Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

OOMESTIC. Senator-elect Washburn, of Minnesota, is critically ill. James H. Berry Was re-elected U. 8. Senator by the Arkaimaw legislature, on the 30th. - A bill to prevent corners in grain was introduced in the New York Legislature on the 30th. } ■ : The Pennsylvania Senate, Wednesday, passed the prohibition amendment by a vote of 32 to 2. Black measles is epidemic at Warsaw 111. Over 30 » cases prevailed on the 2d. Many people are leaving the place. Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., has signed a three years’ contract to go on the stage mnderthe management of Daniel Frohman, t A, bill giving counties the right to say whether liquor shall be sold or not has been introduced in the Michigan Legislature. ±__ Small pox has broken out in the Onondaga (N. Y.) poor house. Several inmates are sick with the disease and a hundred others have been exposid. Amma ; Eilis colored, was publicly hanged neat Clinton, in Sampsoh County, N. C., Friday afternoon. Fully 3,000 people witnessed the execution. ' At Chicago George W. Clark (colored) quarreled with his sweetheart, Tillie Hyland, a Swedish domestic. Clark brntally murdered the girl and then killed himself. , Oakes Ames, who is worth $50(1,000 eloped, at Anthony Park, * Minn, with Miss Emma Watson, an assistant nortmistress. Ames is a cousin of the Governor of Massachusetts. John Peck, a wealthy real estate owner of Albany, N. Y„ was bunkoed out of SIO,OOO. on the Ist. It was done in the good old fashioned way and the rubbers made good their escape. A new capital punishment bill, modeled after the Ohio law, and providing that executions shall take place only in the penit ntiarv before daylight, is be-, fore the Illinois Legislature. Both Houses of the New York Legislature are to commence war against the grain gamblers in New York City and that a determined effort will be made to have the gambling stopped. Governor Beaver Thursday signed the joint resolution submitting to a vote of the people of Pennsylvania the proposed amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the sale or manufacture of intoxicating liquor. A bill was introduced in the Michigan Legislature, Monday, providing for a bounty on wolf scafps, it being stated that the destruction of deer in the northern peninsula was due more to wolves than to hunters. A special from Olathe, Kas., says Mrs. Lucy Ferguson, aged seventy-five years, convicted of mu- ler in the first degree. A motion so: a new trial was overruled and the death penalty pronounced upon her. Citizens of Western Kansas have asked the Legislature for an appropriation for the purpose of experimenting in producing rain by artificial means. They say that it is a well known fact that after each battle of the late war, where there was heavy canonading, a rainstorm followed, and they think it might be possible during a drought, to produce rain by some such means. A switch engine on the St. Louis & San Fraueisco railroad, jumped the track Sunday, while running at a speed of fifteen miles an hour. There were ten men on the engine, only two of whom were unhurt. Three were killed outright and four fatally injured. The West Virginia Legislature is having just such a time as the Indiana Legislature had two years ago. The D. mocrats have a majority of one on joint ba lot, and refuse to announce the vote for governor. The result will probably be a dual government. The machinery constructors composing District Assembly 198 Knights of Labor at Pittsburg.have decided to withdraw from the Knights in a body, and form an independent order. They i< rmerly numbered twenty thousand but the membership at present is ten thousand. Mrs. Meckie Raw on, the wife of the Chicago millionaire banker who in open court shot his lawyer nearly to death, was acquitted in short order Thursday. Mrs. Rawson’s motives for the attempted killing was the activity of Whitney, the lawyer, in worriDg up testimony to smirch her reputation. Three hundred and eighty-five of typhoid fever are reported at “Lakeview, a suburb of Chicago, and new cases develop every day. The opinion among the physicians is that the disease is due largely to the open winter, bad sewerage, impure water, and the bad condition of the streets. War has been declared against the policy dealers and gamblers of Buffalo. Rates are made nightly, and there is in the possession of the Clerk of the Police Court about ten thousand poker chips and furniture enough to stock a small store. Over two thousand dollars’ worth of property has been seized. “Sterilized air,” the use of which will remove the danger now attending surgical operations from subsequent inflammation, is said to have been discovered by T. E. Tinsley, an architect and inventor of Kansas City. It is believed that the discovery will revolutionize the present way of treating wounds. Ed. Kelley, a criminal on trial at St. Louis, Tuesday, while court was in session and after it was agreed to inflict a ten years’ sentence, violently assaulted his attorney, striking him in the face and injuring him severely. The attack cost Kelly five years’ liberty, as the sentence was increased to fifteen years. United States Senator Cal lorn in an address to the Illinois Legislature, Taesday, thanking them for their confidence in re-electing him, expressed hope of the futute annexation of Canada to the United States. He declared the interests of the two countries were in common. The speech was interrupted by bursts of applause. FOREIGN* German spies ar- alleged to keep Bismarck fully posted on all important matters twtgypiring in the United States Waranq Navy Departments. A dispatch from Zanzibar states that an American sailing vessel from Zanzibar for Madagascar ports, had been fired into and disabled by a German war ship. William O’Brien was, 'Thursday, odged iji the Clonmel jail to serve four

months. He resisted potting oh the prison garb, and was hart ‘ in the straggle. - . Edward Stanhope, England’s Secretary of State for War, expressed the opinion, in a speech Tuesday evening, that a great struggle is impending in Enrope. <r *»• It is now stated that Crdwu PrinceRudolph, of Austria, was slam in a duel with the hnsba d of the Countess Clam Gal las, who is alleged to have caught the Prince and the Countess in a compromising situation. It is reported that Sir Julian Pauncfort, permanent under Secretary ot State for the Foreign offi e, has been appointed British Minister to the United States. Bir Julian is a lawyer and has had no diplomatic experience. Mr. O Brien was ai-rested at Manchester, Monday night/wheH he appeared at a meeting. His appearance before the assemblage created the wildest excitement and enthusiasm. He detailed the storv of his conviction and escape to his anxious hearers, who remained almost breathless during the recital. At the close ot the meeting one hundred police appeared and- arrested Mr. O’Brien. A daring burglary was committed at the residence of Colonel White, Secretary of American Le ation, London Wednesday night. The house, which is in Ramesdefl, near Ascott, was entered by thieves some time after midnight i and robbed of jewelry and other valu- ’ abfes to the amount of $35,000. Ail the 1 jewels were in a casket belonging to | Mrs. White. The burglars seemed to have been informed of this, for the moment they left the house and the empty 1 case was found in an outhouse. No arrest have yet been made.