Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

B DOMESTIC. An orange tnist is being formed. ■ Natural gas has been discovered at Aitken, Minn. Old Hatch is still at work on Chicago wheat The price reached 104 J on the 22d. The California .Legislature adjourned so that its members could attend a prise fight x ■ , Placer gold is said to have been discovered on the Missouri river in Montana. Johnny Humphreys, aged ten, dieci at Philadelphia from a fright given him by youthful White Caps. » The' twenty-one-year-old daughter of a millionaire es Newport, R. 1., eloped with the family eoacnman. A paper read before the Historical Society New York stated that there were 6,536 lawyers in New York. Tim and Pete Barrett were executed st Minneapolis, Minn., on the 22d, for the murder of a car driver in 1887. . The Missouri Sureme Court affirms the sentence of death against Dane Walker, chief of the,Bald Knobbers, May 10. Barnum’s Hotel at Baltimore, one of the most famous houses in the country, ) ’’ s to be converted to other purposes. The latest from the Lower California gold mines is that the whole thins is a “fake.” Gold exists, but not in paying quantities.

There was a threatening riot at Fall River, Mass., Friday, among the strikers, but it was stopped before any one was seriously injured. A conflict of troops and boomers occurred in Oklahoma, Tuesday. Several were hit, but no one killed. The troops were victorious. Daniel S. Lamont, ex-secretary of exPresident Cleveland, has been elected President of one of the New York street railway companies. The aged widow of Cyrus W. Field fell Friday at National City, Cal., and broke her shoulderblade. She is not expected to survive. The discovery of lead and silver on ttje farm of Judge G. W. Craddock, near Frankfort, Ky., is causing great excitement in that neighborhood. *..• . The Dominican Consul at New York, has been dismissed for aiding the Haytian rebels in violation of the neutrality laws of the United States. New York parties are before the Michigan Legislature with a scheme ' to cut a ship canal across the upper peninsula, connecting Lakes Michigan and Superior. The elders of the St. Paul Methodist Episcopal church at Lincoln, Neb,, suspended Rev. Mr. Winehart for a year for introducing Salvation Army methods in the church.

The live stock and meat inspection , bill has been signed by the Governor of Colorado. It practically prohibits the importation of meats from Chicago and other Eastern packing-houses. The Standard Oil Company has purchased property at St. Louis Bay, in West Superior, Wis., and will erect a plant, to cost $200,000, and make Superior their distributing point for the Northwest. Charlie Fow, a trusted clerk of Sing Kee, a Chicago Chinese merchant, has disappeared, taking with, him all his employer’s savings—about SI,OOO. Charlie is supposed to have gone to Canada. Four steamships landed 1,930 immigrants at Castle Garden, Sunday. The Etruria, from Liverpool, brought 746; La Champaign, from Harve, 595; City of Chicago, from Liverpool, 303, and the Polynesia, from Hamburg, 286. John Melcher, a farmer, while looking into the mouth of a stallion at Gallion,O., with a view to buying it, had his left thumb bitten off by the vicious beast, pulling the cords out from the elbow and making a horrible wound. The 160 boy inmates of the House of Refuge, at Cincinnati, made a bold dash for liberty, Sunday, under the leadership of four of their number. The insurrection was soon quelled, without damage to property or injury to person. J. J. Sutton, a lawyer of Columbus, Wis., is being sued by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad lor 39 cents, as a counter suit to one by him for $5,000 damages for being put off a train because he wouldn’t pay his fare. A bill before the Illinois Legislature makes tampering with a locomotive a felony, and should death be caused by a wreck in consequence of such tampering tho offender shall be liable for murder. . ■ «. A large Newfoundland dog went mad Tuesday morning in the streets of New York and before he was killed bit and multilated three persons. There was wild excitement for a time. The wounds of those bitten were promptly canterfeed. ' The employes in the machine shops of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, at Altoona, were notified, Saturday, that hereafter nine hours will be considered a day’s work, with a half holiday, on Saturdays. This affects about 4,000 mbn. ' Perov Cochrane, of Eau Claire, Wis., shot Will Bailey with a revolver loaded with blank cartridges while they were toaotift ng for amateu r theatricals. The revolver was held too close and blew Bailey’s eye out. Cochrane has been arrested.

