Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

mot have as patriotic an attraction on toe sth. Neither will the World's fair in 1898. Ignatius Donnelly has become what the schoolboy calls “sulky.” He haa .wholly abandoned his literary and political ambitions. Holding the world’s faiiHn 1898 instead of 1892 will deprive a great many the privilege of visiting it. The mortuary roll call must be -obeyed. The Italian faster, Succi, who is said to have abstained from food for over 160 days, is the attraction to the medical authorities in London now. Astbonomt teaches that the sun is * nearer to us in winter than in Summer. It is only a severe reverence for educational science that makes us accept it . The man probably 6poke, “full of sad experience,” who said, “A man is like an omnibus, when he is full of drinks he thinks there is room for one more.” "We know of no such stone As a black diamond.” says the -Chicago Herald queryman. He evidently never lived in the west and paid sl7 a ton for hard coal. An eastern belle took umbrage at the young man who declared his intention of going west to see the Cherokee strip] Disrobe would have, been more refining. . ■■ To prevent the siflell of cabbage permeating the house while boiling, place on the., stove a dish containing vinegar, or assafoetida, or onions,— either will do. Farmer Dalrepplh, of Dakota, has 30,000 aeres in wheat this season. Nothing Bhort of anarchy will ever enable the ten acre farmer to meet Anoh competition. In a cemetery near Detroit, Michigan, are the graves of three of the same woman—side by side. To think they should thus be kept continually in a row after death! A Pennsylvania hen killed a rat that was disturbing her brood. An old rooster watched from a safe distance till the rat was dead and then with a triumphant flap of wings, hopped to the top rail of the fence and crowed lustily. Now, that’s what we call a manly act Peru, judging from late dispatches, is still not much in advance of what jit was when Pizarro conquered and plundered it in the interest of civilization. More lives have been lost in one skirmish in a political campaign in Peru than sufficed to mark the overthrow of an empire in Brazil. 5 ■ = Senator Allison says the proudest moment of his life was when, as secretary of the National Republican Convention in 1860, he counted and proclaimed the votes which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President The chanoes are, Mr. Allison’s moments are just as proud over it now as they were at that moment An electrician, writing recently on the action of electricity on the human body, says that just what takes place in the human organization to produce death from an electric current seems to be an unsolved problem. One of the theories sometimes advanced concerning it is that when a being suffers death from electric shock it is a pure case of internal rupture or explosion from the generation of gas or vapor. A Washington man has discovered that tall, slender girls take to greyhounds and dogs of similar build, while short, plump girls are invariably Beeo on the streets with pug 3, poodles, imd canines of kindred shape. This is natural enough. It springs from the feminine love of symmetry. A short, podgy girl would appear doubly so by the side of a lean, long greyhound. A tall, tjiiu girl loading a pug would look like a broomstick. Lawybr Arman who recently died in San Diego sprang into fame in s singular way. He was defending a Chicago baker on a aharge of mnrdei by putting poison in his bread. The defense had in court a lot of the biscuit in which they claimed was the same kind of poison. Arman as s desperate resort seized and ate several of the condemned biscuits with zestful relish. Hia client was acquitted, and toe name of Arman was written high on the bar's escutcheon.

A Chicago architect has submitted a plan for the World's Fair building Id that city, which is somewhat noticeable. The World's Fair, if this plan is adopted, is to be compressed witfoii one building of a circular shape, ooutainlng an arm of 160 acres. In th« center of the building is to be an irot tower 1,492 feet in height, to mark tin year of the discovery of the net world. Thirty acres of plate glass an to be used in the construction of tin roof. The walls of the oiroular build lag are to be 60 feet la height, of brie! «r skma

Louisville carpenters struck.on toe 2d. At New York on toe Ist 2,987 emigrants landed. * It is atfnounoed that Sullivan will fight Jackson. - _ J „ The Qt tnois Steel Company has adopted profit sharing. Colored people in Oklahoma ore in a state of destitution. Red River, in Texas, Ik higher than it has been for forty years. .Peatractive prairie fires have been raging on the Sioux Reservation. Numerous warrants for illegal voting have been Issued in Chicago. An English syndicate has put $1,500,000 into Florida phosphate lands. The Ohio law regulating the sale of boras butter has gone into effect. John J. O’Brien, a well-known New York politician, died on the 28th. Spotted fever is epidemic at Fountainhead, faun., ten of the eleven cases being fatal. * The New York House of Representrtives voted on the Ist to abolish capital punishment. The regular session of the Ohio Legislature adjourned Monday morning tiU next January. Three million dollars’ worth of property in the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tenn., has been sold in the last ten days, mostly to New England people. Onejof the new war vessels of the United States Navy is named the Concord. It will help keep the peace. There were 171 railway accidents report ed in March, in whioh forty four persons were killed and 165 injured. Two bricklayers were fatally and eight seriously injured by the collapsing of a scaffold at Chicago, on the 80th. The steamer H. B, Plant, running on the St. John’s river, Florida, was burned, Tuesday, and three colored men were lost. A boat containing fourmen was capsized on thelake at Newport, .Vfct on’ the night :f the 28th, and three of the men were ; rowned.

