Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Eleven miners were killed by explosions • t Xantieoke. Pa. Ute Indians have killed 5,000 deers In Colorado recently. There is no truth In the rumored sink Ins of the Baltimore. Pawnee Bi|l will head another invasion of the Cherokee Strip. A Square of buildings of Orange, Mass., burned. Loss. 8200,00 a The Belt Line engineers and firemen have struck at St. Louis. Ex-Senator Thurman celebrated TSth birthday on the loth. New York is author the two big political conventions next summer. Interesting old coins and mannscrlpts have been unearthed near Santa Fe, N. M. —-E.JW,Halford, private secretary of the President, lias resumed j}is official duties. J-'ive members of a family lost their lives , in a burning building at Columbus, 0., 6n the ICII I . ~ At Whitewater. Miss., an attempt was made to blow up the hall of tho .Good 11 TWIHjUliUSST''-' ■ . ; "S The directors of the National Base-ball “League have awarded the pennant of MM to Boston. Bon I’latt, a well-known newspaper writer and journalist, died at Cleveland--0., on the 12th. Only a small crowd attended the annual meeting of the Dakota Farmers 1 Alliance-

at Huron, S. D. Senator Quay does not want the Republican convention held at San Francisco. It is too far away. In the month of October the Brooklyn bridge was operated at a loss of $75,155 Expenses slßl 74*. -lames Smith, said to be a leper, was for a time an inmate of the Cincinnati Hospital. but has been released. The Macin Banking Company, Kansa s City, has failed, President Blanchard’ going to Canada with SIO,OOO. The. Knights <Sf Labor and the American Federation of Labor are negotiating for a consolidation of thetwo organizations.——Hiram Chase, a full-blooded Indian of the Omalm tribe, has been admitted to practice in the Federal Court at Omaha. The Presidential proclamation setting apart Thursday, Nov, 20, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer has been issued. Gov. P.ois was re-elected in lowa by a plurality of 7,816. The entire Democratic ticket was elected by a pleurality of from 3,000 to 4,000.

the murder of & mother and son by robbers. They were strangled. Everything of value was taken from tho place by.tho robbers. Hon. Abram Hewitt, in a speech at, New Y'ork oipthe 12th. declared that in 1876 the electoral vole of Louisiana was offered to him for money, and he had declined to purchase it. The Cherokee Legislature, it is said, favors thr snleof -a sti of 6,000,000 acres to the Government. Chief Mayes is also willing to dispose-of the land at a fai 1 ' price. The negotiations are in progress. At the meeting of the trades and labor assembly at Chicago a committee was ap pointed to co-operate with other organized labor bodies to circulate petitions and agitate for the release of Oscar Ncebe, the Anarchist. 1 —• Two men and a boy were fatally injured, three men seriously injured, and many ollicrs sabering from painful wounds, as the resiilt, of a terrific explosion of dynamite, which occurred at Hayward, Wis., on the 10th. Histrict Attorney Gilchrist,- ofrChicago, is preparing to prosecute the leading Anarchists who, during the memorial parade Sunday, detained the United States mail by refusing to allow government mail wagons to cross the line of march. •The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette has printed, an interview with each of the thirteen Hamilton county representatives In the next Legislature in which each one says that. ex-Gov. J. 15. Foxakcr will be his favorite first choice for United States Senator to succeed Senator Sherman. Governor Pattison. of Pennsylvania, has issued a proclamation calling upon the citizens of Pennsylvania to prepare for furnishing their full proportion to the interest, value and financial prosperity of the Columbian exposition at Chicago. It has been delmifely ascertained that the prolonged diplomatic ccorrespondeuee between Secretary Biair.e and Lord Salisbury had) resulted in an agreement by which, with tho.consent of the Senate, the long-pending dispute over the seal fisheries in Bering Sea xviil be definitely settled. Mrs. Pauline Roth, 35years old and the mother of ten children, is said to be the largest womau ever lauded at the bargo ,efti.ee. She with her husband and familyincluding a herculean Son twenty years of age. six feet five incites in height, are on -their way to Indianapolis, wheie they will .ocato. . . Twenty thohsandidollars’ xvorth of diamonds and other jewels xvere stolen from a Dayton & Michigan passenger train atthe depot at Dayton on tho 10th, and the police are unable to find any clew to the theft. Mr. Kerning, a traveling salesman for the firm of Herman & Ivreck, diamond dealers„of Cihginnati, was on tho train en route home. At tho depot he left his gripsack in the seat while he left thecar to get lunch. In the grip sack were $20,000 in diamonds, and w hen he returned the grip and diamonds were gone. . News has* Just been received at Deadwood that John Triber, a member of the Dead wood city council and a wholesale liquor dealer, who left tbero six .weeks ago with his family to visit old scenes in Europe, has been arrested as a deserter from the German army and is now in the miiiiajy prison at, Mainz. Sir Triber left Germany in 1874 when about ten years of age. He is now a full naturalized citizen of the United States, and his friends in Dead wood will probably invoke the aid Oj the State Department to secure his release. One year and eleven months ago George Justus tied from Shelby county, taking with hlai $1,250 belonging to Deheur & Swain. Other creditors there and Morris, town suffered by his departure. Justus had been in the employ of tiie above firm to buy lumber and was at various times itiirwMed with funds. Justus had been in CJMcago driving a fftreet car for some time.

