Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. A saloon-keeper at Dupont, 0., was whipped by White Caps. The Civil Service Commission is exam ining alleged irregular appointments of the Minneapolis postmaster. A deputy United States <jt>ll.ector unexpectedly appeared at Guthrie, Ind. T., and arrested twenty-two liquor-sellers, such sales being prohibited. C. G. Sayle has been granted letters of administration upon the-estate of Davis S. Terry, lately killed by Marshal Nagle. The estate is valued at about SIOO,OOO. Bob Younger, the youngest of the noted outlaw Younger brothers, died, Monday night, in the State Prison at Stillwater, Minn. He bad been sick for several months of consumption. During, the absence of the cashier, a bank at Hurley, Wis., was robbed of $40,000. The money was left with the bank by the United States Express Company, which will suffer the loss, as the funds were not

regularly on deposit with the bank. Minister Ryan transmits for the information of the State Department statistics of the value of American machinery imported annually from the United States to Mexico from 1880 to 1887, inclusive, which shows that the exportation grew in value from $462,384, in 1880, to 84,000,000 in 1887. A dispatch from Sacramento, Cal., says: The stage between Forest Hill and Auburn was stopped, Monday morning, by one masked man, who demanded the WellsJ. Fargo Company’s treasure box. The box was given him and he escaped with it. It

is not known how much money he secured. An important railroad decision was rendered at Pittsburg, Thursday, by Judge « Ewina in Common Pleas Court. L. D. B. Reese was expelled from a train of the Pennsylvania road because he refused to pay the 10 cents extra for cash fare, the money to be refunded at any office of the company on presentation of receipt: The Judge held that the 10 cents extra was wrong and so instructed the jury. Reese obtained a verdict for $250. Several weeks ago Deputy Collector Fuller came to Jackson, Mich., to investigate a complaint made .against Carl Eberle, the brewer. He visited the brewery, and caught Charles Haucks in the act of sticking cancelled revenue stamps on beer kegs, and secured about twenty worthless stamps. Haucks was arrested and taken to Detroit. Wednesday morning Deputy Marshal Moore arrested Carl Eberle, who was taken to Detroit, and waived examination to the November term of the United States Court. For some time two young fellows, who made Milford Center,O.,their headquarters have done astonishing business in pianos. They have sold nearly two hundred in this, Champaign, Clark and Madison counties in the past three months. They claim to have secured a lot of first-class pianos in exchange for advertising. They sold them at ridiculously low prices. It is now known that a maker of cheap pianos in New York shipped the men unstenciled pianos, on which they placed the name of the piano wanted by the buyer, as ascertained by an advance visit by one of the men. Ixmis Westergren, of Rockford, 111., aged forty-five, an unmarried cabinet-maker out of work, who had been dissipating for several weeks, committed suicide Monday night. On that evening he dressed himself in his best, blacked his shoes, was shaved, lighted a cigar, walked down to the river, selected a neat grassy spot, laid down on his back, crossed his feet and, drawing a pistol,drove a bullet into his temple. He even tied a handkerchief around his neck with the ends covering his shirt front so that the blood would not soil it. He was found, resting peacefully in death, with the cigar in his mouth and a satisfied look on his face.

At Cincinnati on Sunday night last Manager Fennessey gave a musical entertainment at one of his theaters, and he and others who participated were arrested. It was regarded as an effort to resume Sunday theatrical entertainments. Thursday the cases were heard before Judge Ermston, of the police court, on a demurrer. The court found that the statute clearly prohibited on Sun day any theatrical or dramatic performance as well as various other performances but that it is silent as to a musical performance. The rule requiring criminal statutes to be strictly construed prevents making a musical performance a crime or misdemeanor by implication, and hence the defendants were dismissed. This will open the theaters to Sunday concerts if they choose to try them.

FOREIGN. A letter signed “Jack the Ripper” has been received at a London news agency, in which the writer states that in about a week another murder will be added to the | ist of Whitechapel horrors. The elections in France occurred, Sunday, with no disturbances. The Republicans made large gains, and Boulangerism received another backset. Re-ballots are necessary in a third of the districts. The government is charged with unfairness K counting the Boulanger vote.

MRS. HAMILTON CONVICTED. The Wife of Robert Ray Hntnilton Sent to \ __:_lPrison for Two Years. Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton, who stabbed her nurse girl at Atlantic City, N. J., four weeks ago, was convicted and sentenced to the penitientary for two years. The cause of the stabbing was a quarrel with her husband th whiqh the nurse girl took part, and upon Mr. Hamilton leaving the room she assaulted the girl. Mrs. Hamilton was a woman of bad character and during her imprisonment awaiting trial detectives, under Inspector Byrnes, of New York, unraveled a plot the denouement of which is equaled only in Action. Mr. Hamilton is a member of the family of which Alexander Hamilton, Washington’s first Secretary of the Treasury, was the founder. He was a member of the New York Legislature, a railroad president, is , ‘wealthy, and heretofore was an honored and respected citizen. He met the woman whom he afterward married in a house of prostitution, and* she in league with her lover named JBsh Mann, and the lovey's mother, a Mrs. Swinton,