Four convicts tried to break out of the •amp at Black Jack, Texas, Monday, and were fired on, one being killed and another fatally wounded. The Hartford City Cresent pulp and , .aper mills, of whioh Major Zollinger i one of tne proprietors, is turning out &),00 pounds of paper daily. Tho bill incorporating a company to build a bridge from Jersey City to New York, has become a law. The company’s capital will be $60,000,000. Alice Brown ended her life, Tuesday, by taking a dose of muriatic acid, in New York. Five minutes after her death she turned as black as a coal. Lyman J. Gage has been elected President, and Thomas B. Bryan and Potter Palmer First and Second Vice Presidents of the World’s Fair Directors. The school act of Manitoba, compelling all classes to patronize the national secular schools, has gone into effect. The Catholics oppose it strongly, The Fanners’ AUian ce of Missouri propose the erection of an immense elevator, in which to store their wheat until it can be sold for one dollar a bushel. The bathing season at Great Salt Lake opened, Monday, at Garfield beach, and 3ome 2,500 from the city went out to indulge in an invigorating dip in the water. The report that Mrs. Delia Parnell, mother of the Irish leader, was left in destitute circumstances, is denied by that ’■’dy in a card to a New York paper on the ■wtb. Much damage was done at Baltimore Sunday, by an extraordinary hail storm, some of the stones weighing a quarter of a pound. Thousands of windows were broken. s The visible supply of wheat and corn is respectively 23,953,268 and 14,326,030 bushels. Since last report wheat decreased 513,584 bushels and com has been reduced 8,520,476 bushels." - -— ~— " A train on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, bearing a company of actors, was wrecked near Staunton, Va., on the night of the 28th aud several members of the company were injured, one of them, an actress, being'killed. Secretary McCombs, of the Relief Committee of Seattle, which has in charge $35,000 remaining of the funds donated to Seattle after tho great June fire, is charged with haring embezzled a portion. Imperial army and navy contractors of Halifax are asking for a rebate on American beef used for the Imperial forces. British soldiers and sailors will not eat Canadian meat, and say it is not good enough.

Thieves stole a tray holding $5,000 worth of diamond rings on the Ist, from Miehie & Co., of Cincinnati. Two men who were looking at them ran away with them, but a third, who was trying to hold the door shut, was caught. Union and non-Union fishermen had a fight with rifles on the Columbia xiver Tuesday, because the latter sold fish at 75 centsApifece, 60 cents less than Union price. One of the non-union men was killed and two badly hart. Out of 198 Presbyteries* 137 have voted forarevislon of the Westminister confession, sixty-one against revision and five have not voted at all. Tltt,re are yet twenty Presbyteries to be heard from, nearly onehalf of which are in foreign lands. Rev. William Barnes, who preached the funeral sermon of Daniel Webster, died in Jacksonville, 111., on the Ist. Mr. Bamea was born in Ohio in 1816, and was a graduate «f the same class that numbered among (ts members Charles Sumner and Inward Everett. (Shicage strikers were augmented in numbers very materially on the 3d. All the iron molders, the planing mill men in great numbers and many coopers laid down their tools and made demand for the eight hour day.' The strike fever is spreading hourly, and many other trades will be involved very soon. The body of Mr. E. IX Walker,of Brooklyn, K. y, # editor of the Cosmopolitan Ifaisdhia. who lias been missing from Walden, H, CL, Since Saturday last, was found nestling mi the surface of the Roanoke live* at Weldon, Thursday morning. Evidently he had fatten in white Ashing <

