Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Georgia is about to pension the widows of her confederate soldiers. ' Two girls lost their lives in a rag and Junk house fire at Albany, N, Y., Monday. The garrison at Fort Adams in Narragansett Bay captured a large whale Saturday. j, _ Three thousand children can’t go to school at Chicago because they have no shoes. Slight earthquake shocks visited the vicinity of Wilkesbarre, Pa., Tuesday night. The President has appointed C. Warmouth Collector of Customs for‘"New Orleans. Joel S. Ordway, a farmer of Concord, N. H., was robbed of 19,500 by shrewd swindlers. - A valuable find of silver ore is said to have been found in the Allegheny Mount ains near Connellsville, Pa. The reported burning of a negro at the stake near Monticello, Ky., last week is finally authoritatively denied. The miners at Braidwood, ill., are again dissatisfied, the cause now being a demand for nine and a half hour’s work. Eighty thousand people, Thursday, witnessed the sham battle of North Point (1814) i at Pimlico, a suburb of Baltimore. \ Johnstown’s new directory shows that thirty six groceries and fifty-one saloons have been established since the flood. The body of a woman,horribly mutilated, was found in White Tuesday. It is believed to be the work of Jack the Ripper. Elison Hatfield has been sentenced to be hanged December 3 for the murder of | Alfaro McCoy in Logan county; West Virj ginia. Arrangements have just been made with 1 the Indians whereby 4,000,000 acres of land j in Northern and Central Dakota will soon be opened up for settlement. A very heavy storm has been prevailing ; at sea for several days, says a telegram of Tuesday. Incoming vessels are anxiously awaited that its extent may be known. Hon. Chas. F. Griffin, Secretary of State (Indiana) was Thursday elected Comi mander in Chief of the Sons of Veterans at the National Encampment at Paterson, New Jersey. Miss Clara 8011, of Canton,O., Thursday, had two buttons removed from her nostrils which had found lodgment there since infancy. She labored under the delusion that she had catarrh. ■ Mrs. John A. Logan, in an interview, strongly indorses her son’s action in refus- | ing to forward his father’s picture to the l Murat Halstead Club, of Cincinnati. She says that trouble with Halstead was the last thing that vexed General Logan’s mind. At a meeting of Methodist ministers in Chicago Bishop Newman, in discussing the i race problem, said there was more to be i feared from the invasion of -the North by | ignorant foreigners than from- the outnum- ] bering of the whites by the blacks in the j South. FOREIGN. f During the past few days twelve persons r* have died from trichinosis in the town of lEisleben, Prussian Saxony. Eighteen ? Dthers are reported to be dying from the / same disease. | The first blood shed in the great London l strike was spilled Wednesday, when the K police fired upon a crowd of strikers who b were obstructing the loading of a vesssel I and fatally wounded one man.