Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Mondav 3,761 emigrants were landed at Castle Garden. A ten-year old boy is accused of mailrobbery,at Beloit, Wis. Snow fell to the depth of two inches at Hope, Dak., on the 14th. Horace Greely is to have a statute in City Hall dark to cost $25,000. Southern fanners are organizing against high prizes for jute bagging. A deposit of tin has been discovered about twenty miles from Topeka, Kan.j Seventeen year locusts have made their appearance in Middle Tennessee. The Merchants’ Exchange at St. Louis has opened war on bucket-shop gambling. Seventeen-year locusts have made their appearance in Highland county, Ohio. Three to five inches of snow fell in northern Michigan and Wisconsin, Thursday. The Constitution a 1 Convention of Montana will be Democratic by about five majority. - The boom for the Sioux reservation continues and will soon equal the Oklahoma craze. Se« era! people were killed and others injur ed in a cable road accident at Seattle, Wash., Ter. The . funeral services of the late Allen Thorndike Rice, minister to Rusvia, were held at New York Sunday. “Cyclone Bill” and W. E. Cunningham have been arrested for the robbery of Paymaster Wham, at Rocky Gorge Arizona. . I Chief of the Cherokee Nation, refuses to convene the. Legislature to vote on the sale of the Strip to the gov ernment, .-. The postmaster at Coshocton, N. Y. has been arrested for withholding official communication from his successor in office. John Archibald Comp is a swindler who has been working Cincinnati, Chicago and other people on a scheme for making good whisky out of bad. Mrs. C. F. Nygeen, of Star Lake, Dakota, yawned Wednesday and dislocated her lower jaw, necessitating a ride of twenty-three miles to town to set it. The theater at Worcester, Mass., was totally destroyed by fire, Thursday morning, including the costumes and accessories of Louis Morrison’s “Faust” company. , and a cousin all named Barnard, have been sentenced to hang at Sneedville, Tenn., July 12. Their crime was a murder of the most brutal description. Relatives of twenty-three miners who were killed in an explosion in the mines at Nevada, Mo., March 29, 1888, have brought suit for $100,090 against the company. Frank Jasinski, a Chicago boy, aged sixteen, who has been reading Wild West literature, Friday, deliberately shot two other lads, acquaintances, one fatally. The murderer escaped. In a speech at the dedication of a monument to dead soldiers at Charleston, 8. C., General Wade Hampton said the Confederate dead should be regarded as martyrs, and not traitors. Rev. Edward C. Towne, late of Cambridge, but now of New York, threatens to sue Chauncey Depew for $1,500 for preparing material to be used by Mr. Depew in his Centennial speech. Mind-reader W. Irving Bishop, died at New York, Tuesday, while in a cataleptic fit, superinduced by the intense nervous excitement incident to the performance of his mind-reading feats. A gang of men surrounded the house of a farmer named Tom Phelton, at Rogersville, Ky., and attempted to take him out. Phelton opened fire on the gang, killing two of them. The others Father J. G. Boyle, a Catholic priest, arrested last Saturday at Raleigh, N. 0., on a charge of a criminal assault on a young woman, was, Monday, arraigned, bound over to court and committed to jail. Boyd M. Miller, who shed the New York, Lake Erie A Western Railroad Company for injuries sustained while employed by the company as an engineer, got a verdict, at Mansfield, 0., for $30,000. A heavy thunder and rain storm prevailed all day, Friday, in the territory surrounding Kansas City. Great damage was done to railroad bridges and property. An immense fall of water flooded the streams to overflowing. Fireman Charles Lappan was pinned under an engine in a wreck near Denver, Col., and was slowly roasted to death. In his last moments, however, he dictated his will, leaving $15,000 to brothers in San Francisco. Mrs. Langtry will sell all her stage properties May 28, at auction, and this is regarded by her friends as an indication that she will not again appear on the American stage. She sails for Europe at the end of the month. 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 bear off the palm in decoration. Great excitement prevails at North Baltimore, 0., over an oil well drilled in the town, which filled an 800-barrel tank in an hour. It is undoubtedly, the largest oil well in Ohio, and lota in the town have advanced from $125 to SI,OOO. At Buffalo, N." Y„ Tuesday. William Kemmler was sentenced “to the punishment of death to be inflicted by the application of electricity,” within the week commencing June 24. This is the first death sentence under the nejv law. He had murdered his mistress. Andrew and Ole Ericson, brothers, aged eight and ten years, respectively, were drowned in the river at Crockston, Minn., late Saturday afternoon; They fell off some logs on which they were playing, and their father nearly loet his life in an attempt to rescue them. The wife of Washington Irving Bishop, the mind reader, now declares that her husband was sacrificed to science, and that he was not dead, but in a state of cataleptic coma, when the surgeons exposed his brain in order to determine whether tbeir diagnosis was correct. Henry Hoffman, a blacksmith, was killed by lightning at Red Bluff, M. T., a few days ago. He and four others stood near a wire fence when the storm broke.

