Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

■ ' : ' • Brigham Young’s eighth wife is dead, A bank at Atckinscn, Kansas, failed on the 28th. The flying machine made a brief but successful trial trip at Chicago on the 80th. A Union Pacifictrain, bearing troop ß from Pin e Rfd ge, was wrecked at Florence’ Kan., and two soldiers killed and twelve others injured. .. , It is reported that a natural gas trust is being formed, and that the action of the gas company at Columbus, 0., recently in shutting off the supply oh the plea that the wells were exhausted was part of a scheme to extort higher prices from consumers. The American Federation of Labor held a session at New York on the 28th. Secretary Evans produced the circular which Mr. Powderly issued recently, requesting all labor organizations to send delegates to a conference to organize a third party In conjunction with the Farmers’ Alliance. It was decided to pay no attention to thircir cuter, “for the reason that it is unwise for a labor organization to meddle with poli* tics." _ _ : _ Fifty citizens of Holt, on the border of the Red, Lake reservation, have sent the following urgent dispatch to Governor Merriam: “The Chippewa Indians around here have begun dancing and will soon be on the warpath; therefore we desire help, and want soldiers to come to our assistance to defend our homes, wives and children. Weapons and ammunition must also be sent at once, so we may have something for our defense, so that they may not shoot us down like animals.” Rev. J. Sette, missionary among the Indian, tribes around Lake Winnipeg and Manitoba, writes that camps of Indians hunting on the east side of Lake Winnipeg, not very far from Bloodvein river, near Doghead, were visited by a band of wo’ves, about 100 in number. They attacked the camps, and killed many Indians, and devoured them. One Indian cudgeled and killed twenty wolves; another Indian climbed up a tree with his gun, and shot down twenty. One got upon a stage which was not very high, and the wolves got him down, and devoured him. There is a great panic among the Indians in that quarter. The Indians say there are no

deer, consequently the wolves are mad with hunger. The Bureau of American Republics has received a letter from a leading merchant in Brazil, who writes as follows: “Almost everything made in America is good for this country. Glassware is wanted badly, particularly big tumblers, water sets and small liquor glasses, knives and forks, all kinds of tinware, hardware, tools and notions of every kind, cotton sheeting,prints and light weignt woolen goods. In fact, I can only say tuat I do not know what will not sell. We want paper and stationery of every kind, varnishes, felt, shoes,wooden ware, gloves and blank books. We have recently had the largest shipment of mans ufactures from the United States ever landed here, and although the prices charged were enormous, they met with a wonderfully quick sale. Lamps which are sold in New York at S 5 cents were sold here at $3 net, and 1 disposed of two hundred in a couple of days. If I were in business in New York instead of Rio de Janeiro I would do a big trade throughout all the provinces of Brazil. It only wants some of the New York wholesale firms to go for this market, and before long our people would regularly go there for their supplies.” FOREIGN. Charles Broadlaugh, the noted English radical and infidel, died at London on the 36th. Advices from Massowah, on the Red sea, state that a terrific storm, followed by floods has caused enormous damage throughout the island of Massowah. Over one hundred persons lost their lives.