Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. M< C. Butler has been re-elected U. S. Senator for South Carolina. Miss Mamie Hayden, a Louisville ■hop girl, has fallen heir to SSO 00'. At Toddtown, Pa., John Furgason sbot.and killed his wife and then himself. Three men Jost their lives,in a burnins' factory at Providence, R. 1., on the 13th. Deputy Marshal Govdson, of Knoxville, Tenn., was murdered by moonshiners. Several Fairmount, 111,, youths, aged from 9to 16 years, are implicated in local robberies. Diptheria m its most malignant form is raging in Berks and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania. S; A water pipe in Cleveland, 0., burst, on the 12th, and $50,00' damage was done to adjacent property. Miss Bynum and a lady friend at Knoxville, Tenn., were run over_by a train on the 12th, and killed. Thirty-five divorce cases six of wh ch were tried—were disposed of in an hour by a Chicago judge. Duluth, Minn., is having a great real estate boom. There werb 800 transfers last week, aggregating $1,000,000. Over 16.0 0 Boston women voted last week on the school question. Not one Catholic was elected to the Board. A boilor of a cotton gin in Montgomery, Ala., exploded Thursday. Three men were killed and several injured. The report that Mrs. Folsom, mother of Mrs. Cleveland, was to marry Consul Merritt, is indignantly denied. Whi'e Cap operations near Toledo, 0., are becoming troublesome, and the authorities are taking steps to suppress them. The House o' the Georgia Legislature has appropriated SSO ,00" for common schools and the bill will go through the Senate.

Ale render Davis, at one time a millionaire mine owner of California, died in New York on the 17th, in abject povefty. Jersey City physicians are much exercised over the case of Julia Cisco,a negro woman, whose skin is turning white, the result of disease. A. T. Secore, Treasurer of the American District Telegraph Co., at Philadelphia, has been arrested for embezzling $17,000 of the Lyman Presler, a fratricide, was shot near Tushebomma, D. T., on the 14th, in execution of a judicial decision. He met his fate stoically. Detectives Friday captured a gang of counterfeiters in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, with a bushel of counterfeit money in their possesion. Miss Ida Newman, a prominent young lady of Providence, R. L, has been expelled by the City ’ Missionary Society for marrying a Chinaman. , Out of ninetv-nine indictments by the United States grand jury for Northern lowa, seven y-four are lor selling liquor without Government license. The steamer Jasper, from Workington bound to Glasgow, has foundered off the Wigtown coast. Her crew, numbering eleven persons, were drowned. Kilrain has accepted the challenge of John L. Sullivan to fight to a .finish f r slo,ooo a tide. The tight is to come off within six months or not at all. The residence of John R. King at Cookville, Texas, was burned on the morning of the 12th, and King, his wife and children were burned to death.

A verdict for $15,00 > was given by a Chicago jury, on the 13th, —to Fran k Wilcox, for the loss ofta leg through the carelessness of a stree car company. E. L Harper, Vice President of the Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, has become so insane in the Ohio penitentiary that he has been removed to the asylum. At the auction sale of thoroughbreds at Lexington, Ky., Tuesday, fifty-four head brought $72,150. The Melbourne stables; thirty-eight head, brought $61,320. Colonel James F. Casey, General Grant’s brother-in-law, was stricken with paralysis at Georgetown, D. C., Saturday night, and is not expected to live. ' " G. B, A. Bush, confidential clerk of Isaac Blabkvelt, a carriage' manufacturer of Paterson, N. J., was arrested on the 12th, for robbing his emplover of $1,5000. The official plurality for Cleveland in West Virginia is 1.873 in a total vote of 159,188 Cleveland’s vote was 79,664; Harrison’s 77,791; Streeter’s, 1,064, and Fisk’s, 669. A scaffold upon which five men were working at Steven’s Point. Wis., on the 14th, fell. Four of the men were instantly killed and the fifth was seriously injured. < The Governor of Illinois has pardoned W.Hiaru Tbomas, convicted of murder in 1881, and sentenced to seventeen years’ imprisonment. A dying convict, named James Young; confessed that he committed the murder.

Indiana White Caps have appeared at Agra, Kansas. Several outrages are reported. Two or three families from Southern Indiana removed to Agra about three months ago. Soon after i .the notices began to appear. John R. Reynolds, of Dayton, 0., has received from the United States Government $72,000 for cotton and other property destroyed and confiscated by the Union army during the war. It is said to be the largest private claim ever allowed.

