Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1890 — THE HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE HEWS OF THE WEEK.

The population of the United Is about 64,500,000. mostly—hustlers. The Statistician of the Interstate Commerce Commission is authority for the statement that last yedr the railroads of the United States killed 5,283 persons and injured 26,309. M. Koechlin, the assistant of Eiffel in the erection of Eiffel Tower, has been granted permission by the Swiss government to construct a railway to the summit of the Jungfrau mountain, a distance of 13,000 feet. A Chicago minister) preaching from the text, “And , how shall they hear without a preacher, ” said * ‘the newspaper of to-day is, in many cases, a grand Bermon, which ttnds its way into every hut and log cabin in the land.” W! The thirty-third annual report of Chicago's Comptroller puts the bonded debt at $13,654,900. The total assessment for 1889 was $101,104,019, while the actual valuation of real and personal property is estimated at $2,000, - DOO.OOO, more than ten times the assessor’s low figures. The statistics show that there are now 106,894 Sunday-schools in the United States, having 1,120,438 officers and teachers, and 8,698,851 scholars. There is no other country in the world that can present such proofs of success in the work of promoting these admirable agencies of civilization. An exchange says: “SquireO'Neil's {lrishtown) cow, which gave two quarts of milk per day, was struck by lightning while in pasture the other day and had a horn knocked off. Since that date her yield of milk has been ten quarts with not the slightest trace of brimstone. The Squire is an authority on farming and electricity, and his advice is if you have a cow have tier struck by lightning by all means. Stand her out” □Calvin Henderson, colored, has brought suit against ex-Superintendent Dass, of the Jackson, Miss., Penitentiary for sp, 000 for false imprisonment. [Jndec the law any convict who objerves all of the rules of the prison is intitled to a credit of three days for sach month of the term of his imprisonment Dass failed to note Hendersons good conduct and report th e tame to the Governor, thereby causing him to remain in prison 180 days beyond his time.

“It may come to pass,” said a British lecturer lately, 1 ‘that some African may, in centuries to come, point out how a race of Englishmeu once dominated the West Indies and were improved off the face of the land.” Such fears are real enough. In 1658 there were in those islands 4,500 Europeans to 1,500 Africans. In 1800 the numbers were 30,000 Europeans and 300,000 Africans. In the last census the figures were 14,433 Europeans, 109,946 colored, 444,186 Africans and 12,240 Asiatics. - Editors who receive complimentary tickets to agricultural fairs and other places are looked upon as dead-heads, but the managers of an Ohio county fair, who have had some experience in such matters, had the following printed upon the complimentary tickets they issued: “This ticket probably has been paid for ten times over by the paper to which it is issued, It will be honored in the hands of any man, woman or child, white, black, red or yellow, who favors the association by presenting it It is good for entrance and grand stand, and the bearer, if driving, will be entitled to pass a team free. The association recognizes the fact that its splendid success is owing largely, if not wholly to the press, and while we cannot render an equivalent in cash,'we return our grateful thanks.” Br the new army bill the effective, strength of the German army will be, raised to a peace establishment of 486,983 men. Even then it will not be as large as the army of France, which numbers 655,330 men, including the army in Africa. Austria has 278,297 jnen under arms, and Italy 255,418. .These figures will give an idea of the {military burdens borne by the nations of Europe, and are quite sufficient to account for the spread of Socialistic theories. A recent traveler has drawn a gloomy picture of the effects of these l»uge military establishments on the pnorals of the people. Preparations tor war on a gigantic scale, protracted tor bo many years, are producing some of the worst results of war by unfitting one generation after another for the pursuits of peaceful industry.

