Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. A Memphis firm estimates the cotton jhalfLat 7,124,000 bales. Harvey Carlton was hanged at New York Friday for the murder of a policeman. A combination of the Farmer organizations and the Knights of Labor was effected at St. Louis, Friday. One thousand Lynn workmen have registered as out of work. Thirty-seven thousand dollars has been contributed to relieve sufferers. By the action of the Kansas City Council, Monday night, twenty-two square miles of territory were added to the corpo rate limits of that city. It is positively stated that an American company has established a line of steamers from New York to the Argentine Republi via Havana and Vera Cruz. A mystei’ious explosion occurred. In a Newark, N. J., brewery, Tuesday, and caused aloss of $125,000. For a time tho streets flowed with beer, j St. Francis Xavier Church, Dyersville, la., the finest church edifice in the State, was dedicated, Wednesday, by Bishop Hennessy, assisted by fifty priests. Dudley M. Flowers, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, was fined SB6, Monday, for participating in a hazing at the beginning of the school year. W. O. Marquis, Wednesday, filed at Columbus, o.,the necessary papers contesting the office of Lieutenant Governor upon E. i L. Lampson,who had twenty-two majority. Samuel Spencer, Tuesday, cut his Throat ,in Albany, N. Y., because he was poor; and when he was dead S4OO in gold and bank credits for $3,000 were found about him. - It is said that R. G. Wood, the man accused of forging tbe names of Governor fleet Campbell and others to documents inthe ballot box case, which figured 30 largely in the late Ohio camppign, has confessed. Miss Emma L. Ross, of Macon, Ga., has surprised that city by ignoring thereligion of her fathers, and become a nun. She is wealthy and well known, her father, now ; deceased, having been a very prominent # litizen. Fire destroyed the bake shop of Gustave Gross, in Philadelphia, early Tuesday morning. The family of Mr. Cros3 lived "in tho second story, and his wife, four ffiildren and Mrs. Annie Bettnor were suffocated. Four workmen were badly injured and two killed at Wilkesbarre,Pa. .Wednesday by being run over by a train. They hast stepped from one track to avoid a train, and did net observe another tram on the ither track. The New York World has polled Congress on the question of location of the World’s Fair. The total number of Senators and Representatives interviewed was 531; of these 48 favored New York, 67 Chicago, 22 Si. Louis, 36 Washington, and’ 1 158 wero non-committal. The ofllciartTanvass of the lowa voto was made Thursday. Boies (Dorn.) for Governor has 180,111; Hutchison (.ltep.) 173,648; Boie3’ plurality, 6,573. All of the rest of the Democratic ticket was defeated, the Republican candidates being elected by pluralities ranging from 1,584 for Lieuten-int-Governor Poyncr, to 8,480 for Smith, railroad commissioner. Tbe Prohibition vote for Governor has not been canvassed yet, but will bo about 1,500. Tho Union labor vote will probable be 5,500.

□ Warden Brush is preparing for the exeutionof Charts by 'electricity, which is to take place at Sing Sing during the week beginning December 9. At a meeting of R. E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans, held at Richmond, Va., Friday night, a letter was read and ordered to be forwarded to Jefferson Davis expressing sympathy for him, and saying that their affection and veneration for him is still as great as it was when he was President of the Confederacy. Judge Anderson at Salt Lake, Saturday in an elaborate and carefully-prepared opinion, denied the * applications “Tor citizenship made by Mormons who had taken Endowment-house oaths in the Mormon Church. The application has created wide-spread attention, and for the past two weeks Judge Anderson has been taking testimony. In his decision, he states the ground of his opposition to the admission of such applicants to be that “the Mormon Church is, and always, has been, a treasonable organization in its teachings, and in its practices hostile to the government of the United States; disobedient to ts laws, and seeking its overthrow, and that the oath administered to its members in the Endowment-house binds them under penalty of death to implicit obedience in all things temporal, as well as spiritual, to the priesthood, and to avenge the death of the prdphets, Joseph and Hyt | [ra Smith, flpon the government and peo pie of the United States. Governor Gordon, of Georgia, delivered an address at Chicago, Saturday night, in bphaTf of the proposed Confederate monument in that oity. “War,” he said, “though often calamitous, is not always evil. Justifiable war, however grievous for the present, may work for the people a might of popular good and national glory. Even a war waged against rebellious subjects may be such. The revolution of 1776 is a living example. The resistance by our fathers was a Just reward, a rebellion true, con 1 certod, deliberate rebellion, but it was a [ paradox of history, a rebellion for defense I —defense against the demands against I personal liberty. Our war of 1861 was the i only war where it might Basely be claimed on both sidvS to be a war for defense—for. ’ the North a defense of the integrity of tho Republic—to the South a .defense of the rights of tho States, of home, property, guaranteed rights, and, therefore, of guar I anteed freedom. It is immaterial to in quire which was right The war and all the actors in it will yet Be tried before the Impartial Judge of all, in the impartial forum of all. When the final verdict it given, no more consecrated purposes, nc more exalted ideas can be shown than those on both sides in the great contest.” FOREIGN. The platform of a theater atWienhen, ir the province of Shantung, China, oollapset during a performance. Two hundred per sons ware killed.