Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Snow in northern Minnesota. Arizona Is a candidate for Statehood. Forest fires rage around“ Portland, Mich. Chicago brewers gave $200,000 to the World’s fair fuhd. Diphtheria is said to prevail, among the poorer class at Decatur, 111. Fifteen people were burnt in a railroad wreck at Wichita, Kansas, Tuesday. : Eight hundred people of Woodville, 0., are suffering from typhoid fever and diphtheria. The strike of switchmen on the Louis ville and Nashville ended, Friday, disastrously to the strikers. The Belford-Clarke publishing company of Chicago has compromised with its creditors and will resume business. Masked men entered the postoffice at Fargo, Dak., Monday night, tortured the night clerk until he opened the safe, and then robbed it of $125. The Supreme Court of Illinois has decided that a railway company allowing newsboys on its cars is responsible for any damage they may receive. The St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad will ask permission of Congress, at the coining session, to build fifteen hundred miles of railroad in Indian Territory. In many parts of Minnesota the earth is perfectly dry to a depth of seven feet. Stock is suffering greatly for want of water, farmers in some instances being compelled to haul it ten miles. . Hon. W. H. Kimben, member of Parliament, from London, England, is in Cincinnati, on the way to Rugby, He says the Rugby colony in Tennessee is about to prove a rich investment for the English stockholders. A special dispatch from Helena, Mont, Friday says: The vote of Jefferson county was canvassed Thursday, the result being that the Democrats lose a State Senator. This leaves the Upper House of the Legislature a tie, but the Democrats will have a majority of seven on joint ballot. It has developed that Congressman Ab ner Taylor, of Chicago, Senator Farwell’s partner, a man of fifty-five or sixty years, eloped a month ago with the twenty-five-year old daughter of Col. A. C. Babcock, a prominent Republican politician, who opposed the lovers’ union. The elopers were married in Michigan; and have just returned to secure the paternal, blessing, which was rather grudgingly given. Govemor FoWler,Tsf Nortti Carolina, in an address at Raleigh, Thursday, the occasion being the opening of the eleventh annual State Fair, before a large crowd of colored people, said his auditors were as happy as any people on the face of the earth, and protected in all their rights, and he pledged the power of the State to be exercised in their behalf Just us much as in behalf of the white men. Rev. Mr. Leak, colored, secretary of the fair, indorsed the Governor’s remarks. Frank J. Bowman, a notorious lawyer, inasmuch as he has figured in many matrimonial troubles in St. Louis and Chicago, was shot and killed by B. M. Chambers at Ferguson, Mo., Monday, over a business disagreement. Bowman cwas one of the best-known men in St. Louis, although his reputation was Somewhat; unsavory. He was at one time prominenfat bar, but was disbarred for questionable practices. B. M. Chambers was at one time a prominent St. Louisan. He was President of the Butchers’ and Drovers’ Bank, which failed a dozen years since. A dispatch -from Quawpapawa, Wyo. T., says that the Commissioners arrived there from the Sac Agency Wednesday and en camped. Their negotiations with the Sac and Fox were not favorable. The Indians listened to the Commissioners’ tempting offer in silence. There seems to be no disposition among them to sell. The Indian Agent, the Post Trader and numerous Sioux men who have great influence over them have poisoned the Indians’ minds. The Indians and the trader both treated the Commissioners with scant courtesy. The coolness was so palnfully apparent that the Commissioners cut their visit short and left for Kickapoo country. At’2:3o Thursday morning three masked robbers gained entrance to the residence of Judge Henry S. Kelley, at St. Joseph, Mo., and going to the bed room where the Judge and his wife were sleeping one of the robbers covered them with his revolver while the others searched the room for valuables and obtained S6OO in jewels, gold watches and money. The robbers then searched the bed for valuables, and lastly took the rings from the fingers of Mrs. Kelley. On the Judge’s stating that he had no money concealed about the house he was struck over the head with a revolver and threatened with death if he did not tell where the money was. The men remained in the house about two hours and left, after threatening instant death to their vtctims if they attempted to give an alarm. When the alarm was given, a half hour afterward, the robbers had made their escape. FOREIGN. Bradlaugh is very 111. The German Reichstag opened Tuesday. In his address from the throne Emperor William talked pleasantly of peace, but asked for a largely increased appropriation for the army, just the same. Advices received from Apia under date of the 15th Inst state that a battle is reported to have taken place on the Island of Savaii between forces of Malietoa and Tamassese. Three hundred men were engaged on each side. Several were killed and a number wounded. Which party won the victory is not known.