Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Th* people of South Stockton, N. Y., have unanimously elected a complete School Board of women; at Centralia, N. Y., a woman has been elected chool trustee and another woman tax collector, and at Perry, X. Y.. the Board of Kducation stands, three women and four men. All this is in aeoord with the growing conviction tha women, who are peculiarly charged with the nurture and training of chil dren, ought to be the fittest persons to control public-school affairs. Under that conviction women have been authorized to vote in school elections in many States, and many of them have been appointed in cities to Boards of Education, Unfortunately experience in Boston and elsewhere seems to show that after the novelty of voting loses its charm the greater number of women become indifferent to the elections and to the grave interests involved in them

Now that the Knights of Labor have joined hands with the farmers, they would do well to assume a little of the horse sense of the latter, and hang out A 1<?8S gli tier ing~shingle.. It is far too loud. and vulgar .jfor plain, practical: men. There are no more knights now. In days of old, when knights were numerous enough, most of them were donkeys. High-sounding titles arc gradually getting erased in Europe; they should be stamped upon in America. When the gallant Knights of Labor rellect for a moment that the honest and plain farmers dorrt cali themselves Knights of the Plough, that poor clerks hate to be called Knights of the Quill, and that ragpickers get angry when they are called Knights of the Bag, they must see, like sensible men, that their society is lowered by a name better left to the blatherskites.

TltK Portuguese think their flag has been dishonored by King Gungunhana, who lords it over an immense territory south of the Zambesi. They recently told his Majesty that his country had been plnced under Portuguese protection, and presented him with a number of flags to give his town a gala appearance while celebrating the joyous eviont. They have just discovered that the King, who is of a practical bent, has cut up the flags to make wearing apparel for his numerous family, and ho has given notice that perhaps lie will usk for Portuguese protection if the day ever comes when j he is unable to take care of himself. He is not the only African potentate who has lately devoted a foreign flag to unusual purposes. When the King of Dahomey invaded Porto Novo last year a man rushed out of his hut waving a French flag, to indicate that ho was a subject of r ranee. His head was promptly out off, rolled upjn the flag, and Thus the trophy was borne to the capital.

The question of German in the public schools is beiiisr discussed in Cleveland, O. Ihe Press of that city makes this contribution to tho subject: -We believe that were the question of continuing the teaching' of German in the public schools left to the Germans themselves, there would be great doubt about getting a majority vote for it. so thoroughly arc most of them disgusted with not only tho way then language is taught in the schools today, but also with tho fact that its pretended teaching stands so much in the way of theirchiidren's accomplishing ail that they might in English, the language of the land, and forever to be tho language of the land. There is only one thing that can stand in the way of reform in this matter, and tluri is making it appear to be an assault upon Germans as Germans. This can be brought about by reckless English opponents of .German in the schools, or by the misinterpretations of those Germans who have « financial interest in continuing the status quo. All such foolishness should be discountenanced. If the going custom bo unprofitable, it damages Germans along with all other nationalities which make the total of the population, and should be discontinued because it does such damage. When the final struggle comes cn we are much mistaken if the leading Germans be not found in the fore front of the battle for English alone in the schools. They havs come tc this country to be Americans. They want their children to look upon this nation as their own. while cherishing natural and proper sentiments of respect for the fatherland. The United States can no more have two national languages than it can have two national flags. Thoughtful Germans know this, and will help in all reasonable ways to an ending of the unprofitable exploit of trying to educate the people in two tongnes.'*

The population of Washington State is given at 343,566. Governor Gordon, of Georgia oomes out squgrely against the Farmers’ Alliance. The JeffersonJron-works, at Steubenville, 0., was burned on the 18th, causing aloes of SIOO,OOO. Woman’s suffrage is receiving serious attention by the Constitutional Convention at Jackson, Miss. A detective claims to have located Craven E, Silcott, the absconding Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate, at Silverton, Col. * A wild freight on the Wisconsin Contra collided with a stray flat car. Brakeman James W]. Emley was killed and Engineer Lessard and a fireman injured. ■■■■■. ■ Mrs. Grant says she has no objection to the removal of the remains of Gen. Grant to Washington if provision is made for all others of the family by his side. Oil .exchanges were opened Monday at Lima and Findlay. The transactions at the former place were 468,060 barrels at the latter 40,000. Prices ranged from 40 to 44% cents. , ■

