Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1889 — THE NEWS 0F THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS 0F THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. There is talk of a cheese trust. Tennessee reports a short cotton crop* _ Pearls are being found in the river near Lena, 111. Illinois’ Supreme Court upholds Chicago’s annexations. Heav.y snow-falls in eastern Nebraska are delaying trains. Evangelist Moody is holding large meetings at Rockford, 111. Railroads all over the country complain of a shortage of cars. Lewis Andrews, aged 109, died at Pottersville, N. Y. Thursday. The McCoy-Hatfield vendetta has broken out again in West Virginia. Societies of Anarchists are being established at Pittsburg by Herr Frick. John I. Manning Ex-Governor of South Carolina, died at Camden Thursday. Kate Davis, arrested at Niles, Mich., admits that she is one of the Bender family. Indians on the wind. River reservation, near the National Park, are starving. Opposition to Reed’s candidacy for the ISpeakership has developed among the silver men. During the past year customs receipts were $225,202,412; expenses of collecting, $20,153,992. The election contests in Montana are being decided, it seems, favorably to the Democrats. Edison has completed a phofi'&graphic clock that speaks the hour instead of ringing or striking" A six-year-old daughter of Mrs. Sullivan, of Cincinnati, swallowed a toy balloon and “choked to death. Cattlemen say their losses will be enormous if they are forced off the Cherokee Strip next June. Fire damaged the Armour Packing House at Kansas City to the extent of SIIO,OOO, Tuesday. A small locomotive, belonging to a local *coal company, blew up near Scranton, Pa., and killed three men. An unknown person tried to blow up St. Peter’s Church, Baltimore, by turning on the gas in the edifice. The Chicago authorities were perpetually enjoined, Monday, from printing city advertisements in German. Chicago claims to be first choice for the world’s fair of 102 Congressmen, and the second choice of forty more. The Farmers’ Review says lack of feed will force immense numbers of low grade cattle on the market this fall. There was a pitched battle between Highbinders and Chinese in San Francisco Thursday. Several were hurt, The Montana Canvassing Board hasheen ordered to count the votes of the disputed districts where skulduggery was practiced. Minneapolis mills made one! of their heaviest runs last week —174,310 barrels. Mills run by water power are putting in Bteam. It is estimated that Chinese opium smugglers in San Francisco have swindled the government out of $400,000 in the past six months. All the St. Louis breweries but the An-heuser-Busch, Lemp and Albert have been sold to the English syndicate for §5,250,000, George B. McClellan, son of the late General McClellan, was married, Wednesday, at Newport, R. 1., to Miss Georgiana Hickschefr Mrs. Mary Baron, of New York, while temporarily insane from sickness and want of food, Thursday night, tried to kill her mother and son. With the assistance of the Mexican authorities', ten noted bandits and murderers wei'e arrested near the boundary line in Texas Thursday. William C. Tenner, a French Count, who once got 10,000 francs by forging Sara Bernhardt’s name, pleaded guilty to forgery at New York. dliver Garrison, one of the most prominent of St. Louis citizens, committed suicido Monday in Forest Park, by shooting himself through the head. The Baptists of Nashville, Tenn., are getting up a memorial to the Baptists of America, to mise funds for the purpose of establishing a Baptist University in that city. Two witnesses in the Cronin case (members of the Carlson family) Friday, positively identified Burke as the man who rented the Carlson cottage in which Cronin was murdered. The Manufacturers’ Record says it is al most impossible to exaggerate the number or amount of investments now being made in the South by Northern capital in all kinds of business. The Tradesman’s National Bank of Conshohocken, Pa., closed its doors Thursday in consequence of the defalcation for $50,000 by the cashier. Depositors will be in full, it is claimed. Dr. Isaac E. Taylor, the originator and founder of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and the only President has ever had, died suddenly at 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Sixteen njen were buried in a falling building at Patterson, N. J., Thursday, and some of them were fatally injured. The building was a cheap affair that never ought to have been allowed to go up. Mayor Grant, of New York, has signed an ordinance,passed by the Board of Aidermen, prohibiting the playing of street bands, organs or other musical instruments on the streets. This makes the act a law. A company has been organized at Philadelphia to build and sell twin-screw seagoing gun torpedo boats.' The capital stock is $6,000,000. Dr. Gatling, of gun fame, is to have charge of the construction department. Rev T. DeWitt Talmage will be accom panied on a tour to and through the Holy Land by his wife and dadghter Mary, and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Klopsch, of New York. The latter is a daughter of Rev. Stephen Merritt. Mayor Davenport, of Kansas City, and Congressman Tarnsey had a row over the entertainment of the South American delegates. The Mayor slapped the Congressman and the latter was disarmed of & revolver which he tried to draw, j . The boiler in the building occupied by O’Neil <k Dyas, dry goods merchants, at

