Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

1.-. -. ■ - DOMESTIC. A case of Asiatic cholera is reported from Tiffin, O. A Chines© divorce case hr soon to'be tried in Chicago. An eletric storm killed a number of people In Georgia. Snow has fallen in Montana and other northwestern points. Georgia is about to pension the widows of her confederate soldiers. Mississippi farmers hope for a chance to bid for the contract labor of Sullivan. Two of the Hatfield-Coy gang (Ky.) have been sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Chaos, owned by W. L. Scott, won the Futurity stakes of $30,000, at Sheepshead Bay. Fire In Laird & Norton's lumber yard at Winona, Minn., destroyed $300,000 worth of property. Mrs. George Coons died st Little Sandusky, 0., of what the doctors pronounce Asiatic cholera. The sugar refinery of the HavemyerCo., at New York was destroyed by fire Saturday evening. Loss $3,000,000. Heavy frost fell at Plattsmouth, Neb., and Dodge Center, Minn., on the 6th. Much damage was done to corn. At Atlanta, in Rising Fawn Furnaces, three negro convicts were killed by the premature explosion of dynamite. Rain in the valleys and snow In the mountains have extinguished the fires that have been raging in Montana for the past month. The largest bar of gold over cast In the world was turned out at the United States assay office, Helena, Mont., Wednesday. It weighed 500 pounds and is worth a little over SIOO,OOO. The Senatorial Committee appointed to investigate the drossed beef and transportation industries is having a hard time of it at Chicago. Mr. Armour and the other witnesses refuse to appear before the commission. ■ 1 . A duel at Malad City, Idaho. Wednesday, resulted fatally to both participants. They were younc men and both in love vqfth the same g&l. Ttifc lady is nearly crazed over the occurence and may end her own life. Six laborers of Braddock visited Beaver Falls, Pa., and going out into the woods engaged in a carousal with several kegs of beer. At night five of the men wero found dead drunk, and the other one with a bullet hole through his heart. The Blue and Gray held a State reunion at Ft. Worth, Texas, Thursday, and coni'nued Friday and Saturday. There was a large crowd in attandence. There was a big barbecue, speech-making and remarkuble good feeling oil around. It is announced by the Chicago World’s Fair Committee that all of the $5,000,000 capital stock has been informally pledged. The largest single subscription is that of Mr. George M. Pullman, who signs for SIOO,OOO. Dr. David Tilton Brown, a wealthy retired farmer, at one time chief of the famous Bloomingdale insane asylum, of New York, and who was regarded as an authority on insanity, hanged himself in his barn near Batavia, 111., Thursday, while suffering from insanity. Two men were killed, Thursday, at the mouth of the St. John’s river, Florida, by the premature explosion of dynamite. They were soldering a can of dynamite in the work of removing an obstruction from the channel. The only portion of the men that could be found was one toe. A base ball umpire was killed at Dari ington, S. C., Wednesday. He had made u decision of which the short stop did not approve. The short-stop hit the umpire over the head with a bat and killed him instantly. Only by the greatest exertion was a bloody riot prevented. The parties of the murder were sons of prominent men. - Mrs. Angelo Rusconi, said to be one of the richest women in Kentucky, was frightened to death by a “ghost” that walked nightly in a store at Bellevue, Ky. Mrs. Rusconi went to see the specter, and \ghen it appeared she dropped dead. A thorough investigation proved the ghostly visitor to be the reflection from an electric light some distance away. The British ship War Acorn, at San Francisco, was compelled to put to sea Tuesday night owing to her numerous desertions. Five sailors seized the steam ••utter Monday night and escaped to shore. Lieutenant Valentine met another deserter who knocked him down and escaped. The reason given by the sailors for the wholesale desertion is harsh treatment. Frank Hovene, of Council Bluffs, lowa dropped dead Wednesday. A post-mortem examination revealed the strange fact that his heart was on his right side. The liver was on the left side of the abdomen and the stomach was on the right. The lungs were only one-third the normal size, and were pressed upon. How the man could have lived any length of time after birth seems a mystery to the surgeons. FOREIGN. Yellow fever is raging in Spain. Typhus fever is epidemic in Toluca, Mox. It is estimated that the London dock La borers’ strike has caused a loss of $7,500,000 Legitime, Hayti’s deposed President, ar rived In New York, Thursday, on his way to France. The Mexican Government has imposed heavy duties .on imported cattle, swine, sheep, mules and goats. The London dock employers offered the strikers their terms, to go into effect Jun. 1. The offer was declined. A break was mado in the London strike Thursday, by concessions by four cr five dock companies of the terms of th,e employes. The safe in the postofflcc at St. Justin, Quebec, was broken open with dynamite, Friday night, and $1,500 in cash and regia toyed letters were stolen. The Russian polioe have arrested forty students at Kbarkoff and fifteen at Kieff. charged with nihilism. The arrests of Kieff comprised several ladiqn. At th* session of the Trades Union Congress,at Dundee,Tuesday,the census report on too oight hour movement was presented, showing 30,688 for, and 60,633 against it The flret blood shed in tbs groat Lender,

strike was spilled Wednesday, when the police fired upon a crowd of strikers .who were obstructing the loading of a vesssel and fatally wounded one man. In his speech at a banquet in Paris Saturday, Mr. Gladstone referring to the rapid inerease 6t population in America said: “I wish to recognise America’s right to be considered, prospectively at kfcst, and even now, to some dktent, the great organ of the powerful English tongue. I wish also to indulge iu feelings of satisfaction on reflecting that no cause on earth,.unless our own folly, now or hereafter, ought to divide us from one another, or revive those causes of honcgable or less honorable contention that have heretofore prevailed among us.”