Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Hog cholera prevail? near Hay ton. O. Ex-Governor A. B. Ax toll, of 'New Jersey . died 6n the 7th. A case of fully developed leprosy la re---perted from Chicago. It is estimated that $11,006,000 will be paid in sugar bounties next year. At the next session of Congress Arizona will ask for admission as a State. Chief Byrd has decided that no more whites are wanted in the Chickasaw Nation. ~ v-< An English company has organized a fleet to transport Southern negroes to Africa. . Commissioner Raum says he will adjudicate fifty thousand new pension cases this year. Shawnee county, Kansas, Democrats have fused with the People's Party, in spite of the recent anti-fusion declaration in that State. Dr. W. M. Baldwin, a distinguished physician of Florence, Italy, has come to this country for the purpose of attending Secretary lilaitiq. Proctor Knott, the great race horse' died or the 7th. He cost his owners $125 as a yearling, and won for them more than fIOO.OOO in the three seasons he raced. A Catholic priest at New Haven has iss sued an order instructing the young ladieof his parish to give up their Protestant lovers, and they are rebelling against it. Captain Lawler, who sailed from Boston some time ago In the dory Mermaid, has arrived in England. He claims a shark tried to devour his boat on the way over. An unknown man entered tin- Exchange Bank at Columbus Grove, Ohio, shot the cashier nnd two other men and fled with $1,200. lie was pursued and shot dead by a mob. —— ■ - Isaac Newton Baker, Col. Ingersoll’s private secretary .who was shot in a family Quarrel at Croton Landing,N.Y..on t he Ist, lingers between life and death with four bullet holos in his body. Two Americans and eight Italians were killed and a score of passengers injured by a wreck on the West Shore road near Syracuse, N. Y., on the 6tli. A passenger train plunged into a freight that was endeavoring to make a siding. Governor Buchanan has issued a proclamation calling an extra session of the Tennessee Legislature, to convene Aug. 3 1. lie enumerates a dozen subjects for consideration, the principal ones being the care and employment of convicts. Ex-Senator Ingalls, in an address in Georgia Thursday, declared that the enfranchisement, of the negro was a mistake, and that the Northern people, if they had been in the shoes of the Southern whites would have opposed the force bill just as the South did.

The first election in Utah on the national partv lines came off Monday. There were three tickets in the field, however, the remnant of the Liberal party, made up mostly of Republicans, having nominated a full ticket. The Mormon vote was about equally divided between Democrats and Republicans. The former won by a small plurality over the Liberals, who were slightly ahead of tho Republicans. In pursuance of the plan outlined at the Democratic convention of Shawnee county, Kansas, to fuse with the Farmers’ Alliance in county politics, the Democratic managers approached the Alliance people to arrange for such fusion. The latter repelled the Democratic 'advances.''-'They" said they were fighting both of the old parties, and would fuse with nobody. They would nominate a full ticket of their ow n. Tho German pioneers in East Africa are said to be disgusted and anxious for an opportunity to return home. They cannot stand the heat and miasma of the coast islands, while they are reluctant to penetrate to the interior without military protection and means of communication that do not now exist. The earnest purpose of tho German East African company in Gcr-manyisnotsivaivdb-y-ita representatives in Africa, and those who were so enthusiastic to volunteer seem equally desirous to go home. Four young people, children of promi- 1 neat Milwaukee business men, were drowned at Lake Pewauke, twenty miles j from Milwaukee on the 9th. They were jutfin a small sail-boat /with Jthree other young people. A squall struck the boat, capsizing it. it was heavily ballasted and sunk almost immediately, leaving the seven people struggling in the water. The names of the drowned are: Albert, and ' Emma Barth, Martha Kindling and Clara ! Siegler, their ages ranging from fifteen to 1 twenty years.,. Their fathers are: JLouis ' Kindling, P. Barth and Leopold Siegler. j The young people had t been spending a few days at Lake Pewauke. which is a favorite resort for Milwaukeeans.

At 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon a storm ' cloud which came up from the west, broke 1 over Cheqnamegon bay at Ashland; Wis.. 1 with disastrous results. Rain fell in tor- j rents, accompanied by wind blowing at a 1 tremendous velocity. Tho roof was; stripped from the Fifleld Block., The Swedish Baptist Church was lifted four feet from its foundation and t hrown down, and numerous small buildings twisted about Out at the bay front half a dozen little yachts were moored. They all broke j away from their fastenings and were' wrecked upon the shore. Among them is | the handsome little Sheeny, which won ' the race a week ago. The total damage 1 amounts to SIO,OOO. FOREIGN. Parliament was prorogued on the 6th. Parnell has decided to visit America late . this year. 1 Bulgaria is actively making preparations for war. | The heat in India is intense, and live stock is dying from thirst and starvation j