Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

V DOMESTIC. Natural gas has been struck at San Antonio, Texas. Maplewood, HL, by a vote of 147 to 91 decides to have no saloons. ■lves and Stay nor .were indicted Thursday. They are still in jail. A party of 100 Catholics sailed Thursday for Komi and the Holy Land. Six inches of snow fell at Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, the heaviest fall in years. The Grant monument fund (an almost forgotten object) amounts to $130,345.57. Two Mormon elders were taken into the street at Barnett, Ga., and given 100 lashes each. A “Carriage Freight Association,” is an out.'ome of a carriage manufacturers’ meeting. Mary R. Fleming has sued, ex-Senator John J. Patterson, of Squth Carolina, for $50,000 for breach of promise. The Oklahoma boomers, are all packed up and ready to cross the line the moment Congress gives the word. A druggist at Cleveland, 0., cut his throat with a butcher knife, because of “Whitecap” threats made by practical jokers. Frances Sherman Moulton, sister of General W. T. Sherman, and widow of Colonel Charles W.. Moulton, died, Thursday. ■ James M. Lane, Treasurer of Pickaway county,’o., looked in upon the bucket shops. and is a, fugitive, and $47,000 short. The National Grange has 1,309,359 members, and is congratulating itself on the elevation of the Commissioner of Agriculture to the Cabinet. A gas well with an estimated capacity of from fifteen to., twenty million feet daily, the largest In the country, has been opened at Lancaster, Ohio. The big lumber mills bn Puget Sound have been shut down at the command of the lumber trust. Fifteen hundred men are thrown out of employment. Four scholars ware seriously injured in a school at Deweyville, 0., by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge, dropped by a boy who was trifling wjth it. The West Virginia Legislative dead, lock was broken on the 21st by the reelection of John E. Kenna to the United States Senate. The vote was Kenna 46, Gofl 45. Edward McMeriot, the king of moonshiners in Arkansas, has been captured •n Brush Creek, after a desperate conflict With a sheriff’s posse, in which the outlaw was riddled with bullets. Mrs. Schluchtner, a grass widow, hoisted a flag over her residence in Brooklyn when she heard that Mrs: Schults, her late rival and co-respondent in her divorce suit, had committed suicide. Representative O’Donnell, of Michigan, presented in the House Thursday an enormous petition againt the Sunday Rest bill, which bears the signathres of 230,000 Seventn-day Adventists in all parts of the country. The Standard Oil Company purchased about 800 acres of oil territory in the Lima. O.» field, Thursday, from a syndicate of Pittsburgers. The tract has a number of good wells on it, and the price paid is said to be $175,000. A. P. Wright & Son, of Buffalo, sold 600,000 bushels of No. 2 Chicago spring wheat to a syndicate of Buffalo millers. The wheat, will be sent to Bafialo by rail, the price paid being seven cents over Chicago May. This is the largest cash transaction on record. The factory c f the Minnesota Carriage and Sleigh Company, at St. Paul,Mifin., was destroyed by fire, Friday 1 , The loss on building and stock aggregates $27,000 with insurance of $55,000. Over one hundred men are thrown out of employment. At the Union League Club b mquet at Chicago,Friday night,Henry W. Darling, of Toronto, said that Canada would prefer to work out.her own political destiny in her own way, and in the meantime was asking only unrestricted commercial relations with the United States. The daughter of Rev. G. H. Patterson, of South Portsmouth', R. 1., died Sunday in terrible agony from hydrophobia, the result .of being bitten by a mad dog last September. Several other persons were bitten at the same time, but as yet nothing serious has resulted in their cast s. Mrs. Lizzie McCarthy and her two children wore found dead in their bed, Monday morning, at Chicago. Mrs. McCarthy had deliberately turned on the gas and asphyxiated herself and children. No cause can be assigned for the act. In 1887 'she shot and killed her husband. The Nova Scotian bark, Josie Troop, with a cargo of chalk and a crew of seventeen men, was wrecked, Friday evening, at Chicaroicomico, N. C. The master and ten men were drowned. Six were saved. The vessel and cargo are a .total loss. The vessel is- broken up and strewn on the beach. ; The sale of trotters at Lexington, Ky., Thursday, was mosV phenomenal, the the sixty-dne head’bringing a total of $140,630. The price paid for Billy Boy is the highest ever paid for a horse in America, either trotter or thoroughbred. He was sold to J. H. Clark, of Elmira, N. Y., and J. H. Hopper, of Marionville, O. for $54,000. a 4 ? A monster meeting in favor of eight hours for a day’s work was held in New York, Saturday night. SeVerel speeches were made favorable to the object. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the existence of idle classes was a standing menace to the public and an insult to humanity. The resolutions further pledged workijjgmen to use all means (Consistent with human dignity to reduce hours of labor. News from a creditable source has been received that in the sparsely settled country around Aitkin, Minn., a few days since, two white children returning to their homes late in the after--noon from school, were attacked and .completely devoured by ravenous timber wolves, a few scattered bones and shreds of clothing alone remaining as horrible testimony* of the children’s fate. ' • The town of Belleaire, OhfoJs all torn, up over the question of tinaejhe Board of Education determined 'to change the city time, from sun to stanaard. The result was h clamor which was reflected.in the coftncil. An ordinance.was passed making it a misdemeanor to expose a time piece in public indicating any other than sun time. The Board bi Edu-

