Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — WEEKLY NEWS EPITOME. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY NEWS EPITOME.

■ v .. : -zl • - • :' DOMESTIC. An attempt is being made to smash the Jute trust. Brown county, Kansas, had a disastrous storm, Tuesday. Storms have done much damage in Kansas and Nebraska. Wheeling, W. Va., had a ten-thousand-dollar fire, Tuesday. George Reif was robbed of $3,000 in a / barber shop at New Philadelphia, O. The Pennsylvania Steel Co., of Harris burg, have increased wages 2% per cent President Harrißon was given a public reception at Ellsworth, Maine, Tuesday. Illinois operators are arranging to bring miners from the East to take the place of the strikers. Sioux Falls, Huron and Pierre are ing a triangular fight for the capital of South Dakota. King Humbert has appointed Mr. Thomas A. Edison a grand officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy. Several hundred men struck,Wednesday, at a Pittsburg iron mill rather than work non-union-made iron. =The old story, that. Henry Villard will fit out an exposition to the South Pole has been revived in New York. •f ”-In blasting a lead at Aspen, Col., Saturday, a cave was discovered containing petrified bodies of an unknown race. Eugene Mercadier, of the Excelsior Amateur Athletics, St. Louis, swam the Mississippi in 13:15 with his hands bound. The-City of Paris has just made the trip across the ocean in the shortest time on record—s days 23 hours and 40 minutes. Senator Evarts is going to Europe to consult oculists about his eyes, their condition being such as to cause him much uneasiness. President Harrison received a warm greeting on his return to Bar Harbor,Tuesday. A flower parade was given in his honor. The proprietor of the National Park at Milwaukee is preparing to sue the Illinois Department G. A. R., for alleged breach of contract. It is proposed to exhibit the scaffolding on which John Brown was hung for the purpose of raising funds to build him a monument. Twenty-five Indian children belonging to the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe agencies have been received at the Wabash Institute for educational purposes. The Grand Jury at Purvis,Miss., Wednesday, found indictments against Sullivan, Kilrain and their seconds. Jake Kilrain was arrested at Baltimore. Excitement at Albany, Wls., over the hunt for pearls continues unabated. The people have gone wild in fact, and business has been practically suspended. S. F. Sherman, of Sherman Bros. & Qp., Buffalo, whose irregularities several months ago caused a large deficiency, was arrested, Tuesday. He got away with $375,000. An attempt was made, Monday night, at Shortsville, on the Auburn Division of the New York Central Railroad, to wreck a passenger train. The train was ditched but nobody hurt. Mrs. Margaret Wallace died at the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, from the effects o£ burns received by explosion of an oil lamp, thrown at her by her husband, Andrew Wallace. At Chicago, Daniel Dolan walked into the Northside’water works, stepped under the crank rod of one of the mighty pumps, and waited for it to come down and crush him with its ponderous weight. The Columbia and Susquehanna rolling mills of Lancaster, Pa., posted a notice, Monday, announcing that after Aug. 19 they will pay puddlers $3.90 per ton instead of $3.85, as announced a few days ago. The hell’s of the brothers of William F. and George W. Norton, deceased millionaires, of Louisville, have decided to give $60,000 to the building fund of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,, at that city. ~ . : At Huntington, Pa., Monday night, fire destroyed the erecting and machine shops % of the Huntington Car Manufacturing Company, together with thirty cars in various stages of completion, entailing a loss of about $30,000. —■ — The barn of C. S. Bragg, of Avondale, near Cincinnati, was burned, Wednesday. It was one of the most expensive of such structures, and contained costly carriages, etc., making a total loss t>i $30,000. The horses were all saved. The annual athletic exhibition of the Clan-na-Gael, at Philadelphia, was attended by 25,000 persons. The profits which amounted to $5,000, will bo devoted to securing the arrest and punishment of the murderers of Dr. Cronin. At Duluth, Minn., Wednesday, Judges Stearn and Ensign,of the Circuit composed of St. Louis, Lake and Cook counties, decided that the Scheffer Dressed-Boef law was unconstitutional,being an interference with interstate commerce. On an average there has been two bodies found every day during the past week at Johnstown. There are undoubtedly a great many more in the cellars all over town, and at the present rate of cleaning up they will not all be exhumed this year. The chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the exports of domestic cotton from the United States during the month of July, 1889, compared with similar experts during the corresponding period of preceding year, were as follows; Total, month ended July 31, 1883, 59,855 bales, 28,421,881 pounds, $2,946,310. Total, month month|onded July 81, 1888, 111,537 58,417,632 pounds, $5,447,016. The hotel which General Wilder engaged for the accommodation of visiting members of his brigade, in the coming reunion at Chattanooga, having changed hands, Gen. Wilder has leased a six-story building, in which he has placed five hundred cots, and he calls upon the “boys” to bring their blankets. A train, will be chartered at Chattanooga for a trip to the Chickamauga battle ground, where a banquet will be served. The recent visit of A* J. Miller,of Evansville, to the Central American Republics, and iptor. iews had with the various Presidents, she'.’, that the proposed Congress of American Nations ic receiving a hearty find unanimous approval by the leading statesmen of .hose count:*:*, and that

there is practically an unanimous desire to reverse the present, system of giving Bo* rope OO per oent of trade, and at the same time each reach such an understanding with the United States that the trade will be turned to its natural market in this country. At a sums meeting held at Springfield, O ~ Monday, to select delegates for the Republican State Senatorial Convention, exMayor Kelly denounced the work of the meeting, claiming it was run by General BnShnell, who wants to be the next United States Senator, and other bosses, and accuses them all of being fools. The conven tion came near ending in a free-for-all fight, during which time the words “you’re a liar” were freely used. FOREIGN. Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, arrived in Berlin and was warmly received by the Germans. It is now conceded that the relations of England and Germany amount practically to an offensive and defensive alliance. Senor Sardina, who was recently kidnaped by banditti in Cuba, has been released on the payment of a ransom of $12,000 in gold. The Duke of Fife declines to permit his wife, Princess Louise of Wales* to accept any share of the parliamentary grant to the royal family. The French Senate court found General Boulanger guilty on the charge of embezzling public funds and refused to allow that there were extenuating circumstances. The court then sentenced General Boulanger, Count Dillon and Henri Rochefort to be deported to a fortified place.