Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Youngstown, 0., tailors are on a strike. 'The (rand Jury at Pittsburg, Pa., indicted 119 men for violating the State oleomargarine law. George Humphrey tried to kill the sanitary officers In New York who removed iris little-son to the small-pox pest-house. The main building 1 of Clarke University for Colored Students, near Atlanta. Ga., was destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at SIOO,OOO. The Sergeant Milling Company at Joplin, Mo., has been burned out. The plans cost $150,000, and there was only f 25,000 insurance on it. - Capitalists of Dayton, 0., will build a large flouring mill at Albany, andlt l» proposed to establish a pulp mill and a glass factory. The yacht Twilight, which was built at Cleveland, 0., was wrecked at Mosquito Inlet, on the Florida coast. The crew narrowly escaped. Mary Stanton, formerly of Cincinnati, died of excessive cigarette smoking in New York, she sometimes consuming a dozen packs a day. ‘ . Tsaan Q. Makki, a Houghton, Mich., tried to thaw out a stick of dynamite. All efforts to find enough of Makki to hold a funeral have failed. Adam Eck, of St. Paul, cut VVm. Reardon’s throat from ear to ear Monday night, inflicting a wound that will prove fatal. Eck had been on a protracted spree. • At Limestone, Ky., Daniel Dehart and Tevis Patton sat down on a rlilroad track while drunk Monday. Patton Is too seriously injured to attend Dehart’s funeral-

As a result of the fight against the liq uor dealers in Epping, N, H„ the home of Rev. W. P. Clancey was fired by an incendiary, and the pastor and his family had a narrow escape. Three prospectors suffered terrible for lack of water while crossing the Colorado desert. One of their number, named McBride, perished from thirst, and his bones lie bleaching on the sand, . .. In the District. Court at Des Moines, la., Monday, a decision was rendered, giving the salary of Secretary of the Senate to S. N. Parsons, the Democrat who was deposed in favor of J. W. Cliff. An idea of the large scale on which the World’s Fair is planned is given in the central steel arch of the manufacturers’ building, just completed, which Is 212 feet high and 325 feet wide at the base. Judge Hilton is having lots of trouble with Claimants of the Stewart millions. Alexander Stewart, who says he is a distant relative of the dead millionaire, is’ trying to reopen the light over the will. Gale Vernon, of Alexandria, proposes to establish a ccemetry for the burial of horses. He considers that as ter an animal has served his master faithfully, and gives up the [ghost, it is entitled to honorable burial. - Charles Ward, who is to. be liberated from the Ohio State prison on the 15th, is over seventy years old, and, according to his own story, has not enjoyed two years of continuous liberty since he was sixteen years old. Henry Wiltshire, a clerk in the U. S. National Bank, N. Y-, went out. to lunch five months ago. Ho has not yet returned, but as he took $50;,030 with-iiim,it Is possible that he is still eating. The fact hast been made public. It is said that a general tie-up of the New York & New England railroad will follow any attempt to apply to the engineers and firemen the 10 per duction in salaries. »tiich goes into effect next Monday for most of the men. The Moosic powder mill, near Scranton. Pa., blew upon the 13th. The report of theetplosion was heard for miles around. Two employes named Barry and Given, were blown to pieces. The damage to the mill machinery and adjacent houses is reported to be great. While the life-saving crow-at Bandon, Ore., were practicing Tuesday evening, their boat capsized, and Capt. Nelson and three of a crew of eight were drowned. The names of two of the drowned were William Green and Edward Summers. The third is unknown.

The backwater from the Ohio and Mississippi rivers has covered miles of bottom land in Mississippi county, Mo., to adopth of from one to ten feet. Fanners from the flooded districts state that a large amount of stock has perished in the water and much damage lias been done to growing crops. Ex-Secretary of the Navy William C. /Rhitney, who started on a six weeks’ trip to Europe on the 15th, said before his departure that, despite the present dissen•ions in the ranks of Democracy, hd believed that before long Cleveland would have the undivided support of thp party. He thinks the situation now isHike it.was just before Tilden was nominated. k E. D. Campbel), professor of qualitative analysis in the Ann Arbor university, met with an accident Tuesday that deprived him of bis eyesight. While he was 'at wort in the chemical laboratory over a glass receiver containing hydrogen and oxygen, the glass exploded. Bits of glass cut into his eyes, inflicting severe injuries. His eyes were removed by the surgeons at the university hospital the same evening □The siea nshlp City of Bangkok, which arrived at New York Friday from the East Indies, brought the largest elephant ever landed in this country. He came from Rangoon, In the bay of Bengal, and is eleven feet, eleven and a half inches high, two inches higher than Jumbo was. His name will be Rajah. He is consigned to Lehman Brpe M of Kansas City, whence he was shipped the same night. Although a special car had been constructed for him by the Pennsylvania railroad, the roof, which is built as high as the railroad tunnels will allow, just touches his back. When placed in his ear Rajah knocked out the roof with his trunk. It was hastily repaired and Rajah started on what may probably be an eventful journey, in the care of five keepers. '' Friday’s report from the flood stricken 1 region confirms all heretofore said, and as the waters in the Tombigbee and its tributary bottoms recede the destruction Is ir.ora fully realized. Deputy Sheriff Crocker. of Lee county Informed a correspondent that he was a passenger on’ the first > A. *

Mobile & Ohio train that crossed the Tom bigbee river in eight days. A half mile of track had been washed out and carried a mile, where it lodged against trees. Captain Crocker says the published reportsdo notglve.half an idea of the wreck and ruin to bo seen in Lowndes, QJav and Monroe counties. Houses, fences and bridges arc all gone. Thousands of dead horses, mules, cattie, hogs, sheep, poultry and the body of an occasional negro can be seen ini'every direction. T ’ An indignation meeting of about 350 negroes was held at St. Louis Monday night to denounce the recent so-called outrages in the South, and especially the trippie lynching at Memphis and the burning at the stake of a negro at Texarkana. Addresses were made, by C. Tandy, Dr. Willing, George Howard, C. H. Tyler and others, and resolutions adopted protesting against the outrages and declaring in favor of the forming of auxiliary bodies throughout the United States to agitate the matter of protection to the negro. It was also resolved to send representatives to Europe to stir up sentiment there and to call a National convention to consider these ann other matters.

FOREIGN. Ten Russian wolf-hounds have been imported by stockmen along the Cheyenne river to exterminate the wolves which are killing a large number of calves and colts. An English syndicate, headed by Lord Brooke, IS buying up mines in Mexico, an<f it is said will invest $60,000,000. For killing her husband at Tavastehuns, Finland, the courts have sentenced Anna Sainio, twen.ty-two years of age, to be beheaded, and ordered that her body be burned’ A woman named Kruse, convicted of the murder of her husband, and her eldest son, Wilhelm, who an accomplice in the murder, were executed at Dortmund. Germany, Thursday. The prisoners confessed the murder, saying they were weary of keeping the victim, because he was unfit for work. Wilhelm, being unable to walk, was partly carried to the scene of execution and submitted, quietly. His neck having been bared, and the head having been adjusted on the block, the executioner severed the head from the body with, a single sweep of the ax. The corpse was then put in a coffin. - The scaffold was immediately sluiced with water, preparatory to the next execution, and when everything was ready, the woman was lead out. She walked firmly to the block and placed her head where she was toldto,ar.d in a few seconds the executioner had finished his ghastly work.