Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Detroit has s band of Mafia. ) Tin has been found in Sloan county, 1 Texas. There were three suicides in Chicago on i.tha2Sth. New York was enveloped in a dense fog on the 2d. Many miners were killed by an explosion in Westphalia. Four fatal affrays occurred at Kansas j City on the2sth. — : I'tIH j Famime among settlers in eastern ColoI rado is reported. a-’ There is great destitution among the f people of Oklahoma | Chicago bankers report returning confidence in business circles. Engineer Walcott was fatally injured in a wreck near Oskaloosa, la Liabilities of failed business in 1890-were heavier than for any year since 1884. George Hull, of Superior, Wis., the author of the Cardiff giant hoax, is dead. At Ft. Fairfield, Me., on the3lst, the thermometer registered 6ixty degrees below zero. - Z''—*" The Kansas Farmers’ Alliance will present sixteen important bills to the Legisla Cure. Two men, a woman and a boy were burned to aeath ia a hotel at Corsicana, Texas. Five men were killed by the blowiDgup; of the tow bo it Annie Roberts, at Ports-' mouth, O. Judge Joshua Seney, of Toledo, has bought a controling interest in the Colum* bus (O.) Post. tue bear Blackbriar’s Bridge, Lon don, on. the EOth, did damago- to the amount of *2,000,C00, The Well known banking house of Bateman & Co., of New York, made an assignment on the 3ith. C.S. A. Kean, the Chicago banker, offers to pay 35 cents cash and 15 «ents secured if egal proceedings ere stopped. Two students at Ann Arbor, Mich., Christmas day, while skating, broke Through ice and were drowned. The State of Kansas is blanketed in snow and a blizzard is raging. Snow storms prevailed in other portions of tha West. President "STuiardlTl 1 more’s books and those of his son were sold at auction at the Fillmore mansion, Buffalo, N. Y., on the 30th.

The temperature at Lydonvillo, Vt., on the 9 th, was 30 degrees below zero. Ice on the Kennebec at Augusta, Me., is from 6 to Binches thick. Three Hungarian laborers were killed near Rochester, N. Y., on the Ist, by the premature discharge of a blast, jFour others were injured, Snow has fallen in the West Virginia mountains to an average depth of thirtysix inches, and in some places is hanked to the bight of eighteen feet. The Fifth avenue and Hermann’s theater and a block of stores, New York, were burned on the 2d. Six firemen lost their lives in the flames. Loss will reach $500,000. Governor Campbell has ordered a special election in the Seventeen-Twenty-eighth district of Ohio, for a successor to the late Senator Zimmerman, to take place on the 15th inst. Professor Orton, Ohio’s State Geologist, in his report to Governor Campbell, gives warning that the supply of natural gas is not inexhaustible, aud urges greater econ* omy in its use. For some time past a syndicate of Danfllle, 111., citizens have been quietly securing iptions on real estate fronting the north fork of the Vermillion river. It has just leaked out that gold has been discovered in paying quantities in the sands in the creek bottom. Scott Thompson, a negro living near Bayboro, Pimlico county, N. C.. went to church on the Ist accompanied by his wife and oldest child, leaving in his house five of his children and two grandchildren, whose ages ranged from a few months to fifteen years. During services at the church Thompson’s house took fire and all seven of the children were burned to deatb.

In the course of lectures which was inaugurated last year by Chauncey M. Depew, under the auspices of the Press <jlub of Chicago, the next address is likely to be given by ex-President Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland told the financial secretary that he would endeavor to arrange his affairs so as to enable him to accept the Club’s invitation late in February or early in March. The business failures occurring throughout the United States for the entire year 1890, as reported by R. G. Dunn & Co., are 10,907 in number, being but twenty-five greater than 1889, when the number was 10,882. The liabilities show a very large increase over 1889, being $189,000,000, against $143,000,000, an increase of $41,000,000. These are the largest liabilities since 1884, when they amounted to $223,000,000. ihh Farmers’ Alliance of Missouri are taking steps to compete, by co-operative manufacturing, with the thirty-five-thou-sand-dollar consolidated American harvester company of Chicago. A movement is now on foot to establish a binder factory in this State, the necessary capital to be raised by subscription, and the plant to be run on a basis. The scheme is being pushed with decided vigor.