concocted a scheme whereby Hamilton would be induced or forced to marry her. An infant was procured frogi a mid-wife, and the woman palmed it off upon Hamilton as his child, and appealing to his sense of honor and his duty to his offspring, she persuaded him to.consent to the marriage. They were married, and it has since been shown that thewoman continued her relations with the said Josh Mann, for whom she took money from her husband. Mr. Hamilton seemed completely unconscious of his wife’s infidelity and bad character until friends employed detectives to look into the matter. They had a cottage at Atlantic City, N. J., where they had been spending the summer. Hamilton had settled $5,000 a year upon his wife for household expenses while he was away from home on business. But having arranged his affairs so that he could be at home, he was discussing with her the project of with drawing the $5,000 and paying the family expenses himself. This angered Mrs. Hamilton, and she assaulted him. The nurse girl, Mary Ann Donally, interfered, and Mr. Hamilton left the room to procure aid in subduing Mrs. Hamilton, she being drunk at the time. While he was absent she stabbed the nurse girl. The closing scenes of the trial at May’s Landing, Thursday, were dramatic. She was taken to the Trenton Prison, Saturday morning, in company with a half dozen other criminals convicted at this term of court.

POLITICAL. lowa Democrats, Wednesday, nominated Horace Bois, for Governor; S; L. Bestow, of Chariton, for Lieutenant governor: Judge W. H. Brannon, of Muscatine, for Supreme Judge (long and short terms): Thomas Irish, of Dubuque, for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and David Morgan, of Poweschiek, for Railroad Commissioner. The platform adopted indorses the national platform made by the Democracy,at St. Louis,in 1888; denounces the tariff as unjust to all classes, but especially to the farmers; favors the Australian system of voting and the doctrine of State and national control of the railroads; denounces the action of the present administration in ruling that “the dishonorable discharge of a soldier from the service of the United States is no bar to a pension,” and also favors liberal pensions to all soldiers injured in the line of duty.

A reporter, Thursday, asked ex-Presi-dent Cleveland for his opinion on the action of several recent Democratic State conventions in approving the tariff-reform plank of the last National Democratic Convention. Mr. Cleveland expressed himself as much pleased with these evidences that the attitude of the Democratic party on this question was still courageous, consistent and aggressive. He thought that the careful examination of the tariff question by the people was bearing good fruit, and that all indications pointed to the triumph of the Democratic party’s view of the subject. He added: “If among those counted as Democrats there are found timid souls not well grounded in the faith,who long for the flesh pots of vaccillating shifts and evasions, the answer to their fears should be, ‘party honesty is party expediency. ” The Herald says that Carl Schurz is the candidate of the County Democracy for the late Congressman Cox’s seat. Many candidates are in the field, however. New Jersey Republicans, Tuesday, nominated Gen, C. B, Grubb for Governor.

TITHES IN WALES. The bitter feeling in Wales over the tithe question shows no sign of abatement. The opposition to the payment of the tithes is deeply rooted, and has its origin in the fact that, though the benefits for which this tax was an equivalent have long since ceased to be shared by the people, all complaints and efforts to secure a repeal’or reduction of the burden have been disregarded by the government. The office of tithe collector is just now by no means an easy one to fill, nor even a safe one. In various places streets and houses are barricaded, and it is a task of great difficulty for the collector to reach the persons of whom they are to .demand tithes. They aro then likely to find that those whom they are seeking have fled, as the approach of the official is heralded from afar by means of guns and horns, the inhabitants all working together in their resistance to what they consider oppression.

KILLED IN A PRIZE FIGHT. A Shocking Story From St. Louis—A Boy Killed. A brutal prize-fight occurred at St. Louis Monday night in the saloon of the Daly Brothers, local bruisers of considerable note, which has resulted in the death of one of the participants. Thomas E. Jack son, aged eighteen years, is the victim. He fought Ed. Ahearn, local light-weight champion, eleven bloody rounds, and at the opening of the twelfth fell fainting in his second’s arms. Blood was brought in the first round, more of it in the second, and by the time half a dozen rounds had been fought the men and their seconds were covered with blood, as was the sawdust on the floor of the ring, while the water with which the fighters were sponged was as red as blood itself. When Jackson fell unconscious in his second’s arms he was carried to a room above the Dalys’ saloon and three physicians called in. They worked vigorously but without avail, and at 11 o’clock Tuesday morning Jackson died. The affair has created intense excitement, as prominent people will likely become involved. The referee was the sporting editor of a leading morning paper. The spectators were principally pool-alley sports, who made up a purse of S3O, for which the men, or rather boys, contested. Twoounce hard gloves were used. Bob Farrell and Charley Daley seconded Ahearn and Steve Burns and Mike Mooney looked after Jack. r »>n. Tho fight started at midnight End the eleven bloody rounds can be described as wholly without science,and give and take, with blood everywhere about the 1 ring, until Jackson succumbed. j Chief Huebier has ordered the arrest of all parties concerned in tac affair. >