A negro crazed by liquor kept the author itiesof Racine, Wis., at bay lor a longtime on the 18th with a stone and a razor. Three persons were injured by the negro, ne of them seriously. No now developments in the New York Central strike.' Mr. Webb, third vicepresident, said the road would expend $2,000,000, if necessary, to win the strike. Everything is quiet at Albany. Charles Seidell, at Blue Island, a Chicago suburb, on the 21st Attempted to open a can of powdbr with an old file. The powder was exploded, Seidell killed, three' others fatally and twelve seriously injured. The family of Aaron Thompson, 1 ving Branch Hill, 0., was poisoned by drinking coffee made from berries that had not been sufficiently roasted. The poison that should liuve been eliminated by perfect roasting was distilled by the steaming. Seven persons were killed or fatally in jured and four Others seriously injured at Philadelphia on the 21st. Duing a heavy storm they had taken refuge in the street car stables. The walls of the stable were blown down with the result above stated Friends of JobirL7"Sullivan,the pugilist are trying to buy a cottage at South Hingham. Mass., with the intention of presenting it to him. The bluebloods of that place, however, don’t want him for a neighbor, and will throw every obstacle in the way to prevent him coming there. The goods an# real estate of Henry R. Rogers, doing business in Hyde Park, 1 Mass., and R. S. Draper, Mary A. Draper and Gertrude H. Draper, of Canton, have been attached in the sum of $20,000 by Horace Dodge and J. Wheatley Baker, copartners as Dodge’s Advertising Agency "oTßoston.

There were no new developments in tho Central sirike. On the 18th Powderly sub. mitted tho matter of arbitration to Vice president Webb, who declined that course of settlement, claiming that no employe had been discharged because lie was a Knight of Labor. The force of Pinkerton men was increased to GOO.

Representative Hansbrough, of North Dakota, has introduced in the House a loint resolution proposing anamendnrent to the Constitution providing that neither -he United States nor any State shall pass » law authorizing the establishment or maintenance of a lottery, or any schern® for the distribution of prizes by chance. Four masked burglars entered tho house of Michael Shelby, an aged farmer living near Wooster. 0., on tho 20th, battering the door down with a plank. The old man was bonnd and gagged, and his ten-year-old grandson bound to a chair. Mrs. Shelby promised to remain quiet and was not molested. The burglars then took ft,ooo from a bureau drawer and escaped. — —-- — Early on the morning of the 17th Samuel Jacobson, a prominent business man of San Francisco, was shot through the breast and probably fatally wounded bv foaipnrU Htrwus stopped by two men just as lie was about to enter his house and ordered to throw up his hands, but before he could obey the order one of the meu fired, the bullet passing almost through liis both, the men ran away.

FOREIGN. The Queen prorogued Parliament on the lkth. Salvador and Guatamala have signed a treaty of peace. The Sultan of Morocco lias vanquished the rebels at Zemmour, beheading eighty of them. The situation in Armenia is daily becoming more deplorable. There has been a wholesale massacre of Christians at MooshThe French mronaut, Hesanson, and the astronomer Hermite, propose to make a balloon expedition to the North Pole, start ing from Spitzbergon. Tib* Mount Athos Monaster, at Belgrade, was partially destroyed by tiro ou the lt'tli. Several buildings were gutted. Twelve monks lest their lives. The Figaro says that the Count of Paris will probably abandon his proposed visit to the United States owing to the feeling tie has against the McKinley bill. A dispatch from Salvador, via Galveston says: Don Galindo, the Salvadorian agent at Guatemala City, telegraphs to President Ezeta that a peace honorable to Salvador has been arranged. A freight train on the Q. &C. was wrecked near Faulkner s Station. Ky , by the spreading of rails, from which spikes had been drawn. It is believed it was designed to wreck tW last mail. The Governor of New Mexico has asked the government for troops to suppress the White Caps. The President declines to furnish troops until other measures of m fintalning order are exhausted. The London News says the Behring Sea bine book shows the pitiftil sophistries to which Mr. Blaine is reduced in trying to justify a high-handed proceeding. ‘ America's claim is repugnant to common sense and only needs to be stated to defeat itself." The hatred of Jews in southern Russia is unabated. On several occasions of late Jewish lawyers, merchants and others have been qxpelledjn large numbers from Odeaaa and other places, and within a few

days f>ast there have been wholesale expulsions of Hebrews from bathing resorts in that vicinity.