Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

OOMCSTIC. A brash trust is the latest. Heavy snow foil throughout the Nortbeastnp the t<Bth. It is safff D J. Mackey is quietly fishing to get control of the I. & V. road. A bridge at Spottsville, Ky., collapsed, Sunday, and four persons were killed. A bill to restrain trusts was introduced in the New York Legislature,Friday. W. 0. Washburn was| Friday, elected U. 8. Senator from Minnesota to Bucceed Sabin. Thirty miners were killed outright by the explosion in the Hyde colliery, Friday. ” 1 . . .■, Small-pox prevails at ' Minneapolis and fears are entertained that it will become epidemic. Gray county, Kansas, is experiencing a county Brat war. Troops are required to prevent bloodshed. John M. Phillips, New York manager of the Methodist hook Concern, died on the 16th, aged 69 years, j , C. W. Seefield, a prominent grain dealer of Bt. Charles, Minn., failed for from $lO ,000 »o <200.000. Catholics who attended Dr. McGlynn’s meetings have been notified, that they will be refused absolution. At All ert Lea,Minn.,the public schools were closed Tuesday on account of the diphtheria epidemic now existing. Emma Malloy, the noted temperance evangelist, was married at Salem, Oregon, to a gentleman named Barrett. Fonr thousand miners in Mercer county, w. Va., struck 1 hnrsday, on account of the difference in size of the mine cars. Three hundred members of the American Protective League had a swell supper at Delmonico’s Thursday xught. Regulators have been at work in various parts of Louisiana, but the authorities show a disposition to check their crimes. Lewis Pauley was appointed po'tmas ter at Yorktown, N. Y., by President W,H. Harrison in 1841 and still holds the position. Advices from New Mexico say that there are from two to three feet of snow in the mountains, and that cattle are suffering. < Robert Storms, of Elizabeth, N. J., bitten by a pet spaniel ten days ago, died Friday of hydrophobia, suffering excrutiatingly. The use of electric light on railroad trains has been inauguiated in the northwest by the Chicago, Milwaukee Sc St. Paul Railroad. One hundred thousand dollars in geeenbaeks and bonds were found in an old trunk belonging to a miser who recently died at New Orleans. The Dakota Statehood Convention Friday adopted resolutions favoring almission as two States, and asking Congress to take immediate action. Master Workman Powderlv says “Barry is an anarchist and an agent of the anarchists, and if it had not been for this, he would still be in the K.ofL.” A news “boy,” aged 31, at St. Louis, died suddenly, last Friday. A search of his rooms revealed S2I,(X 0 in cash and bonds which he had saved from his earnings. Gen. Harrison spent Saturday at Riley McKeen’s stock farm near Terre Haute. The party consisted of Mr. McKeen, Hon. R. W. Thompson and E. B. Martindale. At the meeting of the New York State Presidential Electors a petition was numerously signed asking that Senator Platt be offered a position in Harr,ton’s Cabinet. Representative O’Donnell, of Cook Bouuty, introduced in the Illinois Legislature a bill against “trusts” and making the penal y one to five years in the penitentiary. It is reported that Henry F. Voight, late cashier of the defunct Farmer’s and Mechanics’ Bank at Pittsburg, who was arrested Thursday night, has misappropriated at least 1200,( 00. A bill making the legal rate of interest not to exceed 6 per cent, per annum, which shall not be increased either by oral or written contract, has been introduced in the Illinois Senate. The German Mission Station at Dar-Es-Solem, Africa, was captured by insurgents and all the inmates—loo natives ana th~ee male and t v o female missionaries were sold into slavery. Thursday at Hillsboro, 0., Adam Berkels brought suit for SIO,OOO damages against sixteen citizens of Brown county, for an assault committed upon him in their capacity as “White Caps.” The widow of John Kelly, 1 the late Tammany chief, has been sued for $20,000 for “literary services” for her husband, by James F. McLaughlin, who, it is said, prepared Kelly’s speeches. Allen Campbell, president of the BankofEvart, Michigan, has departed suddenly for Canada, taking with him $10,0(0 belonging to the bank and the town, of which he was Treasurer. Two men who had taken the places of striking weavers at Pittsfield, Mass., were attacked Wednesday fright ’And beaten nearly to death by fifteen masked men who claimed to be White Caps. At Chicago, Tuesday, Jud e Prender gast decided that a private railway company, having no charter of incorporation, does not possess the right of eminent domain, and can not legally condemn property for its use. The saloons and disreputables driven out of Nioux City by the prohibition law have gathered across the Missouri river in Nebraska and have become so abnoxious there that the citizens talk of organizing vigilantes to get rid of the pest.

