Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Chattanooga is out Ojf ice. A Columbus IQ,) woman was killed in try>jg to save her dog from death under a train. . .

Sle.mer war lias reduced the “fare and food’’ between Louisville and Cincinnati toll; Ex-Senator Palmer was chosen President'of the World's Fair Commission on the 27 til. A"/ "a: . Only seven delegates Attended to the National Convention of Colored Men at Chicago. Chauncy ML Depew will probably be made President of the World’s Fair Commission. Mr. Connell, of Nebraska, introduced a bill in the House on the 27th to pension all ex-slaves.

A strike among in in era in Michigan wilt probably be settled by u 10 per cent, in, crease in wages. . Pleasanton, a.&own of 200 inhabitants.in Nebraska, was wiped out by a cyclone Sunday afternoon. . y Four murderers were legally hanged, at Memphis, on the 24th. Three of the::: colored and one white Hon. Geo. W. McCrary, Secretary of War under President Hayes, died at St. Joseph. Mo., on t lie 24th. The Illinois Central railroad strike was ended on the27th, the men making a coin piete surrender to the company. in a sermon at St. Louis Mrs. Woodward the evangelist, denounced that’ city As tlie wickedest place she had ever seen. The wholesale liquor dealers’ association threatens to establish distilleries because of dissatisfaction with the whisky trust. The Eastern Building and Loan-Associa-tion of Philadelphia is proved unreliable and has been.,d ying a bogus business in the

west. A tug-boat was blown to pieces at Brooklyn on the morning of the 24th, and the ciew, of four hands, who were asleep, were all killeo. At last, Tascott, the murderer of BagfißE Snell, of Chicago, man.v months ago, was captured in Arkansas on the 27 th. He was fully identified. * Chicago claims second place iu the list of cities of the United State, the recent census showing a population considerably over enemiliiou. Ex-President Hayes delivered an address on pensions before the G. A. R. of Kansas on the 27th. Gen. Alger was also among tho speakers. A bad Indian, a'. Niagara Falls, stabbed a man six times in tbe fore part of the body, once in the back, and then cut the veins of his .imbs to insure death. _ A general stoppage of building operas tions will probably occur in Boston because of the resolve of union men to refuse all material handled by non-union men. -_The Btrike_on the, Illinois Central, resulting in the refusal of the company to receive perishable freight may do great damage to the raspberry shippers near Anna, 111. New York claims 1,627,227; Cincinnatj 310,000; Philadelphia, 1,040,440; 417,720; and Indianapolis 125,000, including "suburbs, as the result gt the completion of their census. If New York faiies to raise the money for the Grant monument by Sept. 1, a number of ex-con federates propose to raise the amount by subscriptions, exclusively from southerners. Carl Schurz and others organized at New York,] on the 25th, a citizen’s political movement “for the purification of local politics and to kill the blighting influence pf Tammany Hnll, H Ex-President John Baebn, of the Wisconsin University, now of \Villiamston,Mass., unmercifully criticised the Wisconsin courts for their decision excluding the Bibie from the public schools. George Bid well, who served seventeen years of a life sentence for participation iu a conspiracy to defraud the Bank of England of .£1,000,003 in 1873, now out on a ticket to leave, is in Cincinnati. The New York Court of Appeals handed down a decision on the 24th, confirming the decisions in the lower courts in reference to the sugar trust. The trust, under this decision, is dissolved. The grant monopoiy thereby receiving its death blow. Minnesota Prohibitionists nominated a State ticket on the 25th and adopted a platform declaring for the total annihilation of the liquor traffic, for the election of United States Senators and President and Vice-President oy a direct vote of the people. ' * -

The great running race between Salvator and Tenney came off at Shecphead Bay, N. Y.,,0n the 25th. It was a magnificent performance, iti which Salvator won by a very short head. The running record was lowered seconds, the actual time being 2:05. Discovery of extensive robberi es of mail while in transit between Council Bluffs and Davenport, la., was made some time ago, and two railroad employes at Wyandotte Junction have been arrested. The face value of the mail matter lost is over ball a million. The Back Bay, Boston, was scandalized and sensationalized on the 24th, by a lady appearing on the street astride (mans fashion) of a big bay horse. Her carriage was good and she managed her charger in good style. The woman was well dressed and good looking.