as his hand grasped a broken rod. He was : a deep student of literature and a prolific writer. He wrote many poems that have favorably impressed competent critics. A jury was called in the oase sf C. W. Cook, of New Haven, arrested for per*, mitting a nickle-in-the-slot machine to dispense cigars' on' Sunday, and after twenty-four hours deliberation, Mr. Cook was fined one dollar and costs. Although the machine stood in front of his place of business, Mr.jGook claimed no pecuniary n terest and he will appeal. Kemmeler, the murderer, who waft to kSvebeen executed by electricity, probably on the 30th, was given a respite until the third Tuesday in JunerThe writ, was issued by Judge Wallace of the U.S.District of New York, and the proceedings are to determine the constitutionality of the law under which Kemmler is to be executed. Two of Dr, William St. Hitches’ horses were taken from their stable at Laurel' Del., Wednesday night and badly abused. A negro was arrested for the off ease and found guilty. The Presiding Justice gave the doctor permission to whip the negro. At the jail the offender was stripped. _and.. tied to a wagon wheel, when the owner oi the horses gave him sixty nine laShes, wearing the whip out. This is the first time the Delaware whipping law has been so construed. - -■ -j About two-thirds of the buildings of the Albany, N. Y., stock yards were destroyed by fire Thursday night. Tnere were no cattle in yards and the few hundred sheep were removed in safety. Six hundred and fifty tons of hay, belonging to P. L. Eastman and John B. Dutcher, lessees 'of the yards, were destroyed. The buildings belonged la the CentTal Hudson Railroad Company. Incendiarism was the cause. Total loss is roughly estimated at from $300,000 to $400,000,. partly covered by insurance. About ten acres were burned over. , Intelligence from Tongue River Agency give a discouraging account. -The Indians have not sent their children hack to school as they promised to do, and but very few have returned to their farms. The jwhile people are industrious in circulating reports and telling the Indians they will soon be removed to another location. The Indians say there is no use in planting crops if they are going to be sent away and compelled to leave them. There is much dissatisfaction among the deceived red men and many believe serious trouble will result from the uprising of the river Cheyennes.

FOREIGN. A tree exposition is London’s latest. The Princess of Wales's condition causes uneasiness. Cold weather has damaged the Egyptian cotton crop. The Spanish Senate has approved universal sufirage. An JSnglish syndicate wants all of Canada’s cotton mills. A Swedish woman suffering from leprosy was taken from the steamer Cipholoma, at Boston, Monday. Revolution has broken out in Paraguay. Several persons have been killed and many wounded. Telegraphic communication is interrupted, and the details that have been received are meager. The experiment with sugar-beet seed from central Germany and Bohemia has been very successful in Ontario, and a large acreage has been sown this year. The value of the product of one acre of the beet is equal to that of the product of four acres of any kind of grain.

The Pope is said to feel deep chagrin over the failure to establish regular diplomatic relations with England, for it is now conceded that Lord Salisbury’s government will take no step in that direction although desirous of maintaining friendly relations with the Vatican.j The Queen will receive Stanley at a special audience May 6, when it is expected her Majesty will confer a title upon the explorer.. .Every effort will be made.by the Government to secure Stanley’s ser’rices for England as an offset to the employment of Emin Pasha by Germany, A bill has been introduced in the Spanish Cortes prohibiting the employment of boys under ten and girls under twelve years of age. It also prohibits children of any age from beifig employed in mines, circusses or unhealthy industries. The maximum time of labor is fixed at five hours daily. On the arrival of the Japanese steamer in Hong Kong, March 26, from Nagasaki, the bodies of eight dead Japanese women were discovered in a hole between the kte : engine room and the hold, having been suffocated during the passage. T .ey had stowed themselves away with four other women and a male attendant, being desirous of leaving the country and not having official permission. The survivors were insensible and much emaciated.

The evolutions of the United States vessels of war in the Mediterranean have been observed with no little interest by the naval authorities of London, and regular reports have been received from British agents at the points where the squadron has been sojourning. Expert opinion is decidedly favorable to the American navy both as to skill in seamanship and effective equipment, and the tone of the English press, in alluding to the subject admit s this. Just atpresent much discontent is exhibited with tbe large expenditures and poor results in the royal navy, and the rage for sea-going leviathans and guns of remendous calibre has been greatly dampened. A dispatch from Turcouring, France, an extensive manufacturing town in the department of the North, states that serious trouble has broke out there. The hands employed in twenty -six mills at that place weht on a strike Friday morning, and grea crowds of men gathered about the streets to discuss theirgrievances. The crowd was augmented by a body of 5,000 strikers from Roubalx, another manufacturing town a short dlitanoe from Turcouring, who marched in a mass into the latter place and soon all hands began to show an ugly feeling) which culminated in serious riottny which was progressing at noon, tbe time the dispaten was sent Military reinforce menu have been summoned to aid tlx authorities in restoring order.