Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Kati Foeld it ft stranjpa creature—■he evidently wants our congressmen to stand on their heeds, for in her Washington she admonishes them te eeftse "sitting’ on their spineK" -- This country held its grippe with ft frightful tenacity little expected when It first took hold. In this connection is well enough to remind the less classical that the technical French pronunciation is “lah gr-ripp.” Brethren of the country press ' should be cautious, and never buy diamonds except on a clear day. The least mist or fog in the atmosphere will prevent you from discovering the flaws in them. Damp, murky weather practically killa the diamond businesa.

Russian women who become doctors are compelled to submit to very stringent regulations. Among other things they may not practice as regular physiclans until they are 40, but mast, up to this time, be nurses in oharitable institutions of various kinds, or in hoepltaln - The most encouraging reports come from Greytown, the headquarters for work on the new Nicaragua oanai. The American diggers are at work on the ditch, and are conquering all obstacles. Present indications are that the gloomy fate of the De Lesseps canal will not overtake this enterprise.

L. F. Benson, Nashville, Tennessee, if treasurer for the fund that is being vftised to keep the Hermitage, General Andrew Jackson’s late home, in order, and to buy the relics and mementoes now owned by Colonel Andrew Jack*On. The sum needed is $150,000, and it is believed that this oan be raised in One dollar subscriptions. "Either Kansas will have to quit raising such enormous crops,” says the Atchison Companion, "or the railway companies of the state will have to begin building more para” To this 'tiie Emporia Republican makes curt reply, "Let the railroads get down to their knitting then. Kansas crops are not to be limited for the accommodation of anybody.” Thebe are important undertakings on the programme in foreign lands as well as in our own America; among them the building of a 4,600-mile railroad across Siberia by the Russian government. The estimated cost is $220,000,000. Another is the bridging of the Bosphorus, connecting Europe with Asia. French engiueors have tho latter under plan.

There is and always has been a most dreadful horror on the part of many people lest they be buried alive. It will be truly a relief to such to know that science is coming: to the rescue with an infallible means of testing whether or not the vital spark has forever left the mortal frame. Electricity is the potent agency, and very soon facilities for its application wilt bo doubtless made available to all. When it is learned that the colonel of the czar’s body guard and several other officers in it have committed ■uioide on account of having been i mplicated in & plot against his life, we eon realize the reason for the shattered nerves of the imperial family that are from time to time alluded to as something surprising. If & man has to guard himself continually against his body guard he may well wish himself dead and done with it

Thb Wabash railway company has issued an order of a most positive nature which will draw intelligence, if not experience into its service. It is that no boy or young man shall be employed in any of its shops or other departments for the purpose of learning any trade or skilled work unless he bring a certificate from his instructors stating that he has completed the studies of the second grammar department of school work. Thb rite of canonisation seems to be a long and difficult matter. It will take about nine years according to a Rome letter, to canonize Joan of Arc. The popular impression of the savior of Franoe is that she was an estimable and proper young woman, but popular impressions are not sufficient for the pope. He requires the frozen truth of history, and a learned advocate is diligently looking over musty old documents to see if any flaws in her character oan be discovered.

A Missouri farmer with a turn for statistics has furnished a communication to his country paper on the subject, of official salaries in which he states that an official who receives $4.tKK> per year salary absorbs the prioe of 5a.6.;6 bushels of corn at 15 cent* per bushel, or of 6.666 bushels of wheot nt 60 cents per bushel, or S 3, of outs at lSoenta, or the price of fifty good farm horses. He also estimates that a f irm hand at sl3 per month would have to work the year round for a quarter of aeeatury to earn the same amount, and adds that la 1866-7-68, about S,t» \ to bushels of corn would have footed *bo MU. or 3,000 bushels of

domestic. Wisconsin is gathering her ice harvest. The North Dakota lottery scheme has ooilapsed. The Jersey City election frauds are coming to light. Ellis Bard, cashier of the Lincoln, Pa., bank, is short <25,000. Six people were asphyxiated at Milwaukee, and two will die, — : — More than 5,000 people in Dakota are dependent on outside help. Eight hundred Indians are destitute at Devil’s Lake Agency, N. D. B. Ward has come from England to get fame by “shooting Niagara. Another ten-million gas well has been drilled In Wood oounty, Ohio. Glanders is said to prevail among horses at Plymouth, 111., and vicinity. The Cincinnati Beal Estate and Stock Exchange has been incorporated. Two deaths from freezing are reported on the 11th from L&ngdon, N. D. The cigarette prohibition bill was passed by the Kentucky House Wednesday. Andrew Carnegie has agreed to spend $1,000,000 for public libraires in Pittsburg. Public meetings are being held all over North Dakota to consider the lottery billA fire at Chicago destroyed the big brick and stone building of J. V. Tar well & Co. Mrs. Joseph Bastian of Pekin, 111. claims to be heir to a $48,000,000 estate in England.

