Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

It appears from an interesting tabk of statistics just issued by the InterState Commerce Commission that the railroads of this cQuntry now-, give employment t 0704,743 work men. which implies support for at least VOOO,OOO persons... The magnitude of •fee railway-interest, and its important relation to the general welfare, are Bins forcibly indicated. If the natural increase of the French •* In France was anywhere near as great as that of the French in Canada. France might be able to keep up with Its bld foe, Germany, in growth of population. -Under existing circumstances, however, the lead which Ger many will have in twenty-five or thirty years will give that country an- immense advantage over its Gallic foe. ■Thebe will he no regular State canvass in New York this year, as the Republicans have nominated Judge Earl, a Democratic member of the Court of Appeals, to succeed himself. This is the only State office to be filled. One branch, however, of a Legislature which is to elect a United States Senator is to be chosen, and this will keep party lines pretty rigidly drawn.

There have of late been so many eases of train wrecking that the legislatures of the various States will doubtless be aroused to the necessity of providing some adequate penalty for this most fiendish of offenses, and the only adequate penalty is death. In those States which are squeamish about the infliction of this extreme punishment, the most we can expect is a provision by which the train wrecker shall be made to suffer the extreme rigor of the law. The person who kills one man with deliberation is certainly no worse than the one who commits a crime which naturally involves the killing of a score and does this with *ll deliberation and calmness. , The Prison Reform movement which is at present attracting go much attention in Canada advoeate (1) that the county gaols should be maintained for persons charged with crime, and not for those who have already been convicted; (2) that the gaols should be conducted on the separate or cellular system; (3). that prisoners should be dealt with and given occupation accordto their natural proclivities; (4) industrial schools for reformation and reclaiming of the better class of criminals, who are to be retained until reformation is accomplished, (5) classification of prisoners; (6) that tramps •hould be sent where they would find employment, and retained until reclaimed; (7) that should be sentenced for life. Now there will be rage in Chicago, for Boston quietly claims that it is really the second city in the United States. It admits that the census of the people actually within the corporate limits gives it only the sixth place, but calls attention to the fact that its enumerated population is included in a space of 37 square miles, while Philadelphia comprises an area of more than 120 and Chicago 174 square miles. It is further asserted that it would be necessary to include all the land within thirty-five miles of the Boston City Hall it order to secure an area equal to that of Chicago, and that there is easily a population of 1,000.00 persons within fifteen miles, leav ing the other twenty miles to make up the difference.

Th 3 report of the interstate Commerce Commission shows that of 704,743, railway employes in the country 1,972 were killed and 20,000 were injured in the year 1889. The greatest dontli rate was of course among the trainmen. Out of 138.223 men s o employed 1,176 were kiHed and 11JJ01 were injured, ft is certainly a dangerous employment in which one man is k’lled for every 357 employes and one injured for every 35. But taking the figures of the trainmen the death rate is one for every 117, and one man injured for every 12 employed. This should teach the railroad managers that they can hot afford to trust un- - skilled or unfaithful .men as. employes. And the employes should be even more interested in this than the managers, because'it is upon them that the loss falls heaviest in making it probable that one man from.every 12 will be injured and one out of every 137 killed. The members of the choir of thq Methodist Church iirFort Dodge, la., were taken ill suddenly during the services on Sunday last, having been poisoned by the odor of the flowers with which the ohurch was lavishly decorated. •