At the sale at Ohickering Hall, New York, of the Erwin Davis collection of paintings, Bastian Lepage’s “Joan of Arc” brought $23,400 and Trovon’s “Pasturage in Normandy” brought 117,500. In all, 143 paintings which were sold, brought $243,960, Mollie Sandow, of East Saginaw, Mich., ageo six years, was standing on a high chair, Wednesday, holding a lead Eencil in her hand. She fell backward, er hand behind her. The pencil penetrated her back an inch from the spine, going in three inches. She will die. Believing the revolver he held to be empty, William Clinchman, of St Paul, Minn., aged fifteen years, Monday, snapped it at Birdie Lucas, and a bullet lodged in her brain. The boy has been arrested. The bullet was extracted, and the girl is alive, although dangerously hurt The Democrats of Brooklyn have determined to erect in that city a bnilding similar to Tammany hall of New York. They will expend $50,000 for a site and SIOO,OOO for the building. The sum of 473,000 has already been secured, of which $5,000 was subscribed by Mayor Chapin. Natural gas having been discovered

in the vicinitv of Aitkin, Mich., a natur-al-gas and oil company is about to be formed, with a capital stock of $1,000,000 A large amount of land has been secured, and it is expected that work will commence as soon as the necessary arrangements can be perfected. Robert Sigel, of New York, son of Gen. Frans Sigel,*Who pleaded guilty to forging pension checks, was sentenced by Judge Benedict in the United States 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. A fire at Dover, N. H., on the 22d destroyed many of the most prominent buildings in the city. The fire originated in the city hair and spread to the high school cadets’ armory, council chamber and opera nouse. The Belknap church was badly damaged, and the Gedden’s block was destroyed. The total loss is very large. Patrick Trainer, a Cincinnati brute, ran a red hot poker through his wife’s cheek on the 22d. Her jaw was broken. Physicians say blood poisoning will most certainly follow, and cause her death. Trainer was arrested. Her offence was in saying, to his demand for dinner, that there was no food in the house, as she had not received pay for the last work she had done.

At Binghampton, N.’ Y., Monday, a three-story brick block in process of construction suddenly collapsed. At the time of the accident about a dozen, workmen were in the building. Fred Purcell, a tinsmith, was killed instantly. Two others, James H. Smith and Youmans Thompson, were quite seriously injured. Others escaped without injury. * -D Among the passengers on the steamship Australia from Honolulu Friday was Claus Spreckels, who had been paying an extended visit to his sugar plantation in Hawaii. He stated that the crop of the plantation will pxpeed the estimates by about crop of the islands, it is strfted, will T)? about 125,000 tons, or the largest in the history of the islands. John Giddons was shot and killed, at Greenville', Tex., Wednesday, by his son, McGangle Giddens, a boy of seventeen. The boy had frequently asked his father for a pistol but had been refused. He secured possession of a weapon, and while playing with it was discovered by Mr. Giddens, who asked for an explanation, and this so alarmed the boy that he turned the weapon on his father, shooting him through the breast.

George R. Carlton, bookkeeper for Smith Bros. & Co., at Seattie, W. T., sent a notebto the firm on Monday, together with the safe keys, saying that he « as ill and would not be down that day. Inquiry was made at Carlton’s lodgings and it was learned that he had left the city. An examination of the books shows that Carlton is an embezzler to the amount of $20,000. He came West from Chicago, and had, been in the employ of Smith & Co. for the past year. The New York World says Ex-Presi-dent Grover Cleveland has been elected a member of Tammany Hall and will “ride the goat” at the first meeting ,jn April. Mr. Cleveland will be supported on the occasion of his initiation bv his ex-Secretary of State, Thomas' F. Bayard, and ex-Secretary of the Navy, Whitney, both old members of the Columbian Order, and at the same meeting his ex-Secretary of the Interior Wm. F. Vilas, will be made a Tammany brave.

A large party of tramps boarded a freight train on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railway, near Alliquippi, Pa;, Sunday night, and for five hours held the train, refusing to allow the Crew to move the train unless permitted to ride on it. A telegram was sent to‘Pittsburg for assistance and a special train, with officers was sent to the rescue. Twelve tramps were arrested, but a forge number of others escaped. Those arrested were sent to the work house, Monday. " t A fight occurred, Tuesday night, in a suburban sporting place st Los Angeles, Cal., between two Japanese gifs who had quarreled. Thegirls used short Japanese swords and attacked each other. Each proved skillful in the use of the weapon and both were soon dripping with blood from numerouschts. The affair would certainly have ended in the death of one, if not both, had not the clash of steel attracted a passing Soliceman, who entered the place, hither girl received mortal wounds, but both Were slashed all over the upper part of the body. > ■ ■ - .

