Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Chicago has finally concluded to hold the fair on the lake front. An attempt was made on the 24th to burn the Grand Union Hotel, N. Y. Natural gas and oil have been found ip the westefxrpaTTsrMahoning"county, O. At a special election at Batavia, 0., local option was defeated by a majority of twen-ty-eight. Four men were killed in a battle between the Smith and Messer factions in Knox county. Ky. Seventeen men were wounded by the explosion of a cupola in Cassidy & Adler's foundry in New York. Tin mines of fabulous value have been found in San Bernardino county, Cal. An English syndicate has secured them. Two men were blown to atoms on the 24th by the explosion of the Laflin & Rand powder works at Mountain View, N. J. A strike on the railroads at Lexington, Ky.,. has caused the destruction of hun dreds of car loads of perishable freight. T. M. B. Cook, a widely known Republican politician of Jasper county, Miss., was assassinated, on the 25th, by political oppo nejits. The accident ~oh the lake at Red Wing. Minn., bj which more than a hundred lives were lost was vastly due to the overloading of the boat, John P. Bucbahan, the Democratic nominee for Governor in Tennessee, was a Confederate soldier and is a first cousin of President Buchanan. Captain i William Ellington, a famous Union scout, and his son W. E., were murdered in Arkansas a.few days ago. No particulars are at hand. Great excitement prevails. The American schooner William Rice has been burned at sea. The whole crew, consisting of sixteen persons, perished. The vessel was on a voyage from Cape Ann to Ireland.

John Harris, the largest man in Illinois, died Saturday night at his home near Tuscola. He was seventy years of age, and his weight for many years past has been between 600 and 700 pounds. The proposed boycott of Northern goods by the South in case the election bill becomes a law, is being seriously agitated. Governor Gordon, of Georgia, has written a letter favoring such proceedure, Talman, the Farmers’ Alliance candidate for Governor of South Carolina, refused to speak at Charleston the:24th, though pres, ent, declaring that he feared assassination. A guard accompanies him all the time. Minnesota and Nebraska Republicans held State conventions and nominated tickets on the ‘24th. The platform endorses the administration and all enacted and proposed measures of the party in power. A South Dakota Judge holds that the' Supreme Court “original package” decision does not only apply to that State, the enabling act for its admission having been passed subsequent to the interstate com-* merce law. A r iot was narrowly averted at Marion S. C., when a correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier denounced Captain Tillman, leader of the Alliance men, as a liar whilethe latter was addressing a political meeting. B. F. Spinney, of Colorado Springs, Col., was kidnapped by a Texan to whom he owed $2,000, and carried into the mountains and held for ransom. A brotherinslaw craised the money and followed Neither has returned and both are believed dead. North Dakota elevator men, impelled by a tax which proves onerous, will refuse to store the new wheat crop, and, as a consequence, the producers, having no place of storage, will be obliged to sell at the price offered by middlemen. The crop is “very large, and the farmers will suffer greatly from this action. . ■ j. The Brotherhood of Railway Firemen of Hartford passed resolutions favoring the passage of the bill pending in Congress requiring all railroads to use automatic brakes and couplings oh freight trains he resoluti ons also pledged the members of the brotherhood to do all In their power to prevent trainmen from working on. Sunday. B. S. Loventhalc& Co., of Nashville, have opened an original package liquor house at Russellville, Ky., a town which has local prohibition. Their men were arrested, but gave bond, and the outlook is that they can not be forced to close. The citizens held an indignation meeting, and passed a resolution asking Congressman Goodnight to vote for the bill counteracting the original package decision. syivania railroad struck a two-horse team and a driver at a crossing near Herr's Station, Pa. The driver and team were killed instantly. A gang of laborers who were constructing a sewer at the roadside became so frightened at the accident that they let go their h6ld on a large cast iron pipe. The pipe fell into the ditch and upon two men, killing one and fatally injuring the other. There is no sentiment in Savannah, Ga., as far as can be ascertained,, in favor of the scheme indorsed by Governor Gordon to boycott the business men or the North in the event of the passage of the Force bill. Savannah business men dre trying to arouse a sentiment among the business men of the North against the h&l. Their Board of Trade has passed resolutions with that end in view, and these resolutions as a circular are being (sent over the country. V The recent trial of several bfficials and employes of the Michigan Central Railroad Company, in Chicago, for violation of the provisions of the interstate-commerce act, demonstrated the weakness of the law and that railroad corporations, as such, could hot be reached under the penalty section of

the law. Attorney Ewing, who prosecuted | the case, has been in correspondence with Senator Cullom upon the subject, and has proposed a substitute for the section, intended to remedy the defects existing law. This substitute has been under consideration by the Shnate committee on interstate-commerce and was , favorably discussed. The committee has also under consideration the preposition of. Chairman Walker to. legalist, under the supervision of the Interstate Commission, the pooling of competitive interstate

! freight traffic, and Senator Gorman’s bill to require Canadian railroads desirous of engaging in traffic originating in or billed to the United States to first secure a license therefor from the commission, which license may be revoked or suspended on proof of failure to observe the provisions of the interstate act. All these propositions were favorable received, and would doubtless be reported to the Senate if there was a chance of securing action at this session of Congress. They may be reported at some future date anyhow-.-FOREIGN. Bismarck has been warned not to publish the letters he received from Emperor Frederick. Sjo great is the depreciation of Spanish paper money in Cuba, that gold is quoted at $2.43, while flour is selling at $12.25, gold, per barrel. ' -: Mr. Parnell has performed one of his amous disappearances, and nobody knows where he. is. „J3e_Js--not- expected to be heard from again before November. It is reported that the Princess Elizabeth, of Austria, will embark during August on a yachting tour, in the course of which she will visit the American coast. Dr. Parker, the eloquent but eccentric pulpit orator of London, announces that he has withdrawn from membership in the Peace Society on account of the refusal of the recent congress of the Society to open its sessions with prayer. News has jU3t been received confirming reports of the success of the Salvadorian forces beyond the frontier in Guatemalan territory. The San Salvador army hhs now gained six battles and has captured quantities of arms and ammunition. Many have been killed and wounded on both sides. The San Salvadorian forces are now pushing their way into the interior of Guatemala, and are meeting with success every step. Great enthusiasm prevails. The intention is to overthrow the govern? ment of President Barillas before coming to any agreement with Guatamala. San Salvador is determined to free herself from the yoke of Guatamala, and assure her own liberty and independence.