Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

DOMESTIC. Hon. Randolph Tuckogfs seriously ill. Somona, CaL, was nearly wiped out of existence by fire, Wednesday. Kimball, of Middleton, Mass., died Tuesday morning of hydrophobia. St. Louis is boycotting its Chinese laun dries, of which there are hundreds. Collector Taudy H. Ivice, of .St. Joseph Mo., is short $36,000 in bis accounts. Three girls at Wichita, Kan., cowbided a man who traduced their character. ~ Over a hundred persons were poisoned by icc cream at a picnic near St. Paul, Minn. . . Henry Shaw, the St Louis philanthropist, proprietor of Shaw’s Gardens, died, Sunday. ~ . Fire consumed 3,000,000 feet of lumber in the yards of B. &G. Dodkin, at Euffalo Tuesday. Twenty cities were given the free deliv ery service Tuesday, among them was Madison, Ind. The first rain in over two months fell in South Dakota, Tuesday. The corn crop is now assured. The Speakership contest will be between McKinley, of Ohio, and Reed, of Maine, with the chances in Reed’s favor. The indications are that the Legislative Committee on the West Virginia'Governorship will report in favor of Flenfing, Democrat. : - Three convicts, who escaped from the brickyard on the outskirts of Little Rock, Ark., were caught with the aid of bloodhounds, Tuesday, after a long chase. Reliable information is to the effect that the Indians are again menacing the whites at Demersville, Montana. The Governor has been telegraphed for protection. ■ Bamum & Bailey’s show was wrecked at Potsdam, N. Y., Friday. Thirty ring horses and two camels were killed. Loss, $40,000. Accident caused by a broken axle. Policemen at Detroit raided a Chinese laundry early Monday morning and captured eleven gamblers and one woman,who were sleeping off the effects of a pipe of opium. - Alexander Cunningham died at Jacksonville, Ili., Wednesday. He was a native of Scotland, and when a young man was for several years a coachman for Sir Walter Scott. A convention of prominent commercial men will he held at Minneapolis, Sept. 2d and 3d, and the members will endeavor to frame a bankrupt law for adoption by Congress. Joseph Russell, a 16-year-old lad, jumped from tho Cincinnati Southern railroad bridge into tho Ohio River, a distance of 101 feet, at Cincinnati, Sunday, aud was not injured. Judge Henry C. Whitman, a gentleman well known by Henry Clay, Thomas Ewing, Edwin M. Stanton, Allen G. Thurman and the legal lights of his day, died at Cincinnati Wednesday. The centennial of the Catholic hierarchy will be celebrated at Baltimore, Nov. 10. Fully fifty of the Bishops of the United States will be present and many others promineut in Catholic circles. Homestead entries were made for the last two months in Cullman county, Ala., for over 6,000 acres. At this rate there will be no farmland left in the State for this purpose for over a year longer. A host of boomers are encamped on the Cherokee strip, awaiting the opening of that promised land. They are encouraged that the negotiations with the Indians for the strip will be brief .and satisfactory. David M. Dunn, formerly of Indiana, and Consul General at Valparaiso, died on Thursday, at Washington. Mr. Dunn was a brother of the late William McKee Dunn, for many years Judge Advocate General. AGreensburg, Penn., special says: A fatal disease has broken out among the cattle in several localities, and they are dying at an alarming extent It is known among veterinary surgeons as splenic or Texas fever. The United States Fish Commission has .disaoyemLlhe., grayling in . the Gallatin River, in the Yellowstone Park, which makes the fourth place where it is known to exist. This is regarded as a valuable discovery. Port Jefferson, 0., in search of gas, has apparently struck a geyser. While driving a pipe a stream'bf water was struck. It squirts to the top of the derrick, seventyfive feet high, and throws up stones weighing four pounds. Fire caused a loss of $150,000 in a Kansas City packing house, Sunday. Other fires:" The oat-meal mill of David Oliver,at Joliet, HI.; loss, $62,000. The warehouse of tho Joseph Hibner Sash, Door and Blind Factory at St. Louis; loss SBO,OOO. «ft A terrible accident occurred on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad near Parkersburg, W. Va., oFriday. Conflicting telegrams caused a collision of a passenger and a special train bearing road officials. Three men were killed and twelve injure^ The total value of exports from the United Stateafor the seven months of 1889 ending July 31 was $413,931,223, against $356,266,819 * or the corresponding period last year. The value of imports for the same period was $463,117,223 and $431,899,473. Information comes from Helena, Ark., of a fatal attack made by a vicious bull upon Mr. N. F. Bruce, son of C. A. Bruce, a prominent Episcopal clergyman of that place. The victim was horribly lacerated, then thrown in the air and literally ripped open. . An appeal for aid comes from the floodstricken districts in West Virginia. People are houseless and homeless. There are miles of desolate territory with scarcely a house left standing, and not a vestige of crops. The outlook for the coming winter is especially gloomy. El Rio Rey, the unbeaten pride of California, captured the great Eclipse Stakes atMorri9 Park Sunday, winning easily from fourteen of the best youngsters in training. His owner asks $50,000 for him, and he is undoubtedly the best two-year-old now on the American turf. The first train on the new Knoxville, Cumberlatfd Gap & Louisville railroad was wrecked, Thursday, at Flat Creek Gap. Of. the fifty-six invited passengers on hoard three were killed and forty-eight injured. The killed are Judge George Andrews, tbe 7 leading attorney of East

