Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1891 — TEE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

TEE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A case of fully developed leprosy Is reported from Chicago. „ The Schooner Ethel, seal -pirate, has tjeen seij.xl in Behring S v a. " An English company lias organized a fleet to transport Southern negroes to Africa. - The lowest estimate of the wheat crop of Minnesota and the Dakotas is 1.7J.030.1XL bushed*, —-—‘ : - . 7— —■ — Fire burned a pat h two blocks wide and six blocks long at Jacksonville. Fla., on the 18th. Loss. SIOO,OOO. Three raembets of a.pleasure party, two young ladies, aad one young man were drowned In the river At Cincinnati on the 18lb v The dry goods and house furnishing establishment of Goldstein & Mtgel, and Curtis & /Grand, burned at Waco, Tex Loss 8275,000. P, 11. Lawrence, assistant cashier of . the defunct Keystone batik, Philadelphia, was on the 8 h sentenced to,seven years in the penitentiary. Chief Justice Blake, of Montana, in an nterview at Be -Paul, Minn;;; I ’Monday;"said that Montana Republicans were unanimous in there support for Blaine for President in 1892. Isaac Newton Baker. Col. fngersoll’s private secretary,who was shot in a family quarrel at Croton l.atiding,N, Y..on the Ist. lingers between life and death with four builct holes in his body. v Cuba imposes an internal tax of 50 cents a thousand on cigars, and J tidge Blodgett has just decided, tit Chicago, that this tax is added to the value and must be Included in the duty on such imports. Dr. Oliphant. President of the Louisiana State Board of Health, has sent out the announcemen t that no ease of yellow fever _ exists in New .Orleans, and that the health of the city is exceptionally good. fitch silver has lieon found in variqus. portions of Young county, Texas. The assay office in Denver. Colo., reports the value at 9.90 per ton. with traces of gold. The veins lie near the surface of the ground. Nine district judges are to be eleeted this fall in Kansas, and it is claimed by People's party representatives that Democrats and Republicans have united for the purpose of defeating the. candidates the Farmers' Alliance. The monument at Bennington, which the President unveiled on the 19th. was erected at a cost of $100, 000, t0 commemorate the!revolutionary battle of that place The monument is a shaft, built after the style of Cleopatias ueedle. of native stone. J. L. Bay, expert accountant, employed by ex-Troasurcr W. E. Woodruff, of Arkansas, to look after his interests before tiie State board authorized by the Legisla, tore to settle tire treasury muddle, has been arrested charged witli tlie theft of SIO,OOO in State scrip, The White Star line steamer Toiitcnio 1 which arrived at New York on the Kith from Liverpool, beat the record for western passages. Her time from tlie bar at Queenstown to the Sandy Hook bar was live days, sixteen hours and thirty-one minutes. This is one hour and thirtyseven minutes faster 1 than the time of her sister ship, the Majestic, on her last trip from Liverpool, which then made the fastest west ward passage up to that time. One day the Teutonic steamed 517 miles, wbich-alsp beat the record-of speed far a day. -> Cambridge. Mass., was visited Tuesdaymorning by a destructive lire. The Damon iron-works are now a mass of ruins. The building was ow ned, by Mr. Damon, and was valued at S.V),OCXt. The two-stery wooden structure adjoining the Damon building, owned by Mr. Damon also and. biased to Edward Kendall & Co., machinists, also suceumed to the flames.CfThe entire loss of the Damon Safe and Iron Company will approximate $200,000, on which there is but a partial insurance. In the Kendalls' shops twonty-thnusand--1 dollars worth of patterns were destroyed. : and the stock and machinery ruined were j valued at $60,003. j A special from Ogden. Utah, on the IBUI j says: This region of, the Country is ablaze j with excitement over extensive mineral ; discoveries, twenty-live miles north of ■ here, at the head of Paradise Canyon, j Ore in one gulch, which is found in c.norI tnous quantities, is almost pure lead, with j paying silver. Two miles away are ore I bodies assaying up into hundreds. A f sheep herder was the discoverer, and he has been offered 840.000 for one-fourth interest in his claim by a wealthy mining corporation in Salt Lake. An unbroken stream of.prospectors and miners from all parts of the Territory passed through here yesterday. A larger delegation from Sait Lake is expected to-morrow. The Jji!ls are covered with miners and the town of • LaPlata is already laid ou t. Experts who came down last night report that the camp will be a second LcadvHle.