Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1894 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Trafalgar is building a canning factory. The New Jersey peach crop is the finest ever-known. " Tipton police .arrest- people for pounding beefsteak. Numerous cases of cholerine have appeared in'Paris. About five bicycles are stolen in Richmond every week. - Laporte county populists have nomi-, nated a full ticket. Malabach, chief of the rebellions Kaffirs. has been captured. The Russian Admiral Ravisoff was assassinated at Kronstadt. Hominy manufacturers are trying to organize a corn meal trust. The Lebanon bar has just finished the arrangement of a fine law library. The healtli of the President is declared to be good, though he is in need of rest. Fire at Lawrenceburg. Ky., wiped out a business block and caused $50,000 damage. Sullivan is experiencing a water famine. Evomthe street sprinkler has.had- to quit work. It is stated that the Corean soldiers are siding wiih Japan in the tight with Ghana. The report that Germanylssiding with 'England againsTßussia in theCorean imbroglio is denied. Tlie annual reunion of the famous “Persimmon” brigade will begin at Marion on the 7th of September. The rush at Louisville to get whisky out of bond continues. The week's receipts were $1,479,230.70. Gov. Brown, of Maryland, is energetically engaged in shipping stranded common wealers to the West. A Petersburg woman, in order to raise money for her church, has agreed to shave her husband twelve times forsl. At a soldiers’ reunion at Oblong, 111., David Eaton wantonly killed Donald McDonald and wounded John James. The BahviEe and Grape Creek (III..) miners have declared the strike off. They go to work at their old wages. The New York Constitutional Convention has voted to remove the five-thou-sand-dollar limit for damages for loss of life.

Farmers have threatened to stop trading at Goshen because they M are not allowed to hitch their horses on the public square. i William Pierce, near Metamora, while hauling stone, was thrown out of his wagon in a runaway accident, dying in two hoiirs. Marcus Kronberg, the juvenile firebug and horsethief of Milwaukee, has been declared a moral i mbeci le and sent _to the insaire asylu m. - g-- .■- -—• • People in some of the Western districts are killing their stock rather than let them 'starve to death. One man killed thirty-five head of horses. Ben Reed, who murdered Daniel iHenierson at Terre Haute, says that the crime does not worry him. Reed killed Henderson to secure F 6.25. The first-class British gunboat Bramble in consequence of the disturbed conditions prevailing in certain parts of Morocco, has been ordered to proceed -to Tangier to safeguard interests. , - I’rom Thursday to Saturday there were 237 new cases of cholera and 129 deaths from the disease in Galicia. In Bukowina thirty-eight he w Takes and twenty-one deaths were reported in the same time. The Peruvian government troops have differed defeat from the rebels at Lunanuana, in the province of Canute. The government is raising more companies, and will probably have 9,000 men under arms before long. t Senator IMackbnrn.ofKentiickyrissaid to have denounced Senator II ili“as a dirty, reacherons dog and contemptible whelp,” in a personal altercation in tbo Senate .hamber. Saturday. The difficulty between the statesmen occurred outside of regular debate and was caused by Hill’s course on the tariff bill. The commercial treaty between Spain and the Argentine Republic. negotiat’onS for which have been in progress for some time, has been concluded. By its provisions Spain, for a period of two years, will not raise the duty imposed on meats from Argentina and the latter country will lower the duties on Spanish wines. A daring attempt at wholesale jail delivery was frustrated at Anderson. Friday. It was discovered that the bars of the rear window bf the jail had been sawed out and everything was ready for the score of prisoners to crawl through. Sheriff Van Dyke, however, spoiled theii (plans. The prisoners became angry when they found he had made the discovery and (they cursed him. He called them intc Ibis office and, in true pugilistic style, whipped about a half dozen of them. They returned to their cells and kept quiet. Officers have a clue as to who furnished the saws, ■ Superintendent Coxen, of the Great Western pottery works, of Kokomo, which gives employment to thfee hundred skilled workmen, claims that the pottery business suffers more under the Senate bili than it would had the Wilson bill been accepted. He reports, however, that the Kokomo works will'continue in operation until the hand of the importer is shown. He professes to be advised that the thirty potteries at Trenton, N. J., and twenty at East Liverpool will bank their fires in anticipation of Ute deluge of BritlsWoods shipped across the water. Mr. Coxen also claims that if tho Kokomo works depended upon coal for fuel it wobld also bank its fires, but having cheap fuel it can run as long as any other pottery in this country.

A man's natural gallantry—his horse-ear gallantry so to speak—sometimes hangs fire when the identity of a person needing its display continues unknown. The other day Mrs. Cleveland stood for a five-mile ride in a New York elevated train. _