Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Ba war* yow’re right, and you’ll mw be left Tht.ki is a now book out which ought to hare a pretty extensive ciroulation. It is tilled "The Bad Haftlta at Good Society." - \ General Fkjcmont is now seventyalx years old, and entered the army fifty-two years ago, when he was apipointed to a lieutenancy. * Db. Brown-Sequard is still experinenting with his famous elixir of life, and is confident that he will be able to bring it to perfection. It is reported from St Petersburg that the Bussian physician Dr. Bap- __ ohinski announces that he has discovered that diphtheria is easily curablo by inoculation of erysipelas.

The colored people are gradually getting to the front Judge Ruffin ol Charleston, Mass., belongs to the African race. He is the only colored judge oa the bench in the United States. Old Dr. Johnson was a rather heavy minded person, but he knew the mind quite well. He used to declare that "our desires always increase with our possession. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed of the good before us.” The French government propos-~ *o celebrate the twentieth anniver y J the est -blishment of the repubt- on September 4 in an extraordinary style at Paris, Bordeaux, Lyons and Marseilles. A republic has a right to remember the rise of the people.

The Yreka, Ore., Union office ran short of white paper during the resent snow blockade, but it came out regularly every week. One issue was sn purple paper, another was printed on a light buff wrapping, while the next showed up on regular malina, such as is issued in grocery stores. Kentucky distillers are becoming frightened. They fear an over-pro-duction of whisky. It is said that if toe manufacture for the present season should oontinue in the same ratio as in the concluding months of 1889 the output will be 41,000,000 gallons in excess of any previous year. The theatre which the authorities of he Uni veraity of Pennsylvania have decided to erect will be used for all public lectures given under the auspices of the university, for concerts and for the performances of classical music. It will cost $75,000 and the org n which will be constructed aboul $25,000.

Moody does not care for a congregation o# saints—not while the wicked are so numerous. He complained in New York that the saints and Dot the sinners attended his meetings. He should go to Chicago. Thera sinner* abound, and he would not meet with the same embarrassment of saints that be did in Gotham.

A zealous preacher, having urged the use of liquor as the cause of the poverty prevailing in the larger cities, Bev. G. W. Todd, of Boston, goes behind the prima facie case and in the New Ideal for February shows that, jpoyerty is the oause of Intemperance quite as often as intemperance is the cause of poverty.

Emin Pasha is reported as saying that he has no dosire to live in Germany. and that if he returns there it will not be for the purpose of making that country his permanent residence. He admits that there are many discomforting things in Africa, affirms that they are no more numerous than those one is obliged to endure in an} great European capital.

M. Harancouut, the author of the p&csion play -4n which Mme, Bernhardt was to appear as the Virgin Mary, announces that he has withdrawn hi 3 play in consequence of publie opposition, although he had wounded no religious susceptibilities ir it. It%nly dealt with the best characters in the New Testament He hopes, however, to be able to produce it ir Ameriea.

Fob the first time in history, the pope has conferred 'a pontifical dec3ratiou on a monarch who does not belong to the Christian faith. The holy father has presented to the shah the oi-dei 6f Pius IX., and has forwarded to him the insignia, together with an autograph letter, in which ho thank* Nas red- Deen for the protection ant. liberty accorded to the Catholics it Persia. The reason sssigned for the French war on Dahomey is because a force ol the king's men, on a raid, advanced upon the settlement of a chief wtu was aa ally and under the protectioc of the French. When he saw then coming he got out a French flag anc waved it saying: “We are French.’ But the Dahomians massacred him tux ail his people, with the'exception o one of his wives, who yia* made U carry her husband’s hedd, wrapped li tha French flag, to the king.

