Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1890 — THE NEWS Of THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS Of THE WEEK.

<?has. Loring, an electrician in jail at Tuesday was Gcaud Army day at Battle Ground, near Lafayette. An insane man of North Adams, Mass, seriously stabbed two chambermaids. It is reported that Jay Gould has purchased the Castle of Chepultepec for |5,000,000. ■* • General and generous rains are reported in Kansas, but said to be too late to save the crops. A water-wheel burst at Worwood, 0., on Tuesday evening, and three men lost their lives. The men ok the New York Central struck, Friday night, on account of the discharge of certain employes. Returns from the election in Kentucky indicate the election of the Democratic State ticket by 31,000. The Louisiana Lottery Co. are using money and threats to defeat adverse legislation at Washington. At Council Bluffs, la., Mrs. Tabitha Harringford was struck by a Rock Island express train and killed.

Thera is a report that the rope and cordage man u factu rers of the United States are about to f orm a trust. Charles McCaffrey, the Canadian bridge jumper, while giving an exhibition in Bos ton, on the 3rd, Was killed. Jacob Diamond, a New York merchant, is in jail in Chicago, charged by his wife with bigamy and the abduction of their child. census of Chicago, just completed, makes the population 1,208,669. This is about 100,000 more than the Federal census. The prisoners in the Massachusetts State prison, Thursday, attempted to escape, but were held at bay with drawn revolvers. Mrs. Mary DeCamp was found burned to death in the cellar of her residence in Cincinnati. It is not known certainly how the accident occurred. Spencer F. Pritchard, orator and author, died penniless in New York. He died practically of starvation, being too proud toask help from his old friends. Will Johnson, a negro boy, robbed two bouses in ©pelika, Ala., and Thursday killed P. J. Moore, a merchant of Gold Hill, who was trying to arrest him. Mrs. Boersna, of Chicago, attempted to light her fire with kerosene. The can exploded, burning her and her little girl six months old. Both died in live hour's. In Lexington, Ky., Will Richards and Will Jackson went after Tom'lrwine with pistols. Richards iS dbad, Jackson badly wounded, and Irvine unhurt but under arrest. Within the past week 50,000 cartridges have been shipped to Reddick and Monti cello, two towns in a Republican section b lorida. Other towns, also, are being supplied. The official rough count by the Census Bureau shows the population of the city of Philadelphia to be 1,044,894. This is* an increase during the last ten years of 197, 104, or 23.34 per cent. - —j. Near Goodland, I. T., Deputy Marshal W . T. Ladd attempted to arrest Jeff Shoals, a notorioas negro outlaw, and a desperate encounter ensued, in which both Ladd and Shoals were killed. The Michigan Supreme Court held in case of the People vs. Bonchard that a saloon afloat on'Saginaw Bay was not within the bounds of any township and therefore was not amenable to the State tax.

In lowa Indians on the Fort Sill reservation are in an ugly humor because the Government authorities have prohibited t»-t “Sun Dance.” Troops have been ordered to the scene to prevent trouble. James C- Giles. anex-Deputy Marshal,of Kentucky, captured the two men on the >th, who had on the 4th inst. assassinated Jas. T. Middleton, near Harlan, Ky. Giles displayed great nerve in capturing the men »inglo handed. At Louisville a woman entered a jewelry store, and while handling a number of rings from a tray, secreted three in her glove in the palm of her hand. The clerk detected her movements and forced her to give up the rings. Hugh Keogh, who has a contract for ten miles of tho new Norfolk & Western Brunch Railroad, suddenly disappeared owing the business men of Huntington West \ a., $1,500, and other debts along the line of the real. ; The first appearnnee of White Caps in the vicinity of Charleston, West Va., was Sunday night, when they administered a setore whipping to a man living at Malden, and who for some time has been living with tho wife.of another man. Cashier Smith and Vice-president Col tins, of the Cottouwood county Bank of Wiadom, Minn., with their wive-, were eaught in a hailstorm and almost killed. Great gashes were cut in their heads by the hail and their bodies were beaten and blue. Robert B. Skinner, editor of the Massilon (O.) Independent, made unpleasant comments about the members of Company D of tho Ohio State militia encamped at his town. They tossed him iii a blanket and were fined therefor by a Justice of the Peace.

