Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The public debt was reduced §1,514,327 during April. Indications are that the great miners' strike will be averted. Forest fires haVe been devastating porions Of New Jersey. \ ■ ■ Mercier and the othef Canadian delegates have arrived at Now York. Toby Hart, the well-known comedian of New York, ts dying from paresis. Col. Miguel Lopez, Who. it is said, bejtrayed Maximilian to J uarez, is dead.. Al! the miners near Trimble, Ohio, are out. Also all miners in northern lowa. United States officers are evicting 6.000 white settlers from the Choctaw Natipn. William Terry, the fifth victim of the Louisville wedding feast, died Saturday. ’ AXLeycland, O„ syndicate has contrast, ed to establish a tin-plate plant at Amiersi>n. i ■ 5 The Treasury Department proposes, to enforce the Owen law to regulate luimigration. Nearly 50.000 men went out at New York. The demand is for ah eight hour day. The venerable jurist, David Dudley Field, is Ilfat h"is home, No. 22 Gramercy Park. ■ ’ CoL'Robert Ijut'usol 1 isxgiifined to his bed seriously s: el; with the grippe at his ho tn e. - ,72 1 Three young girls lost their lives in a burning fireworks factory at New York on the Ist. ' . . A’tirwen Stoddart. one of Philadelphia's gwsaVnierchants, became suddenly insane at Chicago. Ten diseased and pauper immigrants, from Russia, were refused entry at New York on the 6th. Representatives of Croatia and the United States will have a ,reciprocal trade conference in October. :-r Several patients have been discharged from the hospital at Denver, pronounced cured l?y Koch's lymph. The sugar trust is said to have been a gigantic speculalivuj-ebbnry,.and repressive legislation iif suggested. The celebrated Anaconda mine, in Montana, is said to have beetr sold to She Rothschilds for §25,000,000. - Phil Armour & Co., of Chicago, rrf’,l build a refrigerator at South Bend for the distribution of dressed meats. - The first official act of Mayor Washburne. of Chicago, was to order all the gambling houses in the citv to close. The Attorney General has entirely recovered from his recent illness, and visits the Department of Justice every day. The Waco (Tex.) grand jury indicted thirty-four men for frauds in a local election, many of them prominent men. Two little boys, while playing in the mud at Kansas City, found two gunny sacks, each containing a mutilated human body. The Texas Central railway was sold at Waco, Tex., on the 22d inst., under 'foreclosure,to the committee of reorganization, for $750,000. Lorenzo Cronz. the new Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury, and Treasurer Nebeker, have entered upon the discharge of their duties. "TTarc n eeP. Dresser, the journalist, who securedthe famous "public bed —d” interview with Vanderbilt, died at Chicago and was buried at Lafayettect U. S. Hall, President of the M issouri Farmers’ Alliance, in a published interview says that he is opposed to the third -partyeonvention atCincinnati. The Census Bureau finds 3,035 irrigated farms in New Mexico; average cost of land, including water right, cost of irrigaTiba and purchase price, 512.96 per acre. Governor Campbell has written a public letter in which he says he is a candidate for renomination, and it is likely he wil contest the next election with Major McKinley. A t Tiffin, 0., a heavy storm struck Sells Bros.’circus, blowing down all the tents md creating a panic. Several of the aninals escaped. Mrs. Pauline Hunter was rilled and two others seriously injured. The students of Grant University at Chattanooga, Tenn., invited Henry WaV terson to address them commencement week,hut the faculty has refused to allow (he editor to appear, and the students are ndignant. A strange disease has attacked the horses near Mechanicsburg, 0., which puzzles the veterinarians. It is similar to the epidemic of epizootic which raged over the country a few years ago. A number of fatal cases are reported. ' The British ship Lansdowne, which sailed from Hokodatc, Japan, 199 days igo, for New York, has been given up as tost. She was commanded by Captain Newcomb, and carried a crew of about forty n.en. She was loaded with sulphur. The people of Wheeling, W. Va., have dedicated an abortive gas well to the cause rd science, and will endeavor to make it the deepest well in the world. A government physicist has been detailed to follow the progress of the drill, which is now down 4,100 feet. Ms. S. D. Miller, son of the Attorney General, has been appointed to the posittonlately vacated by Mr, Tollman, chief of the division of requisition and accounts of the War Department, and has been designated as private secretary by Secretary Proctor. A new and fatal disease has made its appearance among tne cattle in various parts Of Kansas, and veterinary surgeons are greatly puzzled by it Cattle apparently healthy are taken suddenly ill and almost invariably die. The’'new malady promises to take the form of an epidemic. That part of the McKinley bill which removes the tax on tobacco went into es feet May 1. All licenses to retail tobacco expired on the 30th, and no more will be ; needed. ..Beginning with May l, any person who desires may si 11 tobacco without let or hindrance. The historic old log cabin in St. Louis county, which the late General and. President U. S. Grant erected with his own hands, and with logs cut and hewn by himself, is about to be removed from its present site and shipped to Chicago, whore it will be re-erected for exhibition at the World’s Fair. nL I United States Senator Reagan has re-

signed and accepted the positional Rail D>ad Commissioner of ’Ttxas, at a salary o $6,000 a year for four years. Govurno Hogg has appointed Horaofe Chilton, o Tyler, to fiil out Senator Reagon’s uaex pired term of two years. Mr. Chiltoq i thirty-seven years old, a lawyer of tri; practicsx and is considered one of the mo. accomplished and brilliant orators in th Stab-. • The Supreme Court has decided the lot tery mandamus case in favorof thelotter company. The suit was brought by th lottery people to compel the Secretary> j -StaTeto promulgate an order fur the sub mission to the people of the co-nstitutiona amendment, continuing the lottery's lii for another twenty-five years from 1595 and the court decided that it must be promulgated. It will be n<-:. year, and it will be one of the most excit i ngand sanguinary - po! ii icai con t.-.< t <ir the history of Eonisaute;—Atany of thr parishes have -already-resolved to r<-.-:s the lottery if need be with shot guns.