Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1892 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Cholera is abating at Astrakan. Work on & water tower for Bedford began on the 25th. • A white mule parade was a diversion offered at Muucfe. Shelby ville Democrats will have a barbecue September 23. A chewing is the latest Shelbyville industry. . Cornjn Kansas is said to be very serf OHsly damaged by the hot weather. Illinois expects to send 3,300 Sir Knights to the Kniglits Templar Conclave at Den ver in August. - John and Charles Ruggies, stage robbers, were taken from the jail at Redding, California, and hanged by a mob on the 25th. •••* The garrison county Republicans will hold a monster barbecue, Aug. 20, at which Hon. Theodore Shockney will be the principal speaker. —; The will of W. S. Culbertson, of New Albany, is to be contested by his grand sons, whom he cut off because of their fondness for horse-racing. Secretary Tracy has ordered that the name of the new crusler to be launched in Philadelphia be changed frbm the Pirate to the Columbia, in honor of this year’s . Owing to the bad weather, there will be a general shortening of the Oregon and Washington grain crop. Although the figures are not exactly known, it is thought to be about 1,4(50,000 bushels. A number of graves that were almost laid open by a landslide at the Hillside Sbowen graveyard near Waynetown’have been visited by ghouls, the coffins opened and the corpses despoiled of jewelry. 2 Charles A. Martin,a large wheat grower of North Dakota, has telegraphed his Senator urging the defeat of the antioption bill, believing it will be destructiv 6 to the farmers and land owners. The section men of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago roaii, between Bloomington and Greencastle, struck Monday morning for a raise in wages from fLJLO per day to 1.35 per day. The company has refused the demand. There has been some very warm weather recently. On the 25th, at New York, it was 92 in the shade; at Cincinnati, 101 to 104; Louisville, 102 to 110; Indianapolis, )$: Detroit, 98 to 102; Milan, Tenn., 99. So ou throughout the country. Five members of a dinner party at Lou,'sburg Beach, Mass., it is reported on the 15th, are dead and five more of the party kill die. The doctors are not agreed as io the precise cause of death, but it is eviiaßtlv tho result of poison. All suffered n tensely.

All branches of skilled labor in Wabask lave been unionized except the machinats, who will, within a fortnight., unionze. There ate how over six hundred unon men in Wabash, and the union wage lealo and’ hours of labor are religiously ibserved, , .

Kathrina Keenan, aged twenty-one md the infant of Ed Stanley, of Jeffersonriile. were found dead In bed Monday nornlng. It is supposed, they were killed jy the heat, which is intense. Hundreds >f men have quit work on account of the ilgli temperature. Fire broke out in the lumber yard at Bay City, Mich., on? the 25th. Before it •.ould be controlled fifty blocks were iurced and property worth $1,060,000 des iroyed. Women and children were compelled to flee for their liyes, so rapidly did ike flames spread. In the Senate Monday Mr. Vest Introluced a joint resolution, authorizing the President to proffer to Great Britain, Germany and - Franc®; as- an indtreemen fc to io enter into an international agreement or free coinage of silyjr, a reduction of 25 jer cont. in tariff duties on the textiles, lardware, earthenware and glass. This vas laid on the tabl@. The anti-option fill was then taken up, and Mr. George iddressed the Senate.

Mrs. William Finney, of Pauls! Valley, f. T., laid her one-year-old infant down it the edge of a clump of timber while the went in soarch of some stray cattle. She had been gone only a minute when ihe heard the baby cry, and hurriedly reluming, she was horrified to find theckMd being torn to pieces by wild hogs. The little body was terribly mangled when tbo mother succeeded in beating off the brutes. So prostrated was the motherby the awful experience that her life is dispaired of. Sunday afternoon Amosßakestr;r' Lis son Albert called at Edward S., a neighboring farmer, near South i..

When tha lad entered the yard he saw Smith’s largo dog, and to him putting bis arm about the animal's nbefc. He bad Scarcely done so when the dog. infuriated almost to madness, buried his teeth deep In the right side of Albert’s face. Before tbe maddened animal could be beaten off lie had torn a gash almost three inches long in the lad’s face, and bitten through both cheeks, lacerating them dreadful manner.