Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

, -f. DOMESTIC. : There are 17,107 newspapers and peri■fldicalß in the -United States, an increase hf 737. - ; , ; ; *“Qld Hatch” is manipulating the Chicago Wheat marketyigain,, and - fluctr nating prices is the result. Four men were instantly killed and several injured by a boiler exploding at Pittsburg, Pa., Thursday. At Seneca, Kas., W. J. Joyce was convicted of Belling Jamacia ginger, thereby violating the prohibitory law. ( Mary Anderson, the actress, has been compelled to cancel all engagements on account of nervous prostration. Hbn. John A. Campbell, ex - J ustice of. the Supreme Court of the United States, died at Baltimore on the 12th.' The prohibition, amendments to the . ■ New Hampshire constitution were defeated by An,overwhelming majority. Gen. J. B. Weaver, ex-Congressman, and Hon) E. H. Gillette, will go into the the newspaper business at- DesMoinea. Three negroes were judicially hanged at Aukadelphia, Ark., Friday for murder. One of them was a preacher. Jay Gould declares the financial situation weak and the railroad . situation worse than at any time for thirty years. The abandoned oil fields around Franklin, Pa., are again being worked and large quantities of oil have been found. The rumor that the iron mills of eastern Pennsylvania will soon shut down is denied by prominent manufacturers.

The colored peopled Springfield, 111., have decided to erqcta monument in that citv, to the memory 'of A braham Lincoln. The Minnesota Legislature, has passed resolutions urging a vigorous foreign policy on the part of the General Government. Ex-Alderman Kerr, of New York, was acquitted of the charge of bribery in connection with the Broadway street railway franchise. The Nebraska House, by a[yote of 77 to 18, passed a bill for the “Australian system” of voting in the larger Cities of the State. Chief cf Police, Philip'Paul, of Renova, Pa., was brutally murdered Thursday night by Charles Cleary, a young man whom he was arresting. The stove firm of Perry & Co., of Albany, N. Y., are in financial straits. The firm was established in 1864 and at one time employed 1,800 men. Edgar Swan, of Lynn, Mass., paying teller of the National Bank of Lynn, is short $68,000 in his accounts. He speculated. He is under arrest. Robert Sigel, clerk in the New York Pension Office, has pleaded guilty to forgery in signing pensioners’ names to checks and pocketing the money. The brig Anges Barton was wrecked about four miles below Virginia Beach,. Thursday night, and six of her crew of ten men, including the Captain were drowned. A religious enthusiast at Bndge water, -v Adair county, lowa, has been and fasting forty days and nights, and closed his term of fasting Tuesday night with a big supper. > C. C. Scott, one of the proprietors of the Gilman House at Portland, Ore., committed suicide by jumping from the third story of his hotel in a fit of temporary insanity. A preacher and thirty-six of nis congregation are under arrest at Braxton, W. Va„ for tearing down eight houses, and driving away the inmates in the ixterest of morality. Arthur Dale committed suicide at Chattanooga, Tenn., by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. He has been gradually becoming insane and preferred death to insanity. An Illinois court has decided that physicians may advertise. This notwithstanding the State Board of Health. Now for a decision notifying them that they ought to advertise. Engineer Cook* charged with criminal negligence, which resulted in the killing of sixty persons at Mud Run, Pa., last October, by a collision, has been acquitted of the charge by a jury. A company with a capital of $1,000,000 has been formed to buy a tract of land, on which they hope to have the capital of South Dakota located, securing votes by scattering stock through the State. James Irwin, Superintendent of the Carnegie gas line, was arrested'at Greensburg, Pa., charged witn murder. He turned on the gas without-notifying the workmen, and a pipe burst, killing one of them. The steamer Walla Walla, of San Francisco, plying to Puget Sound, was seized Sunday by custom officers for smuggling opium amounting to SIO,OOO. The opium . was shipped in barrels supposed to contain sauer kraut. Judge Lyinan D. Follett, of (the ! Probate Court, Kent county, Mich., who . ran away with $50,000 of the people’s money last summer, was arrested at Helena, Mont., but got away and is now on his way to Hew South Wales. . • V j Wm. Buffalo, colored, aged six years, of Norfolk, Va., has been arrested -for the. mUrder of another colored boy, aged 10. He atrucx him over the head with a paling of a fence, a nail penetrating the brain. Near Georgetown, Ky., James Reid lost two head of cattle from a strange disease. They were taken with a swelling in the legs and died in a very short time. When cut open the fleah was found to have turned black. The Supreme Court of Illinois denied, Friday, the motion to correct the judgment in the.case of Fielden and others against t,he people, and at last the “anarchist case” has been disposed. of, so far as, the Supreme Courtis concerned. f\ , 'The Cksarian operation was successfully performed at the University of Pennsylvania Thursday, cm 1 Mary F. Burk e, thirty-two years of age. The operation was made necessary on Account of an abscess, and not from an malformation. v “Bobby” Adams, a notorious burglar, and one of the Minneapolis Postoffice robbers, serving a six years’ term at Joliet, was released Sunday on a pardon issued by Grover Cleveland. He turned States’ evidence, and his accomplices are now under arrest.. «■* Samuel Lute, residing near Circleville, ©„ Thursday celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, and

