Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. , , Walt Whiteman, the poet, is living' a J. and is growing feebler daily* , f During a prise fight at Seattle, Ore., Monday, a row occurred and two men were fatally injured. “Prof.” Wm. Glass, of Verndale, Mich. Tuesday, ate five dozen eggs in two minutes on a wager. Abel Lodge, Town Treasurer of New Lisbon, 0.. is found to be ap embezzler to the amount of sß,< 00. , The Rhode Island Legislature stands, fifty-nine Republicans and forty-nine ■ Democrats on joint ballot. A Ex-Governor Porter left Indianapolis Friday morning on his journey tp his new post of duty ip Italy. The jute factory of Buchanan A Lyall, l < of Brooklyn, N, Y., was destroyed by fire •, Thursday. Loes 1400,000. Ex-President Cleveland has been elected an honorary life member of the Manhattan Club of New York. The Supreme Court of Nebraska has decided that notes given to secure margins on grain speculations are void. The Rhode Island Legislature. Wednesday, elected Nathan T. Dixon U. 8. Senator to fill out the term of -Chafe, resigned.; The Lousville (Ky.) Bridge and Iron Oompany machine shops were completely destroyed by fire Tuesday. Loss 100,000. The family of W. P. Word, consisting of six persons, living in Robin county, Ga., perished in their burning home, Friday. The lower branch of the Michigan Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale or giving away of cigarettes. Mrs. Andrew Dubna, es St. Paul, Minn., a native of Finland, Friday gave birth to six- children; three of them being alive. H. The “aftef-etections” in Rhode Island gave the Republicans a majority of eleven in the Le-dslattire and they will elect the State officers. « Mrs. Kirshner, of Chattanooga, got a divorce, went in on the real estate boom, made $150,000, and Mr. Kirshner now wants the divorce annulled. Near Centerville, Pa., masked robbers tortured a farmer by roasting his feet and face to compel him to give up money he was supposed to haVe. Four children of Sebastian Merdan, a German farmer, near St. Joseph, Minn., were poisoned by eating roots of wild parsnip Friday. Three of them died. At Richmond, Va., a ten-acre lot belonging to the Confederate Soldiers’ I Home property, purchased five years | ago at a cost of $3,300 was sold ThursI day for $41,000. -—< I It is asserted that the case against Allard & Son, of New York, accused of mowing darker, and that important discoveries have been made by the Treasuryltgents. The condition of Mr. Robert Garrett is said to be so much improved tbgthe will soon join his friend, Mr. Winans, in a hunting expedition upon the latter gentieman’s estate in Scotland. William H. Bright, of Danville, 111., deserted his wife and has since been paying attention to a respectable young lady, who committed suicide when she found out what kind of a man he was. A young girl who had been rescued from a life of shame by the Woman’s Christian Union at Chattanooga, Tenn., committed suicide Wednesday after hav-, - ing been induced to return to her old’ haunts. i A storm, which raged in Baltimore r with severity on Saturday, swept over the lower Chesapeake most disastrous y to shipping. Over a dozen seamen lost their lives, and thirty or forty vessels, some small* and others large, were wrecked. t It is estimated that fully 150.000,0C0 feet of logs are in the. streams on the northern peninsula of Michigan waiting for water. Light snows and low water are liable to keep back a large portion of the cut. Heavy rains are all that will move the logs. Mr. T. W. Sanderson, of, Youngstown, 0., is being urged for the vacancy on the Supreme Court bench caused by the death of Justice Stanley Matthews. I President Harrison has announced that I he will not make a selection for this office until next fall. Miss Bertha Tracy, who was in charge of the Woman’s Christian Aid Society ■—-at Chattanooga, shot herself through the heart Wednesday on receipt of an indecent proposal from a drummer named Hodges, her betrothed. A policeman swears to shoct Hodges on sight. The hard fought legal contest instituted by the heirs of tne late Dr. Scott Stewart, of Philadelphia, to break his legacy of about $269,000 for establishing a hospital of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was brought to a close, Mondal. by a decision of the Supreme Court in favor of the trustees of the hospital. Rev. Mr. Dennie, of Dayton, 0., a converted Hebrew, backed by Major Bickham andotfaers for Consul to Jerusalem as a desirable man to convert the Jews, his been discouraged by Mr. Blaine,who ‘ wrote on his papers that the State Department is not an evangelical institution. George Kennan, the famous Siberian traveler, whose articles are now appearing in the Century Magazine, said to an Indianapolis reporter Wednesday that, “if I had lived in Russia I should have s been in the Eastern Siberian.mines as a Nihilist before I was twentv-five years old.” * The new postmaster, Mr. Van Cott, said Monday: “I am going to run the New York postoffice on strictly business, principles. There shall be no removals, in that office except for cause. I be' "lieve thoroughly in honest civil-service reform, and 1 shall carry it out with all my might. This is ho new position with me.” * The town of Tahbury,Tll., has been quarantined on account of the prevaence of scarlet fever. There are more tban twenty cases of the disease in the little town,and six deaths have occurred in the past .few days. No religious services were held Sunday. The Sunday schools were closed.aud the public schools have been adjourned. Two strangers visited Daniel Keller’s place, at Shamokin, Pa.. Tuesday, and after a proposal to purchase bis farm engaged the old farmer in a game of cards. Keller became interested an d procured $4,700, which he put-up as

