Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

. ... DOMESTIC. '.*."> There is great excitement in lower y California over, recent gold discoveries. The farmers of lowa are organizing to resist the demands of the binding-twine trust. • ■ « ' The Kansas Legislature, on : Friday, passed a bill to prevent “combines” and trusts. Eleven produce dealers, convicted of selling oleomargerine for butter, were heavily fined at Pittsburg. /v band of cowboys have invaded NoMan’s Land, and have ordered all citizens to vacate on penalty of death. The business of the town of Lostant, Lasselle county, Illinois, burned with a loss of $50,003 to buildings and stock. Old miners say that the gold discoveries near Eusenada, Cal., are probably the richest ever found on the Pacific coast E. Goodman, Cashier of Cook county (Ill.) Treasurer’s office, has decamped with $7,000 of the county funds. He speculated. A father, mother and seven children were drowned while attempting to ford a stream in a swamp in Decatur county, Tenn., Saturday. Twelve fireman were injured by falling walls of a burning building at Milwaukee, Friday night. Some of thdza will probably not recover. Robert Sigel, son of Gen. Franz Sigel, pension agent in New York, is under arrest and has confessed to forging signatures to warrants for pension payments. ' The Indiana Legislature, through Lieut.-Gov. Chase and Speaker Niblack, sent a cablegam to Parnell, Saturday, congratulating him on his triumph over the London Times. Two thousand furnace employes in the Mahoning Valley, 0., Have decided to accept a ten per cent, reduction in their wages demanded by operators, to take effect March 12. Anti-Prohibitionists, at Calera, Ala., hung State Senator John T. Milner in effigy, t¥ednesday night, On account of his refusal to support thejnll repealing the local Prohibition law. A blast of five tons of powder was shot off at one of the quarries at Graniteville, Mo., Tuesday, and enough granite was blown out to keep 500 men ten years in working it up. The bill making train robbery a capital crime, which was introduced in the Legislature by Louis Martin, of Pirns, has passed both Houses and been signed by the Governor, making it a law in Arizona. A “ghost” was shot and dangerously wounded near Silver Lake, lowa, last week. He cried: “My God, don’t shoot any more.” He is supposed to be a land seeker endeavoring to depreciate the value of land that he may purchase it cheaply. Governor "Wilson,of West Virginia, has issued certificates of election to all the Democratic candidates for Congress in that State. Two of the Republican candidates were elected on the face of the returns. His reasons for hjs action is based on legal technicalities. , The Brotherhood of Base Ball Players wil’ refuse to play next spring unless the League rescinds its new salary rule, which cuts down the salaries of a number of players, among them Sowders, of Boston; Whitney, of Washington, and Glasscock and Denny, of Indianapolis. The St. Louis express bound east went through a bridge just east of St. George, Ontario, Wednesday. *• A broken tier caused the rails to spread. -Eight persons were killed and thirty wounded. The bridge which gave way" is 100 feet high. The scene of the wreck was appalling. I ' I V" When the ‘•"Vtf’ild West” show started from England for home, Red Cow, one of the big Sioux Indians, stayed behind and made a most successful vagrant tour es Germany. France and Italy. He arrived at New York, Friday, wearing Italian brogans, French blouse and stove-pipe hat. 6 \ 1 A. M. Griffin, the fifteen-hundred-dollar postmaster of Hampstead, L. 1., has forwarded his resignation to President Cleveland, to take effect March 4, although his term will not expire for eighteen months. Mr. Griffin says he is “too good a Democrat to serve a Republican administration.” At lowa City, after an examination, a Justice of the Peace ordered the return to the two brewing companies of the 500 kegs of beer sent to that place from othor States and seized by the Temperance Alliance. There can be no appeal by the State, and the beer will be returned to the cars from whence it was taken. Col. Geo. W. Friedly, attorney for the L., N. A. <k O. Ry., died suddenly Tuesday, at the National Hotel, at Bloomington, Ind. He was reguarded as a ihan of great ability as a lawyer and had occupied many prominent political positions during his life. He was generally and favorably known throughout the ’ State. ; 2 ' The Seventieth Indiana Regiment (Gen. Harrison’s) en route to Washington, met with an accident in Cincinnati that came near being a tragedy. One of the cars was run into at a crossing by act engine. The ear was lifted from the track and thrown against a building,with such force as to cause the walls of the building to fall. One passenger was buried in the ruins, but was rescued* unhurt. A long delay resulted. There is a serious epidemic of diphtheria in and around Boston. The Mount Hope Home for Children in ■West Rexbury has been quarantined. It has twenty-eight cases of the disease among the thirty inmates There have beeu two deaths, but the other cases are not supposed to be dangerous. In Malden, the Center School, in which there are six hundred pupils, has been dosed because of the presence of the disease in the neighborhood. FOREIGN. The Times, Wednesday, withdrew its charges against Parnell and acknowledged its defeat. It apologizes abjectly. Avalanches have destroyed the village of Nivellet and killed four and injured ; many others in St. Michael, Savoy. Piggott, the party who forged the Parnell letters, and whose confession relieved Parnell and his associates of all doubt es their innocence of complicity in the Phcetaix Park murders, suicided at Madrid, Friday, by shooting. " The marriage ceremony of the Empe-

ror of China, Tuesday was a most gorgeous, though exclusive affair. The foreign diplomates requested the priVikgje of paying their respects to His Majesty, but the tenders were nolitely declined. They were entertained at a banquet by the ministers, however, and received valuable presents in honor of the occasion. The splendor surrounding the ceremony and the vast sum expended in carrying out the' programme is in marked contrast to the fact that millions of people are starving in the provinces. 4 l The Parnell commission resumed its sitting. Tuesday morning. After the opening of the court Sir Charles Russell arose and stated that on Saturday, Richard Piggott went to the residence of Mr. Henry Labouchere, and in the presence of Mr. George Augustus Sala signed a confession stating that the letters upon which the Times based its charges against the Irish members of the House of Commons were forgeries Piggott, in his confession, said he forged all the letters, secured by the Times wibich purported to have* been written by Messrs. Eagan, Parnell; Davitt and O’Kelly. He also admitted that he had been guilty of perjury in his evidence given before the commission. Piggott has disappeared and the Times case against Parnell is a total collapse. An interestipg discussion, took place in the Canadian Parliament over the first reading of Weldon’s extradition bill, Friday. He explained that the bill was to be retroactive in its Effect, and Would reach many of the fugitives from the United -tates who are now sojourning in Canada, where they axe living in luxury on their ill-gotten gains. The object of the bill, he said, was to extend the provisions of the extradition act of 1877 by enabling the Government to surrender, independent of any existing treaty? crinciiMd offenders embraced in a very long list of -extraditable offenses It was the desire of every country to rid itself of this dangerous element, and the bill now before the House gave the Government full power to deal on an extended scale with sueb ; daises of immigrants. The bill would also have the effect of deterring many who might be contemplating crime when they knew Canada no longer offered them a haven of refuge.