Five hundred women voted at the school election in Blnghampton, N. Y. llliyoia miners are preparing to demand an advance of wages to begin Nov. 1. A ctever two-doHar silver certificate counterfeit has been discovered in circulation. A Cleveland, 0., syndicate has purchased the Evansville street railway for 4242,000. .-TiT"., • - The first bank failure has occurred in Oklahoma, the Capital City suspending payment. ' • Christopher Coonrad, living hear Manchester. lowa, celebrated his liOth birthday on the 23d; The races of the National Association of Trot.t'ng Horse Breeders will bo held at Cleveland Sept. 30, Oct. .1. 2 and 3. It is believed that ex-Governor Foster ■will' accept the Republican nominatton for Congress in the Eighth Ohio District. Miss Nettie D. Willoughby, an authoress .of .sotrie. local note, was arrested at Lu verne, Minn.-, charged vriUi setting fire to a barn. The Cincinnati Board of Education decided by a vote of 17 to 11 against ousting married lady teachers from the public schools. E. J. Pennington, es Mt. Carmel, 111., has in vented an aer; almachine or aii'-sh ip, for which he claims a speed of three, buns dred miles an hour. .Nelson, a stallion owned by C. H. Nelson, of Waterville, Me., trotted a mile at Kankakee. 111., Wednesday, in 2:12, equaling Axtell’s record.' Sophie France has brought suit aerainst Solomon Oviatt, of Akron, 0., for $2,090. damages for forcibly kissing her. Both parties are oyer 60 years oid. : The entire corn crop this season promises to be about 1,565,000,000 bushels, a reduction of 548,000,030 bushels, ornearly 26 per cent., compared with last year. The 4,000 miners in Ishpeming, Mich, have decided to ask for a five-day week for the night shift. The mines ace making money and no trouble is expected. The Supreme Council of the Irish National League of America, in session in Cincinnati, has adopted scathing resolutions condemning the arrest of Dillon and O’Brien by the British government. The towns of Boston ana Springfield. Colorado, are at war over the location of the county seat. Two men are said to have been killed iff a battle on the 25th. The opposition to the natural gas monopoly at Shelbyville has taken definite forrni a new company being formed, w<th SIOO,000 capital, headed by Samuel Hamilton, to the Citizen’s Company. A peculiar distemper has broken out among the horses in Manchester, N. JJ-, which has baffled the veterinarians. The disease begins in slight lameness and culminates in swollen limbs and running sores. The President of the Mormon Church publishes a manifesto, flatly denying the statements contained in report of the Utah Commission that -plural marriages are still in vogue among the Latter-. day Saints. B. F. Fiench, loader of the Perry county, Ky., faction, was released from jail at Winchester on the 25th upon a bond of SIO,OOO. John Eversole and Job Bowling, two leaders of the other faction, were released on bail last week by'Judge Lisle. The test of armdr plate at Annapolis Navy Yard yesterday demenstrated the superiority Of French nickel steel over the English Cammel compound steel. The thirteen-pound shot shattered the English armor Into fragments, but only indented the French plate. Trouble is brewing between the Chicago West Side Street Car Company and its conductors and drivers. The main body of the employes claim that the company is fostering an opposition union in an effort to break down the regular union, and the men freely threaten to tie up all of the West Side lines. John H. Middleton, a prominent farmer was buried at Tiffin, O. Twenty years ago he froze one of his big tees. It gave him but little trouble for eighteen years, but after that he suffered intensely. Three months ago he had the memberamputated. Blood poisoning followed and his death resulted. He was seventy seven years old. A street car ran into the river at Chicago on the 23d. The accident was due to defective brakes. The passengers all escaped, some of them, however, by a very narrow margin. The horses were drowned. The bridge had been opened to -allow a boat to pass through. The street railway is down grade for some distance <o the river, and when the driver applied he brakes they refused to work, but he 1 showed great coolness and nerve, and a| calamity was averted. Mr. P. H. Lannon, editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, the auti-Mormon organ and Columbian Commissioner from Utah, said ■ in an interview on the 25th,“that in a few years, by increase of population and a rigid enforcement of the anti-polygamy laws, wewillbe able to completely throttle the Mormon monster. It is a great mistake on the part of newspapers and Congressmen to advocate Statehood for Utah or toads vocate its annexation to Nevada. The most effective way to suppress polygamy is to deprive polygamists of the elective franchise and political power. The antipolygamy laws are now bearing fruit. We will soon settle the Mormon question?'*

FOREIGN. The peace treaty between Salvador and Guatemala has been ratified by the Salva-1 dorian Congress. An attempt was made on the 25th, during the celebration of Independence Day, in Mexico, to shoot President Diaz. Another attempt was made on the life of the Czar on the 28th iust. This time it was planned to wreck the train on which he was being conveyed. The Catholics of Limerick are very generally refusingto contribute to Peterpence on account of their hostility to Bishop O’Dwyer, through whose hands the would pass. The Bishop is unpopular because of his attack upon Mr. Dillon and the ‘pkrti of campaign.” In an interview with ah English Catholic nobleman, the Pope said he fervently hoped for a renewal of permanent diplomatie relations with England. Under the

| beneficent raid of Victoria, he continued the church had enjoyed, throughout the British Empire, substantial liberties* lieports received at the Vatican from bishops and vicars apostolic, showing that justice ana protection were accorded to the church everywhere in the empire, caused him thejiyeliest satisfaction. He had the deepest personal regard for the Queen, whose thoughtful care-for the poor and suffering had won golden opinions throughout the world.