Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Every governor of Pennsylvania since the war has been a volunteer soldier. The seven hundredth female physician in Russia has just passed her examination. _ Andrew Carnegie is of the opinion that a college education is of no use in assisting a man to fortune. " Bismarck was once offered fl a word by an American magazine editor for all the manuscript he would furnish. Harvard college is hotly discussing the question whether the present century ends with the year 1899 or the year 1900. Mr. Gladstone has published no fewer than 299 books and pamphlets, exclusive of numberless newspaper and magazine articles. Labor and brains and virtue are the only things that, count in this world. Matter and circumstances can not be subjugated without their aid. The only excellency there is without labor is eating a raw oyster; that requires none. Just take the oyster in your mouth and look at the ceiling, Prince Kawana-Nakoa, nephew of King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands, has entered the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, England. Herr Orth, the young cousin of the emperor of Austria, a few months ago renounced all his imperial rank and dignities in order to become a private citizen. ___________ Murat Halstead, of Cincinnati, has agreed to conduct a new departmentin the Cosomopolitan Magazine,in which he will write every month of important public events in an unpartisan manner.

Oklahoma seems to have greatet attractions for the negro as an immigration field than the banks of the Congo. There are already 22,000 colored people there, and by the middle of spring this number will be doubled.

These is an increasing agitation in California for a division of the state on the line of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Division would mean one democratic and one republican state in place of a state now democratic in state elections and republican on national issues. _ You know every time the car passes over a rail joint there is a distinct click. Just count the number of these clicks in twenty seconds and you have the number of miles the train is going per hour. This is a simple matter of arithmetic, as the length of the rail is uniform. The Czar's latest fad is to force all members of the imperial family to wear a clothing of only Russian material, made up only by Russian hands. Both the Czar and the Czarina have heretofore obtained their clothing from Paris, and her Majesty has had twenty French dressmakers constantly employed at St

William Thornton Bluffield, a resident of Hickman county, Tenn., claims to be 127 years of age, and he posseses some remarkable proofs of his age. Among these is a very ancientlooking family Bible, in which his birth is recorded as having taken place on January 3, 1763, at a village six miles west of Lake Drummond, Va,

Buffalo Bill had an interesting experience at Barcelona. As he was about to leave that city he was accosted by an envoy of the Spanish government, who asked him if he would accept a certain decoration. “Not by a long sight,” said Colonel Cody. “I am already duke of Colorado.” The envoy bowed respectfully and disappeared.

About eighty-eight million bushels of American corn were exported to foreign markets in 1889. In 1888 only about 23,000,000 bushels were exported. The demand for American coin in foreign markets steadily increases as the value of that product as an arti- . cle of food is better appreciated. As a substitute for oil cake for stock its demand is also increasing.

The proposed ship canal across Italy, to connect the Tyrrhenian Sea with the Adriatic, is expected not only to afford improved water communication for many places, but to facilitate the drainage of marshy districts and to render 170 square miles of lake area fit tor cultiv tion. The canal would be 124 miles long, 263 feet wide and 40 feet deep, and its cost is estimated by Signor Bocca at 1125,000,000. Macaulay, in one of his essays, undertakes to prove that the idea of patrietism generally entertained by the ancient Greeks was a very questionable virtue, and that the quality which it stood for was not necessarily beneficial *to society. The Portuguese governtVent seems to have arrived at something like Macaulay's opinion, and hat issued a proclamation forbidding patriotic meetlbga in Lisboa.

DOMESTIC.. “Barnum’s show is with us again. Frost has killed Texas sugar cane. Dr. McGlynn denies that he is seeking reinstatement. The lowa Legislature has decided to investigate the trusts. A band of illicit distillers have been arrested in No Man’s Land. Senator Allison was reelected by the lowa Legislature on the sth. Settlers on the Sioux reservation are handling claim-jumpers severely. " Rhode Island Democrats on the sth, nominated “Honest” John W. Davis for Governor. A New York police captain captured five women and nine men,’all Americans, in an opium den. In consequence of a strike of iron Judders at San Francisco nearly a thousand men are idle.

