began on the arrival in the city of Senor Canovas del Castillo. The mob surrounded and followed his carriage, hooting and throwing stones. The windows of the carriage were smashed and the wife of Senor Canovas was struck by a stone, but not seriously hurt.