REVENUE REDUCTION. Southern members of the House of Representatives deny that they intend to make any special demand for legislation on that part of their section of country. With one voice they say it is. their purpose to work for legislation of equal importance to every section. They are extremely anxious to have the tobacco tax abolished, but they do not intend to ask it as a consideration for voting in favor of any one for Speaker for the one, if no other reason > that they do not consider it necessary: They say the Republican party is pledged to do this, and Mi reports about demands they will make in the formation of committees are fabricated. Almost immediately after the House is organized and the committees announced—surely on the first call of the States for the introduction of bills—a bill will be passed to abolish the tobacco tax. The committee on ways and means will be expected to report tins from its ferat regular meeting, as the propriety of doing so has long since been settled. It sconsideration

by the House will be demanded very early. As this will be the basis of the future action on the revenues, and Will, in a large measure, govern a large revision of the tariff, it is expected to consume much time; but it is expected to pass before any positive step is taken on a tariff bill. Then Congress will know exactly how much tariff revision the revenues of the country Can stand. ' Republicans generally believe that the work of reforming the tariff will proceed by piece-meal—that is, it will be done by specific bills, affecting only one article at once. For instance, sugar will be worked upon byitself. Then, if it is advisable to go further into a reduction of the revenues, other articles will be taken up by themselves. Bills will be introduced by the hundreds on every phase of the tariff, thus

going round the old way of proceeding with a general bill affecting almost every article an the list. If the tobacco tax is abolished there will not be more than half the present latitude for work on the customs laws. If half the sugar tax is removed the incomes will be reduced to about the minimum. General Browne,one of the oldest and most influential members of the House, and an experienced member of the committee on ways and means, was the first to advance the idea of specific Legislation on the tariff, and the suggestion is being almost universally indorsed. Be the work done as it may, there will be no more lengthy committee hearings and long bills.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Washington City is becoming a national Gretna Green. Marriage licenses are easily obtained there, and elopements are numerous in consequence. Congressman Samuel J. Randall, with his family,*lß now, and has been nearly all summer, at Wallingford, Pa. Mr. Randall is suffering again from his old enemy, the gout. He will, however, be on hand at the convening of the House. The Secretary of War has decided to accept the offer of the Indian Rights Association to purchase a tract of land in North Carolina for Geronimo’s band of Indians, now confined at Mount Vernon barracks, and to establish them there in a more civilized mode of life.

The estimated requirements of the sinking fund for the present year are $48,000,000. The total amount already applied to this purpose since the beginning of the sis cal year, by the purchase of bonds, is $32,940,573. The principal of these bonds was $27,237,600, and the premium paid $5,702,973. The expenditures on account of the bonds included $24,257,541 for $19,053,350 four-per-cents, and $8,683,032 for $8,184,250 four-and-a-halfs. There is yot about $15,000,000 required for sinking-fund purposes. Secretary Windom Tuesday appointed Robert H. Terrell, of Massachusetts, chief of the navy pay division of the Fourth Auditor’s office, vice Mr. Martin, of Alabama, resigned. The new appointee is a colored man. He is a graduate of Howard University and is at present engaged as a teacher in the colored normal school at Washington. Terrell is the son of Harrison Terrell, the faithful servant of General Grant, who was with him during his last illness, and who is now a messenger in the War Department.

Secretary Windom has decided that in the purchase of silver for coinage into standard silver dollars he will hereafter accept the lowest offers for the amount required, provided the price is within the market rate as required by low. This reveises the practice of the Department under the last administration of making counter offers, and is a return to the practice which prevailed prior to 1885. The change in the practice is said to be due to representations by bankers and others that the practice of making counter offers was in effect an attempt by the Government to “bear” the silver market by forcing down the market rate. Secretary Windom, in speaking of the matter Thursday said this action meant nothing more than appeared on the surface, and was not to be understood as indicating any change in the policy of the administration in the matter of the coinage of silver.

DISASTERS IN JAPAN. ‘— ' ~~ “*,■■;'* .... • Ten Thousand Lives Lost by Recent Floods—A Destructive Land Slide. Advices from Japan place the total number of persons drowned in the flood of Aug. 20, in the city of Wakayumo, and in the districts of Minamihmuro, Mighasi-Muro, Nishi-Muro and Pidajca, at 10,000, and the number of persons receiving relief at 20,424. The riverCinokuni swelled from fourteen to eighteen feet above its normal level, and the embankments and the city of Iwahashi were washed away. Immediately the village and about fortyeight other hemlets were covered by the raging waters. On the morning of Aug. 19, an enormous mass of earth fell from the mountahi near the village of Tennokawa, stopped the course of the river of the same name, and which being already swoolen greatly, submerged the village and drowned nearly all the inhabitants. A number of the villagers belonging to Tsujido took refuge in their temple, which was on high ground, but when the land slide occurred about fifty persons were buried alive.