Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

-DOMESTIC. The Chicago anarchists have re-organ-ixed. \ Straw wrapping paper makers will have a trash John Schneider, of Galena, 111., choked to death while eating dinner. Perry Belmont, of New York, has been appointed Minister to Spain. The Vermont Legislature refuses to grant women right of suffrage. Five hundred puddles in the American Iron Works, at Pittsburg, are on a strike. Thirty-eight bodies have been taken from the ruins of the recent fire at Buffalo, N. Y. Gen. Nelson A. Miles has been transferred to the command of the division of the Pacific. The guarantors of the Cincinnati Exposition will have to pay just 35 per cent, of'the amount which figures on their notes. Fifteen hundred dollars in silver dollars was stolen in transit from the New Orleans mint to the Treasury Department at Washington. Captain John Miller, who is credited withhaving killed thirty-two men, was himself killed near Jonestown, I. T., by James Abies, in a quarrel over rent. A rumor is current in New York that President Cleveland has been asked to become President of the B. & 0., railroad after his retirement from the Presidency. Alexander Messen, one of the Hatfield gang of desperadoes in Virginia, a man who claims to have killed twenty-seven people, has finally been arrested by detectives. The steamer Etruria, which arrived at New York Sunday, reports a stormy voyage. One man was killed and five severely injured by a wave which swept over her. A threshing machine boiler exploded near Reading, Pa., Friday, killing six men and wrecking the barn. Some of Hie men were hurled a distance of 125 feet. At Trenton, N. J., Charles Ruggaber, aged sixteen, a clerk earning $4 a • week in a carpet 6tore, has eloped with Lula Hoiz, aged thirteen, daughter of Anton Holz, a wealthy German. At Long Island City, N. Y., Joseph Kugler, aged fifty-five, a milkman, was tramped to death by a party of seven horsemen, one of whom threatened to shoot persons who attempted to fescue Kugler. Some unknown wretch has been torturing horses at Tayiorsvitle, 111., by giving them injections of sulphuric acid. Over forty-five valuable animals have been thus maltrearted, and five have died from the effects. Four ot the striking locomotive engineers of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad have been indicted by the Grand Jury at Galesburg, 111., on the charge of conspiracy to destroy life and property with dynamite. At Jamestown, Dak., an epidemic of scarlet fever is raging. The churches, Sunday Schools and public schools have been ordered closed during the prevalence of the disease. A number of deaths have already occurred. It is said that positive evidence has been obtained that one of the persons burned in the European hotel fire at Chattanooga, Tenn., was robbed and afterward murdered with a hatchet, and the hotel set on fire to cover up the crime. ■ At Wilkesbarre, Pa., Fannie and Frank Knecht, aged seven and nine respectively, were burned to death Wednesday morning. During the absence of their mother a lamp exploded, and on her; return she found her children burned to a crisp. She is now a raving maniac. 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. The bigeest business crash ever known in North Carolina occurred at Durham, Thursday, when the following six firms made assignments: The Bank of Durham, W. T. Blackwell, President, $400,000; E. J. Parrish, $190,00J. W. Blackwell, coal dealer, <%110,000; W, F. Ellis, $23,000; Muse & Shaw, slft.oo;i, and Robbins & Stone, SB,OOO. The assets have not yet been announced. Robert Nabors, a doctor, ancl W. W. Shortridge, a lawyer*, of Mohtevallo, Ala., fought a duel with bowie knives in a darkened room. The lawyer was killed, and the doctor was erased with his injuries.- He rushed into the street and attacked a negro who happened to be standing in a doorway. In self defense • the negro struck him on the head and killed him. The trouble arose over some collecjtions the lawyer had been employed to make fpr the doctor. Tim n»pi.rtmeot of w tate has received official confirmation of the reported condemnation and seizure by the Haytian prize court of the American Bteamship Haytian Republic. The condemnation was * pronounced on Friday, Nov. 3. Saturday following the United States ings, alleging that.the prize court was illegally constituted, and appealed to a higher court. He also advised the captain of the seized vessel to refuse to sur-

render the craft. The United States steamer man-of-war Boston arrived on the scene the same day to support the protest of the United States minister. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, of England, and Miss Mary Endicott, daughter' of the Secretary of War, were quietly married at Washington, Thursday evening. The President and Mrs. Cleveland, and the members of the Cabinet were present.’ Mr. Chamberlain is 52 aSd Miss Endicott 26. He tas been twice a widower, and has children as old as his present wife. He first met Miss Endicott while in this country negotiating the fiaheri-s treaty. At Gladewater, Tex., Tuesday night, George Roden completely decapitated Nathan Owens, who was trying to kill him. The trouble grew out of Roden’s alleged intimacy with Owens’ wife. Owens entered Roden’s bedroom through a window and was about to cut his throat with a razor, when the latter awoke and rushed out, but was pursued and finally cornered at the woodpile. Feeling an ax under his bare feet, Roden seized it and knocked Owens down and cut his head off.

FOREIGN. An explosion of fire damp has occurred in the Frederick pit at Dour, in the Province of Hatnault. Thirty miners were killed. It is rumored that the German guards on the eastern frontier of France fired at three Frence sportsmeh across the line, Tuesday, killing one .of them and wounding another. The London Christian World,a journal of immense circulation and influence, and here tol ore stoutly advocating Unionist prracip’es, has been converted to home rule. • _ The coasting steamer Vaitarna, which left Cutch, India, for Bombay, with 900 natives on board, is a week overdue. It is supposed she foundered in a recent cyclone and that all hands were lost, . London police are confident that they are on the right track in their search for the Whitechapel murderer. Who persons have been found wno saw the man that accompanied the last victim to her room on the night she was murdered. Their descriptions of the man tally in every respect. Ten thousand persons attempted to hold a meeting at Rear Cross, County Tipperary, IVlpnday, in defiance of the government’s proclamation forbidding it. The police charged upon the crowd, and dispersed it, many persons being injured in the melee. The attempt to hold the meeting, however, was partly successful, as several speeches were made before and after the charge, A decided sensation has been ereated in Masonic circles throughout the United Kingdom by the development of the fact that in a Scottish Lodge two ladies were recently secreted by an Acting Past Master in a place where they could secure a full view of ‘tyling” the Lodge in the third degree. In some manner the affair leaked out and the Grand Lodge of Scotland, which - has been sitting as a court of investigation, has just decided to ignominiously expel the offender from the fraternity. Brti-h officers boarded the Belgian steamer Brabo, off Zanzibar, Friday, and found that she 'was carrying 400 slaves, who were destined for the C ngo. The British took away two slaves who swore that they had been forcibly kidnaped, and allowed the vessel to proceed. The mode of obta ning &lftves-apnear6-to..be.iQ„make a ivances to the owners to enable them to purchase others. The incident has caused a scandal, it having been found that arrangements or the traffic were made through a so mer Belgian consul.