The American Federation of Labor was in session at St. Louis, on the 13th. It passed a resolution endorsing the eight hour movement, and asked for legislation preventing the importation of foreign or alien labor by contract, and the employment of child labor. Robert W. Page, an employe of an Atlanta, Ga., slaughter house, while tinder the influence of liquor on the 14th fell into a large kettle of hoVwater in which hogs were. scalded. He had b6en in the kettle over an hour when found and was boiled almost to a jelly. The body of little Irene Hawes was found in a lake near Birmingham, Ala., about thirty <eet from the point where her mother’s body was found nearly a week ago. A heavy piece of iron was found on the child’s breast -v Hawes, the supposed murderer, refuses to talk. Fear of mob violence has spbeided. The Boston municipal elect.on, Tuesday was hotly contested. It resulted in

" I 'i I' 1 1 81. nyi > ' WJ" o' i -I. J ' T-T ’j a victory for the Republicans, who opposed a further representation of Catholics on the School Board, by a decisive majority. Hart (Republican) is elected Mayor by 1,6 0. The license vote of the city was: Yes, 34,471; ho, 16,905 —a majority of 17,566 in favor of license, as compared with 8.483 last year. The little town of Milbury, Mass., has become locally famous as the residence of Mrs. Anne DeGroote, who has just given birth to four girl babies at a single confinement. All are living and range from five pounds to eight ounces in weight. The smallest will probably die. A. S. Mock, of Toledo, 0., while in Wabash the other day, wash mistaken for General Harrison, and quite an ovation was tendered him before the mistake was discovered. Isaac Freeze, of Lagro township, made'A speech telling what the boys had done to insure his election. ; Twenty-four suits have been commenced in the District Court of Davenport, la., against the Rock Island Road, by Attornry General Baker, in the name of th* State of lowa, on account of extortionate freight charges. Suits of a similar character are to be instituted by the jobbers of several other cities against other roads.

A. C. Owen, aged seventy-nine, an old and highly respected citizen of Mason, City, la., is out with a challange to any man of seventy-nine in the Unite" States to run him a forty or eighty-rod race, and at the end of the race jump and strike his heels together three times. He will wager from 4500 to $lO,000 on the result. A committee representing the Grand Army posts of Kings county, New York, called upon General Harrison Monday and presented to him a petition signed by the Commander, of all the G. A. R. posts of Kings county, asking him to reviewthe parade of G. A. R. veter ans on Memorial Day next May, and accompany the procession to the tomb of General Grant at Riverside.

Pretty Boy, a Sioux Indian at the Fort Peck agency, Montana, who for upward of a week has been loaded down with whisky, attacked his squaw and was about to scalp her when interfered with by other Indians. He then procured a Winchester, and blew his squaw’s brains out. An attempt to capture him resulted in the death of three of the pursuing Indians. He found capture inevitable and placing the muzzle of the gun to his heart, shot himself through. Hon. Chafles Francis Adams made a speech before the Commercial Club, of Boston, Saturday evening, on the InterState Commerce act, in which he took the ground that the act was doing exactly the opposite of what its framers intended it to do. He thought that if it remained in force a few yearslonger the short railroads would be forced out of existence or be merged into the larger ones, and that instead of many competing lines, the management would be reduced to the few, and those would control systems embracing 20, ojo miles each. ” FOREIGN. Bismarck has neuralgia. It is officially stated that the Pope does not intend io leave Rome, nor has he thought of taking such a step. The premature explosion of blasting powder at Toronto. Ont., on the 13th, instantly killed Thos. W. Beggs. Advices from South Africa says that the King of Swaziland recently caused the massacre of his premier and six chiefs and the people who were supposed to be concerned in a plot to dethrone him in favor of his brother.

It is asserted that an American syndicate, with a capital of $50,1'10,00 , has been f.rmed to construct a railway Iff Siberia, and that several former and present American Diplomatic and Consular Agents are interested in the undertaking.

Osman Digna, in his letter to General Grenfelt, says Emin Bey and Henry M. Stanley, surrendered to the Mahdi’s forces October 10, at Lado, having been betrayed by Emin’s own people. As authentication of this statement, Osman inclosed a letter from the Khedive of Egypt to Emin Bey, which was given to Stanley when he was in Cairo.