stakes. The money was seized by the strangers and Keller was covered’with a revolver while they moved off. Both escaped. ° 1 . A few months ago burglars broke into the residence of John Reilly, of Wilkesbarre, the family and stole nearly $1,(00. Tuesday;, Father O’Hearn, pastor of St. Mary’s Korean Catholic Church,Ahanded Mr. Reilly S7OO, which he saidjpad been given him by a prominent man, who had made a confession to him and had told the story of the robbery., . A private car containing J. F. Hart, mayor of Brooklyn, Mas*., hiqwife, son Henry and niece', Miss Winslow; a porter and a cook was demolished by another train tunning into it near Lorenzo station, the Chicago, Santa Fe and California railroad, Wednesday morning. Miss Winslow, Henry Hart, the son, and the porter and cook were ‘killed and Mayor Hart and bis wife were scalded. " Specials from Findlay and Tiffin, in the natural gas belt of Ohio, phenomenal strikes of gas. At Findlay two wells were drilled, Saturday. One has a capacity of 30,(100,C00 and ihe other of 20,000,000 feet per day. At- Tiffin the pressure of an old well: increased suddenly, blowing out the casing of the well and bursting the pipes in a factory which used the gas. This well has an estimated capacity of 28,000,000 feet per day. A man who called on Henry Achtemaite, near Pomona, 111., last Tuesday, and asked permissien to occupy a cabin on the farm for a few days, was found dead in the cabin by Mr. Achtemaite, Tuesday. A bullet wound was found in the calf of his leg, and his pockets contained a bottle of powder, some fuse, a bunch of skeleton keys and some files. There is little doubt that he was a burglar, who, on being shot, did not dare to call on a doctor, but died from the neglected wound.

Eddie Gallery, of Chicago, eleven years old, was killed Saturday by the accidental discharge of a revolver. While overhauling the drawers of a bureau, the lad called out to his mother that he had found his father’s pistol. The mother hurried into the room and grasped the weapon by the handle and, not knowing that it is was double action, caueht hold of the trigger. An exfollowed. The bullet lodged just under Eddie’s right eye and he fell to the floor dying in half an hour. Mr. and Mrs. Gallery are distracted with grief. . . ’ * The trial of the noted Indian Chief Jack Spaniard, for the murder of Depu8' United States Marshal William Irin, was begun at Ft. Smith, Ark., Tuesday. One of the first Government witnesses called was a mongrel dog. Rattler by name. The Government attempted to prove that Rattler was the prisoner’s dog, having been seen in the neighborhood of the spot Where the murder was committed. The defendant denied ever having seen the animal, but the dog’g affectionate greeting to his old master made him a dangerous witness. The animal picked him out of a crowd and wagged bis tail with great vigor. At the closing session of the Mormon Conference at Salt Lake City Tuesday evening, George Q. Cannon read the statistics of the church, which are: Twelve apostles, 7t) patriarchs, 8,719 high priests, 11,805 elders, 2,069 priests, 2,292 teachers, 11,610 deacons, 81,899 families, 115,915 officers and members, and 49,302 children under eight years of age—a total Mormon population of 153,911. The number of marriages forsix months, ending April 6, 1889, was 530; births, 3,754; new members, 488, excommunications, 113. Cannor said that many young men were leaving the Territory to take up land elsewhere. The Saints, he said, had been called together to build up Zion, and this scattering must be stopped.

A dispatch from New York states that Philadelphia parties have secured an option on the controlling interest in the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford. The Company has assets of over $10,500,000, and is controlled by a capital stock of SIOO,000. A. C. Goodman, President of the company, has SIOO more than half of the capital, and the report says that his $50,100 of stock is oflered at $501,000, or $lO for sl. The weuld-be purchasers are said to be endeavoring now to borrow purchase money on pledge of the stock. ‘The highest scale of the stock known in Hartford was below S3OO and last year’s taxes it was valued at $220. The company is in strong financial condition, With over $600,000 in b»nk, and it is reported that policy-holders may resort to the courts or Legislature to prevent the deal, which, it is understood, has been entered into without the knowledge of the other directors of the company.

