Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1889 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

prance recognizaa*Braziljm a sister re- , public. — ~ ; { The Salvation Army has located at Hunt j ‘ ington. I j Austria and Russia are reported to be' at outs again. ’. 7 I Mr. Jefferson Davis continues seriously ill and is unable to take food, f New Cumberland, Grant county, is exercised over a ghost that stalks the nights in that vicinity. j Benjamin who lost a foot while in the employ of the Cerealine Mdnufacr turing Company,of Columbus, has brought | suit for $20,000 damages, j Warden Brush Is preparing for the execution of Charles McElwaine by electricity, which is to take place at Sing Sing during the week beginning December 9. Poison instead of medicine was given the inmates of a hospital at the City of Mexico. Four patients have died and others may do so. The nurse and two students are under arrest. j A new natural gas company is boing orj ganized at Noblesviile, in opposition to the I Noblesviile Gas and Improvement Company, now having full sway. Exorbitant rates is the cause of the opposition. Judge R. p. Trippe, of Atlanta, Ga., committed suicide, Friday, by blowing l out his brains with a double-barreled derf ringer. The cause of the act was despondency, due t£ ill health. J. C. Gilliland, cashier of the Citizens’ State Bank, at Selden, Kan., was arrested, Friday, charged with forging mortgages and obtaining loans from Eastern capitalists on them. He was about to leave the , State when arrested. : -'it--I Dom Pedro arrived at St. Vincent, Cape de Verd Islands, Saturday. He at once telegraphed the King of Portugal thanking him, but declining t,o reside at the Nessi. dades Palace. After a few days rest he will take up his permanent residence at Nice. | Judge Brewer has rendered a decision , that that part of the Topeka (Kan.) meat f inspection ordinance which prescribes the inspection of the animal before slaughter ing within a mile of the c.'ty limits is an obstruction to interstate commerce, and therefore void. | A serious cigarmakers’ strike is in progress in Havana. There As great distress among many of the families of idle j Cuban cigarmakers in Key West. Some I have not tasted warm food for several—weeks. Key West has not been so much depressed in business for many years. j At a meeting of R. E. Lee Camp of Con- ! federate Veterans, held at Richmond, Va., j Friday night, a letter was read and order|ed to bo forwarded to Jefferson Davis ex- ' pressing sympathy for him, and saying that their affection and veneration for him is still as great as it. was when ho was ■ President of the Confederacy, j The will of the late L. B. Eaton, of Angola, made provision for establishing a home for indigent widows and old ma ds, and Isaac Eaton, a son, brought suit to set. it aside, alleging that the testator was of unsound mind when the document >vas .drawn. Friday the administrator admit j ted this fact, and the court thereupon held } the will null and void, and under the ruling ' the plaintiff will enter into possession, j The estate is valued at $35,000. There are some interesting facts stowed ' away in the annual report of the Commis- • sioner of Internal Revenue. There were manufactured in the year ending June-H), [-1889, nearly 289,000,000 more cigarettes than during the preceding year. The whole number of cigarettes made was ,151,515,5150, while the number of cigars w&s 3,867,395,040. New York State is the great cigar manufactory of the Union. It turned out 1,108,404,001 cigars and nearly i billion cigarettes, using up in the pro ductiou of these articles Dearly 27,000,000 pounds of tobacco. Pennsylvania comes next to New York, consuming nearly 19,000,000 pounds of tobacco in its cigar and cigarette production. Virginia, which is heard of so much in connection with the :>roduotk>n of cigarettes, coffies after Fenm sylvania, Ohio, Illinois and California in igar production, but is third in importnice as a cigarette producer. Theie were -ised in the manufacture of tobacco during the year more than 23,000,000 pounds of licorice, 18,695,550 pounds of sugar and more than 8,000,000 pounds of other materials. I The United States received special taxes from seven rectifiers, 2,758 retail liquor dealers, 35 wholesale liquor doalers, 41 brewers, 228 retail dealers in malt liquors, and 50 wholesale dealers in malt liquors in lowa, and from one rectifier, 1,254 retail liquor dealers, 3 wholesale liquor dealers and 4 brewers in Kansas. There are two pages and more of the report that- housekeepers would do well to get and pin up in their kitchens to enable them to know the makers of some things they don’t want to buy if they are anxious to avoid adulterations. There are more than 100 brands of baking powder that are described as adulterated. There are twenty-two sorts of coffee, so,called,that are described as made up partly of chicory, peas, beans,rice,corn, wheat and coloring matter. Ten makes of cream of tartar are adulterated with phosphate of lime, sulphate of lime, more than 6 per cent, of tartrate of lime, alum, corn starch and flour are spread before the reader. ! Judge Anderson at Salt Lake, Saturday, in an elaborate and carefully-prepared opinion, denied the applications for citizenship made by Mormons ,who had taken Endowment-house oaths in the Mormon Church. The app.ication has created wide-spread attention, and for the past two weeks J udge And erson has been taking testimony. In his decision, he states the ground of his opposition to the admission of such applicants to be that “the Mormon Church is, and always has been, a treasonable organization in its teachings, and in its practices hostile to the government of the United States; disobedient to its laws, and seeking its Overthrow; and that the oath administered to its member! in the Endowment-house binds then under penalty of death to implicit obedience in all things temporal, as well as spiritual, to the priesthood, and to avenge the death of the prophets, Joseph and Hyram Smith, upon the government and people of the United States.