Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

And now the political band begin* •to play. Who wouldn’t be a free-borq lAm erican citizen in such times aa these. Father Muller, of the Jusuits, at Malgere, India, Qlaims to have cured several lepers by the Count Mette system. The New York World tells it s read, era ••What to Wear When Bathing.” Years ago bathing apparel consisted wholly of •‘a smile and a button-hole bouquet” and there was jolly good fun then too, R. A. King, of Jackson. Tenn., was oonvicted and fined $75 for working on the Sabbath. He is a Seventh Day Adventist and keeps Saturday as the Sabbath, and has appealed the case to the Supreme Court. Miss Minnie Stomeb, of Chicago, having quarreled with her husband threw herself into the lake. But when she had risen from the depths after her jump and saw a man on the pier she scried out to him: “Oh, save me. save me, please!” cried the drowning woman. “I don't want to die. I have changed my mind.”

The committee receiving subscrip tions for the erection of a home for Archbishop Kenrick, of St. Louis, has received SIO,OOO more than asked for and in order to allow other persons to contribute to the fund the of many contributors were cut down. Still New York asks Congress for $250 , M 0 to help her erect a monument to General Grant. Sergt. Dunn, of the Stgnal Service Corps, says that our climate is changing in the respect that the winters are growing warmer and that there is more coolness in the summer. He attributes the change to the shifting of the general course of the storms, and declares, furthermore, that irrigation is a powerful influence in thus sending the storms in new directions. His opinion is not conclusive, of course; but he presents it in a very plausible way, and the scientists would do well to give it respectful attention.

The railway mileage of the world runs up into big figures. A German journal makes it 357,400 miles an increase of 64,000 miles within the last five years. In Europe there are 133,000 miles, in America, 190,000. and in Africa the Dark Continent, 5,200 miles. Of the 60,000 miles increase, 40,000 has been made in America, and 30,000 of this in the United State* alone. The number of locomotives in actual use is 104,000, and England has 80 engines for every 80 miles of road; Germany, 53; France, 47; Russia, 40; Austria, 32; India, 24; and the United States only 19. The railway capital of the world is estimated at $27,000 - 000,000, and of this $15,000,000,00018 [nves ted in Europe.

The number of immigrants who ar rived from Europe during eleven months up to • May 31, is 401,609, against 392,560 during the corresponding eleven months of last year. This indicates that the total European immigration of the fiscal year about to end will exceed that of any previous year except 1881, 1882,1887 and 1888. The most significant changes* as com. pared with last year, are in the figures of Hungarian and Italian immigration. Each has more than doubled: * " 1889. 1890. Hungary 9,591 20.041 Italy - 21.872 <8,837 The Italians are less than 800 behind the Irish, in number; sfcid the returns for the past month, complying the year, will possibly put them ahead for the first time in our history.

President Harrison, says the Indianapolis Journal, is having a remarkable list of important military appointments to make. He has already appointed a paymaster-general, a major-general, a brigadier-general and a quartermaster-general. July 1 the present comissary-general will reach the age of retirement, and that place will have to be filled. A week later General Grierson will reach the age of retirement and there will be a brigadier-general to appoint. On August 16 there will be a surgeongeneral to appoint by the retirement A the present incumbent Finally, in January next the present chief of ordnance will reach the retirement and President Harrison will have le naming of his successor- As each of these appointments will involve several subordinate promotions they will make altogether an unuswaUjr important list

White Caps have struck New Mexico. Yellow fever has appeared in Havana. ' Denton, Tex., had a SIOO,OOO fire on the idth. ' . . :: '7" - It is proposed that Chicago shall make its own gas. The pigarette trust proposes to shut out all competition. The actual reduction of the public debt in June was $20,685,726. The four big breweries of Minneapolis have been consolidated. = Hotel waiters in all the big St Louis hotels struck on the 18th. i Along drought in Kansas was terminated by soaking rains on the 16th. Tne Farmers’ Alliance of Minnesota nominated a full State ticket on the 16th inst Chicago’s population is 1,101,263. In 1880 the official count showed a population of 603,185. Henry Hilberg, a baker, of Independence, lowa, has fallen heir to a fortune of $1,000,000. A new aqueduct costing $25,000,000, was opened in New York on the 16th. It is thirty-three miles long. Two men were killed in a rear-end collision on the 1., D. & W. railroad nearllecatur, 111., on the 17th. Martha’s Vineyard had a terrible storm Thursday; A number of vessels and cottages on the island suffered. The census enumeration of Kankakee, 111., gives that city a population of 9,000, while in 1880 it was but 5,975.

