Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Ma. Hogg 1b the Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas. Is this the ••Great American Hog” we read about? Thx Panama canal company is asking for six years more time and other concessions. ‘AU fight, we grant this Ge ahead, .

Japan has established a woollen mill. The Japs are very good people and we congratulate them on this evidence of advancement. Martin Ikons, who led the great strike on the Iron Mountain road is now selling peanuts in the depot at St. Louie.— Probably he is in his sphere now. He certainly was. not during the great strike.,

The death of Kemmler was an easy one compared with the slow torture to which the public is now being subjected, by the long winded discussions—not to call them quarrels—of the physicians who. were present at the execution. The controversy is only fairly on, and bids fair to last until the snow flies. A doctor for a fight, every time,

It is the fashion to joke ••Little Rhody” upon its size, but when we consider that the City of Providence eomes within about 85,000 of haying as great a population as the entire State of Delaware, and that, in addition to this, Ward McAllister and nearly all the 400 are at Newport, these jibes should cease.

Or the 18,000 physicians assembled at the recent Congress in Berlin, 8,000 were from the United States. It is said that in spite of the extremely hot weather, this has been one of the healthiest summers in the history of this country, Can there be any connection between the absence of the doctors and the low death rate!

The total assessed valuation of Illinois lotsandlands issl,4lo,9Bl.osareduction from the last years’ assessment of $10,000,000. There has been a decline in valuation of farm and vacant lands of about $3,000,000, and of personal property of aboat $1,000,000, while towns and city lots have increased in value to the amount of $19,300,000.

New York gives us a curiosity in the form of a statute. On and after the first day of the, coming September, severe penalties will be prescribed for the use of tobacco by any child, "actually or apparently” under the age of 16 years. The prediction may be safely ventured thats if this law is ever tested, it will be knocked higher than the famous kite of Mr. Gilderoy.

The Board of Education of Columbus, 0., have determined that hereafter women should receive the same salary as that paid men for the same work. But will they increase the salary of the women or reduce the salary of the men? Asa matter of fact good teachers are not paid as much as they deserve for the service rendered.

For several years the District of Columbia has been a basis of operations against the Northern States for the Louisiana lottery company. Washington City was filled with agents, the press was subsidized and all went well. At last the authorities have Instituted A crusade against the tiger of the Louisiana lagoons, and the indications are that he will be forced across the Potomac or climb a tree.

□ The failure of the potato crop in Ireland is creating grave apprehen sions. A famine is imminent, but in a land where starvation faces thousands even in the best of seasons, the slightest failure of a crop upon which all depend means deprivation and suffering of the most acute character. M ichael Davitt is turning his attention to the matter and is making some timely suggestions, which, if acted upon may aid in averting much threatened distress.

The pension agents are so fond of the old soldiers that few green things grow in the paths between them and the surplus. Since the disability act of June 27, became a law there have been 206,000 applications for pensions. The activity of pension agents at Washington in drumming up custom has increased the receipts of the city pcstpffice there 33 per cent since June. One pension agent bought $5,000 *n 2-eent stamps, at once, and another agent, who publishes a weekly paper, sent out 1,000,000 copies of one issue containing urgent, appeals for applications. It i- oaid that the income of agent from fee*, ranges ’ m $1,200 to $2, /CO a d»- «

Ohio is short on corn and potatoes. Ex-Gov. Noyes, of Ohio, fell dead at Cincinnati on the 4th. Fire did *150,000 damage at Hiawatha, Kansas, On the 3d. ’A bank was among the properties destroyed. The 1 wife of Judge A. W. Tourgee, the novelist, was committed to jail at Buffalo on the 3d for contempt of court. Peter Peterson was killed by lightning from an almost clear sky while on a straw stack near Doland, S. D„ on the 3d. The Illinois State Board of Equalization decided that' all property should be assessed at 25 per cent, of its fair ciash value. A large number of counterfeit ten dollar bills of the Germania National Bank of New Orleans are in circulation in Kansas City. * While hunting horses near Derango, Tex., George Bott was attacked by a bear. His face was so badly chewed that he can not live. The ladies of Wakeman, 0., have organized a crusade against “hop tea,” which is steamed beer of about half the usual strength. ...... - . The firm of Sawyer, Wallace & Codexporters of cotton and dealers ih leaf tobacco, New York, failed op. the 4th for *1,500,000. Russel Harrison said in New York Friday that all reports about his selling his Montana newspaper property are without foundation. It comes out in the investigation that the employes of the New York Central were discharged because they were Knights of Labor. , Almont, the ten thousand dollar stallion, was killed at the Urichsville (O.) fair grounds, by a shaft of a sulky running into his breast, penetrating the heart. By the explosion of a coal oil lamp on the 3d, at 1504 Germantown avenue, Philadelphia, the house was set on fire and Mrs. Sarah Mclntyre, sixty years; Mamie Mclntyre, ten years old, and Annie Logue, seventeen years old, were burned to death. The population of the following places in Nebraska is given: Beatrice, 13,921, an increase of 11,474; Lincoln, 55,491, an in crease of 42,488; Nebraska City, 11,472, an increase of 7,289; Oiflaha, 139,526, an increase of 109,008: Plattsmouth, 8,403, an increase of 4,228. Various reformers met at St. Louis on the sth and promulgated the principles o f the National Reform party. The platform demands abolition of national banks, prohibition, government control of railroads, uniform marriage and divorce laws, a protest against the alien ownership of lands tariff reform, the regulation of corporations, the restriction of pauper immigration. I Single-tax theorists met in convention 'at New York. The platform declares that iall men were created alike, with certain I inalienable rights. No one shall be permitted to hold property without a fair re- ’ turn. There shall he no tax on products of labor, and all revenues for national State . and municipal purposes shall be raised by a single-tax upon land values, irrespective of implauded. Geologist S. S. Gorby has just returned from a visit to several counties of the State. He says the rains have improved the Condition of the corn crop materially, and the farmers now estimate the yield at a third more than they did a few weeks ago. It was thought the drought had continued so long that the corn was beyond any possibility of improvement, but the experience of the last two or three weeks has proven otherwise 1 Four men were out in a small boat on Lake Fields, La;, last Saturday, hunting ialligators, when a storm arose. Before the men could reach the shore a black cloud hanging low in the sky passed di rectly over their boat and a blinding flash of lightning darted eastward. Raymond Knight, who was in the vicinity watching the efforts of the men to reachthe shore, saw the lightning strike the boat and the men disappeared. All four of the men were struck by lightning. Three of them, the Bion brothers, from Pointe au Cliene, were dead when Mr. Knight reached them. A. M. V. Verdain, the Other man, was severely shocked.

