Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

, The population of Kansas City is announced to be 132,416. Fire at Apalochicola, Fla., burned seventeen buildings. Loss SIOO,OOO. ; The police of Brooklyn have begun a race «nt of the people of that city. ' The total registration of Cincinnati is 0*415, being 4,384 less than last year. : The population of the United States, as shown by a census bulletin, is 62,450,540. f* A negress of Gwinnette county, Ga„ cut off her ’.over’s bead with a razor on the 27th. Mayor Fitter, of Philadelphia, has de■efted to have a police count of the people of that city. j_ It re said there is much smuggling ba. •tween the United States and Canada, es oecially of whisky. AGhicago syndicate is discussing the easibility of establishing a large iron slant at Michigan City. Two men and eight horses were killed y the wreck of Barnum’s show train near lonticello, Ga., Tuesday. It is reported that early sown winter -heat in portions of Missouri and Kansas as been ruined by the Hessian fly. Fire on Sunday night destroyed the jlacksmlth shop of the Santa Fe Road at •fission, la., entailing aloss of $20,006. The Mafia has begun operations in Louisille, Ky. The body, of an Italian was ound in the river with a knife thrust over he heart.

A call is issued for a national convention jf the non-partisan National Women’s Ohristian Temperance Union, at Allegheny lity, November 10. Capt. James Carroll has been elected ielegate to Congress by the people of Alaska, and a memorial will be presented praying Congress to admit him. Thomas McKinney, of Escanaba, Mich., became separated from a party with which he was hunting in the wilds of Michigan. He was found in a dying condition. Secretary Rusk has been interviewed. He says European restrictions on American cattle and hog products will soon be removed and the beet sugar experiment has been highly successful. St Joseph’s Catholic Church, at Delphos, 0., was broken into and the altar despoiled. The thieves secured two gold chalices and the ciborium vessels, made of solid gold, which are quite valuable.

In the Oklahoma Legislature Representative Terrell proceeded to protect himself from lobbyists, who had taken possession of the House, by drawing a revolver. The lobbyists and members fled. Speaker Reed’s quorum rulings will be tested by a suit brought by Importers at New York, who object to certain Items of the McKinley bill. Proceedings have been brought in the Federal Court. The Italian Consul General in America has sent a memorandum to the Rome Chamber of Commerce, declaring that the McKinley law is favorable to Italy’s interest and will lead to a marked increase in trade. The Superior Court of Cinoinnati has refused the application for an injunction to restrain Mayor Mosby from appointing the new Board of City Affairs of Cincinnati. The case goes direct to the Ohio Supreme Court. While two Hungarians were fighting at Gallitzin, Pa., a woman who was washing clothes near by dashed a bucket of boiling water over the combatants, one of whom was so badly scalded that the flesh peeled from his body in strips, Thomas G. Woolfolk was hanged at Perry, Ga. , on the 29th, for murdering nine persons, all members of his father’s familyi on Aug. 10, 1887. The doomed man slept well the night previous. Eight thousand people saw the hanging. He died protest, ing his innocence. Minn Shobe, a cattle raiser of Marshall, Mo., has been shipping cattle to Mexico consigned to-his partner, Hr R. WttTKgy Recently be received an order from Walk er not to ship any more as the Mexican government has just placed an import duty of SSOO a car on cattle in retaliation for the McKinley bill. A special from Knoxville, Tenn., says: Reports received here Monday night show that a considerable quantity olsnow fall in the mountains Monday night. Two to four inches are reported at Cranberry. This is about two or three weeks earlier than usual for’snow in the mountains. In some places snow has fallen on green leaves. Miss Lizzie Phelps, a society belle and heiress, who lives near Binghampton, N. Y., was marriod to William Slattery, the family' coachman. Miss Phelps is a niece of the late Judge Sherman D. Phelps, concerning whom and whose relatives there has beeu unlimited newspaper gossip. The bride, Who is one of three about twenty-seven years of age and is worth SIOO,OOO. The family of Robert Paul, at Middleton, Win., has been afflicted with diphtheria, which was brought into the house in a s’ngular manner. About four weeks ago astray cat came to their home and one of the children handled and played with it Although it was uoticed at the time that -it discharged at the nose and mouth nothing was thought of it until soon after, when the little boy eame dewu with blackdiphtheria of the most malignant kind that the doctor said he had caught from the cat. The boy died; then a second son took the disease and died. The father, mother and daughter were also stricken down and recovered. Alien, the only ro inaining sou and support of his parents care'. for them all through their terrible sickness, holding one of the boys when dying, and preparing them for their last esting place with his own hands. When the others were recovering ho was taken down and died.