Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC A flurryin oil occurred on the Pittsburg exchange, Friday. * ' Charles F. Mayor has been elected President of the B. & 0. railroad-' Reports are made of a rich gold find in the Horqua-Hula fountains, Arizona During the year just closing 2,036 horses have been sold at auction in Kentucky for $942,297James Warner attacked his son with an ax, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., and the boy shot and killed him. One thousand citizens of near Sabina, 0., participated in a fox drive on Thursday. Two foxes were captured. *" John Adams, for some months an usher in the Christian church at Emporia, Kan., was tried and convicted there of burglary. Shipbuilders in Bath, Me., in the dosing year, launched twenty-five vessels with a gross tonnage of 12,205, representing a value of $400,000. A report was circulated on the streets of Indianapolis Friday that an attempt had been made-to kill General Harrison. There was no truth whatever in the report. A bridge on the Suncook branch of the Concord railroad, over tne Merrimac river, gave way Wednesday while undergoing repairs. Three men were drowned. Mrs. Minnie Brophy, of New York, awoke Sunday night and saw a burglar climbing out of her window. She seized hold of his legs and held him till a policeman arrived. It has been learned that at the late election in Boston 400 women unwittingly illegally voted the entire city ticket, instead of for School Board alone, the limit of their suffrage. The total expenses of the late Cincinnati Centennial Exposition were $725,000 and the receipts only $400,000, mak- . ing a 35-pe--cent, levy on the guarantee of sl,< 0 ’,OOO necessary. Among Gen. Harrison’s visitors on the 20th, were Wm. Cassius Goodloe, of Kentucky, Robert P. Porter, of New York, Generals Merrill and Kountz, excommanders of the G. A. R. Mrs. Cleveland’s warfare on bustles has caused the shutting down of the Taylor bustle department oi Warner’s corset factory, Bridgeport, Conn., throwing a large number of hands out of work.

Gilbert Larrios, a passenger on the steamer Etruria, which reached New York, Monday, was arrested for smuggling twenty-six thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds. He said they were presents for his fiance. Wednesday morning White Caps tore open the saloon of John Messmore at Rawson, Hancock county, Ohio, pouring the liquor into the gutter. They left a warning for the saloon keeper not to resume business. The survivors of General Harrison’s old regiment, the Seventieth, will, jit the General’s request, act as l|ie escort to and at Washington. Heretofore Federal troops have acted as the guard of the President-elect on inauguration day.. • Fanny Jones, a negress, has been arrested at vVestminister, Md., for killing a four-year-old child who had been left in her care. It is alleged that she tortured it to death, and that other children perished at her hands in a similar way. It is reported at Wheeling that Govnor Wilson contemplates issuing certificates to defeated Democratic candidates for Congress in West Virginia, and will rely upon the militia to sustain him in the action. The story, however, lacks confirmation. The,railroad miners of western Penn sylvania, at a delegate convention on the 20th, representing 9, < 00 miners, decided to join the Miners’ National Progressive Union. Most of the miners were members of the K. of L., ana their desertion wilj. be a hard blow to the district.assembly. Matbias Quay, chairman of the Republican National Committee, arrived in Indianapolis to consult with Gen. Harrison. No one, of course, knows what it was all about, unless the surmise is correct that Mr. Quay is desirous of naming a member of the Cabinet.

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 review the parade of G. A. R. veter ans on Memorial Day next May, and accompany the procession to the tomb of General Grant at Riverside. In an address delivered before the Freedman’s Aid and Southern Educational Society, at Columbus, 0., Rev. Dr. F. F. Spencer, President of Grant Memorial University, Athens, Tenn, said that there are 19,000,''00 children of school age in the United States, of whom 9,0 ‘O,OOO could neither read nor write, and of this number three-fourths were in the Southern States. South Dakota Democrats held a convention on the 20th for the purpose of taking action to advance the cause of statehood which was att-nded by delegates from twenty-one counties, who Were very enthusiastically in favor of the matter. A committee of the leading Democrats of the territorywas appointed to go to Washington and present -the matter to Congress. As a compact statement of the case the convention adopted a memorial to Congress, urging the division on the seventh standard parallel and immediate admission. v . Among Gen. Harrison’s callers on the 18th was a committee of manufacturers from Alabama to present a memorial. They represent a combined capital of $100,000,000, and many of them are reported Democrats, who voted the Republican ticket on account of its advocacy of protection. In the memorial they congratulate General Harrison upon “the success of those principles which caused his election, because we believe that a protective tariff will promote and aid the development of our national resources, and become an issue, free from Sectional feeling and prejudice, is now presented upon which the people of the South can divide according to the dictates of reason and conviction. We know there are large numbers in this section who think as we do and are only restrained from public expression and advocacy of their opinions by a feeling of uncertainty as to what will be the policy adopted in the treatment of the Southern problem, and apprehension that any change in our local govern-

ment will be determined to our best interests.” Care in making appointments is urged as important in developing the strength of the Republican party in the South. “ ■