Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Fire did <200.000 damage at Beverly, Mass.. Sunday. “Ex-Congressman H. F. I’agc died at Circleville, 0.. on the 28th. A powder mill at Youngstown. Ohio, e r v ploded on the 28th killing two men. Elliott King, tho noted leader of thf greenback movement in Maine, is dead. A court martial is busy at theAnhapo. ers.” •♦ ~ . ■ It has been decided to hold a national military encampment in Chicago during the World's fair. The prairie fires in Oklahoma are destroying much property, and several lives are reported lost. Burglars chloroformed Mrs. Mary E. J. Dow, of Dover. N. H„ and took 85,T0C Worth of diamondsand <2,020 in securities. “Rain King'’_Afelbourne denies that he has sold his invention and says that, he will furnish Kansas with rain aXJO cents per acre. Gohl in paying quantities was struckby men drilling for the water-works tunnel under the Missouri river at Kan--'sas Clt y. ’ At Raleigh, N.C., Anthony Jordan, colored, was canght-in theropes of a balloon and carried he was killed. y Senator Quay has brought suit againsl the Pittsburg Post and otherpapers for Jn Bardsiey's crooked financial! ransact ions. The schooner L. B. Hatch, bound- for Boston from Newfoundland, has been abandoned at sea. The crew was rescued by a passing steamer. "Dr. Stolinski, on entering his office at Ottinnwa. la., found L. A. Stevens, a stair dent, dead. Investigation showed that he had been killed bv burglars and a valuable diamond pin stolen. Representatives from colleges of seven Southern States met at Charleston. S. C., on the3oth, for the purpose of organizing a Southern Monumental College to erect a monument to Jefferson Davis. ■ It is not believed that any resident of Oklahoma will be appointed to the governorship of that Territory, all residents having more or less prejudice on the location of the Capital question. At the meeting of the trades and labor ■assembly at Chicago a committee was an pointed to co-operate with other organized labor bodies to circulate petitions and agitate for the release of Oscar Neebe. the Anarchist. Mrs. Maria Kailburg, of Boston, bus sued Father O'Donnell, a Catholic priest, for boycotting her business. She would not send her children to Hie parochial school. She says he ruined her trade, and wants 85,000 damages. A New-Brunswick prodigy in the per son of a six-year-old boy, four feet highblonde mustache, weighing 142 pouude and capable of easily lifting 2(X) pounds' was recently sent to the reform school on account of incorrigibility. The Adjutant-General has decided that all military colleges receiving arms and amuhition from the national government for the purposes of instruction,. and to which an officer of the United States Army has been detailed as professor of military tactics, must display the national flag on all occasions when, under army regulations. the use of the flag is called for. Adispatch. from—l )<• n is*m, Te\.. reports the singular death of a little girl in the Choctaw nation on Bltfi? River. Saturday last a Mrs. Deeding carried her child into the front yard, placed her on the ground and returned to. the house. Some time later the mother went for the child and found a large snake coiled around he r neck. After uncoiling the snake and killing it. Mrs Deering found that the child had been strangled to death. Superintendent of Immigration Gwen has decided to proceed against, the Buffalo Brass and Iron Bedstead Company, of Hufl^lo,A- Y„ for what is regarded as one of the most flagrant violations of the alien contract labor laivdliat has-eome under the. observation of the Treasury Department. Inspector Barry, of Buffalocon t ract la borers who were brought over from BirminghamEngland. to work for this firm. The Bureau of Immigration is in possession of the written contracts entered into bet ween the firm and the laborers, by which the company paid the men's fares across the ocean, and there is a stipulation in the contract that the laborers were to contribute <2 each out ,of their wages until half the amount paid for their passage over was liquidated. The firm will be promptly prosecuted by the federal authorities.