Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

!■ DOMESTIC. g® White Caps are terrorizing Galesburg, * fell as far south as Rome, Ga.. i^Hhursday. A residence at Athol, Mass., was burgof $5,000. ’ A N. Y. ■■The Hartford, Conn., carpet mills burned Loss, $30,000. ► Spotted fever has again appeared in Web--1 county, Kentucky. H A large part of Leechburg, Pa., burned £ Loss. iiouc w ika,. poop:* homeless. I® Josephine Welsh accidentally killed her while trifling with a revolver at West Pa. Mr. Jeff G. McKinney, a leading crimilawyer of Milwaukee, was mysteriousm,- sand-bagged. ■ The Pacific Express office at Fort Worth, was mysteriously robbed, a day or since, of $6,800. ■ The deadlock of the Montana Legislature still continues, with no indications of ■ speedy termination. &|| American residents in Berlin gave a dinner. Minister Phelps and Count Herbert Bismarck reto a toast.: ■"."J Hans Jacob Olsen was hanged by a mob ■t Preston, Wis., Tuesday. His wife and fHon, whom he had abused and maltreated, pull tho rope. ■ Ohio wool-growers met at Columbus, Hhiesday, and issued an address demand■B ~ |Hippeal to the party in power. BiTho fumdv Keyburn, at Glen, Pa., went to sleep the face of the three-months-old jHlauglitcr. The child died of suffocation. jp» A .young woman in Butler county, Ohio, a divorce from her husband, and in love with a man who robbed her of and deserted her on their wedding ■»yHU Four little girls at EUiotsville.West Va., a keg of powder, Friday, which father used in his mining pursuits. H 1 tv pmvJcr ami Vi of <!t Bcrc blown to atoms. m The smoking car on the east-bound Pan train was derailed and overthrown tan the yards at Pittsburg, Monday. The caught fire and in tho panic that entitled many people were injured, one of win die. §B Tho government has established a cus Btoms station on the south shore of Lake of Woods, with the intention of putting a ■stop to stealing of Limber by Canadian ■smugglers, who have been running eight ■steamboats on He lake . 1 eull)', r the ■choicest of Uncle Sam’s trees. Tho Missouri, Kansas & Texas express was held up at Pryor Creek, lud. |Btci., Monday, and the express car robbed Bof about $50,000. Another account says got but SI,OOO. IB A squeeze in corn was engineered on the ■Chicago Board of Trade, Friday. The IBpric'e went up from HU to 50. It is be■jieveil by some that, “Old Ilutch” was §B ;auglit in the squeeze, while others believe be is the power behind the throne and will reap the larger part of the profits. B Win. F. Sartelle, of Worcester, Mass., a H performer in a dime museum, was shot ■ dead, Friday. He was performing a trick ■ with a rifle which he apparently ’oaded B with leaden bullets, and then requests ■ some one to shoot at him, appearing to B catch the bullet in his mouth. This time B be failed to substitute a pasteboard bullet, |B Ami V B te lle dead. ■ FOREIGN. I V>in is ,i ■ ?-'*}><:,( ir-ii B The Ameer of Afghanistan is dead. ■ Martin Farquhar Tupper, the poet, died ’ B at London, Friday. fl qW. H. Harney was hanged at Guelph, B Ont., Friday, for murdering his wife and ■) two daughters. ■ The editor of the Pottsdam Zeitung is to B~b Aplaced oirtrial for having stated in hia I paper that the Kaiser recently rode in a B second class cab.