Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

This appears to be a rough world for a woman any way she takes it, bu it is uncommonly rough when she ha* no money. There, for instance, is that impecunious Tennesse waif re, ported in the dispatches who was trying to, work her way to friends in Illinois and found that her-feminine attire subjected her 'to indignities. Accordingly, fer self-protection, she donned male garb and was forthwith arrested and will be sent to the State Reformatory. , In other words, the only way she can be free from molestation by rowdies or the officers of the law is to belocked up in prison. It almost seems a pity that the dignity of the law should be so dreadfully outraged by the sight of a woman in trousers! ——————HP——» —— It is rather a sad thing to announce publicly, but it is nevertheless true f that only a small proportion of the dudish-looking yachtsmen who are seen about the up-town cases at night, slnd who lounge about the clubs, really have any substantial possessions in the way of yachts. Not only the larger but even the smaller yachts are owned by three or four men, who take turns in,using the boat or sail together. This is almost universally true of the small forty-footers, nearly all of these boats boasting double or triple ownership. The reason is a good and substantial one. A man who buys a big yacht, a hundred feet long or thereabouts, uses her for long cruising trips as a rule. He moves his servants and his family aboard of her, keeps her in commission a month or two, and when he has finished with his season's yachting the boat is laid up until the following year. It is useful as well as ornamental. There are no hotel or house bills while his family is living aboard the yacht, and he gets a distinct return for his money. The small boats, however, are toys, purejujd sim,'- - * . - pens'”' 4 '^' B that. Not more th'an vnt-ee of four people can cruise in them comfortably, and yet they require an equipment of four men all the time that they are in commission. The men are paid liberal salaries, it coats a good deal to feed them, and the necessary expenses for the wear and tear of the boat always reach a considerable amount. As a rule, the smalt yachts are owned by young business or professional men whose time is not entirely their own, and they chip in together and get their season's yachting for something like a reasonable price. There is a sort of stock company of five men in the dry goods district who run one yacht. Among women every one of the five speaks of it as *‘mv beat.”—N. Y. Sun. Dr. Dawson, of the Canadian Geolog ical Survey, says that nearly a millio'n square miles in that country, or about one-eighth of the total area of this are as yet practically unknown. The annual reports of the Geological Survey and Interior De- . f airtment of Canada have a peculiar interest from the fact that they are, to a considerable extent, records o original discovery- The greater part of the Canadian northwest Is well known only along the water courses, nnd some of the explorers of the scientific bureaus are now pushing away from the rivers and lakes to map the regions lying between them. In the large region embraced between Great Fish river on the north, Great Slave and Athabasca lakes on the west, Reindeer and Hatchet lakes on the South, and Hudson Bay on the east, we find on the maps a large number of rivers and big and little lakes. It is a curious fact that all these rivers and lakes have a place on the maps upon the authority of only one man, Mr. Ilearne, who wandered for three years through this region over 120 years ago. We may infer from the changes the Canadian explorers have been making in thd* maps of other regions that these rivers and lakes will probably appear under quite a different aspect when modern exploration reaches them. The largest unexplored area in Canada is the interior of Labrador, almost 800,000 square miles, for mapping the larger part of which we have scarcely any information at all except Eskimo reports; and yet if these reports are in any degree • trustworthy, there are many interest ing discoveries to be made in inner Labrador, including the big waterfalls of the Grand river, reputed to be the highest in the world, which no white wan has yet visited. It will be a long time before our own continent ceases to furnish fresh geographical news. , A “Thibet Prayer Union” has been formed to plead fer the opening of the door into Chinese Thibet, at Which the Moravians have been waiting so long.

_ Nearly all the manufactories of glass in Pittsburgh have resumed. Mayor Greiner, of Reading, has forbidden Sunday saloon concerts. Texas Democrats on the 13th nominated Stephen Hogg for Governor. The convention to renominate McKinley Will meet at Massillon, August 26. The Farmers’ Alliance of Louisiana adjourned after passing anti-lottery resolutions. The growing orange crop in Florida is estimated at 2,000,000 boxes, about !the same as last year’s. ’ Gyrus W. Field has sold TOO acres of his Dobbs Ferry estate to Charles Henry Butler for $1,000,000. The People’s party of the Fourth District nominated J. G. Otis, a prominent farmer, for Congress. Eight men were mangled in a collision on the Louisville and Nashville road, near Spring Station, on the 13th. J There was a very brilliant display of shooting stars and meteors at Monticello 111., on the night of tjhe 11th. The Farmers’ Alliance Convention of North Carolina decided not to oppdSfs the re-election of Senator Vanee.

