Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

l Washington's Birthday, according lo the calendar at that time, was Feb. CL The v calendar was changed in ass. David Dudley Field is in favor of •mapulsory voting. Compulsory voting would be a great aid to woman aoffrage. . 1L DE Freycinet, the French Minis* Car of War, has published a decree forbidding surgeons in the French army to make use of hypnotism in their practice, or to experiment with it. Marshal MacMahon, twice president of the French republic, sent his hearty congratulations to the young Bne d’Orleans upon the step he had tak»n in going to France in defiance of Hus law.

Thr Deioris Land and cattle Company at Deioris, Texas, has been purchased by the Columbia Cattle Company of New York for $700,000. The company’s headquarters are at Carlisle, Pa. Many curious adulterations of food are reported, but this surely beats them all. An invoice of macaroni seized at New York recently contained an assortment of shawls, all wool, and a yard or more wide. Th* Pike’s Peakcogway will be illuminated the entire seven miles by electricity. Carbons will sparkle on top of the old giant of the Rockies, and a night train will be run for the benefit of those who enjoy novelty. Many of the participants in the battle of Chickamauga, both union and confederate, have agreed to meet on the eiteof the conflict, to settle many important historical questions. Wednesday, May 28, has been decided on.

Canada’s trade with the United States is greater than her commerce with Great Britain. In 18S8 she sold ns $45,572,055 of merchandise and Croat Britain $42,094,984. Her imports to this country were to the amount of $48,841,848, or $90,000,000 greater than from Great Britain.

Paris public schools are overcrowded, and the authorities propose to help to remedy the difficulty by forbidding the attendance at them of children of foreigners. There are 60,000 foreign children in the city, and at least 5,000 of them are getting a French education free at the public schools.

And now comes a doctor who says that nitro-glycerine would have saved John Jacob Astor’s life. How unfornnate it is f or humanity that all these suggestions by the doctors come too late, and that the information necessaay to save life is always in possession of some physician who was not employed on the case.

Columbia college will presently Journey toward the front rank of American institutions of learning. Extensive athelic grounds have been «et apart by the faculty and $25,000 subscribed for their improvement. Xhe builook for next year’s cropT~of demon and wizzard baseball pitchers may therefore be said to be promising. A catholic Indian missionary, Jerome, of the Benedictine order, has compiled a prayer book for (the Sioux. It will be published by [Bishop Marty, and will be printed in Sioux language. Besides the ordinary catholic prayers the book will contain a catechism of Christian doctrine and catholic hymns, with appropriate music.

Thb National Museum at Washington, through the liberality of Mr. John A. Brill, of Philadelphia, has come into possession of two stamps issued under the act of 1765, which led Ito the American revolution. They ■were required to be placed upon all documents. Mr. Brill was offered a large sum for them, but he preferred to place them where they legitimately belonged.

Another French canal enterprise has proved a failure, aside from the gigantic Panama fiasco. This is the canal across the isthmus of Corinth in Greece. Its estimated cost was $6,000,€OO, but the French company that undertook it have sunk more than that and have abandoned the enterprise. Fully $12,000,000 more capital is required and the discouraged French investor dreads the canal. Greece will have to look elsewhere than to France jSbr funds to complete the enterprise.

Qokkh Marguerite of Italy is not jfiair, but she is fat and forty. Asrule, » (to which there are few exceptions, the jnyal families are not models of physl cal beauty. The count de Paris look' like an amiable greengrocer, Queet jVlctoria like a prosperous middle clas> woman, the prinoe of Wales like agoo< aatured bon-vlvant The queen o Italy affects literary tastes, but he. i success as an amateur author has no been very brilliant, for the story goe that, having written a story, she sen it to one of the Italian journals unde C assumed name, and it was decline* h thahks. .