In the New Mexico Legislative Assembly, on the 131st, the Democratic majority in the House, by resolution, and without taking any evidence whatever, unseated J. B. Mayo and B. M. Read, Republicans, members from Santa Fe county, and admitted C. *T. Easley and T. P. Gable, who were candidates on the Democratic ticket. This action gives the Democrats a majority of two on joint ballot. Gen,.F. E. Spinner, ex-treasurer of the U. S., died on the 31st. He was born in Herkimer county, N. Y ;1 in 1802. He was sent to congress for the Seventeenth district of that State and served from 1855 to 1861. He was then appointed treasurer of the United States. His peculiar signature on paper money madehls name well known wherever the currency of the country cir« oulated. The following interview with President Frank McGrath, of Kansas, on the 29th, would indicate that the Alliance has for «he present decided to drop the third party movement. He says: "The agitation In the SoA a over the Lodge bill precludes the

possibility of any Independent movement at this time. While In Ocala I investigated the conditions as thoroughly as ipy limited stay would permit, and I came to the conclusion that more time waa needed.’ It will come about in time, but the time is not this year. -Mr. U. S. Hall, president of the Missouri Farmers’ Alliance, in secret interview said: “The slight difference which manis . fested themselves at the Ocala convention will quickly pass away and one uniform policy be adopted: 'Them was quite an element at the convention that favored the third party idea, but I do not think anything will come of that. The Mis-~ aouri Alliance is a unit on the proposition that we will be able to secure our justjdemands by remaining neutral and looking to either of the great parties to obtain what we want.”

Aunt Fanny Smith, a peculiar character who lives at the footof Sinking mountain, near Tallulah Falls, Ga., has been raided by the revenue men and 360 gallons of il licit liquor have been destroyed. Aunt Eanny enjoys the distinction of having been a schoolmate of Senator Joseph E. Blown. While one was ambitious, the other was humble, and as the wife of one of the Smith-family she has raised a large family of children at the foot of the mountain. Her husband was an illicit distiller, and since his death she has coutinued the . business. Her cabin was a favorite resort for all the visitors to the falls. The ladies she would treat to buttermilk, while the gentlemen always got the illicit article. On the subject of farms, homes and mortgages, etc., Mr. Porter Supt! of Census, says: “The work accomplished by this division up to date .may be briefly stated as follows: Number of counties in which complete abstracts have been made, 2,775; number ol counties in which ab* stractingis unfinished, seven; total minis her of counties in the United States, 2,732. Number of counties in which supplemental work must be done, owing to incompleteness of abstracts, 'sevehtoen; number of mortgages for which abstracts have been made, 8,515,515; estimated number of mortgages for which abstracts are yet to bo made in counties that are not to be reabstracted,l7,4so; numberof mortgages recorded in the United States during ten years ending Dec. 21, 1883, rough’ count and estimate, 8,572,965; number of inquiry counties in which investigation is yet to be comploted, 86; number of inquiry counties in which investigation has been completed, 69; total numberof counties computed for average life, 1,353; to tab number of counties sorted, 886; total number of counties transferred to result slips 216. Within a few months the census' office expects to announce the number of persons in the United States living in rented homes and cultivating rented farms, the number occupying their jjwn homes, and farms free from debt, and the number reported as owning farms and homes which are mortgaged. While the facts obtained by the Investigation will throw a new light upon the subject jof mortgage indebtedness, and while the material gathered bids fair to be far more complete and reliable than I hoped, tne cost of the inquiry has been great and will fully reach my original estimate of $1,250,000.” FOREIGN. Gladstone celebrated his 81st birthday on the 29th. London police have unearthed a baby farm where children are starved to death. Coi;nt Devm, Austrian embassador at London, and Count de Lutzoll, secretary of legation, fought a bloodless duel Vienna, Dec. 81.