Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

V DOMESTIC. The straw-board trust has collapsed. Kilrain arrived in Baltimore Tuesday. The salt trust has a capital of sll,COO,OOO. Thrge murderers were legally hanged Tuea<§y. " igp-jE] Yellow fever has made itsuappearance at Coldn. f -'isjj Dakota’s wheat crop is 30,000,000 bushels short. Texas fever is playing havoc with Oklahoma cattle. At Atlanta, Ga., Jake Morris laughed himself death. A child Was killed bv a vicious cow near Paducah, Ky. "t A rain and wind storm nearly destroyed Princeton, Ohio, Monday. Louie Mntz was fatally gored by a bull near Youngetown,Ohio. Auditor Graham, of Warren county 0., is a defauitei to a large amount. Thirty Kansas City saloon keepers have -been-arrested for violating the law. % A boat capsized and three persons were drowned at Portsmouth, 0., Tuesday. At Cheyenup River Agency the Sioux Commissioners met with violent opposition Thursday. A paper trust has been formed in London and paper is expected to advance 2 per cent, at once. There were 209 business failures last week as against 240 for the corresponding week of last year. A boiler exploded at Washington, C. H. Ohio. Friday, killing two men and injuring many others. Champion Sullivan arrived in New ‘ York, Friday, still drunk. He immediately went into hiding. Wm. McKellop, a wealthy gentlemen oi Lansing, Mich., was worked for $4,000 by a gold-brick swindler. Dr. McDow, Captain Dawson’s slayer, was expelled from the South Carolina Medical Society Thursday. The great Fr nch painting “Angelus” has been purchased by the American Art Association for $106,000. T. J. Newald, a prominent politician of Chippewa Falls, Wis., raised $40,000 on bogus paper and fled to Canada. _:._The hay crop is a total failure in Dakota. The indications now are that a half crop of wheat will be realized.

Three hundred employes in the silk mills at Paterson, N. J., have struck against a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages. One hundred active military men of Georgia, have petitioned the Legislature to make one year’B military service compulsory. According to census taken by a directory the city of St. Paul has a population of 193,247, again of 61,850 since the census of 1885. A Company was organized in London Fri< a r, in the nature of a trust, for the pur h ise of the principal brickyards of the Lnited States. Four men claim to be duly authorized by the regularly elected Mayor of Newport, Ky., to act in his absence, and anally now prevails. Hon. A. N. Cole, publisher of the Genessee Valley Free Press, the first Republican paper published, died at Wellesville, N. Y., Tuesday. John E. Barton, known as the Gogebic Iron King, of Elkhorn, Wis., made an assi irnment Taesday. The liabilities are $825,000, far in excess of the assets. Dupont Bell, who chews tabacco and calls himself the Son of God, and who has been selling angels’ wings to Georgia negroes, has been placed In an insane asylum. Four Gainesville, Ga., boys conspired to rob a bank, intending to intimidate the cashier with a revolver. One of them turned informer, and they were captured by the police. The cotton crop along the Colorada River, in Texas, has been damaged] halt Ht-million dollars. At ColOtoinuFthe river is thirty-one feet high. Several lives are said to have been lost. Mrs. Mary Pillow, widow of the Confederate General, filed a bill for SIOO,OOO damages for defamation of character in the Circuit Court at Memphis, Tenn., Wednesday, against Col. Clay King. At an indignation meeting held in Johnstown, Pa., Governor Beaver’s management was denounced severely and a resolution passed asking custodians of money to forward it to the local Finance Committee. Myriads of shrimps, by eating out the oakum in the seams in a fleet of coal boats, neat Memphis, came near sinking the entire fleet. The ’coal alone with which the boats were loaded is valued at $175,000. A frightful accident occurred on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, a mile east of fctumokin, Pr., Wednesday evening, by two rnnaway cars colliding witn a passenger train. One man was killed, and several wonnded. An attempt was made at Oklohoma City, Tuesday, in defiance of local authority,' to hold a charter election. The Mayor, assisted by the U. 8. miliiary,took possession of the polling books and ballot boxes and prevented the election. A further attempt will be made in the future. It is all clear enough now. There is no ne«4 of calling a meeting of the Scientific Association. Even the weather service, on this one point, is superfluous. If you will look at the sun you will see that he has the spotted fever again and that’s what’s the matter with the weather. A special from Wareham, Mass., says: Ex-President Grover Cleveland will probably spend a week or more in the contemplative Dsstime of angling. He left here at JO. 29 Wednesday on his way to Havsmore, where, as the guest of Mr. John Knowlton, he will acquire a healthy tan, and probably additional -laurels as the lander of big fish. Albert Bulow was hanged at 1:48 a. m. Friday at Little Falls, Minn., in accordance with the new Minnesota law, which prescribes that executions shall take place between the houri of 1 and 4 a.m. The law limits tbb number of persons who shall witness tbe execution and there ware only thirteen persons' inside the inclosnre when the drop fell. Sulow met death bravely, and made no mfession. The law provides that newspapers shall publish only the Inure

rqM.A.i.LT. I . but all the Minneapolis and St. Panl papers contain full details of Bnlovr’aexecution SfitfT; >OREIGM.| ' • ? TlSbe Parnell!tea and their counsel have. Withdrawn from before the Parnell Commission. The trial » proceeding terflnd Russell B. Harrison. son of President Harrison, dined with fghOFrench Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 461 to 12, Monday, a pproved j a hill providing for a credit of 59,000,000 francs, spread over five years, for the building of warships. Violent storms, accompanied by whiHwinds, prevailed- throughout Austria-Hungary, Monday. Heavy loss of life'and property are reported. Map y bridges 1 were destroyed, and railway traffic is seriously interrupted. The Emperor of Brazil attended a theatrical performance in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday night. As His Majesty was leaving the theater at the conclusion of the performance a Portuguese fired a shot from a revolver at him. The bullet, however, missed the Emperor end he mx 'tained no injury whatever. The would be assassin was taken into custom y. Latest,estimates indicate that the India wheat crop is a failure and will cut no figure in the world’s supply. Bpain and Germany are the “only European countries that make favorable reports. Russia and Austro-Hungary will find it difficult to feed themselves, though heretofore greatly exporting countries. There will be demand for all the crop of the United States this year. Boulanger is summoned to appear within'ten days for trial upon charges of attempted revolution mid embezzlement. The latter charge relates to the purchase of camp bedsteads and other supplied for the troops, and to malversation of the funds of the war ministry. If he does not appear within twenty days he will be declared an outlaw and his property confiscated. Pope Leo XIII has sent an autograph letter to the authorities of Laval University thanking them and the citizens of Quebec for the resolutions adopted by them at the demonstration on April 23 last in favor of the rest oration of the temporal power of the Pope. His Holiness congratulates them not only upon their prudence, but upon the sagacity of their action, and says it is evident that they well understand how the impunity enjoyed by the enemies of the church is the source of improprieties in human society and of troubles to the State.