Ben Butler’s famous drooping eye has been successfully operated on by oculist and has disappeared. James W. Myers, a veteran soldier, and his little grandchild were buried in one grave at Tiffin, 0., on the 4th. State Treasurer Noland, of Missouri, has been suspended by the Governor, his accounts.appearing short $45,000. The Democrats of the lowa Legislature have nominated S. L. Bestow as their candidate for United States Senator. A patient named Coffee killed Mortimer Fanner with a bed slat, in the Western Lunatic Asylum, near Hopkinsville, Ky. An oil well which will yield, it is reported, 250 barrels a day, was opened Monday near Glasgow, Ky., at a depth of 235 feet. Under the census of 1890 there probably will be 421 votes in the Electoral College —268 for the North and 153 for the South. Edwin Cowles, editor of the Cleveland Leader, a newspaper man of National repu tation, died at his home in Cleveland on the 4th. , Emile Thomas, Republican, was on the sth, elected City Marshal of St. Louis, defeating William McClellan, Democrat, by over 2,000 votes. Ross Carter, a Cincinnati telegraph operator, fan away from Buffalo with SB,000 belonging to a young woman whom he was about to marry. At a meeting of Chicago socialists on the 2d, a resolution was adopted endorsing a call for an international labor convention to meet in that city during the presence of the World's Fair in 1892.

The experts who have been examining the books of ex-Treasurer Hemingray, of Mississippi will report that his accounts are correct, and that the alleged shortage was due to errors in book-keeping. Wm. Pope, teller of the City National Bank, Louisville, decamped on the 4th for Canada, taking with him $60,000 of the funds belonging to the bank. Pope has “been going it strong about town for many years.” Friday the Attorney General of North Dakota had his nose pulled by Mr. Walsh, a member of the Legislature. It came about through the warm times they are bavingout there over the proposition to establish a lottery. Commander McClalla, who is charged with the severest cruelty to the members of his crew during the last cruise of the Enterprise, has asked for and been granted a court martial. Later reports do not tend to give the charges any better coloring. The renegade Apaches are making tuUm selves known as winter disappears. Of the eleven renegades five or six of them are inSonoro, Mexico, and on a late raid stole sixteen horses, besides committing numerous other depredations. It Is safe to say that an Apache disturbance is Imminent, and the local policy of the military is not likely to anticipate or prevent it.

The journeymen plasterers of New York observed the 3d as one of rest ams, jubilee to celebrate the consumation of an agreement by which they yvill commence on May Ito work eight hours a day at 50c an hour ors4perday. There have been frequent conferences between the boss plasterers and the journeymen plasterers’ Union, and on the 3d the arrangement as given abov was ratified. The agreement is to hold good for two years. The result is considered a most valuable precedent in the Jeon templated movement of eight hours labor for all tradesmen.

The annual report of that wonderful combination of corporations, the Pennsyl vania Railway system, has boon made by ! ts President, George B. Roberts. In 1889 the 7,844.23 miles of road comprised in the system earned $122,917,337.39. These earnings were nearly $7,000,000 larger than those of 1888. A five per cent, dividend was paid, and $838,687.50 was left over to be addfed to the reserve fund, which now exceeds $20,000,000. The Johnstown disaster cost the company $3,475,425.01, besides the consequent loss of business- On the entire system during the year 122,164," 118 tons of freight and 78,116,957 passengers were carried.

A disasterous wreck occurred on the Ft Wavne road at Lakeville, Ohio, on the 3d. When the third section of a freight train going east reached'that point, an oil train exploded and set fire to the cars. The fourty section ran into the third, killing John Cowen, engineer; Harvey Galehouse, fireman, and John Miller, the front brakeman, all on the fourth section. Eighteen loaded cars were burned. The beat was so intense that it melted the bell on the engine of the fourth section, and it run down in molten form over the boiler. The ties were burned for a distance of 1,500 feet and the track was bent and drawn into all kinds of shapes. Cowen and Miller lived at Alliance and leave families. Galehouse was a single man, and lived at Doylcston.

