Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

If a man could see himself as others see him he would pull down the blinds. Greece has been looking in vain for a. public executioner for six years. Ezra Leech,' a farmer - of Newton County, Miss., discovered SIO,OOO in gold while ditching in his held a few days ago. '

It is said that 80,000 strangers remain over in New York every night, furnishing plenty of business for the 125 hotels in the city. The salary of the infant King of Spain is $1,250,000 a year. Stacks of men in the United States would do the work for half the money. When Stanley’s bride begins to unpack her trunk at some of the summer resorts on the Congo the natives of the Dark Continent will make some startling discoveries themselves. They do not *’smile” nor ‘ irrigate” nor “take a snorter” any more in lowa and Kansas* They simply “absorb an original package.” Thanks to the decision of the U. S. Supreme Court.

The medical profTession has just learned that the only safe way to administer chloroform is to apply the sponge, when the patient is already asleep. Burglars have known this for a long time. ~ ~ —' -- It is said that fifteen years ago. the Spring was similar to the one this year, and that the crops harvested hen have never been equalled since. Farmers are, therefore, hopeful that a similar result may follow this year. It is a common sight in New York to see well-dressed men running or skipping the rope in Central Park, Exercise is the cheif aim of these simple diversons, which are practised mostly by brokers, lawyers and club men who are becoming stout.

“You shouldn’t find fault with my’tomper,” said she. “When wo were married, you know you took me for better or worse.” “I know that” was the reply, “but I had a hope of striking something like a general average.”—Washington Post.

David Dudley Field says there are now six problems before the American people: Honest government, woman "suffrage, the negro race, the rights of labor, the government of cities and the government of corporations. What about the tariff and the currency questions?

The liquor people who are particularly irritated at Sir Wilfred Lawson's denunciations of them in the English parliament have been having an amusing revenge upon him by sending letters in his name to wine merchants and brewers ordering prodigious quantities of liquors, presumably for the consumption of temperance BaronetsSir Wilfred has been kept busy refusing alcoholic consignments and has had publicly to repudiate his supposed backsliding.

A curiods fact came ou t at the meeting of the Actuarial Society of America the other day. It was shown by the reports of twenty-nine life insurance companies that the epidemic of “la grippe” cost them over a million dollars in the aggregate. The disease prevailed during the first quarter of V 181H). and the deaths in excess of the corresponding period in the previous year were about twenty thousand. Of course this is only a partial account, as many more persons who were not insured died of the disease than were insured. But even this death rate was little less than we have in any statistics of actual loss in war ••La Grippe” was thus a far more terrible visitation than was realized at the time. Dr. John F» Sherman, of New York, is endeavoring to annul his marriage with Matilda L. Stowell on the ground that he was not in possession of l}is faculties at tho time. He says he in a drunken stupor from the effects of beer which Matilda had purchased. He did not answer to the minister’s questions and the lattei ;took silence for consent. Matilda the ring, paid the minister, and when the minister asked them to join hands she leaned forward and took hold of John's hand. -She stood and John sat in a dazed condition during the ceremony. So John's brother «ays. j Of course, John claims he wasn’t awal*e of just what was going on. but he'll find it difficult to cohvincc ■a jury that he didn't slap the preacher ton the back and’ utter those familiar I words, "Zhaa allrite, ole nua zha lallvita T ahnv 11 wiu I|W| 4

The International base ball'league has oollapsed. The South Dakota Independents nom> inated a full ticket. Agnes Baldwin killed a man on her claim at Devil’s Lake, N. D. The actual reduction of the public debt in June was $30,685,726. Six men were killed in a collision at Bir» mingham, Ala, on the 9th. Four men were killed in a railroad acci*. dent near Memphis on the 9th; Three lives were lost by the capsizing of a tug on Lake Champlain on the Cth, ~ Win. Muldoon, in an interview, calls John L. Sullivan a coward and a liar. Missouri Republican ‘State Convention will be held at Jefferson City, Aug, 35. Buffalo shows up with only 350,133 population, and the citizens want a recount. At Doy’s Gap, Ala., Dr. John Monroe killed his four children and then committed suicide.

