Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The business portion of Pembroke, Ry., was nearly destroyed by fire. It is reported from Ghicago that Minister Lincoln is coming home to stay. McVicker’s theater, of Chicago, burned on the night of the 26th, with a loss of •200,000. galvator ran a mile at Monmouth Park on the 26th in the remarkable time of 1:35*. The loss by the “Old Colony" wreck is estimated at $500,000, not counting damage to rolling stock. Cincinnati, Sunday, reported three murders and two probably fatal assaults within four hours. Cincinnati has decided to discontinue the employment of married women as teachers in the public schools. Headquarters of the Louisiana Lottery Company in Washington City, was raided by the authorities and books and tickets seizdd.

New York is undergoing a brickfamine. The manufacturers have restricted operations in order to punish walking delegates and boycotters. Representative Lewis F. Watson, of Warren, Pa., dropped dead in the botannical gardens at the foot of the capitol grounds to-day of heart disease. Three morocco leather manufacturers near Lynn, Mass., opened their shops Monday with non-union men. It is said that others will do the same thing. The California mare Sunol trotted a mile against timeatWashington Park, on Saturday in 2:10*, lowering the four" year-old record of 2:11* made by herself. The Sons of Veterans, in session at St. Joseph, Mo., on the 28th, elected L. I. Webb, of Kansas, Commander-in-Chief. The session was a most successful one in all respects. Wisconsin Democrats on the 27th nomi-

nated George W. Beck, mayor of Mil" waukee, for Governor. The platform fav ors the absolute repeal of the Bennett educational law. The scene of the Tongue river gold excitement, though properly in Wyoming, is on Montana’s border, and many believe extends into that State. The excitement in northwe t Wyoming has reached fever heat The remains of John Ericsson, the in" ven tor, were sent to Sweden Saturday on board the cruiser Baltimore. There was an imposing military and civic demonstration on shore, and a great naval display in the harbor.

The total count of the population of the State of Idaho, as made by Mr. W. C. Hunt, of the Population Division, and announced by the Census Bureau to-day, is 84,239. In 18S0 the population was 32,610; Increase, 51,61,9 f or 18.9 per cent. !»n V. |Koester was arrested in Philadelphia, Tuesday, charged with ; embezzling $7,000 from a number of societies In Minneapolis of which he was treasurer. At a hearing the prisoner acknowledged being an embezzler, but claimed the amount taken was only $2,000.

General Grant’s old regiment, the Twenty-first Illinois Infantry, will hold their sixteenth annual reunion at Decatur, 111., October 8 and 9. The members of the Twenty-first will ask that the remains of their old commander be taken either to Washington or to Illinois.

The tunnel under t the St. Clair river between Port Huron, Mich., and Savina Canada, was praotically completed on the 36th, when the workmen from either end shook hands under the St. Clair river. It is the largest river tunnel in the world. It is eleven feet longer than tho Brooklyn bridge.

Numerous burglaries at Washington oauseff tho organization of a self-appointed police force, which assumed the duty of watching after nightfall. Their first victim was Frank Wilkins, an estimable young man, who, while returning from work, was fired upon by these cranks, as he ran for his life. Twenty gullets were sent whistling in his direction, all of them flying wild.

A dispatch from Seattle, Wash., says: Passengers on the steamer Arago confirm the report that Mt. Bogosloy, Alaska, is in a state of eruption. The steamer left Ounalaska July 3, and at that time the volumes of steam and smoke could be seen issuing from the volcano, while at night pillars of fire, thousands of feet in height, were discernable for miles. Mt. Bogosloy has been in a state of active eruption eve since. The sight is a grand one, and mariners hope the activity will continue, as it serves as alight house in guiding vessels through Ounamak Pass. Steam and smoke have been seen to issue from the center, and fire and lava were daily expected to be seen issuing from tho mouth. The strike on the New York Central is not to be further extended. This was decided on the 26th at Terre Haute, the Supreme Council decided to extend sym. pathj and approve the strike in a long series of resolutions but to offer no other assistance in calling out other enjploy.es.nr. extending it to other roads. This action virtually deals the death blow to tho strike. The road is now doing business with considerable regularity, and adding daily to the strength of its position, and it now only remains for those on a strike to give up tho contest. The action of the Council is a keen disappointment to all who de sired to have the strike end successfully. Powderly’s course was approved but nothing will be done to aid him financially or otherwise. A monster labor meeting was held at Albany Monday night, which was addressed by Powderly. He advised moderation. Admiral Brown, of the flagship Charleson, which has arrived here from Honolulu' expressed the belief in an interview that the next steamer from the Hawaiian Islands will briug news of a revolutjpn and prob. ably of the declaration of anW Republic' He said: “Hitherto the Hawaiian Governmeut has b?en managed largely by Europeans and Americans, hut the educated natives were beginning to feel that they were competent to conduct tin Hawaiian government, and that the pan played by foreigners in the control ol affairs was tin unwarrantable interference with their sacred rights. Accordingly the schooled natives have gathered around Them a band of followers, daily increasing

in strength, who have raised the cry ‘Hawaii for Hawailans.’ The revolution ists want the offices at the disposal of the government. The malcontents have, in meetings with the mechanics’ union, passed resolutions asking that this patronago be given to and members of their own party. The request has been ignored by the government.” , --

FOREIGN. Moussa Bey has been banished to Mecca Russia has presented a nice warship to Montenegro. , Lord Salisbury says the time is ripe to evacuate Egypt. Emperor William left Russia “highly pleased with his reception," as the society editor would s^y.^■ At London 5,000 dock laborers adopted resolutions of sympathy with the New York Central strikers. Emperor William left St. Petersburg homeward bound Sunday night. The parting with the Czar was very cordial. Buffalo Bill’s “Wild West” show opened in Hamburg to one of the largest assemblages of people ever known in that city. Two deaf mutes of unsound mind killed a child near Buckingham, Que., and ate portions of the body. The child had been left in their care by the mother. The official report of the registrar of vi" tal statistics shows that twentysseven persons have died in London during the past year of starvation, pure and simple. A force of 4,000 Hondurans invaded Salvador with the purpose of squelching the nation. Soon after they had entered Salvador they were met by a force of 2,000 Salvadorians who routed them with immense loss. The Pope has written to Cardinal Man ning expressing sympathy over the loss of Cardinal Newman. In his letter the Pope says: “I am deeply grieved at the depart ure of a man, who, by his learning, his writings, and his singular piety,gave great splendor to the Sacred College. I do not doubt that he has already received the re ward of his virtues, nevertheless 1 shal continue to pray for the repose of hi blessed soul.”'