FOREIGN. The Pope was 80 years old on the 2d. During the last six months over a dozen London clergymen have gone over to the Catholic faith. The Prince of Wales sent a letter to Minister Lincoln, condoling with him on the death of his son. Master Abraham Lincoln, son of Mr. lobert Lincoln, the United States Minister, who has been suffering for a long time from bleod poisoning, arising from a malignant carbuncle on the left side below the

arm pit, died at 7 minutes after 11 o’clock Wednesday morning, at Paris. Mr. Chamberlain writes that he believes free education will ba conferred by the present Government before Parliament is dissolved. * The newly constructed great railwaj bridge over the River Forth, at Edinburgh, was opened on the 4th by the Prince of Wales with great ceremony. Dispatches from Teheren say that an elaborate fete was given there Wednesday by the Shah, to celebrate the betrothal of his daughter to his favorite page. It is anticipated as a result of the confer ence between the Emperor and Prince Bismarck the Government will, at the coming session of the Reichstag, submit an anti-Anarchist bill to take the place of the anti-Socialist Bill which was rejected by the last Reichstag.

WASHINGTON. The Supreme Court of the United State? on the 3d ins u rendered a decision in the case of the Lousville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Company against the State of Mississippi, involving the validity of the Mississippi State law requiring all railroads operating within the State to provide separate compartments or cars for white and colored pebple. The question at issue was whether the Jaw is a regulation of interstate commerce and therefore beyond the power cf the State. This was not a civil action brought by an individual to recover damages for being compelled to occupy one particular compartment, or prevented from riding on the train, and no alleged violation of personal rights was involved. The Supreme Court of Mississippi, when it decided the case, held that the statute applied solely to commerce within the State, and that construction, being the construction of the statute by its highest court, is accepted as conclusive by the Supreme Court of the United States in their decision. General Alger things Congress will re- ; ect the service pension, but pass the dependent bill. The President on the sth, approved the bill providing an assistant Secretary of War. Congressman B. F. Shively, of the Thirteenth District, has notified Daniel yMcDonald, Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee, of his wish to retire to private life after the close of the present term.

IS MCKINLEY LEFT? The Ohio Rsdistrictlng Bill Passes Both Houses of the Legislature. A Columbus dispatch on the 7th to the Indianapolis Sentinel says: The bill which was introduced in the House by Mr. Price of Hocking, and had for its object the redistricting of the congressional districts of the State, came up in the Senate on passage this afternoon. The bill had passed the House some time ago. There were some fears that it would fail to pass the Senate, as it was known that Senator Soncrant of Lucas county was not pleased with it. All the members of the Senate were present when the bill was brought up, and immediately all debate was cut off. Senator Soncrant refused to vote for it when his name was at first called, but being called again he rose to explain his vote. The Republicans refused to allow him to do so, and then he voted for the bill. The bill ' was carried by a vote of 19 to 17. The measure as it passed both Houses, gives the Democrats fifteen while the Republicans will have six districts. By the pro visions of the bill Maj. McKinley will be thrown into a Democratic district, and, as he has asserted that he will not move to his farm in Columbiana county, which is in a Republican district, he will be legislated out of Congress. Representative Monnet, of Stark county, who is one of the leaders on the Democratic side of the present Legislature, will probably be his successor, Gen. Grosvenor is placed in a

district which will have a Republican majority of over seven thousand. All the members of the present General Assembly as well as the Democratic members of Congress from this State, are in Democratic districts. The majorities of the Democratic districts range from one thousand to three thousand five hundred. All the bill now wants to become a law is the signature oi the Governor. The Senate, Thursday, also passed a bill amending the Owen closing law, which gives the councils of municipalities the power to say whether saloons shall be closed on Sunday or not.

