Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

There were six cases of suicide at Cleveland, 0., within a week. A blinding snow storm prevailed in parts of Wisconsin Wednesday night President Barnard, of Columbia College, is dead. He had been ill for some time past Bugs and the fly are playing havoc with the wheat and tobacco plants in Kentucky. * The Standard Oil Company has acquired 10,000 acres of oil lands around, lama, Ohio. A motor train was -thrown from the track at St. Paul, and seven people ware severely injured. Lysander Bandall committed suicide at Bangor, Me., by strangulation. He left a note stating “rum did_it.” A chair and other articles brought over in the Mayflower were lost in the burning of a farm house 150 years old at -Maspeth, L. I. Twenty-four railroad laborers, engaged in laying a side track at Lancaster, Ohio, were arrested and locked up for Sabbath-breaking. Hon. John C. New, Consul General to London, was dined by Geo. R. Gibson at New York, Sunday night. There were several well-known people present. Near Chicago, Vincent -P. Smith, whose little daughter was ill with scarlet fever, declined the services of physicians, but called in a faith cure doctor. The child died. Patrick Carroll, a shoemaker, aged twenty-six years, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge. He was picked up by a tug and sent to the hospital. He will likely An application by Anthony Comstock for membership in the U. S Grant Post, G. A. R., of Brooklyn, was rejected, Wednesday night, thirty-seven black balls being cast exagnuations covering eight days, a jury was secured. Tuesday afternoon, at Jacksonville, Mich., to try R. Irving Latimer, charged with the murder of his mother. The carpenters’ strike at St. Louis came to an abrupt termination, Sunday, noon the basis that all carpenters may go to work at 35 cents per hour, eight hours work for a dayCharles 11. Luscomb, President of the League of American Wheelmen, has designated Hagerstown, Md., as the J lace for holding the annual meet, and uly 2, 3ami4 the dates. _ The County Court at Parkersburg, W. Va.. has decided to grant no liquor licenses in that county for the year commencing May 1. This action will result in the closing of about sixty saloons; Eleven elevators at St. Louis propose forming a trust. The size of the syndicate which will manage - the elevators will naturally be large, for the original value of the property is about $4,000,000. Mrs. Kinnehan, the Rockford, 111., woman who recently joined the Beekamites, a sect which worships Rev. G. J. Schweinferth as Christ, pleaded not guilty Saturday to a charge of blasphemy. She refused to be sworn. Marat Halstead’s condition is so much improved that his sons, who were called to Cincinnati from the East, have returned. As soon as he is able to travel, Mr. Halstead will probably take an outing in some healthful locality. Charles F. Hartshorn, of Taunton, Mass., has sent to the Secretary of the Treasury $2,000 conscience money. This amount was due the Government in .1863, under an old tax law, but nad ’been overlooked in some manner. Editor Webber, of the Republican Daily Leaflet, attempted to shoot General Powell Clayton in a Little Rock saloon. Political differences are said to b« at the bottom of the trouble. Both Webber and Clayton were arrested. Frederick Ebersold, at one time chief of po'ice of Chicago, has been appointed by Mayor Cregier to be inspector of police, vice John Bonfield, who was suspended some weeks since by Mayor Roche, and afterward resigned. Charles E. Woodruff, of New Britain, Conn., has confessed to having forged papers to the amount of $40,000 on various State banks. He tried to do business without capital, and resorted to crime to secure the necessary money. At the sale of the library and prints of Robert Lennox Kennedy at auction in New York, Thursday night, the first folio of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories and tragedies brought $1,400. A commission dealer was the purchaser. There are only two other copies of the race folio in existence. Uriah Logan Reavis, a noted character of St. Louis, died in that city on the 24th inst. from the effects of a surgical operation. Mr, Reavis was well known throughout the country as the leading advocate of the removal of the National Capital to St. Louis, on which subject he had written several books. Two young girls, Katie Hilty and Mary Ritzier, were attacked by a man named Calvin Ferguson in the woods near Bluffton, O. Ferguses knocked Miss Ritzier insensible with a club and then attempted an assault on Miss Hilty. The latter’s screams brought aid, and Ferguson was arrested and locked up. F. A.’Vanhusen, a wholesale tobacco dealer at Denver, Col., says that he was knocked down and robbed of $1,560 on the street at 1 o’clock, Thursday night. He had drawn the money from the bank to express it to Albquerque, but express rates were found to be too high to suit him and he remained over to get a draft. Uiaaaldojn that a wonwn in annoinl ed a notary public, but now Columbus, Ind., has been brought into renown by a boom in female notaries. All in one day Willamette Mench, Minnie Young, Minnie Mobley and Anna Gilgour have received commissions as notaries public for the town of by the authoritive pen of Governor Hovey. Lester H. Thompson, ex-Senior Vice Commander es the New York Department,*G. A. R., died at Denver, Col., Friday, aged forty-eight years.. He served in the Fifth and Seventh United States Infantry, and since the war has been an ardent and prominent worker in Eastern Grand Army circles, lie will he buried at Canandaigua, N. Y., Tuesday. At Chelsea park, k summer t-esort across the Kansas line, opposite Kamas City, Sunday afternoon, » bridge across an artificial lake gave way and precipitated about seventy-five persons into

