Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Giovanni Succi is on a forty-five days 1 fast in New Yorkcity." Si* men were killed in a collision at Junction City, Ky., on the 7th. A heavy storm throughout England and Ireland did much damage on the 7th. Fire caused damage to .the amount of $150,000 at Owensboro, Ky ~ on the 7th. Truckee, Cal., was damaged $0.6.»' <> b\ fire, on the 6th, and at Philadelphia ? . ' 000. a Dillon and O'Brien, the j Irish leader... were given an ovation Friday night a. Philadelphia. .. _• fgSeveral. inches of snow fell in Minnesota on the 4th, probably a belated part of the election wave, ' Joseph Chamberlain, M. P., expresses the opinion that the McKinley bill is more detrimental to America than to England, Judgments aggregating $396,121 havebeen entered in the Hurts of Sear York City agSiast-tbo Duchess of Marlborough on various notes fori Txioncy loaned. Edith Freeze, wife of a Dayton, 0., saloonkeeper, while her husband was "celebrating the election, got together some of his cash and ran off with the barkeeper. Robert T. Lincoln, Minister to England, now in this country, wilt tender Us resignation as such Minister, for the reason that the expense of the position is too great for one of his means. A Missouri Pacific train was wrecked near Otterville, Mo., on the 7th, it is believed by train robbers. The wreck was disastrous but, strange to say, none of the passengers were soriously hurt.

Janies McDonald, aged twenty-nine, in trying to steal a ride; on a train to St. Louis Thursday morning, fell off and was instantly killed by the cars. He lives at Washington and tvas unmarried. Ex-Mayor Cottrell, of Key West, Fla., who terrorized that place some Weeks ago and then escaped to Alabama, was shot and killed by the chief of po l ice of Mont" gomery, whom he had threatened to kill. ,- Henry M. Stanley spoke freely to New York newspaper men about the Harttelot trouble, justifying his P'wn conduct. Me. Bays Harttelot was passionate and brutal, but acquits him of the suspicion of immorality, A scheme will probably be presented on the reassembling of Congress to Connect the Atlantic ocean and the great lakes by a ship railway via the St. Lawrence river, Chicago,Montreal and London. Capitalists are interested. “ Mrs. Bailey, wife of a prominent citizen of Arlington, Teno., was killed at that place on the evening of the >th, by a nes pro to whom she had refused money. The instrument of death was a fiat iron : The negrq escaped. It is said that Englishmen are . negotiating for the purchase of.: all the packing houses in Chicago. Armour, however, denies that his firm is interested in the deal. He says there is not money enough iri England to buy him out. Isadora Cook, elected sheriff at Ean Claire, Wis., Tuesday, on the Democratic ticket, died at 2 o'clock Thursday morning

Xfrgm ebliapSe following thfi excitement caused by the Success of his party. He was far gone with pulmonary disease. William Waldorf Astor. of Now York has filed plans in the building bureau for the erection of an eleven-story brick and stone fireproof hotel, 98 feet front and 249 feet deep, on the northwest corner of Fifth avenue and Thirtyxthird street, to cost $1,0.00,000. . , By the breaking of a scaffolding raised ton feet from the ground, on which 150 men an! girls were grouped for the purpose of being photographed, at Lyon & Healy's new piano factory, at Chicago, on "the sth, one man Was killed, two probably fatally injured, and several others badlyhurt. The prohibition of cigarette smoking by the faculty of Hanover College ha 3 provein ineffectual. The village storekeepers hold to their agreement not ioex pose cigarettes for sale, hut the students smuggle them in packaplslnTfieirilSErtrarywork, packages of clothing, etc., and the \ icc is as prevalent as before its prohibition.

Twenty-five hundred pounds of GermanSweden and Denmark mail was brought to Brunswick, Ga., ou the sth. by the British steamer lptjriuna. It was picked up 700 miles from land, on Oct. 17, off the disabled Germrn mail ship Albingia, bound from Hamburg to the West Indies. It was forwarded to New York. There was much registered matter among it. The steamer Teutonic, which arrived at New York Wednesday night from Liverpool, had among her passengers Henry M. Stanley and Mrs. Stanley, and Lieutenant Jephson, one of Mr. Stanley ’s eompanions on his last trip to Africa. The Teutonic had a rough passage and was slight!y damaged. During the voyage Mr. Stanley wasslightly ill, but is now recovering. Mrs. Jacob Bradshaw, widow of the late Deacon Bradshaw, of Hampton, New Brunswick, lias been left in destitute circumstances, her ninety-five-year-old j husbard having willed his fortune of {7J,COO to the Baptist Church. Twelve years ago Mgs. Bradshaw, a young woman, in the expectation of securing the old Deacon’ fortune, married Bradshaw, who was then eighty-three years of age. Secretary Dickinson, of the Sheffield tool works, has returned from the United StUtes, where he made an investigation of the state of the hardware: and cutlery trade as affected by the new tariff. He says it is certain that many European firms in those lines will soon establish branches in the United States, as it will be neees«sary for them to manufacture their goods here or loose a largo part of their American p.'U’onage. On election night Wm. Vaughn, of 794 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., drove some boys away from his shop, which they were tearing down and using to make bonfires. Cue of the boys. Wm; King, threw a 'tone at Vaughn which struck him in tbe eye, destroyed tbeterganttndfracttjfea bis skull. Friday Vaughn was reported to be dying in the hospital, and Wm. King, John Cloman and Robert Mahon were ar rested- md held for assault. Acting Adjutant General Chauncey McKeever, in his annual report, says that it gives him pleasure to report that the de*