John Roth, a pauper in the County Hospi tal at Galena, 111., has eaten no food for eight weeks. The Cincinnati ice men met Tuesday and advanced the price of ice 15 cents per hundred and $2 per ton. A call has been issued for a State convention of Ohio farmers, to be held in Columbus, August 13.

The lottery bill passed the Louisiana House, notwithstanding the Governor’s veto—yeas 68, nays 81. , The Educational Association met at St. Paul on the 9th. There were from 12,000 to 15,000 teachers present.

Arkansas Republicans met at Little Rock bn the 9th and nominated -a State ticket. The administration was endorsed. The brewery of the Henry Miller Brewing Company at Philadelphia was damaged by fire this morning to the extent of SIOO,, 000. At Murphy, Ga., Charles Gould, while drunk, attempted to whip his wife- and was stabbed by her with a dagger and killed. Dr. Charles Barlow, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has fasted for forty*.five days, and has reduced his weight from 249 to 201 pounds. At Danbury, Conn., two men entered a jewelry store, overpowered the clerk and stole $9,000 worth of jewelry and diamonds and S7OO cash,.

A heavy wind and rain storm visited New Orleans on the 7th, doing great damage. The custom house was damaged very considerably. A Cleveland judge has decided that the ordinance; closing barber shops oh Sunday is not in conformity with the State law on Sunday labor. A wealthy Chinaman of San Francisco has purchased 15,000,000 acres of land on the isthmus of Tehauntepec, which he Fro. poses to oolcinize for China, A mob of strikers took possession of West Superior, Wis., on the 9th. The strikers attacked some men who were at work and two of them were badly injured. The refinery of the Southern Cotton Seed Oil Mills, near Atlanta, burned yes' terday. More than ‘200,000 gallons of oil were lost by the bursting of tanks. Loss, *IOO,OOO. A call has been issued for a negro Democratic National Convention to meet at At. lanta, Ga., some time in October, and take action on the Federal election bill now in Congress. Fire in the Sante Fe coal yards, at Ar gentine, Kan., Sunday, destroyed 300 tons of coal and two ice houses containing several hundred tons of ice. Loss, *15,009; fully insured. A fight has been begun in Chicago between the brewers of the English syndicarejfnd,those who refused to go into the combination. Beer has been cut to *3.50 a barrel_from *6. Ex-State Treasurer Archer came into court, at Baltimore, on the 7th, pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzlement of the funds of the State and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. An excursion train from Texas bound to Milwaukee, vas wrecked at Manteno, 111., on the Illinois Central on the morning of the 7th. Four passengers, members of the Knights of Pythias were killed. A cloud-burst in Richland County, Wis., destroyed four mill dams and wrecked an iron bridge at Eagle Mills. The St. Paul railroad was so badly damaged that traffic will be prevented for at least five days. Charles La Grange confessed at Hutchinson. Kas., Menaay, that he married first a woman at Sedgwick, Kas., and five days after married another woman at Hutchinson. He was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. t jvernor Nicholls vetoed, on the 7th, the Louisiana Lottery bill, taking occasion at the same time to denounce tho measure in strongest terms. lie declared thftif the bill should become a law ‘t would dishonor and degrade the State.

The striking cloak makers of New York are out of fund; and credit. There was but *13.15 in the treasury of tho union at noon of the {>th, and several hundred hungry mcr waiting for relief. The leaders express a determination to continue the fight for more wages. A special from Emporia, Kan., says the Farmeis’ Alliance and other kindred organizations united in one of the grandest demonstrations ever held in Emporia. The procession was five miles long, and 30,000 people were in attendance. No such turn out of farmers was ever before witnessed in this part of the State. The speakers arc L. L. Polk, President of tae National Alliance, Ralph Beaumont, arti other promi n*nt members.

