Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. The price,of tea is to be increased. Pittsburg was visited by a SIOO,COO fire on the 27th. Two thousand emigrants landed at Castle Garden Monday. A burglar was killed at Napersville.lll., Thursday, by a policeman. Rev. Sam Small has concluded to run for Congress next year in the Fifth Georgia District. Deputy U. S. marshal Russell Weirman was killed in Knott county, Ky., Friday, by moonshiners. ' Henry T. Helmbold, the patent medicine man, is mentally deranged, the result of excessive drinking. , ? The net earnings of the American Bell Telephone Company for 1888, show an increase over 1887 of $203,608. Mr. Theodore Steinway, of the firm of Steinway & Son, piano makers, of New York, died Tuesday at Brunswick. Margaret Kinlein and her three children lost their lives by the burning of their house at Milwaukee, Monday. Stanley Matthews, late Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court was buried at Cincinnati Tuesday. Alfred Fenton, of Winchester, Ohio, is an eater of some capacity. He experiences no ill effects from eating three dozen boiled eggs.

The railroad ticket office of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Road at Wyoming, Ohio, was burglarized Sunday night and S4OO in money taken. At Avondale, Ala., an eight-year-old boy found a small dynamite cartridge. He struck it with a hammer, and the explosion killed him and disfigured his sister for life. Postmaster General Wanamaker delivered a temperance address at Philadelphia Sunday, in which he strongly urged his hearers to vote for the prohibition amendment. The great strike of weavers at Fall River, Mass., begun some weeks ago and involving probably 10,000 workmen has been ended, the strikers accepting the terms of the operators, Six hundred carpenters and 200 painters at Buffalo, 1,200 carpenters at St. Louis, and 150 carpenters and 180 painters in New York went on a strike. Monday, all for higher wages. * "Fire Friday night destroyed the large building occupied by S. A. Maxwell & Co., trail paper dealers, at Chicago, a loss to the building and contents of over a Quarter of a million dollars.

Joseph Sheffski threw a dynamite cartridge in the streets, at Buffalo, to show some curious friends “how thev worked.” The street was torn up, buildings damaged and Joseph placed in the cooler. H. Sullivan Moore has been given a life sentence for killing his room-mate, Hon. James Hunt, of the Georgia Legislature. Moore was thrown in a friendly scuffle, but he became angry and fatally cut Hunt. George Abrams, a seventeen-year-old employe‘of the Michigan Buggy Company at Kalamazoo, Mich., was caught by a belt and carried over a pulley. His head was torn from his body, causing instant death. Three men accused of cattle stealing were captured by vigilantes in Western Nebraska and turned over to a band of Indians, who subjected the poor victims to the most horrible tortures and finally burned them to death over a slow fire, The Central warehouse at the coriier of Rush and North Water Street Chicago, was destroyed by fire on the 26th, causing a loss of $1,500,000. The contents of .the building were mostly tea in bond, with a few thousand packages of coffee. Ms. John Fox, of Cincinnati, and Mrs. George Middlecoff and Mr. George Fox, of Paxton, 111., will each receive $267,000 through the death of their sister, Mrs. B. F. Marsh, at Cincinnati, a few days ago. She died intestate, leaving a fortune of SBOO,OOO. George Kennan, the well known traveler, whose articles in the Century on the Siberian exile system have given him world wide fame, is about to deliver a series of lectures on Siberia, beginning at Rochester, N. Y., and extending the tour to the leading cities of the country.

