Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

•* - T -i nnuFßTifi. ~_j A lake steamer trust is forming. Memphis preachers don’t read Sunday papers. blizzard visited the northwest ' Monday. i L Ex-Senator Riddleberger, of Virginia, I died Friday. I Ex-Senator Riddleberger is said to be seriously sick. I Governor Fifer, of Illinois, is a sufferer from the grip. Ttvo masked tpen id Wyoming . robbed a mail coach of 1800. One cattleman in Washington has lost 2,000 head of cattle. Settlers are suffering in nineteen coupties of South Dakota. Six business-blocks at Utica, 111., were destroyed by fire Tuesday. There are no indications of a break in the lowa legislative dead lock. The “gold briek” swindle cost Clark Adams, of Covington. 0., $5,500. Miss Ella Gaston, of Barbour County, Alabama, has been converted to Judaism. Fire destroyed the Elliott Avenue Bap tist church at Springfield, 111., Sunday night Sing Sing Prison in New York will be moved across the river to the hills of JJlster county. • —" J -~ Twenty-five Chinese laborers passed through Pittsburg Tuesday en route to New York. The farms and houses of 340 persons werjj sold for taxes at Nicholas Ville, Ky., on Monday. ~ (Georgia observed Tuesday, the 20th, as a holiday, it being General Lee’s birthday

anniversary. Eight passenger trains are snowed in at Bates City, Ore. Three passengers died in the blockade. A natural gas explosion at Pittsburg Wednesday killed one man and injurred six other persons . A bill to allow women to prae tice law in the Virginia courts was reported adversely in the Virginia Legislature. The Kentucky State Senate passed the bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to boys under eighteen years of age. B. P. Hutchison (Old Hutch) has been robbed of from $.15,000 to $40,000 by a combine tion of his clerks, who are now in Canada.

Many farms in southern Illinois are almost submerged with water. Thousands of bushels of corn in that part of the State remain ungathered. A brewer who was expelled from the Chicago Union for not paying an assessment for the defense of the Anarchists, was awarded 1900 damages. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided, Tuesday, that when a passenger fails to procure a ticket the railroad company may charge extra fare. Brice is charged with offering John H Thomas a Cabinet position in 1892 as an inducement to him to withdraw from the recent senatorial contest in Ohio. In many parts of the west the thermome ter fell from 10 to 36 degrees below zero Wednesday, the latter temperature being registered at Black River Falls. Wis, The whites and blacks of West Point, Ga., Saturday night, while under the influence of liquor, came in collision. Two black men were ki'led and one badly injured. No white man was seriously injured. James Fortner, the defaulting treasurer of Ripley county, Kansas, announces his intention of committing suicide in a novel manner. He prefers death, he says, to the punishment for his crime, and he has resolved to die of starvation. Robert Garrett, the great railroad magnate, who some time ago lost his mind, but who was believed to have recovered, is kept under strict surveillance. It is intimated that his wife’s family has an ulterior object in this surveillance. Henry A. Phillips, of New York, one of the pension reraters, declines to resign, though asked to do so, and writes a jaunty letter to Secretary Noble, who bounced him Tuesday and made W. H. Reynolds, of Pennsylvania, his successor. George McGuire, of Michigan City, has pleaded guilty to drunkenness four times within the past twelve months, and the third time the Mayor fined him and gave him thirty days’ imprisonment. After his release he again began dissipating, which led to his arrest, and the Mayor thereupon ! salted him sor thirty dayß, besides fine and costs of prosecution, to which was added disfranchisement for one year. The jurisdiction of the Mayor of Michigan City seems to be unlimited. Mrs. Edward M. Henderson killed herself in New York, Mondaj night, by throwing herself from the top of a building, because she could not procure honorable employment. In a note she left she said: “Women, who were so ignorant that I felt sorry for them, would not take me in their kitchens because 1 could not show'city references,’and I tried to explain that I never had to work before, but because I ~ was not bom and bred in the gutter, I presume I must starve. Such is life in charitable New York. There is help for all but the genteel poor, and they are the ones whos’ .ffer most; but I have the satisfaction of knowing that I have tried and would have done honest work, even to scrubbing. I could have got plenty of shady work. Widowers who advertise for housekeepers, and then gently insinuate that you add wifely duties to domestic ar rangements are very plenty in this city, but Ido not approve of. such economy. I have been so indignant that I would like to have shot off the top of their heads, the old fools." In his inaugural address sent to the New Jersey legislature Tuesday, Governor Leon Abbott comes out flat-looted in favor of boll at reform. He says that the best sentiment of the country in all the States demands ballot reform and honest elec-

tions. The system which he stronglv commends provides for the registration of every voter; absolute secrecy of the ballot, an exclusively official ballot, with a pro. hibitio'i of tne use of any other; the setting aside aside of an election in any precinct whenever the courts shall be satisfied that the electors for any reason have been d curl rod «.f a fair opportunity to express their choice at the ballot box; the Mfht of romipation by petition; a limitaUn of tbs amount which may be legally

r | spent in or for any election, and declaring the,election void should this amount be ! exceeded by any candidate or any person acting for nr in.hifrfeeh&ifi the pubiierttkm |by every candidate of an itemized statement under oath of all money’s expended | at such election by him or with bis knowl- i edge, and a failure so to do rendering the «election void. INFLUENZA NOTES. I Three fatal eases of grippe are reported from Fort Wayne. A rapid swelling of the tongue, which chokes its victim to death, is a peculiarity , of “la grippe” reported from Chicago. FOREIGN. French t a mdiaus favor annexation to the United states. Portuguese merchants have resolved to boycott English, goods. An alien labor bill was introduced Wednesday in the Canadian Parliament Camille Doubs, a French explorer, was murdered in the Sahara desert by his guides. Four thousand merchants of Lisbon * paraded the.streets Monday night, shouting ' “war to England.” ) Cholera is raging with frightful viru lence in Mesopotami. Already there have been 3,000 deaths from the disease. ETnglish residents of Portugal have been j compelled to forswear the country and become naturalized citizens of Portugal. For several days past Captain O’Shea 1 has been in receipt of letters of anonymous origin threatening his life in the event of the continuance of his prosecution of Mr. ' Parnell as co-respondent with Mrs. O’Shea , in his suit for divorce.

The Portuguese Geographical Society,-of-) Lisbon, Tuesday gave a reception to Mr. 1 Loring, the United States minister. Mr. j Loring was introduced to the members j of the association by the president. Mr. i Loring was given an enthusiastic ova- j tion. . I Counterfeiting on a gigantic scale, it is ' stated, has been carried on on the Mexican 1 side of the Rio Grande, of American 1 money. It is charged that in the past two j years $5,000,000 of the counterfeit has been | floated. There may be no truth in the re- i port. v 1 The French Chambers of Deputies held j a warm debate Monday over the rights of | French fishermen in Newfoundland waters, j A protest was made against the exclusion i of French fishermen from those waters. The i debate grew so warm and personal that the | Boulangist members left the Chambers in a' I body. i