The cloak makers in New York have returned to work, the manufacturers conceding most of their demands. The Standard Oil Cempany controls the gas supply of Tiffin, O. It is now proposed to establish an opposition company. There were nine men sentenced to death on the 18th in the federal court at Paris, Toxas, by Jndge Bryant, who has been on the bench sqarcely.sLr weeks. Later returns from the disasters in Minnesota are recorded, showing that 115 lives were lost at Lake City, while but five were killed outright at Lake Gervias. Ex-Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, says that none of the Southern States will be represented at the World’s Fair should the Federal election bill become a law. “Original package’’ dealers; of Topeka are seeking revenge by bringing suits for damages against those who had them arrested for violating the prohibition law. Admiral Halthesam. of the British war fleet in the Behring sea, declares emphatically that he has received no orders to protect British sealers from seizure by American cutters. Another race war has developed in Barnwell county, S. C. An attempt was made to arrest several negroes participants in the riot several month ago. Result, one white man killed, one fatally injured; one negro killed.

The distributing, operating and restaurant rooms of the Western Union telegraph building at New York, were burnt out by fire on the 18th. Several persons narrowly escaped. The damage is very heavy. The lire was started by crossed wires. The rendezvous of British war vessels near Befiring Sea is explained to be for the purpose of welcoming Admiral Holtham, who succeeds Admiral Henage in command of tho fleet. “We have received no orders regarding the Behring Sea,” says one of the officers. There is not much probability of war. The butchers of Danville, 111., struck because one of their number was imprisoned for violating a city ordinance. The people were put to a great inconvenience for a few days, being unable to get fresh meat. On the ISth the butchers coneluded- fhpy were hurting themselves more than any-, body else, and resumed business. Reliable persons arriving from Bastrop, La., on the 16th, say that seven negroes were killed and six wounded in the aflray with a white posse near Merrouge on the 15th. There were thirty-six negi’oes in the party, all of whom came there a short time ago from North Carolina. The survivors returned home with the whites. Ia other respects the previous accounts of the conflict are correct. Merrouge is eight miles above Bastrop. A special from Emporia, Kan., says the Farmers’ Alliance and other kindred organizations united iti one of the grandest demonstrations ever held in Emporia. The procession was five miles long, and 20,000 people were in attendance. No such turn out of farmers was ever before witnessed in this part of the State. The speakers are L. L. Polk, President of the National Alliance, Ralph Beaumont, and other prominent members.

Odd Fellows are looking forward to th Tiiennal Cantonment and Conclave at Chicago, August 4 to 10, with inteuso interest. It will undoubtedly be the largest aud most imposing demonstration evej given by tho order. The Grand Sire estis mates that there will be 10,003 unifonned and from 15,000 to 20,000 non-uniformed members in the grand parade. The prizes offered for drill and for degree work amounts to the enormous sum of $28,000' Z large attendance of Odd Fellows may boexpected from Indiana. Railroads hav made a low rate of fare for the occasiou. James Larney.an Indian from the ludian Territory, serving a one year s sentence in the Ohio penitentiary for manslaughter, on the afternoon of the 16th, grabbed an ax and began to tomahawk his companions in the idle house. He split open the head of Jamas Gross, colored, who will probably die; hit on the head Ted Cunningham broke the shoulder of Charles Greaves,and cut into the top of Michael O'Hara’s headThe deputy warden, hearing the Indian’s yells, rushed in and with the aid of the other prisoners disarmed the assailant,tied his feet and locked him in a cell. The murderous Indian is thought to be insane. The Kansas State Temperance League met in convention on the 16th to express an opinion on the original package decision of the United States Supreme Court* The convention was the largest ever held in the State, about five thousand delegates being in attendance. President Troutman presided, and spoeohes were made by many prominent Kansas men. Resolutions were adopted condemning the Supreme Court decision and demanding of the Kan-,as Representatives in the national Congress

