Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Harvesting has began in Dakota. Montana’s crop prospects are good. , Five men will be executed at New York August 28. The result of the Sionx commisaionera’wdrk so fir is not encouraging. Guthrie, Okla., adopted a charter Wednesday and voted to issue $50,000 in bonds. v Cincinnati salooniets have desidcd to keep their saloons open on Sunday despite the law. The brewers who have not sold out to the Eaglish syndicate are- forming a trust lor self protection. The men who lynched James Averill and Ella Watson, near Douglass. Wy. T., have been arrested. They were all prominent stock men. A special from Cincinnati to the Chicago Mail announces a report in the former city that Murat Halstead suffers from an incurable disease. At Kansas City between 700 and 800 carpenters struck for nine hours in place of ten and eleven. Part of the contractors yielded to the demand. Sir Thornton, a 3 year-old gelding, owned at Geneva. 0., paced a mile, Thursday, at Anrora, 111.,in the remarkable fast (3 year-old) time of 2:20. The Moutana Constitutional Convention has concluded to submit the question of Prohibition to a vote of the people, at the time the constitution is snbmitted.

The first bale of new crop cotton wap brought to Austin, Tex., Tuesday. The cotton crop of Texas this year will probably reach two million bales and the corn crop will be enormous. John Rose, one of the most prominent citizens of Powell county, Ky., was assassinated, Monday. He was a leader of a feudal faction, and was to be tried shortly for killing his father-in-law. Cincinnati saloon keepers attempted to keep open house, Sunday. The police, however, soon caused them to close. In several instances mobs attempted to mob the police, but Jheir attempts failed. Chairman George 0. Jones, of the National Greenback Committee, has issued a circular letter stating that prohibition and woman suffrage will not be considered at the convention in Cincinnati. Columbus Delano, the President of the National Wool Growers’ Association, has called a meeting in Columbus, 0., for Jafar 29. to consider the decision of the Treasury Department regarding the duty nn scoured wool. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, has received from Col. Fred Grant, Minister to Austria, a contribution of $142 from the people of Garlabad; S4O from Mrs. U. S. Grant and S4O from him, self for the Johnstown sufferers. Secretary Blaine, M. Roustan, the French minister and party, spent Tuesday at Ellsworth, Maine, as the guests of Benator Hale. The fireman of the train was James G, Blaine, jr., who him now made four trips in the capacity of fireman on the Maine Central road. In response to his telegram of Tuesday respecting the case of Mrs. Herron, reported to be under sentence of death in Cerea for preaching the doctrines of Christianity, Hon. WT F. Wharton received a telegram from Minister Dinsmore, stating tne report wholly without foundation. Chicago was visited, Saturday night, by the worst storm ever known in that city. A vacant building, corner 21st and Leavitt streets, was blown down onto a residence adjoining. The residence was crushed and eight of the inmates, consisting of two families, were killed outright. Damage done otherwise was very great, District Attornev Fellows, of New York City, said, Monday, that he will bring no more boodlers to trial unless some new evidence not available in the trials already had, can be procured. The result of the trials thus far, he says, is to show that conviction is impossible, and to prosecute under such circumstances is to waste the public money. A special to the Times from Baltimore eaye: Overtures have been made to the citylo join the Lead Trustf* T&ie* company has not signiied its intention of hot accepting this proposition. There are now about twenty-eight companies in the trust, leaving only two or three to come in, making a total valnation of the properties now in the trnst about $15,000,000. The murder of Colonel Roger Page, editor of the Times-Register at Marion, N. C., causes great excitement in that vicinity. The man who shot Page is Edward Brown, aged twenty years, son of a wealthy farmer. He fired five shots from behind. It is said that vonng Brown objected to Page’s attentions to his sister, Mrs. Dr. Butt. Page was fifty years old, and had recently removed from Virginia. He was a relative of Governor Lee. A horrible condition of affkirs is reported among the Braidwood, 111., coal miners who are on a strike. In one instance a horse died in the town and tha flesh was stripped from the bones in a few minutes and eaten by the famishing people. The breasta of mothers nursing their infants, he says, have literaly dried up for the lack of nourishment, and children may be seen with the skin hardened and dried clinging to the bones of their faces. Another attempt was made Wednesday to wreck a train on the Wheeling A Elm Grove Railroad, which was returning from Wheeling Park, W. Va., with the cars crowded with picnickers. A rail was placed on tne track in an open field and a short distance away a man was faundLdriving a spike between the ends of two rails. He was cqptured amid some excitement and is noW in jail. He is suspected of being the man who made two attempts at train wrecking on the night of the fourth. Early Thursday morning while walking on the street in front of Mueller’s Freestone Works, at Cincinnati, Mr. John Pnmphrey, aged sixty-five years, was attacked by two vicious bulldogs, owned by Anthony Hess, the private watchman at Mueller’s. Bfefore help , could arrive, the old man was thrown down and his legs and arms were horrify lacerated by the savage brutes. Mr. Pnmphrey was taken to the City Hospital, where it is thought be can not recover. The dogs were killed. After months of weary waiting and persistentlobbying, the Illinois women’s aiUance Thursday night succeeded in getting an ordinance passed through

