Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

There were three su lei dee in Ne'e York •n the 14th. Italian immigration to thi* country shows a large failing off. James D. Colgate on the 17th gave one million dollars toCoigate University, New York. The College of New Jersey has received in gifts during the past year more than 4100,000. Robert Packard and wife, of New Harthave a family of twenty-nine living children. .... Frit/. Emmett, the German dialect cornmedian, died at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., on the 15th. Gen. Grosvenor has tendered his resignation as chairman of the immigration committee to visit Europe. Fail River, CM ass.) mill owners are discussing the question of reducing the wages of their 22,000 employes. •Seabright. N. J., a favorite summer resort, was almost entirely destroyed by lire oo'tlie 17th. Loss, 4300.000. James L. Edwards, a well known actor, committed suicide at Chicago When he heard of his mother’s death. Both British and American naval vessels haVegoee to Behring Sea for the purpose of protecting the seals. Two retired sea captains left Boston on the 18th for a race to England and back, cacti in a small boat fifteen feet long. Gas escaped from a broken pipe in the jail at Yonkers* N. Y., on the 17th, and three of the prisoners were asphyxiated. Investigation shows that what was thought to be the heart of the Staked Plains is iii reality a fertile farming country. “ John Daugherty and George McKee, tax collectors, of Wilmington, Del., are alleged to be SIOO,OOO and SIB,OOO short, respectlively. _____ Motion fora new trial in the case of Gl'audi. convicted at New Orleans of attempted jury bribery in the Henuessy case has been overruled. Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, vetoed the compulsory education bill passed by the last Legislature a few' days before its adjournment. Secretary Blaine is improving in health. Ho will remain at Bar Harbor all summer. President Harrison spent from the 18th to the 22d at Cajte May Point with his family. Gen. John Schofield, Commander-in- j Chief of the U. S, army, was married on the lothto Miss Georgia Kifboimie, at Keokuk, la. The groom is aged 70 and the bride £6. The World’s Fair management has sent an embassador to Spain for the purpose of having built three ships the exact counterpart of the fleet of Columbus, which will be exhibited at the exposition. A fast express train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railroad plunged into the Coon river, near Boone, lowa, on the 17th, killing one person, fatally injuring three and wounding from twelve to fifteen. At the municipal election at Portland Ore., W. S. Mason, Citizens’ candidate for mayor, was elected by a majority of more than two thousand votes over ex-Con-gressman M.C. George, the regular Republican nominee. Brown Cundiff and a man named Turner, while crossing the Big Four railroad, in East Hillsboro, 111., Tuesday evening, in a wagon, were struck by the engine of the west-bound passenger train and fatally Injured. The two horses were killed instantly and the wagon torn to pieces, The United States Treasurer's statement issued on the 13th shows that the cash balance is $44,415,000, of which $22,029,000 is on deposit with national banks and $20,250,000 is in fractional silver, deducting which items, the net cash balance is but $1,235,000, which is the lowest figure yet reached. r August Belmont, an agent of the Rothschilds, has been instructed to close a deal by which the latter will, in September next, take possession of the great Anacon - da copper mine. The price to be paid is stated at between $20,000,000 and $25,000,000. The purchase by the Rothschilds is said to bo for a foreign syndicate. As & resuit of the prosecution of the saloon-keepers of Tacoma, Wash., by the Anti-Saloon Association, not a saloon was open on the 14th. The saloon-keepers after being convicted decided to have enforced the entire Sunday closing law, which forbids ar.y kind of business being done except that of undertakers, livery stables and hotels. The Pennsylvania railroad finds it difficult to settle with those who lost relatives in the Hagerstown wreck last winter, and several widows have been offered from three to five thousand dollars each by way of compromise, but all have refused the offers and have indicated that they will bring suit for SIO,OOO each against the Pennsylvania road unless better offers are made them. While several small girls were wading barefootied in the Schuylkill river near Parker's Ford, Pa., Frank Bixbee came along and said he was going to teach them how to swim. He seized two girls, one under each arm. and w aded out into the water beyond his depth. One of the girls escaped from his clutches, but Bixbee and Jennie Kncrr, aged ten, sank and both were drowned. Bixbee, it is thought, was intoxicated.

FOREIGN.

A conflict between British and Portugese colonist?, in which seven Portugese were killed, took place in South Africa. The British loss is unknowu. The total cost to Sir William Gordon Cumming of his baccarat scandal suit was $12,500. It Is reported that President Hyppolite, pf Hayti, has been snot and killed by an insurgent ——--——U-r A malignant disease resembling la grip is ravaging the Magdalen Islands, the natives dying by Hundreds. At Liverpool, Thursday, prior to the sailing of the steamship City of Chieago, a test rocket fired from the deck flew among a number of cabin passengers, two of whom were so seriously, injured that they had to be taken to a hospital. The Paris Figaro prints telegrams from

London and Berlin which assert that tl* Prince of Wales has determined to r» nounce his rights to the throne in favor o his eldeet son, and that he will resign hi: commission* in the army. The, source a these remarkable predictions is notstated and they are not given any credence whatever. A letter from Cal abarren the west coast of Africa, gives the account of horribli cases of cannibalism in the district oi Bayong, a short distance in the interior It appears that the inhabitants of the village of Aro, In that regfon, having beet reduced to utter destitution by the raid* of neighboring tribes, compelled even family among them each to give up oni child to be killed for food.