Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

v j ’ ■ - J-PWJM 5 DOMESTIC. The tritf ol the Cronin suspects is proceeding. ! Tile G. A. R. Encampment adjourned Friday. ' f Georgia is about to pension the widow of her confederate soldiers. Congressman McKinley thinks there should be no extra session of Congress. I The Wyoming, of the Guion line, landed 138 Mormons at Castle Garden, Tuesday. •„ ! Mrs. Sullivan, mother of John L., died at Boston, Friday. John L. was on a drunk. North Dakota Democrats and South Dakota Republicans placed tickets in the field, Friday. Kilrain has been offesed $3,300 to stand npberore Sullivan four rounds (Qucensbury rules). The Cronin suspects are to be tried together—that is, they have been refused separate trials. In a match game of billiards at Chicago, Friday evening, Schaeffer made the remarkable run of 881 points. A plot to blow up the Michigan State prison at Jackson and release 800 prisoners was frustrated Monday. The wine product of California this year will be about 12,000,000 gallons, and the brandy output will reach 1,000,000 gallons. . The late Charlemagne Tower, of Philadelphia, the millionaire mine operator and counselor, left an estate valued at $21,000,000. Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated his eightieth birthday, Thursday. He received hundreds of congratulatory letters and telegrams. Hon. John G. Carlisle has returned from Ms trip to Mexico. He expresses the opinion that the Cherokee strip will be opened to settlement soon. There are 1,211 cases on the United States Supreme Court docket. It will be five years before the last case on the docket can be reached. In a prize fight between Jack Dempsey and George Leßlanche at San Francisco, Tuesday, Dempsey was knooked out in the thirty-second round. A combination is being formed to control all the coal property along the Mononga hela River, with scarcely a doubt of the success of the scheme. Hon. G. G. Benediot, the newly appointed collector of customs for Vermont, has requested the resignation of all Democratic officers in the custom-house. Rnssell Harrison, son of the President arrived at New York, Thursday, from his European trip. He received much attention from royalty while in England. Ex-President Cleveland has formerly accepted his appointment as a member of the committee on permanent organization for the International Exposition in 1892. H. H. Warner, the head of the proprietary medichie establishment, has agreed to sell the business to a British syndicate for $1,000,000. The guarantee money has been put up. The boiler in the nail factory of Godieharies A Co., at South Towanda, Pa., exploded Tuesday, killing five men and fatally injuring two others, and badly injuring four others. James J. West, late editor of the Chicago Times, was arrested, Tuesday, charged with illegally issuing one thousand shares tof “Times” stock. He was placed under SIO,OOO bonds. A negro riot occurred at Jordanbrook, Ark., Monday. Four men are known to have been killed and many others injured. The trouble arose through the distribution of whisky at a jamboree. The Ohio penitentiary at Columbus was visited by a disastrous fire, Tuesday. Flames were discovered in the chair factory, and before they could be got under control had caused a loss of $95,000. Four tramps arrested at Moberly, Mo., for vagrancy were sold at public auction Monday. Two went for $2 a head for four months and another for 75 cents. The fourth could find no purchaser and he was returned to jail. At Sopris, a small mining camp Jin Colorado, an eight-year-old daughter of Janies Danochy started to kindle a fire with coal oil. The can exploded, burning the girl to death and fatally burning the mother who attempted to save the child. Fire at Port Costa, a great grain center in Lower California, Monday, did $600,000 damage to McNear’s warehouse, containing 7,000 tons of grain, the American ship Armenia, the British ships Honowaur and Kenilworth. Total insurance, $87,000. The business portion of Sackett Harbor, N. Y-, was destroyed by fire, Thursday morning, involving a loss of $40,000. The tax payers recently voted down a proposition to purchase a fire engine. In 1887 fire caused a loss of $36,000 in th'e same village. The Department of Agriculture is in receipt of a cablegram from its European agent in London stating thaY the International Grain Market, in session at Vienna, estimates the wheat crop of Europe lower thau was Oxpected. The crop in Russia and Hungary is found to be especially bad Ex-Speaker Carlisle, In an interview, Friday, on the speakership of the next House of Representatives, Expressed his belief that McKinley, of Ohio, would be chosen for the position. Reed, of Maine, and McKinley, he said, would be the leadi ing candidates, but the fact that the Secretary of State was from Maine would convince most of the members that to confer additional honors on