Sash and door factories are now the industries sought to be purchased with British gold. T-he Salem, 111., national bank was robbed of $25,000 on the 14th by safe blowers. The Kansas City Paoking and Chase Refrigerator Company suffered a loss of $200,000 by fire. Charles Beans, a brakeman on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, had his right hand crushed at Tiffin, O. The indictments against the New York boodle Aldermen, who have not been tided, will likely be dismissed. The law creating the Female Work House Board for Cincinnati has been declared unconstitutional. At Detroit, Mich., an attempt was made to murder Mrs. Lipmeyer by filling t.he stove wood with powder. Cincinnati saloonkeepers are making another effort to secure a refund of tax p aid under the Scott law. An infernal machine was sent to a Phil adeiphian named Mqßride through the mails, but it failed to go off. At Burlington, M out., Thomas Brezant sixteen years old, murdered his mother and stole S3OO of her savings. A locomotive boiler on the P., McK. & Y. railroad busted, near Pittsburg, killing one man and injuring four others. Mrs, MoFee, of Monroo, La., whose son was killed hy oars, got a verdict against the Railroad Company for $30,000. The Kentucky State Senate passed the bill prohibiting the sale of cigarette to boys under eighteen years of age. It is claimed that the Chicago police have promoted crime in order that they might have the credit of making an arrest An attempt was made to wreck the C. H. A D. excursion train from Indianapolis to New Orleans, Sunday, near Cincinnati. The Gentiles were successful over the Mormons in the mayoralty oontest at Salt Lake City, on the 10th, by SSO majority. The Sons of the American Revolution organised a society at Wilmington, Delaware, with ex-Secretary Bayard as Presi dent Express trains on the Canadian Pacific railway collided. Robert Thompson, of Kingston, an express messenger, was killed. Five passenger oars on the Norfolk & Western were ditched at Roanoke, N. C., and George Kerr, express messenger, was injured. The tow boat Port Eads struok a bridge pier two miles below Memphis and sunk. Seven of the crew were drowned and ten j others hagt - i

The proposition to organise tire Western Distillers’ and Cattle-feeders’ Trust under j the laws of Illinois was carried almost: unanimously. A n accommodation on the Lake Shore , read ran into an open switch at Bellevue, Ohio, Thursday evening, killing one and injuring several. At Amerious, Ga., the six-year-old daughter of Colonel R. A. Crutchfield was burned to death by her clothing taking fire from a grate. Millers Will be interested in the decision of Judge Blodgett, at Chicago, on the 14th, In which he holds that all modern roller process patents are invalid. Disastrous storms have prevailed on the Virginia coast, and many oyster boats were wrecked or blown out to sea. Twenty or more lives are believed to be lost. Rube Burrows, the noted outlaw, murderer and express robber, bas been posi lively located near Milton, Fla., where he has been working as a farm hand. Carlo Brittain, a worthless colored man, shot and killed D. K. Gairard, a young lawyer, at Manchester, Ky., on the 12th. The murderer has not been arrested. Saengerfest societies en route to New Orleans were shaken up by a collision on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, near Birmingham. Engineer Doolittle was killed. The President has signed ths proclamation opening the Siou reservation In South Dakota. He has also issued an order establishing land offices at Pierre and Chamberlain. ,

Ex-Governor Foraker, la a speech at >' meeting held at Columbus, oa the 13th, to unite the Republican clube of that elty, l urged tee necessity of haraumy among the Republioaas of Ohio Farmers of central Illinois are complaining of the stagnant oondition of tee oorn market. Cribs and elevators are overflowing, and railway earn can not be secured to make shipment ■ Friday a portion often bottom of the town of Plains, Pa., fell out, .wreckinc severul mining tenement houses. The cave in was caused by taking too man;, pillars from the mines below tee place. A revivalist at Oakland, CaL, predicts the destruction of San Francisco, Alamo da aad Oakland within eighty days by an earthquake, Chicago by the overflow of