Akron, 0., exploded from escaping gas, Monday. The building took fire and was destroyed, with several adjoining buildings, causing a loss of $250,000. The Pan-Americans visited the tomb of Lincoln at Springfield, 111., Thursday, and several speeches' eulogisHc of the martyred President were delivered. On Friday the delegates were shown the sights at Indianapolis, and on Saturday at Louisville. A company of Eastern capitalists with General Clinton B. Fisk, late Prohibition candidate for President, at their head,have purchased 100,000 acres of land on the line of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, on which a temperance town is to be started which will be named Harriman. According to what appears to be trust worthy reports, John Jacob Astor, the elder, is engaged to “be married to Mrs Bowler, of Cincinnati. This story comes from the other side of the Atlantic, where both Mr. Astor and Mrs. Bowler now are, and gains credence from the fact that Mr. Astor is a very domestic old gentleman and has paid Mrs. Bowler devoted attention for a year or more. A Providence, R. 1., special says: The surprising feature of the will of the late Henry J. Steere, the philanthropist, is hjs bequest of a flue residence, all his works of art and SIOO,OOO in cash to Charles H. Atwood, his private secretary. Atwood was formerly a clerk in a restaurant, and was not related to Mr. Steere. The housekeeper gets $50,000, and all the servants are to receive $3,000 each and a house. Axtell, Kansas, is having a religious war that may result-seriously. Thetown is made up of nearly all Catholics. A Methodist revivalist went to the place and in his first sermon scored the Catholics unmercifully, and finally a number of the members of this chureh resented his words and threw him and two or three of the leaders out of the church by force. It is feared the trouble may become general. Gen. Miles, in his report for the department of the Pacific, says 6,000 troops are' guarding 775,300 square miles, and 1,400 miles of Mexican border. His forces are in every way in good condition,but better bar racks and quarters are needed. Desertions could be reduced by a three years’ enlistment and giving the recruit the choice of a division - in which to serve. The coast is practically without defense, ands3o,ooo,ooo are needed to supply them. Suit has been brought at Leavenworth by a Pottawatomie chief, representing his tribe, for the recovery of large tracts of land, out of which the Indians claim to have been swindled. As soon as it was learned that tlie Indians were to have their lands in severalty, a number of men came on the reservation and, working on the ignorance of the Pottawatomies, induced them to sell for $lO an acre, land Worth S3OO, the Indians signing the papers under the impression that they had something to do with the severalty matter. Depositions of Gen. McCook and others bring out these facts. The suit was brought through the General’s efforts, FOREIGN. The Spanish government proposes to raise the tariff on flour. In a railway accident Monday at Hatras, near Agra, India, fifteen persons were killed and forty injured. Miss Caldwell, the heiress nf Washington engaged to Prince Murat, has been jilted by that gentlemen, because his marriage allowance was not large enough. It is reported the Prince of Wales is afflicted with- Bright’s disease and that it is getting to such an advanced stage that the greatest alarm is felt. He will visit Egypt in the hope of getting relief. The overflow of the Po and other rivers has caused the loss of several lives and the destruction of much property in Italy. Many bridges and a large number of houses have been swept away by the floods. Peruvian advices say that four officers belonging to the revolutionary force of Iglesias were captured on Sept. 23, while attempting to capture the new cruiser, Lima, in Callao harbor. They tried to corrupt the chief officers of the gun-boat. The latter pretended to accept the guarrantee of a bribe of $40,000, and when a boat load of revolutionists came alongside, on the night designated, four of the conspirators were captured. They will be shot.