Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

OOMESTIC. The workmen lost the St. Paul street car strike. Carl Boss, the well known musical director, is dead.* Therp is much suffering among the miners in Pennsylvania. The prohibitory ordinance at London, Ontario, has been repealed. A fliflftp wflfl TnlVHpfi Kn monto/l XL mail Btogv l?»o luuut-u Uj luaqncu highwaymen, near Eureka Springs, Ark. 1 It is reported that fifteen companies have been organized to build big cotton mills in the South. David G. Cfoly, a well known New York newspaper man, the husband of •‘Jennie June,” is dead. Five convicts, one of them a woman, have been sentenced at Fort Smith, Ark.*, to be hanged July 17. Lysander Bandall committed suicide at Bangor, Me., by strangulation. He* left a note stating “rum did it.” Advices by steamer recount the builds ing of railways in Japan, and establishment of electric and other plants. . Four tons of powder exploded at Waverly, Dear Halifax, N. S., wrecking the mills and the employers’ houses. The guns of the United States cruiser Chicago have been tried, and the trial ' was in every way successful and satisfactory. An lowa farmer named Barker was swindled out of $2,000 by three confidence men who purported to be land buyers.

Briscoe B. Bouldin, a deputy collector of internal revenue in Virginia, was shot and fatally wounded by a “moonshiner.” At Cohoes, N. Y., Mrs. Dunn was murdered by her husband. Dunn was arrested. The motive for the crime is unknown. ~ Miss Ella Drummond, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a Vernon county, Missouri, farmer eloped with her father’s farm hand. Whitelaw Reid, Minister to France, and Samuel B. Thayer, Minister to the Netherlands, sailed for Europe Saturday morning. A fourteen-year-old boy was seriously injured at G., .by the explosion of a railroad torpedo which he hrew into a bonfire. The wall of the Mountain City ter, recently burned at Altoona, Pa., was blown down, John W. Keller, aged seventeen, was instantly killed. Ga., will be known as Fort McPherson, in honor of General James B, McPherson, who was killed near the site in 1864. What is known as the Australian election law, with some modifications to suit the locality, has been adopted by both Houses of the Missouri' Legislature.

Five hundred societies of Christian Endeavor are represented in the Illinois (State Convention in session at (Springfield- There are 1,000 delegates in attandanoe. Secretary Proctor and suite are in Chicago on a tour of inspection of western military posts. This is Adjutant General Drum’s last tour, as he will shortly be retired. A daughter of Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson, of the Episcopal Church, eloped from her home at Jackson, Miss., with I. W. Heaves, of Chicago. They were married at Cairo, 111. N. W. Doty stuck a red flag out of the fourth story window of a block in Chicago Centenmal day and the mob which gathered came near lynching him. A rope was procured and an attempt made to string him up. At Greenville, Miss., Weston, a negro, shot and killed Hugh Cunningham, a night-watchman. Later in the day, Lem Collier, colored, expressed sympathy for Weston in a saloon, when John Kelly, the bartender, shot him to death. A Coroner’s Jury at San Francisco has exonerated from blame Ed. CufFe, who, while sparring, last Friday night, with Tom Avery, a local pugilist, accidentally struck a blow that caused the latter’s death. Twolve men belonging to a gang of desperadoes, who have been robbing and committing murderous assaults on farmers in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, were captured bv a Sheriff and a posse of forty men and jailed^/'"'' . The schooner sailed from Gloucester, Mass., on a fishing trip to George's Banks, on March 25, since which time nothing has been heard from her. Her owners Thursday had given her up for lost. She carried: a crew of fourteen men. Ex-Governor John C. Brown, of Nashville, Tenn., has accepted an invitation to represent the South in the reunion of Union and Confederate soldiers of Scotch-Irish blood at the Congress to be held in Columbia May 8 to 11. Corporal Tanner will represent the North. The Hon. John Sherman, the Hon. John C. New, Consul General at London, the Hon. W. W. Thomas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden and Norway, and Lincoln Valentine, Consul for Honduras. sailed for Europe on the City of New York. The Windsor Theater, at Chicago, located on the west dide of the river, caught fire shortly after midnight,Tuesday, and in less thanV twenty minutes was completely destroyed. Three firemen were injured by a falling wall, one of them seriously. Loss, $40,000; covered by insurance. A dispatch from Bt. Paul, Minn., says the agent and party sent out by the Minneapolis Historical Society to disewer the source of the Mississippi River, retained, Friday. They report having discovered two lakes 110 feet above Itasca, and seven miles distant to which they traced the head of the river. At the request of Governor Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee, Mr. Gaorgß W. Childs has consented to loan to the Bcotch-Irish Congress the harp ol Thomas Moore, now to be seen at the Philadelphia Ledger office. The instrument will be on exhibition at Columbia, Tenn., wher&tbe Congress will assemble May 8. Jacob D. Shaulis, a wealthy farmer of near Somerset, Pa., was found dead hanging to a tree near his residence. A few yards off was the body of his wife, shot through the body. Two Bons of the dead man have been arrested. It is alleged that the old man committed . suicide first, and then David, his son, I attempted to kill his step-mother, who

is only twenty-five years of age, to prevent her inheriting the estate the two boys hoping by this means to secure the estate themselves. 'A dispatch from Pan Antonio says it is reported there that during a fight at Mex., arising from the imprisonment of Jesuit priests, who had been delivering seditious sermons, and attempt by tfie populace to rescue them, twohundred of the people were kilted; by soldiers and policemen. The priests are still in jail. The report is officially denied, Meetings of the stockholders of the North Chicago Bolling Mill Company and the Union Steel Company were held at Chicago Thursday for the purpose of consolidating their interests with the Joint Steel Company. When this combination is affected, and the new concern is to be known as the Illinois Steel Company, and it will be the largest of its kind in in the world, having a capital stock of $25,000,0C0. is In Brsxton County, W. V., P. B. Harr and .family tried to Cross a swollen mountain stream. The frail craft capsized and all the family were thrown out. The wifeand one immediately sank. Harr, who if as an expert swimmer, seized another>and made desperate efforts to eseape. He caught on the canoe, but was swept down stream and perished before help could reach him. The bodies have been recovered. A dispatch from Lima,Ohio, says: The west bound passenger train on the Chicago & Atlantic Road, consisting of ten coaches of emigrants, had a miraculous escape from being wrecked a mile east of this city, Friday. A crossing over a culvert burned, and had fallen in. The engineer did not discover it until he was within one hundred feet of it. When he saw the sparks he promptly applied the brazes and stoppetl his train with the cow catcher immediately over the ditch, which was about twenty-five feet deep and twenty feet wide.

FOREIGN. Vesuvius has broken out with great violence. Streams of lava are flowing down the Pompeii side. It is stated that the French election will be postponed unril next year, to avoid a contest with the Boulangists. At Morrilton, Ark., an attempt was made by a politician, O. B. Bentlj, to assassinate ex Sheriff Harry Coblentz. The Samoan Commissioners were presented to Emperor William at Potsdam Thursday. Tfie Emperor conversed in a friendly manner with all the commissioners, who were delighted with their reception. The Tipperary Court has affirmed the sentences of four months each imprisonment of Mr. John O’Connor, member of Parliament for South Tipperary, and Mr. Thomas Condon, member of Parliament for East Tipperary; three months on Mr. Charles -Tanner, member of Parliament for the middle division of Cork, and two months on Mr. Manning Tor violations of the crimes act.