Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1889 — EXCITEMENT IN HAYTI. [ARTICLE]

EXCITEMENT IN HAYTI.

Many Americans Arrested and Threatened With Their Lives. A Port-au-Prince special, of the 2d, says articles in Haytian newspapers contain furious threats against Minister Thompson. Many Americans have been arrested, both men and women. The American consulate is filled wiiti refugees. Hippolyte’g army is marching on to Port-au-Prince. Legitime says he will show no clemency to foreigners interfering in Haytixn politics. Legitime told the correspondent that he would shoot five hundred if necessary. The excitement is intense. Americans are jp danger of their lives. Women as Inventors. There are interesting spots in Patent Office reports, even. One is the recently published information about women to whom patents have been issued. During the first seventy years of the government but fifty-five patents were allowed to women, but in 1887 alone 188 were issued, and the total is over 2,000. The first patent ever giyen to a woman was in 18e0, when Mary Kies took out one for straw-weaying with silk or thread. Thd second patent was issued to Mary Brush, in 1815, for a corset. Probably the oldest woman inventor alive is Mrs. Nancy M. Johnson, who, ini 1843, patented an ice-cream freezer, and made considerable money thereby. Most of the patents issued’ to women have been in some way connected with their dress or household labor-saving devices. Few of the women who have invented were from the New Engiand St-tes, and most of the few were from Massachusetts.