Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Forest fires are ravaging parts of California. A wrapping paper trust is forming at Chicago. Typhoid fever is epidemic in Knox county. O. A saloon-keeper at Dupont, 0., was whipped by White Caps. A brisk snow storm prevailed throughout Northern Wisconsin Friday. The American Humane Society at Louisville denounced the dehorning of cattle as cruel. The estate of the late coachman of the late Prince of Wales turns out to be worth $50,000. The Army of the Tennessee at Cincinnati Wednesday, elected Gen. W. T. Sherman President. A sudden influx of salt water threatens the destruction of the oil and gas wells of Northwestern Ohio. W. L. Sqptt has finally signified a willingness to arbitrate the mining difficulties at Spring Valley, DI. The corn crop of the country is estimated at 2,268,292,083 bushels,as against 1,987,790,000 bushels in 1888. It is reported from Chicago that there will be a window glass trust, but the story is denied from Pittsburg. J iv “

The New York Graphic, the only illus trated daily newspaper in the country,suspended publication, Tuesday. The trial of Ives, the “Napoleon of Fi ntfnce,” resulted in a disagreement, and Ives has been returned to jail. The Kansas City Board of Folice Commissioners has ordered the Chief of Police to suppress the Salvation Army in that city. “Black Bart,” the Gogebic stage robber and murderer, with several other prisoners, escaped from the Bessemer, Mich., jail Friday. Dr. C. D. Miller, of Poughkeepsie, is building a steam yact which is expected to make the extraordinary speed of thirty miles an hour. The will of the late S. S. Cox has been filed for probate at New York. The instrument gives all the estate, real and personal, to his widow. Citizen George Francis Train is delight ed with his quarters in the Boston jail, and says he intends to stay there the remainder of his life.

A deputy United States collector une pectedly appeared at Guthrie, Ind. T., and arrested twenty-two liquor-sellers, such sales being prohibited. Dispatches from Mt. Washington state that on the summit snow is eighteen inches i deep, and Mohday was the first day of sunshine this month. The commission sent to find a place for a navy yard to the Pacific Coast reports in favor of Port Orchard, fifteen miles from Seattle, and thirty from Tacoma. 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. The immigrants arriving in the Uhited States for the eight months ending August 81 last (except from Canada and Mexico), numbered 300,942 during the same period in 1888.

The hog cholera'in Kent county is rap- , idly spreading and unless some active step is taken by the authorities the disease will create havoe among the swine in Southern Maryland.■ It is reported that Rev. A. F. Coepke, pastur of St. Ann's Lutheran Church, at Wis., has suddenly left town, leaving behind him many unpaid bills and an unsavory reputation. Emmons Blaine, son of Hon. James G. Blaine, was married Thursday at Richfield Springs, N. Y., to Miss Anita McCormick, daughter of the late Cyrus McCormick, the reaper manufacturer. Apassenger train on the Atchison, To-., peka and Santa F. railroad, near Ft. Worth Tex., Tuesday, night was robbed of SIO,OOO by train robbers, a large part of which was secured in the express car. George Francis Train was arrested at Boston, Tuesday, for a debt of SI,OOO. Refusing to pay the amount or take the poor debtor’s oath, he was cast into jail. He declared that he desired an opportunity to study the inside workings of Massachusetts prisons. A vicious mob at Rosalia, Kan., hanged Alonzo Edwards and his wife to trees and subjected them to other infamous treatment in trying to extort a confession from them that they had killed a child. The little one was found unharmed at a neighboring farm house. The Big Bend Mining Company, of which Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, is President, and in which many newspaper publishers are interested,announces that its operations (on the Feather river, California) have resulted in failure and will be discontinued. Fully $2,000,000 have been invested in the operations. Senator Voorhees, who is now at Terre Haute, has been invited to deliver the eulogy on the late Samuel Sullivan Cox, at the memorial meeting to be held in Cooper Insitute October 9, but he will decline the invitation. His physicians have advised Mr. Voorhees to spend several wepks at Asheville. N. C., and avoid exertion of any kind if he would guard against a return of his recent illness. Bishop Abram A. Kimball died at Kanost, Utah, Wednesday. He was a prominent man in the Mormon Church and had a number of wives. He was sent to the Utah Penitentiary last November to serve a six months sentence, but was pardoned by President Cleveland last December because he was a consumptive. His father, Heber C. Kimball, is the man who had about fifteen wives and used to refer to his wives as heroes. Sister Camille, of the Sacred Heart Convent, Emporia, Kansas, was brutally assaulted and beaten until unconscious, and then jumped upon and kicked until supposed to be dead in the hall of the school building of the convent Thursday. This is the third murderous assault made by the same person, occurring within the past two months, and all has been carefully kept from the public at the request of the police, ih hopes of capturing the criminal, who is a young man named Frank or J ohn Murry, who hails from Terre Haute, Ind. At that nlade he was a railroader

and there became acquainted with Sister Camille, while under her care in the 7 hospital at'-' that place. When convalescing he attempted to make love to her, and insisted that she should forget her vows and elope with him. After getting well he still persecuted her with his attentions until she asked to be removed to some other place. In some manner he learned of her Whereabouts and followed her, and told her that his love had turned to hate; and that he would kifi her if it cost him his own life. She now lies in a critical condition, with her head cut in many places and her body badly bruised, and is unable to give further particulars. Father Leonard, in charge of the parish, was interviewed and gave the above particulars. The brutal maniac is at large, and it is thought that he jumped on a passing train, and after getting beyond the suburbs took to the country.

