Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

OOMESTtC. Agents of an English syndicate are again trying to buy northwestern flour The Ferrol iron property, containing 6,000 acres, in Virginia, was told Wednesday t© a foreign syndicate for $70,000 cash. Miss Clara Brownlee, of Allegheny City, is to marry Hippolite Shaffner, a physician of Paris, who is wortn four millions. ' \/ 'I en blocks of buildings were destroyed atElienshmg. W. T., Saturday, causing a lots oi s2,trt o,< 00 and rendering one hundred famijies homeless. Governor Fifer Tuesday morning i- uru a pardon to Joe Jlackin, now serving a teim in the peuitentiary for e ection frauds at Chicago. At a conference of prominent Democrats, held in Cleveland, it was decided to urge the nomination of Virgil P. Kline for the Governorship. Five prominent politicians of St. Louib were arrested Saturday, a result of the investigation of the alleged election frauds of last November. At Durango, Col., Are destroyed eight b ocks and the loss may reach $500,000. one hundred families are homeless. The Presbyterian, Methodist and Episcopal churches were destroyed, Tammany Hall celebrated the Fourth Thursday and the centennial of its existence. Senator Eustis and others made speeches. Hon. B. F. Shively, of .Indiana, was among the speakers. The Kansas wheat harvest is finished. The total yield is estimated at 34,000.000 . bushels, just double that of last year, and placing the State away up among the first of those producing wheat. At a meeting of ex-Con federate soldiers of Arkansas, held in Little Rock Thursday, arrangements were made for the establishment in that State of a permanent home for men disabled in the war.

serious and interesting developments are expected in the Fidelity Bank affair. Harper’s Chicago creditors are endeavoring to find out if any one was connected with the Cincinnati banker in his big wheat deal. Some Chicago men are trying to get at the facts in the celebrated case. Every business hcuß3 and forty dwellings in Bakersfield, Cal., was destroyed bv fire, Sunday. Loss, $1,660,000 or over. The town has f,090 population. At Geneva, O , eight business houses were burned. Loss, $25,009. At Eureka, Nev., the Eureka Smelting Works. Loss, $75,000. A Chicago court decides that market quotation are of such importance to the public that they should be considered nublic property and that -While the Board of Trade continues quotations to anyone it must farnißh them to everyone willing to pay for them, including the bucket shops* The Republican State Convention, at Lexington, Ky., Thursday, was largely attended and enthusiastic. David G. Colson, of Bell county, was nominated lor Mate Treasurer. Although but twen-ty-seven years old, he is a member of The Legislature «Dd has been in public life for seven years. An oil fire caused by lightning striking a forty-thousand-harrel-tank of the Atlantic & Western Pipe Line Company, near Washington, Pa., Tuesday evening, ia still burning fiercely. About 200 yards of the Chartiers Railroad tracks have been destroyed. Tne loss will exceed $50,000. Among the passengers on the steamer Newport from Aspinwall, which arrived at New York Moaday night, were the bind,numbering thirteen men, of the United States steamer Nipsic, four seamen from the same vessel, and three seamen from the United States steamer Vaadalia, survivors of the Samoan disaster.

A dispatch from Waverly, 0., says A man whose name could not be learned was taken suddenly sick, Friday last, in Scioto county ana expired in a lew hours. Two doctors who were summoned found the patient’s limbs cramped and contorted. They ©renounced it a genuine case of Asiatic cholera. The Massachusetts rifle team were victorious in England Tuesday over the Royal Berkshire team. The grand total of the Americans was l,C64;English 972 After the contest Lord Wantage entertained the members of both teams at a banquet. A. J. Miller & Co.’a furniture store burned at Savannah, Ga. The total to£6 on building and stock will amount to $150,003. While the firemen were at work on the front of the building, the wall gave way and carried the firemen with it, burying six of them under a mass of hoc bricks. J. T. Welds was killed, and eight others were injured. One or two may die.

~ The Grand Army Post, of Fond do Lac, Wis , held a meeting, Saturday night* and dropped General Bragg from the list of members. The meeting was a very stormy o ne, and when the vote was taken it was 3 to 1 against Bragur. The trouble over the matter was oepensioned by those who did not like Gen. Bragg’s course on the pension bill. A previous attempt to court-martial the General at that time was beaten. The longest recorded examination of a'legai witness has just been conclnded in the case of the State of New Jersey •gainst the Morris A Essex Railway Company for $1,000,000 back taxes. Richard F. Stevens, the expert who examined the railway company’s books was pat on the stand two years ago last ..Wednesday and testified for two hours f every week up to Wednesday. His testimony when printed will fill three large volumes. Hon. W, Ij. Edgerson, a prominent negro politician of Kansas, is the prime mover in a scheme to induce the negroes of the South to immigrate to Oklahoma. Hehas organized an immigration com pan v, composed of some of the prominent colored men of the State, a hich will have agents in all the prominent cities of the Sontb, their headquitters being in Topeka. He expects TO have 10J.000 colored people in Oklahoma by next July. The managers of the National Encampment of the G. A. K., which was to have Milwaukee, are having troo'.le over railroad rates and , tbe'enottipme-.it mav £ot he held. The managers want a rate b( one cent a mile. The railroads are not dispos ed to give it. Eight State Commanders, it is understood, are about to advise their »u>ordhiates not to attend, in which

