Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

f Nebraska's e'ght-hour law is constltn- ! tional. ’> Mrs. A. J. Drexel, wife of the banker died at New York on the 27th. The Kansas Federation of Labor will make a fight to enforce the cight-houi law in that State. A storm almost, unprecedented in its destruction to property prevailed throughoul the East on Mondav. . Last rear the United States Life Savin? Service saved and assisted to save 247 ves. seis involving $3,288,990 of property. • The Speakership contest has resolved Itself into a cinch in favor of Mills, with Springer second, according to the prophets. • McKf nicy’s official plurality for Governor of Ohio is 2 ,51L . The People's ticket received 23,472 votes aud the Prohibition 20,190. . The Ohio Republicans have decided to contest the Senatorial seat of Calvin Brice. The contest is made on the ground that he Is not a resident of the State. - ;; A German lunatic attempted tho life of the distinguished divine, Dr. John Hall,at ..New York, Sunday. He fired three times at the preacher, but, without hitting him. Albert Allen and Harris, of Asheville; Tenn., paid green-goods men at New York S3OO for a package of blank paper with two one dollar bills fastened on the outside. .

A SLLouis commission man.oneßroekman, alleges that in three weeks’4lme the bankrupt grain firm of Brown Bros., o' Nebraska, swindled him ohtof $75,000 by its manipulations. Ignatius Donnelly, the politician and author, has been sued by R. S. Real & Co,, publishers, of'Chicago, on a claim of 36,(XX) for money advanced for the publication of the “Baconian Cryptogram.” Tbe New York State Scn a testands: Democrats 16, Republicans i.\ Independent 1. The casting vote of the Lieuten-ant-governor will give the organization of the Senate to the Democrats. *' The Treasury Department is continuing the Investigation of the opium smuggling frauds, and It Js-nnderstood, is obtaining some very startling information involving i proponent people in mercantileaud politcai life.

Negroes overpowed the marshal of Gurdon, Ark., when he attempted to arrest one of them. Tho white turned out, and a general battle followed for a short time. Onetoay was killed, and anotffibr badly woundefl. At a meeting of tho Municipal Council of the Irish National League, in New York, it wm resolved to contribute no more money to aid the Home Rule causo until the factions in Ireland quit quarreling and work harmoniously.

Disastrous piairie tires are raging a few miles west of Colbert Station, I. T. Grea quantities of hay are said to have been destroyed and much damage done to buildings, occupied mostly by poor set tiers, and mucljjjsuffering will probably result. Dr. Charles Danzerau, of Taunton, Mass., has created a sensation by living with a pretty girl supposed to be his wife. His real wife and five children turned up and Danzeriu is In jail. The Doctor had a big practice and stood high socially. Cattle tn Cisco and adjoining counties of Texas are dying from the continued dry weather and the scarcity of grass. Many range cattle have already died from wan; of water aud grass, and the remainder an) too poor to go through the winter aud will no doubt- perish in large numbers. On the 24th, at Miller City. Ohio, occurred the death of Johnny McGuire, one of the smallest men In the world. He was forty-eight years old, weighed fifty-nine pounds,, and was only forty-one inches tall. Johnny traveled with the Barnum show for years, and also with theßobinsbii'Show. Ho has been on exhibition In every city tn the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving day the two-year-old child of Hanker David Beals, of Kansas City, was kidnapped and held for ransom. The abductors at once entered into negotiations with the family. and on the 27th a ransom of $5,000 was paid, no questions asked and the child returned. A woman audtwo men committed the crime. Tiic woman has since been arrested and has confessed to her participation, but no chin has been discot cred as to who the men are. Wh en G corge \V. Chil ds Dre xei, son 0 1 Anthony J. Drexel, the banker, and heir of George W. Chiius. the eminent philanthropist, and his bride. Miss Mary Trick, to whom he was married last week, return, to Philadelphia from their wedding tourhe will not have to immediately commenc to hiretie for a livelihood. They will (Ind the latch string outside tho door of an Clogant mansion at Thirty-ninth and Locus', streets.a gift from the fatherof the groomgnd which, with its furnishings, represents an expenditure o’JBO. (NX). In addition to this they will find their cupboards stacked with table linen, tea Services of gold and silver, silver ice cream dishes, tureens and bowls, and other articles, and the walls hung with .fitaguifiFent engrav ings and paintings, all presents from friends of the family. These presents represent an additional expenditure of over cue hundred thousand dollars, and are exclusive of a $]6.000 diamond necklace and brncelet which was the gift of Mr George W. Childs. I.