Circulars to the stockholders of the North Chicago Bolling Mill Company, the Union Steel Company and the Joliet Steel Company, calling a special meeting for May, with a view to their consolidation into one concern, have been issued. The capital stock will be $25,* 000,000. Fifteen million collars of ft will represent the combined plants of the three companies. Five million dollars will be in cash as working capital. Five million dollars will remain unissued in the hands of the Treasurer, to be used in making such changes as occasion may require, I Anarchists Lucv Parsons was the chief speaker in the Twelfth street Turnei hall, Chicago, at a celebration of the eighteenth anniversary of the Paris commune. About two thousand five hundred people were present, and they exchanged significant glances when Mrs. Parsons shouted, “We want a revolution, whether peaceful or bloody, no difference; a revolution must come.” She declared she had but one object in life—to make rebels of them all. At a later anarchist meeting an anarchist, named Cook made use of this expression. “Ihey have hung the anarchists, but they don’t care to hang any more.” This met with such favor that a motion was ipade asking the reporters to make special mention of the same. At Perry, Ga., Jake Blackshear’s wife did not have dinner ready for him when Court, Thursday, to six years’ imprisonment at hard labor in the Erie county penitentiary. The prisoner exhibited great nervousness as Judge Benedict told him that he had wronged many person’, and that it was difficult to find any circumstance to warrant a mitigation of punishment. Sigel’s young wife wept bitterly in the rear of the court room when she heard the sentence pronounced. When the pr soner was being taken back to jail his brother fainted in the hallway outside the court room, and was unconscious for an hour. The Com missioner of Pensions has requested persons swindled through Sigel to communicate with the Pension Office in Washington. Clara Hagans and Edward Matthias, of

Clifton, S. C., eloped and were married Monday, and Matthias took his wild to his home. J. 8. Hagans, the father of the girl, who is a wealthy farmer, and bitterly opposed the suit, armed with a shoemakers knife, visited the house. Immediately upon entering the house he made a desperate attack upon Matthias, stabbing him in the neck just below the ear, and inflicting a probably fatal wound. The bride interfered and was stabed in the arm. Hagans has been arrested. ' The Pennsylvania Coal Company at Scranton, Penn., informed the miners that a “shut down” had been decided upon, to take place at once. This general suspension affects nearly 2,000 men. The company has been operating fifteen large collieries. The officers of the company at the mines say that the shut down is only temporary. ..Old pc inert say that in eleven years there has not been so continued a period of dullness as at the present time. For the past six. months the men have been working one-fourth time. Their earnings have not exceeded sls a month and have frequently fallen as low as $6 a month. The miners as a rule live in rented houses, the monthly rent of which average from $6 to SB, leaving not more than $9 at best with which to support their families.

There was a meeting at the academy of music in New York under the auspices of the New York citizens’ committee in aid of the National Confederate soldiers’ home at Austin, Tex. Gen. H. H. Barnum presided. Many grand army men were in the audience, including Gen. T. T. Chittenden and Gen. Carl Schurz. There were also numerous Confederate veterans present. Major Joseph H. Stewart, one of the directors of the home, was the principal speaker. He spoke at length in behalf of the exConfederate soldiers, reviewing the establishment of the Confederate soldiers’ home at Austin, Tex., and concluded as follows: “And while we would fight and die—yes, we mean it—die, if need be, to maintain the honor and integrity of the grand old flag, we will ever cherish the tenderest recollections of ‘the lost cause’ and the flag that was never destined to float among tne emblems of the nations.” II fall !

FOREIGN. Floods have done enormous damage in Prussian Silesia. Cnoiera has broken out virulently in the Philippine islands. Five hundred deaths have occurred. Steamers have already arrived at St. Johns, Newfoundland,with 200,000 seals; This is very early in the season, and some of the vessels will make two more trips to the fishing regions. ■> , Emin Pasha defeated six thousand Mahdists in July, killing most of them, and capturing their steamers and ammunition. Chief Senonssi has also occupied Darfour and Kordofan, expelling the dervishes. A band of Mexican outlaws, led by Santos Basaldna, the abductor of Juan Garcia, crossed over into Texas, presumably with the intention of abducting a rich ranchman, but were driven back by a party of rangers, and two of them Were Killed while crossing the river. Two of the rangers were wounded. China mail advices, concerning the loss of the Spanish steamer Remus along the Philhpfne Islands, says that forty-two lives were lost out of 169 people on board. The Remus was engaged in the coasting trade, but at the “time was taking oUt.orders to their various stations on ther Pbillipine Islands and struck a reef near Point Biliarm, about two days’ voyage from Manilla, sinking in thirty-five fathoms of water. The surviving. officers and passengers were picked up by the gunboat Argus.