Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. St Louis will have an elevated nis* roacL The death rate is increasiug wonderfully at Johnstown. > Reports of Republican dissatisfaction in Tennessee are denied. The Wisconsin beef-inspection law is pronounced unconstitutional. James R. Garfield, son of the late President, is talked of for Congress. The oats crop of the country is very large—estimated at 763,160,432 bnshels. Gambling houses, of which therqgiue more than twenty, go on unmolested at Saratoga. Two of Wisconsin’s counties report their tobacco crop irreparably ruined by a storm. 0. A Herbert, wife beater, was dnly whipoed by Hagerstown, Md., by regulators Tuesday. John Emmons, of Gaylord, Kan., was tarred and feathered Tnesday for whipping his wife. E. & A. H. Batchellor, shoe dealers, of Boston, failed, Tuesday, with liabilities of 11,250,000. The leading school book publishers deny that there is, or that there is to be, a school book trust. Kilrain says he will challenge Sullivan again. Sullivan will be tried for prize fighting at Paris, La., Aug. 12. The United States’ new cluiser, Yorktown, has been thoroughly tested and found to be first-class in all respects. Mrs. Mary 8. Baker, of Sidney, 0., has been arrested and held to the grand jury for using profane language. Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee, who, by the report of the Commissioners,had violated the civil service law, has resigned. Stewart Newell has brought suit against the Reading Railroad Company for possession of $20,000,000 worth of coal lands to which he claims the title. Ex-Governor Crawford is charged with illegally receiving $223,000 in connection with the sale of Oklahoma by the Creeks. An investigation is under way. The Smiths and Slashers (may their names never be forgotten), hying near Runeville, Kv., are at outs over a $2 hog, and are laying for each other with Winchesters. Horse stealing in Nebraska has increased to such an extent that those most interested have issued a call to revive the old Vigilance Committee, which ceased to exist over twenty years ago. The large grain elevator and warehouse of Bushnell & Co., at Sidell, 111., burned, Wednesday night, together with many thousands of bushels of corn. The loss is $25,000. The building was fully insured. A syndicate of either English or Eastern capitalists is trying to get control of the recently consolidated elevators at St Louis. The property involved comprises a dozen elevators, capitalized at $2,500,000. The Dow liquor tax reports for the first half of 1889, which have been received by the Auditor of State, show 9,602 saloons in Ohio, an increase of 115. The receipts of the revenue fund are $232,000, an increase of $6,000. A fight for $1,890 between Frank Murphy, the featherweight champion of England, and Billy Murphy, the Australian champion, was closed try the referee at Ban Francisco Tuesday night, the men refusing to fight alter the twentieth round. The postmuter of Ridgeport, la., was aroused Monday night by burglars trying to enter the postoffice. The postmaster fired and a young man, subsequently recognized as Frank Adamson, dropped to the ground dead. The youth had lived with his parents, and always borne a good reputation. A dispatch from St. Louis: The exehampion oarsman, Ed Hanlon, reached St Louis Thursday. ‘‘l have no execute to make for my defeats in Australia,” said he. “I suppose if I were not beaten there I would have been here. lam going to Toronto, and after a short zest I will be ready to meet any man, Chicago was visited, Saturday night, by the worst storm ever known in that city. A vacant building, comer 21st and Leavitt streets, was blown down onto a residence adjoining. The residence was crashed and eight of the inmates, consisting of two families, were killed outright. Damage done otherwise was very great. The death is announced at San Francisco of John Lee, a young Englishman, who formerly resided at Topeka, Kansas. He was the son of a wealthy English brewer who bequeathed him $95,000 about four years ago. The entire amount was quickly squandered and Lee died in a hospital and was buried in a pauper’s grave. There are many friends of the single tax idea among the North Dakota constitutional delegates, who are desirous of adopting some plan to reach the speculators who hold unimproved land and check the development of the country. In the Montana convention the woman's suffrage