George Meadows, a negro, probably guilty oi outrage on the person of Mrs. Kellaßk and the murder of i her'boy, was hung at th<- Pratt mines, Alabama, Tuesday, by a mob of “quiet but determined men.” He protested hie innocence. The coal mines operated by Zeller & Zigler. at Center Point, have close down, throwing a number of miners out of work. The operators claimed they could not mine at prices paid for labor, and the mines would not consent to reduction. Hanson Huntsman, of Belvidere, N. J., has been lined SIOO and sentenced to six months in jail for blaspheming. He declares himself to be the Son of God, allowing his followers to pay him divine

honors and passing Judgment on those he happened to dislike. The American Swine Breeders’ Association was in session at Dayton, Tuesdey, with the principle hog raisers of the United States and Canada inatttendance. Discussion was had on “Diseases of swine,” “Care and handling of breeding stock,” and “Feeding for, profit and health.” J A petition has been forwarded to General Harrison, signed by every Republican member,pf the -Nevada Legislature,/ and by fifty-four out of fiftv-ttve Republican members of the California Legists} lure, praying the appointmentof M. M. Estee. of California, to a position in General Harrison’s Cabinet. A Laclede. "Mo., si ecial says: Mrs. Malinda Hall, a widow, and four small children were murdered, Saturdav night, | by the woman’s cousin, Joseph Howe, a school teacher. He fired the house and , cremated his victims. The murderer j was tracked in the snow to Brookfield,! and arrested. He will likely be lynched, j Director Swift, of the Warner Ob-1 servatorv, has received notice of the discovery of a new comet by Professor Brooks, at Smith’s Observatory, Geneva, at, 6:60 o’clock. Its position is as follows: Right ascension 18 hours 47 minutes; declination, Bout.. 21° 2(/, wi»h a rapid westerly motion* _ . '-ecomet is faintish. All Republican members of both branches of the Arkansas Legislature have held a meeting and adopted a resolution unanimously lecommending College of Denißtry withdrew in a body, Wednesday. Their action was taken because Professor Weissq, a favorite of the students, was not given the chair of anatomy when it was vacated recently. A Mr. Bagley, of Virginia, recently apElied fora life insurance and was refused y the company on the ground that he had been bitten by a spitz dog, Dec 15, last. Mr. Bagley wiote to Dr. Pasteur on the subject and Wednesday received a repiy from the eminent scientist, in which he declared that the bite of a healthy dog is harmless, but that the animal should be keptundersurveillance eight days after indicting the wound, in order to be sure that it does not Bhow signs of rabies. In the Decatur, 111., Circuit Court, Friday evening, Judge Vail decided an interesting election bet. Last summer Minor Alsup, bet Tnomas Snell $750 that Clevland would be elected Presir dent, and William Phares was made the stakeholder. Alsup went back on the bet and ordered Phares not to turn over the money. Alsup brought suit againßt Phares to recover his $750 of the stakes. Judge Vail gave a decision in favor of the plaintiff. The question of the alleged criminality of the bet in accordance with the State law was not considered. Snell has appealed the case to Dewitt county. He has commenced a suit against the stakeholder for $3,000. The trial of Frederick Baldwin, at Elizabeth, N. J., who was accused of the murder of Edward L. Miller, a divinity student whose body was found at Westfield, on July 15, ended Friday in a verdict of acquittal. The jurv, without leaving their seats, immediately at the finish of the judge’s charge, which was ’strongly favorable to the prisoner, gave their verdict. A dramatic scene took place. Baldwin fell on his knees in prayer and thanksgiving, while the crow 2 ® cheered the verdict. Baldwin and his family werp escorted through the Streets of the city by hundreds of people. Baldwin, passing John Keron, the State detective, said to him: “1 forgive you for the cruel wrong you did me and *my family.” The case against Baldwin was based on the fact that a satchelMqft with Baldwin by Miller was destroyed bv Baldwin after the discovery of the body.

FOREIGN. The ice palace at Montreal is melting and falling owing to the warm weather. The damage at Costa Rica, on account of recent earthquakes amount to $6,000,000. Emperor William has ordered the disGeneral Powell Clayton for a Cabinet position. The “finger stall” game was successfully worked for $7,600 on a bank at Hull, Out., on the 16th. Ninety-one students of the New York charge of all the French cooks in his employ, and employed Germans in their place. The French syndicate in China has presented to the Emperor six elegantly finished railway carriages. Ash rt railroad will be built especially for His Majesty’s pleasure. An explosion of fire-damp occurred in the Hyde Colliery near Manchester,England. Seven bodies have been taken from the mine. One hundred persons are still entombed. Fire raged in the imperial palace at Pekin, China from the 17th to the 19th, and about one-fourth of the enclosure, which is a eity within itself, was destroyed. The palace and warehouses were heaped with costly stuffs and treasures in anticipation of the Emperor’s marriage and the loss is enormous. The bishops of Tirnova, Varna and Vrantza were draggda from tbt;ir beds by gendarmes and summarily marched outside the wails of Sofia where they were left shivering in the biting north wind. Because of this violent treatment of the bishops, it is believed that a holy war will be declared against Prince Ferdinand. Mr. Adamson, the consul-general at Panama,on the 16th inst. received a communication from the secretary-general of the department of Panama, stating that, although the local government would do all in its power to preserve peace and order, it feared that disturbances f the public peace might follow the suspension of work on the Panama canal, which suspension is expected soon. % . r The Federal Grknd Jury has mapped out lively timeß for a great mahy people in Indiana. Monday _ morning its eighteen members went into court and presented to Judge Woods a bundle of indictments, forty-seven in number. “Have you any "further inquiries to make?” asked the Court of the foreman. “We have,” “You may retire,” and the jurymen stiffly filed out between the rowa of reporters and other honest folk that they have not been able to indict. Sr-venty-seven indictments have thus far been returned by this industrious jury. Only two of tbe forty-seven reported Monday were for other offence*! than ele tion law violations. Dudley is not included in tbe list, bat the jury is still in its den w<- rking on bis ease —Indianapolis News.