Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

When Mr. Parnell say* that Mr. Gladstone is not to be trusted as a friend of the Irish people and a charnpioa of. their right* and interests, he shows himself to be most unjust and ungrateful. The Irish cause'owes the greater part of its strength and popu* larity to Mr. Gladstone's sincere and unselfish devotion, and Its chances of ■ucofess will diminish very rapidly in ease his services shall be lost for any reason. Parnell is one of the thousands of men and the scores of men eminent in history who have been wrecked by women. There is no influence in the world so powerful lor geod as thato* the woman who is what we all know our mothers and sisters to be. and there is nothing more demoralizing than the impulse given to a man by a bad woman. It is strange, too, that some of the victims of such enticements have been those who would resist any other ordinary, temptation. The more sensitively constituted the person, the more likely he is to play his career against a smile and his reputation for a kiss. "It is only fair tossy, however, thaiMr. Parnell lias never in his pjb11c life, manifested the least sensitiveness.

Lord Wolseley has a very poor opinion ©f the white trader in Africa. He says it is useless to appeal to his humanity or feelings. Tho average trader, he 6ays, does not care whether the vile alcohol he sells claims more victims than war or pestilence, or whether the arms he barters for oil and ivory cause large districts to be laid waste by the slave dealer. If he only grows rich ho cares nothing for all the suffering he may inflict, though Lord Wolseley adds that the mouth of this same trader is often filled with moral platitudes when he speaks in ■Europe on African topics. Lord Wolseley thinks African questions should be settled by the European powers, without any regard for the wishes or opinions of African tradersThe modern ocean steamer is an enormous craft. Those of the larger •ize have as many as fifty-four furnaces, which create steam in nine enormous steam boilers. There are furnaces to each boiler, and ten Bremen to each furnace—or sixty firemen in all. Only half of them ar e on duty &t once- thirty at a time*-the shifts changing every four houis. They feed the furnaces with fifteen tons of coal an hour—two tons for each fireman daring his four hours’ shift, or 340 tons a day for the steamer. The work of a fireman is hard, and not relieved by a sight of sea, sky or land. JJ© is a sort of prisoner in a heated dungeon. The pay of a fireman is S2O a month. His life—bo. tween heat, exposure and riotous dissipation when ashore—is short. The maximum age of the class is 45 years.

• TH* unseemly wrangles that have marked the preliminary efforts to organize the Columbian Exposition—announced to be held iw 1893 instead of 1892, as should have >eeu the case—'•'yiltcerttfliiTy work againstr the ests of the fair and may result in something very near a National disgrace. We, on this side of the water, understand how largely the rival interests of Chicago people are responsible for the squabble, but it will not be easy to convey to the mind of the foreigner an appreciation of this fact. Unless he ha 6 made a study of the political system in this country, he will hold the United States at large responsible for the acts of the State of Illinois and the city of Chicago. In fact, ha will be to a degfeo justified in doing this, for the reason that the Congress of the United States designated Chicago as the place for the holding of the fair.

gregated monopoly of f bo Gould*, Rockafeilers aud Vanderbilts now owns every independent railroad west of Chicago, and, excepting the Pennsylvania and Lackawana, nearly every considerable road east of it.. Tbe recent large purchases of the Rockefellers have increased tbe grasp of this octopus, so that it now holds the Pacific Mail Steamship company, the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe, the Southern Pacific and the Northern Pacific. The enterprise is one of threat ening proportions, and the latest purchases will be made to accrue to the benefit of the Standard Oil company—the greatest monopoly in America. There stems now to be 6imply no limit to the extension of the railroad com—blaatioß and Jay Gould’s eherished ideal of one company controlling every road in the country is nearer it* cation thah aver before. ■ i • #. 9 •• 1. i

A fire did $183,W00 damage at Athol, Mavs. , on t :ic Slat. Spotted fever is decimating the little town of Fairfield’ Texas. Ingalls has a very poor shew of being re elected Senator from Kansas. ■ ■ : Gen. Custer* widow believes Sitting Bulls death to have been a good thing. Signor Succi. an Italian, completed a fast of forty-five days at New York an thefiOUL Oswald Ottendorfer has sold the Now York Slants Zeuung to Herman Hodden for «1,0 X),000. Prominent Mormons have come into possession of 3,000,000 acres of land in Northern Mexico. A general strike of tho switchmen, fire*, men and trainmen on all tho roads centering at Pittsburg is threatened. Isaac Smith, Elmer Sharkey and Henry Popp, murderers, wera hung in theColum bUs (O.) penitentiary on tho 19lh. MaJ. Gen. Alfred H. Terry, of tho army. Cook’s predecessor in tho command of the West, died at New Haven, Conn., on the lfltb. Christ Kheiling, a tailor of Dayton, 0., Who put $3,C00 in a cigar box and buried it for safety, nas been robbed of the whole amount. The presiding judge has refused to quash the Indictment against ex-State Treasurer Noland, ot Missouri, oharged with embezzlement. The temperature at Lydonvllle, Vt., on the 9th, was 30 degrees below zero. Ice on the Kennebec at Augusta, Me., is from 6 to S inches thick. —— A gang of men on a new railroad in Wayne county, West Va., attempted to throw out frozen dynamite on the 21st Two of them were killed and ten permanently crippled.