Ten workmen were badly injured by an explosion of artificial gas in a soap factory at Providence, R. 1,, om the 14tb. John Boyle O’Reilly,the poetand patriot, died on the morning of the 10th, at his summer home, Nantasket Beach. The work of the. census enumerator show the population of Maine to be 658, 454, an increase of 9,500 since 1880. A fire at Louisville, on the 14th, destroyed 25,000 barrels of whisky and the distillery, causing a loss of $2.000.000, A call has been issued lor a meeting at Rockford, 111., to take steps “to abate the nuisance of the SchweiDfurthcomm.unitj The great strike of the New. York Central is broken. Trains were running on fairly good time on the 12th. The strikers lose. Col. Jesse Hgrper has accepted the joint nomination of Farmers’ Alliance and Prohibitionists in the Danville, 111., district for Congress. California Republicans on the 13th endorsed Speaker Reed and the administratioii and nominated Henry Markhapi for Governor.

A negro boy named Beaver, aged 20, was hanged by a mob in the public square at Warren, Ark., for attempted assault on a white woman. The population of Kansas City, Kan., announced by the Census Bureau, on the 11th, is 38,170. The same plaee in 1880 contained a population of 9,348. He thinks our claims in the Behring Sea dispute is “sheer nonsense.” Suits aggregating $112,569.41, have boen commenced at Lebanon, 0., against the ninety bondsmen of ex-Treasurer Jameson, Dunham and Coleman and Auditor Graham.

Ex-Governor Charles Foster has written a letter to a prominent Republican leader announcing that under no circum- • tances will he accept a nomination for Congress. The Supervisor of Census authorizes the statement that in rduhd numbers the present population of Vermont is 332,000.. The census returns of 1880 give the population as 332,286. - Governor Francis, of Missouri, appointed twenty-nine delegates to repro sent the State in the National Farmers’ Congress, which meets at Council Bluffs la., August 26. Congressman McDuffie (Republican), of Alabama, has received an anonymous letter threatening him with the fate of Cook, Mississippi, if he supports the Federal election bill.

The funeral of John Boyle O’Reilly, the poet and patriot, occurred at Boston. The calvacade was the largest ever seen in Button, and the remains were viewed by a numberless throng. Theleutonic arrived at New York on the 13th, 5 days 19 hours and 5 minutes from Roche’s Point to Sandy Hook, the best time on record by 13 [minutes. The Teutonic belongs to the White Star line. At the West Side race course, at Chicago, Tbuwday, a Mills chestnut gelding:, Bob Thomas, sired by Enquirer, out of Peytonia Barry, broke the record at one mile over hurdles, with 148 pounds up, he covering the distance in 1.49.

Captain 11. T. Coffee, a Chicago capita; ist, has challenged H. G. Allis, a Little Rock (Ark.) banker, to fight a duel. Allis declined to reply to the challenge, which was the result of personal differences regarding a railroad deal.

Charles Cosgrove, an mreonaut, who made an ascension at Portland, Ore., lost his hold of the parachute in his descent, when about 200 feet from the ground, and was mangled to death upon one of the paved streets of the city. The Colonist sleeper on the west-bound Great Northern tra : n burned at Ada, Minn., Sunday morning. The passengers lost everything, barely escaping with their lives. Conductor Stahl was badly burned white uncoupling the car.

The “original pae cage” [dealers of lowa, in a cor erence at Mason City, on the 12th, concluded to close down theirshops. This ends the original package saloon. It is estimated that 15,(T3 saloons were in operatiouin lowa a week previous. At thie session of the National Associa - tion of Retail Boot and Shoe dealers, at Boston, officers were elected as follows: President, James F. Keene, Fort Edward T - ’ s « c W. 11. Gleason, Binghamton, N. k.; Treasurer, I. B. Arnold, Findlay, O. Pick Wireman and Cora McMahon, a woman of ill-repute, were shot and killed while driving in a buggy from Belton to Temple, Texas. Wiseman had been acquitted of the charge of murder a few days before, a ;d the ve~dict did not give general satisf.ict.on.

