Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Jefferson Davis is said to be seriously ill. Utes and Piutes are getting ready for a war against each other. The Rowan County (Kentucky) Tollivers are in the saddle again. Petersburg, Vs., suffered a loss of $50,000 by fire, Thursday. Chief Justice W. H.N. Smith, of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, is dead. Kate Davis, arrested at Niles, Mich., admite that she is one of the Bender family. Daniel Carmichael a well-known business man of Amsterdam, N. Y., has forged ; <IIO,OOO of notes. At Shelby depot, Mississippi, Joe Nelson was attacked by Negroes and killed two. Other negroes threaten trouble. Sunol, the three-year-old horse that trotted a mile in 2:10)£ last Saturday, has been sold to Robert Bonner, of New York. four men were killed by an explosion of blasting powder near Butte, Montana, Thursday and two others had their eyes blown out. C. A. Ross, a preacher living near Lockeford, Cal., early Wednesday morning shot I and killed his wife, his eight-year old son and himself. Several of W. L. Scott’s coal mines in Pennsylvania have shut down on account of dullness in the Western trade. Many men are thrown out of work. At Atkinson, Me., on Wednesday night, David Brown, aged seventy-five, was thrown from a carriage and killed. His two daughters were also badly hurt. Col. Alfred Rhett died at Charleston, S. C., Tuesday. He commanded Fort Sumter when it Was unsuccessfully attacked by the Monitor fleet in the late war. One of the chief attractions at the Chicago fat-stock show is the Irish setter trotting dog Doo, from Kansas City. Wednesday night the dog beat a pony three times tround the ring. A convention of reformers of al! kinds is was held in Chicago, for financial re I form, prohibition, equal suffrage, tariff reform and Government control of transpor-| tation and telegraph. j California raisin-growers, owing to a shortage in Europe, will realize good prices this year. They claim to not only have conquered the American market, but bo be stretching out for the markets of the world. The National Base Ball League Thurs- ] day admitted the Brooklyn and Cincinaati clubs, from the Association, as mem- ' bets of the League, making ten clubs in the League. The classification rule was innulled. A movement has been started in Phila-' delphia which has for its purpose the alleviation of the sufferings of prisoners in • Siberia. The United States government will be asked to intercede with Russia in a friendly way. Rev. S. Lindsay, of Danville, Hl., while preaching to a congregation near Covington, Ind., was visited by a gang of White Caps, who, objecting to his advocacy of faith-cure, gave him a few hours to leave the county, and he left. William H. Fursman, a real estate and money broker, and long a prominent resi ■ dent of Pontiac, Hl., has taken to flight fearing arrest on account of forgeries whioh will exceed 150,000, and it is believed will aggregate SIOO,OOO. “Old Mag” Sullivan, a well-known character of Providence, R. 1., was found dead, Thursday, lying on a broken-down bedstead beneath the motto, “God Bless Our Home.” She had been beaten to death by her husband and two daughters, who were' found lying in another room too drunk to realize what they had done. While boring for water, a man owning a farm about twenty-five miles southwest of I Chicago has struck a vein of natural gas, I which flows with. such force as to throw dirtand gravel fifty feet into the air. The well is so near the farmer’s house that he has not dared to light it, but a pipe will be put in and a test made of the flow. A big deal in the Ohio oil field was consummated, Thursday, by which J. C. Me. I Kinney, of Titusville, Pa., and New York land Philadelphia capitalists secured 20,000 acres of territory. The company will erect refineries and operate as an independent concern. The land is situated in Findlay and vicinity. Look & Smith’s bam, on the old Standford farm, near Louisville, used for sheltering brood mares and young colte, was 1 burned Thursday, together with seven- ! teen brood mares and sixteen yearling colts, entailing a loss of about $25,000; insurance, $1,500. The fire is believed to have been started by a tramp seeking shelter and lighting his pipe. Miss Eva Ingersoll, daughter of Colonel Bob Ingersoll, was married at her father’s house in New York Wednesday morning in the presence of her family only, to Walston H. Brown, a wealthy lawyer of New York. The bride and groom simply acknowledged before a Doc-I tor Robertson their agreement to become ' man and [wife. There was no religious ceremony. ; „ I Holzhay (Black Bart) was arraigned for murder at Bessemer, Wis., Thursday. He made a full confession of his crimes, admitting