. Lately he wrote several letters to Debeui & Swain including propositions to com* back and work oat the amount he owed them, Tho ffrm accepted, and he arrived on the 10th for the purpose of living up te his agreement, and reported at Deheur A, -Swain's for the purpose of going to work While in the office the sheriff entered and arrested him, taking him to jail. Before his downfall Justus was a prominent business man and stood high in that corn-? mnnity. A gerteral digging up of corpses interred by a leading Chicago undertaker is expected as a result of his recent arrest. The accused is the undertaker, M. F. Rodgers He is charged with systematically burying two corpses to the coffin. Rodgcrr held a contract to inter deceased inmate? of a public institution for dependent children, and, it is alleged, saved himself exixmsc by hiding the little bodies, one at a terme, indhe costly linings of massive caskets provided for wealthy customersThe body of a contractor named Tansy, exhumed on the 10th, was found to be dividing its resting place with the remains ?of an unknown child concealed in the draperies. A similar instance brought to I iglit a fortnight ago was declared by the I undertaker to be merely the evidence of a ' plot by discharged employes to ruin his business.

FOREIGN. Ice has stopped navigation in the River Neva. The recent storms In England played havoc with shipping. Many lives were lost. •- ■ Civil war is undoubtedly prevailing fn Brazil and is spreading. The army and navy have united, it is said, to make Da Fonseca Dictator for life. . A newspaper correspondent named Eugene Wolff has been expelled from Germen East Africa for Writing biased reports discrediting the Governor of the colony. . The Legislature of the State of Espirto Santo, Brazil, has passed a bill granting a subsidy of $90,000 a year for the establishment of direct steam communications with the United States. Tho Congress of the State of Nueva Leon, Mexico, for the purpose of encouraging tho cultivation of liber plants, has exempted from taxation for a period of twenty years all lands devoted to that purpose. The terrific cyclone which passed over Calcutta on Monday of last week, has done an untold amount of damage, including the sinking of the government steamship Enterprise, by which seventy-five lives were lost.

Russian officials have been very active of late endeavoring to suppress a well organized conspiracy to establishrer create a representative assembly: The headquarters were in Moscow and extended to distant parts of the Kingdom. Of course there is no possibility of success. The Socialists are preparing; it is said, to make a warm attack iu the Reichstag upon anv measure proposed in pursuance of the Kaiser's new hobby of enforcing personal morals by law. The Kaiser's yiews are not at all acceptable to tho Socialists, who charge him with attempting to assume authority little short of Omnipotent, and altogether unsuited to the present stage of civilization. Between Bismarck and the Social ists all indications point to a lively session in tho Reichstag. A fire broke out in London, Eng., on the 12th. in the quarter occupied by lumber yards, factories and a large namber tenements occupied by poor families. The flames spread with frightful rapidity, fed as they were with the immense quantity of highly inflammable material stored in j the vicinity of the spot where the fire originated. Tho fire brigade responded promptly to the alarm, but for a long time their efforts to subdue the flames were re- j warded with but poor success, and it ap- . peared to the onlookers that a great por- I tlou of the business part of the district would be devastated. Fortunately, how- | ever, much or the lumber and timber I stacked in the yards had been thoroughly j soaked by a tremendous rain the day be- , fore, and this to a great extent preveuted the conflagration From doing great damage. As it is the loss is very heavy. The London Chronicle’s Shanghai correspondent says: “Quietude prevails here bntin Hunant the natives are seething with discontent and are liable to break into revolt at any moment. No indemnity will be paid to Europeans who suffered in the Tchang riots. The malcontents are aware that tho Pekin government has no real disposition to satisfy Europe and that; further troubles are inevitable. Li Hung’s policy is to embroil the powers one with another. I aiU able to confirm the report; of tho existence of An agreement by which the Japanese fleet will assist the Chinese in case of need. vessels are already coming to Chinese waters. Tho American admiral has left in the cruiser Charleston for Honolulu. He has been from the very first' belicose toward the Cinnese officials and has not concealed his belief that extre measures are necessary It is understood that|under cover of protection of Americans ho will seize Honolulu in ! tlie~nahf<Tof h!s government.