A meeting of members of the New York Produce Exchange was held Monday afternoon and about fifteen hundred members and merchants were present. The ques tion of reciprocity was the matter brought before the meeting. Consul-general Williams, of Havana, addressed the meeting on the advantages of reciprocity. At the close of his remarks a resolution was adopted that the New York Produce Exchange as a body solicit Congress to urge such acts of legislation or diplomatic negotiations as would insure the enlargement of these foreign markets to American products. It was resolved to telegraph the resolutions to Senators Evarts and Hiscock, at Washington, at once, so that they might receive the same while the reciprocity amendment was being diss cussed by the Senate. The farmers in the southern part of Carroll county are greatly wrought up over the appearance of a man named Newkirk, living in Cleveland, 0., who claims a patent on the straight rail and wire fence which has become so popular among farm ers. Newkirk claims to,have purchased the patent from the original patentee, who lives in Texas, and he is demanding a royalty from every farmer using this kind of ja fence. An indignation meeting, composed of farmers interested, was held at Owasco. Resolutions were passed dec'ar* ing Newkirk’s demands an outrage, and a sum raised to fight him in the courts in case he attempts to collect the royalty by law. It is said Newkirk has visited other parts of the State and enforced the collection of this alleged royalty, the farmers paying rather than go to law about the matter.

, Twobf the largest natural gas wells ever developed in the Pittsburg district struck the land on the sth. One of the wells is located near Bellevernon, and is owned by the Philadelphia Company. The other is the property of the Bridgewater Gas Company, and is in the Wildwood field. When the wells were brought in they blew out ,the casings. It is estimated that both are good for 800 pounds rock pressure. The gas from these wells would be sufficient to ! run half the mills in* the city, and pretty

thoroughly explodes the stories that the gas was giving out. — : — V, ’ FOREIGN. It is reported that Boulanger is going to Italy. ' Fire destroyed 12,000 houses in Salonica on the sth, including most of the public buildings. A great flood has visited Austria. It was feared for the safety of Prague on the 3d. Great damage was done. The returning Salvadorian army was given a grand reception on their return to the capital on the sth. Michael Davitt gives a gloomy picture of the Situation in Ireland. Famine and cold stare the people in the face, owing to the potato blight and rainy weather, which prevented the drying of peat for winter fuel. Advices from China report the Yellow river again on the rampage. The river has burst its dikes in the Shantung district and flooded a vast area-of country. Thousands of persons have been drowned, and wide-spread famine has resulted. An attempt has been made on the life of American Minister Mizner, in Guatemala. The attempt was made by the daughter of General Barrundia, who was killed in the recent disturbances. Minister Mizner has been advised to flee the country, but refuses to do so. A span of the Charles bridge over the Moldan, in Brague, on which were a number of persons watching the flood in that stream, collapsed Thursday,and thirty j)f the sight-seers were drowned. Two more arches collapsed later. The raonu< ments on the bridge were destroyed. The inhabitants of the town are taking refuge on the house-tops. It recently came to the knowledge of Major E. G. Rathbone, chief postoffice inspector, that one J. J. S. Nicholson, of Lewiston, Md.y 'was in correspondence with “green-goods” men in New Jersey, and he ordered an investigation, which resulted in the arrest of Nicholson, who was, on Thursday, arraigned before United States Commissioner Rogers at Baltimore and held in *1,500 bail. Thisis the first arrest of any one who has merely written for the so-called “green goods,” ~ and the result is awaited with interest . Under the law passed by Congress March 2, 1889 it was made a penal offense for any one to. mail a letter ordering “green goods,” and this arrest of Nicholson is the first in pur suance Of the act.