that they do their utmost to secure the passage of the bill designed to place the enforcement of the prohibitory law entirely within the State government and beyond the interference of the national government. A Judge Foster, in the United States Dis. trict Court, at Topeka, Wednesday, made an important decision on a point in, “origi nal package” litigation which had not before come into court. He refused to grant the writ of habeas corpus asked for by Frank C. McGuire, of Lyons, Kan., agent for a wholesale liquor bouse, and remanded him back to the sheriff of Rice county. McGuire had received a wooden box securely nailed andcontaining fifty bottles of whisky, each bottle tied up in a paste board box. He opened the box, and sold a number of bottles. He was arrested, tried before a justice and given 106 days in jail. His attorney applied for the writ before Jodge Foster. Foster was of the opinion that McGuire broke the original package in opening the large box, and sold other than original packages. . The melon trust was broken by a couh. ter combination in Chicago and other largo cities. The melons were shipped to accredited agents in all of the large Northern cities, to be sold wholesale by auction. Local dealers quietly formed a counter combination- Accordingly, when the first Georgia melons were put up for sale there was only one bid—a wickedly low one—for the entire lot, and the melons had to go at that. Then the purchaser divided up the shipment with his fellow conspirators, and they charged full prices to the .small dealers and the public, thereby making im*. mens© profits. The plan was adoptee else

where with the inevitable result, the smashing Of the melon trust. A hold attempt at train robbery was made late on the night of the 18th, on the Cincinnati, Jackson & Michigan railroad. Three men boarded the engine of the north-bound passenger train at Enterprise, 0., and attacked engineer Vandewender and his fireman with hammers and coupling pins, knocking both senseless. They did not succeed in stopping the train,, however, probably owing to tho plucky fight made by the train men, and jumped off before reaching Van Wert. The engineer and firemen were both lying senseless in the cab of the locomotive, and the, tiain Jwhich should have stopped at Van Wert Station rushed through the yard at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. Here it collided with a switch engine, and engineer Vandewender was found dead in' the wreck. The fireman is still unconscious, and it cannot be; learned whether the engineer was killed by the train-rob-bers or met his death in the collision. None of the passengers were seriously injured.

FOREIGN. . The French, who are having a war in Africa, were routed in a l’ecent engagement. A pleasure yacht was run down in the St. Lawrence river near Alexandria, NY., on the 17th. Five lives were lost. An entire family, father, mother and three children, were bunied to death on the 17th by the bui’ning of their home at Quebec. Eugene Schuyler, the American Consul General at Cairo, died at that place on the 18th. He was distinguished as a diplomatist, historian and literateur. Frederick Scheuch, Consul to Barcelona, Spain, whose successor has been appointed writes to his family in Lafayette that he will return home next month. Mr. SchCuch was appointed during Grant's administration . On the arrival of the steamship Majestic 1 from New York, at Queenstown Wednesday, four of her passengei-s were arrested by tho custojn officials for smuggling. The arrested were all women, and had con, cealed in their bustles parcels of tea, tobacco, spirits, etc. The contraband goods were seized and the women locked up for examination. Tne number of presents stolen from tho Stanley collection on the day of the ex plorer s marriage is ascertained to be much greater than first admitted. Effort were made to keep the matter quiet, but the arrest and sentence of Mr-. Hatchard gave it publicity, and later developments disclose the fact th»t she was not the ouly thief present at the reception. Spain has decided to build a whole flotilla of submarine war vessels after the mod' el successfully produced by the inventor, Berat. Each will be constructed with accommodations for from twenty to fifty men. Berat is for the- time being the greatest man in Spain. The Spaniards believe that his invention will place the nation in the fore front of the great naval powers of the world. —*—— An Original Revenge. An original method of wreaking vengeance on an unfaithful lover has been adopted by a deceived damsel, says the London Telegraph. The man was a tailor and tho woman a cook, ! who. when she heard that tho gay j deceiver had given her up for a spruce dressmaker, armed herself with a pair big scissors and a bottle of vitrol and proceeded to the lodging of the falsehearted swain. What she would have done had she met the tailor in the flesh can only be conjectured in a vague and speculative manner, but it happened that he was out, so she set to work on his Sunday clothes. These she pulled out of the wardrobe wherein they lay, strewed them on a tible, and cut them into ribbons with her scissors. She next sprinkled vitrol over the lot and treated the tailor’s socks, shirts, and 1 pocket handkerchiefs to vicious daghej of the same corrosive substance. Then she went awey satisfied, but was ar rested, according to tho legal phrasi rather appropriate to the circumstauces; “at the suit” of the tailor.

Carpet-Bogs. Buffalo moths and carpet-bugs art making housewives weary along the Hudson river. The havoc wrought by these pests during the last few weeks hasi been extensive. In Rensselaer County and elsewhere the carpet-bugi are said to be so voracious that they actually, in instances, fyvve eater off the oords by which mirrors ans r> ictures ivere suspended.