There is a general complaint of droughty Hail stones greatly damaged Dakota crops. New Haven had two fatal sunstrokes on the 30th. Congressman Breckinridge of Arkansas has been renominated Michigan and Maryland prohibitionists nominated State tickets. A barrel of whisky exploded at Syracuse and injured three people. Anton Mohawk, a Cleveland molder, killed himself aad wife to day. The mining town of Wallace, Idaho, was wiped out by fire on the 27th. Loss, SSOO, 000, Green bands at the business held up a train at Arabia, in Nebraska, but secured only sl7. Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien will start on a tour of the United States about the midi die of September. A bigeembination of brewers is reported for the lurps seof fighting the collection of State license fees. The village of Bairriatown, 0., has been nearly destroyed by incendiary Ares' within the past two weeks. One hundred thousand dollars’ worth of property was destroyed by a cloud-burst in Walker County, Alabama. A duel is imminent at Fredericksburg, Va.. between Captain Daniel M. Lee and Mark Hume, candidates for Congress. Charles Williams, of Daytoa, 0., has been convicted under the new Ohio law of deserting his family, and was sent to jail, A report from New York says that since the passage of the silver bill silver bullion is being shipped to Europe the same as gold. In Columbus, 0., Fox Anderson had a quarrel with his mistress, and slashed hefi horribly with a dagger, but she may recover. At Booneville, Mo., Friday, John O. Furlington was sentenced to be hanged September 11. for the murder of Sheriff Crammer. At Hamilton, Q., during the progress of a birthday feast, John Haacke, aged 18, stabbed and killed Peter Theobald, about the same age. Three children who had been blackberrying, were caught on the Erie Railroad bridge over the Passaic river at Paterson, N. J., and killed. James Mooney, a notorious dynamiter lwho once tried to blow up the Steame r lQueen, was drowned in the surf, at Fai Rockaway Beach, on the 28th. A mill pond near Albany, Wis., is glving up large quantities of pearls. Thou, sands Of people are digging dams. Many valuable gems are being found. The Norwegian bark Lloyd, from Cuba to Philadelphia, loaded with 4,500 bags of sugar, and a crew of fourteen men, has been lost at sea with all on board. Two weeks ago Colonel John F. Tyler, of St. Joseph, Mo., was appointed receive:) for a certain circus and menagerie, Thieves stole the elephant, two camels ancj five hors°s. Senf.ior-olect White, of Louisiana, de. nies reoeiving any money from the lottery company to be used in his campaign, or that he used any in buying members of thq Legislature. The balance of the locked-out cloakmakers at New York have returned to work under the new plan of agreement, snd the troubles between the employer?, pnd the men are ended.

Governor Ross, of Texas, deems the pro, posed rstaliatory boycott impractical. Tha people of Columbus, Ga., will oppose the boycott scheme in resolutions, but denounce tho proposed law. Florence Blythe, illegitimate daughter of Thomas Blythe, of California, had her contest of the will decided in her favor on the 81st. By this decision she is to receive $4,000 of the estate. Fortysone dwellings were destroyed by fire in Brad dock, Pa., this afternoon between the hours of 2 and 6 o’clock, and more than three hundred persons were for the time being rendered homeless. Jeremiah Miller, atMcchanicsburg, Pa, on the 31st cruelly murdered his wife, thq inoentive being jealousy. He soon discovered that their were no grounds foi jealousy and then committed suicide. Albert Gohegan, City Clenlr. and a bank bookkeeper at Paris, 111., who has been going at a good gait for some time past, is short $4,000. He has been prospering greatly and making purchases of prop, erty.

It is reported of Governor Campbell, in the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, that he said he would call out the militia of tho State to prevent interference by federal authorities with congressional elections in Ohio. The report of receipts and expenditures by the Johnstown Flood Relief Comnjis sion has been made public. The total contributions amounted to $2,912,346.30; and the expenditures to $2,845,140 83; leaving an unexpended balance of $67,205.47. Ei-Alderman Duffy, “the i nformer” in the Boodle Aldermen eases, in New York, has brought suit against John Keenan, the trustee of the cor -option fund, for $60,000, which he claims a? his share of the half million used in the Board of Aldermen in 1384. The Illinois Senate passed a bill- enabling Chicago tc issue five millions of bonds in aid of the World’s Fair. The House failed to pass the bill by a requisite, majority, but the vote was to be retaken to-day a second „ime upon reconsideration, a-. d it maj go through. T\e steamers Virginia and Louise collided, on the Chesapeake Bay, on the night of he 28th. Four people are known to have been killed and seventy-five injured. Cae of the tSoela w L an excursion boat, and here were 1,500 excursionists aboard. Neither vessel was sunk. Hue steamer Gl<>un, which makes daily trips between Michigan City and Chicago, on \er return triD to the former place on the Uth picked up a sailboat whose only occupant was a dog. It was found about tweh-e miles out .rom Chicago, and must have been capsized and her sailors lost The Farmers’ Alliunce in v ustern Ken tucity have been criticising Carlisle foi voting ag inst the »ilv>r bill. Mr. CarLaia retorts that he considers the bill fu; worse than the pro ieut lav, and if the Farmers’ Alliance cm Dt so regard it.