Mrs. Washington Anderson, over ninety years old, Was buried at Dubuque, la., on the 20th. It is claimed that she was the last living representative of the family of George W ashington. There is a proposition before tho Kentucky constitutional convention for a redistrictiug of the State that will reduce the Republican representation in the Legislature to almost nothing. Ibe steamer Ferodalo burned to the water’s edge off the south shore of Lopez lalamj in Puget Sound, Monday night, J hei- erndale uad on board ,500 barrels of lime and a quantity of hay and grain. Tho Lorillard Brick Works Company, oj New York and Keyport, N. J., has been placed in the hands of a receiver. They are short of ready cash. Liabilities, about {1,000,000; assets estimated at $1,500,000. The total number of children of school age in the State of Illinois, according to the annnal report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction is 1,163,440; total enrollment of scholars, 778,319; teachers, 23 IC4.

At Blanches ter, 0., ,T. N. Lazure and Bert Cadtvallader quarrelled over a game of cards and Lazuro was shot and killed and Cadwallder, failing toescapethe pur Buing crowd, shot himself through ths head. . -. The State Farmers’ Alliance of Nebraska closed its session, electing John H. Powers president, H. G. Stewart vice press Ident, J. M. Thompson secretary, and Jay Burrows chairman of tho executive committee. The last car of a passenger train went through a trestle on the V/heeling and Lake Erie road near Canton, Ohio, on the 18th, and fell thirty four feet into the Tus casawa river. Four persons were killed and eight badly injured. Arthur Hoyt Day, who murdered his wife by pushing her over a cliff at Niagara Falls in July last, was hanged at 8:30 Thursday morning. The condemned walked to the scaffold with a firm amp and a smile on his face. His death wa 3 easy. In joint session of the legislature of Idaho, Thursday, Gov. George L. Shoup. W. J. McConnell and Fred T. Dubois were elected U. S. Senators, Shoup and McConnell with short terms ending March 4, 1893; Dubois gets tho full term of six years from March 4 next. An epidemic is raging among horses in Jefferson and Shawnee counties, Kansas. Scores of horses have died. In Missouri THe same disease has'recently made~i ts ap-~ pearanee, and is proving very fatal to the horses in several counties. An invesiiga- i tion of the disease is being made. A frightful accident occurred on the Intercolonial road, near Lewis, Canada.on the ISth. By some means one of the coaches became derailed, throwing off all j the cars following it. Tho cars were' thrown down an embankment. Five persons were killed and many injured. At the Coalburg mines, near Binning ; ham, Ala., on the 20th, a number of the striking miners signed an agreement to quit the Mine Workers' Un'on and return : to work. On the night of the 30th, while engaged in cleaning out the opening of a slope, a party of them were fired on by parties iu ambush, Petitions are circulating all over Okla homa. asking that Congress declare the present Legislature an illegally r»rganir«d body and all its work be sot aside, it will reach Washington on the 23d. It is the ■yitgrowth of goaeml dtssatifaction atnoiig the people over tho work of legislation, no section getting as much of territorial recognition as desired. — St j It is the opinion of the executors of tho ' estale of D. B. Feyerweather, of New York city, that tho various colleges to which bequests are made will be the residuary legatees. In case of this, and if the residuarv-. esfate is worth $3,000,000, Wabash College will get $1:3.000, instead of 150,000. It is also possible that it may' reach, $8,000,000, and in this case Wabash will get $260,000. . *- 1 A fibroid tumor weighing ninety-three and a half pounds, and said to be the largest of its kind in the history of surgery, was removed at the Pius Hospital, St Louis, from the abdomen of a woman. The patient lived five days afterward, and might have recovered had her case received professional attention a f i w weeks earlier. Death was due to the exhaustion of the vitality of the patient by thegrowtb L ' and not to shock of the, ope ration. Gen. Schofield received a telfcgrsan on ' the morning of the 17th from Gan. Miles

dated Long Pine; Neb,, fact. 18, os follows-: “Gen. Brooke reports that Two Strike and camp'-d at Pine Ridge agency, ind these, , together with the other Indians at Pice Ridgo and Rosebud, are all that can be drawn out of tho disaffected camp. * Tfie Others are defiant and hostile and are determined to goto war, has no hppe that any other effort at pacification he successful.” - Heavy snows have fallen in Pittsburg, on the 17th, and telegraph and telephone wires were rendered useless. Throe horses were killed, two drivers knocked senseless and a street car set on fire by electric light wires being down in the street All trains are badly delayed. Reports from the surrounding country show even greater damage. This is the heaviest snow in five years. The storm extended to all parts of the East, and the snowfal 1 at Staunton, Va., measured three feet. Other places report the fall no less heavy. FOREIGN. . The Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany gave birth to a son on the 18th. The ex-Empress Eugenio is reported a heavy loser by tho recent depreciation in South American securities, as she had invested very largely in them. A dispatch to the National Zeitungfrom Rome says that there is much anxiety' at the Vatican over the condition of the Pope, who has been seriously affected by the extremely cold weather. Dr. Ceccerelli, who is in attendance on His Holiness, is prepared for the worst. Tne Spanish coaster San Francisco recently ran ashore near Alhucemas, Morocco. A party of Moors boarded the vessel and carried off everything they could find. They made prisoners of the entirecrewand a woman who was a passenger, and doprived them of all their clothing, even stripping them of that which they had on. A detachment of native troops pursued tho robbers and rescued the prisoners.