Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

* The United States Government ordinance works at Boston are to be reproved to East Chattanooga, Tenn. Over 500 Bkilted workmen are to be employed. Competition of cheap Southern iron forced the removal. Two receivers of stolen goods were given a good, healthy dose of medicine at Boston the other day. They were each sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary. The receiver of stolen goods is on a level with the thief and should have as severe punishment. ..1; . U'y . ''.:..^=rzr:-hx CL M. Bcrt and his bride, of Fairfield, Neb., arrived at Grand Island Junction, a few days ago, and tool; rooms Jit a hotel. The next morning Mrs. Burt was found dead in bed, ans the husband unconscious. You may believe it or not, in this newspaper age, but they had blown out the gas. Ice dealers at Indianapolis are in a combination and demand $1 per 100 for ice. It is an outrageous price, Jhiilu until relief comes from some source the consumer will be required to pay it. Probably some day there will be a reckoning, when Indianapolis dealers will not have a monopoly of ice—in fact there will be very little if any ice where they will be corraled. Andrew Shuman, editor of the Chicago Journal, and at. one time Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois, was on* of the best known editors in the country. He gave to his conservative publication such vigor and discretion as to place it higher than the average Journal of its kind. There was nothing sensational or shoddy about Mr. Shuman, and the world is better for bis having lived in it. Powdehly sees in the 75,000 idle men in California a force that wilL render abortive the eight hour movement; but there are not 75,000 idle men in California. After all the fuss in San Francisco, only about 1,000 men were found so much in need of work as to labor in the park. Tramp labor can not be relied upon to break the force of organized effort, as its very unreliability is the cause of it being tramp labor.

Stanley seems to be on the slate for the governorship of the Congo country. He is undoubtedly the best man that could be secured to subdue Central Africa and bring it under the dominion of England, but when he does it the 1 people of America will not be so proud' of him as they were when he went ia 1 Bearch of Livingstone, or even when he was seeking te rescue Emin—as was supposed. Even now his fame is tarnishpp under the electric light being cast upon his motives in undertaking his last expedition. ' ' '

The refusal of the Chicago Board of Trade to allow quotations to be furnished tiie bucket shops is proving the death of the latter “industry.” S. 8. Lloyd & Co. is one of the latest firms to go under. One is lead to wonder what constitutes the moral difference between dealing with the bucket shops and the regular board of trade, as the business of each is founded solely on margins, and not a bushel of grain or pound of meat is owned or handled by either. Candidly and honestly margin dealing is gambling, simply and purely, and ought not to be permitted.

The 4s-per-cent bonds now outstanding amount to $112,521,250 and the 4s aggregate $606,551,000, or a little over $719,000,000 in ajl. Practically speaking, this comprises all of the country’s indebtedness. It is all the debt which bears interest except the Pacific Railroad bonds, which are not, in the sense in which the 4Js and 4s are, an obligation of the Government. This debt is being reduced the rate pf more than $100,000,000 a year. If the revenues be not largely reduced in the interval the nation will enter the new century without a dollar of indebtedness. Jonathan Hutchinson attempt* to prove in the Friends’ Quarterly Examiner that a constant fish diet is conducive to leprosy. He arrives at this conclusion because investigation ha* disolosed that leprosy is indigneous to only sea-coasts or river or. lake towns. 'Mr. Hutchinson doesn’t know wbal part of the fish or what kind of fish contains the germ of the taint, but he thinks the fish of equatorial regions, are more likely to possess it th&n any other, and raw fish Is more dangerous than cooked fish. There 4s a large and phosporescent fissure In Mr. Jlutohinson’s theory which makes It •boost valueless.

Pittsburgh is enforcing the Sunday law. Kokomo was flooded by the heavy rain of the 11th. | -At Marion, 0., a horse was scared to 'death at sight of a traction engine. The, Republicans have renominated Governor Burleigh, of Maine, by acclamation. * The Sac and Fox Indians have signed the treaty ceding their lands to the Government. Chief Humphrey’s band of hostile In dians have been having a sun dance 100 miles from Pierre, S. Dak. W. L. Hemingway, late treasurer of Mississippi, was indicted by the grand jury for the alleged embezzlement of $315,612.19.

The B. & G. Railway Company have notified its employes that they must not ibecome intoxicated, under penalty of discharge. * A Fall River (Mass.) woman sold her four-year-old boy for $25 to a man who said he wanted to train him for a circus performer. Ex-Alderman James Pierson was fatally njured by an Erie train at Jersey City last might. Pierson was one of the boodle Aldermen of New York. Three Harvard seniors desecrated StPaul’s Roman Catholic Church, at Boston, by daubing words upon it. Harvard students seem to be a bad lot. Rev. Father Quigley, pastor of a Catholic church at Toledo, 0., was Jindicted by the grand jury on the 10th for neglecting to report pupils to the Board of Education. At a railroad crossing in Cleveland on the 13th, a freight train locomotive! crashed through one of the cars of a pas* senger train, injuring several people. No one killed. Word has been received from Lascruces N. M:, stating that not less than 100 deaths from smallpox have occurred there within the past few weeks, and that the disease is still raging.