Burglars cot $1,500 from the postoffice safe at Dakota, Minn. The Kentucky Legislature lias passed a hill making “oontz” a felony. Nineteen prisoners bonnd the jailer and oscaped at Spokane Falla, Wash. Charles Goodwin, an Indian, was chopped to pieces in bed by his wife at Vinita, I.T. Frederick Kimball, teller of the People’s Bank at Worchostcr, Mass., fled with $15,000. It is reported that Prophetstown, 111.,h a been swept away by a cyclone. Reports are meager. ■, The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions passed resolutions against the Chinese enumeration. Willard Williams, crazy, shot and killed Miss Maggie Pritchard and himself at Medford, Wis. One of tho ne w war vessels of the JJnited Stats Navy is named the Concord. It will help keep the peace. Officer Wellman fatally wounded William Haddock and a negro who were resist Ing arrest at Topeka, Kas, George Nicholson was shot by his daughter in tho street at Omaha, Neb. A family quarrel caused the trouble. The Irish mackerel fishermen are having great success. Eighty thousand mackerel were landed by fishing boats Tuesday. Alderman Thompson, oof Little Rock. Arkansas, has caused a sensation by charging all the city offleera with corruption. C. P. Wikoff, a clerk for Fuller & Fuller, Chicago druggists, stole sundries and sold them to the firm’s customers at cut rates. A special from Fort Morgan, Col., says that .tho Bank of- Fort Morgan has made an assignment with $40,000 liabilities. The assets are reported in the neighborhood of $20,000. Tho Tuesday night storm did more damage in Ohio than was at first believed. In the vicinity of Akron 1 a number of people were killed and much property destroyed.

Charles Duby, colored, is under arrest at Danchester, 0., charged with shooting through the window of Scott Underwood’s residence and wounding Lute Payne, a colored girl. :: ~ ... ——-—'♦— A decree entered in the United States Circuit Court, Wednesday, gives George Houscbal S3OO for the loss of a foot while in the employ of the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad Company. -—- Tho Reeves Pulley Company, of Columbus, 0., have closed a contract for removal of the plant to Kokomo. The new works wiTFbe in operation July 15, and will employ one hundred men. At the Methodist Protestant Conference Monday, at Cheslertown, Md., a special committee was appointed to consider the advisability of establishing a National University in Kansas City, Mo. James Wells, a sixteen year old boy, shot and killed Eugene Cornell, aged eighteen, at Henderson, Ky., Sunday. The killing grew out of a quarrel about a young lady to whom both youths were paying suit. A big land swindle is being worked in Kansas. Men claiming to own large tracts of Texas lands have been trading them for Kansas real estate. They have been doing a big business with bogus deeds and abstracts. Two factions of the United Brethren church at Daleville, engaged in a regular fight in the church on the 6th, in which several persons received sore heads from the use of clubs, pokers and pistols • One person was seriously hurt

Nino horn's without a reduction in wages has been granted the 230 workmen em- j ployed in twelve of the marble factories of Boston. There remains but three firms that have not complied with the request of t the marble cutters’ union. Mr. Wheeler, of the banking firm of ! Austin Corbin & Co., left New York for , Chicago, Tuesday, to prosecute R. E j Smith, alias Herbert, an embezzler, whom I Pinkerton’s Detective Agency captured 1 after a chase of three months. - At Ohtcago7 tlfejury in the case of Henry , Lyons, charged with ihe murder of Per Peterson, found Lyons guilty in the first degree, fixing the penalty at life imprison- j ment. The prisoner, only sixteen years of age, merely said: “Well, I’m in luck.” The grand jury of the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, Va., brought in indictments against several prominent Democrats, charged with obstructing the voting of the negroes in Jackson ward, in that city, at the last Presidential election. Judge Ryland, in his charge to the grand jurors of the Pettis County Criminal Court at Sedalia, Mo., instructed them that the fashionable game of progressive euchre and church raffles are gambling and contrary to law, and charged them to take cognizance of all such things. There is reported to be a general feed famine in Boone and Wyoming counties, West Va. It is said that cattle are dying daily. Yokes of oxen worth $75 to SIOO are being sold for S2O and $25. Corn, which has been selling at $1 and $1.50 per bushel, can not be bought at any price now. At West Elizabeth, Pa., two children of George Beattie, a boy and girl, aged seven years, were drowned on their way to school while crossing a foot log over Lcbb’s Run. The little girl lost her footing and fell into the water, and her brave twin brother, in trying to rescue her, lost his life also.

