Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

i DOMESTIC. ■ St. Louis is warning the gamblers. ■ A great iron and coal discovery is reBiorted from Colorado. ■ A tornado swept over Roann, Sunday, Bind did considerable damage. ■ Five houses were etmek by lightning Bnside two hours at Decatur, 111. ■ Newton Moore, of Lake City, Colo., Bnurdered his bride and killed himself. B It is believed Governor Foraker will ■be renominated by the Ohio Republi- ■ A disastrous cyclone visited Albany. ■Mo., Friday and killed and injured sev■erai people. ■ The New Hampshire Legislature, ■Tuesday.elected W. E. Chandler United ■States Senator. I An Englishman named S. C. Coombs, ■was swindled out of SB,OOO at San ■Francisco, by the gold brick process. I General Butler broke lose in another Communication, Sunday, seeking to ■prove that Admiral Porter is a coward. | Four blocks were burned in VanIcouver, W. T., Sunday. The buildings ■were small, and the loss will net exceed K 70.0 0I Four pleasure seekers, two young men Hand two young ladies, were drowned ■while boat riding in a Philadelphia ■park Sunday. I Mrs. J. Ellen Foster denies that there ■was an even or fair fight in the recent ■Prohibition contests in Pennsylvania ■and Rhode Island. I Gen. Simon Cameron was prostrated, ■Thursday, at his home, Donegal Springs, I with paralysisof the right arm and side land his condition is critical. I The Standard Oil Company is leasing ■ the right of way between Lima, O.,and I Detroit for an eight-inch pipe line to I convey oil to that city for fuel purposes. I Frank Miller, eleven years of age, I son of George J. Miller, a cigar-maker I living at 114 Beebe avenue. Dutchkills, IN. Y., died Friday morning of hydroI phobia. . • -- , - I A large number of hogs have died of I cholera near Lima, 0., during the past I few days, and the. State Board will be I called upon to devise means to stamp I out the disease. I The schooner Baltic, of Provincetown, I Mass., reports having been fired on last I May at Simona Bay, Santo Domingo, I where she put in for water. The men I who did the firing were Haytians. I Two miners were killed and nearly I a hundred injured at Birmingham, I Alabama, Tuesday, by the train .being I thrown from the track by which they I were being conveyed to the mines. | The fire-works establishment of Heyer I Bros, at Sumner and Hawley streets,BosI ton, burned Friday night. Three dead I bodies have been taken from the ruins. I Five people are supposed to be killed. Albert Fink, chairman of the Trunk I Line Association, formerly the Trunk I Line Pool, has tendered his resignati«n, I to take effect July 10. He has held the I position since June 15,1877, at a salary of $25,000 a year. Private letters received at Cape Hayti from Port-au-Prince stated the city was in a very excited condition. Legitime refused to leave the city or capitulate and great fears were apprehended of an insurrection in the city. Having been asked to protest-against the appointment of Patrick Egan, to be Minister to Chili by the British American Association, Governor Thayer of Nebraska, warmly defends that gentleman in an open letter. A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo., says: Mrs. Lizzie Lind died at her home Friday from burns sustained the night before. She quarrelled with her husband because he returned home so late. She blew out the lamp and a moment later set her clothes on fire, having saturated them with coal oil. Her husband attempted to put out the flames, but before he could do so the woman was fatally burned. Saturday afternoon Mrs. Lucy Hayes, the wife of ex-President Hayes, was stricken with apoplexy at her home in Fremont, Ohio. The attack came between 3 and 4 o’clock in the afternoon, while Mrs. Hayes was sitting in her room sewing. Paralysis of the right side resulted, rendering her speechless. Medical help was at once summoned, but efforts to restore the lady to conscioumess failed. Messrs, O. Facquet and A. T. Noquin, editors respectively of the Comet and Sentinel, rival newspapers in the town of Thibodaux, Mississippi had a shooting afiray Sa urday in front of St. Joseph’s college, in Thibodaux, in which Mr. Noquin was shot in the body, dying from the wound in less than an hour, while Mr. Facquet was wounded in the head, but not dangerously. The difficulty arose from a newopaper controversy which has been going on for the past week. Senator Chandler having denied that Senator Blackburn pulled his ear, Senator Faulkner, who was present at the time, now comes forward and declares that Blackburn did twist Chandler's ear. The latter sat perfectly still, and did notattempt to resent the indignity offered him. Senator Blackburn occompanied his performance with the remark: “Damn you, I can’t strike you while you are sitting down, but I can •how my contempt for you by twisting your ear.” John Lewes, the phenomenal fat man who weighed 640 pounds, died at his home in Elmira, N. Y., Tuesday from erysipelas. He was bom in England and was about forty years old. He was a blacksmith and worked at his trade up to about three years ago. At that time he weighed but little more than 200 pounds, but began rapidly gaining in flesh at the rate of about five pounds per week. Everything known to medical science was tried in his case, but it baffled the skill of the best physicians. The reports from the Northwest are very satisfactory to those who favor the opening of toe Sioux reservation. It was expected that the commission would Encounter a great deal of opposition, and no one cognizant of the facts and the character of the Indians thought that it would be possible to induce any great number to sign the treaty for some time to come. Th? reporta received an- . nounce tLat Red Cloud has at last attached his signature, and causes great surprise, because it was generally believed that he would be one of the Indians to hold out to the last. The wisdom of the President in assigning a place on the commission to General Crook is now seen. The long time con-

nection of that officer with the red men, and the thorough knowledge of their character which he possesses, makes him invaluable in a matter qf this kind. Many of those who acre loudest in asserting, a few months ago, that there was io possible chance of the rati7cation of the amended bill throwing the reservation open to settlement, now admit entirely changed, and these same men are preaictmg that within a very tew weeks ported to Congress to insure tTa opening of that vast expanse of land which is now practically useless. If this could have been done, this year it would have made a material differenc&dn the population of South Dakota when the census ■ shall be taken next year. As the matter now stands, it is not thought that there will be enough immigration into the Territory before the first of June, 1890, to insure any very great increase up to the time that the enumertion is made. FOREIGN. Adelina Patti is seriously ill. Matters cn ibe Isthmus continue tn wear a gloomy look, and one which will last until thousands more of the men now there are removed. Many have gone, but, as already reported, there are many who should be afforded the means of reaching some place where work is to be had. » A railroad from Congo Falls to Stanley Pool, 262 miles, is a project being pushed by the Belgian government and wealthy capitalists. C. P. Huntington. the railroad magnate, is one of the projectors. It is not expected that the road Will be a good financial investment, but it is being buik more as a matter of sentiment. One-half of the important city of Le Chan, in the province of Szechuen, China was recently destroy ed by fire. The conflagration raged four days. It is estimated that 1,200 persons were killed. Most of them were crushed in trying to escape from the narrow streets. Ten thousand persons are homeless. A fund has been started for the lelief of the sufferers. ' . ' ■ ..