Lightning struck the fence, knocking down all five. Four soon recovered, but the shock killed Hoffman outright. The will of Elizabeth Taber, who lived at Marion, Mass., in which she left $400,000 to various Congregational churches and missions, and which was contested on the ground that she was of unsound mind, has been declared valid. A dispatch from Galena, 111., says: Louisa Lehrman, a widow of this city, aged seventy years, brought suit yesterday in the Daviess County Circuit Court against Samuel Cunningham, a wealthy and eccentric old bachelor, also of Galena. to recover damages in the sum of SIO,OOO for.breach of promise of marriage. A Washington ipecial says that United States Consul J. L. Doty, at Tahita, has married Princess Polona, of Tahita. The Princess is a daughter of Lord and Lady Darcy, the former a British nobleman, and the latter a ■native princess. The bride was educated in Europe and is heiress to the largest estate in Tahiti. Five tramps attacked James Bui ns, a farmer, on the mountains in the outskirts of Altoona, Pa., Tuesday morning, and robbed him of S3O. They also stripped off his clothing, and left him for dead at the side of the railroad. A terrific fight took place in a railroad cut between the city policemen and the tramps, and four of the gang were captured, manacled and taken to the citv jail. The strike at the National tube-works, McKeesport, Pa., which involved 2,000 men and caused a suspension of work in a number of departments of that extensive plant, was settled Friday evening by the company conceding the strikers’ demands fojra restoration of last year’s wages. This means an increase of 10 to 15 per cent, in the wages of the skilled workmen, and 5 per emit to the laborers. The recent count of money at the New York sub-treasury revealed a discrepancy of $35 out out of a total sum of $184,000,000 to be accounted for. The shortage resulted from the acceptance of a few counterfeit notes in the hurry of business and the loss of a few pieces of silver. The deficiency was promptly made good and a receipt in full given to ex-Treasurer Hyatt, who was responsible under his bond for the entire amount. A terrible accident occurred at the Michigan Car Works, Detroit, Tuesday noon, by which one man lost his life outright and three more were fatally hurt. A gang of laborers wers loading a car load of iron when some part of the brace holding the' load broke and several tons of iron fell on the men, completely burying them. When the victims were liberated, Joe Bonscotte was dead and his three companions mortally injured. All are German and leave large families. The Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor in session at Indianapolis. Thursday, elected the following officers: Supreme Dictator, A. R. Savage, Lewiston, Me.; Supreme Vice Dictator, Samuel Klotz, Newark, N. J.; Supreme Assistant Dictator, Hon. Marsden Bellamy, Wilmington, N. C.; Supreme Reporter, D. F. Nelson, St. Louis; Supreme Treasurer, J. W. Branch, St. Louis, and Supreme Trustees, F. A. Pennington, Judge Okey Johnson, of West Virginia, and Edmund R. Bacon, Easton, S. 0. Gen. S. C. Lawrence Post No. 66, G. A. R., of Medford, Mass., has adopted resolutions instructing the adjutant to return to Rev. J. P. Abbott his application for membership as a contributory member, with its accompanying fee. Mr. Abbott, on Easter Sunday, in the course of a sermon,reflected very severely upon Grand Army veterans, and made the assertion that “more men owed their disabilities to whisky from the sutler’s tent than to shot ana shell.” He also referred to them as “whiskyscarred and maimed veterans.” H. J. Cook, formerly of Allegheny City, Pa., has been arrested in London, Ont., for robbing the Porterville Savings Bank, in Mercer county, Pa., of $2,000, two weeks ago. Cook was formerly employed in the building in which was located the bank. He was an inveterate smoker, and had a habit of chewing the end of his cigar. The morning after the robbery a stump of a cigar was found on the floor of the bank, and it gave evidence of having been in Cook’s mouth from the peculiarity mentioned. He was arrested, Thursday, and, the telegram states, made a confession implicating a number of others. The resolution passed by the board of directors of the Chicago Board of Trade, that the public quotation service be withdrawn at the close of this month, is the subject of much comment, and there is a marked divergence of opinion as to whether the result will be beneficial to the board. The so-called “bucket shop” firms claim to have the right to receive the quotations Which have been sustained by a permanent injunction granted by the Supreme Court to one of their number. They threaten legal proceedings against the Board of Trade if deprived of its quotations, and the prospects seem good for a tremendous legal fight. A dispatch irom Yankton Indian agency says that the Sioux Indians at that place are preparing to negotiate with the government for the sale of about seven townships of the north part of their reservation. Engineers are now at work surveying the agency, and the Indians are selecting their land in severalty. The reason assigned for selling this land is that their treaty with the United States only allowed $15,000 per annum, and the present treaty will soon expire. The tract embraces some of the finest land in South Dakota, and a rush of settlers is expected to follow its opening to homesteaders, which will probably