Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

1 The report of a fight between Indians and troeps on the 27th was a “plain” he. '■ Four men are alleged to have been killed near Charleston, S. C., on the 27th in as riot over wages. ™ | Dr. A. M. Turner, of Folkvllle, Ala., in on insane frenzy choked his wife and daughter to death. Lexington Ky., has voted favorably on the proposition to give 1250,000 to secure the State Capital. At Guthrie, O. T., May Bailey, a witness in a land claim case, was poisoned to death to prevent ter giving testimony. ; A race riot in Sumter county, South Carolina, resulted in the death of seven negroes. The malitia is on the ground. The census of Brooklyn, just completed by the police, shows a population of 855,945. The Government's figures were 808,000. Vale defeated Princeton, last year's champions, in the foot-ball contest of Thanksgiving Pay, by a score of 32 to 0. I Miss Lillian; Roundy, a New York Sunday Schoolteacher, married Yoong Shing, one of her scholars on the 27th. Miss Rouhidey is nearly 40 years old. ~ Thomas Allen & Co., cotton factors and commission merchants, Memphis, made an assignment on the 25th. They were one Of the largest firms in the South. ' The revised and final count of the population of the United States makes it 62,622,250. Ohio’s population is ' 3,672.316, Indiana 2,192,404, fKeutucky 1,853,635, and Tennessee 1,767,519. '.Fred C. Dunbar, while going home near Wichita, Kan., Monday night, was beaten until he was unconscious by footpads and robbed of S4OO and a gold watch. He was paymaster of a brickyard, and bad secured the money at the bank to pay his men the next day. Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, familiarly known in the literary world as “Mrs-' Partington,” died Tuesday evening at his residence in Cheslea, Mass., aged seventysix years. The death of his wife in 1883 was a sad blow to him. He leaves.four children. . Five of the six Irish envoys now in America have signed a paper refusing to further follow the leadership of Parnell. The five are John Dillon, Wm. O’Brien, T. P. O’Connor, T. D. Sullivan, Thos. P. Gill. Harrington alone refused to sign the paper, The accounts of the postmaster at New Orleans for the first twenty-two days of this month have been received at the Postoffice Department. They show that the receipts for the period were $1,124, against $33,552 for the first twenty-two days last year, whqn the lottery law was not in force. The G. A. R. Post, of Macon, Ga., has purchased the site of the old Anderson* ville prison and will convert it into a Na. tional G. A. R. Post. The grounds will be beautified by drives, fountains, flowers, etc., and in thp center will be erected an elegant club house. Each point of special interest will be marked by a monument. U.S. Judge Blodgett, Tuesday, fined Mr. Charles Counselman. a leading grain shipper, SSOO for refusing to tell whether he had secured rebates in violation of the interstate commerce law. He will apply to Judge Greshem for a writ of habeas corpus. If he should be sustained in his refusal the interstate commissionwould be seriously hampered in its work. • a dashingslooking six footer, has been arrested at Chicago, on a charge of bigamy preferred by his first wife, a pale-faced little woman from Pittsburg. Simon was first married in Belgium in 1870 and deserted his wife about a year since, leaving her in Pittsburg. He was married to Mrs. Lena jtlarke, of Chicago, five weeks ago, and she says he has succeeded in getting from her $5,000 of her money. Both women say they will prosecute him to the limit of the law.

FOREIGN.

At St. Johns, N. 8., six men were killed by a boiler explosion. Parnell has been re-elected leader of the Irish Nationalist party over the pro test of Gladstone. The German Kaiser has given orders that woman shall not be employed at night In any government factory. Parliament reassembled on the 25th Parnell was on hand. The Queen’s speech contained nothing out of the ordinary. Severe frosts and heavy snow-falls are reported throughout Europe. In Paris snow has fallen to a depth of several 'nones. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says a financial crisis prevails in that city. Several credit hour’s have closed. There was a tumult on t’;e Bourse, and the police were called upon to quell the disturbance. A clerk of Sofia, who was afflicted with lupus, and went to Berlin for treatment with Dr. Koch’s remedy has returned home, appearing quite cured. The medicai corps of the Danish army has received a plentiful supply of the lymph. A Paris dispatch says that in s sermon delivered by Father Hyacinthe on the re lationof church and state, he advocated that priests be allowed to marry, following bis own example, which, he said, had been most happy in its results to himself. * A meeting of the Irish Home Rule members of Parliament was held on the 25th, before the opening of the session of the House of. Commons. Mr. Parnell wh* present. He was loudly cheered as he entered the rpom. A motion was made that Mr. Parnell be re-elected Chairman of the Irish Parllamentsjy party. It was carried unanimously. It is announced that Mr. Parnell will retain the leadership at the express desire of his followers. Mr. Parnell made ao address to the meeting in which he '.hanked his followers for bis re-election He said it was for the Irish members to decide whether he should lead them. If their decision had been a negative one, or If there had been a diversity of opinion among them, he would Cheerfully have withdrawn from publio life Nothing but the conviction that his colleagues still desired to utilize his services in their common cause induced him to resume a position, which, under his altered circumstances, exposed him, and them through him, le the attacks st theis opponents-