Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Michigan wheat fields are Buffering from the ravages of the midge. —— Maria Mitchell, the noted astronomer, died at Lynn, Maes., at 8:30 Friday morning. , A disastrous fey clone visited Albany, Mo., Friday and killed and injured several people. Contracts were Bigned Monday at St. Paul, Minn., for an electric railway, ten miles long. Sam Coleman, a worthless negro, was called to his door, at H jpkinsville, Kv., Tuesday, and killed. * . The Manhattan Brass Company, New York, was completely destroyed by fire, Tuesday. Loss $300,00. >. Four young ladies and two voting men were drowned at Bath, N. Y., Tuesday. A tug capized their boat According to the figures of the justcompleted directories, the population of St. Paul and Minneapolis is now close to half a million.

A cyclone swept a path .two miles wide and thirty miles Tong, in Winona and Huston counties. Mum., Friday, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. A wealthy English syndicate announce that they have gained control of the paper product oi that country and by a trust will be enabled to control the price. Fire destroyed a part of the Benton Block, Chicago, Friday. Loss on building and stock $290,000. The building was occupied by several manufacturing firms. Rev. Dr. B. W. Bashford, of the Delaware avenue M. E. Church, Buffalo, N. Y. t has been unanimously elected President of the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, 0. Over one hundred square miles of forest and prairie have been burned over in northwestern Montana. Several ranchmen have been burned out, but no lives were lost A telegram was received at Rochester Tuesday, announcing the discovery by Professor Barnard, of the Lick Observatory, of a new comet located in Andromeda. It is very faint. Michael Rizello, known as “Red Nosed Mike,” was hanged at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Tuesday, for the murder of Paymaster J. B. McClure, Oct. 19th, last. He with two other Italians waylaid the paymaster. Mrs, WhiteliDg was hanged at Philadelphia,J Tuesday, for the deliberate poisoning rtf her husband and. twn children with arsenic for the purpose of securing the small insurance which she , carried oa their lives. The New York Yacht Club has received official information from the Royal Yacht Club of England declining to accept the challenge for the American cup. The Valkyrie, however, will come over and enter various club contests. The Lehigh Valley Railway Company of Newark, N. J., is purchasing property in order to connect with the main line at Roselle and run through Newark on the bed of the Morris Canal. Thiß "will give the company a through line from New York to the West. The seventh annual convention of the Bureau of Statistics on Labor opened its annual session at Hartford, Conn., Tuesday. Senator Hawley made the opening speech. President Wright spake encouragingly of the work of the Bureau and the outlook for the coming year.

John Rvan, of Joliet, 111., Friday, won the international prize of SSOO offered by a boot and shoe jonrnal of Boston for the best essay on boot, and sboemaking in all its branches. Every State in the Union contested for the Srize, together with Canada, New rnnswick and Nova Scotia. Mrs. George H. Maxwell, of Detroit, who keeps a large hound in her room during the absence of her husband, awoke Sunday morning to find the animal on her bed. She ordered him down. The dog jumped At her, biting her several times in the face. Her nose was half bitten oflf, and one side of the [acftdsas badly torn. A band of White Caps, so called, took Eve Byrd, a blacksmith, from his house at Onancock, Va., several nights ago, and whipped him so severely that he has not been able to leave his room since. Byrd, it is gave bi« wife an unmerciful beating some time ago; hence the visitation. He was once beiore whipped by White Caps. A freight train went over an embankment at Latrobe,Pa., at 3o’clock Wednesday morning. Five trainmen were killed and a number injured. The engineer and firemen were at 9:30 still in the creek. It is now stated that thirty persons were killed in the wreck at Latrobe. Some were tramps stealing rides.

A dispatch from Yankton, Dak., sav6: The liquor dealers of South Dakota have perfected an active organization to operate against the adoption of the prohibition clause of the Sioux Falls Consitution at the October election. An active contest will be made, and as the Prohitionists are also engaged in a canvass it 1b expected that the sentiments of every one will be expressed at the police election Saturday. 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 tight side resulted, rendering her Bpeechleaa. Medical help was at once summoned, bnt efforts to restore the lady to consciousness failed. Monday night Chevalier Erazm Josef Jerzmanowski, of JSew York city, was presented with the of the Order of the Golden Spur in the presence of a distinguished gathering of Catholic citizens. Accompanyirg the gift was a parchment brova conferring tne title of Commander in the Order upon the Chevalier. Pope Leo Xflf. presented the decoration. Tnis is the first decoration of the kind ever conferred in America. A dispatch from Ishpeming, Mich., Monday says: One hundred and fifty pounds of quartz, carrying gold at the rate of $50,h00 a too, were brought in from the Michigan mine Monday. A new shaft was started Thursday, and at depth of fonr feet a pocket of quarti carrying gold was struck. The vein at the point where the find was made is three feet wide, double the width of the vein at points previously worked. The discovery has caused much excitement

and is regarded as the most important yet made in the lahpeming%old region. Judge Gresham, Tuesday, made an order (the counsel of all parties in interest agreeing) allowing Receiver John McNnlta of the Wabash tailway $25,000 per annum for services as receiver, add his Attorneys, Isham, Lincoln A Beale, $12,000 per annnfaa. This remnnatafran i* for the period ht-twaen April 1, 1887 and (about) Julj 1, 1889, and the date of ibe . delivery of the property to the purchasers. The rate of compensation for services after delivery is matter for farther consideration.

