Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Prescott is now the Capital of Arizona. The window glass trust has fallen flhrough. White Cap notices are being received by prominent men in Norwalk, Conn. C. M. Talcott, a dry goods dealer at Hartford, Conn., failed on the 7th for $200,100. Mrs. Wm. Sente, aged seventy years, committed suicide by hanging herself Tuesday near Racine, Wis. The Arkansas Legislature has offered |S,O(X> reward for the arrest of the murderers of John M, Clayton. Mary R. Fleming has sued ex-Benator John Jii Patterson, of South Carolina, for $50,000 for breach of promise. Thirteen counterfeiters have been captured in Butler county, Pennsylvania, within the past ten days. The Massachusetts House of Representatives adopted the proposed constitutional prohibitory amendment by a vote of 161 to 69. • The ceal operators at Mt. Carmel. Pa., report an improvement in the anthiaeite coal trade and 2,000' men are at workto-day in that district. The laboring men in Chattanooga are preparing to attempt the forced recognition of the rule providing that eight hours shall constitute a working day. It is stated that Gladstone will not go to Rome, because the Italian government op i.oses it, fearful of the result of an interview between him and the Pope. Police Inspector Bonfield and Captain Scbanck, of the Chicago police,have been suspended from office on account of the charge made by the Times of that city. President Cleveland and Governor Hill, of New York, met at a dinner at Secretary Whitney’s, Thursday, and recognized each other only by a passing nod. Fires, Thursday: At Cleveland the Northern Ohio Blanket mill. Loss, SIOO,OOO A $30.0 0 brewer)- at Niagara Falls. Eleven business houses at bteelsville, Mo. Wold from Wyethville, Va, says Thomas, a negro, was found dead in the road, killed by unknown parties. This makes more than twenty violent deaths in the past two ye irs.

One hundred acres of oil land. 500 acres of leases and twenty oil wells, flowing from ten ■ o 3,‘ 00 barrels per day, have been sold, at Findlay, 0 , to the Standard Oil Company, for SIOO,OOO. A band of fifty prominent ladies of Prosser, Neb . made a raid on the saloon and gambling houses Tuesday and demolished the entire establishments. Whisky and beer werejemptied into the gutter. The strike of the New York street car employes was declared off on the 6th, the strikers yielding to the inevitable. The loss to the men is estimated at SIOO,O 0 and to the companies -at $e50,000. It is rumored that a New Yorker, name not given, c ntemplates founding and endowing a great University either in New Yo-k or Chicago, with S2O 000,030. It is stated that the Baptist denomination is contemplating something of the sort. A novel shipment was made from Cincinnati, Friday. It was a single machine for the manufacture of ice, and it required thirteen cars to carry it. Its weight aggregates mote than 300, iO-' pounds, and its cost was $31),0J0. It goes to Denver, Col. Flora Bowan. a colored woman, died at Baltimore Friday at the good old age of 114. She had three children, thirteen grandchildren, twenty-two great grandchildren, nineteen great-great-grandchildren, and five great-great-great-grandchildren. The St. L iuis R announces that it has gond reasons to believe that if General Boulanger, the central political figure in France at present, obtains a divorce from his wife, he will shoitly thereaf er marry the divorced wife of Joseph D. Lucas, of St. Louis. Three hundred winter wheat millers of the United States held a meeting at Indianapolis Tuesday and Wednesday. E. T. Noel, of Nashville, Tenn., was made chairman and D. H. Ranck of Indianapolis, secretary. An organization in the nature of a tryst was effected. The extensive establishment of James Wyeth & Bros , manufacturing chemists at 1,412, 1,414 and 1,416 Walnut street, Philadelphia, was completely destroyed by fire Sunday. The building was completely gutted, and the loss will be between $200,0C0 and $300,000, nearly covered by iururance. John Hall, a worthless character at Beaver Dam, Ky. enticed three boys, named Ferguson, Chinn and Bunch, to his home and sold them a quart of poisoned whisky. Ferguson was found dead, Bunch is dying and Chinn is very ill. Hall will be arrested for violating the'prohibition laws. E. L. Graceion, postmaster at Winchester, Mass., has resigned, and is understood to be some SBOO short in bis accounts, which is supposed to be due to loose management, rather than deliberate attempt to defraud. He is a son of ex-Governor Graceion, of Maine, and was appointed in 1888. ! ., "The trial of Charles E. Orbann against the Philadelphia Traction Company for ?M*sonal injuries received, terminated hursday in a verdict for the plaintiff of $20,000. Orbann was *a newsboy, and while selling papers at Third and Market streets/ either was or fell from a traction car and had his arm cut off. , Twenty-five boys in the Soldiers’ OrJ hans’ Home at McAllisterville, Pa., ave been attacked by an epidemic of nervous insanity. The lads are unable to remember the names of objects, calling a pocket-knife a tadpole, and otherwise gettingthings mixed up. Physicians are unable to account for the strange disease. The sale is announced of the Cincin-

nati,' Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago (Big Four) railroad to the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis railroad (Vanderbiltsystem). The tranfer will give the Big Four entrance into St. Louis, and Kansas City and many changes in present traffic arrangements will re suit. As Victoria (B. C.) dispatch says that the United States government is being cheated out of millions of dollars of revenue every year by opium smugglers and that the laws against Chinese immigration are flagrantly violated, there being a big traffic in Chinese “slaves.”

(Smuggler* ppenly boast that they have been able to bribe a’moet every United States Custom House official they have come in contact with. The Pennsylvania Railroad has inaugurated a reform in the running of SunI day freight trains. At 10 o’clock Batur- ! day night all freight trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad, except stock and those ' being perishable freight .were stopped inorder to aiiow employes the privilege of enjoying rest on Sunday. The same system will bo> inaugurated on all the Pennsylvania Company’s ,lines west of Pittsburg. This order will allow almost three thousand men, on the Pennsylvania Roaa alone, to enjoy Sabbath at their homes. Julia Maber, fifty-six years old, died Tuesday morning in a miserable hovel in Webster, R. 1., of paralysis. The cash is particularly horrible, as her busband bad given the woman no care after she became incapable of doing any more w »rk. The neighbors say she was left alone, and rats entered ibe hovel and gnawed away at the woman’s extremities while she lay yet alive, but unable to drive them away. The flesh was badly eaten from her thighs, and the face had’been attacked. The police learned of the matter, and induced the neigh hors to watch with the woman while life remained. Sandy Welsh, p citizen of Cincinnati, has a new scheme to make wealth. A bout three years ago he insured his life for lIQ.OO'. Bandy got out of work and meditation upon his condition reduced him to a skeleton. His death seemed a question of a few days when a friend prevailed on Sandy to sell his policy for $3,0’10. In less than two months Sandy was as robust as of old. The purchaser threatened Sandy, but that did not work, and a compromise for $1,200 was effected, the purchaser having in the meantime, paid a two-hundred-dollar premium. Sandy tried the scheme again and again until he has “approached death” three times since at a net gain of $5,000. besides having his premiums paid and still retaining possession of his policy.

The greatest excitement prevails among the farmers throughout a region covering about ten square miles in Wetzel county, W, Ya., the cause being the discovery that there are from eight to a dozen dogs afflicted with rabies within the territory named, running wild through the woods and over the fields. For a month past, live stock on numerous farms have been found dead, ami hogs and cattle observed to be suffering fiom what was thought to be fits, but the cause was not suspected until Thursday, when it was ascertained that a number of horses, cattle and hogs had been bitten by mad dogs, and that two -children, Morgan by name, had shared in the same fate. The disease is supposed to have originated in the county last.fall and to have spread since. . ’ - "