Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

- :.... ....: Gen. Black fe now living in Chicago. White Cape demolished a saloon at Leipsic, 0. A heavy frost visited northern Illinois, Thursday morning. , 2 . TheGhl&gd diainage bill passed the Illinois Senate, Tuesday. A Confederate monument was unveiled at Paris, Ky., Saturday. Many Mormons are traveling to Northwest Canada for location. A disease supposed to be hydrophobia, is epidemic in Trimbell, Wis. Frost in Northern Ohio Wednesday night seriously damaged fruit and growing crops. Mrs. Caroline A. Brough, widow of John Brough, Ohio’s noted war governor, died in Cincinnati. Internal Be venue Collector Webster says that the prohibitory law has increased the sale of liquor in lowa. Daniel Buth was instantly killed near Three Oaks, Mich., by failing headlong against a rapidly revolving buzz saw. The Confederate monument at Alexandria, V a., was unveiled Friday. Gen. Lee, R. T. Daniel and others made addresses. John 0. Bradley, cashier of the Merchants’ bank at New Haven, is a defaulter to the amount of SIOO,OOO. He was arrested Fi iday. William Hemker, of Dundee, and a boy named Frank Hintz, were instantly killed at Elgin, 111., Wednesday afternoon, by the collapse of a barn they were moving. It appears in the post mortem over Mind-reader Bishop that the hypothesis of a cataleptic trance and not death may be correct, and that he was killed by the doctors. Two children of John Bolter, of Fort Arkinson, Wis., were drowned in Bark River, Thursday, while returning from a fishing excursion. The children were a boy and girl, aged eleven and nine years. The American Starch Manufacturing Co., of Columbus, Ind., one of the largest concerns of the kind in the country, made an assignment Monday. Liabilities SIOO,OOO, assets about the same or more. Clifford W. Sanders, a well-known St. Louis newspaper reporter, attempted suicide at his home at an early hour Thursday morning, by hanging. His wife discovered him in time to cut him down and save his life. The residence of Rev. F. C. Clarke, near Virginia Beach, Va., was burned Wednesday night at about 12 o’clock. His two daughters and next to the oldest son and a neice visiting him were consumed by the flames. Information comes from New York that Henry W. Moore, formerly managing editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and Mrs. John W. Norton, the wife of the well-known theatrical manager, with whom Moore eloped, have parted. Two enormous bombs have been found in Odessa, beneath streets along which royal visitors usually pass on their way to the palace. It is supposed that the bombs had lain for some years in the position in which they were found. While Anthony Zesnhold. Henry Wiltholder and James Dolan were at work in Otto colliery at Brancedale, Pa., Friday, they were overcome by a sudden outburst of gas and suffocated. Their bodies were not recovered for six hours. The Mayor of West Superior, Wis., has closed all the saloons in the city in anticipation of trouble between the striking coal heavers and the new men imported to fill their places. The new men are working under a strong police protection. Laura D. Bridgman, deaf, dumb and blind from two years of age, made widely famous by Charles Dickens in his “American Notes,” also, by many public references to her wonderful .intelligence, died Friday at the South Boston Asylum, where she has long dwelt, agea sixty. ■ - Dwight W. Lord, cashier of one of the Omaha National Banks, who arrived at Pomona, Cal., Saturday, on the Santa Fe train, claims that on the road, somewhere between the Needles and San Bernaraina, he was robbed of $1,300 in paper, besides promissory notes of the value of $5,000. A single-tax party has been organized in South Dakota, with the ultimate view of incorporating the single-tax Srinciples into the State Constitution, he advocates of the new theory maintain that all public revenues should ultimately be raised by a single tax on the value of bare land. The Oh io Supreme Court has decided in the contempt case of Allen O. Meyers, sentenced by Judge Pugh to jr ay a fine of S2OO and serve ninety days in the county jail, that Movers was in contempt, but that the fine and sentence were excessive. The case was remanded for further proceedings. Lorenza Lopez, sheriff of San Miguel county, N. M., arrived at Trinidad. Col., from Folsom, N. M., Saturdav afternoon, with six prisoners who stole five hundred horses horn ranches in the above county. Three hundred and fifty were found in their possession, and the herd was being driven toward Montana. The Cumberland Presbyterian general assembly adjourned Thursday sine die at five after being in session eight days. The Rev. H. D. Johnson of Topeka, Kas., offered a resolution that no young man who uses tobacco in any form shall be aided financially by the boaid of education in his studies for the ministry. This was carried with no debate. The Kansas State Sabbath-school Association which was in session last week, passed resolutions declaring that prohibition in Kansas was a success; that in-Btead-of impeding the growth and prosperity of Kansas it had stimulated it; that it was the- only solation of the liquor problem, and expressing the hope that for these reasons the Prohibitionists of Pennsylvania may be victorious in their coming struggle, Ac Port Huron, Mich., at 2 o’clock, Monday morning, about twenty masked men forced the countv jail open and took the mulatto, Martin, out and hanged him from the Seventh street bridge. They dragged him down the street, not an officer being in sight. Martin wn a tramp who entered the farm house of John Gillis, four miles