to the robbing of the Gogebic stage, in which banker Flischman was killed, and to several train robberies, and claimed that his deeds were due to “spells” caused by a fall from a horse several yean ago. His “spells” will hardly save him from just punishment, however. The French-Eversole feud is again in a state (Ky.,) eruption. A fight occurred in Hazard Thursday beginning at 4p. m. and continuing fifty two hours resulting in the death of three or four, and the wounding of several othen. About fifty on one side and fifteen on the ether wore engaged. It would have con tinned longer but the ammunition gave out eu the Eversole side, and they left the town in the hands of the French party. It is said that Ed Campbell and John McKnight of the Eversole party were instantly killed Thursday, and Jesse Fields, jailer of Perry county, and four others on the French side are badly wounded. Fields will certainly die. Michael Harvey, of Brown Spring, Wyo. T., met with disastrous results Monday, in trying on an odd plan to start a balky ♦earn. He wa* haul inc hay. and the bones

refused to pull. Harvey put a bunch rd hay under each horse and lighted it Tne team started, but as the wagon passed over the fire the load ignited.. The wagon and hay were consumed, the horses were burned to death, and Harvey was seriDon Louis Baca, a prominent Spanish sheep raiser, of Ute Creek, has just arrived at Clayton, N. M. He gives a very sad account of the ‘ late blizzard in that region. Five Mexican sheep herders perished in his neighborhood, the bodies of four having been found. The snow completely covers the ground from Clayton to ; the Canadian river, a distance of 125 miles. Many Mexican families are in a destitute condition. Owing to heavy snow they are unahi* to move from their plazas in order to lay In a supply of food. Mr. Baca thinks other bodies will be recovered when the snow melts, as several men are missing. The annual meeting of the Knights of Labor was held at Atlanta, Ga., last week and continuing this. The convention received a delegation from the city and State W. C. T. U. societies. A speech was made by Miss Stokes, during which she congratulated Master Workman Powderly onhaving excluded rum-sellers from the order, and on being himself a prohibitionist. Mr. Powderly replied by answering that they would al ways find their firmest allies among the Knights of Labor. Some very important changes in the by-laws and constitution were suggested. The most importantxshangemade was te allow the transfer of a local assembly to any other district assembly, without the consent of either the district, national, trade or State assembly, as heretofore required. The general missionary committee of the M. E. Church in its meeting at Kansas City, Mo., had an attendance of nearly all the bishops of the church. The receipts of the year were $1,130,137, or $129,556 more than the previous year. It took two hours of brisk discussion to decide how much money the committee would need for the work during the coming year. It was finally decided that appropriations should be made as follows: Forborne and foreign missions, $1,123,000; incidental and annuities, $31,775; contingent fund, $25,000; office expenses, $25,000; publications, $10,000; defective land claims, SB,000; upper Sandusky, $2,000; total, $1,225,775. The for home and foreign missions was divided into the ratio of 45 per cent, for home missions and 55 percent, for foreign missions. The will of the late John Creerar, of Chicago, was admitted to probate, Thursday. He was a bachelor and an eight millionaire. He bequeathed SIOO,OOO to the Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago,and the same amount to the same church, the income to be used for mission work. He gives his pastor $20,000, and $25,000 to a Scotch Presbyterion church in New York. He also gives SICO,OOO for a colossal statue of Lincoln and many other bequests to personal friends and distant relatives. He gives the remainder of his estate, estimated at $2,250,000, to build and maintain a public library in Chicago, to be known as the “John Crerrar Library,” and directs that in the selection of the books the creation of a “healthy moral and Christian sentiment be kept in view, and that all nastiness and immorality be excluded.” Jn the last category he includes “dirty French novels and all skeptical trash.”

FOREIGN. Paraguay has started a delegate to the pan-A merican congress. A Paris correspondent says: The Guatemala Minister, in an interview Wednesday, stated that the draff of a protocol for the Federal Union of Guatemala, San Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa . Rica had been already signed but required I ratification by the Congresses of the five countries.