Louisville butchers will make their own ioe. Northern Illinois Tiad big nun storms Monday. The Starch Trust has perfected itsor ganisation. * Vermont’s maple sugar'crop is five million pounds. Undertakers of northwestern Ohio have formed a trust. Mr. Cleveland is under treatment for reduction of flesh. Gen. Sherman quietly celebrated his 70th birthday on the 17th. Bishop Joyce othinks Robert Lincoln will be the next President. Seventy Denver saloon keepers were arrested for Sunday selling. Artesian well diggers in Chicago struck natural gas in a small quantity. Ex -President Hayes and daughter are on a recreative trip to Bermuda. The lowa House of Representatives defeated a prohibition amendment. The New York Presbytery, on the 15th, voted in favor of creed revision.

The incoming Rhode Island Legislature will stand: 57 Democrats; 50 Republicans. An Illinois minister has brought suit against members of his flock to beating him. Eight hours is a day’s work in all the city departments of Kansas City, since the 17th. . The Massachusetts House h»s rejected the bill granting municipal suffrage to women. Samuel Kimball, aged 16 years, died at New York on the l&th from cigarette poison. Two negroes cutting levees in Luna county, Mississippi, were killed by guards on the loth. Louis Frunke & Co., New York, silk dealers, failed on the 17th for nearly a million dollars.

Eleven valuable horses perished in the burning stable pf Hogan Bros., near Wiliiamstown, Ky.Fifteen hundred building workmen are out of employment at Portland, Oregon, by reason of a lockout. One of the new war vessels of the United States Navy is named the Concord. It will help keep the peace. ■ Eight hiindred mill operatives atNashua, N. H., went out on a strike on the 17th. They want an increase in wages. The lowa oSenate passed the House school book bill. The plan is district purchase of books, with optional county uniformity. The body of a man murdered in Copenhagen was found in a barrel in New York, having been packed and shipped by the murderers.

A number of United States prisoners from Southern States in the Ohio Penitentiary, have "petitioned for removal to a warmer climate. Tennessee Prohibitionists have decided to nominate candidates for Governor and Congressmen, and will hold a State con-, vention on June 4. ---t——- —*- — James S. Caswell, who was convicted at Montpelier, Vt., of the murder of George Gould, his sentence being imprisonment for life, was married Thursday to Mrs. Laura Gould, wife of the murdered man. In the Dubuque, la.. Presbytery the revision of the faith was defeated by a vote of 22 to 13. The Presbytery then voted to instruct its delegates to the General Conference to use their best efforts against revision. | _

A fire Tuesday morning destroyed the clothing store of Browning, King & Co., clothing, and damaged the stocks of N. B. Falconer, dry goods, Mrs. J. Benson, millinery, at Omaha. Loss $115,000; insurance $75,000. The steamer Mariposa, from Australia to San Francisco, brings particulars of “the Suetta, wrecked off the coast of Thurdan Island on March 1, One hundred and thirteen people were lost, eighty-three of whom were negroes. It is announced that the Michigan Cen tral Railroad has decided to put on a new limited vestibule train between New York and Chicago which will be the fastest train in the world. It will reduce the running time between the two oities to twenty-three hours. An agreement has been reached between the miners and operators of Pennsylvania. Both sides made concessions. The new rate is to be 70 and 79 cents, an advance of 5 cents over old prices for mining. It is probable corresponding prices will be fixed for Indiana, Illinois and West Virginia. The International American Conference wiH finish its labors this week, and the Pan-Americans will start on an excursion tour through the Southjat midnight Friday. The arrangements for the trip are similar to those made when the northern section of the country was visited last fall Detroit, Mich., was, Sunday, the scene of a horrible murder and suicide. Alex. Cuddy, aged sixty-two, killed his wife, aged thirty, with an ax, afid then hanged himself to a rafter. Ho left a letter addressed to the press, stating that he was Jealous of his wife, and thou ght it was best that they both die.