Tennessee; S. T. Powers, a leading merchant of Knoxville, and Alex. Reeder, ■ prominent politician. The train left the track at a crossing, a part of it falling through a trestle. The daughter of Joaquin Miller, the “Poet of the Sierras,” is appearing in a cheap museum in Kansas City to support herself and child. She married against her father's will, and later was deserted by her husband. Her father has grown rich since her marriage, but has never relented toward his daughter. Johnny Simones, a ten-year-cld boy of Dubuque, Id., recently witnessed a para chute descent from a balloon, and thought he would imitate it. He procured an umbrella, and going to the top of the house, spread his umbrella and made the leap. He landed on the ground with both arms broken, his head badly cut and otherwise injured. An explosion caused the destruction Of the oil refinery of A. D. Miller at Pittsburg, Pa., at 3 a. m. Wednesday. The cause of the explosion is not and probably never will be known. The flames from the explosion fired thousands of barrels of oil, and the building and contents were , totally consumed. The engineer lost his life and the night watchman was badly injured. The monetary loss is $225,000. The Fourth Auditor of the Treasury has transmitted to the First Comptroller a let ter received by him from Andrew J. Whitaker, of Carpentersville, 111., in which th« writer says he has seen in a Chicago news' paper a notice of his appointment as Depnty Fourth Auditor, and begs leave to aocept the office with thanks. Andrew J. Whitaker, of Illinois, was duly appointed to that office about two weeks ago, and a gentleman who claims to be from Illinois, who recently engaged in business in Washington, appeared a week ago. qualified, ski began the discharge of the duties of Deputy Audior. The Fourth Auditor has serif the letter of the second Andrew o. Whitaker to the First Comptroller to determine who is entitled to the place. The wife of “Mike”McDonald, Chicago’s Millionaire gambler and politician or ward hustler, has eloped with a priest of the church of Notre Dame, Chicago named J. Moysant. He is a small, greasy-complex-ioned individual, about twenty-seven years old. Mrs. McDonald is nearly fifty, and a gray-haired grandmother. “Mike” McDonald, unlike his clerical rival, is a man of handsome presence. Mrs.- McDonald, according to her husband’s narrative, attended Notre Dame Church, there meeting Father Moysant, and forming a secret attachment for him. She invited the priest to call at the McDonald mansion,and there, says McDonald, “I treated him like a prince.” The unworthy cleric took full advantage of the proffered hospitality and displayed an enormous appetite, eatingfive meals a day at times, and drinking choice liquors in equal proportion. Father Moysant also had a room at the McDonald house whenever he desired it. This went on for two years. It is the second escapade of the kind of Mrs. McDonald. FOREIGN. It is asserted that the Pope is preparing to leave Rome. It is authoritively announced that Prin cess Victoria of Wales is engaeed to the hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langen-burg. Mrs. Maybrick, the Liverpool murderess, was notified, Friday, of the Commutation of her sentence to life imprisonment. An effort is being made to secure her. rerdon. Forty-five, thousand striking dock laborers paraded the streets of London, Sunday. The demonstration was orderly, and much sympathy for the strikers was created. The war in Hayti is over, Legitime having surrendered Port-au-Prince to Hyppolite, the northern rebel, and left the country. A riot in the city is feared, however, between the late opposing forces. Dispatches from Egypt say that a famine prevails at Khartoum, Kassal, Tokar and other river towns. The survivors are said to be feeding upon the bodies of the dead. About twentydeatbs from starvation daily are reported at Tokar. The strike of the London dock laborers is spreading. One thousand men employed on the commercial docks joined the strikers Thursday. The socialists are trying to lead the movement and the red flag is being displayed. Thirty thousand dock men marched through the city Thursday. They were quite orderly and made no outward demonstrations. Some of the more belligerent Tories are making no end of trouble for Lord Salisbury and*his government by their absurd demands for reprisals against the United States for the seizure of the Canadian sealers in the Behring sea. They want t« know what’s the use of having a great big navy if it is not to be used when tht British flag is insulted. Some of tbt stanchest supporters of the government hitherto are loudest in their denunciation of what they call Lord Salisbury’s milk-and-water policy toward the United States. It is not likely, however, that the Cabinet will allow themselves to he influenced b 5 this pressure from their own supporters, strong as it is.