Governor Steele, of Oklahoma, says he will call a specin, election immediately to fill caused by the deaths of Messrs. Burke and Reynolds, so that the Legislature may assemble as soon as possi Me. Jhe Legislature is now a tie on the -apital question. Philip Rindfleisch & Sons, proprietors of the Highland House, one of Cincinnati’s hill-tcp resorts, made an assignment

| Friday. It is said to be a result of the I Sunday law, which cut off the big and profitable crowds that formerly thronge4Ae place on Sundays! * f - In the United States Cireuit Court at Cincinnati Judges Jackson and Sage refused the application of the Interstate Commerce Commission for an Injunction restrain the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company from issuing “party rates ’to theatrical companies. Ex-Governor J. Proctor Knott and a party of Kentuckians left Louisvilleon the Uth for Duluth, where a grand reception has been arranged for the ex-Governor who, twenty years ago, made the “Zenith City by the unsalted 8633” famous by his celebrated speech in Congress. Florida Democrats, on tne 14th, adopted resolutions that-denounce the force bill arid recognize in the offerings of the subtreasury bill before Congress a crying necessity for the revision of the national banking laws and affording relief of some kind to the farmers and to the masses. Rockwells & Co’s large tannery at Clarondon, Pa., was partly destroyed by fire Tuesday night, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The fire started in the bark crushing department, but the origin is unknown. Over $300,000 worth of hides were in danger in vats, but only a portion were destroyed. • M. Hume Clay, ahitherto well and favorably known business man of Central Ken-, tucky, i&missing from his home at He was last heard from in Chicago two weeks ago. Yesterday it was discovered that he had forged the name of his grandfather for thousands'of dollars. All of Clay’s property has .been attached by creditors. The Missouri river threatens to convert much valuable land in Doniphan county, Kansas, into a swamp. The river has cut in for a distance of six hundred feet in less than six months, and if prompt meas ures are not taken Wathena and Elwood will be swept away and St. Joseph, Mo., left high and dry, while the million dollar bridge will span a dry water-course. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Dakota has handed down a deci-

sion affirming in every detail the constitu-tionalityef-tbe'PrdMhition law. He says county courts have full jurisdiction to fine and imprison liquor sellers without interference of grand juries or other courts, and final jurisdiction in all such cases.

A Panhandle work train, consisting of engine, tender and one car, which was engaged in gathering ties east of Knights town, struck a cow on a heavy grade, de railing the car and tender, seriously injuring six men, two of whom received internal injuries, from which they can not recover. All trains were delayed several hours on account of the wreck. A suit has been begun in phils6<dnV>s«» ) Ou nohair ui an infant, for $50,000 damages from a street car company for injuries received before it was born. The mother of the child was a passenger on one of the company’s cars in a collision caused by the alleged carelessness of the driver, and received a shock that injured the spine of her unborn babe. Hence the suit. Robert J. Reynolds was nominated for Governor by Delaware Democrats on the 12th. Hon. Thos. F. Bayard formulated and read the platform. The platform contains no new suggestions or features. The Ohio campaign will open Sept. 15. Texas Democrats met at San Antonio and adopted a platform denouncing the exhorbitant tariff and federal election bill, and favors the creation of a railway commission..

The rough official count of the population of the First District of Illinois, comprising the counties of Cook, Dupage and Lake, has been completed by the Census Office. The figures are as follows: Cook county, 1,189, 279; Dupage, 22,542; Lake, 24,122; total, 1,235,963. In 1880 the population of this district was 647,981. Chicago is in Cook county, and the population of that city is included in the given above. From the experience of two electric light linemep who recently received shocks, one of eleven hundred and the other of two thousand volts, each more than the murderer Kemmler reeeiv«ri it is certain that Kemmler must have suffered excruciating tortures while sensibility lasted. The lives of the linemen were saved by the breaking of the circuit, showing that it was the continued application of the current that killed Kemmler.

A dispatch from Topeka, Kan., says: A desperate effort is being made to get a new trial for the six men at Paris, Tex., wh were sentenced to be hanged December 1 for the murder of Sheriff Gross and hi party in No Man’s Land. The convicted men are all very prominent, and Hon. George R. Reck and Colonel W. H. Ross, ington will appear before the United States Court and ask for a new trial for them Cook, one of the men sentenced, was a candidate for State Senator four years ago.