cation was arrested, and what will be the final outcome of this most momentous issue it is hard to determine. . There were two’deaths of notable persons on the 21st. James C. Flood, the Bonanza King, of California, died at London. England. Flood was born in Ireland ana came to America at an early age. He went to California in 1851. He formed a partnership with “Billy” O’Brien, both of whom, by their operations in mining property, became fabulously rich. Floodjmd O’Brien, Mackey and Fair, were the “big four’ of the Paciflc’coast. The other notable death was that of Dr. D. W. Bliss the physician who attended President Garfield during his last illness. At Dover, N. H., the jury in the Barker will case Friday returned a verdict sustaining the will. *The estate is valued at over $1,000,000. The testator stipulated in his will that his son Hiram should receive $5,000 a year till death, provided he does not become intoxicated. In ten years he may draw $250,000, and a like sum every succeeding ten years; but, incase he becomes intoxicated, he loses all. The son contested the will on the ground that his father was unduly prejudiced against him on account of his drinking habits, and that he was mentally incapacitated at the times of the making of the will. A train,was robbed near Pixley, Col., Saturday, Two men went on the engine and covered the engineer and fireman with revolvers. W hen about-two miles from the station the train was brought to a stop and three other men entered the express car and ordered the messenger to open the box, covering him with revolvers. Dynamite bombs were exploded under the car and during the excitement several passengers ran toward the front. Two of them were shot. E. S. Bentley, of Modesto, was probably fatally wounded and Charles Gabert, of Poso, was killed instantly. The amount secured by the robbers is unknown. Eleven hundred guests sat down to an elaborate spread at *the Detroit rink Friday night, the occasion being the annual banquet of the Michigan .club. Senator Palmer was the presiding officer of the evening. Gov. Luce delivered the address of welcome. The first speaker of the evening was the Hon. Warner Miller of New York, who spoke to the toast “The future of the Republican party;” the Hon. Jacob R. Galling of New Hampshire “Protection;” Gen. Charles Grosvenor of Ohio, “The Election of 1888;” Col. Clark E. Carr of Illinois, “The Day We Celebrate.” Letters of regret were read from Presidentelect Harrison and many others. Oscar M. Neebe, one of the anarchists in Joliet prison, has made a, strong appeal to Governor Fifer for pardon. In a personal letter, he reiterates his former denials that he had any connection With the Haymarket tragedy, and adds that no one more deeply regretted that occurrence than himself. He says he has always condemned, and does now, all means contrary to law in promoting the interests of the working classes. He adds that whatever imprudence or folly may have been committed by him in organizing labor unions he has been amply punished for, and asks more for the sake of his motherless childreh than his own that the Governor remit the remainder of his sentence. Neebe closes with the statement that he shall, if he regains his liberty, become a lawabiding citizen.

FOREIGN. William O’Brien has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. The Eiffel tower is 935 feet high. It will be completed within two weeks. \ The Montreal Knights of Labor are protesting against any increase in the duty on American, flpur. Four German iron-clads which lately arrived at Genoa were ordered, Friday, to proceed to Samoa immediately. " Avalanches have destroyed the village of Nivellet and killed fdUr persons and injured many others in St. Michael, Savoy. Bismarck is reported to have said that the Samoan troubles will not affect the friendly feeling between the United States and Germany. A report from Hayti, received on the 22d, gives particulars of the defeat of Hyppolite’s forces by Legitime’s, with a loss of 200 or 300 killed. A rumor is prevalent that Hyppolite himself was killed. Pigott, the Times’s chief witness before the Parnell Commission, broke down completely, Friday, find virtually admitted that much of his testimony was false. The Tmtes case has collapsed. At the request of President Carnot, of France,"M. Tirard has succeeded in forming a cabinet as follows: M. Tirard, Premier and Minister of Commerce; M, Constans, Minister of the Interior; M. Rouviers, Minister of Finance; M. Failieres, Minister of Education; M. Faye, Minister of Agriculture; M. Guesguyot, Minister of Public Works; M. Freycinct, Minister of War; Admiral Saures, Minister’of Marine; M. DeCourcel, Minister of Foreign Affairs.