in 1880, previous to which all Europe will he a battle ground It is said that there are people who place faith in the prediction. V - - Colored Women in. Barnwell county. South Carolina, having learned lessont from the recent lynohings there, gave one of their sisters a whipping, beoanse she sympathised with the aforesaid murders. William Summers, arrested at Jefferson City, Mo., Monday night, on a description from sbe Chief of Police of Sacramento, Cal., has admitted that he collected SBOO on a forged note. He is over sixty years of age. The Roman Catholic’s Orphan Asylum on Fifth avenue, opposite the Vanderbilt mansion. New York, partially burned "Wednesday, with a loss of SIO,OOO. There were were 414 children in the bnilding, and all were removed safely. The United States mail was robbed at Fort Smith, Ark., as it lay in the baggage room of the ’Frisco depot, Wednesday. Several packages of registered letters were stolen, but the amount of money taken can not yet be ascertained. The British steamer Ludgate Hill, Captain Brown, which passed Pra vie Point on the 13th, bound for London from New York signaled that she had been in collision with tho British steamer Deeslde. The latter vessel was sunk and several of her crew drowned. Deputy United States Marshall W. B. Saunders was assassinated at Quincy Gadsen county, Florida, on the 14th, while in the discharge of his duty. It is believed the deed was doneaby cone McFarland, whom Saunders had arrested about a month ago. .-itirzgsisszssssszi In a prize fight at Dallas, Texas, Thursday night, Tom James was killed by Benegah, a champion light weight. In the fourth round James was hit on the neck and soon after expired. Benegah was arrested. He was a member of the Kilrain combination. Arrangements are making at Bioknell for a monster fox drive, covering the larger portions of Vigo and Washington town ships, Knox county, the ring to center on the farm of Samuel House. The date is fixed for February 15, and it is expected that several thousand people will join in the sport. R. A. Williams, who is chief of labor agents at work in North Carolina, reports that he alone has sent 22,000 negroes out of the State. He says that he has never yet put a negro on the train without having a home and labor contract provided for him.* He has demands for 5,000 more negroes.

The Niles Tool Works, of Hamilton, 0., hays finished and are now loading an immense armor plate bending roll that is to be sent to the navy yards at Mare Island, San Francisco. The tremendous machine weighs, in round numbers, 400,000 pounds, and the freight will be something over SIO,OOO. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad company has had a number of special flat cars built for the transportation of the load, and the whole train will be run through to the Pacific coast as a special. The executive committee of the coal operators of western Pennsylvania met in conference in Pittsburg Thursday. The conference was called for the purpose of effecting an arrangement for a joint conference of miners and mine-owners to arrange a scale for the year beginning May 1,1890, It was agreed that the mine-owners of wostern Pennsylvania would join with miners’ committees of other States in attending a convention to establish a scale, time and place of the convention to be agreed upon. t There are two sets of swindlers going through central Illinois, getting the best of the farmers. One scheme is to purchase the farmer’s oom at 25 to 30 cents per buShel aud get the farmer to sign a contract for the delivery of the corn, which turns up in some bank as a promissory note. Another and still later swindle is this: The sharper has a double fountain pen, which is so arranged that it uses two kinds of ink. One will fade and the other will remain, The sharper makes an agreement with the farmer and uses the ink that fades, and then gives the fariaer the same penholder, only it is reversed, and he signs his name The words of the agreement fade out and the signature remains, when the sharper writes whatever he please* over the signa tore.

FOREIGN. Toronto University, the finest educational institution in Canada, was destroyed by fire on the 14th. The Chilian government is resorting to the subsidy system to maintain firstclass steam communication with foreign ports. The influensa is spreading in the City of Mexico, and has assumed a more virulent form. A number of deaths have resulted the disease. In the House of Commons Sir James ' Ferguson said that negotiations on the fiishery question were proceeding between England and America under favorable , auspices.

A London court decided on the 13th that Salvation Army people have a right to parade the streets with bands and drums—that drums and musical instruments are adjuncts of their religion. A dispatch received oat London on the 13th, confirms s report of the death of the Sultan of Zanzibar. His demise was sudden. Seynoid Ali, the brother of the late Sultan of Zanzibar, succeeds him. One hundred and twenty of the persons who were arrested at Lisbon, Monday i night, for taking part in the riotous dem- ■ onstrationa, have been sent aboard the ironclad Vaaoo de Gama and the gunboat India. The oountry everywhere is Iran | T* 11 • „„', A sad accident happened to a wedding party at Pontivy, Paris, on the 14th. Tb* vehicle conveying the* bride and groom and a number of their friends was upset and the whole party were precipitated into the river. The bride and bridegroom ten others of the party were drowned. A special Rio dispatch says: fnero is s ministerial crisis in Brazil. The trouble has reference to the questions of financial reforms, which do not at present seem likely to be realised. Senor Denaetris Ribiero. Minister of Agriculture, has re tin* from tea Cabinet and a new appointmen has been made. Senor Rtbiero was no wall known in Brasilian politics before he. was called to ttoo Ministarv.