seven feet es water. Most of them scrambled oat or Were assisted to the shore more frightened than hurt, but fifteen were injured, four of them At a dinner recently given in honor of newly appointed Federal officers at New York, {Colonel * Joel B. Erhardt, Collector of Port, said: “General Sherman asked me the other day to do him a favor, and I said I wbhld, He asked me to wash the outside of the custom house,and I replied that I would wash the inside as well. I intend to conscientiously observe all laws, especially the civil service act.” At the conference of the National Reform Association, now in session at: Pittsburg, a resolution was adopted requesting President Harrison to mention Christ in State papers, especially Thanksgiving proclamations. The conference is attended by over one hundred prominent ministers and others from all parts of the United States, and, as stated in the call, is for consultations on the Christian principles of civiLguvernm ent.

FOREIGN. The Czar will not visit the Paris exposition. The American Samoan commissioners arrived at Berlin Friday. Henry Rochefort’s son has committed suicide at Bona, Algeria. The King of Holland will resume the reins of government on May 3. Khartoum has been captured, it is rumored, by Abron Gherna Iza,and the Maldi has fled. ; • The Queen of Wurtemburg narrowly escaped death Sunday by her horses taking fright. One of the horses was killed. Letters received at Brussels, from the Congo, report all well at Stanley Falls. Four hundred troops had been sent to the Aruwhimi. A despatch from Auckland says that the United States steamer Nipsic was again disabled-while being lowed in in Apia harbor. The treasure which was on board the ship Trenton when she was wrecked, during the recent Hurricane at Apia, has been recovered. The damage to private property, and the loss to the car company, owing to the strike of the Vienna car men amounts to 100,000 florins. It is reported that at the time of General Boulanger’s flight from Paris, six boxes, weighing 550 pounds, filled with geld and silver plate and jewels, arrived in Brussels for him. It is expected that the Spanish government will soon sell at auction $40,000,000 worth of state woodland, in order to cover the financial deficiency, to build railroads, canals and highways, and to establish rural loan banks. The Paris Temps says that societies have been formed, entitled “Union des Deux Mondes,” to manifest bonds i f sympathy between America and Fiance and to seek an amendir gos the American copyright laws. They will organize a fete for July 4, and will give a concert and other entertainments. The Shah of Persia is due in St. Petersburg in the latter part of May, and must, of course, be welcomed personally by the Czar, The exact day of his arrival has not been named, but it is unlikely that he will be punctilous with the Weffern unbelievers, and it may suit his pleasure and dignity to be a few weeks late. The Samoan commissioners had a conference with the Bismarcks. The American members are much pleased with their reception. Mr, Bates made an explanation of his Century article, which was satisfactory. Prince Bismarck expressed the hope of an early settlement of the questions at issue, and indications point to such a result.