Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Two vessels arrived at San Francisco on the T7th with scurvy en board. Senator Morrell was re-elected by the Vermont Legislature Tnesday. An Ashland couety <Ohio) t juryman became insane, imagining he is pursued by bribes. A man at New Market last week sold a hog for S3OO to a man residing at Montevallo. Mo. The official figures for the population of Tennessee are 1,763,723. The population of Memphis is 94,586. Pearls are being found in tbe Sugar river near New Albany, Wis., and great excitement prevails, John Bryan, of Findlay, €)., deserted his three-wedks’ bride, and ran away to Cali-f fornia with her sister. ’ Two men were killed and eight injured by an explosion of giant powder at Leadville, Co!.', on the 14th. In an action at law brought by a Pittsburg citizen, it is alleged that the funds of tbe city are in unsafe hands. A Kansas jury holds it is not a crime to steal liquor in that State, as the keeping of liquors is contrary to law. Two colored women are under arrest in Dayton for robbing veterans of the Soldiers' Home of pension money. Elliot, of Kansas City, defeated Murphy, of New York, in a hundred-birds trap shooting match for $5,000 a side. The town marshal of Falmouth, Ky.. was assassinated on the 17th by unknown parties, while entering his front gate. A prize guess advertisement in the Cleveland Press caused an edition of that paper to be suppressed, Tuesday. Five cases of small-pox have developed in Bt. Louis with n the last two weeks. One of tbe cases resulted fatally. The police census of New York City shows a population of 1,710,715, an increase of 197,210 over the Governmens figures. Mrs. Ann Aldrich's twin babies were fatally burned during her temporary absence from home, in Brooklyn, dayThe attendance at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is unprecedented. Up to Monday 2,234 students had been enolled. Brown county, South Dakota, has had crop failures for three years, and the peo pie are in absolute Want for food, fuel and clothinW. ______i , ' ' ' • - The R. G. Peters Corinpany, one of the largest lumber firms ip Michigan, made an assignment on the 17th. Liabilities exceed $2,000,000. The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered 5 per cent, added to the percentage of old soldiers and sailors applying for civil service promotion. The Ohio Legislature met in special session, at Columbus, on the 14th, called on account of the corruption of the Board,of Public Works, of Cincinnati. Four hundred Boston waiters, white and colored, met Monday night and were organized into a union by a member of the Waiters' Alliance of Chicago. At Chicago Felix Young, laborer, was instantly killed, James Turner, laborer, badly injured, and several others badly bruised by the fall of a derrick. All the Kew York (city) courts adjourned on this 15th in respect to the late Supreme Justice Miller. Appropriate remarks were made by distinguished jurists. Census returns show: State of Illinois 3,8;8,536, an increase of 740,665; Mississippi, 1,284,887, an increase of 153,290; Louisiana, 1,116,828, an increase of 176,882. James W. Miner committed suicide at Gilman, lowa, on the night of the 14th, on account of his wife finding fault with the price at which he sold a load ol potatoes. * Flora Molloy, six years old, of Hazelton, la., who wandered away from her home was found sunk to her chin in the mud of a swamp. She died shortly after being taken home. Two Chicago policemen engaged in a quarrel on the 15th over religious matter?. Finally Tim Madden, one of tbe officer?, drew a revolver and fatally shot Mr. Junge, the other officer, „ At Manitowoc, Wis., a young girl named Louisa Alwardt, aged twenty years, took poison to escape marriage to a man whom she disliked but whom her parents were bound she should marry. Conrad Folz, who has been Cook county’s jailer for nearly thirty years, died at Chicago. He leaves a comfortable fortune of about $1'25,000,, having invested in paying real estate io early days. James Maxwell was hanged at Morris, 111., Friday morning for the murder of Charles Decker in June last. He was game to the last and died apparently the most unconcernedaman in town. On account of failing health Mr. Joseph Pulitzer has retired from the editorship of the New York World. The policy of the paper, nor really of the men at the editorial head, will not be affected. It is claimed that the locomotive, on the Chicago i Erie line which blew up near Huntington, and dangerously injured the engineer and fireman, was condemned two years ago, and that employes had been dis charged for refusing to man the engine. At the Pa Plata coal mines, near Derango, Colo., contracts were let to parties whom tbe miners disliked. In the even ing two miners drove the contractors from camp at the muzzles of their revolvers. One contractor, over seventy years old. died from exposure. William Budd, president of the Farmers’ Alliance in Boone county, Pennsylvania, started for Lebanon to prevent his wife from applying for a divorce. Word reached him before he arrived that she had made the application, whereupon he dropped from his horse dead. The’village of Andale, Kan., was struck by a hurrican Monday and suffered great damage. A large Catholic church was lifted from its foundation and thrown a dist&noe Of many yards. Lighter buildings were tossed about like boxes. Trees were torn up and went flying through the .- - I The overland I stage was robbed on the night of the 12th, eighteen miles jfortb of Uhtah, Cal. The Wells, Fargo & Co. treasure box and the United JSUtes mail sacks were taken. While the robber was cutting the mail sacks Driver Me-

