Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Four New York men committed suicide on the 6th. -——— W. D. Baldwin & Co., music home at Memphis, Tenn., burned out on the 11th. Loss $75,000. V John W. Bookwaiter, of Springfield, 0., has discovered a new and cheap method of converting iron into steel. Francis Asbury Hawkins was hanged at Riverbead, L. 1., Tuesday morning, for the murder of his mother in October, 1887. Near Waco, Tex.. Monday, the White Caps flogged George Armstrong, a white man, nearly to death for abusing his family. An election for school officers occurred inßoston on the 11th, although" the weather «• as stormy,the women very generally voted. e Mrs. Haines, of Albany, Ga., on the 11th, gave birth to twins, which makes nine children, while the mother is not yet twenty years old. 1 There was a rear-end collision on the Huntington and Broad Top railroad, near Dudley, Pa., Monday, in which six persons were Beverly injured. Somebody tried to blow up Shufield & Co.’s distillery at Chicago with dynamite, Monday. The explosion did considerable damage, but hurt nobody. A geyser has broken loose in Charles Mix county, Dakota Territory, sixty ’ miles from Yankton, and is throwing hot mud over the surrounding prairie. Samuej S. Ford, heretofore a reputable business man of Kankakee, 111., is accused of having forged checks on Chicago banks for several thousand dollars. The stage from Mendbcinato Ingrams, Cal., was stopped by a lone highwayman, Tuesday night, and robbed of express and mail. Loss not known, but large. The farmers of Shelby county, Illinois, have formed a do-operative league, opened a store, and will buy their own goods at wholesale and ship their own produce. Ex-United States Treasurer F. E. Spinner writes that he is suffering from a cancer. Mr. Spinner, who is now eigh-ty-six years old, is residing at Pablo Beach, Florida ' -I Mrs. Henrietta Snell, the widow of the man wh > was murdered by young Tascott at Chicago, has offered SSO,OU> for his arrest,the largest reward ever offered in such a case. f A new labor organization in opposition to the K. of L., is being organized by T. B. Barry, recently expelled from the Knights. He calls it the ‘‘Brotherhood of United Labor.” Hon. Levi Morton, Vice-President-elect, with his wife,'left New York on the 11th, their destination being Indianapolis, where Mr. Morton will confer with Mr. Harrison. George W. Jamison, a crank, of Hartsville, Pa., imagined that he had been elected President to succeed Cleveland. To the W hite house he went to demand his office. He was arrested and sent home. The Standard Oil Company is making arrangements to build a pipe line from the Ohio oil field to St. Louis, where oil will be transported for distribution through the Southern and Southwest erp States. The United States Supreme Court, in an appealed case from the Missouri Supreme Court, decides that the Lindell estate is entitled to 200 acres of valuable land in the heart of the residence portion of the city of st. Louis, now held by the city as school lands. The hurgest shipment of freight ever to the west at one time to one consignee left New York on the? evening of the 7th for Tacoma, W. 1. There were two trains, one of twentythree cars loaded with dry goods valued at $2 0,00 , and ene of seventeen cars bmdUiT wifti Wednesdav an engine on the Toledo, Columbus & Southern railroad drew a passenger train from Toledo to Findlay on fuel furnished by crude petroleum. The trial was such a success thgt Presi dent Brown announces that he will have all his engines arranged for the use of oil and do away with coal. A mob of striking coal miners took possession of Bevier, Mo. on the 7th. A train passing through the place was fired upon and the headlight shattered. The engineer and fireman narrowly escaped.. The telegraph office was attacked and completely riddled with bullets. The operator fled.. One man was fatally injured. The disorder was finally suppressed. Henrich Schance, of Chicago, made a dying confession on the 7th, that in 1884, in Colverte Prussia, he and his partner robbed a barn and set it on fire to hide the crime. The flames spread and the village was burned to the ground, one hundred houses and stores being destroyed. His partner is now a rich merchant in Prussia. Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, of New York, has received a letter from Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, indorsing heartily the great petition to Congress for a law forbidding Sunday work in the Governmail and military service and inter-state commerce, which had been previously indorsed by six and a quarter millions of petitioners in churches and labor organizations. Three men were killed, one fatally in(‘ured and a number of people badly iruised and shaken up early on the 11th by an explosion of meal dust which completely wrecked the three-story brick building on North Halstead street, Chicago, occupied by David Oliver as an oatmeal mill. Several adjoining buildings were also badly shattered. The shock of the explosion was felt a mile away. The ruins caught fire and a whole block was destroyed. The President is expected to pardon Benjamin F. Hopkins, ex-assistant cashier of the defunct Fidelity bank, Cincinnati, in a few days. A petition signed by the Judge who tried him, the Warden and physician of the Columbus penitentiary and others, was forwarded on the 11th. Hopkins is a physical wreck. He had not been able to walk to the door of the prison hospital tor several months. U hen he heard, however, of the steps that bad been taken to secure his release he* was beside himself with joy, and moved about his apartments apparently free from pain. ° . Thirty persons have been bitten by mad wolves near villages in the neigh-