NAVAL OFFICERS ON A SPREE. A special letter from Hamilton, Bermu da, is published on the 4th, giving the de a disgraceful debauch indulged in at that point on Washington’s birthday and the following Sunday by Commander B. H. McCalla, First Lieutenant Mulligan, Paymaster Mudd and the surgeon of the Enterprise. The party of officers landed Saturday evening, dined at the Hamilton Hotel and got gloriously drunk. Next day they appeared shortly after noon and re* peated the process, After dinner Commander McCalla and Paymaster varied the monotony by leaping from the dining room to a sloping roof below, sliding thence to a balcony and dropping into a bevy of waiter girls, with whom they made merry. They were captured and led away by porters, but soon turned up again in the bar room where they drew a erowd and continued their revelry until twilight. They than made an effort to get to the Bermuda Yacht Club, two blocks aw&y, in a wagonette, but McCalla insisted upon driving and came to grief in a half a block. A disgraceful street brawl ensued, and efforts w/are made by American civilians to lead them away, but they persisted tn going on to the club house, where they made picturesque asses of themselves. Finally they were oaded into their launch and sent back to their ship.

An Absurd Delusion* Dry Goods Chronicle. * Mrs. Haut Tonne—Sir. I demand an apology. You have just stepped on my trail, Stranger—Me? Impossible, madan (showing his badge) ; I am a Chicagv detective.

REPUBLICAN LEAGUE CLUBS. The National League of Republican Clubs convened at Nashville, Tenn t nnt.h/ 4th. There was a large attendance, thr delegates numbering nearly 600. Hon. A. J. Watson delivered an address of welcome, followed by G. N. Tilman, Wm. Rule and W. G. Winstead. President Thurston, of Nebraska, then delivered his annual address, in which he reviewed the general situation. The usual committees were appointed. A mass meeting was held at night, Gen. Nathan Goff making the principal speech. The following letter was received from President Harrison; It gives me pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th, extending on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Republican League of the United Statesan invitation to attend the third annual convention of the League, to be held at Nashville, Tenn. While I can not accept the invitation, neither can I refrain from expressing my interest in the success of your proposed meeting and in the permanence and continued useful activity of the clubs which will be represented. Such organizations are wholesome and desirable, not only from a party but from a public standpoint They interest young men in public affairs, and compact and organize the interest thus excited in controlling political forces. The party to which you belong has never suffered by the intelligent discussion of its history or its principals, and lam sure your organization will continue to furnish encoiir ageous and well appointed champions wher ever the lists of debate are opened. Bbnjamin Harrison. The convention accepted an invitation to visit the Legislature, when sever#! of the delegates made speeches. The platform reads as follows. The Republican League of the United States, in convention assembled, heartily congratulates the country upon the success and marvelous prosperity that has attended the first year of Republican resumption of power in the Federal government. "It congratulates President Harrison upon his eminently wise, loyal and courageous administration, declares its absolute confidence in his integrity, ability and patriotism, and pledges him its cordial support in the discharge of the duties devolving upon him as the chief magistrate of the Nation.

We rejoice in the restoration of dignity, vigor and statesmanship to the conduct of our foreign affairs, as illustrated by the Samoan treaty and the Pan-American Congress; in the prudent management of the Treasury Department, by which the national debt is being extinguished with signal financial ability, and the money market protected against speculative combinations; in the great improvements that have been made in the postal service; in the opening up of new territory to our people; in the progressive policy of the Secretary of the Navy, and in the faithfulness and practical wisdom that have characterized the present management of the other departments of the government. We demand the maintenance of the American system of protection to Ameri can industry and labor, the policy that has been identified with every period of our national prosperity. But we pledge our support to a thorough and equitable revision of the tariff so as to adapt the protection it. affords to changed business conditions, and we arraign the Democratic party for the manner in which, for years, it has prevented the accomplishment of this purpose.

