Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Hatfleld-McCoy feud is on again. Sunday, 1,775 emigrants landed in New York. Chicago’s population is estimated at 1,852,000. Buffalo, N. Y., had three fatal sunstrokes Wednesday. Santa Rosa, CaL, reported two shocks of earthquake.on the 30th. Georgia Republicans will not name a State ticket, but will nominate to Congress. The National Sulphur Company has been incorporated in Kentucky. Capital, #lO,000,000. The forest fires near Boulden, Col.,have been extinguished. Nearly 2,500 acres of trees were burned. The Louisiana Senate amended the lottery .bill, making the annual payments $1,250,000, and then passed it. A tornado visited Gallatin. Tenn., on the <39th, blowing down a colored ‘church and fatally injuring two of the worshippers. George A. Parkhurst, an actor who was on the stage of Ford’s Theater when Linooln was shot, died at New York on the 3d. Census returns indicate that Cleveland, has a population of 265,000, a gain of 105,000; Pittsburg, 240,000; Alegheny City, 105,000. Young Wallace and his accomplice, who robbed his uncle of $50,000, was Wednesday sentenced in New York to eight years’ hard labor in State prison. Maine Democrats nominated a State ticket on the 2d. A resolution was adopted 1 , by a vote of 145 to 99, submitting to the people again the question of license or prohibition. If New York failes to raise the money for the Grant monument by Sept. 1, a —number ofcx-confederates propose to raise the amount by subscriptions, exclusively from southerners. A statement furnished by Bradstreet’s agency shows that the number of busine: 8 failures during the past six months is 452 less than for the corresponding period of 1889. The liabilities are $4,743,749 less. Superintendent Porter states that tho population of the United States is 64,500,000. The complete official returns will all be in within thirty days. The population of the United States by the census of 1880 was 50,155,783. 3=SHBE □ Tne Peabody Institute, at Danvers, Mass., was burned to the ground Wednesday; loss, #75,000. The fire was caused by painters, who were burning the old paint from the building. The building was the gift of George Peabody, and was insured. Reports of a bloody encounter between revenue men and moonshiners in Rowan county. Kv.. are rumored. Three men were killed, but uo names are given There has been intense feeling against the revenue men ever since the last raid, six weeks ago, and the government force has probably been led into an ambuscade. Pennsylvania Democrats met at Scranton on the 2d, and nominated Ex-Governor Pattison for Governor. The resolutions favor ballot reform, extol ex-President Cleveland, denounce Senator Quay and the federal election bill, and arraign the Republican party. The tariff plank is in these words: “That tariff reform is necessary in order that both producers and consumers may be relieved from the burden of necessary taxation.” The Lpuisiana Legislature’ has passed the lottery bill by a vote sufficient to pass it over the veto of the Governor should he veto it. When the vote on the lottery bill was being taken Wednesday night in the Senate, in explaining his vote, Mr. Foster said: “For my country and her honor, for my State and her fair name, for her dead; aid for her living, I vote no.” Mr. Posey; said in explanation: “For my country and her poor, helpless insane, and for her on-' ward march and future, I vote yes.” ' It is estimated that the brief and unsuccessful strike ea the Chicago divi- : sion of the Illinois Central Rail road last week involves a loss to! that coporation of SI,OOO per hour, or a total of #IOO,OOO. This does not include thq,extra expense which was forced upon. 5,000 suburban residents vyho live out of range of the.cable cars and other modes of. transportation, and who were forced to remain in town at hotels while the trouble' was in progress. The loss of wages to the employees will probably reach another #20,000. Thd following will appear in this week’s Farmers’ Review: As a rule, chop conditions have improved ia the States covered by our report. This improvement is, in most cases, due to heavy rain fall, accompanied by hot weather. The condition of the soil is reported wet in Dakota and Kentucky, and sufficiently moist in lowa Indiana and Minnesota. Rain has fallen in Nebraska, but many counties in that State are still suffering from drought Parts of Kansas, Missouri and Illinois are getting dry. Spring wheat in South Dakota has greatly improved and is now up to tho usufl average condition.

1 FOREIGN. It is row becoming clear that the San Salvador President was the victim of a political conspiracy. He was poisoned. Under a law which went into effect Wednesday, life imprisonment is now toe penalty of reporting Canadian fortifications or armanent to other powers. The hot weather of the past week has been extraordinary. At many places the temperature reached 100 degrees and more, and fatalities are reported from .all directions. In Chicago on the 29th twelve fatal cases of prostration were reported, .and 117 other cases are said to have occurredEight fatal cases were reported from St. Louis. The temperature at Terre Haute reached 104. Horses ire reported to have fallen dead while working in the fields. At Peru the thermometer reached 102, the hottest ever known there. Eatal prostrations are reported from Peru, Crawfords ville, Bloomington, 111., and many otber places. Eighteen cases of prostration occurred at Cincinnati.

Two former Vaasar students are tbs editors and publishers of a weekly paper at Atlantic Highlands. They are said to be practical, enterprising girls who are running their Journal on strictly business-like principles, and are making it a sucoesa.