Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1891 — HE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Sam. Small is said to be 41,000 short in his accounts. Three men were killed by a freight wreck at Parsons, Kas. An Ohio girl was drugged by a man and his wife and cruelly maltreated. > The estate of Lawrence liarrett has been inventorized by the executors at *231,000. 21 _ A black belle stabbed another black belle to doath at a black picnic near Chicago. The body of a pretty girl who had probably been murdered was found in the river at Philadelphia. It is denied positively at the State Department that our minister to Italy, Mr. -Porter, it as been recalled. A murder occurred at a St. Louis church dedication on the Mst, and the attendants tried to lynch the murderer. Governor Steele, of Oklahoma, denies that he lias been offered the pension commissionership by the President. Jn an interview Gen. Alger declares for Blaine, and believes that party leaders Will uniteon him iwforegoing into convention. Secret-service officers have notified Chi - cago jewelers t hat they will be arrested for counterfeiting if-they plate silver or nickel coin for use as bangles. Ex-City Treasurer liardsley of Philadelphia pleaded guilty to seventeen indictments. It is said he will make a clean broast_of the Philadelphia ring frauds. Pierre, S. 1).. was visited by a heavy wind and dust storm, and at the same time the thermometer fell from ninety to near the freezing point, and frost was threatened. Tuesday night. The friend iv offices of the Lid ted States minister to Chili in arranging a truce between Baltnaceda's government and the insurgent party have proven fruitlees, and tlie war goes merrily on. The President of tlie United States has caused to be presented a gold watch and medal to the captain, and gold watches and chains to the first and third officers of tire British steamer Allen Shaw for rescuing the crew of the schooner Electric Light. At the Chattanooga blast furnace, while four colored men were tapping a dynamite blast, the charge exploded, killing and horribly mangling three men anil wounding the fourth. Timber and machinery in the furnace plant were hurled about promiscuously. The Illinois Legislature will pass a bil] appropriating SBOO,OOO for the State's exposition at the World's Fair, coupled with a recognition of an eight-hour day and ! the arbitration of labor disputes, which ! may occur with the workmen engaged in j constructing the World’s Fair building. j Fourteen Esquimo boys have been taken ! from school at San Francisco, and the I superintendent and his assistant have '■ been arrested. The boys were brought from Alaska to study for the Russian priesthood, but were used as slaves, and subjected to the most atrocious treatment. While coming down the mountain from Lioydville to Bellwood, Pa., on the Pennsylvania & Northwestern railroad on the 12th, a heavy coal train got beyond control of the trainmen and crashing down the grade, jumped the track at a curve on the side of a deep ravine. The engine and twenty-live coal cars were wrecked. The bodies of the conductor, engineer and one brakeman were crushed beyond recognition. The other train hands were moreor less injured. Mrs. Martha Wayland, aged eighty,disappeared from her home near Macomb, 111., Tuesday morning. Wednesday evening her grandson went into a pasture and there discovered a drove of hogs fighting aver some object. An investigation showed that the brutes were feasting on the woman's body. Assistance was called and the men were compelled to beat the hogs away from the corpse with clubs; The brutes fought the men like wildcats. The body presented a horrible appearance. The President made the following appointments to the Court of Private Land Claims on the 10th: Chief Justice—Joseph R. Reed, of lowa. Associate Justice—Henry C. Sluss, of Kansas. Associate Justice—William M. Murray, of Tennessee. Associate Justice—Thomas C. Fuller, of North Carolina. Associate Justice—Wilbur F. Stone, of Colorado. The President also appointed Matthew G. Reynolds, of Missouri, to be United States Attorney for the Court of Private Land Claims, and Leonard W. Colby, of Nebraska, to betAssistaut Attorney-gen-eral, as provided by the act approved March 3. 1391.

The first work in connection with the removal of the great packing houses of Armour, Swift & Nelson from Chicago to Tolleslon will he the building of a canal connecting Calumet river, which runs through the new purchase, with lak< Michigan. Tliis canal will be one-half mile long, 200 feet wide and eighteen feet deep, and the estimated cost is $125,000. The removal has been hurried by the high price of water at Chicago, and the act of the Legislature prohibiting the drainage of the slaughter-houses into the Illinois river. It is expected that slaughtering will begin at Tolleston within twelve months,\and after their removal the packers will built their own cars and add other industries to the enterprise. These three houses now employ 20,000 men. The contemplated removal has given a wonderful impetus to real estate investments in Porter county, and it is claimed that in a few years Tolleston will rank with Indianapolis in business importance. The pack-ing-house syndicate owns 4,000 acres of i land, and it will issue $10,000,009 stock, I which will be divided among other packers and dealers who will remove there, i The old stockyards, where these houses i now do business, originally cost $1,000,000, ■ and some months ago were sold to an English syndicate sor 525.000.000. The high , charges imposed necessary to realize upon this investment ft cne cause *f the Armour removal.

FOREIGN. Government vessels harmlessly bombs* «ied Iquique. The London Jury decided againsl Sir

I Gordon Camming, but the people’s verdict j is for tjim. while the press scores all par- | ties concerned. A conflict between British and Portuj gese colonist'', in which seven Portugese' ! were killed, took place in South Africa. | The British loss is unknown. The Official Gazette this evehing announces under date of JnnelO. that the name of Sir William Gordon Camming hail been removed from the list of officers in the army' gs Her Majesty has no further occasion for his services.