Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Canadian parliament voted to postpone iedefinitely the liberal alien labor bilL • Two ironclad frigates are to be built in England for the Russian fleet in the Baltic. General Howard is of the same opinion as General Crook, that the Apaohes are good, docile people and should be Bent bask to Arizona. The hen of the United States was worth to tiiis country on her own personal account last year $200,000,000, according to the bureau of industrial statistics.

Jack, the Ripper, is as good at the art of concealment as Silcott He is still at large and the London police are still in pursuit, it bewilderment can be said to be pursuit.

Henry Villard has a great scheme for uniting the Twin cities in the bond of electricity generated by the Falls of St. Anthony. If he succeeds the skeptic will no longer doubt that electricity is the miracle-worker of the age.

Thbrb 1b a good methodist in Connecticut, according to a religious periodical, who boxes the compass every time he writes his full name and address. He is Crandall J. North, New York Bast Conference, 90 West avenue, South Norwalk, Conn.

Thb Pan American Congress favors the construction of a north and south continental railroad to connect the nations represented in congress. They suggest the appointment of an international commission of engineers to make surveys, and report estimated costs of such a road.

A Berlin correspondent say* that Emperor William is delighted with the readiness with which the powers, especially France, have accepted his invitation to the labor conference and that nothing will be left undone to impress upon the delegates his appreciation of the oompliments thus paid him

There are still seven outstanding territories to be admitted to the Union when come the proper times respectfully forgiving them statehood privileges. They are Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah Indian Territory and Alaska. Idaho and Wyoming are about ready to come in, and may be admitted soon. It is not generally known that the famous Smithsonian institution at Washington owes its existence to an Englishman, James Smithson, who half a century ago bequeathed $ million dollars to the government for its establishment, the only direct bequest ever made to the government John Bull inar M* generous and clever moods. The discovery of gold in a recent meteoric stone suggests' some very interesting queries. It is commonly believed that meteors are fragments of other worlds accidentally thrown outside their usual orbit into that of the earth. The question is whether this gold where it originated was the cause of as much strife and contention as it has for ages been on this planet

Secret art Blaine says the acquisition of Mexican territory is directly opposed to the spirit of the Mexican constitution and the sentiment of the Mexican people, and that any effort to bnng it about would result in the inevitable overthrow of the ruling party in that country. The United States, he says, is therefore bound in honor not to attempt to obtain the cession of Mexican territory.

The duke of Orleans when he left the Paris conciergeric turned to the governor of that institution and said: “Monsour, although I am a prisoner I shall all my life remember my stay here and the attention shown me. Come, shake hands.” What royul condescension! But the duke is progressive. There was a time when a pretender to a throne would have told his jailer to bend the knee.

The United States of Australia is destined to be a creation of the near future, while the United States of Canada is one of the possibilillea A movement looking toward independence has been started at least in the former country. The chances, however, in O.nada point toward union with the United States Vather than separate existence when the political ties joining it to Great Britain are severed. Ax eastern exchange states that a new plan has been devised for treating buildings with antiseptic vapor. Fresh air is forced into ducks by a fan, over material saturated with the essence of eucalyptus, pinol, or any other antiseptic and aromatic extract of a volatile nature. People who cannot go to the expense of the machinery necessary to thus medicate the air in their homes will find that weak solutions of earbolio acid, or other aatisoptio material, if put into the water tanks ol their furoaoes, will do the work quite thoroughly. "

A big squeeze in May wheat is rumored The McCoy-Hatfield feud has broken out afresh. Cincinnati Socialists have nominated a full city ticket. Governor Hill, of New York, has vetoed the Saxton ballot reform bill. A few progressive Chinese in New York are Kicking for naturalization. St Joseph’s Catholic Convent at Milwaukee burned. Loss, $70,000. William Stewart, Recorder of West Bay, Mich., is mysteriously missing. Three colored men were drowned near Gallatin, Teon., by the capsizing of a boat The old Greeley homestead at Chappoqua, N. Y., was destroyed by fire on the 4 th. Three children locked in a house at Huron, S. C., were burned to death on the 4th. Louis Metzold, tenth victim of cthe Chicago Sugar -Refinery explosion, died April 1. Charles Baker, of Homer, N. Y.,is under arrest on the charge of cutting his father* : ' head oft. A man named Miller was assaulted by highwaymen near Bluffton, o.,and robbed Of $1,500, V ■ ---- Ohio’s “( nate passed a bill taxing telegraph, telephone, sleeping carjand express companies. Twenty-two hundred and forty seven foreigners were landed at Cattle Garden on Tuesday. Acolored man named Wood, convicted of murder, has been sentenced, at New York, —— — —

Oaeof the new war vessels of the United Stats Navy is named the Concord. It will help keep the peace . A strange woman, who is infatuated with Joseph Haworth, the actor, tried to assassinate him at Minneapolis. George Voss, a prosperous young German lawyer, ended his life at Helena, Mont, with rough on rats, taken six hours before A Panhandle construction train was wrecked near Camden, 0., and a brakeman and several workmen were slightly in. jured. It is charged by Republioans that the defalcation of the Maryland Treasurer is associated with Democratic campaign ex penses. The Senior 'Order of Mechanics, at Mucklerat, Pa., placed a flag on a schoo house and held it with an armed force despite objections of the foreign populations.

