Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. The Connecticut Legislature elected, Thursday, the Republican State officers. " Eight persons were killed in a collision near Kent, 0., Monday, on the N. Y., P. & O. road. Mrs. Jaar Gould died at her home in New York, Sunday night, after a long and severe illness. In his biennial message Governor Martin, of Kansas takes a decided stand against trusts and combinations. As Walker Blaine was alighting from a cab in Washington on the 12th he fell and broke both bones in his right leg. The United Stales war sloop Yantic, just in from Hayti, lies at New York quarantine with yellow fever on board. Senators Cullen, of Illinois, and Plumb, of Kansas, have each been renominated by their respective caucuses Horn R. P. Francigj was inaugurated Governor of Missouri t on the 14th and Private Joe Fifer, Governor of Illinois. An English syndicate is about to purchase five breweries at Baltimore, the financial consideration being about $2.500, LOO. Deputy County Treasurer Charles H. Dixon, of East Saginaw, Mich., is missing, with a considerable chunk of the county funds. The electors of New York State met at Albany, Monday, and cast the vote of the State for Harrison and Morton. A salute of ICO guns were fired. $ New Hampshire’s Constitutional Convention adopted an amendment prohibiting manufacture and sale of all intoxicating liquors, “except cider.” James Crowley and Will Maddin, while blasting on the San Miguel river, accidently exploded a giant cap which set fire to’ and exploded sixteen sticks of giant powder. Both men were instantly killed. The farmers of Warren and Sussex counties, New Jersey, are turning over their sol fields, something unparalleled for the paiddle of January. The weather is so mild that the trees are beginning to swell their buds. The Voice, tiie Prohibition organ* Charges that two of its employes sold its mailingTist to W. W. Dudley and J, S. Clarkson, of the Republican National Committee, to be used for campaign purposes. The price paid was |250. Co-operative companies for the transaction of business are beiDg formed by the farmers in several sections of lowa. Members of the associations are to purchase goods at cost. It is feared that, if the plan is successful, retail merchants throughout the State will suffer. The suspension bridge situated nearest Niagara falls was carried away by the gale about 3 o’clock Thursday morning and deposited in the river. The towers and cables remain intact. The bridge was completely rebuilt last season and enlarged for double track, the material being entirely iron and steel. The Supreme Court of West Virginia, Saturday, rendered a decision quashing the writ of prohibition against Judge Guthrie. This virtually takes the election matter out of the hands of the courts and disposes of all obstacles preventing the Secretary of State from certifying to the returns from Kanawha, which elects Goff by a majority of 106. A statehood convention was held at at Santa Fej N. M., Saturday. All parts of the Territory were represented. A long resolution was adopted setting forth the claims on which admission *xo the Union is demanded. Tbe population is claimed to be 175,000; there are 1,400 miles of railroad and telegraph lines, etc. It is desired that the present name New Mexico be retained. FOREIGN. It is expected that the coming speech of Prince Bismarck wMI make some bitter allusions to the part taken by the Americans in the Samoan troubles. Th ere is great excitement at Van couver, B. C., on account of an effort to land the passengers of the steamer Premier, which has smallpox on board. The fire engines “turned water on them to keep them from landing. A party of officCt’S engaged in evicting a tenant from his holding upon the estate of Lord Lurgan, at Lurgan, County Armagh, Sunday, met with a vigorous resistance, the inmates of the house assailing them With boiling water, stones and pitchforks. A bailiff was stabbed, and Lord Lurgan’s agent and a policeman seriously injured. The riot act was read and a number of arrests made.