and brutally assaulted hfe wile, has been in a precarious condition ever since and is not expected to live. Ambrose Vantassel, aged thirty-five, dropped dead at the funeral of his #tfe Tuesday at Elizabeth, N. J. The family moved into a house /Friday last. The next day Mrs. Vautassel was taken small children. 7 Mr. VaptasseTs grief wWnntense, and while the funeral service was in he utter ed a cry and fell forward, dying almost immediately. The Rev. Mrs. Ellen Rinkle,a regularly ordained minister of the United Brethren Church at Wooster, 0., is probably the first woman ever authorized to perform marriage ceremonies. The Rev. Mrs. Rinkle made application to the probate judge of Wayne county a short time since for a license to perform marriages. The judge refused to grant it until he had consulted the AttorneyGeneral of the State. That official refused to give an opinion, and the judge, being unable to find any law prohibiting the issuing of a license, proceeded to grant one. Mrs. Rinkle will tie her first nuptial knot within a few days. A Brownsville (Maine) special says: Those gray caterpillars which stopped atrain on the Canadian Pacific’s new line in the wilderness Sunday, are still dome; business at the old stand. It is impossible to run trains on a regular schedule, and in announcing their train service the Canadian Pacific managers have to put in the clause “caterpillars permitting.” Every train is delayed from two to five hours. Two hundred men have been hired to spread out over the line and fight the little greasers. In the meantime scientists cheer tne railroad men by telling them that in a few days the caterpillars will develop into beautiful winged things and fly away. The first freight train run over a new branch of the Canadian Pacific in Maine Tuesday was blockaded for hours by an army of gray caterpillars,which swarmed upon the tracks on a slight grade. The wheels of the locomotive erushed the caterpillar, thus greasing the rails. Sand was used to no purpose. A hundred railroad laborers with alder brushes tried to sweep them from the tracks, but the supply was inexhaustible. Mosquitoes in swarms set the men to swearing and brandishing the brushes about their heads. The freight train finally made a run of fifteen miles in ten hours. Railroad officials are hunting through the cyclopedias to find out when the caterpillars will move on and allow the trains to run over the new road. FOREIGN. Queen Victoria was 70 years old on the 24th. One hundred people were drowned in a flood at Vienna. "Whitelaw Reid presented his credentials to President Carnot Tuesday. The striking miners in the Kladno district of Bohemia now number 17,000. Seventeen anarchists are said to have been arrested at Milan, Wednesday, for inciting tumults at Gallarat. Eliza Duxbury, London, a leading member of Wesley Church and astrong Conservative, who died recently, has left in her will SIO,OOO to Mr. Parhell for his private use. Thirt y people perished by the collision, Tuesday, off Goodwin Sands, between the English steamships German Emperor, from London to Balbora, and the Beresford, from Hartlepool to Brubay. Humphrey Keller, seventy years of age, was found dead outside* of his shanty near Rapid River, Rainy river district, in Manitoba. When discovered by tne neighbors a large dog was found standing guard over his body. It is stated that in the Samoan conference Germany claimed indemnity for losses caused by Mataafa, and the American commissioners disputed the claim, averring that Mataafa had acted in self defense, and the natives were too f oor to pay indemnity. Forty-five persons lost their lives through the floods in Bohemia. The details of the floods in Bohemia, now coming in, confirm the worst reports hitherto received. The country in the vicinity of Pilsen is one vast lake, and the crops are hopelessly ruined. Thousands of persons are thus reduced to the verge of starvation, and many must die if help is not immediately forthcoming. A serious hitch has occurred in the negotiations between the commissioners to the conference on Samoan affairs. The United States Government insists that Malietoa be restored as King. This is the chief point at issue. The German Government is reluctant to agree to that proposition. Its representatives Stint out that Germany has pardoned alietoa and declare that they think that is the best their Government can do as far as he is concerned. The work of evicting tenants was continued on the Olphert estate Friday. The evictors met with a desperate resistance. During the struggle Inspector Duff was badly wounded. The tenants had erected barricades around their homes, and from behind these defenses they hurled stones and other missiles at the attacking party. Boiling water was also thrown upon the evictors, and a number of policemen and bailiffs were badlJT scalded. The police arrested fourteen persons. An immense crowd of sympathizers with the tenants had gathered at the scene of the evictions, and when Mr. Ritchie, the agent for the estate, appeared on the ground he was vigorously hooted. The attitude of the crowd finally became so threatening that Mr. Ritchie, fearing personal Violence, hastily took his departure. The chiefs in the last Zulu revolt have been tried by the British Government and sentenced with a severity which is denounced by the entire press. After the departure of Cetywayo, his son, Diniznlu, who succeeded him, being stopped in his operations against his hereditary enemy, Usibepu, drifted into hostilities with the English, and soon, upon the advice of Bishop Colenso and his daughter, surrendered himself to the Cape authorities. He has now been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. Hfe uncle, Undabuko, is sent up for fifteen years, and another ringleader, Tshingand, for twelve years. The London press almost unanimously asks for abatement of the sentences.