Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — CONDENSED NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED NEWS.

Tint public debt reduction for June was about $15,000,000. y Tbs tide has turned. Political dishonesty has become odious. The public no longer smiles at' crookedness. Robbery in high places is no longer winked at or excused. ' - - . ■ . Bsbon dk Rothschild himself paid the entire expenses of the Jewish jubilee celebration in London. He might have borne the coat of the English part of it, too, and not been a financial wreck. Abovt 207,000 cattle were marketed in the Chicago stock yards In June, being, with one exception, the largest ever received in a single month. In October, 1883, the receipts were nearly 218.000 head. . The births recorded in London every week exceed the deaths by more than a thousand, and during the next ten years the increase in the number of inhabitants will probably be nearly three-auarters of a million. , Waltbb Mvbbat Gibson, the American Premier of the Hawaiian Kingdom, is said to be not only the power behind the throne, but ambitious to mount the throne itself. He persistently declines to be knighted or decorated, and is likely to be the leader in the anticipated revolt against King Kalakaua. J. D. Willett, representing a syndicate from Louisville, Ky., has made application to W. Merz, land agent of the Manitoba Railroad company, for the purchase of ten thousand acres of land in Stearns county, Minnesota. If the purchase of such an amount of land can be perfected, it is understood large emigration parties in Kentucky will follow. The Hon. J. F. White, of Atlanta, Ga., has a sac simile of the declaration of the independence, in the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson, showing the alterations made by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. With interlinlations, corrections, and erasures, it presents a very undignified appearance. Mr, White has had the sac-simile in his possession for thirty- -- .A’* ~~~~ ■/ A bbight Vassar graduate, who was promised by her father a dollar for every cent she might earn by her own labor, obtained work in a factory at $6 a week. After paying her $10,003 in the course of about sixteen weeks, the old gentleman concluded he had got about all the fun out of the joke that there was in it and called a halt. The girl at once lost her interest in factory life. Geobge W. Childs of Philadelphia is a wealthy man. He is building an elegant and costly drinking fountain in the mar - ket place atStratford-upon Avon in honor of Shakespeare, but he can well afford the expense of taking it down, carting it away to the birth-place of Lord Bacon, and having a new inscription engraved on it, as he will of course do after Ignatius Donnelly's book comes out Mb. Powdeblt in a recent letter deeply deplores unrestricted immigration and - favors the adoption •of some measure to check the tide of ignorance, barbarism. and pauperism flowing into this country. He also believes that the sens and daughters of wage workers must be given better educational opportunities, if a condition of affairs “worse than anarchy” is to be averted in the near future. A few days ago Dr. C. H. Stubbs, of Wakefield. Lancaster county, Pa., and another man were standing in a barn-door during a rainstorm. A hat blew off and Dr. Stubbs went out to get it As he stooped to pick it up a large, forked limb was blown from the tree and fell down over his body, the branches of the fork" entering the ground on either sides and -pinning him fast to the earth, but without injuring him. The statistics of the growth of the English Church and of the good deeds done by churchmen during the fifty years’ reign of Queen Victoria are thus summonized: A carefully drawn up table shows that six thousand churches and places of worship havaLlbeen built as against three thousand by all outside religious denominations put together. The home episcopate has been increased by seven new dioceses and the colonial by aixty-two. Within the last twenty-five years <406,000,000 has been freely and voluntarily subscribed for church pur- - DO*ea,jmd $110,000,000 for the purpose of elementary education in voluntary' schools —all under the oversight and government of the church. Aim of the land grant railroads of the country have returned answers to Secretary Lamar’s order rewiring to show cause why the wlveral orders of withdrawal from settlement of the lands within their indemnity limits should not be revoked and the lands thrown open to settlement. With but few exceptions the roade-in reply state that if they had their One they would receive more land than they now have, as much of the land granted* them hai been pre-empted and there is no land from which to make selections. The St. Paul k Sioux City Bailroad Company takes the ground that this matter is beyond the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior. The Atlantic k Pacific Railroad states that it has earned 1,000,000 acres more land than it has received.

Latest Intelligence From all Parts of the World. FIRE RECORD. At New Orleans, La., Werlein Hal), formerly the old National Theatre, was destroyed by fire. < utler A Savage’s lumberyard at Spring Lake, Mich., was burned, together with over 2,000,000 feet of lumber. Loss, $30,000. ' The fire record Monday included a cooperage', establishment at St. Louis, Missouri, loss, $109,000: Hopley A Hopfs, brewery at Pittsburg: and the brick Malt houio of the Weber Brewing Company, Cincinnati, loss, $95,000. Fire destroyed n large portion of Elizabethtown, Ky. The postoffice, bank, and newspaper office we-e burned. The loss is estimated at $100,000.' A disastrous fire at West Stewartstown, destroyed a large building owned by E. D. Parker containing a large furniture establishment, woolen-mill, machineshop, and carpenter shop.lxiss, $50,000; insurance light. Fire at Hurley. Wis., destroyed two blocas of buildings and caused a loss of probably SIOO,OOO. Monday ’afternoon’s blaze at Marshfield, Wis., was still more destructive, over $1,000,000 worth of property being wiped out of existence. In the latter town many families are homeless. Ashes <nd smoking timbers mark the site of Marshfield, Wis. Fire swept over if. and swallowed up every vestige. of business blocks, residences, churches and railroad stations. Two thousand people are boneless, all communication is cut off, end the loss is estimated at $1,000,000.