Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Rev. Dr. Temple, Bishop of London, drinks enormous quantities of strong tea. George Augustus Sal a, the journalist, is reported to have declined an offer of knighthood from Queen Victoria. Aram Pasha, the Egyptian patriot, complains that his incarceration at Ceylon is killing him. * The climate is too damp, and he is tortured with rheumatism. * Ernest Schilling, the coachman who once achieved notoriety by his marriage with Victoria Morosini, is earning his living as a painter at Stein way, L. I.

The Prince of Wales gave more than his mother for the Johnstown sufferers. She sent her sympathy. He bought two tickets to Buffalo Bill’s benefit performance. Ex-Minister Phelps has written to the faculty of the Yale law school saying that he will be on hand at the opening of the college year to instruct the classes in equity and evidence. Gen. Butler is set down on the Colby University commencement programme for the anniversary oration on July 2. It is just fifty-one years since the general was graduated from that sterling old Baptist college.

Martin Irons, the once powerful labor leader in Missouri, who sent word to General Manager Hoxie that he didn’t have time to see him, is now —dirty and half clothed—running a shabby little fruit stand in St Louis. Mrs. E. D. E. N. Sputhworth, who has written seventy-nine stories and novels, and earned over SIOO,OOO by her pen, thinks she might have aided mankind in general far more by writing some sweet ballad without charge. Bronson Howard, the dramatist is subject to literary moods. He has learned by experience that work he produces when he is not under inspiration is practically of no value. He is a great smoker, and often finds that by lighting a cigar he can at the same time start the fire of his genius.

Prints Albert Victor, oldest son of the Prince of Wales, is to be sent to India to divert his mind from his disappointment at the failure of his love affair with the Princess Victoria of Teck. He will visit princes who have too many wives, and may thus become reconciled to the fact that he has none. _____ Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., has again made his appearance in Wall street, his identity being concealel from the general public in the “Co.” attached to the name of a small stock brokerage firm. During his mothers absence in Europe young Ulysses and family occupy her elegant mansion in the aristocratic West End of New York.

Prop. Moses Core Tyler and family are now in London, England. In a letter to his brother,Maj. John M. Tyler, the professor says: “We find London an inexhaustible fountain of fascination. lam doing work every morning in the liabrary of the British Museum and then have my afternoons and evenings for running about” Prof. Tyler’s health is good and he thinks he shall return to his work better fitted to do it thap he has ever been before.

Ex-United States Surgeon-Gen-eral Hammond says he recently ordered a bottle of wine at dinner in a Rhode Island hotel and was told by the waiter a physician’s prescription would be required. “That’s easily obtained,” he replied, and gave him this: “R.— Vini Champani, 82z William A. Hammond, H. D.” “I succeeded in getting that wine without any further difficulty,” he added, “and as many more bottles as 1 desired."

Theodore Roosevelt recently astonished the scientists in the Cosmos club of Washington by putting together correctly the skeletons of animals long sinoe extinct, and describing their appearance, habits, and natures. The host of the evening, a man of mature years, who has spent a large portion ot his lifetime in a study of these animals, was completely surprised at Mr. Roosevelt's knowledge of th&n. and said to his guests that the possession of such expert knowledge in such a young qian was remarkable. Lord Granville, the liberal loader in the house of lords, recently strayed into the tory Carlton club and sat down leisurely to read a newspaper. A conservative member ventured oe an expression of pleasure at seeing Granville so much at home. “Why shouldn’t Ibe hereP” asked his lordship. “This is the Reform club, is it not?” But a glance around the room convinced him that he had blundered and then, disregarding the eager invitations extended to him to remain, "he hurriedly made his way out of the enemy's quarters. Tbe error vUs a carious one, seeing that the clubs are so muoh unlike in their structural arrangement*. ■

