Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Nevada decides by popular vote not to have a State lottery. West Virginia Democratic Legislators decide to stick to Kenna. In a fire at Pike. N. Y., Friday, Jennie Mack and her niece were burned to death. J. Bordeaux, and four of his children* died at Shelton, W. T., Tuesday* from eating poisoned cabbage. 8 It wfll cost Boston SIOO,COO to put in practice the Australian system of voting, lately adopted in that city. Mary R. Fleming has sued ex-Senator John J. Patterson, of South Carolina, for $60,000 for breach of promise. It is said the big brewery of Frank Fehrs, at Louisville, has been sold to an English syndicate for $1,000,000. The Gentiles defeated the Mormons in the municipal at Ogden, Utah, Wednesday, HfcjJie first time. It is believed that tnffpresent session of Congress will admit Dakota, Montana and Washington Territories as States. The Illinois Senate, bj a vote of 24 to 20, not two-thirds, decided not to submit a prohibition amendment to the people.

Hon. Sydney L. Fairchild, father of Secretary of the Treaspry Fairchild, died at his home in Casenovia, N. Y., Friday. * 'The will of John Guy Vassar, founder of Vassar College, bequeathes $2,500,000 to that and ether institutions bearing his name. TLe Navy Department Wednesday received confirmation of the news of the death of Rear Admiral Chandler at Hong Kong. O. Y. Bearden, the colored man who kilted Officer Palmer,at Springfield, Mo., •wm.. sentenced to ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.® < The Wallace election law, which is modeled after the Australian, and applies to the city of Louisville, was Monday decided to be constitutional. It is stated that Gladstone will not go to Rome, because the Italian government opposes it, fearful of the result of an interview between him and the Pope. It is charged that several members of the Nebraska Legislature were bribed to vote against the woman suffrage movement. An investigation has been ordered. A funeral procession in Brooklyn was delayed nearly an hour by the refusal of members of a Cab Drivers’ Union to proceed while one of, the coaches in line was driven by a non-nnion man. A meeting with the object of forming a tariff reform league has been called to meet at Indianapolis; March 4. The call has been numerously signed, and the attendance will undoubtedly be large. Father Dougherty, a Catholic priest of St Louis, has renounced the priesthood and is about to begin the practice of medicine in Chicago. Father Dougherty was ordained by Archbishop Kendrick in 1880. Johnny Powers, aged 11, of Middletown, N.’ Y., Tuesday became a raving manjac from excessive indulgence in cigarette smoking. Edward Crall, of Carlisle, Pa /died on the same date from the same cause.

George Grauer, of Springfield, 0., has becom violently insane on the subject of religion. He thinks that he is the special cue odian of the key to Heaven, and that the Holy Ghost is his constant companion. T. W. Bunch, of Keokuk, lowa, claims to have invented a machine for perpetual motion, which he will clearly demonstrate to any parties puttin rp a bonus of 51.0b0.0 0 in a Keokuk bank. Why not draw on us, Mi. Bunch? It is said that the New York street car men who went on a strike are verv anxious to find where the $15,000 sub-' scribed for the strikers has gone. Seven hundred d dlars was paid out, but they want to know what has became of the balance. Jehu Baker, who defeated Wm. R. Morrison f>r Congress two years ago, and who defeated by Foreman last November oy 26 votes, has concluded not to contest the Election of the latter. A recount increased Foreman’s maj jrity from 16 to 26. The body a of woman frightfully mutillated and packed in a barrel, was found i > the street in an unfrequented part of Ch cago, Wednesday. The barrel had the appearance of having fallen from a wagon No exp anation of the mystery js suggested. * A large meteor fell on a farm in the townjof Highland, Orange county, New York. It is described as very brilliant anti in color yellow, tinged with green. It broke into’many small pieces, and the snow covering about an acre was found perforated as if with gravelstones. Snow has since fallen, covering the traces, but an investigation is to be made when it disappears. The De mocratic caucus of the New Jersey Legiwlature decided upon the repeal of the local option law. The proposed new hill allows trial by jury; permits sales by druggists ?en prescription, and provides for revocation of license for one year on conviction of excise violation. It is reported that the half-breeds of Roulette county, Dakota Territory, are. ap in arms over the tax question, and have threatened to burn the county ’toffices. The Sheriff 1 and Commissioners called out the militia, but were severely censured by the Governor for so doing without his orders. A contract was let Wednesday for the adding of three additional stories to the Palmer House, Chicago. This will make it twe've stories in height, running the entire block from Btat=i street to Wabash avenue, and will give the house the prestige of being one of the biggest hotel structures in the world. Work will be commenced immediately. News has been received of an awful tragedy at Glen, Minn. Three young ladies Friday night visited the house of an old lady and and gentleman. They left for home at 9p. m.. Just as they reached the Street thev were attacked by James Sehmelling and killed. The old gentleman went to their assistance and was also murdered, The ‘’murderer is not canght yet. Superintendent Chase, of the Indian school at Genoa. Neb.', it has been found, has cheate<t the Indians and the Government to the extent of $25,00“. He even pocketed the $3 per month which the Government allowed the Indians for spending money, and had the names of