be within thirty days. These lands will furnish homes for 1,000 families, allowing each 160 acres. Laurens county, Ga., is intensely excited over the discovery of spirits of turpentine in a well on Peacock’s farm. A peculiar gas has been observed coming from the well ever since it was dug two years ago. More than a month ago the water became so impregnated with turpentine that it could not be used for drinking purposes. A few days ago a bucket of colored turpentine was hauled out An investigation was made, and fourteen barrels were drawn off. In a few hours the spirits had risen to some height. A barrel of it reached Savannah Friday morning, and experts pro nounce it the pure article. It is not believed that tne well has been salted and the mystery is so far inexplicable. While Mrs. Ixfuise Palmer was oook- * ing supper in her home at Rockdale,

I Tex., she dropped a lighted lamp and was immediately enveloped in flames. She ran frem the kitchen through a bed room in which her two little boys, aged three and four years, were sleeping, out into the yard where her husband was. The latter attempted to extinguish the flames, but did not succeed until hia wife was fatally burned. He then discovered that the house was en fire, and it and the two children were, consumed. Mr. Palmer was also very badly burned. There died at Weston, W. Va„ Thursday morning, a man whose case has been a puzzle to the local medical authorities; his name was John Ryan and about six years ago his physicians told , him that he was suffering from locomotor ataxia. He staggered in his walk at first, and finally his fingers and toes began to mortify. Joint by joint they fell off until only the bare stumps of his limbs were left. The disease did not stop here, but his whole body seemed to be subject to the decaying process. Large pieces of his flesh loosened and fell from him without pain. His nerves were deadened and his body was practically senseless. His six years’ living death ended Thursday morning, Mr. Ryan was a well known man, and universally esteemed. FOREIGN Fresh stories of Ireland’s destitution are sent out. Captain G: neral Salamanca, of Cuba, has been authorized to draw on the Spanish Treasury for the sum of $830,000. It is stated that Gen. Boulanger’s second daughter is betrothed to the son of the Countess of Bari, sister-in-law of the ex-King of Naples. . The Saltan’s presents to Emperor William exceed $200,000 in value. The Sultan sends to the empress a necklace valued at $150,000. French papers unanimously compliment Miss Bybel Sanderson, the American primadonna, upon her success in Massenet’s new opera, Wednesday evening. Shanghai advives are that the claims for damages growing out of the Chee Foo riots have been settled. The English and American flags have been again hoisted, and the Chinese troops have saluted them. Over 90,000 miners are now out in the German mining districts. A council of the Prussian Ministry was held, Emperor William taking part. It was decided that recourse must be had to arbitration at once. Riots have occurred in Lombardy on account of an agitation over disputed rights in land, and it is said that the trouble is being fomented by Anarchists. Houses have been ransacked by mobs in some instances. Troops are buelling the outbreak. Five brigands were hanged in the court yard of the prison at Sofia, Thursday. A mob broke through the cordon surrounding the jail, and the gendaimes had great difficulty in keeping them away from the scaffold. The Austrian Emperor, Wednesday, gave audience to Mr. Lawton, the retiring United States Minister, who presented his letters of recall. Afterward the Emperor received Colonel F. D. Grant, the new Minister, who presented his credentials. An Anarchist Republican conspiracy has been discovered at Sueca near Valencia. At Sueca the conspirators, all peasants, planned to take the town and to sack the houses of the wealthy. The police and soldiers arrested many persons haying in their possession fire-arms and passports from South America. The Shalf of Persia, in his journeying from Teheran to Sts Petersburg, met with a grand reception in Russia. At Erwan the streets through which he passed were lined with troops, and at several points there were triumphal arches bearing the inscription. “To the Shah’s Sacred Person.” The entire town was brilliantly illuminated upon the evening of the day on which the Shah arrived. General Boulanger is credited with preparing a new surprise for the world. According to good authority, he now intends, since the Senate is likely to abandon his prosecution, to return to Paris. The report says that his followers have been communicated with, and the most elaborate preparations are making for hia triumphant return to the French capital. The General ip disgusted at his treatment in London, and has declared to a friend that he would rather trust to the tender mercies of his own nation, and the defense of his friends, than to longer trespass on the • cool courtesy of the English, with whom he has gained neither fame nor position. The General complains especially of his treatment by the newspapers, many of which have derided him. It is owing, no doubt, for the most part,to the papers that Boulanger has been practically boycotted In England. He commenced nis London career more like a showman than a statesman, and has selected as his companions a certain class of public men who are not usually accepted as the aides-de-camp of society.