Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

. DOMESTIC. The Dayton Plow Co. has failed. Mrs. J. G. Blaine, Jr., is going on the stage. The Findlay, 0., cabbage trust has “busted.” An epidemic of diphtheria prevails at Aitkin, Minn. The schools are closed. Dr. Boyd, a prominent citizen of Bloomington, Hl., suicidedQa theffiith. Galmeyer & Co., glassware dealers, Pittsburg, have failed. Liabilities, $150,100. ‘ County Treasurer Winchell, of .Redfield, Dak., is $12,000 short, and has fled. The New York Graphic has been sold to a syndicate who will make it Republican. The railroads will give half fare rates to aud from the inaugural of President Harrison. The new Congregational Church at Northampton, Mass., burned on the 28th. Loss $65,000. —3— Jay-Eye-See, the famous race, horse, valued at $50,000, is about to die from a cut received while in pasture. Jake Ki.rain has.’ challenged John L. SuLivan to fight with bate knuckles to a finish, London rules for $5,000 a side. Senator Farwell and Gen. Martin, of Chicago, and Col. Fred Grant, were among Gen. Harrison’s visitors on the 28th. Miss Bolleta M. Hage, head clerk in the Revenue office at Harrisburg, Pa., is said to be a defaulter in the sum ot $6,500. One hundred and twenty-two colored converts to the Baptist faith* were baptised in a mill-pond at Hopkinsville, Ky., Sunday. At Chfittanooga, Saturday, Lucretia Mcßeynolds got a judgment for $25,000 against John Graham, a wealthy landowner, for bjjeachof promise. Jack Havlin and Tommy Warren, the light weights, had a brutal prize fight in San Francisco Tuesday night. Havlin was knocked out in twenty-six rounds. The rumors tfiat Armour & Co., the great Chicago meat packers, are about to establish retail branches in various parts of the country, are without foundation. The New York brewers Tuesday decided to lock out all union men and employ nbn-union men, as a retaliation for the persistent boycott of Stevenson’s brewery. ’ In the six-day walking match at New York, Littlewood broke all previous records, scoring 623 miles and winning the contest. He has been challenged by Alberts, the ex-champion for another contest. The Inman-line steamer City of New York, which arrived at Queenstown Monday from New York, met the American W haler W. Martin, on Thursday last. The whaler’s crew were starving and asked for provisions. A supply was given them.

A commission consisting of Prof. W. H. Welch, of Maryland, Dr. E. 0. Shakespeare, of Pennsylvania, and Prof. T. J. Bun-ill, oi Illinois, has been appointed by the Commissioner of Agricultura to investigate the subject of (swine diseases in the United Stated, and the methods of treatment and prevention. Gen. Harrison presided at the 53d anniversary of the Indianapolis Benevolent Society on the ‘evening of the 2d. English’s opera house was far too small for the large numbers that applied at its doors for admission. Subjects of interest were discussed by speakers of prominence in charitable work. Mrs. Jennie McGrawe-Fiske died about four years ago, bequeathing $1,000,000 to Corm 11 University. Her husband contested the will on the ground that the University already possessed all the property allowed by law. A decision handed down by the New Yqrk Supreme Court on the 28th sustains Tire—husband's contest. The matter will be carried to the United States Supreme Court. on the Kentucky Midland Railroad within ten days, occurred Thursday afternoon. Four _men were killed and several dangerously wounded. The men working at the place where the explosion occurred are convicts leased from the St&te by contractors on the road. The men were blasting rock in a cut when the dynamite charge was exploded while they were at work. James McNairy, the boss of the gang, was among the killed. Frank Sacher, a native of Vienna, who has been employed in Baltimore as a waiter in a hotel and who had received a draft for 12<i,000 florins as a legacy from jiis mother, arrived in Cincinnati Sunday, morning in company with two men with whom he became acquainted in Baltimore. On driving from the depot they i equested Sacher to step from the hack and await their return, which,they said, would be in a few minutes. Besides the draft, he lost all his personal effects, which were in the hack. FOREIGN. Leprosy is alarmingly prevalent among the Canadian Indians. The French village of Vaube Court was totally destroyed by fire, Tuesday. There is a great drouth in Australia and sheep are perishing by the thousands. It is said that the British Government will send Lord Sackville West to Paris as Charge d’Affairs. A rumor has reached England that Stanley, the African explorer, is safe and proceeding with his expedition across the Dark Continent The South Carolina Legislature began its annual session Tuesday. For the first time since'reeonstruction the Senate has not a single colored jnember. Robert Gent Davis, member of Parliament, has been committed to prison fbr failure to account for £3,778 due from him as administratior of his uncle’s The wife of Gen. Boulanger is taking steps to secure a divorce, because of his moral conduct, Mlle. Reichemberger being the woman whose name is connected witn his. For the past three weeks residents of Ottawa, Canada, who expected registered letters from correspondents in the. United States and Western Canada, ■' have been anxiously but vainly looking for their arrival The Postoffice an-' thorities would give no explanation, but J it has looked out that not only are there j a large number of registered letters'