Cincinnati has 2,029 saloons. There’s an epidemic of mad dogs around Briedis, la. An oil well at Rising Sun, 0., is Punning a barrel a minute. All the prisoners in jail atSt-Clairsville, 0., escaped on Sunday. A melon syndicate Was formed at Atlanta, Ga., on the 26th. The Presbyterian General Assembly on he26th, appointed a committee on revision. Twenty-seven cities and towns have ?iveu the eight-hour system to 23,355 car penters. George Francis Train went around the world in 67 daya, 13 hours, 3 minutes, 3 seconds. • > The Knights of Pythias of Ohio have adopted a law refusing saloon keepers admission to the order. Hundreds of acres of fine tobacco were destroyed by the storm in nortnern Kens tnoky Saturday night. Mrs. D. A. Pruin. Herrick Falls, N. Y., is dead. The druggist gave her powdered opium instead of ipecac. The hrst barley of the season was harvested at Tulare, Cal., on the 23d. The first wheat was marketed May 18th.' Kilrain, arrested in Mississippi for his “mill” with Sullivan, has served out his term of imprisonment and has returned north. A vote in the Louisiana legislature indl cated the strength of the lottery faction to be fifty-three in a house of ninety-eight members. Mrs. Wm. Pfaelin and her twelve children, half of whom were twins, arrived at New York Saturday; on her way to join her husband at Fort City, Pa. It is reported that the late. Chicago striking carpenters have received information which will put some of the bosses into jail for importing contract laborers during tb.e strike. A man under arrest at Clayton, Mo., confessed that he is the man who, about a year ago, made President Moffat, of the l irst National Bank of Denver, give up $20,000 at the point of a pistol. Chicago has |another Cronin sensation. A man’s body was found in a catch -basin Tuesday morning. Wagon tracks were found leading to the basin, and a box cover in the vicinity was also discovered. The first day’B session r of the snb-com-mitteee on investigation held at Chicago on the 24th, developed the fact that nearly all the miners at Spring Valley,' 111., were foreigners, most of them coming thero in violation of the contract labor law. The John Charles Block in Lucas, six miles east of Mansfield,O., was struck by lightning and a large number of people were killed or injured by the explosion of dynamite in a hardware store. The killed are John Smith, aged fifty-five, and Jeremiah Jones, aged fifty. —— ■ Hundreds could not get into the big armory in New York, Saturday evening, on the occasion of the Fair in aid of the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary. Mrs. Grover Cleveland was there selling roses at $1 a piece, and the roses were called for faster than she could hand them out

The Atlantas, the crack New York eight were easily beaten by the Yale crew at New Haven on Saturday, even though the latter lost their Cap ( tain and stroke after the first mile and a half, breaking his oar and tumbling over the boat into the water leaving his boys to finish without him. This is the first defeat ever suffered by the Atlanta crew. The lowa Indians on the 28th formally accepted the offer of the Govcrnmeut made through the Cherokee Commission to sell their lands to the United States for 51. 25 per acre, after having received in severalty eighty acres per capita; After the Indians have been allotted their land in severalty there will remain 221,618 acres to become publicdomain. An important decision has been handed down by the Albany <N. Y.) Supreme Court. During the strike of ISBB, Luke Cox was one of those engaged to take the p_ace of the striking employes of the Albany Brewing Company,being put under a verbal agreement to work for one year. Afterwards, when the strike was settled, he was discharged, and sued for wages for he balance of the year. Judgment was in his favor. A New York Sheriff’s jury found a verdict of SIO,OOO against Francis K. Harte the son of Bert Harte, the writer* in a suit by James Smith for damages for the alienation of the effections of his wife, Eleve B. Smith. The suit had been already tried in the Supreme Court, where judgment by default was rendered, Harte failing to appear.. The Judge ordered damages to be assessed hy the Sheriff’s Jury. The verdict was for the full amount olauped. TOle German Catholics in their General Assembly at Milwaukee passed resolutions condemning the Bennet law and pledgingl themselves to vote -for such candidates only as will work for its repeal. They declare it violates the divine and natural law that parents are bound to educate Seir children and have therefore the right seleot such schools as they may consider will best promote the welfare of their children, that it curtails their religious iberty and that as they m ike no claim to the State for the support of their parochian and private schools, they deny the right of the State to exercise any cont rol over their schools. There is great excitement and fear of insurrection among . the negroes of Sixmile Station, a suburb of Birmingham, Ala. Three negro women were terribly whipped by masked men. a few days since for alleged rudeness to white girls, this rudeness consisting of their refusal to give way on the sidewalk to the young ladies, who were out for; a stroll. The women were dragged from their beds by the mob and were terriblo eowhided. Tho entire colored population resent this action and bloodshed may follow. During the discussion of the common school measure at Frankfort, Ky., Saturday, Representative Corper, a Catholic, rushed down the aisle, grabbed tho Speaker, and attempted to drag him from the chair, beating him furiously at the same time. Other members became greats ly enraged and wore barely prevented from killing Oorper. The affair caused a tremendous sensation. Corper do dared

