Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Seattle is already hard at work rebuilding. The losses aggregate $15,000,<KIO. j Fire swept the business portion of Marshalltown, lowa. Thursday, destroying forty-one buildings and~e®iMinr a ioes of $150,000. -* . The Mansfield Drug Co. has received a verdict for $36,800 agri nst t’ni rty-four insurance companies which- refused to acknowledge their claim. Ross Schoonover, a wealthy farmer living near Kewanee, 111., was swindled out of $3,010, Wednesday, by the usual game of wanting to buy a farm. Near Austin, Tex., a man refused to be tried before a colored justice. The result was a row, in which six persons were killed and a number wounded. The steamers North Star and Charles J. Sheffield came into collision near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Monday. The Sheffield sunk,causing a loss of $125,000. A buggy containing two men and two boys was run down at Canton, Ohio, Wednesday, by a train on the P.. Ft W. A C. railway and ill four were killed. Nine workmen were precipitated from a poorly constructed scaffold at Chicago, Wednesday. — All of them were injured, several of them dangerously. The Boards of Agriculture of Illinois, lowa, Nebraska and Kansas have arranged to import a flock of seven African ostriches for exhibition at their respective State Fairs in September. Uniontown, Bourbon Co., Kansas, a town of 600 inhabitants, was destroyed by a flood Sunday night. Two women and four children were drowed. Streams werepverflowed in every part of the '-rate. The Democratic National Committee met at New York Wednesday, with a very large attendance of members of the committee and others. Calvin 8. Brice was elected chairman to succeed the late Hon. Wm. H.. Barnum. There was no opposition to Mr. Brice’s election. Bolton’s Mill,near Newsgo,Mich.,burned caturday morning. Aujoining it was a large boarding house where the employes lodge!. Alonzo Delaceyand Ole McLenny perished in the flames, and another man, in j amping from a window, received proabiy fatal injuries. It is thought the fire was incenuiary. Frank Sadler and Frank Rvan, the two young men who made two attempts, about a month ago, to wreck the limited vestibule train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, pleaded guilty at’Canton, 0., Monday, and were sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary, and to pay a fine of SSOO each. A disastrous cave in occurred at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Wednesday. Mines are situated under the city, and now one of the principal thoroughfares is filled with crevices from which the gas ■escapes in huge volumes. The men in the mines bad narrow escapes- Eight hundred men are thrown out of employment. The damage to the mine is SIOO,OOO, and to property owners on the turf ace $200,000. Mrs. W. J. White has been sent to jail at Cincinnati for contempt of court. She was one of two women each of whom claimed to be the mother of the same baby. She was afraid the court would take the child away from her,and had spirited it away to prevent such a consummation. She positively refused to tell the Judge where the infant was, preferring to go to prison. The canvassing board Monday finished its work of counting the vote cast at the Moi tana constitutional election. The retuns show that thirty-eight democrats, thirty-five Republicans, one labor and one Independent were elected. Both the Labor and Independent men have affiliated with the Democrats, and the latter count on their help on ail party questions. A dispatch from South Oklahoma, I. T., eays: Policeman Hart went to the Mayor’s office, Saturday afternoon and began abusing the Mavor. He was locked up by Marshal McKee and Policeman Howard after a desperate resistance. When McKee and Howard returned to the Mayor’s office, Policeman Mattox, a friend of Hart, opened fire on them with a Winchester. McKee was slightly wounded in the abdomen and Howard seriously in the hips. After he was shot, Howard shot Mattox through ths lungs, fatally wounding him. A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo., says: Last Thursday two children of Edward Richus, a farmer of Rozer, Mo., a small village fiftv miles south of Kansas City, on the Kansas line, went to a creek about a mile from home to fish. Upon their failing to return at night, searching parties were organized, and last Friday evening their bones were found near a ledge of rocks that had long been known as a wolves’ den. A band of timber wolves have used this section for years, and it is thought the children were killed and eaten by the animals. The boys were aged ten and twelve years. The United States Grand Jury, at Memphis, which has been investigating the manner in which the elections in the Tenth (Tenn.) congressional district have been conducted during the past tew years, submitted its report to the « urt, Saturday. Indictments were returned against nearly all the judges and clerks, some two hundred in number, of the last election of that congressional -district. The particular offense for which most of these men are indicted is for not returning the poll list and count to the clerks of the county and Circuit Courts es their respective' counties as the law'requlres. The balance of them are indicted for taking election books away from the polling places to conduct the count. FOREIGN. The French Senate has advised the immediate prosecution of Boulanger. Three hundred and fifty-four thousand persons visited the Paris Exposition. Of this number 36,000 made the ascent qf the Eiffel Tower. The Grand Duke Paul, Of Russia. Sunday, returned to and entered fit. Petersburg in state with his betrothed. Princess Alexandra, of Greece. Anti-ministerial riots occurred at Brussels aid Gent and at Liege, Tuesday. Many of the rioters were wounded in conflicts with the police. A Methodist Sunday school excursion traid with 1,200 people on board was wrecked near Avnough, Ireland,

Wednesday. Fifty persons were Ikilled and many injured. All thecommissioners to the Samoan conference have signed the agreement, and it only needs the signatures of the United States government to be in force. It is conceded the German government was completely knocked out. The Russian army will soon be provided with breech loading rifles which will carry a distance of 6.000 feet. Noiseless powder will also be used in future by the army. These* improvements in the arming of the troops involve immense expenditures. The King of Portugal and numerous other royalties arrived at Dresden, Monday, to attend the octo-centenary fetes. Parliament Monday presented to the King a gift of $750,000 in behalf of the people, as a token of love and loyalty. The money will be used to renovate the palace. The Russ'an and German ministers atBerne have made a format chmplaintto Dr. Droze, the Swiss Minister of Foreign Affaire, that Switzerland, in her lenient treatment of Socialists and Anarchists, had abused the right of neutrality which had been conceded to her, and had failed to fulfil the duties connected with that right. The Catholic societies of Rome intend asking the municipality for permission to erect a monument to the “Apostle of Rome,” St. Philip Neriv, founder of the Society of the Orations, of which Cardinal Newman is a member. This is intended as a protest against the recent erection of a monument in honor of the great free thinker, Giordano Bruno. A letter received from Ururi, on the southeastern shire of the Victoria Nyanza, dated Dec. 2, reports the arrival there of Henry M. Stanley with a large number of invalid members of his force. 3he letter eaid that Stanley had sustained heavy loses, a large number of his men having died from disease and famine. The explorer had rejoined and left Emin Pasha at Unyara, on the northwestern shore of the* lake. The steamer Alene, from Kingston, Jamaica, June 6, arrived at New York Thursday morning, and brings intelligence substantiating the London cable reports of Hippolyte’s victory and Legitime’s defeat. Chief Officer Williams, of the Alene, said that Legitime had sought the protection of the American consul at Port au-Prince. Hippolyte’s officers had entered Port-au-Prince and taken possession of the town. The victorious warrior, however, Mr. Willirms said, was not popular with the people generally, and could probably never be President of the black republic by the vote of the inhabitants. A man named Marriann, Legitime’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, or an ex-President of the republic,‘whose name Mr. Williams could not recall, would doubtless appear as the next candidate for the presidency of Hayti.