esse it is probable the affair would, be made a meeting of delegates omy. Geo. O. Joneshasissued a call to “all who desire to aid in reorganizing the National Greenback party- on the principles once advocated by Peter Cooper, and by many of the wisest men and ablest newspapers in both of 4heold parties,” in which they are re quested to meet in their respective States and Congressional Districts on or before Wednesday, Sept, 4,-1889, and appoint one delegate and one alternate to attend the National Greenback convention called to meet at Cincinnati on Thursday, Sept. 12, 1889. The glorious fourth was duly celebrated. At Oklahoma City, I. T., a grand stand fell with one thousand people, severely injuring one hundred, one of whomifl dead. Five young people were drowned at Allegheny City, Pa. Four fatalities are reported from Kansas City. Three intoxicated men were killed at Omaha. Seventy-five people at Adair. lowa, were poisoned by eating ice cream, several of whom will die. The Bochert brewery at Milwaukee, valued at $800,(00, was destroyed by fire. President Harrison,celebrated the day at Woodslook, Conn., and Gen. Sherman at Denver, GoL,

The immense plant of the Reading Iron works, Beading, Pa., which faile d four months ago for oyer $1,000,000, was put up for sale Monday. There-was a large attendance of the leading iron men of the State. In forty minutes after the bidding began the property, in it 3 entirety, inclnding furnaces, rollingmills, tube-mills, pipe-mills, foundries, forge, etc., besides valuable lands, was sola to Wm. P. Bard, of Reading, for lIS' 1 ,590, subject to a mortgage of $600,000. Mr. Bard purchased it for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, and the works will resume operat on at an early date. Uncle Johnny Ilanks died at the Meclin farm near Decatur, 111., Monday afternoon, aged eiehtv-eight. He was born in Kentucky and was a full cousin of Abraham Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Haaks Lincoln. From 7822 until 1860 Mr. Hanks was closely associated with Abraham Lincoln in farming, trading and other pursuits. He and Mr. Lincoln split rails together eight miles west of Decatur in 1839, and in 1835 both men built near Springfield the first flatboat that ever floated down the Sagomon(llL) end Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. The rails which Mr. Lincoln urd Mr. Han as split in Mason county Were first shown in Chicago in 1860.

An address was issued from Pittsburg Tuesday to the working people of America signed by the representatives of dU the leading labor organizations. It is a declaration of peace, which is, oerhaps, very significant, in view of contests which have been waged during the past year between the Knights of Labor, the American Labor, aud other labor organizations. The address says that differences of opinion and matters of- detail in methods for the improvement of the laborers’ condition, have been magnified by interested parties into conflicts of the most belligerent and warlike nature. All labor organizations are called upon to put forth renewed effort to strengthen them and solidify their ranks, and to leave nothing undone to make each society the power for good that it is intended to be. The persistency with which Mormon missionaries are carrying oa their wo k in some parts of West Virginia is beginning to excite a great deal of indigaation. There is lixely to be trouble very soon. Ritchie county is at present 'he scene of the most active operations, l wo elders have taken up peithinent quarters there. On Indian creek there is quite a larze congregation, and meetings are hcl i weekly, at which polygamy is not only openly preached, out attempts are beißg made to carry the theory into practice, at least one souvert having taken unto himself a jecoud wife, in otner parts of the same jouuty like success has attended the riffortsof the missionaries. In all, there i are titty full fledged Mormons in the r j JOUtity. No efforts, it seems, are being made to transplant the converts.

FOREIGN Portuguese and English are having dissensions over a lailway at Delogoa Bay. Advices have been received from Apia saying that a treaty of peace has been signed between Mataafa and Tainaeese. Ruggieri's fire-works factory at Aubervilliers, five miles north of Paris, was destroyed Tuesday by an explosion and seven persons were killed. An engagement has taken place at Arqnin Detween a force of Egyptian troops under command of Colonel Wodehouse and a body of Darvishes. The Dervishes were defeated and fled. Their loss was 500 killed or wounded. Seventy Egyptians were killed or wounded. Two English officers were also wounded. The Rome correspondent save: “In receiving the Spanish embassador, the Pope alluded to his possible departure from Rome. It is certain that arrangements for his refuge in Spain have been completed." The Pope received almost 60,000 telegrams expressing svmpathv for him anent the Bruno affair. He has ordered his private secretary, Monsignor Angeil. to collect them in a volume and present a copy to all the bishops of the Catholic world, as well as to all the aabineta of Europe. '