Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

DOMESTIC. The usual number of New Year erime are reportedIn IS§9, 1860 locomotives were built in this country. ' The public debt was reduced $3,128,093 during December. J ' Chicago gambling shops are being closed by the authorities. - | Kansas made 1,293,275 pounds of sor ghum sugar last year. “Governor McKinley, of Virginia, was inaugurated Wednesday. Four boys were suffocated in a sandbank at Jackson, Tenn., on the Ist. Three'inen were killed by a boiler exploding in Illinois, near Mt. Vernon, Ind., on the Ist. The wife of General Longstreet, died at the General’s home .in Gainesville, Ga., Tuesday. W- L. Sanders. Republican, was elected U. S. Senator by the Montana Legislature Tuesday. Mrs. Addie Marquis, wife of Ohio's Lieuenant Governor elect, died at Bellefon taine, 0., Tuesday. Alexander Hamilton, jr., grandson of the first Secretary of the Treasury, died at New York Tuesday, aged 61, : - Monday evening Miss Dollie Brown, aged seven-one, died while kneeling in prayer at her bedside, at Middletown, N. Y. land, was on the 2d sentenced to hang for the murder of little Maggie Thompson. Ex-Methodist Minister James P. Wright, but recently a Richmond (VaAlettor car rier? is under arrest as a mail robber. Mr. Sol White, the most prominent an nexationist in Canada, was Monday nominated Mayor of Windsor by acclamation. Jackson, the colored Australian pugilist, has cabled hiS Acceptance of the Sullivan challenge of the California Althletic Club. A married woman named Saulter abandoned her husband and three children at New York for the sake of a comparative stranger. The Republicans of Montana on the 2d elected T. C. Power, the defeated candidate for Governor, as the second U. S. Senator. Sarah and Anna Kelley, two aged sisters living in Philadelphia, had their throats cut on the night of the 2d by robbers. They will both recover. The Indians object to the Hampton and Carlisle schools because the pupils die of pulmonary troubles soon after returning to their reservations. Miss Bessie Ellis and Miss Cora Moffett, of Findlay, 0., while driving near Muncie Monday were thrown out in a runaway accident and badly injured. An American steamship captain just from Brazil says the people are not satis fied with the present state of affairs and predicts another revolution soon. Huntington politicians are moving to have J ohn I. Dille, of-'that city, who is Register of the Land Office at Guthrie, promoted to the Governorship of Oklahoma Territory. The President’s reception New Year’ day was attended by all the notables in the capital, and is said to have been the most successful affair of the kind ever given in the White House. The Wyoming axle works, at Wilkes barre, Pa., the largest plant of the kind in the country, has been sold to an English syndicate at a price said to be nearly a million dollars. Professor Blaine, principal teacher at Chemewa Indian Training School, near Salem, Oregon, and brother of Secretary James G. Blaine, died, Tuesday, after a brief illness, at the age of sixty-three. The Sheriff of Atlanta, Ga., has seized the Pullman car Saurus for taxes. The Pullman company refused to maire returns according to law, hence the seizure. The company will take the Case to the Supreme Court, claiming that the tax is unconstitutional. Under a new law San Antonio; Texas, is licensing gambling establishments, houses of prostitution and inmates of the latter. Already 7,000 licenses have" been issued and still not more than a third who require them have been licensed. There is a conflict of authority between officials and the county attorney will prosecute all who procure licenses. The Farmers’ Alliance, St te Grange and Knights of Labor, of Kansas, have I formed an offensive and defensive alliance, | according to the recommendations of the recent farmers’ convention and the Knights of Lalor convention. The object of the combination is to co-operate in Kansas bus iness and politics. The combined alii, ances number in their ranks over 125,000 members. Charles C. Crecelius, late cashier of the Fifth National Bank of St. Louis, under arrest for over two years, was released Tuesday from his bond, by action of District Attorney Reynolds, in entering a nolle prosequi. Crecelius was charged with having caused the failure of thebauk by manipulating the books. The action of the United States Attorney has claused much surprise.