citizens on the pay-roll who never bad any connection with the institution whatever. He is missing. Colonel Ruth Goshen, the largest giant Barnum ever bad,died Wednesday at Clyde, N. J., where he has lived during the winter for the l»nt ten years. He had been ill for six months,' and death was from dropsy. He was 7 feet 2 inches in height and measured two and one-half feet across the shoulders, twenty-eight inches through the chest, and when in health weighed 634 pounds. The Grand Jury returned indictments, Saturday, against every liquor man in Belvidere, 111. Nearly eighty indictments were found altogether for selling liquor to ifiinorsand habitual drunkards. The saloon keepers already have a ten-thonsand-dollar damage suit on their hands, and the fact of their being compelted to pays one-thonsand-dollar annual license, <ogether with the expenses of the law suits, will about absorb all of their profits. * Captain Compton, of the steamer Haytian Republic,declares that the Haytians refused to salute the American flag when Admiral Luce received that vessel from General Legitime at Port-au-Prince. He arrived in 1 New York, Saturday. “The American Minister, when my ship was released,” said he to a reporter, “ordered the Haytians to salute the American flag. They refused absolutely to do so, and all they did was to return Admiral Luce’s salute. It was an insu't to oar Government for them not to salute first.”

Seventy-six pictures, the private collection of James H. Stebbins, brought the sum of $159,395, at auction Tuesday night at Chickering Hall, New York. The large hall was tilled with'art critics, artists and people of wealth. There was a little sensation when the auctioneer was' offered SII,OOO as4he first bid on Meissonnier’s celebrated picture, “The Game Lost.” It was finally sold for $26,300. The name of the purchaser could not be ascertained. This canvass was 13}xlOJ inches. M. B. Mason, of Boston, paid $13,700 for Jean Leon Gerome’s “L’Eminens Grise.” W. W. Astor, of New York, paid $10,500 for a picture by the same artist. One of the tallest office buildings in at Chicago, the Owens block, fourteen stories high, collapsed Sunday morning. It was a beautiful Gothic structure situated at Dearborn and Adams streets,' just opposite the post office. The ten lower stories fell in. one after another, leaving the walls and four upper floors standing, but in a decidedly shaky condition. The tenth floor was detective. It fell to the next, and the two together, acting like a huge pile driver, pounded a way for themselves to the bottom. About a dozen workmen were in the basement of the building. An ominous cracking and tremendous crash was heard and the workmen rushed pell-me 1 to the streets. They were not a moment too soon. The building was undergoing the finishing touches of erection: Had the accident occurred later, when occupied, the loss of life must have been awful. /

FOREIGN. M. DeLesseps is critically ill. Bismarck is much harassed by ill health and the intrigues of his foes. It is announced that the Canadian Government is satisfied that the seizure of the Ameiican schooner Bridgewater at Shelburne, Nova Scotia last year for refusing to pay duty on repairs was unjustifiable, and that the owner is likely to be awarded damages. The correspondent at- San Salvador, Congo, on the 18th, says, that a courier has arrived at that place from the west coast who states that a report is current that Henry M. Stanley was killed in an engagement with natives mar Mangamba. The courier reports that several instruments which they have identified as having belonged to Mr. Stanley have been sold by natives. From a report laid before Parliament Saturday it appears that there are at present nineteen lepers confined in the Dominion lazaretto at Tracadie, New Brunswick—eight males and eleven females. During the year two new 'cases were admitted from tne surrounding country. No effort appeals to have been made by the government to arrest the terrible disease, which is reported to bespreading in British Columbia.