Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — TEE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

TEE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Oats will harvest eighty-five bushels to the acre in Illinois.says the State Board of Agriculture. -r- — Maude Warde, of Rockford, 111., kindled a fire- with kerosene Thursday. She was twelve years old. •Tfio street car strike at Cleveland, 0.. came to an end oh the} 9th, by both sides making concessions. Four men were killed and fatally Injured in a railroad accident at Altlierfne. Ark., on the 30th. The Stillwater. Minn., board of education has rejected the application of five Sisters of Charity who desired t 6 be retained as teachers. zTheSnpreincCourtefMteb+gftn upholds the Miner electoral bill, whereby members of the electoral college are elected bv cougressional districts. The steamer, Trave, collided in mid "Ocean With the British ship Fred B. Taylor. Tlte Taylor sunk, and of her crew of ; twenty-five, but two were saved. Clerk Stetysn^zaged' the. oldest resident in Miami county, Ohio, .res attacked by hogs, while -walking through the barnyard, and killed. The engagement is announced of Mr. Edwin Gould, one of Jay Gould’s son’s, to Miss Sarah Caiitine Slirady, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Slirady, of New York city. The number of miles of railway built in die Guided States the first half of this rear was 1,10) mjles, five linndred aides •ess.jtliau.for the same period of last year, Over live thousand people left for Europe on the 2!K.li on outgoing steamers I'he Ininac liners City of Paris and City »f Chester alone carried 2,038 cabin pas - lepgers, iCi JoK«u,hri{tandon, janitor of the Second Presbyterian church, Dubuque, la., has >cen notified of the death of his uncle, fames Greyburg. who leaves him $7,000,*OO, with tho exception of i small part, ithicii is given to charities. At Wilkesbarre. Pa , ou tlie Ist, Thomas Suulon fell from tho hoisting tower of the Woodward breaker to the ground, a dislarnco 0f*153 feet, and is still alive with a lope of II4S ultimate recoyery. The only lonos broken were in his right arm,but ho , vas badly bruised about the body. Internal revenue agents at San Fran-, lisco found'in an underground cellar in toe Chinese quarter an opium factory arge enough to supply half the Chinese fopulation of that city with prepared ipium. The factory was hidden in an aloost inaccessible cavo under a joss house. A telegram from tho City of Mexico aniouneeds the safe arrival thereof Otto ' *raeger, tho young newspaper,reporter, rho set out to make the journey from lan Antonio, Texas, to the Mexican espial on a bicyle. He made the trip of eiglieen hundred miles in eighty-seven days. Ten years ago John Heintzig of Shamo:in. Pa., concealed S9OO in a bed-mattress nd went to Hungary to visit his relatives spacting to return ina few weeks. He ras arrested there for desertion and had o serve six years in the army, Hemet ther reverses and did not return to Ihainokln until July Ist. Heintzig wen 4 D his old boarding house, still kept by the &me man as when he lived there, and oundthe sSooin tho mattress. He had een afraid,to write to the landlord about 1, for fear ho might keep the money. The contest in the Carnegie steel works t Homestead, Pa., came~ to a elimax on he 30th, when every department was phut Own, and 3,800 men received notice of distHE offierate'did not surprisethe men, who ad expected it. Their contract under the Id wage scale expired ou that datojauiL hey had stoutly declared an intention to sftrse to go to work unless a new seale rare signed. As tho mill owners were est as determined in their refusal to sign he scale, a strike would have been ineviible. The men received their notices tiietly, and went to their homes in good tumor, Np disturbances of any kind took lace.

Kansas farmers are having great troule in securing sufficient men to harvest he enormous crop of wheat in this State, tost of which is ribw ready for cutting, .'here is an alarming scarcity of farm •ands, and the farmers are offering high rages to secure sufficient help. At alhjtbe tations along the Santa Fe railroad the raius arc all besieged by the farmers, hopog to get Lands to help during harvest, .last year's wheat crop was 54,055,000 bnshis, ami the yield this Vear will probably occeed that of any previous year in the jlistory of the State. In the central and torthern portions of the State at least wenty thousand farm hands can find em(loyment at wages ranging from $3 to $3 a lay, with board, during the present har•est. Jesse Musser, who was reported to have wen hauged by a mob Aug. 31 last, ap. wared on thq streets of his native town of loustonla, Mo., Wednesday. On the date nentioned tw<? tuen entered tho bank at iasder and w.th drawn revolvers secured 800 from the cashier. A posse was quick-' y organized, Onooftho men was oVerake;:, half the money was found in bis tosscssion and he was hanged to a tree. Che d«-JM man was said to he Jesse Must or, who disappeared from his home a few lays before. Astor the burial the remains veto disinterred by Musser’sfather and oothcr and recognized as their son. Mus*r told that ho had known all along of lire sensation, ho was supposed to have tansed and rather enjoyed it, but preferrkl to keep quiet. He had been working tear Gallatin, Mo., as a farm bund. Who f ihe i.-.an was who was lynched is now a WTfiplete mystery. 7lie (question raised at Plano, 111., as to the right of a voter, under the Australian la’lot iaw. to scratch his ticket aud vote lor some poison whose name is not printed »r tho ticket, is likely to be carriedbto the bupremo Court. At any rate, legal opin•MS disagree, and no authority short of the .Supreme Court can settle the Important Dolnt. There are those who hold that) so candidate can be voted for whose name Is not on the ticket; that, although a voter lia. riratch his ticket, ho must make a jholce of candidates from those whose ti/mes are regularly printed on the ticket. Reed Green, chairman of tho HonsocoineJttee on elections, who framed tho Aus-

' tralian ballot law, is understood to take thfsuvicw. Gen. Hunt, however, says that the law does not forbid the scratching of a ticket in this way, and he holds that a voter has a right for any one whom he chooses no matter whether the name of such person is printed on the ticket or nob