An interesting case was received Thurs day evening at John Hopkins’ hospital. The patient has animals in the shape of 1 snakes living in his blood. He is from 1 Charleston, S. C., and has suffered from this peculiar disease for twenty years. At times his blood has been examined unde the microscope and the snake-shaped parasites have always been found present. A Washington special says the President has made up his mind about Secretary Windom’s recommendation that the Government shall accept silver bullion and ISsuX certificates therefor at the market rates, the certificates to serve as currency. Mr. Harrison has adopted Secretary Windom’s view about this matter. He goes even further than Mr. Windom in his approval of the project. He is impressed with its economic soundness as a principle, believes jn its beneficent effect upon the prosperity of the country, and regards it as a brilliant step toward the determina. tionof the silver problem. So much he has not hesitated to say, and there is little doubt that be will express this opinion in a communication to Congress at an early day, ( er beamy determine to ssake his opiaion

known in some other way. A bill embouing the recommendations of the Secretory t will be submitted to Congress very soo.i It is likely to be offered simultaneously iboth Houses. Its fate in the House oi Representatives is problematical. Then, is little doubt that a majority of'the Republican Senators and some of the Demo cratic members of the Senate favor the bill, and it is likely first to pass that body. News has been received at the Johns Hopkins University from Prof. Merriweather, who recently accepted the position of Professor of English and History in the Tokio University, Japan. Upon arriv- ■ ing in Japan he was received with great ! ceremony and every mark of honor. A special palace was given him as his resi dence,'with more than fifty servants. A stable containing some of the finest horses in the kingdom was placed at his disposal, and in every way he was treated with royal splendor. ! A sensatson has been caused at Balti- j more by a speech delivered before the ; Maryland Democratic editors by Senator Gorman. He inveighed against the Australian ballot system and denounced most vigorously the secret ballot. Mr. Gorman said that two years ago the Legislature j passed an election law that suited the sen- I timentals, but which resulted in the ruling , out of one section of the State . (Southern ! Maryland!) by a people who never should be permitted to dominate over the whites. be labeled a law to throw the Democratic party out of power. It had been tried in Boston, Minneapolis and elsewhere with disastrous results to the Democrats. INFLUENZA NOTES. - ■ Muncie's schools are closed. The London police force has it bad. In Prague and Dresden it is increasing. Johnnie Cronin, a Bos ton cripple, died of it. Lord Salisbury got his from the Russian J mail. | Nearly, all of the Missouri State officials are sick. Grip is greatly increasing New York's death rate. John Bussey, of Indianapolis, died of the grippe on the 2d. Northern Italy is badly affected and Mex-! ico has caught on. La grippe is losing its hold, though re ported in various localities Louis Nathal, the well-known, author and ’ dramatist, died at New York. John C. Eno has it at Quebec and nearly all the Sing Sing convicts are with him. | The Dutch railway in Holland restricts transportation, employes being grippetl. Harvey Jones died at Scottdale, Pa. George Weaton at Connellsville and Frank Chaffee at Providence. Influenza has invaded the London shops ' and more than half the men and women ' employed there are prostrated. FOREIGN. Parnell denies O’Shea’s charges. The San Salvador revolution is ended. The Laeken royal palace at Brussels burned on the Ist. The Sultan has signed a measure to suppress Negro traffic in Turkey. At a bull fight at Villa Lerdo, Mexico, ! Monday, the amphitheater fell, and nearly 100 persons were injured, several fatally, i Nihilists have again been plotting against the Czar’s life. A plot was frustra- < ted Tuesday. The Ciar’s recent illness is due, it ia, claimed, to poisoning. Luis O. Cortez, Secretary of the City Council of Havana, Cuba, has decamped with $200,000 of the public money. He was arrested at New York on the 3d. The Berlin Tagblatte says it has infor ination that Dr. Peters and the members of his party are certainly alive, and that the expedition is marching between Kenia and Baringo. j About 4 o’clock Monday morning all the prisoners in the New Laredo (Mexico) jail made a break for liberty and escaped. There were twelve in all. The prisoners all succeeded in reaching the American side of the river beyond the jurisdiction of Mexico. - ~ | Dr. Schweinfurth, writing from Cairo, protests against the assertion that he declared Stanley’s expedition was the cause of the conspiracy against Emin Pasha. He declares that Stanley record is unequaled and unique, and perhaps will never be rivaled. | A crowded meeting of the London Labor League was held-Monday, at which resolutions were passed protesting against the importation of foreign pauper labor, and urginsr the Government to emulate the action of'the United States with regard tc this growing evil, Dr. W. Oswell Livingstone, the only surviving son of David Livingstone, the famous African explorerer, died Tuesday night at his home in London. Almost with his dying breath he regretted that he could not live to see Stanley again. He was born in Africa thirty-nine years ago.