A special from Waterloo, la., says: Farmers from different parts of this county report that a strange insect has been found at work in the cornfields. It is a small green bag, which works at the roots of the corn and .seems to destroy its vitality. The ground in some fields appears to be fairly alive with these pestß. Under a magnifying glass they are found to have heads armed with pinchers, between which is a sort of 1 proboscis that is ÜBed to puncture the Btaik. Corn attacked by these pests turns yellow and ceases to grow, and a large number of fields have been attacked. /

The peculiar contest for the mayoralty of El Paso, which has been raging over two months, was petted at the lolls, Friday, by the election of Wm. Caples, a Democrat. At the April election Krakauer (Republican) received a majority of thirty-seven. The election was charged to be fradulent and was investigated by the City Council. The Republicans on the recount got a majority of four. It was discovered in the meantime that he was an alien, a subject of Bavaria. He was declared ineligible by the Council and a new election was ordered, in' which Caples (Demorrat) was elected by fifteen majority. A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., says: Friday morning, S. C. Morgan, Cashier ot the State Bank of Sidney, was found lying in bed with the top of his head blown off and a 45-caliber revolver in his hand. The bank, it is said, was not making money. Six years ago Morgan eloped with the daughter of H. W. Yates, President of the Nebraska National Bank of Omaha. He was the son

of a wholesale groceryman, and is a young man of excellent habits, bat the lady’s j-arents opposed the union. On the same day Frank Johnson eloped with the daughter of Byion Reed, an Omaha millionaire, and married her, Johnson and Morgan shortly afterward started the State Bank of Sidney, of which Johnson is now President. The largest contract for the drainage for many years was brought to a successful termination this week in Indiana. Eighteen thousand acres of laqd, which was continually covered with water, and was absolutely worthless, has been reclaimed. Seventeen thousand acres more that could be utilized only in the very driest seasons has been made arable, and fifty thousand acres of iarm land have been likewise affected and substantially benefitted. The immense tract referred to lies in Allen and Huntington counties between the eities of Fort Wayne afcd Huntington. It is a vast swamp, and is crossed by the main line of the Wabash railway, and extends for nearly a mile on either side of the tracx for a distance of perhaps seven miles. Its dismal appearance is familar to travelers. In flood seasons the water frequently submerges the track, and trainmen have often been stationed on the engine pilots with" pike-poles in their hands to clear the rails of floating driftwood. Oftentimes the locomotive fires have been extinguished and the railroad has been obstructed for hours. The swamp is known as the Little River prairie, and it is the principle source of supply for the upper branch of the Wabash river.

FOREIGN. The report that Mary Anderson was confined in an asylum is denied. The Berlin Council has decided to borrow the sum of 16,000,000 francs, with which to purchase repeating riftes lor the army. ’the Bombay Gazette says that a Brigadier General of the British armv, stationed in Madras, has been attacked by leprosy. The name of the officer is not given. A dispatch from Toronto says: Canadian millers have called a mass meeting here to protest against the action of Parliament in refusing to protect them against American millers. The duty on flonr is fifty cents a barrel, while the duty on the amount of wheat necessary to make a barrel of flour is abont sixtyseven cents, a discrimination in favor of the American millers of about se\ enteen cents a barrel. One cause of Legitime’s overthrow is said to have been his thieving officials. The Clyde steamer Ozama was captured by the Haytian gunboats and held three hours. A demand for her release was refused. Captain Kellogg, of the U. S. steamship Ossippee, then notified Legitime that, if the vessel was not released and $5,900 paid over to the commander, he would bombard the city. The demand was promptly complied with. Princess Louise, of Wales, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, has been betrothed to the Earl of Fife. The Earl iB an intimate friend of the Prince of Wales, and is a neighbor ot the Queen at Balmoral. He is in his fortieth year. Princess Louise is twentyyears old. The Prince of Wale’s daughters are visiting the Queen, at Windsor. Her majesty has fully consented to the betrothal. It is said to be strictly a love match.

Phtlpa Will Return to Germany. Wm. Walter Phelps, was Wednesday appointed Minister to Germany by President Harrison. He received his appointment from the President’s own hands, with the remark that it was his reward, which naturally was highly gratifying to the recipient. Going over to the Department of State bis commission was immediately made out and he qualified as United States Minister to Germany; Mr. Phelps will not proceed to his new post for some time, but feeling that be has earned a rest and needing time for the adjustment of his private business, will (to to his home in New Jereey in a day or two.

A Commercial Paradox. Customer—Say, Rothstein, who’s that man doing all that yelling, and Screaming, and swearing at the clerks in the rear of the store?” Rothstein—Oh, dot vos Rosenberg, der silent pardner.