missing, but a whole mail coming in by the Grand Trunk Railway has mysteriously no trace. It is stated that a very large amount of money has been lost or stolen. The Canadian Government, has just given formal approval of tne draft of an extradition treaty now under consideration between Great Britain and Mexico. The treaty negotiations, if consummated, will greatly enlarge the list of extraditable offenders as a party treaty existing between the United States and. Great Britain. Mr. Wiggins, the Canadian weather prophet, savs that he predicted six months ago "the recent earthquake in California. The movement, h<* says,will extend eastward, reaching Europe in February, but will be of a very moderate nature. In this connection it may be well to note that Mr Wiggins was recently elected an honor tv member of the Ananias Society, <.f Boston. WASHINGTON NOTES Congress is grinding again. It is conceded that the Republicans will have a majority of five in the House. • The public debt was increased sll,199,817 during November, owing to heavy pension payments. The Governor of Maiyland has issued certificates of election to four Democrats and two Republican Congressmen. Congressman Springer, of Illinois, now thinks that Washineton, Montana and New Mexico, as well as Dakota, should be admitted to statehood. It is said that the Republican railway postal clerks on the Wabash Road who were discharged before the election are being reinstated and quietly taken back. The Ohio National Guards will be representedjuthe inaugural procession by 2,500i/troopK The' indications are that will exceed in numbers and display anything of the kind ever witnessed at Washington. The Indianians in Washington gave a reception to Gen. Hovey, <->overnorelect, Saturday night. Several hundred people attended, and it was a pleasant and successful affair. The Court of Claims 'I uesday gave judgment for $13,839 in favor of. Colonel John S. Mosby, late United States Consul General to China. This sum represents fees for issuing certificates to Chinese immigrants 10 the United States, etc., collected in his official capacity, and for which the accounting officers of the Treasury refused to allow him credit.

Another full-fledged candidate for Speaker of the House has arrived in Washington in the person of Julius Caesar Burrows, of Kalamazoo, Mich. The Kalamazoo member and his friends say that he is not going to enter a general campaign for the office, but there is no telling what he may do. Burrows has considerable strength; particularly by reason of his ability as a presiding officer. He wields the gavel with great force and grace, and is frequently called to the chair by Carlisle. OFFICIAL RETURNS. Harrison’s official plurality in Kansas is 8 ,159. Harrison’s official plurality in Wisconsin is 21,271. The Republicans carried 56 of the 101 counties of Virginia. California’s official vote shows: Harrison, 124,809; Cleveland, 117,729; Fisk, 5,561; Curtis, 1,594. Official vote of Florida: Cleveland, 39,561; Harrison, 26,659. Cleveland’s majority, 12,902. The official vote of Oregon gives Harrison 33,293; Cleveland, 26,524; Fisk, 1,677; Streeter, 363. Harrison’s plurality, 6,769__1 The official vote of Kentucky is: Cleveland, 183,8 0; Harrison, 155,134; Fisk, 5,225; Labor, 622; Belva Lockwood, 2. •The official vote in Virginia gives Cleveland 151,977; Harrison, 150,438; Fisk 1,678. Cleveland’s plurality, 1,539. Of the congressmen elected two are ReNINETEEN DROWNED. Yhe Allentown is Wrecked »nd All the Crew Are Lost. - Cohasset, Mass., November 28. —All doubt concerning the loss of the steamer Allentown is dispelled this morning. A visit to sorth Scituate beach snows the shore at that point to be covered with wreckage, consisting of fire buckets, tables, chairs 'and other furniture, all marked “Allentown.” Captain Brown, of the North Scituate Life Saving Station, has made diligent inspection of the coast in search of bodies from the steamer, but has discov'ered none as yet. He advanced the opinion that the ship had foundered on Davis or Southeast Ledge, each of which lie about a mile southeast of Minot’s Ledge. An attempt will be made to reach her to-morrow morning for information concerning the wrecks. The crew of nineteen are doubtless drowned. The Wo nderfal Human Brain. Berlin Gazette. According to the novel computation of a renowned histologist, who has been calculating the aggregate cell forces of the human brain, the cerebral mass is composed of at least 300,000,000 of nerve cells, each an independent body, organism, and microscopic brain, so far as concerns its vital functions, but subordinate to a higher purpose in relation to the function of the organ; each living a separate life individually, ♦hough socially subject to a higher law of function. The lifetime of a nerve cell he estimates to be about sixty days, so that 5,0(0;0(M) die evdry day, about 2 0,000 every hour, and nearly 2,500 every minute, to be succeeded by an equal number of their progeny; while once in every sixty days a man has a new braim Odd Election Incident. The oddest of election incidents comes from Pennsylvania, where one Charles Smith has brought suit against the authorities who refused his vote. He was found when a baby in a cabbage field, and grew up as “Cabbage” till he called himself Smith, and the election folk would not have his ballot because they said he did not and could not know his own name.