sertions from the army-during the past year were 489 less in number than during the preceding year, and the percentage, as compared with the enlisted -strength, was reduced from 11 to 9 per cent. The heaviest proportionate loss was in the artillery. Where it amounted to 11:6 per cent*, the infantry losing 0.3 per cent and the cav airy 7.7 per cent. The Weds elevator, the largest in Bus fa’o, has been destroyed by fire. -The other large elevators and a number ot adjoining Warehouses are now in flames and the fire is spreading rapidly-along the lake front. The Wells elevator had a capacity of 500.000 bushels. The loss will roach 1,150,000. Two firemen are reported fatally hart and it is believed that.a number of others are under fallen walls. The-Wilkin at the foot of Main street 'andadjoining small houses are threatened" A wreck occurred on the New York, Ontario & Western railway- at To'ciockr iVednesday evening, at a point between Carhondale and Mayfield. An engine while trying to make W switch, .washed into a passenger train going in an opposite direction at full speed. The engineers and firemen escaped by jumping, but were slightly injured. Charles.,Finnegan, of Carb'ondale. a man named BOTW, ms Jermanc, and another, name not learned, ail of whom were passengers, were killed. Several other passengers were painfully hurt. Two Japanese students of the Michigan University at Ann have created quite a sensation by eloping with two American girls from there, The ‘‘Japs 1 ’ are Kulsutaro Fukushima and Keitaro Tokano, both of noble families and graduates of the law department thore last year. One of the girls was Miss Fuller, of Ypsilanti, who is quite young, of good family and very handsome. The other woman was considerably older, and Well known among certain circles. The elopers were traced to Detroit, then to Windsor, where ail trace of them was lost. At a banquet given Friday night, by cattle exporters, to Hon. John Carling, Canadian-Minister lot Agriculture, the Minister said that Canadians could live even if McKinley did shut them out of the American market. Canada had shipped only sixty thousand head of cattle annually to England during the last years, but next year the number would be increases 100 per cent. England's imports of mutton, bacon, oats, poultry, barley and wool were enormous, and she alone could easily absorb all of Canada's surplus o's these products. If Canada's 1 ships were not fast, enough the Canadians could build -faster ones and supply cold storage too. McKinlep afld his bill, the Minister continued,“need not trouble Canadians. In England, in the West Indies and in Australia kindredpeople offer them all the markets they want. FOREIGN. Lord Coleridge, England's Lord Chief Justice, was stricken with paralysis on theCth. His condition is critical. The central Gentian customs office announces the sale at auction of 7,'00 kilos of American bacon, winch" was rendered mniit for consumption by being soaked with petroleum or t-rain oil. --- The French customs committee of the Chamber of Deputies has concluded its. general debate-on the new tariff hill, and by a vote of 34 to s,,has adopted the principle of a double tariff. Two men, said to be from Montreal, fel over the Gatineau bridge at La Chaudiei-e, Quo., Thursday, and were instantly killed. They were looking at some work going on under the bridge, when one of them fell over, dragging his companion with him. Madrid advices state that great consternation has been caused ia? clerical circles by the news that priests not of native origin are to be expelled from Mexico, as the large majority of Mexican priests are from Spain, where the ranks of the clergy ere already overcrowded. The Baris journals hail the Democratic victory in America with satisfaction, and express a hope that America will now adopt a wiser economic policy . The press generally urge the government to abstain from a policy of prohibition against Amerj ican goods. I Recently, at the close of the celebration sos a Buddhist festival in the province of : Bze-Chuen. a number of organized mobs attacked several Christian villages, burn-

ling the buildiDgs and tooting their con- | tents. Twenty native converts to Christianity were killed during the disturbance ■ and their bodies thrown into the Yangj Tse Kiang river. The political situation in Illinois at this | time points strongly to the election of l Judge Cicero J. Liudle.y president of the 1 Illinois F. M. B. A., as the next United States Senator, to succeed Mr. Farwell. : The F. M. B. A. holds the balance of power in the Legislature, there being 101 i Republicans on joint ballot, 100 Democrats i and thre F. M. B. A. members. It re--1 quires 101 to elect. Judge Liudley will stoe General Palmer's opponent. He was i the Republican candidate for Congress in | the Eighteenth district and .vas defeated ; by W. S. Foreman. The government of Peru has impo : od a prohibitive tax on imported lard. The news of the move created quito a stir on the Produce Exchange Friday, as Peru .takes S3OO,ODD of best quality lard yearly from New York city alone. The information Was received from Peru by William R. Grace. From a member of his firm it was learned that the Peruvians had passed a new tariff iaw to taketoffect Feb. 1, ISStI. A tax of 15 coats per pound,, peruvian sil* ver, or 5 cents in our money, is imposed on all foreign lard. It is supposed that Peruvians are encouraging native production. Professor Nothagel, the distinguished physician, said in a recent lecture at Vienna that he attached the highest' importance to Prof. Koch’S discovery of the cure for consumption, and that he expected it yvould have wonderful results. While the press is flooded with, varying statements regarding Prof. Koch's euro the Professor himself remains deaf to all in quiries. AccoOTug to one detailed account lymph obtained by the'attenuation of the tubercular baceilus as cultivated by Koch, conjunction with a gold or silver solu .u*-, is injected into the subcutaneous ellular tissue of the breast and back. Koch has ordered 150 incubation stoves rith which to prosecute bis experiments.