We denounce the practice of the Democratic party in its systematic, persistent and outrageous efforts to deprive Republicans of the South of the right of franchise; we reassert the expressed determination of the Republican party to maintain this right to its fullest extent, and to give to all citizens the amplest protection to which they are entitled by the Constitution. Any theory of State rights which shall be held to prevent the government from protectingall its citizens in the enjoyment of ail of their civil, religious and political rightsand privileges, is condemned by this convention. The government of the United States having the unquestioned right to demand of every one of her citizens his services in her defense in time of peril, whether from within or from without, is bound, therefore, by every principle of honor, consistency and good faith, to protect its citizens in the full and free enjoyment of each and every right conferred upon them by the Constitution. And this convention protests against the seating in the American Congress of any applicant, no matter of which party, who presents himself for admission unless his election «is untainted, either by fraud, violence or assassination, and we indorse the present action of Congress in carrying out this policy. We are heartily in favor of the general provisions of the interstate-commerce act, and we demand the regulation of all rail way and transportation lines in such a manner as to insure fair and reasonable rates to the producers and consumers of the country. We favor such legislation as will prevent all illegal combinations and unjustexactions by aggregate capital and corporate powers. We insist upon the suppression of all trusts, combines and schemes designed to artificially increase the necessaries of life. At the same time we favor the protection of all American business interests from destructive and unfair attack.

We emphasize our approval of liberal and equitable pension laws. No soldier, whether disabled in service or elsewhere, should be permitted to end his days in the poor-house, nor should his family be allowed to suffer want. That discriminating preference of Union veterans in appointments to public office, which is one of the features of this administration’sjust, liberal policy toward the soldiers and sailors who defended the government meets our warmest approval. We recognize the dignity of labor, and the necessity of proper legislation to protect its interests. We shall unswervingly oppose every attempt to lessen the fruits of toil, or to place honest workmen in competition with paupers and convicts, domestic or foreign. The rigid enforcement by this administration of ths alien-labor con tract law commands approbation. The request of wage-workers for reasonarble hours of labor demands and should receive legislative consideration. -s We approve the action of the various Republican Legislatures in adopting a system of ballot reform, whereby fraud at the polls is prevented and every elector is enabled to vote independently and intelligently. We believe the education of the masses to be the best preventive of bad government, and we therefore favor federal assistance, where needed, in the work of eliminating illiteracy from among our population. . , . The Republican party has always been distinguished for its courage, and always has been prompt in recognizing any display of thiAquality by its leaders. In line of this policy this convention expresses its approbation of Speaker Reed’s action in standingboldly for the principle of majority rule against the Democratic power, in and out of Congress. . The amendment that created the only breeze during the two days’ session was offered by Isaac Revel, of Washington, and is as follows: And we demand that our Representatives in Congress redeem every pledge made to the people at Chicago in 1888, by repealing the Internal revenue laws, by revising toe tariff, by passing the Blair educational

bill, and completely restoring silver to the currency of the country, and the liberal pensioning of every federal soldier. This resolution was tabled. Cincinnati was decided upon as the place for next meeting. The following officers were elected: President—John M Thurston, Nebraska; Secretary—A B Humphreys, New York; Treasurer—Phineas Lounsberry, Connecticut. Vice Presidents and Members of the Executive Committee—lndiana, J N Loop and George W Patchell; Illinois, O H Gilmore and G W Patton.

NATIONAL CONGRESS. In the House, Monday, Representative McComas, of Maryland, introduced a bill, which was referred, “to regulate in part the time and manner of holding elections of Representatives in Congress.” It provides that in each State entitled to more than one Representative in the Fifty-third and subsequent Congresses such Representatives shall be elected by district® which have as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants, so that the most populous districts shall not have more than 15,000 inhabitants in excess of the least populous district The districts shall be composed of territory contiguous, adjacent and compact It further prevents the redistricting of any State except on the occasion of a Federal census, and prohibits such redistricting for the election of mem" bers to the Fifty-second Congress. Bills were reported from committees in the Senate on the 3d, appropriating $250,000 for a public building at Saginaw, Mich., and SIOO,OOO for the same purpose at Lafayette, Ind. Mr. Voorhees introduced a resolution calling for all papers and bids in the seal fisheries contract. The bill fixing the salaries of U. S. District Judges at $5,000 was passed. The Blair educational bill was considered.