borhood of Orsova. A majority of them have already died after great agony. Make a note of this: An earthquake shock was felt at Farther Point,-Quebec, on the 7th, and, strange as it may appear, Wiggins had predicted Michael Dwyer’s house, about three miles from Blythe, Ont., was burped Thursday morning.? Mrs. Dwyer, her daughter, and her three grandchildren, were burned to death. &ILL IT BE BLAINE? Sormiw that Eastern Politician* Want Blame iu the tabiuet. ■V A great deal of fresh speculation and gossip relating to Cabinet selections, says the Indianapolis News of the Sth, has been caused by the surprisingly plain talk of Senator Frye, Congressman Boutelle and other Eastern men in recent interviews at Washington about.the recognition that Mr. Blaine would be expected to receive from the new administration, In.expressing the opinion that the Maine statesman should and probablv would be offered the position of Secretary of State, there was such significan unanimity as to warrant the suspicion that the Eastern statesmen had settled it all so definitely that it only remained for General Harrison to bow submissively, no matter how unwillingly to their decree. Among those here who know something about the Presidentelect, there is a belief that he will have something to say about who shall be at the head of-his Cabinet, and that, while he is disposed to give consideration to the. wishes and judgment of representative elements ot the party, he is not under such obligations to Mr. Blaine or his personal friends that warrant the expectation that he will turn the administration of the Government over to them. Instead of having received any particularly valuable aid from them, it is the be lief of his friends that he was nominateu in spite of the opposition of Blame’s followers, and that there was nothing that embarrassed his subsequent candidacy more than the Blaineism in the campaign. Although there is no obligation, it is believed that General Harrison is disposed to give proper recognition to Mr. Blaine on account of his prominence in the party, but there are very few men here who think that he will be taken into the Cabinet nr, if he is offered a portfolio, it will be an unwilling tender, simply for the purpose of avoiding a row in the party in the beginning of the new administration. From St. Paul cnmes a report of doubtful authenticity that a Ca> inet has been offered Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, and that he has been called to Indianapolis by the President-elect. In connection with the report it is stated that Senator Sabin has already expressed to General Harrison an unwillingness tq enter the Cabinet, but the reasons that he is credited with having given are strikingly inconsistent. One is that he is too poor; another that his vast interests as a manu-, facturer require closer attention, and a third that he desires to remain in the Senate where he can better control the political patronage for Minnesota. The proof-copy of the Congressional Directory of the second session of this Congress was received, Saturday, by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Printing. It contains the unofficial list of members-elect of the Fifty-first Congress, and the repot' indicates just wthat the Republicans claim as to the political complexion of the House. It gives the Republicans a majority of three. Senator Manderson believes this margin is so close that if there is any important legislation to work upon, President Harrison will be, justified in early calling an extraordinary session. What the Re4>ublicans very much desire is. organization and action as soon as possible, upon partisan questions. Most of the opposition to an extra session comes from Republicans who will thus be required to look after the office seekers interests personally. The tariff question and the admission of Dakota as two States the important subjects for consideration. It is clear the Republicans wi 11 not restuntila tariff reyision is accqmplished. As to the pending Senate bill it is not believed that special resistance will be offered to its passage in the Senate. It was reported upon the authority of at least one Democratic member of the C mmittee on Ways and Means that the committee intends to secure the passage by the House of a bill repealing the tobacco tax, and “correcting some of the incongruities of the present tariff laws.” The object of this bill will, of course, be to appease the anxiety of the Southerners for an absolute repeal of the tobacco tax, and therefore pigeon hole the Republican bill when it comes over from the Senate. It is believed that a large number of Southern members would be willing to vote for the Republican measure for the purpose of securing a repeal of the tobacco tax. If the House should, befoie the Senate bill comes over, pas/ such a measure as is proposed by the Committee on Ways and Means, the Democratic members of that committee believe that the Republican bill would receive none of the Southern support, because there would no longer be excuse for their voting for it on the ground that it is to secure relief on tobacco. The President-Elect’s Church. Philadelphia Teiegraoh '8 Washington Speck). A gentleman who has just returned from Indianapolis, where he talked with President-elect Harrison on the subject of what church he would attend while in Washington says that as a good Presbyterian, Gen. Harrison will show no partiality to any parish. He has, in fact, already engaged a pew in eaCh of the Presbyterian churches, and will attend them all in turn. An effort was made to have the President-elect join the Church of the Covenant, the new parish in the fashionable West End. This church is on Connecticut avenue the popular Sunday promenade, and its membership's made up partly of deserters from the old and less fashionable churches in various parts of the city. Dr. Sunderland’s church, where President and Mrs. Cleveland attend, is down in the old part of the town. It dwindled from, the largest Presbyterian congregate onto the smallest during the years that the city was moving westward, until the Clevelands by their presence revived its old-time prestige and popularity. As President Harrison will oc- ■ asionally attend service at this old church, it will undoubtedly preserve most of its increased congregation and consequent prosperity.