E. E. Craig, balloonist, was severely injured in an attempt to make a bolloon ascension and parachute drop at Topeka. \ strong wind was blowing and the balloon came in contact with a telegraph wire, throwing him out. He fell forty feet, striking head formost against a bug gy, receiving severe injuries. A Doniphan, Mo., dispatch says: Two of a gang of four masked Ku-Klux who vis Wed thft residence oi an old man here, n the 12th, for the purpose of whipping him, were killed by Holland's fourteen-year-old son. Ed. Gillam, jr., one of those killed, was the son of a prominent and

well-to-do farmer of that section. The Onto wood, bore an unenviable reputation. A letter from Saline, Kansas, asserts that Mrs. Laura M. Johnson, President of the Kansas State Woman Suffrage Association, contradicts the statements that '•comen are getting tired of voting at mu..icipal elections and are ceasing to vote says the facts are just the reverse; -hat women are steadily gaining influence' 2 nominations and elections, and will have full suffrage. •A strike of stoeet cleaners is on in Philtlcigkia» Tts SMutdkwawaß •WanVeii

on the 15th by a mob of women, the wives and sweethearts of the strikers. The women were having the beet of it until a solitary policeman appeared, fired his revolver tothe-air and corralled the whole lot Another similar event occurred in another part of the city. This squad of rioters was also captured. All the parties are Italians.

The most remarkable marriage that has occorred in West Virginia for years waß solemnized Saturday night at St. Mary’s. The groom was Samuel Shinn, aged ninety six, and the bride Mrs. Jane Patterson, aged fifty. The old man, after nearly a century of single life, has concluded to enjoy matrimonial happiness. In movement and speech he seems no older than the bride, ana give every indication of living many years.

Andrew Campbell, the well known inventor and manufacturer of printing presses, died in a Brooklyn ambulance on Sunday night, and his remains were removed’ to hie home at 677 Gates avenue, Brooklyn. Mr. Campbell had been at tacked by heart disease at the corner of Hart street and Summer avenue, a few minutes before his death. He was in his sixty-ninth year. He removed, in 1855, to Brooklyn, from Missouri, where he first engaged in business. Great suffering for want of food is reported from Logan county, W. Va. It has been impossible to get supplies into the interior parts of th 9 county. The Guyandotte River is the only means of communication, and push boats loaded with provisions, which left the mouth of the rivet two months ago, have not yet been able to get into the county on account of the frequent rises of the river. The roaW are" impassable and it isimpossible to haul ove r them. The starvation among the cattle is on the increase.

A dispatch from Oshkosh, Wis., says: President Albee, of the State Normal School here, has received a letter from One of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State concerning the recent Bible fie cision. In answer to thequesbions of Mr. Albee the Judge says that the decision prohibiting threading of the Bible in schools merely forbids its use as a special book for a specifically religious purpose. In other words, the Bible may be used in the a history or any other book, and as such may be read before the entire school,

Governor Stone has been notified of a horrible assassination in Laurence county, Miss. The stable ofJerry Bass,, colored, was set on fire by unknown parties, and when Bass and his son Charles came out of their house to extinguish the flames they were fired on in the darkness. The boy was killed and Bass badly wounded. Their dwelling-house was then burned to the ground. No clew to the identity of the murderers has yet been discovered. Todke statutory reward Governor Stone has added $906 for the capture and conviction of the fiends.

Miss Elsse-Standring, daughter of Leon»i ard Standring, of Decorah, lowa, a student* at Rockford, 111., female seminary, ten days ago visited a young lady friend at Laporte, and she was followed by the Chicago police, because her description answered that of Emma Starke, wanted for poisoning the Maxwell family. At Laporte she made the acquaintance of Chester N. Weaver, son of Hart L. Weav er, banker; it was love at first sight, and their marriage awas had at Chicago on I Saturday last, the girl returning to Rock } ford to resume her studies. The secret leaked out, however, and Mr. Weaver has claimed Lis bride. FOREIGN. Dom Pedro and the Prince of Wales are sick. Henry M. Stanley arrived in Paris on the 18th. London trades-unions are agitating eight hours for a day’s work. There is a rumor that on Stanley’s return toEn gland he will again become a British suDjeefc, resuming his hationality, which he relinquished twenty-five years ago in America. It is stated that the Queen is anxious to confer high honors on him, which would be impossible unless he again becomes a British subject. It is probable that Stanley will be appointed to a gov emorship in Africa, but not of Congo, It is considered now likely that some territory in British East Africa will be selected for him.