Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Chinamen arcslipping into this country from Mexico. Captain Dinsrnorc, chief door-keeper of the White House, died on the lsth. Stamboul again takes the world's stallion record. He went a mile in 2:08 flat, Wednesday, Play wright Charles H. Hoyt was elected to the New Hampshire Legislature as a Democrat. President-elect Cleveland will 'speak before the Reform Club of New York at a banquet Dec. 30. . Ex-Judge and ex-Indian Commissione D. W. Cooley, of Dubuque, lowa, died a New York, on the 13th. Mr. and Mrs, Jachim Borgward on Sunday celebrated their golden wedding in the Milwaukee poor house. Thero will be forty-four Democrats) forty Republicans and four Populists in the Benato of tho next Congress. : A strike of street car men at Columbus, 0., was on the 11th declared off and all differences submitted to arbitration. At Scranton, Pa,, a young man committed suicide by taking poison while bending over the dead body of his sweetheart. The result of the recent Ransas election Is to make it a “wet” State again. The Prohibition laws will be made local Option laws only. The greatest telescope on earth will be erected as speedily as possible at the Chicago University. The lenses will be 40 inches in diameter. The New Orleans strike of wage workers has been declared off. the labor unionists being forced into compromise and agreeing to arbitrate. Jeremiah Phillips, formerly a wealthy contractor at Scranton, Pa., committed suicide in his cell in the county jail. Ho' was under arrest for deserting his wife, Harry Hilliard rode on a bicycle from New York to Chicago and did not spend a .cent for his Loard, sleeping or other accommodations of any kind. The trip was made on a wager that ho could not do this. Miss Nina Doming, one of the most popular young ladies of Tioga, Fa., committed suicide by shooting herself Thursday night- She was eighteen years old. Disappointment in love is said to be the cause of her suicide. ’ The steamer Chelkat, from Alaska, brings the nows that four men were found •ii u camp at Point Barry, Suprenoff Island, with their heads cutoff and all their clothing stripped from thoir boding. The erimes aro supposed to have been committed by the Indians. Judge F. C. Randolph, probate judgo at Montgomery. Ala., shot aud mortally wounded William Metcalfe, on the 10th. Tho difficulty is said to havo originated in political differences. Judgo Randolph is One of the most prominent men In tho Stato and a leading Democrat., Sam Holloway, a colored man of seven-ty-livc years, was arrested for wife heating in Cincinnati recently and seDt to oho work house. He has just been released through the influence of his mother. Jane Ilolioway, 103 years old, who called in person on the police board,and pleaded fo 1 ' her boy. . " ' ~ A tramp nt, Bradford, Pa., took posses, sion of a small shaiity which the boys of the neighborhood usod as a playhouse. Sunday. This angered him and ho seized a pail of crude oil and threw it on John Leggett, aged 11. The oil took (ire and the boy was literally burned to death. The tramp is in jail. Murderer Keck died Wednesday night at a late hour at Allentown, Pa. Keck was to have been hanged in jail Thursday morning for murder, lie was taken sud. denly ill in his cell Wednesday night and died at tt oclack.nl nervous prost,ration. It was thought ho had taken poison, but no trace of the drug could bo found. Tho seaffbid had been erected. The residence at the corner of 801 l and Garrison avenues, St. Louis, presented to the late Gen. W. T. Shermhu by the oltizcns of St. Louis at the close of tho war, was, on tho 10th, sold at auction to private parties for fin.()oo. The residence originally cost ?30,0J0, and the money to purehaso it was raised at a public meeting in the old Planter's House shortly after the Surrender aft Appomattox. Probably tho largest financial winner on the election is Mike Dwyer, tho turfmanIt is said, on good authority, that he will pockotaguin of nearly 830,000. Dwyor placed his money in* every conceivable way. lie lot outlie general result, the States of New York and New Jersey, Hid" city and county majorities and Cleveland's majority iu Indiana. Ho has won nearly every bet ho made. Joseph J, O’Dpnogluio Is another heavy winner,estimated at about SIO,OO ’. He bet a grea&deai on the result in Indiana. •» Tho crop returns of November to the Department of Agriculture, compared with tlioso of October, Indicate the yield of tno jtcur or tho principal food products, and point approximately to tho pot - feet OStiinutei at tho dose of tho year. The yield of corn averages Sri.4 bushels per acre, and promises aft aggn gafo production of a little raoro than 1,600, O\iCo bushels, while tho great bread grain, wheat, by tho returns of last month, pointed lo a product, based on acreage investigation, exceeding 5(X),000,COO bushels, with a possibility of shrinkage in tho spring and a certainty of light weight. A Loudon cablogrutn of Nov. 11 says: Tho farmers of Great Britain make f res It complaints daily of the hard times. They are badly pinched by the advorsecondlt ion of trade ahd many of (Item aro beginning to turn to tho fair traders for aid. Tho protection sentiment has grown steadily among thorn recently, from small beginnings, and at Relford, on Saturday, the furmers of tho North Nottingham district passed resolutions against, free trada, resolutions Bta‘,o that the “present lisoal arrangements ot the government '•and tho system of free imports aro injurious to tho agricultural interests.” Tho meeting also decided to organize associations of furinors, laud owners and ugriculitirul laborers to urgo upon the government the necessity of a change in tho commercial poller. Tho agitation along there lines is spreading, and the men behind it are honing for Tory sympathy and support. The strong probability of an extra ses-

sion of Congress Immediately foftewiaff the inauguration of the President-elect was a subject of general conversation in Washington Friday. A sjfccial session ot the Senate is always called at tho beginning of a new admin s ration to continn the members ®f tho Ccb uot and diplomatic representatives of the United States abroad. But the present election haying turned on questions of domestic policy, it is said to be obvious to experienced political leaders of all parties that an extra session of both Houses of Congress will almost inevitably result. Secretary of the Treasury Foster, among others,admit* this. Ex-Secretary Bayard writes to a friend to like effect, adding that the peo-* pie will expect this to bo doue without Unnecessary delay.