Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. A cyclone swept Largo. Dak., Monday. Six men were drowned by the capsizing of & boat near 8. Johns, N. 8., Sunday. Contractor Jr B. McCormick, of Tacoma, W. T., has disappeared with $50,000 belonging to friends. A mad dog in Kanawha county, W. Va., bit seventeen dogs, a cow and a horse before it was killed. Irving Latimer has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Michigan prison for the murder of his mother. At Chicago, Patrick Ford, aged sixty, shot and killed his wife, aged twentythree, and then fatally shot himself. One thousand pounds of opium, valued, including duty, at $16,000, were seized at Ban Francisco on the 10th inst. A collision of the Valley road at Cleveland, 0., Wednesday, caused the death of two persons and seriously injured'several others. A number of passenger conductors on the “Nickel Plate,” west division, were summarily discharged Monday. They run between Chicago and Bellevue, O. At Albany, Ga., William Gilmer, a popular young man, shot and killed his wife and then blew his own brains-wit. , The tragedy is said to have originated in Mrs: Gilmer’s mother’s interference with the young couple. George Carter, who robbed Farmer Coffman of $6,000 near Washington C. H., 0., a few days ago, has been identified as the man who recently robbed Vincent Richardson, a fanner near Jacksonville, 111., of $7,000. A special Paris cable gave an interesting comparison between American and foreign productions, drawing the conclusion that America excels in articles of utility, while the older nations -beiroff thrpalmrm decoration.The Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore, which has been in course of construction ten years and cost of $2,0C0,000, provided by the will of the late Johns Hopkins, also founder of Johns Hopkins University, was formally opened Tuesday morning. Three unknown men entered McGovern's Hotel at Lake City, Mich., late Sunday night, and offered a $lO bill in payment for cigars. McQovern opened the safe for change, when the men sprang upon and overpowered him. They took $1,306 from the safe and escaDed. Gen, Wm. S. Harney, the oldest officer on the retired list of the army, died at St. Louis Thursday. He was born in 1798, appointed a second Lieutenant in 1818, and in 1858 rose to-Brigadier General. He was retired in 1863, serving with distinction up to that time in the rebellion. Reports from all sections in southern Arkansas are to the effect that the farmers are considerably alarmed by the ravages of cut-worms. In many places in Drew, Bradley and Desha counties, farmers have planted cotton as many as three times and each time the plant has been destroyed by the worms. Merchants are apprehensive and business 1b paralyzed. In October, 1887, Morris Amerman, a farmer, of Niles, N. Y., came to Auburn, and after disposing of produce proceeded to get intoxicated. In driving home hiß horses ran away and be was killed. His widow brought suit under the civil damage act against H. B. Perry, owner of the building in which the saloon is located where Amerman bought his whisky, forss,o()o damages. Thursday morniug the j ary brought in a verdict in favor of the widow for $1,500. The steamship City of Paris, of the Inman line, which arrived at Sandy Hook at 11:15 o’clock, Wednesday, has broken all records from ‘Queenstown. Her corrected time is five days twentythree hours and seven minutes. The best previous time on record, which was made by the Etruria, was six days, one hour and fifty-nine minuteß. It is the first voyage across the Atlanticmade in less than six days, and there were mhny men in maritime eircles who prophesied that the trip would never be made in less than that time. Major J. W. Wham, paymaster in the United States army, with Clerk Gibson and an escort of eleven soldiers, were on the way Saturday afternoon from Wilcox. Arizona, to pay the post at Fort Thomas, and when in a narrow gorge, a few miles north of Cedar Springs, thev were attacked by a party of ambushed men. A constant fire was kept up for nearly half an hour, when eight of the escort were wounded, five dangerously. The robbera succeeded iu securing $29,000, and escaped into the mountains. Major Wham was uninjured, and Gibbon’s clothing was only torn by shot. A shocking accident occurred about 6:30 o’clock, Wednesday evening, at Kalamazoo, Mich. A street car containing seven ladies and two gentlemen, were crossing the track; when a switch engine dashed down upon it from the east, at a high rate of speed, and the driver being unable to get the car out of the way, the helpless passengers were hurled to a terrible death. It was but the work of a moment and the fearful catastrophe was over; the street car was carried almost to Academy street, the Eieces flying in all directions, and the uman freight being mangled in a horrible manner. Six of the ladies were killed. Twenty-five acres of ground, closely built up with small dwelling-houses, were swept by fire in the suburban village of Moreland, 111., Wednesday night, and seventy families are rendered homeless. The fire started in the Presbyterian Church, a medium-sized frame structure, and burned furiously. The flames soon spread to surrounding dwellings, one after another, and before they could be checked a terrible conflagration was spreading terror on all sides. The lack of water supply, aided by the heavy gale, placed the fire beyond the control of firemen, police -and citizens, who made every effort to check its course without avail. It is believed that the fire originated from stumps of cigarettes thrown into a pew in the church by soine boys who gained admittance throngh an open window. foreign. The Nihilists are active, and the Czar is greatly alarmed. The report of the capture of Khartoum proves to be untrue. ,The London police raided the gam-

bling clubs Sunday. Several English, French and Belgium noblemen were arrested. _ ■ ■ ; The Edinburgh Municipal Council, by a vote of twenty three to fifteen, has confirmed the resolution granting the freedom of the city to Mr. Parnell. The flags on the foreign consul atee audthc pqblic bul'ldiilifk' at Guayinas. Mexico, were unfurled April 30, in honor of the centennial of Washington’s inaugnration. i . Emperor William, Tuesdav, boarded the yacht Irene at Kiel, and from her deqk iuspected the fleet in that harbor. Sixteen mufi-of-war comprised the fleet and made a magnificent exhibition of naval excellence. In the opening the war vessels and the entire town were brilliantly illuminated in honor of the Kaiser. A hand of Kurds recently attacked a wedding party in the Monch district, robbing the guests and indecently assaulting the bride. After gorging themselves with the wedding feast they killed the bride and boiled her body in the kettle in which the wedding meal had been cooked. It is stated that immediately after the Catholic congresses have finished their work the Vatican will ask the European governments, more especially those of Catholic countries, to consider the appeals made by the congresses for Ihe restoration of the temporal power of the Holv See.