Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

' TJvpse revenue officers wore killed in Ltscoln county, Tennessee, Friday, by tits Indians have left their reservation had are raiding ranches ead slaughtering game la Colorado. Three negroes were killed In a fight at a revival near Fulton, Tuesday, and several others were wounded. The nimble grasshonper Is destroying acres of late corn and newly planted wheat near Warrensborg, Mo. r Charlie Mitchell, the pugilist, wes given two months imprisonment for assaulting an old man In London, recently. Tlie doctors say that tn a year Lotte Collins may be herself again, In a social way, bat that she can never act again. C. Q. Miller, Mayor of South Omaha, was found dead with a bullet hole in his temple, In the railroad yards of his town. It is believed he was shot by gamblers. Tbecrnlser York town reports a violent volcanic eruption on the Alaskan peninsula on Sept. 24. Decks of vessels ISO miles sway wore coveted with ashes and cinder*. Senator Matthew S. Quay Is In Philadelphia for medical treatment. He Is snfbring from insomnia and vertigo, the latter complaint occasioning him the mos* con-orn. " ~~ ’rr:: -

K Saint Saens. the distinguished French composer, has accepted Mr. Theo. dore Thomas' invitation to act on the jury for musical compositions of the Chicago exhibition. The next annual meeting of the National Farmers’ Alliance ana industrial Union will be held in Memphis from No v. 15 to 25. About two thousand delegates wil be tn attendance. The Rev. Samuel Longfellow, brother of the late poet, Henry W. Longfellow, died at Portland. Maine, Tuesday. He wa* seventy-one years old and a noted preach cr and hymn writer. ;■■■ ~ Thirty-six pigs of silver and load bullion were stolen from the St. Louis smelting works last week. Detectives discovered all bidden along the wagon roads. Two men have been arrested. Some unknown villian attempted to blow up a boarding house at Homestead. In which were a number of non-union workmen, Thursday night. It was a terrific shock, but the force of the dynamite weut downwanL and no one was seriously hurt.

After several failures the efforts of the type founders to form a combination have at last proved successful. The new trust will be known as the Type Founders' Company. It has been Incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey with a capital stock of 89,000,000. The New York Herald’s special correspondent at Valparaiso cablet that paper as follows: Prof. Pickering, of the Harvard branch observatory, at Arequlpaj says that ha has discoveredforty smar lakes In Mars. He also confirms Prof* Holden’s observations on the limits and measured altitudes of the planet. Dr. Leonard Freeman, a prominent young physician of Cincinnati, has been stricken with consumption. Dr. Freeman is an enthusiastic student of bacteriology* aud bas been giving especial attention to the Koch cures for consumption. It Is supposed that through contact with consumption germs be contracted the dis*. ease. The conference committee of the Bust ness Men's Cleveland and Stevenson clubs of New York has adopted a resolution extending to the President Its sympathy In big anxiety and affliction, and earnestly hoping that He who rules all things may tn His judgment restore Mrs. Harrison to health. 5 The certificate of Incorporation of the John Good Cordage and Machinery Com* pany at Trenton. N. J., was filed with the Secretary es the State Tuesday. The company will have a capital of 17,000,000. Good recently withdrew from the Cordage Trust, which paid him 1350,000 annually to keep his works shut down.

The expedition sent out by the United States government this year to obtain the exact geographical position of Mount St* Ellas has finished its work. The mountain lies at the beginning of the north and south boundaries of Alaska. The mountain Is not located In the exact oorner of Alaska, but is just one mile from it. The height is given at 17,221 feet. Police Lieut. Wheeler, who bas been working several days on theeaseoflllgero Martino, the Italian who was killed Sunday night in a Chicago West Side saloon* expressed a belief that Martino was a victim of the Mafia, and that a branch of the society which caused so much trouble in New Orleans is In Chicago. Seven Italians are under arrest, all of whom It is said were in the saloon and witnessed the murder.

A freight train on the Missouri Pacific met with a bad accident about sixty miles west of Council Grove Kan., Thursday* caused by the train going through a burning bridge. The engineer, C. T. Peffer, a son of U. 8. Senator Peffer, and Clint Howard, fireman, were both Instantly killed. Charles Hart, another fireman* was also badly Injured. After the accident occurred the wreck took fire, burning up thirteen cars of grain. Both Peffer and Howard leaye families.

On May 2, 1890, an aerolite, weighing over sixty-five pounds, fell on the land of John Goddard, In Winnebago county, la. Peter Hoagland dog At op. and after conveying it to his house, sold It to H. W. Winchell for 8105. Goddard claimed the atone, as it fell upon his land, floagland claimed It by right of discovery. Suit was brought to recover the celestial visitor, and the District Coart held that it belonged to the owner of the land whereon It fell. The cate was appealed, end the Supreme Coart affirms the lower court’s decision, holding that the aerolite, being pieced In the eerth by nstnre. was Immovable as If It had grown In the soiL The case was an unique one.