Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Flying Jib beat the race record at Richmond by pacing a mile in The ship May has arrived at New Or■•courge, yellow fever. BThree thousand men are now idle at Marinette, Wis , on account of the strike in the lumber mills there. ~ ■ ; r A Wyoming veteran refuses to receive his pension because be has recovered from the ailment on which his claim wasbased. Co]. Jobn.H, Keatly, of Sioux City, lias been elected commandant -of the lowa Soldiers’ Home, to succeed Col. Milo Smith, resigned. A tornado did great damage to property near Columbian s. C.. houses; trees, tombstones, etc., befog blown down. No fatalities are reported. It is proposed tp construct a ship cana* from take St. Clair to Lake Erie. Sucha canal would mean a saving of one hundred miles, and would enable Vessels to avoid the Detroit-riyer. James J. West, of Chicago, was set free Monday by Judge Tuthille and the ctiminal prosecution against him for alleged acts committed while he was proprietor of the Times was dismissed. There was picked up on Scorton beach, Sandwich,, Mass., this week, a bottle inclosing a paper on which was written: “C. E. Reed, L. E. Reed. L B; Reed, W. F. Gilling, los‘-at sea Aug. 14, 189’.” The United States military telegraphers, in session at Omaha, adopted a resolution of sympathy with President Harrison in the illness of his wife and praying for her speedv restoration to health. Charles F. Russel, a wealthy and prominent citizen, senior member of Russel, Richardson «fc Titus, proprietors of tho shoe manufactory at Porrsmoutbs, 0., fell* through an elevator shaft and broke bis neck, dying instantly.

Tho man hunt in Tulare had Fresno counties after tho fugitive train robbers, which costone life at the outset, reached a bloody climax Tuesday, when throe men were killed and one badly wounded by the desperate bandits. Allen, tho two-year-old son of Frank Rishe, of Royerford, Pa., swallowed a tin* whistle. It is as big in diameter as a silver quarter dollar. Alb efforts to dislodge tho pesky toy from the lad’s stomach have been fruitless. Ex-Governor Thomas 11. Watts died suddenly at his home In Montgomery. Ala., Friday morning. He was on the streets tho day before. He was Attorney General in the Confederate Cabinet, and was Governor of Alabama during the civil war. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union denounces the proposed placing of the statue of Diana upon the agricultural building at the World’s Fair. Mrs. Carse, a prominent Chicago leader, says it would be a “disgrace to the American people to place a nude figure Jn so prominent a place. ’’ The United States Supreme Court reverses tho decision of Judge Colt in the case of L. C. Chase & Co. vs. Collector Board, of New York, who maintained that he could assess a duty of 1’ cents a pound on goat's hair goods under the McKinley bill. The decision involves many millions Of dollars. Mr. Richard Mansfield, the actor, and Miss Boatrica CamerojJ, his leading lady were married in New York Thursday. Their engagement was announced about a year ago, and they were to have been mat t ied this summer al a friends houshln England, but a change in Mr. Mansfield’s business plans made it impossible for him to make the journey abroad. The following constitrr appointments have been announced by the State Department: United States consul at Nuremburg, Louis A. Dent; consul at Kingston, Jamaica, the Hon. C. M. Barre; coniul at Valparaiso (ta succeed Mr. McCreary, who has resigned), Charles H. Cowan. Mr. Barre is a prominent lawyer of Michigan. Mr. Dent was for a number of years private secretary to Mr. Blaine. “Mf.'Bbn Mitchell, living east of Clinton, 111., has a largo and deep sand pit. His sous, Ernest, Walter and Eli, and Henry Edwards, while loading a wagon,Wednesday evening, were suddenly covered by a slide of clay and sand. Eli was smothered. Mitchell tried to extricate Eli when a second fall buried him also. Edwards happened to fall against a wagon wheel, which kept him from being smashed. He was taken out alive. The others were dead when dug out. 6Moonshlners doing an extensive business in tho very heart of New York have been discovered by United States interna* revenue officers. How long the illicit distillery has been in operation is not knownThe moonshiners escaped arrest. Tho business was carried on in a four-story brick building at No. 69 Washington street, by Charles Lorenzo, a wino merchant, with the assistance of several men whose names are not yet known to the Government officers.

Tho department of the Potomac of the G. A. R., it is said, has unanimously decided to present the name of Capt. J. M. Pipers, Past Department Commander, to the National Encampment for the Mfice of SeniorVlce-Cominander-ln-Chief.' and tbat of D. A. Grosvenor for a member of the Council of Admlnstratlon. Capt. Piper's selection is almost equivalent to his election, as courtesy gives the office to the department in which the encampment Is held. The Census Bureau has issued a bulletin on |he color, sex and general .qa|ivlty of the population of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota. Of the male population of these States taken as a whole over twenty-one years of age. 19.59 per cent, are aliens; 04.23 per cent, have.been naturalized; and 7.31 per cent, have taken out their first papers. As to the remaining 8.17 per cent, nothing has been learned. Of the alleus In Ohio 35.43 per cent, can not speak the ' English language. In Indiana the per centage Is 26..0. in Illinois i. 0.24, in Wisconsin 42.23, and In Minnesota 34,26. May W-bite>ibe Jackson county, Mich, school teacher, who has manifested such a yearning desire to slumber that she has devoted most of her time the last year to sleep, abd nuzzled the medical fraternity

of the State, at last shows signs n* turning consciousness. For a month' past the stupor in which she has lain has grown less profound, and last week she was able to open her eyes and recognize her parents. Thursday for the first time in twelve mbnlM'sho sat up tn bed and partook of solid food. Heretofore she ha* _ subsisted on liquors alone. -L The trials of the Homestead workmen ' who have been held to the grand jury on the charges of murder, aggravated riot and conspiracy, will not begin in the criminal court uutil the first week In October. Fifty-five men have been held, and against some of them there are four or five charges. A large number of arrests are still to bo made, including many women. Tho charges against the women will be disorderly conduct and inciting riot. The Carnegie Steel Company has agents at work not only in Pittsburg and Homrstead, but in distant cities, seeking new witnesses. The New York Herald’s Paris cable dispatches Tuesday morning contain an interestng account of the experenee of its correspondent in that city, who has permitted himself to be inoculated with the new anti-cholera virus, w hich M. Pasteur considers as great a discovery as that which has made jiis name world-wide famous in connection ' with rabies. Tho correspondent says: “As I write a portion of my body is alive with hundreds, aye, thousands, of cholera microbes, which have been taken from the dead bodies of cholera victims in Saigno, Asia, where the pest is ever present in its most virulent form.” He will subject himself to still further inoculation. Mrs. Harrison’s illness has assumed Such a grave aspect that a New York physician has been summoned to Loon Lake. Grave fears are entertained of the outcome.