The Nashville Herald locked outitsforc? of union printers Sunday and supplied their places with men from the Printers' Protective fraternity. The trouble grew out of the refusal of the Typographical Union to allow the use of plate matter in tho paper. The sale of the San Jacciatotin property in San Bereardina County, Cal., was com pieted Wednesday, by the first payment of $350,000 cash, thiough the bank of California, and tho deed was delivered to the purchaser, the Sau Jacinto estate company of England. The property' consists of nearly 50,000 acres. ■- •* The weather report of Professor Snow, of the State University, of Kansas, shows that but two Julys in the past twenty-three yerrs have been warmer than the one just closed, and but two Julys ahow less rainfall, The -ainfail for the mouth was only 1 / inches, or —-07 inches below tho average John A. Seed, a prominent farmer, near Sumner, 111., was terribly bitten and torn

by hogs Wednesday. ~ He was feeding two sows which had young pigs. Mr. Seed approached the pigs when both sows attacked him. He turned to run, but fell and was almost devoured before they left him. He will die. William Ross, an employe of the United States Electric Light Company, at Washington, while changing carbons in one of the city electric lights, on the Bth, received j a shock of two thousand volts. He was rendered insensible, but soon recovered, although the flesh of the right hand, where the current entered, and on his left arm where it passed off, was badly-burned: He said that four or five seconds before he became itfsensible he suffered great pain. An old German farmer named Herman ! Rubi, who has occupied a small farm in the vicinity of Bloomingdale, a suburb of F.prt Wayne, died on the 4th inst. in horrible agony. Some time ago deceased was driving his horse, when the animal coughed and blew saliva into the face of its master. Last week Ruhi’s Tace became literally encrusted with small pimples, and these spread over its body until eventually it became a mass of sores. Medical science was of no avail. Dr. Jansen, a local physician, says that death was -due-ta.-bLood poisoning, caused, by the obnoxious matter from the horse becoming absorbed into the man’s system. It is supposed that the animal was suffering from glanders. Conductor Lew Stinson, of tho Evansville & Indianapolis Railroad, while en route to Evansville, espied the body of a man lying near the track,a few miles south of Washington. He stopped liis train and picked the body up. It was cold and stiff, and had evidently been dead for some hours; —Examination of the body revealed - three terrible gashes on the head—one ia the back of the head, one over the right ear and one in the forehead—all of which appeared as if caused by Mows with an ax or hatchet. The body was identified as that of Mr. George Lowrey, one of the wealthiest and most prominent farmers of Daviess county, who was about sixty years of age. He leaves a large family. It is the opinion that ho was murdered and his body placed beside the track.

FOREIGN. Eight hundred dock laborers at Glous eester have gone on a strike. Twenty British soldiers tried to desert their ship at Newport, but were overhauled by a crew of their faithful comrades. Cattle disease is raging with disastrous effect in the southern provinces of Russia, and a strict quarantine of those regions is being observed. At a mass meeting of the employers of South Wales Wednesday, it was decided that the time had come for them to offer united resistence to the tyranny of the workmen. In view of the strike coal has risen one shilling. Of late there has been an appalling ber of suicides among children in Germany. A large percentage of these seifs murders have taken place among school children as the rssult of overstudy, failure to pass examinations and similar causes. Shipping firms say that the port of London lias been greatly injured by the recent strikes; that the tendency of the ocean carriage is toward Liverpool, and that steamers which would be discharged and loaded in Liverpool in four days and rn London in e'ght days before the strike, have occupied twelve days since that event. It is claimed that the dock laborers purposely delay work in order to get extra pay after hours.