A petition bearing 253,000 names from the seventh-day Adventists, was presented in the House protesting against the passage of any bill in regard to the observance of the Sabbath. A resolution was passed authorizing the appointment of thirty ad ditional medical examiners for the pension bureau. The Featherstone-Cate contested election case was considered. Mr. Outhwaite, of Ohio, in advocating the case of the contestee, exhibited what is known the double-action ballot-box which the Re publicans assert was used in twenty-one precincts, and which enabled the precinct judges to cast aside the vote of any person they may see fit. He showed the manipulation by which such judges could deceive the voter and lead him to believe that his ballot had been properly deposited. He quoted from the returns of the precincts where, it is alleged, these boxes were used in order to show that the vote of Featherstone far exceeded that for Cate; and he further asserted that there was not a particle of evidence in the case to show that such a box as he now presented was used at the election. The ballot-box had been brought into the case by the attorney ior the contestant, but nobody had told where it had come from. The House devoted the 4th to consideration of the Featherston-Cates election case.

The entire session of the House was taken up, Wednesday, in the discussion of the Arkansas contest, and at its close Featherstone was unseated by a strictly party vote. Mr. Cate spoke in his own behalf and asserted that he had been honestly and fairly elected. Mr. Mcßae defended the people of Arkansas against the charges made against them. Mr. Hauk claimed that Featherstone had been elected by bulldozing and fraud, and said that he was in favor of a national election law. Mr. Outhwaite offered a resolution declaring Featherstone not entitled to the seat, but it was beaten by 138 to 144, Mr. Hitt voting with the Democrats. Mr. Springer moved to recommit with instructions that a committee go to Arkansas. This was defeated 138 to 146. Great disorder ensued and Mr. Crisp and the Speaker baa some pretty hot words because the former thought be had been particularly pointed out as disorderly. The Speaker disclaimed any such intention. Cate was finally seated by a vote of 145 to 185. The Senate on the 6th passed the following bills: Giving a pension of $75 a month to the daughter of Maj. Gen. W. J. Worth; increasing to SIOO a month the pension of the widow of Maj .-Gon. G. K.Warren. The entire morning session of the House was consumed in a discussion of a bill for the compulsory attendance of witnesses before registers and receivers of land offices. Six thousand postal clerks petitioned for an increase of salary. Public building bills were considered. Mr. Cannon made a vigorous fight against the Washing. D. C.,postofflcebill, moving to adjourn amid cries of “dilatory motion” from the Democrats, and raising the point of no quorum amid shouts of “filibustering” from the same source. The Speaker counted a quorum and the bill was passed, as were the other bills reported favorably. The sub-committee of the House Com mittee on Elections has decided to recommend that the full committee report to the House a resolution providing for a searching inquiry by the sub-committee into the events attending the assassination o> Clayton, who was a contestant for the seat in the House now occupied by Representative Breckenndge, of Arkansas. It will be necessary for the sub committee to go to Arkansas. The Senate on the 7th passed a number of public building bills. Mr. Blair continued his intermidable speech on the educational bill, threatening to leave the Re publican party if the bill w&f not passed. In the House, Clark of Alabama was declared entitled to his seat. At the nigh! session fifty private pension bills were passed. ,

Mrs. Mary Peterson, of Chicago, had a fight for life with a maniac, on the evening of the 7th. She had prepared suppei and was waiting for her husband t) appea when the maniac entered and leveled i revolver at her head. -San “dodged whe-- - he shot, and immo dately clos- d with him She grasped him by the throat and held oi with a death grip. The struggle lastec many minutes, when ho was so overcomthat he ceased to struggle and blood gUShei, from his nostrils. She then released h hold and led the house. The police soo. arrived and after another byt less pro traded strugg'e arrested the maniac.