Suit has been brought at Springfield, 0., to set aside the will of Miss Harriet Thorp, who died recently at the age of seventyeight years, and left an estate valued at $75,000. C. Delano, President of the Wool-Growers National Association, has issued a circular urging wool-growers to petition for the passage of the wool tariff as scheduled in the new bill. About 1,000 journeymen plumbers struck at Chicago on Tuesday, and resolved to stay out until their demand for $3.75 for an eight-hour day as the minimum day’s wages had been granted. A New York Assembly bill provides a fine of SI,OOO and one year’s imprisonment for any person who prevents a colored person from enjoying any resort or convenience open to the public. The recently-formed school book trust among the leading publishers of the country has determined on a horizontal reduction of 25 per cent, in the price of all school books, the cut to go into effect May 1. Forty homing pigeons, belonging to different parties in Cincinnati, were released at Dillsboro on the 2d. The airline distance was thirty five miles, and some of the birds covered at the rate of one minute and fifty seconds to the mile. Grant Adsit, his wife, two-year-old child and a young daughter of Elmore Thomas attempted to cross Sugar Creek ford, four miles northwest of Milford, 111., Monday, and three of the party were drowned, Mrs. Adsit being the only one escaping. Cardinal Gibbons, three archbishops and twelve bishops were direct participants in the service over the remains of Arobbisbop Hciss at Milwaukee on Tuesday morning, while fully 150 priests formed a part of the immense multitude that filled the cathedral. While six boys of R. H. Baskerville and W. P. Womack, ranging in age from eleven to nineteen years, were playing in a sand cave Tuesday evening, near Vernon, Texas, the bank caved in on thorn and all were killed. Their bodies were recovered. Charter elections for cities of the second and third class were held throughout Minnesota and South Dakota on the Ist. The principal issue was license or no lioense, the supporters of the latter principle being victorious in four-fifths of the contests. Municipal and township elections were held generally on Tuesday throughout Wisconsin. The new election law—a modified form of the Australian, gave satisfaction. In Jan esville the Republican candidate for Mayor was endorsed by tbe Democrats. The Council is a tie politically. The friends of license carried the day. Architect E. S. Jennison explained to the Chicago real estate board on Wednes day his conception of a big circular bnild ing three thousand feet in diameter, with a central tower 1,492 feet high, to be used for the world’s fair, the entire exhibition wonld be contained in this one structure, which would be in the form of an immense tent.

Mayor Gran ton Tuesday received a repor from the BoarC for the year 1889 from which it appears that there are now in New York City 8,885 places licensed tfor the sale of liquors, including 5,857 liquor saloons. 194 ale and beer saipons, 1,266 ale, beer aril wine saloons, 152 restaurants, 262 hotels, 56 steamboats, and 1,098 groceries, drug aud wholesale liquor'stores. There was a decrease Of 73 in the humfcer of saloon licenses during the year, and 858 applications were rejected. The receipts were 82,442,779, an increase of $12,350 over hose of 1888. ' Near Dayton, Ore., Henry Sanders, nineteen years of age, shot and instantly killed Della Eddington, aged seventeen, and then blew his own brains out. J»»| outy was the cause of the deed. He bad threatened to kill the girl if she refused

his attentions, and, meeting her while she was coming from school, fired the fatal shots. Official announcement was made on the 2d that the Mackay syndicate, which purchased th 3 Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Railroad last December, had sold a ft interest in it to the Lake Shore and Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, or the “Big Pour,” Roads, thereby securing for the Mackay system a close alliance with these Vanderbilt roads. The Rhode Island election resulted as follows: Ladd (rep.), 19,217; Davis (dem.) 20,667; Larry (labor), 1,767, and Chace (pro.) 773 votes. Davis lacks 1,091 of the majority necessary for election, and the election is thrown into the legislature The complexion of this body cannot be determined until the supplementary elections are held. The legislature stands, Senate—republicans 21; democrats 11; to be chosen, four. House—republicans 24; democrats 25; to be chosen, 25. The election of governor and general officers is thrown into the grand committee of both houses of the new>legislature, and 55 votes are needed to assure a majority.

FOREIGN. Dom Pedro and tho Prince of Wales are sick. A contract has been made between the Government of Guatemala and Henry L. P. Cottu, the representative of a French syndicate, for the construction of the Northern Railroad of Guatemala, extending from the Capitol to the Atlantic ocean. Emin Pasha has finally accepted the proposals made to him by Major Wissmann and has entered the German service. He will receive a salary of £1,600 a year. He has given up his intention of returning to Europe, and will leave Bagamoyo about the middle of April for Victoria Nyanza. He will bo accompanied by a large caravan and 200 Soudanese troops under the command of German officers. His decision meets with strong disfavor in Zanzi bar. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that a man who committed suicide there on Monday left a letter in which he confessed that he had been engaged in a conspiracy against the Czar. The letter said that the writer and his fello v-conspir-ators had drawn ballots to decide which should take the Czar’s life and the lot had fallen to the writer, who, rather than commit the deed, had determined to take his own life. The letter also gave the names of the writer’s accomplices, several of whom have been arrested.