The journeymen plumbers have settled th.lr strike at Chicago. By the terms of the agreement the journeymen will get 13.50 per day as the minimum wages,while tile juniors get an advance of twenty-five cents a day. The agreement is to last for two years, and aU future disputes are to bo settled by arbitration. Pennsylvania had four hangings, Wednesday: James Bartholomew was banged at Easton for the murder of Aaron A. Dilliard; Charles Carter was hanged at Charlestown for the murder of John Matthews; Alf red James Andrews was hanged at Boilefonte for the murder of Clara Price, and Zach Taylor, condemned for the murder of Wm. McCauslai.d, was hanged at Pittsburg. It having been rumored that children had been born at the Lewiston, Maine, poor farm, tho ex-keeper of which is now servinga term in the county jail for cruelty to the inmates, am official search was made {■

lon the 9th and the bodies of two Infants were found bnried under the barn of the institution. Search will be made for other bodies,, which are said to be buried there, and a rigid investigation will follow. Advices from Northern Toxas say that 75 per cent, of the wheat crop jp the counties, of Cook, Grayson, Collin Denton, Wise and Montague has been destroyed by insects. One of these creatures is very similar to the Northern chinchbug, vand the other is the common ladybug. The latter is the more destructive, and is not only destroying the wheat, but is ravaging oate and corn, and even attacking cotton Municipal election's were held throughout Kansas, Monday, in cities of the fourth class. Reports from several of these cities indicate that the women cast about twofifths of tho votes. They had no candidates in the field of their own sex, but allied themselves generally with one or the othe of the parties in the contest At the election at Oklahoma last year the women ran a full city ticket and elected it At the present election the women declined to run for re-election. They said they had placed the city’s affairr in good condition and were willing to let the men try and keep them so. They worked at the polls and carried the election for the successful ticket.

The mysterious absence from New York city and home of Alonzo B. Cornell, formerly Governor of New York Stat is causing serious comment in financial circles, owing to the discovery of certain transactions not favorablo to his business reputation. It is generally known that he is either in hiding or is kept out of the way to avoid the Sheriff’s officers, as judgments have been entered against him for about $5,000 on promissory notes of which he was either maker or indorser. It is rumored that he has issued a great deal of his own paper, secured discount for it in various places, and a large amount of it is now outstanding. Some of tho ex-Governor’s friends say his peculiar conduct is due to mental prostration, caused by overwork, and mental strain. FOREIGN. The Princess of Wales is seriously ill. Dom Pedro and the Prince of Wales are sick. 1 . 2 .'. ■■ The Rappel says that a decree pardoning he Duke of Orleans has been prepared, and that it will be issued at once. BIG CHICAGO STRIKE: About 5,00 C carpenters struck Monday at Chicago for more wages and shorter hoursThe labor situation in Chicago in very similar to that which existed this month four years ago. At that time the agitation in favor of an eight-hour day was being actively carried on, and some 60,000 organ ; ized men were in a condition of discontent. Out of this grew the Anarchist agitation that culminated ir. the Haymarket riot. To day the men of nearly all trades are organized, either for on increase of wages or for the eight-hour demand, although, fortun ately, the turbulent spirits of four years ago are now conspicuous by their absence, and the radical, socialistic element, as such is taking no part in the agitation. To-day is the date fixed for the reply of the Master Carpenters to the ultimatum of the men and failing a satisfactory response, several thousand are idle. The United Carpenters’ Council represents nearly five thousand out of tjie six thousand carpenters in the city, and their demands are in brief, the eight hour day, an advance in wages from twenty 1 five to forty cents an hour, the estab- | lishment of an apprentice system and I a permanent arbitration committee to i which all disputes shall be referred, and I the decision of which shall be binding. A similar board has been in satisfactory operation among the brick masons for two I years. In the other organizations the ; union of packing house employes is demonstrating unexpected strength, consid- ! ering the condition they have been in since ! their abortive fight of 1886, and they will appear in the eight hour column. The ! painters have organized for the fray under ' a charter from tho American Federation of Labor, and the plasterers, lathers, hodcarriers and other branches of the building trade are also well organized. Altogether, there are fully 700,000 trades unionists in the city. It is understood that the American Federation of Labor regards the movement of the carpenters as in the nature of a preliminary struggle, and stands ready to render both moral and : material support. They will also have the ; supportof the National Brotherhood, which numbers over 70,000. | Ii is estimated that bttweon 5,000 and 6,000 are out. The carpenter work on nearly all of the large jobs has been brought jto a standstill. No trouble has been rei ported from any quarter, so far. The i strike is for eight hours as a day’s work, ! with wages at 40 cents per hour. A great many of tho non-union men quit work out 'of sympathy with their union brethren, and it was claimed that most of them would i join the Carpenter’s Union.