Six men opened an unlicensed saloon on the borders of Burlington Park, outside the city limits of Napersville, 111. The authorities got wind of the matter, and when the place was opened half a dozen officers raided the illicit venders. Two escaped through the woods, while the other four marched off closely guarded. The entire stock of the saloon, including over forty kegs of beer. was left to the mob, whb in twos and threes bore off a keg between them and plundered the rest o he outfit. • x f

lowa farmers and Union Labor men met at Des Moines on the 14th. The resolutions adopted indorse the principles advocated by the Farmers’ and Laborers’ Industrial Union, held at St. Louis last De cember; denounces the McKinley and Lodge bills, and Speaker Reed’s “bold attempt to destroy the independence of our representatives in Congress;” favors the Australian ballot system, and denounces every lowa Congressman for helping to defeat the bill for free coinage. The passage of a service pension bill is demanded

The hot political war waged between Gep. H. Nutter and Wm. Dills for the Re publican nomination for county clerk, a Charleston, W. Va., has been followed by the attempted assassination of Nutter. On Saturday were held the primary conventions for the selection of delegates to the nominating convention, and in nearly every district in the county there were many fights. In the Charleston convention there were five. In another, ten, so hot was the political battle. Sunday night

about 12 o’clock Nutter went to see one o his delegates, and returning was shot by an unseen party, the ball striking near his hear t and at his back. A physician called pronounces the wound dangerous though Nutter seems better. He says be has no idea whoshot him, as he believed his political opponents men. There is no clew to the perpetrator. He says he can prove where he was every minute of the night. FOREIGN. War between Honduras and Salvador Seems Co be inevitable. There were 126 deaths from cholera at Jeddah, and at Mecca the deaths from the disease numbers 108. Emperor William hasstarted for Kiel. He took with him a grand hunting chariot as a present for the Czar.The Italian government has ordered the cessation of immigration from Italy to the countries of South America. Mr. Tobral, Guatemalian Minister Of Foreign Affairs, was shot by order of the President because of alleged treachery. Fall and spring wheat, barley, peas and oats will be above the average in yield per acre and quality in the province of Ontario this year. The German admirality denies the res port that one of the torpedo boats, which left Heligoland after the transfer of the island, is missing. Dievad Pasha, Governor of Creie, has ordered the arrest of the Turkish soldiers who recently bayoneted three Christian herdsmen near Spakia. This action has had the effect of calming the Christian*, populace, who were indignant at the con. tinued outrages perpetrated by Turks President Ezeta, of Salvador, has positively refused to accept any mediation from any power until he is fully recognized as the chosen provisional President of Salvador. It is understood that recognition will first be made by the United States before any offer of mediation will be made by the latter or by Mexico in the trouble between Salvador and Guatemala. The Irish potato crop is almost a total failure and famine is believed to be impending. Michael Davitt says: “I have made a brief trip through Ireland for the purpose of inquiring into the facts concerning the impending famine. My inquiries fully confirm the fears, that have been expressed as to the probably dis-

astrous consequences of the famine, and I find that the potato crop is almost a total failure. In addition to this, thousands of small farmers will suffer. Cardinal Newman died in London on the 11th. He was born in 1801, and brought up

in the established church nf v.nrriomi i*» Una ne joined the Catholic Church. The change was the result of profound convie tion, yet so bitter was the feeling at that time against the Catholic Church in England that he was denounced as a traitor to the cause of truth. Some of his personal and life-long friends abandoned him. Soon after joining the Catholic Church he was in Rotne ordainM a deacon. He grew rapidly in the favor of the church, and was -finally honored with the great distinction of Cardinal. He was the author of several volumes, one of which, “Apology for My Life,” served to restore him to the respee of non-Catholics which he had lost when joining the Catholic Church. Horrible accounts are received of the slave labor traffic by British planters in the South s6as. The Presbyterian mission synod in the New Hebrides has passed a resolution to the effect that “the Kanaka labor traffic had, to a large extent, depop-

ulated the New Hebrides and adjoining islands, upset family relations among the natives, and has been and is the cause of much sorrow, suffering and bloodshed.” A missionary named Patton reports that, he has seen white men in their boats taking Kanakas to labor vessels—as the slave ships are called—forcibly lifting them on board, and when they tried to swim ashore they were knocked down again and again, until they lay stupified on-deck, and were thus carried out to sea. Those thought likely to escape are fastened with chains on board. A chief was shot dead by the crew of one of these vessels while attempting to protect his daughter, and a native Christian teacher was also shot dead. This slave trade is carried on under the protection of the British flag or the benefit of planters in Queensland and the Fiji islands.