Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1889 — THE HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE HEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. St. Cloud, Minn., is threatened by prairie fires. St. Paul will build another ice palace this fall at a post of (50,000. r All the business houses in Junction, 0., Were destroyed by an Incendiary fire. The United Typothetae in session at St. Louis approved the international copyright law. : '///Tt/TSt Property valued at (400,000 was destroyed by fire at Savannah, Ga., Wednesday. A circus bear got loose \n Chicago and caused a small panic until beaded off and killed. A laborer at Lincoln Park, near Red Bank, N. Y,, dug up $20,000 in bank notes Tuesday. A judge at Auburn, N. Y., decided re cently that the electrical execution * law is constitutional. Chicago workingmen have subscribed about $300,000 towards securing the World’s fair to that city. Alexander Harding was torn to pieces by the explosion of a boiler in a saw-mill near Walla Walla, W. T., Monday. The train men in the Palatine bridge accident were exonerated by the Coroner’s jury, but the company was censured. The Milwaukee Road has been indicted by a United States Grand Jury for violations of the interstate commerce law. A mail pouch weighing 250 pounds was stolen irom a trunk in the Grand Central Depot at Cincinnati Thursday night. Taussig & Taylor, large wool merchants of Philadelphia, are embarrassed, but an extension will be granted by creditors. The feasibility of constructing a ship canal to connect the water of Lake Erie and the Ohio River is under consideration.

Some vandal made an attempt to poison ..Father James Kelly, a Catholic priest, of Oneida, N. Y. Arsenic was put in his wine. A wheel has been made for the Calamut &, Hecla mines which will lfrt 3,000,000 gallons of water and 2,000 tons of sand in a day. George W. Moss, a machinist, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., shot and killed his wife Thursday night. He then shot himself, but not fatally. Five dead bodies were taken out of the Stony Creek River at Johnstown, Pa., Tuosday by the workmen romoving the filth and rubbish. Joseph Crago stabbed his brother, Wm. Crago, in the abdomen, at Empire, O.JSunday night, during a family quarrel, inflicting fatal injuries. Judge Barfett, of New York, granted Mrs. George Francis Train, Jr., an absolute divorce from her husband, the son of ci George Francis Train. The sentence of death passed on “Handsome Harry” Carlton, who shot a New York policeman, has been affirmed by the Court of Appeals. He will hang. Aurora, W. Va., is suffering from a typhoid fever epidemic, nearly every family in the neighborhood having one or more members afflicted with the disease. A train containing railway graders collided with several freight cars, near Larnmie, Wy. T., on Monday night. One man was killed, and two others fatally injured. The American schooner Annie G., from San Francisco, has been confiscated by the Mexican authorities at Altata, for trying to evade paying duty on a portion of her cargo.

Services in memory of the late Samuel Sullivan Cox were held at New York Thursday night. Addresses were made by ex-President Cleveland, Proctor Knott, and others. Twenty years ago A.M. Litch, a drug clerk, ran away from his home at Woodbury, N. J., and has just now been found in Kansas City. A large fortune awaits him from his father’s estate. Charles Sanders, a negro, who murdered a white man named Hayr, in Clear Spring, Md., near Hagerstown, in a political quarrel two years ago, was captured at Pittsburg Thursday. By the breaking in two of a freight train near Danville, Va., and the subsequent collision of the broken sections, brakeman Manchester was killed and brakeman Owen badly injured. Addison Rice, the Buffalo juror who was fined SSO and sent to jail for thirty days for trying to secure a bribe from the Ontario Canning Company, was declared insane, and released from jail, Thursday. Dr. W. A. Leonard, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Washington, preached his farewell sermon to his congregation last Sunday. Ho will be consecrated on Saturday next as Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio.

Two little sons of J. W. Shelton, living near Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon, were playing with an old pistol which happened to be loaded. By some accident the weappn was discharged and one of the children killed. A young girl named Lizzie Wiliams, daughter of a farmer living near South Omaha, Nob., was fatally shot Thursday eyening by Samuel Peterson, a neighbor. Peterson says the girl was stealing cabbage from his garden. The great Italian tragedian, SalvibT, made his reappearance in America. Thurs-' day evening, with his famous impersonation of Samson, at a New York theater. He received an ovation from a crowded and brilliant audience. > Go]. Franklin Fairbanks will give to St. Johnsbury, Vt., his entire collection of birds, minerals, shells and curiosities and .erect a suitable museum to contain them. The collection of birds especially is one of the finest in the country. 1 The earnings of Michigan railroads for July, 1889, were $7,303,200.34, an increase over the same month in 1888 of $034,715.20: total earnings from January 1 to August % 1889, $44,998,055.23, an increase over the same period in 1888 of $1,558,604.13. The ship yards of the great lakes will bo busy the coming winter. Thirty-five boats of an aggregate tonnage of 07,330, and cost Of $4,653,800, ate now under contract to be built, and the list will probably be increased by a half dozen other craft. Misa Henrietta Snell, widow of the Chicago millionaire whom Taseoit is supposed’ to have murdered, declared emphatically Thursday that she never authorized archl-