that the common schools ought to b* damned In hell so deep the sunlight coulc not reach them in 10,000 years. Earnest Kock, nineteen years old, th< son of a brick: ayerof Springfield, Ill„ ivashot and instantly killed Tuesday night b\ Policeman Laurer. Kock was one of a crowd of boys raising a disturbance and the officer arrested him and followed by the crowd went to the box to call the patrol. Kock.took advantage of his temporary release and started to run. The officer commanded him to kept on running, whereupon the officer pulled his revolver and shot the young man through the brain. The officer gave himself up. A dispatch from Catlin, 111., says: The wife of Alderman Sam Swartz, of Philo, near here, has become violently insane over religion. For some time she has been a constant attendant of the meetings of the Pentecost band, and Sunday night, while at the Methodist ehurch, at that place, shesuddenly arose, and, holding her babe aloft, saM she intended [offering it as a sacrifice for the sins of that church Several persons interfered and prevented her carrying out her intention. The 4 citizens are very indignant, and an effort is being made to compel the Pentecost people to leave town. Three big ocean flyers hurried into New York harbor Sunday evening, after a race of 3,000 miles from Queenstown. They were the City of Rome, Anchor Line, Alaska, Guion Line and Aurania,* Cunard Line. The giant City of Rome won, vanquishing the Aurania by only thlrty-nihe minutes and the Alaska, once the proud bearer of the ocean rec6rd[by more than two hours. Nopaof the racers were ever in sight of another after leaving Queenstown. They were run at top speed, and all made much better time than they usually make at this season, when the low lying ice compels them to take long southerly courses. The City of Rome beat the Aurania by making a shorter course across the Atlantic rather than by showing superior speed. The Aurania covered 2,885 miles, or sev ent.y-four more than the Anchor line. The Supreme Court of Maine, Thursday, announced a Unanimous decision in the noted Burns liquor case, reversing the decision of the lower oourt, which convicted Burns under the statutes. Burns, several years ago, opened in Augusta an “original package” business, selling only liquors, however, that were imported from the provinces or other countries, claiming that the State hadno rigfat.un der the United States Constitution, to interfere with his business. □ The case has been carried up step oby step, until it is now decided in Burns’s favor. The oourt says in part: “The lowa case just decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, clearly settles the question. We are bound by that decision to reverse the ruling below, and to sustain the law as contended for by the respondent. The minority opinion in the lowa case is elaborate and commends itself to many as containing the better conclusion. Our obedience is due to the judgment cwhich prevails. Our statute prohibits only unlawful sales. Its interpretation must be constitutional.”

FOREIGN. * Havana, Cuba, is in the hands cf outlaws and murders and incendiary fires are daily occurrences. Report has just been received of the wreck of the steamship Oneida in Behring Sea. Seventy-seven Chinamen were drowned on the way to the canning factories. The magistrates of the courts of Belgium recently demanded increased remuneration and backed their claims with a strike. The workingmen of the town enjoyed the occasion. Severe storms, followed by floods, are reported in various parts of Germany. At Alvensleber a house was undermined by water, and sixteen of the occupants were drowned. At Suplinger five persons were killed by lightning. The Germans, not satisfied with their acl ieviments in East Africa, are endeavoring to gain a foothold in Morocco, and are conducting quiet negotiations with the Sultan to that end. The news has created muqh feeling in France and Spain. The village of Repahie, in Armenia, has been destroyed by an earthquake. A number of mineral springs spouted from the crevices made in the earth by the shocks, and the flow of water was so great that the adjacent fields were flooded. The earthquake was preceded by rumblings which caused the inhabitants to flee from the village, and they thus esoaped death from the falling houses. No lives were lost whatever. The police of Paris recently received information that a number of Nihilists were organizing a plot against the Czar in France. The information was followed up, and the result was that the fifteen persons charged with being implicated in the plot have been arrested. A number of incriminating documents were seized at the lodgings of the leader in the plot—a Nihilist named Mendelsohn. A quantity of oxplosives was also seized at his residence. The French government is sounding o‘her European States in regard to an international movement against Anarchists, the object substantially being a mutual agreement nmong the nations of Europe and of America also, if they cfljn be induced to join, to deliver up all persoas guilty of anarchist violence, and to spare no effort to suppress such offenders. In this respect the French and Germans are for once agreed, the French ministry expressing accord with the views of the German Emperor that if tbc condition of the common people is to be improved anarchy must be extinguished. President Diaz, speaking of the filibustering movement in Lower California says that he placed little importance in the movement: He knew that the United States government would hot allow neutrality to be violated and the Mexican government would protect her territory. It has sufficient forces in Lower California to repel any invaders. The Secretary of the Interior, Emanuel Romero Rubio, says that a,) statements that tjie natives in Lower California are in league with Um filibusters are false, and he has ad vie 2 that the natives are ready to operate against any Invaders. 1