FOREIGN. "hn. Great distress is reported at Panama. k A liquor shop at Sail, Hungary, was entered last Sunday night by thieves, Who plundered the premises of everything valuable. The proprietor of the store surprised the robbers at their work and was : used and erushed to death in a wine press. The thieves afterward got drunk and were in an almost helpless state of inebriety when, a few hours later,, they were arrested. Desperadoes Captured.,, On March 21 a train on the Atlantic and Pacific railway 'was robbed at Canon Diablo, Ari. Thursday last, the entire gang of four who perpetrated the crime, were captured, the officers pursuing them over 3.0 miles through as wil’d and desolate a country as can ttefound in the west. When thb gang was overtaken a battle ensued in whrteb over fifty shots were fired, butno one was hurt., The-robbers Mfen abandoned their horses and took to the underbrush on foot They were soon overhauled, however, and have confessed their connection with the robbery. The officers suffered many privations in their long pursuit. * ? ■ A ' Bussell Harrison Arrested. Russell Harrison,-the President’s Mod, was arretted in New York Thursday, bn the charge of bating published in his paper the Montana Live Stock Journal, an article taken from a Buffalo paper, accusing t x-Governor Crosby, of Mantana. With having stolen jewels from a Washington lady. Young Harrison gave ss,a 00 bail. The demand is for SIOO,000 horn Mr. Harrison for malicious and criminal libel. Harrison’s defense will be that he had nothing at all to do with he publication in question.

< BOOMINGJDKLAHOMA. Thn Soldier* Not Equal to the Tukof Preventing Boomers from Crossing the Bor-ders-Ten Persons to Every Claim Already on the Scene. x

WioHiTx, Kas., April 13.—Maj. Barker arrived htre last Oklahoma, and reports poldiers are not equal to the task ,of Creeping the boomers out They slinXnto the country and conceal thememves so effectually in the woods that the scouts cannot find them. Every station on the Santa Fe road is guarded, and only those having permits are allowed to get off the trains. The Santa Fe has nearly completed the depot at Guthrie, and workmen are engaged on tfae land office building at Purcell. The border is black with boomers, awaiting the opening of the country. Many of them are in -very destitute circumstances. The Santa be road people . eay anangefeents have been made to transport all who apply, and the Rock Island is preparing to run a line of stages from its southern terntinus into the territory. Two immense rafts are being constructed here for the transportation of Hill’s colony. They expect to float down the Arkansas, as the recent rains have swollen the river, and they can land within seven miles of the Oklahoma border. Others have arranged for relays of fast horses whfeh are expected to transport them to the claims already chosen. Every south-bound train arriving here is crowded, and the wagon caravans are passing in an endless chain.

In a letter from a gentleman who lives twelve miles from the Oklahoma border, the writer says that the President should have declared the territory open the day alter the issuance of the proclamation, and continues: There were at that time in the neighborhood of Oklahoma enough waiting and anxious people to occupy, its every home. Many of tnem were tife followers of the late Capt. David L. Payne, who labored so long and zealously to accomplish the work that the President’s proclamation does. Many of these men will be cut off and ruined now. As it is there are now in the neighborhood of this territory, ready to move at a moment’s notice, five times the number of people necessary to settle it, and every wagon-road conveying toward the point from Missouri, Nebraska Colorado, Texas, and elsewhere is groaning under the burden of wagons. Everyone is goin gin the direction of Oklahoma, crosslots when he can. And this is merely the van of the army that is to come, notwithstanding all reason and warning. The great mass of the waiters have no desire to hang around the frontier a day or two, so they will try to be on hand just as the gate swings open. The result, as it may reasonably be calculated, will be a never-ending series of petty but battles, in comparison to which county seat rackets and race wars are but sham fights. Another element is the western rustler, who has been through the millbeen raised, as it were, on the county seat fights and rocked upon the billows of land contests. He does not care about homesteads, but be will be there. He will be satisfied with a few of the best lots in all the best towns and he won’t be satisfied unless hebas them. He don’t want any thing that involves trouble, but if trouble comes that is just what he has been looking for and he will welcome it as an old friend. In fact, the man who is now selling his farm or other property and picturing to himself a quiet, peaceful home in Oklahoma is the fellow that I am writing these lines so man I want to wake up. I would tell him to come with the idea of staying, but with the means of returning. There is bound to lots of trouble.

In speaking of the great line of immigration now setting toward Oklahoma, Commissioner Stockslager Friday said i hat from newspaper estimates and from information received through official and personal sources, he was of the opinion that fully one hundred thousand persons would enter Oklahoma within a month after the 22d of April. For these 100,000 persons, said the commissioner, there are only about ten thousand homesteads which may be entered under the President’s proclamation. Therefore, for each quarter section open to entry there will be at least five or six applicants. Never before in the history of the country has there been a parallel to it. The inevitable result of this tremendous influx, the commissioner thinks, would be a great many contests and probably some personal conflicts. A further result, he feared, would be the spreading of this immense surplus over the adjoining Indian lands from which it would be' difficult to dislodge them without much trouble and possibly bloodshed. If the commission appointed to treat with the Cherokees’ outlet, could complete their lahars witbin the next few months so that the new tract might be open to settlement before Congress again meets, this might, and probably would, relieve the pressure. Otherwise he feared matters would become complicated and the equilibrium restored with difficulty.