Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

An appeal is made for American contributions to relieve distress in Ireland. A Cleveland, 0., syndicate has pur« chased the Evansville street railway for 1342,000, Judgo Gresham dismissed the application for the release of Anarchist Schwab, of Chicago. Severalcolored robbers were killed in a Winchester rifle match with a Sheriff’s posse InT>zar£;'Avk.i;iiS^^'' : ' : -_zd^'‘^'' : The Louisville and Nashville railroad has paid off its $10,000,000 mortgage held by D rex el, Morgan & Co. Grocers and importers met at Philadel phia Monday to protest against the passage of the Conger lard hill. - _ . William Hereby, a Findlay, 0., stone mason, fell sixty-five feet on the Ist. Almost every hone in his body was broken. Five horses at Annapolis, afflicted with glanders, have been killed by the State Veterinarian. The disease is spreading. Hon. W. H 'Calkins, formerly of Indianapolis, delivered the opening address at the State of Washington fair, Spokane Falls. The Minnesota Supreme Court decided that the upper berths of all sleeping cars running in that State must be closed when not in use. ’ m, r The Memphis' Congressional' deadlock was broken yesterday evening by the nomination of. Colonel Josiah Patterson on the 5,0515 t ballot. Mississippi Constitutional Convention on the 30th passed a long series of resolus tions asking Congress to repeal the Fifteenth Amendment. The stage between" Eureka Springs and Harrison, Ark., was held up and robbed of its mail on the 30th. It is believed the rob' hers made a good haul. Lady Wilton, a two-year-old filly, was sold at Lexington, Ivyfor SIO,OOO. This is the highest price ever paid for a twos year-oldAn Kentucky———-. --»b— ■ - General Jubal Early was buried under a ibhSs of debris on Sept. 30, in Lynchburg, Va. After twenty minutes he was rescued fortunately only slightly injured. The will of John Scott, Pennsylvania's great railroud man, recently deceased, has been contested because the widow was entirely ignored and the three sons bequeathed $1 each. ■ js--A mob of White Caps organized to rid Calhoun county, Alabama, of immoral characters, killed their first few victims a night or two ago, and now the authorities are trying to rid the county of White Caps! George Martin, a book-keeper and cashier, and James Dunn, a collector of the Santo Fe railroad company, at Los Angeles, disappeared, and an investigation shows that they have robbed the company of about $0,030. - John Jacob Armstrong Astor, four years old, son of William Waldorf Astor, had his name changed by an order of Judge Daly, of the Court of Common Pleas, New York, to John Jacob Astor. The change goes into effect Novemblcr 1. The child’s grandfather and great-grandfather had the name of John Jacob Astor, and this was the cause of the change. A destructive freight wreck occurred, Monday night, fourteen miles west of Union Point, Ga. The third car of a train was derailed while crossing a switch, and eighteen more were piled upon it. One of the cars was loaded with powder, which ignited, causing a terrific explosion and setting fire to the wreck. Eighteen cars were destroyed. The loss js SIOO,OOO. A special dispacli received Wednesday night from Dickson, N. D., says: "Terrific prairie fires are raging east and south of that place. Near Gladstone several farms era have lost all their wheat, oats and hay. Reports, Thursday, indicate there was a great loss north of Richardson. A party has been formed to guard the town, Sev eralTarmers westr or there have lost all their crops.”

FOREIGN, In Central America affairs . are now quiet, and will in all probability remain so. until the coffee crop is picked. The pres ent peace between Guatemala and Salvador is, throughout Central America, com monly called a ‘‘picking truce.” A riot occurred On the 29th among the Russian and Persian laborers in the harbor of Nivo Rossisk, on the Black Sea. The military were called into service and re pressed the outbreak with such merciless severity that seventeen of the rioters were killed or wounded. The Catholics of Limerick are very generally refusing to contribute to Peterpence on account of their hostility to Bishop O’Dwyor, through whose hands the money would pass. The Bishop is unpopular because of his attack upon Mr. Dillon and the “plan of campaign.” * Advices from New Guinea state that Mr Hedley, the owner of the cutter Isabel, belonging in Hartlepool, and the crew of the vessel, which was engaged in fishing for pearls off New Guinea, have been massacred by the natives. The cutter was looted and then scuttled. Dispatches received from French Soudan confirm the report of the routing of the army of Ahmedon, King of Kaarta, with a loss in killed of 380 men. Ahmedon was defeated by the French troops four times in succession last April at Zeogusikoro, Oursbougou, Kale and Kouniakari, but again gathered together an army and made a last desperate attack on the strongly fortified kouniakari. north of the Zenegal River. Here he has again suffered a crushing defeat, from which he will hardly recover. -