Th«pr zes in the PytMan.contest at Milwaukee were awarded on the 11th. The Hastings, Mich., division received first prize of *1.000; Erie, Kan , division, second, t 800; Amsterdam, N. Y„ division, third, *600; New Albany, Ird., division, fourth, I50C; Grand Rapids, Mich., division, fifth, *4OO, Fort Beat born (Cfilcago) division, slt?A *POO, Many ( Indianapolis) division, so«sntk. t’JOo, and Red Cross (St. Louis) eUrbth. *lcJ.

Che.rie Cooyes. Lruise, Dora and Kay Delaware, Louise Bacar and Hattie Thom son, of Seuth Hartn, sta-tod from home "une 25 foe a trp by row-boat ,to South Bend, taking ••-amping out equipage and doing tfcolr ow n rowing. The journey included twesrv nifies along the Michigan '.ahe start sod a pell for fifty-five miles up

the St. Joe River, with several dams and rapids to surmount. The.-young ladies arrived at their destination on Saturday. A fatal riot occurred at a picnic at Starr’s mill pond, in Fayette county, Georgia, Thursday, in which four negros were killed and six wounded. Eight white men were shot also. A negro selling wine on the oc» casion became engaged id a war of words with a white man about the purchase of some, wine, which resulted in the negro getting slightly, cut. From this the quarrel began and was taken up by others, until the White man became involved with a negro who had a gun, but who -did not care to use it. * The Virginia Republican State committee, in accordance with a determination arrived at in a meeting held at Chamberlain’s Wednesday, passed resolutions declaring that they will not participate and advising all self-respecting Republicans to forbear participation in any election in the State where and so long as the same shall be conducted under the foul election law of the Democratic party as now fraudulent administered, hopefully biding the time when unlawful disfranchisement of the electors and fraudulent returns shall become repugnant io popular sentiment. In deference, and only in deference, to what may be wished in some districts, authority is delegated to every congressional committee to call conventions if it desires to do so.

FOREIGN. A portion of the letter-carriers of London aieona strike. The Turkish government has sent a new note to the British government demanding that it fix a date upon which Egypt will be evacuated by the British troops with - out the right of again occupying that country. A terrible conflagration has occurred at Wassiljervo, Russia, by which 329 dwellings were destroyed and seven persons were burned tQ death. The fire was started by a spark from the pipe of a drunken laborer who was himself burned to death. Fort de France, on the Island of Mars Unique, was totally destroyed by fire on the 10th. Loss $3,000,000. The houses de. stroyed number 1700, and seven-eights of the people are homeless. The number of lives lost is very great, twelve bodies having been taken from the ruins up to this writing.

A terrific cyclone prevailed at Muscat, India, Tuesday,and in the adjacent country Great damage was done in the city and surrounding country. Many houses both here and on the plantations were demolished. The loss of life was appalling. Reports thus far received show that over 700 persons were killed.

Prince TJismarck, in an interview published by the Frankfort Journal, says that, he would not have signed the Aoglo-Ger-man agreement in its present form. The ex-Cbancellor holds that Heliogoland, which the Emperor wished to secure to Germany, might have been obtained at less cost. Unless the island is strongly fortified. he says, it might prove a danger to Germany in the event of war.

A Victoria (B. C.) special of the Bth, says: For many months the only British war ship in Esquimault has been H. M. S Amphion. But now all is changed, as i by magic. The Champion suddenly steamed into Esquimault, closely followed by the Daphne, Nymphe and Espiegle, all smart sloops of war. These ships are entering dry dock one or two at a time, receiving scraping, painting, overhauling and taking on supplies, coal, provisions, ammunition and other articles requisite for extended cruises.

It is rumored that within the past week the Spencer, Winchester and Remington arms companies have received large orders for small arms from Honduras and Guatemala, and Salvador has been buying a considerable quantity of powder from the Vulcan Powder Company, of San Francisco. Salvador, only a short time Defore President Menendez’s death, received, through Don J. J Palma, ten thousand stands of English rifles, imported via the Island of Jamaica. These arms were never unlocked during the presidency of Menendez. General Ezeta is now distributing those arms amongst the people of Salvador, and has ordered of a Connecticut cartridge manufacturing company some two million rounds of ammunition.