, FOREIGN. The Temple of Heaven, at Peking, containing the dragon throne, has been destroyed by fire. Christian inhabitants of the island of Crete are fleeing to the mountains. They have been despoiled of their property by the Turks. . Just previous to the Czar’s departure for Copenhagen a chest of dynamite exploded at the Peterhof! station. The station was badly wrecked and a railway signal man was killed. It is fully believed that it was intended to have the explosion take place when the Czar passed through the station on his way to the train, but through some miscalculation it occurred before the time of his Majesty’s departure.

A TRAIN TELESCOPED. Terrible Accident with Unknown Logs of Life, on the New York ventral Railroad. Palatine Bridge, N. Y., Sept. 28—2 a. m.—The St. Louis express, No. 5, which left Albany at 10 o’clock last night, met with a bad accident about two miles east of here about midnight. The first section broke down and stopped for repairs. The rear brakeman was sent back to signal the second section, but, for some unknown reason, failed to perform his duty. The engineer of the second section says he did not see him and the first thing he saw was the lights of the first section directly in front. The first section was made up of the baggage, mail, express and three passenger cars, packed with people and a Wagner sleeper on the end. The crash was terrific. The section telescoped into the first section, knocking out the lights and plunging everything into darkness. Up to this hour four bodies have been taken out of the sleeper, and it is feared the total number of deaths will run up to twenty-five, and possibly more, as the car was full. It is difficult to get particulars at this hour.

An Albany dispatch says: The first section of the train is usually made up of two ordinary coaches, two parlor cars and three baggage cars, while the- second section seldom goes out with less than seven sleepers. A dining car serves dinner on the section to Albany, where it is dropped. This train travels over the Michigan Southern via Niagara Falls. It is a favorite with travelers on the Central, and the second section is entirely of vestibule cars. The schedule of running was forty miles an hour. It is said that three sleeping cars are in a shapeless mass. Many lives have been lost. There were fully three hundred people on board the two trains. Relief trains, with physicians on board, were summoned from this place and Utica. En-‘ gineer Worth, of the second section, was so badly injured that he is not expected to survive the night. He resides in Albany. 2:30 a. m.—-It is now reported that between forty and fifty persons were killed. The first section was completely telescoped. The excitement is so intense that it is hard to get reliable reports. A dispatch from Albany at 3 a. m., says: Authentic information received here says that four persons were killed, three men and one woman. Engineer Worth, of Albany,.hs3'bb'tli legs broken. He~wTH ~be brought home this morning. Extra sleepers have been sent from here on train No. 29 for the transfer of passengers. One sleeper was telescoped and two other cars badly damaged. Superintendent Bissell has issued orders that the injured be conveyed to hotels and taken care of.”

MINISTER PHELPS ALL RIGHT. William Walter Phelps, Minister to Germany, presented his credentials to Emperor William, Thursday, and was cor dially received. Mr. Phelps delivered a brief but felicitous address which was responded to fittingly by the Emperor. Mr Phelps spoke of the unchanging and open ly cordial relations that had always existed between Germany and the United States. He would shirk no pains, he said, to strengthen that historic friendship. After reviewing the part taken by Germans in the struggle for independence, and the efforts of Germans since that time to promote the national welfare of America, he said he deemed himself especially fortunate to be accredited to the Emperor at a time when not the lightest shadow rested upon a friendship which was the outcome of historical and natural development, and presented itself in the light of a necessity. He hoped the second century would see I this friendship so strong that the Germans ! who tjad found a home in America would I never have cause to fear that the interests 'of their new and their old fatherland would ever be other than one and indivisible. The Emperor replied in English. Ho expressed pleasure at the appointment of Mr. 1 Phelps, whose words had afforded him great pleasure. He did not doubt that Mr. I Phelps’s efforts would ever be successful. , From youth the Emperor said he had greatly admired the vigorously advancing community of America, the study of whose history of peace had always excited in him a special interest Among the many eminent qualities of Americans, their spirit of enterprise, their sense of order, and above all, their inventive genius, attracted the ' attention of the world. Germans felt ' themselves the more drawn toward Americans because they Were closely connected with NorthJtmericans by ties of kinship. The prevalent sentiment of the two people was that of relationship, which could only serve to strengthen the cordiality between them.