Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Ex-Senator Saulsbury, rs Delaware, died a< Wilmington on the 6th. The United States has haggeA flour export trade to Cuba from Europe. The average of winter wheat is shown io be about 20 per cent lower than a year ago. A twelve-year old boy near Topeka, Kan., accidentally shot gjnd killed hie mother Sunday. Thd crowd of on Ew-rqpean-beunti spring than last season. ’ .< ' J It is believed that a medal found in Turn-back creek, Missuri, belonged to De Soto, the Spanish explorer. The Sergeant Milling Company at Joplin, Mo., has been,burned out. Thepfons cost 1150,000, and there was only |2s,oQoinsurance on it. , A New York company will grind coaj and mix it with water and force it through abipedlrectfrom the coal fields to the city, where it will be dried in bricks. Six people lost their lives in a burning building at Ft. Madison, lowa, on the 6th, and five were killed on the same data by an explosion on the Long Island railroad at Long Island City, L. I. The crop statement of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, just issued, estimates the wheat crop of this year at 25,0C0,000, an increase over last year of 3,( 01,000 bushels. The barley yield is estimated at 78 per cent, of last year’s crop; rye at 76 par cent., corn at 85 per cent., and fruit at 74 per bent. The World’s Fair appropriation bill calling for SIOO,OOO for Kentucky’s exhibit, was passed in the Kentucky House of th® General Assembly by a vote of 53 to 35Friday. Amendments were added asking for the closing of the exhibit on Sundays and prohibiting the sales of liquors at all times. Judge Woods, of Indianapolis, was cordially greeted Wednesday by a large number of attorneys in Judge Blodgett’s chambers at Chicago. . notwithstanding rumorsof a hostile reception by the Chicago bar. Judge Woods denied that he had come with the intention of trying any cases Immediately. He held a eonferenc with Judge Gresham and arranged k, take up a docket later. Michael Curry was found dead in tba brush near his home near Port Griffith, Pa., Friday. He was partially disembowled, and his body otherwise mutilated His wife made the discovery and after an alarm, hundreds of people gathered abong the body. Murder was at once suspected, but an investigation disclosed that Curry who was a rock cutter in the mines, had taken three sticks of dynamite, and with these had blown himself to death,cairying out a threat of self-destruction. Cora Van Ora, of Allegheny, aged thirteen, was coming down the stairs last Friday carrying her little baby sister, nine months old, when she slipped and fell The baby’s skull was fractured and lit died. Several of her little friends toM her she would be hanged for killing her little sister, and this so worried the girt that she is now in a raging fever, has lost her reason and it is thought she will dieA few nights ago a son of Mrs. James Dyke, living ten miles south of Marshall, Mo., dreamed that under a certain moand of dirt in the yard there was untold wealth. He Investigated the matter. OST going down several feet he struck aradt -. •lab, and on removing this he found, not, money, but the skeletons of four men roughly walled in on all sides by rock. I ' lO skeletons are supposed to be those Indians who died there before the country was settled. The Anarchists are growing more active. A circular just issued contains th* following: In no city of the world is ih* work!ng man treated as ho Is in ChicagoCapitalists have secretly conspired to giro labor its death wound. All efforts on th* •ide of labor to better its condition are violently opposed. Capitalists provok* the working classes to the extreme, and it is only attributable to the apathy of th* workingmen of Chicago that in the last five months blood of men, women and children has n6t been shed. The Supreme Court of South Dakota has declared the prohibition Jaw constitutional. This will Close the twenty-one saloons at Yankton that have been run- / ning under the local license law during the past year. One-half the saloon keepers are now on ball, pending their trial for violating the law. A test, case was mxte before Judge White last August, which was appealed, and a decision rendered Tuesday, reversing White’s decision. Pro* hibitionists are encouraged and say they will now close up all the saloons.

FOREIGN. Newfoundland has discriminated against. Canada in favor of United Statesfftlwmen. A Canadian army officer is charged with treason for favoring annexation with th* United States. The Russian Minister of the Intartar has prepared restrictions to be placed upon foreigners who settle in Russia. All such who acquire lands must adopt the Russian nationality within three yean or qnit the country. Advices from Samoa show that the food between King Malietoa and, Chief Mata* afa grows more bitter daily, and tha outbreak of war is probable.- Mataafa hsk started a rival government composed of chiefs who still adhere to him.