Dr. Emma It. Boulton, of Bourbon, has had a remarkable marital experience, havng been married eleven times. She is now aged fifty.four, and is a woman of great beauty and personal accomplish' ments. AH but one of her husbands died, or were killed by accident. A strike of freight conductors, switchmen and brakemen began on the Illinois Central, at Chicago, on the 04th, and threatens to become serious. Dissatisfacs tion with the new management is given as the cause of the strike. Conferences are being held, hut up to this time with no res suits. “Col.*"’ Joe Leppel, a midget, 53 years old, 46 inches high, and weighing sixty pounds, was elected to the city council of Springfield,O., on the24th, to fill a vacancy. He is probably the smallest offlee-he'der in the country. He is'a Republican and defeated a very popular Democrat by 120 votes. Ho has exhibited himself all over the country in the past. Last night Constantine, Mich., Henry Harvey,prominent in church and business

circles, was fatally shot by his wife while asleep. The couple had never lived happily together, and their whole life has been a series of high-toned family scrambles. They separated a couple of years ago but were brought together again through the efforts of the wife’s parents.. Rain-inthe-Faee, a noted Sioux chief, ranking next to Sitting Bull in renown and made prominent through the Custer massacre in Montana,-Is lying at Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota, dangerously wounded. Unless a change for the better soon takes place he will die. The chief was stabbed in the chest and side by a squaw, a handsome young woman, whom he had negleeted for another woman, lowa Republicans nominated a Btate ticket «n the 25tli. The platlarm favors an expanslon.of the currency, on dorses the administration, and reaffirms laith iu protection. Further planks congratulated the people of lowa on their legal -control over the railroads, expressed sympathy for the farmers' revolt against Democratic tyranny in the South, declared sigatnstTrßsrr and favored original -package legislation by Congress.

Pennsylvania Republicans held a harmonious convention at Harrisburg on the 25tb and-nominated George W. Delamater lor Governor on the second baiiot. The platform congratulated the country upon the victory of ISN>, commended Senator Quay, favored a federal election. biil r pronounced pensions, indorsed the McKinley bill,'reaffirmed the doc trine of protection, asked Congress for original package legislation, promised an equitable readjustment of State taxation, demands an increase of the currency of the country, and endorses the present administration and the course of Speaker Reed Illinois Republicans met at Springfield on the 24th and nominated a State ticket, Franz Amburg, of Chicago, was nominated for State Treasurer. C. J. Neely and W. A. Mansfield, of Cook county, and Charles Bennett, of Coles county, were nominated for trustees of the State University. The platform favors the Australian ballot system an iTafeddraj election law. Pronounces against trusts, commends the enforcement of the civil service law, and approves the disability pension bill, declares in favor of a compulsory educational law, and endorses and approves the administration of President Harrison and the course pursued by Speaker Reed.

The North American Turnerbund continued its session at New York on the 25th It was decided to build a turner lialle at Milwaukee, VVis.. on ground presented by two Milwaukee ladies. The hall will cost $60,001. The convention decided to publish in English a book of reference for the guidance of Turner teachers in public schools, also to publish iu the same language a pamphlet setting forth the objects of the society. By a unanimous vote the convention indorsed the platform of the Personal Rights League, and resolved that the Turners* of the United States shall join its ranks and actively participate in its policy of political and general reform More people aro going to Europe this year than ever before. During the month of June, so far, more- than 5,000 passports have been asked for, and it is estimated that less than 10 per cent, who go abroad ask for them. Only those who travel for the first time in Europe think they need them. Those who go regularly, or frequently, to Europe never ask for them, nor are they carried by mcreb it Is tr it business men who run over to the othe side two or three times a year. There is one class of citizens who never go across without a passport, and these are German who intend to visit the fatherland. The need them for fear they may find them necessary to avoid being gobbled up for military service.