amendment was defeatod by a tie vote. Deaths Tuesday: E. H. Rollins, exU. S. Senator from New Hampshire: Dr. W. B. Roberts, originator of nitroglycerine torpedoes for blasting in oil wella, and a man of much wealth and political prominence, at Titusville, Pa.; Prof. KendrickjOf Marietta(o.)college; Dr, W. H. Wooley. President of Bethany college, at Wheeling, W. Va. Texas fever is playing havoc among the cattle in the Indian Territory. Over forty head were seen dead in one pasture alone, and in others numbers varying from seven to twenty-five. Cattle are dying in large numbers, also, in Oklahoma, and it is predicted that there will not be a living head of the cattle imported into that country in two months. - Amongfpersons of a scientific turn of mind a certain project of international importance has neon quietly discussed, and it only needs publicity to place the subject in the fore front of a class of topics always of interest to the people of this country. It is nothing more nor less than the transplantation of the entire population of Iceland (75,000 persons) to the most habitable part or A big sensation was caused at Wheeling w. Va, Thursday by the diaoovery that Harry 8* y bold, a popular young man of the town, the confidential bookkeeper of the Bank of Wheeling had ■ M ' ' *i

embezzled $27,000 of the funds of the bulk. He delioeratelj purloined a package containing the amount. Bey» bold was arrested, oonfeesoA and made goodthethafk His father is cashier of the bank.; A Minneapolis Journal special from Woonsocket, 8. D., says: Mrs. Fred Phifneking, a German woman living on a farm sixteen miles northwest of Minneapolis, committed suicide by taking two tea spoonfuls of paris green. Bhej was twenty-six years old, and her first babe was only four days old. She thought the child was dead, and in her grief swallowed the poison. This makes the third suicide in this county this summer, all foreigners. The babe is still alive. Mrs. Mary Johnson arrived at Cleveland Tuesday with four children, one fifteen, one an infant and the two others quite young. She made the trip on foot poshing two of the children, assisted by the oldest girl, in a hand cart, and carrying the infant in her arms. Mrs. Johnson lost her husband and all her worldly possessions in the Johnstown disaster, and was on her way to Lansing, Micb. In Cleveland she met an acquaintance from Jackson, Mich., who advanced money enough to pay the way of the party to its destination. A dispatch from San Francisco says: Through the efforts of President Harrison’s wife a convict in San Qainten Prison, who was serving a seven-year sentence for forgery, waz pardoned this week by Governor Waterman. The man had been convicted of forgery committed while intoxicated. Soon after Harrison’s nomination he wrote a poem entitled “The Old Soldiers,” which was published in an evening paper. The poem described General Harrison’s bravery at the battle of Resacca in the Rebellion. The poem was copied widely on this coast, and soon after Harrison’s election one of the prisoner’s friends sent it to Mrs. Harrissh, with a brief account of the convict author’s good life in prison. She took an interest in him and he has been pardoned. The released convict expressed great gratitude to Mrs. Harrison, and declares that her sympathy has made a man of him. Bis name is withheld, as he had the promise of a good position. : FOREIGN. -Two Mexican soldiers who had deserted were tied to horses and compelled to walk till they died. Two new English trusts are announced: One of ballet girls, the other enameled and patent leather. James River at Richmond, Va., is seventeen feet above ordinary low water mark, and rain is still falling. At Carthage, N. Y., Thursday night, Fred Parr, an engineer, shot his wife and himself, both dying instantly. Albanian Christians are being persecuted by the Turks, and the English Government will investigate the matter. Lord Salisbury says Britain is for peace, but will not sacrifice her honor. He thinks the vast preparations for war now going on throughout Europe are only measures of greater security for peace. Michael J. Fenton, sentenced to one year’s imprisonment and forty lashes for an assault on a little girl at St. Thomas, Ontario, received the first half of his punishment at the Central Prison in Toronto Tuesday. Fenton took the flogging quietly, exclaiming at the end of each stroke, “Oh, Lord, have mercy op me.” ____________