they “are entitled of course to their ©pin*.’ ion.” George L. Thompson, postmaster at Warren, Wyo., has been requested to resign by Postmaster-General Wannamaker. jit Is cfaumeu that Thompsons has been chargingS cents each for 2 cent stamps, telling patrons that high freight rates rendered it impossible to sell them for less money. The Illinois Republican State Central Committee met in Chicago and selected ,the Hon. A. M. Jones, of t Jo Daviess county, to be permanent Chairman and Daniel Shepard to be Secretary. Both of these gentlemen have occupied these posittons for many years, except that Mr. Jones was out last year. After being out for fourteen weeks the strike of the cloakmakers of New York has resulted in a victory for the laboring men. The concessions made by the managers are that they will employ only union men and discharge the non-nnion men at prepent in their employ. On the other hand the union men have agreed to allow the non-union men who desire to doao to join the union. The question of wages has yet to be decided. A special from Washington, C. H., 0., says: After taking 532 ballots without' making a nomination, the Republican contention of the Tenth Congressional District adjourned sine die. Th'e last ballot stood: Wallace, 67; Doane, 36; Hurst, 47; Little, 69. A special from Hillsboro, 0., says: The Democratic convention adjourned Thursday night at 9 o’clock, after taking 425 fruitless ballots. The last ballot did not vary materiallyfrom ihefirst, and no candidate, at any time, had any show of nomination. There is a genuine case of leprosy in New York. The victim is Manuel Garutia, twenty years old, the scion of a noble family in Spain, who has been attending a military academy at Chester, Pa. For a week he has been stopping at a SpanishAmerican boarding house at No. 105 East Twenty-eighth street,making liable to this loathsome contagious disease the numerous boarders. Policeman Snyder helped to carry Garutia to the sick-wagon, on the 28th, when the invalid was taken to the Reception Hospital on East Sixteenth street, and thence transferred to the North Brothers Island Hospital for contagious diseases. . ■ ■ , ■ The Pacific Mail Steamship Company, after consulting with certain officials high in authority, have made a demand upon the republic of Gautemala for $500,000 indemnity for illegal seizure of a portion of the cargo of the steamer Colima, which wat detained at the port of San Jose de Gaute mala on July 17. The seizure included several hundred stand of rifles shipped from San Francisco and consigned to thf republic of Salvador. The formal demand for damages was sent to President Barilt las at Guatemala fifty-two days ago. The company did not rest there, however, bualso filed particulars of the claim with tht United States government at Washington. Full details of the demand for $500,000 indemnity were also transmitted to" Secre" tary Blaine, and an answer was receivei stating that the State Department woulc' fully investigate the matter.

FOREIGN. Emperor William started on a visit tc England on the Ist. A frightful massacre of Americans by Turks is reported. More than fifty peopk were killed and 350 wounded. Great Britain has decided, it is reported to complete the defense of its Pacific Canadian ports. She will expend $23,000, 000 in doing so. Emin has had severe fighting at Masai and Ugogo. He killed many natives b,s using the Maxim gun. He seized 1,2 b head of cattle. He defeated the Ugogo? with great slaughter. Gas was struck at Knightsville, Ont. Wednesday afternoon. The flow is estimated at 20.000,000 cubic feet a day. Tin roar is deafening and when the vein wa: struck the drills were thrown high in th' air and for ten minutes rocks and dir came out. There is great rejoicing ii. Knightsville. The confirmation of the reported exist ence of cholera in an epidemic degree at Bagdad and Mecca causes great uneasiness in western Europe and strict precau tions are being taken at Marseilles anc other intrepots of Oriental traffic to prevent, if possible, the introduction of infec tion through those ports. Steamer schooner Mischief arrived Sunday night at Victoria from Shumigan Isi lands, with upward of 13,000 seal skips being the coast catch of Victoria schoon efs, which have now entered Behring Sea The catch this year i-i the best ever known. The sealers say they feel confident that nc seizure will be made this year, and the total catch will beat all previous-years. A sensation is reported from Landshut. in lower Bavaria, over the discovery that the cemetery keepers have been robbing tho bodies of the rich dead during the past two years. Clothes, ornaments and even hair have been stolen, while the costly caskets have been replaced by plain pine coffins. General exhumations have been ordered, and the ghouls have been arrested. Mail advices from Yokahoma state that on the Uth inst. the total number of cholera cases was increased to 239, with 114 deaths. Forty-seven fresh cases and 15 deaths wore reported that day, and on the 12th 30 fresh cases and 27 deaths were reported from Nagasaki. The Emperor has sanctioned the expenditure of $43,000 from the Government reserve fund for disinfection purposes. It is reported that Gen. Rivas, who was recently recalled from Honduras by the Salvador government to raise troops around Cojutepeque and join the main army operating against Guatemala on the frontier, turned traitor after having had a handsome reception In the Capitol. When he was supposed to be on his way to the ; frontier he turned back his forces of 3,000 Indians toward the capftal and stormed 'O barracks. There fighting has been . ing on two days, but no details have est received, as communication has been corrupted since. Gen. Rivas started the volution against the Mencndez governn nt some months ago. but was, defeated. He then fled to Honduras.