The lottery bill passed the Louisiana House on the 25th by a big majority. The bill provided tor the submission to the electors of the State, for adoption or rejection, an amendment to the Constitution of the State by inserting therein an article on levees, schools, charities, pensions, drainage and lotteries, embodying a con tract with John A. Morris and associates, by which they agree to pay the State of Louisiana $1,000,000 per annum for lottery privileges for twenty-five years from January 1,1894, and providing that the money paid to the State shall be expended as follows, per annum: Fot' levees, $350,000; drainage in tlie city of New Orleans - $100,000; public schools, $350,000; charities and pensions, $200,000.

Tte Sixth International Sunday-sqhool Convention-assembled at PiPsbug, on the 24th, with 1,200 delegates presen- . Every State and Territory was represented. This convention is the most important e \ ?f held ip Pittsburg. The delegates repre sented 112,897 Sunday-schools, with 1,178,301 teachers and 9,149,997 scholars. Every evangelical Protestant denomination in the United States and Territories and British provinces is represented. Its object is three-fold. First, for the promotion and increase of Sunday-school work until every child in the vast territory represented is raached. Second, to improve the quality of the Sunday-school and to suggest and devise new and better methods of reaching and teaching the children, and third, to furnish the world with uniform Sundayschool lessons. *, i

The Farmers’ Alliance is alter Axtell. They delegated one of their number to appear before, the Vigo County Board of Equalization and demanded that the great stallion be assessed at $T5,000. Mr. Ijams, part owner of Axtcl). listed him at SIOO, as he did Jersey Wilkes and thirty-eight finebred mares. The township assessor res ported Axtell at $75,000. Before the Board the representativcsof the Alliance declared that Axtell cost $105,000; that he cot • not now be bought from his present owners for a less sum, and that he earned $40,000 this season, and is, therefore, a good in vestment. They insist that the law requires property to be assessed accprding to its cash value, and say that $75,000 would be no higher assessment of Axtell, according to hi 9 value, than is paid by all farmers of Vigo county on what they own. After several ballots the Board assessed Axtell at $3,000 and Jersey Wilkes at $3,000. FOREIGN. Cholera has appeared in Spain. I Sara Bernhardt, the actress, took a dose : of chlorai ou the night of the 24th, on ac-

count of insomnia, but by accident took an overdose and narrowly escaped ’death. The province of Tripoli,. Africa, is being devastated by locusts. The decomposed bodies of the insects fill the wells, infect ing the water and rendering it unfat for use. •Premier Mereier, the apostle of the Ultramontane and the hope of the French race, has been returned to the head of the Government, in Quebec. Canada, by an overwhelming majority. ... Congress having amended the tariff bill, reducing the duty oti lumber to 11 per thousand feet, board measurement, the Canadian Government in return, Wiif remove the export duty on saw-logs. Brazil is preparing for self-government, and the new constitution is ready to he acted on by the Assembly. The Amerieafi system of a responsible executive has been adopted. The first election of tbe President will be in November next, lie holding office for six years. __

it 18 Stated on good authoritY that tin' Freiicli governinent rcoenUy made an of.ci of §100,000; to the American inventors of smokeless powder, for the secret of The manufacture of that explosive. The sum was large, but the offer could not be entertained, as the secret had been sold to the Italian government only a short time previously for an amount somewhat smaller.

Kt. Rev. John Lancaster Spalding, Catholic Bishop, in his address during the commencement exercises of Notre Dame -University, advocated the higher education of women, and equal pay with man, and insisted that the present position of women was a relic of barbarism. He also condemned the saloon as a barbarous relic and predicted that the time would come when it would have to go. His views were applauded by a distinguished audience. Mr. Menendez, President of San Salvador, died suddenly on the 24th, soon after the conclusion of a banquet given on the occasion of the. fifth anuiversy of the entrance of General Menendez into San Salvador, and the defeat of the Zaldivar faction. During the panic caused by the President’s death, General Mareial and several other officers were killed at the barracks. General Carlos Ezeta, tho leader of the forces, is now in command.