Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Arizona is a candidate for Statehood. Fifty miners have resumed work in the Spring Valley (Ill.) mines. There is a fight on at St. Louis between union and non union undertakers. The Brooklyn club won the American Association base ball championship. Pending a decision of the over head wire controversy in New York, the city is in darkness. A largejrang of thieves, robbers and cutthroat gamblers are following the Wallace circus through Indiana. Frank Brown, living near Reading, Mich., was called to the door Wednesday night by some one and shot dead. No eJew. Newton W. Nutting, Republican Representative in Congress from the 27th New York district died at Oswego, [Tuesday. His resignation had been in some days. Charles Sanders, a negro, who murdered a white man named Harr, in Clear Spring, Md., near Hagerstown, in a political quarrel two years ago, was captured at Pittsburg Thursday. The South American delegates are becoming surfeited with much banquetting and have asked to be relieved from so dissipation and late hours. • The party proceeded to Detroit Wedncsdaj' night. “Captain Kidd’s Pets” is . the name a jgangof bad boys at Kansas City gave themselves. They were bound by bloodcurdling oaths, and their orders were written in blood from the of the young desperadoes. Many small fires are traced to their responsibility. At the sheriff’s sale at Helena, Mont., Wednesday of the North Montana Cattle Co., the cattle and horses brought $172,000. This is the largest sale ever made under similar conditions in Montana. One hundred and twenty carloads will be shipped from Ft. Benton this week, for the St. Paul and Chicago markets. The managers of the Chicago League Ball Club have followed the plan of the New Yorkers to protect the name from the Brotherhood players. Articles of incorporation were issued Thursday to the “Chicago League Ball Club” and the “Chicago Base Ball Club,” both with the old managers as incorporators. Wm. Waterman died at Grand Rapids, Wis., Thursday, aged 114 years. He was married twice. His first wife lived to the age of seventy-five. He married his second wife when he was in his hundredth year. She died a few years ago. He always used tobacco, but was temperate, in his habits. While he used liquor to some extent, it was never to excess. Emmet V. Rhodes, Cashier of the First National Bank of St. Paris 0., pleaded guilty in the United States Court to the misappropriation of the bank funds. It was shown’ that there was no ultimate intention of defrauding the bank and that the money was in a public-spirited effort to advance the interests of his community. The minimum sentence —five years in the penitentiary—was imposed. A car on the Mt. Auburn inclined rail way at Cincinnati, Tuesday, broke loose from the train'and crashed to the footof the roadOf those in the car, ten were killed, five seriously injured and one escaped unhurt. The cause of the breaking of the cable is unknown There are " four inclined rail ways in Cincinnati, and id the ten years which they have been operated, this is the first accident which resulted in the loss of life. ~ The fifth-annual meeting of the eom-mandery-in-chief of the military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States was held at Philadelphia Wednesday, in the hall of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. General Rutherford B. Hayes, the Commander-in-Chief, called the meeting to order. About forty delegates, representing the various commanderies, are in attendance. General Hayes was unanimously re-elected Commander-In-Chief. The Socialist Labor party brought its convention to a close, Thursday morning, at Chicago,and the delegates went in a body to Waldheim to decorate the graves of the martyrs. Before adjourning they passed a resolution declaring that the persons who hissed the American flag during the meeting held on Sunday, were either fools or police spies, and hissed only to give the capitalistic press another opportunity to vent its spite against Socialists and socialism. Brooklyn was selected as the seat for the next executiveeommittee, Boston as th° seat for the appeal board, and New York as the seat for the party organ. The convention-did not select the time or place for tho next convention. The delegates went to Waldheim on the cars. They hung red flowers and white flowers tied with red ribbon upon the Anarchist monument. The annual convention of the Street Railway Presidents of the United States was opened at Minneapolis, Wednesday. About one hundred delegates were in attendance. The report of tho Exccutivo Committee in regard to the K. of L. Association says: “The association year now closed has soon an almost total collapse of the organization known as the K. of L., so far, at least, as' that portion is which attempted to dominate street railway companies. Starting in with the manifest determination of making a frightful example of one of tho members Of this association—the Atlantic Avenue I Railroad Company, of Brooklyn—a was declared on all of thecompany’s linos.' -Before its conclusion it was accompanied < with riot, bloodshed and even murder. This strike soon extended to New York, taking in every line in that city over which the K. of L. had any control, and thence westward took its Why until it reached the city where.we now arc. Tho death knoll of the organization of the K. of L. has been sounded because it has shown its unworthiucss to live, by reason of the crime committed tn its name under the direction of its leaders.” FOREIGN. It is believed by M. Remen that the Pope will soon bo forced to abandon Rome. A cable to the Maritime Exchange Thursday announced that Htpi’ot.vte has ’ been unanimously elected President of Hayti. In ail ninety-one votes were cast at the election. I ' An explosion occurred in the Bontilce colliery at London, County of Stafford,

' * ’ - - .- - i——— England, at an early hour Wednesday l ' morning. Seventy miners were in the pit j at the time of the accident, only eleven of . whom are alive. I The Regents offered ex-Queen Natalia ofServia 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 the proposal an insult. i The Paris Temps, in a resume of the financial results of the exposition, says that before its close the number of people who will have visited the great show will reach 26,000,000, and will, in all probability, exceed that figure. Referring to the proposed world’s fair in America, in 1892, the Temps says it is by no means as certain .as it seemed a month ago that the Americans will select New York for the location of their exposition, as Chicago is making, strenuous efforts to secure it. Commenting on the availability of Chicago, as compared with New York, the Temps says: “We many of the Chicagoans who crossed the ocean to visit the exposition in the first city of France would have taken the same trouble if the show had been held in Lyons, oar second city of importance!”