freoeived the congratulations el over twelve hundred friends and relatives. President Harrison and Governor Foraker sent congratulatory telegrams. ' , General Sherman’s 1 son, Thomas Ewing Sherman, who has become! a member of the Society of Jesus, is to be ordained a priest in Philadelphia. Arrangements have been made under which it is expected the ceremony of ordination will take place in July in the cathedral. *

John Krzywosynski, of New York, sues for divorqp because his wife eloped with John Jrnnjinjynski. She assigns as a reason for eloping, that her new lover had an easier name to pronounce, as it was made up in sections, and could be taken apart and put together again without getting the pieces crooked. Monday, ex-President Grover Cleveland Was fifty-two years old. He celebrated the event by rising early and starting on his Havana trip in company with ex-Becretary Vilas and ex-Fost-master General Dickinson. The party took the train for Washington. Mrs. Cleveland remains at the Victoria Hotel. ■

The North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, the Union Steel Company and the Joliet Steel Company have *. been consolidated with a joint capital of $20,000, - 000. company has a capacity to manufacture about one-third of the total output of steel rails in this country, and will be able ‘practically to control the. market. Harry Holmes, who has been held to answer a criminal assault, was found dead in his cell at Sacramento, Cal., Sunday. He had starved himself to death, having . refused food for two weeks. On Thursday and Friday, physicians pumped nourishment into Holmes’ stomach, but it failed to. give any strength, and he wasted away to a'skeleton. The litttle town of Big Sandy, Montana, is full of excitement over the development of gold mines in the Sweet Grass Hills, fifty-five miles northwest of there. People have just arrived from the hills reporting that miners in Eclipse gulch are making from SSO to SBO a dajr. The most of the. gold is taken out in placer diggings. But blue ore has been struck by several patties in the hills and the country is full of from Helena and other mining districts. Capt. W. F. Dawson, editor of the News and Conner, Charleston, S. C., was murdered in cold blood by Dr. T. B. Dow, on the 12th. Dawson was most highly respected; while Dow had the reputation of a rake, and the indignation of the .people is very great. Tbe murder occurred in Dow’s office. It is believed Dawson was at the office tb remonstrate with Dow for his mistreatment of a gdyerness in/the. family, of Dawson. He was shot while sitting in a chair. Dow is under arrest.

FOREIGN. Brasil and Bolivia' are about to engage in war. According to native advices received at Zanzibar Stanley is rapidly moving toward the east coast of Africa. The ClHeen has approved the appointment of Sir Julian Pauncefote as British Minister to the United States. Forty-two lives were lost by the sinking of the Spanish military vessel Remus off the Phillipine Islands. Disastrous floods are prevalent throughout Galicia. Several towns and many villages are submerged. An explosion of fire damp took place in a colliery near Nimes, irithe department of Gard, France, Friday, by which fifteen persons were killled and six wounded; The London Times attacks Messrs, Crewler and Clark, radical members of Parliament, for joining with the radical clubs in the welcome to Henry George, on Saturday. The financial crisis in France is becoming alarming. Forty million francs are needed to save the Comptoir d’Escompte, and Paris bankers and capitalists are making efforts to raise it. , A soldier named Vertjoie has been sentenced to death in Oran, Algeria, for throwing a quid of tobacco into the face of Colonel Thierry, while Vertjoie was being tried by coart-martial for attempt ing to desert. ■ A party of wealthy residents of Berlin, numbering twenty, will start from the German Capital on March 20 for a tour of the world. They will go directly from Berlin to New York, thence overland to California, A cable dispatch from Aquaimina, west coast of Africa, states that Captain Holmes, of the whaling bark. Sea Fox, an officer and servant were killed and five of the crew horned by the explosipn of a whailing bomb gun. A terrible explosion occurred in the Brynnaliy colliery at Wexham Thursday, resulting in a great loss of life Eleven dead bodies have been taken from the pit and three miners have been jreacued. Later advices say* twenty persons were killed. —■ •

The Inland Regenue Department ‘of 'Canada has issued a bulletin relative to the adulteration of lard, the American product coming in for general condemnation. ' Nearly every sample examined was found to be adulterated. It ia recommended that the duty be increased in order to practically * exclude the article Rom Canada.