DteMt napped a pistol at him, but it would not go off. The robber retreated and fired two shots at the driver, neither es which- took effect The robber was -caught at Cloverdale on the afternoon of the 13th- He proved to be $ boy about eighteen years old and a stranger in the community. He traveled over sixty miles on footbefore he was captured. He succeeded in getting about SIOO from the stage. He has admitted that he committed the crime Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, tc the surprise of every one, has announced his purpose of speaking at tbe State Fair on the 23d in st. It is intimated that he will endorse the farmers fqlly and advise them to select a Senator as successor to himself who is in complete accord with their policy. •Frank B. Rae, of Chicago, has produced an entirely new electric street motor enabling any sized car to be run with one motor instead of two, reducing the cost of maintenance and repairs one half and doGngaway withall toise and tbe profuse use of oil, which are new the chief objections toother electric motors. The Government building at Chicago, occupying a square, has been condemned and will be abandoned. There are 8,000 employes in the building and accommodations will have to be found for them elsewhere, The building is considered in a dangerous condition, and isapositive men* ace to persons employed therein. Official returns show that the total number of votes cast at the recent Idaho election was 18,008. The majorities received by the Republican candidates for Congress and Governor are as follows: Sweet,Congressman, 2,171; Shoup, Governor, 2,372. Upon joint ballot the Legislature will stand: Republicans,4s; Democrats,9. C. W. Sutterfleld, Republican, and H. J. Thomas, Democrat, candidates for Auditor of Adams coupty, Ohio, hive each deposited $1,500 in tbe Citizens’ Bank of Manchester, making a pool of $3,000, which will be given to the unsuccessful candidate; This is done as a guarantee that no money paign. * Some guessers now declare that Jf the Republicans win at the NtWembßr election there will not be a special session of Congress called, but if they lose there will beThe reason for this prophecy is that if the Republicans lose there are several measures they desire to enact into laws before retiring—these bills being the federal law, the reapportionment bill and the shipping bill and others of less importance. .. For the first time in the history— Brooklyn the children from all the Catholic Sunday schools and Institutions of 'hat city, were out on parade, Sunday. The parade was given in honor of the ,-olden jubilee of Bishop Lough.in. In all, -,000 children turned out and ma'rehedby the episcopal residence, where thqy were reviewed by Bishop Loughlin, Cardinal Gibbons, the visiting bishops and prominent citizens.

William Fillinger and his wife, who live three miles from Perry, Mich., attended a series of revivals and became religious mad in a mild way. With them lived Fill inger’s mother, who has long been physcally frail. It worried Fillinger and his wife that the elder woman was unoaptized, Hid on the 18th they decided that the necessary religious rite should be performed, although the poor woman was confined to her bed, unable even to rise. Taking water to her room they began the ceres mony by dashing water in her face, and ct ntinued it until, from shock and exhauss ton, their victim died. Fillinger and his wife were arrested and taken to jail aX Comma. * FOREIGN. The deaths from cholera at Aleppo aver]; age fifty daily. Eleven persons committed suicide in Paris on the 14th. Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, has taken up his residence at Versailles. Sixteen members of the crew of the bark Malmesby were lost off the Nova Scotian coast on the 10th. Dr. Koch, of Berlin, has ceased to make experiments in the cure of consumption, and it is presumed that his method of treating the disease has been a failure. A preliminary meeting was held at Paris on Monday, by the American Congress, which formally opened its session TuesdayThe tribal history of America will be the subject of research. The returns issued by the French Board of Trade show that the >-.outh of September the imports increased 6,196,000 francs, and the exports] decreased 6,456,0(0 francs as compared with the corresponding month last year. Advices were received from Victoria, B. C., on the 14th, announcing the arrival of tne sealing schooner San Diego. The San Diego reported that she put into Ounalaska and was ordered away by the collector of customs. She refused to leave, and was thereupon threatened with seizure. Shu claims she had put into port for supplies, but was obliged to go to sea again to escapu seizure. The captain reports he caught 51J seals in Behring sea, despite the vigilance of the cutters Corwin and Rush, and his total catch for the season was over I,IOC seals. Dispatches from London ? assert thai Spain cannot negotiate a reciprocity treatj with the United States for the Cubar trade without violating the “favored na tion clause’’ in the existing treaties witl other nations. It is said at the Departmenl of State that this point was discussed and finally decided in 1884, when Minister Fos ter negotiated a reciprocity treaty on ths same basis that is now proposed, and is now revived, not by Spain, but by the com marcial interests of Great Beitain for az obvious purpose. Tho United States alsc has the “favored natiuz. clause” in mostol her commercial treaties, ui»t thiq will no) embarrass the government in the pegotis ation of reciprocity treaties or arrangements with other nations, because the Department Of State has uniformly held, from the time of Mr. Jefferson as Secre (ary of State to Mr. Blaine, that the faI voted nation clause applies only where privileges are granted freely,'and without a consideration ; but wherever a special consideration is made the condition of a favor granted or received, the favored no on clause does not apply.