Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1892 — THE NEW OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW OF THE WEEK.

Jay Gould is said to be improving in health. He is now in Idaho. Over two hundred colored people have left Christian county, Ky., during the past week for Kansas and other States. The Supreme Court of Michigan upholds the Miner electoral bill, whereby members of the electoral college are elected bv congress! ofial districts. The Council of South Charleston, 0„ have passed a 10 o’clock ordinance for the saloons and has ordered all screens and partitions taken down. The engagement is announced of Mr. Edwin Gould, one of Jay Gould’s son’s, to Miss Sarah Cantine Shrady, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Shrady, of Mew York city. A half-witted inmate of the Marshal county, W. Va., poor house, who had been disciplined, set fire to the building after locking an old man and woman in a room, and both were burned to death. 7* " Joseph Oteri. of New Orleans, owner of die steamer Joseph Oteri, Jy„ seized by the Honduran revolutionists, will make a demand for 570.0C0 damages on the Honduras government through the proper authorities at Washington. John Jones, a working man at the piano factory at Springfield, 0„ while passing a tempering vat filled with bollingwater, yesterday, fell in and was so horribly scalded that he will die. The flesh of one leg was cooked until it dropped off the bone. Col. and Judge H. Clay King, the prbmInent lawyer of Memphis, who in March last shot down on the street D. H. Poston another lawyer, must hang for it. The Supreme court has affirmed the verdict of the lower courfc Judge King was the author of a digest of the laws of Tennessee and stood very high at the bar. ‘ The feud that has existed between the families of John and Dave Simmons, of Hope, Ark., terminated in a tragedy Wednesday. John Simmons and his son met Dave Simmons aud his tlyee sons on the public highway, when a bloody battle was fought, resulting in the death of John Simmons and the fatal wounding of his sm. —. ... The Farmers’s Review of this week, in summarizing the outlook for corn, spring wheat and oats’will say: In Illinois the corn crop is in anything but a desirable condition. The condition in Indiana is somewhat better, nearly 4> percent. \>f the correspondents reporting the prospects for the corn crop as good, the others reporting fair, with the exception of about one in seven, which report poor. Very little jpr' ng wheat has been so wn i n Illinois and Indiana. The oats crop Is in good shape over most of the country, all of the correspondents, with the exception of about 15 per cent, giving a favorable report. In Illinois 43 per cent, report the outlook as a full average or above, 25 per cent, report [air and the rest poor. In Indiana the crop Is in fair shape, with few exceptions.