that State would be unfair. The water in the rivers is getting very low at Johnstown, Pa, and, as a consequence a great deal of pestilence-breeding matter is being Exposed. The Btenoh along the river bank is becoming unbearable,and especially along the point and near the stone bridge arc the odors very nauseating. There are quite likely many dead bodies in the sand along the banks and also in the bottom of the river. The body of a child was taken out of the sand near the stone , bridge Monday. A lone highwayman attempted to rob the stage thatV runs between Gogebic and Gogebic lake, Mich., Monday. Ho ordered tho foinAp “shell out.” Oue of them went down in hft pockets but instead of bringing out valuables brought out a revolver and began firing at the robber. The robber rcturnW tho fire, hitting this man in ,the choek aud leg. Another pass&ngor Chit in tho hip and pitched out of the h, which bad been started. The rob-

rious charges against the National barracks at that place. It alleges that recruits are treated like dogs; men are strung up until they swoon from weakness; that brutal sergeants deem no cruelty too severe; relates how an insane man was heartlessly tortured, while common soldiers are imprisoned at the whim of their superiors. It is also charged in the expose that in the guard house, where prisoners are packed in an enclosure 20x40 feet, file sanitary condition is terrible. There are no provisions for the ordinary calls of nature, and the place becomes a breeder of pestilence. The prisoners are kept from sleep by vermin, and their surroundings are ail revolting in the extreme. A train bearing veterans to the Milwaukee encampment was wrecked at Kinsman, 111., Monday. In all fifty persons were hurt, though none were killed oute right. The accident was caused by the chair car, the third from the engine, jumping from the track. It was ditched instantly, taking with it the three sleepers behind. A rail was found projecting through the bottom of the chair car and coming out the side about three feet from the bottom. A man who was hunting in a field near by and saw the accident said the chair car , jumped fully ten feet high and landed in the ditch over 100 feet from where it left the track. The car was full of passengers, every seat being occupied, and the scene which ensued was entensely exciting. The baking powder investigation, which has been conducted under direction of the chemists of the Department of Agriculture, has been completed and results compiled in a bulletin. The analysis of a large number of samples of various baking powders, and the conclusions derived therefrom, the report says, are hot such as to create any general alarm lest the American people should suffer injury to health from the use of baking powders. The investigations show that even with the best of tartrate powders the residue remaining in one loaf of bread procured with it was of the same character of seidlitz powder, and in quantity exceeding that of an ordinary seidlitz powder by over 50 per cent The report gives some interesting facts as to the baking powder industries, and says that the American people pay at least $25,000,000 a year for baking powder, while the cost of it to the manufacturers is le*ss than a third of that amount FOREIGN. The Queen prorogued Parliament, Friday. The London strike is growing more serious. A general strike is threatened of all the labor organizations in the city. An earthquake was experienced on the Russian frontier Tuesday. In the village of Khenzorik 129 persons were buried alive. The Canadian pres* is becoming warlike and threaten independence if their (the British) government does not protect them in their “rights” in Behring Sea. North China, and Japan have been visited by a series of typhoons of unprecedented severity. At the lowest estimate five thousand persons have been drowned. The Mussulmans in Crete are threatening to attack the consulates and cathedrals where Christians have . taken refuge against their aggressions. Outrages continue to occur. At Matamoras, Mexico, Carlos Reßendez and three other boys took refuge from the rain in a shelter made in a stack of cornstalks. The stack was struck by lightning and all four were instantly killed. Pekin advices are that a number of high Chinese officials have petitioned Prince Chun to have all Americans employed in China expelled from the empire. It is reported that Prince Chun consented. There are now 130,000 strikers in London and the troubles are increasing daily. Two hundred and fifty steamers are lying in the docks awaiting cargoes. Riverside factories employing thousands of hands are closing <’*.ly for lack of coal. At Beriin, a belief that the dock laborers’, strike in London will result lu a general rise of wages throughout England, to the detriment of English competition with foreign markets, caused a general rise on the boerso in coal and iron mining shares.