The Lower House of, r the Tennessee Legislature, Friday, passed a Senate bill creating a Confederate Soldier’s Home at the Hermitage, near Nashville. The bill was so amended that indigent Mexican veterans and White Union Soldiers of the,Civil War will also be provided hoihes there. - When John Henevan refused to discontinue his attentions to Miss Mary Yanchiz, of Wilkesbarre, Pa,, her two brothers tied a rope around his neck and dragged him through the streets 1 until he was nearly dead. Henevan has given up his sweetheart, but the two brothers have been placed in jail. Thomas K eogan, an Irish resident of Juniata Township, near Holidaysburg, Pa., was buried Thursday at the advanced age of one hundred and eight years, ue carried a pike in the Irish rebellion of 1798, and came to this country seven-ty-five years ago. His first vote was for Andrew Jackson and his last for Grover Cleveland. Edward Fletcher, of Kankakee, 111., found favor in the eyes Of Mrs. W. M. Rice, of Toronto, and Mt. Rice sued Mr. Fletcher for $20,000 for the loss of his wife’s affections. In consequence of the row Mr. Fletcher was discharged by the railroad company for which he worked, and he now sues Mr. Rice for $21,000 for the loss of his situation. The scnooner Adventure, which sailed from Seattle, Wash. T., last Marsh, on a trailing expedition to Alaska, )has arrived at Port Etches, Alaska, in charge of her sailors minus a captain. The sailors report that J. C. Reed, one of the owners, who acted as captain, was knocked overboard by a boom last September and drownea, as none of the sailors knew any thing about navigation, they have been drifting aimlessly around since that time until a few days ago when they ran ashore near Port Htches. Four Americans from El Paso shot and killed two Mexican' policemen, Thursday night, in Paso de Norte. The Americans were raising considerable disturbance by shooting off their pistols and overturning apple-stands, when the police attempted to arrest them. One of the Americans opened fire on the police, and killed one of them instantly. A second shot brought down the second policeman, fatally wounded. <The

American crowd then ran for the river, closely punned by Mexican soldien Three of them jumped into the Rio Grande and swam across, while the fourth crossed on the bridge and was fired at three times by the Mexican guard. Fully 20 1 Mexicans came over to El Paso to demand the arrest of the guilty parties.

FOREIGN.

The French Ministry have decided to arrest and prosecute Boulanger for plotting against the State. John Bright cannot be buried in Westminister Abbey because he was never baptised in the established church. A private letter from Henry M. Stanley has been received in London dated September 4. He was in good health and spirits and left Emin well. The session of thejHouse of Commons, Friday night, was devoted to eulogies on the late John Bright. Mr. Gladstone made a touching and appropriate address. A steamship from Rio Janeiro, reports that yellow fever is raging at Santosthirty deaths occurring daily. Yellow fever and small pox were also raging with great fury a* R.d Janeiro with an equal number of deaths daily. Thirteen tenants have been evicted from their holdings at Olongerey. After the tenants had been driven from the houses, twelve of the buildings were set on fire by the agent and emergency men. The best house was not destroyed, being spared for use as quarters for the police. 4

The steamer Ocotlan foundered on Lake Chapala, near Guadalajara, Mexico. A large excursion party was on board at the time. Fifty bodies have been recovered from the wreck. Efforts are being made to raise the steamer, when it is expected additional bodies will be secured. W. Harvey, bookkeeper for J. W. Lyon, of Guelph, Ontario, was arrested Tuesday for embezzling $14,000 from his employer. He was released on bail. He then went to his home and inurdered his wife and two daughters by shooting, and fled. Harvey was arrested later at Toronto. He is probably insane. It is said that the Russian detectives have learned of a gigantic conspiracy of Nihilists, spreading through all parts of Russia. The plots include a new and formidable serieb of attempts upon the life of the Czar.. Numerous arrests are said to have been made in Moscow, Kief, Odessa and southern Russia in consequence of the unearthing of the conspiracy. During the heavy fog Saturday morning, on the English Channel, an Ostend packet was run down by the Belgain mail steamer Princess Henrietta. The former was crushed, and to add to the horror of the situation her boilers burst, shattering her to pieces and sinking her. The Captain, First Mate, Chief Engineer and twelve of her crew were drowned and the Anglo Continental mails weje lost. Prince Jerome Bonaparte, who was among the passengers, was rescued.

The anti-foreign feeling prevails in China continues virulent. At Chefoo, the Europeans feared an attack from mutinous troops. It was reported that the Chinese troops were meeting at the fort and that the mutineers proposed marching against the custom house and other places. As no man-of-war was there, intense excitement prevailed. No attack was made, however. A missionary from Chi Hai Yu states that the Chinese in that city have posted placards outside various foreign residences notifying the tenants that they intend to massacre all Christians before long. The rebels are supposed to number 2,500. On Feb. 22, 500 soldiers were sent to intercept them, but could find no indications of the enemy, who are supposed to have gone inland.