tect Thomas Hawkes to erect a $25,000 memorial to her husband in Union Park. Diptheria has been declared epidemic at Carbondale, Pa. Some of the undertakers have refused to further endanger the lives of their families by handling the bodies of the dead. There are new sixty cases under treatment. The disease is on usually fatal. .. Walter B. Foster, who embezzled SI,OOO TKan the McCormick Reaper Company, at Rochester, N. Y., has been arrested at Toronto. His parents reside at Penneflville, N. Y., and are wealthy. • Foster had been in Toronto several days, spending money lavishly. ' * John Bums, Henry Whitman, Wm, Carrol and Henry Smith, who were ar rested for attempting to vote illegally at the Republican primary in Brooklyn, N. Y., recently, pleaded guilty, Monday, and were sent to the penitentiary for nine months and fined $250. Samuel Mayhom, one of the HatfieldMcCoy gang under sentence of death at Pikeville, Ky., is dying of consumption. A movement is on foot to lynch him, his enemies being determined he shall not die a natural death. The reported murder of a bridal couple by the Hatfield-McCoy gang is now denied. Customs Inspector Blanchley saw a Mex ican smuggler crossing the bridge at El Paso, Texas, the. other night, and ordered him to stop. The Mexican turned and fired at the officer,but missed him. Blanch ley returned the fire and fatally ,wounded the smuggler. The Mexican authorities have ordered an investigation. A dispatch from Waycross, Ga., says: William Gray, a traek band on the Colorado & Western Road, was taken from the train at Jessup by a posse of citizen Thursday and ljnjhed. While passing that place WedLs3day ho had some words with a citizen,’and as the train Jfiilled out he threw a stone, which struck a bystander. The wheat [ growers of the Mississippi Valley will hold a convention at St. Lonis, beginning on the 23d inst. The chief object of the convention is the formation of a Wheat Growers’ Association and the devising of suen means as will insure to the farmers of the Valley a better control of prices and business methods thanj now exist.

Governor Humphrey, of Kansas, has indorsed an appeal from the people of Stevens county for aid, and urges that a hearty response be given to tbe call for food, fuel and clothing. The farmers in that county have suffered successive failures of crops, and they are without the means of support for the approaching winter. Fire, which started in the lower hydraulic cotton-compress yard at Savannah, Ga., Wednesday, destroyed that compress and the Tyler compress, and five warehouses, with 4,900 bales of cotton. The British steamships Napier, Cypress and Carlton were in 'great danger, but were towed safely from the wharves. The Carlton was somewhat blistered. The wharves took fire, but were saved. There will be hardly any salvage on the cotton. The loss is estimated at $40,000. Four successful tests were made Friday at the furnaces in Birmingham, Ala., of a chemical pi’oeess for removing all prosphorus from iron and converting it into Bessemer pig. Every test was pronounced a complete success by chemists and prac tical steel men engaged to witness them. The process has just been discovered by a Scotch chemist named Archioald, who is in the employ of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and. Railroad Company. By this process the extra cost of converting the ores of this section into Bessemer pig will be only fifty cents a ton. The Grand Encampment of Knights Templars, in its session at Washington,last week, elected the following officers: Very Eminent Sir J. P. S. Gobin, of Pennsylvania, Most Eminent Grand Master; Very Eminent Sir Hugh McCurdy, of Michigan, Deputy Grand Master; Very Eminent Sir Warren Larue Thomas, of Kentucky, Grand Generalissimo; Very Eminent Sir Reuben Hedley Lloyd, of California,Grand Captain General; Very Eminent Sir Henry Bates Stoddard, of Texas,Grand Senior Warden; Very Eminent Sir Nicholas Slick,of Rhode Island, Grand Junior Warden; Very Eminent Sir H. Wales Lines, of Connecticut, Grand Treasurer; Very Eminent Sir William B. Isaacs, of Virginia,* 7 Grand Recorder. The next session will be held at Denver. The National Masonic Veterans’ Association, to be composed of Masons of 21 years standing, was formed, with the following officers: President, William Meyer, of Philadelphia; Vice Presidents, Theophilus Pratt, of New York; Lafayette Vancleave, of Cincinnati; Theodore Parvin, of lowa, amd E. A. Sherman, of California. Secretary, George H. Fish, of New York. Treasurer, A. T. Longley, of District of Columbia.

FOREIGN. The Czar visited Emperor William at Berlin, Friday. Their greetings were cordial. The small-pox is raging in the government of Oppeln, Prussian Silesia, and its victims are already counted by the thousands. The German government has given orders for the building of a factory at Spandau to preserve all kinds of food for the use of the army. Sir William Tindale Robertson, who cut his throat at Brighton, Sunday, will be cremated at Woking, in accordance with bis expressed desire. Thirty farmers’ tenants on the Smith and Barry estate, in Tipperary, Ireland, were arrested, Tuesday, for refusing to pay market toils to their landlords. The Regents offered ej -Queen Natalia of Servia a large sum of money, provided she would accept their proposed conditions and depart from Servia. The exQueen indignantly refused the offer, saying that she considered tbe proposal an insult. Advices from Mexico Say the bill to grant a concession to Henry C. Ferguson and Wm. H. Ellis, the two colored men from Texas who propose to colonize lands in the States of Oaxaca, Guerrero, Vera Cruz, Michoacan and San Luis Potosi with negroes from Texas and other American States, has passed the Bower House of Congress with bat one dissenting vote, and has gone to ttie Senate.