commissioner of health to employ five* female sanitary police to inspect factorise and tenement houses. This Ordinance is designed to protect the poor factory and shop girls in crowded localities from the abuses about which so much has lately been written in the public press. ■ --r“ Noteirof the huge dry goods firm of Lewis Bros. & Co., New York and Phib adelphia, have gone to protest and the firm has made an assignment. There are no preferred creditors. On April 20 the firm made the following statement to a large financial institution: Assets, $5,472,000, consisting of ledger accounts, $1,876,000; manufacturers’ accounts, $1,793,000; securities, $811,000; real e < tats, $770,000: bills receivable, $223,000. Liabilities, $4,129,000, of which $3,382,000 was bills payable and $447,000 a loan; net surplus, $1,343,000. Fred Nelson, a driver of a milk wagon, employed by Alexander Andersofi, oT Chicago, disappeared at noon; Wednesday, under peculiar circumstances. He drove into an alley and stopped his horse, and jamping ont left the animal unfastened, then going to the next corner he took ofi his hat and placed it. top down, on the ground and dropped into it a card, on which he had written: “I am gone forever. Fred. The hat and horse and milk wagon were found in the alley an hour later, but Nelson has not been seen. He was a Swede, twenty-three years old, and came from the old country six months ago.

FOREIGN. A revolt in Crete is becoming widespread. The Liberals in Parliament will resist all demands for farther grants to the royal family. The Execntitie Committee of the Knights of Labor has chartered an assembly in Australia. Mr. Balfour declares that Mr. Gladstone’s speeches were the real origin of “Pamellism and crime.” Princess Louise may renounce her right to the English throne upon her marriage to the Earl of Fife Aug. 3. The wedding of Princess Louise of Wales and the Earl of Fife occurred, Saturday, and was exceedingly brilliant. Twelve German men-of-war will accompany Emperor William when he attends the naval review at Portsmouth. The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone occurred, Thursday. ■ Congratulations were received by the cartload. Mr. Dickson, member of the British Parliament for the St. Stephen’s Green Division of Dublin, has purchased 20,000 acres of land in Paraguay. A lively debate on the subject of royal grants took place in the house of commons Thursday, Mr. Gladstone speaking briefly in favor of the government.

There is a rumor of the discovery of a plot to blow up the Quirinal and the Vatican, ■. It is stated that the Pope’s departure from Rome will be prevented by the government by force. Detectives are watching the exits of the Vatican. A (redone in Hungary, Transylvania and Bukovina, Sunday, swept over several thousand square miles of territory. Hundreds oi persons were killed, the crops were destroyed and enormous damage was done to nooses. The districts of Grosswondern, Ssegedin and Mohar were completely ravaged. A recent fire in Lnchow, China, burned twenty-three hours, destroying 87,000 dwellings. Over 1,200 people perished in the flames, and 400 persons were killed. Nearly 170,000 others were obliged to camp out without shelter, and were dying at the rate of 100 a day from want and exposure. The authorities are providing for their necessities. The time granted to Gen. Boulanger, Count Dillon and M. Rochefort to answer the summons of the senate coart having expired, an official, Saturday, publicly read before their residences a decree giving the accused ten days in which to appear before the court Failing in this their property will be sequestered, and they will be deprived of all civil rights.