One of -the—robbers of the Northern Pacific train (at New Salem) was captured on the 11th. Ho gave valuable information of the affair, and offered the Sheriff SI,OOO to release him. The National Typographical Union, in session at Atlanta, on the 11th decided to locate and maintain a home for aged printers, at Colorado Springs, Col. The work on the home will be begun at once. The principal business transacted at the Christian Endeavor Convention in St. Louis on the 18th was the receiving of the reportsfrom the different States, which showed the society flourishing with a large number of societies and big membership in each State and Canadian province.

Two freight trains collided just outside of Warrenton, Mo., Monday morning, and seven men were killed and several wounded. Both engines were completely wrecked and six palace cars demolished, with fifteen very fine-blooded horses. The scenes at the wreck were heartrending as the crushed and scalded and bruised were being rescued. Columbus, 0., is chaving an exciting time over a street car strike. The company endeavored to run their cars on Monday under police protection, but strkers filled the cars to overflowing and threw them into the gutter at the end of the trip, while the drivers and conductors barely escaped with their lives. The Mayor ordered the ccomjrany to run no more cars until the excitement had abated.

Wesley Harris, a farmer residing two miles east of Memphis, has a son James, with whom he can not get along amicably. In fact, the young man, on two different occasions, has attempted to take his aged father’s life. W4l nesday he became enraged, and, seizing a bludgeon, dealt the old man a blow across the face, breaking his nose and injuring one of bis eyes. The elder Harris says he is afraid to prosecute the boy for fear of being beaten. The ninth annual convention of the .Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor met at St. Louis on the 18th, neai ly hve thousand delegates being in attends ance. President F. E. Clark, D. D., in his address, stated that on June 1, 1890, there were recorded 11,013 societies, • with 660,000 members. Every month 17,000 persons had been added to their ranks, every week 4,000 young soldiers enlisted Seventy thousand have joined the churches of America from the Society. A shocking accident occurred at Oswego, N. Y., Tuesday evening. A horse attached to a buggy in which wore Miss Belle Mitchell, daughter of the Mayor, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Edward V. Mitchell became unmauageable and ran away. The ladies were thrown from the buggy and Miss Mitchell struck on the edge of the curbstone, crushing her skull, she survived hut a short time. Mrs. Mitchell was badly hurt. Miss Mitchell was to have been married in two weeks and the other lady •had just returned from her honeymoon. At Mason City, la., Judge John C. Sher win made a sweeping decision in the origi nal package injunction cases which have been pending for the past week, which is by far the severest blow at prohibition the State has yet received. In his decision the Judge finds that the defendants, as agents of importers, could occupy the building for the purposes of selling the beer in original packages to all persons except minors and habitual drunkards, and that such use would not constitute a nuisance, though the beer was drank on the premises by the purchasers and that the sales, although shipped by the cases,, were sales in original packages. He granted a temporary injunction restraining defendants from selling to minors and those in the habit of being intoxicated. A Miles City, Mont., dispatch of the 13th says: The attitude of the Cheyenne Indians continues to be menacing, though no overt act has occurred since the killing of Ferguson. Owing to the foot that the Indians have left their reservation and are ■scattered over the coun try in small parties, | settlers are thoroughly alarmed and are •sending women and children into town in •large numbers. Indian lookouts are on all high points and are constantly signalling fry mirror flashes and the blanket code, that there are to be outbreaks, and that are now “making medicine” which is generally accepted to mean that they are wain tig t* be Joined by allies from the

Standing Rock, Sioux and Pine Ridge Cheyennes, to whom messengers have been sent. The Northern Cheyennes of themselves only number about 200 bucks* At the Agency of the Rosebud, Major Carroll, of the First Cavalry, has chree troops of cavalry—about a hundred and forty men. Detachments of a troop of cavalry and three companies of infantry, 150 all told, left for Fort Keogh, Friday, to proceed up the Rosebud and co-operate with Carroll. Three companies more at Fort Keogh could be sent out, but there is ■ no transportation. In compliance with the request of the Sheriff of this county a hundred rifles and ten thousand rounds of ammunition arrived here Saturday in charge of Colonel Curtis, aide to Governor Toole.

FOREIGN. The municipal authorities Wednesday presented the freedom of the city of Edinburgh to Henry M. Stanley. . The most appalling accounts are received of the sufferings of the people in Upper Egypt and along the route of the expedition for the relief of Gordon. It is said that the inhabitants, driven desperate by starvation, feed on each other, while all kinds of animals, however loathsome, are eagerly sought for food. The wretched people fight with each other for morsels, and hundreds are perishing daily. Failure of crops is said to cause this awful misery. The Dublin Irish Catholic states that the Pope, in replying to the congratulations o* visitors at the Vatican, expressed himself as strongly of the belief that great punish, ment was impending on society for its disregard of and indifference to the church. “The Lord,” he said, “will come no longer with a sweet and peaceful face but with an angry one to strike and purify His church. lam neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I feel in my heart the presentiment. A sea of evil is about to beat against the rock on which the church is founded, and nothing will be seen on the horizon but the threat of the anger of God, -Prayer will not suffice to appease the Almighty.”c