Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

* Thb public will not be iurpriigd at ithc news that the young Emperor of (Germany has fallen out with his moth* me. He no longer permits her to lake any prominent part in court functions, and although his wife, the Empress, expects soon to retire for a season, the mperor shows a disposition to be his own ‘leading lady" rather than per. mit his mother to appear in that capacity. The next manifestation will be awaited with interest. When afi young man sendS his mother to the rear he is not getting ahead very fast himself. ! Few people in this country know that within the last months a great fair has been held at Tashkcnd. the capital of Russian Turkestan. The exhibition included the display of products of the vast central Asian region and was in many ways a remarkable enterprise. Perhaps Its chief interest, however, lies in the evidence it gave of the oriental submission to Western influence. An endeavor to consummate such an enterprise twenty years ego met with ridiculous failure. Now. with the increase of interrelationships It has been carried through successfully, the Turks Slowly acceding to the propositions of the dominant raceswhich are gradually extending their •way, together with their railroads, into the darkest oi tho unonlightene 1 nations. A naval officer has made an esti* mate a 9 to the growth of tho naval strength of the powers. According to his figures there will be 'SOO armor clads in existence by 1895. Of this number Great Britain has 166, France 62, Germany 60, Italy 116 and Russia 35. If the proportion is preserved it will bo 6een that Gr at Britain will •till hold the supremacy of tho seas for some time to come. According to Secretary Tracy’s report, tho Unitod States has four armored vessels of the first rate, five of the second rate and one of the third. Evidently naval warfare U the last thing for us to engage in. Our new vessels, of which the Maine is foremost, are models in their way, but they are outnumbered seven to one by the weakest of the great powers. Tire greatest engineering feat, in the history o! the anthracite coal mining Is about to begin in Pennsylvania. It Is the commencement of what will be known as the Jeddo tunnel, toba dri’ - . en for the purpose of draining the flooded mines of Jeddo and Haririgh. ft will be constructed from Butler Valley to the bottom of Ebervalo Mammath Vein, a distance of three miles, through solid rock, to be eight feet square in the clear. The scheme of tunneling through the mountain first occurred to John’Markie, the Hazle ton coal king, who is to bg president of the company, which will bear the title of Jeddo Tunnel Company. Limited. It will open an almost inexhaustible supply of coal and will furnish employment for thousands of people for many years to come. It will s’s- serve the double purposeof draining all the colleries in the valley, The excitement over the threatened Indian uprising in the far West haextended across the ocean to Euro or, and the interest aroused there by the somewhat highly-colored reports ca bled over was taken advantage f in an interesting and amusing wsy by a smart American now engaged in llu •how business in England. 'lnis waMexican Joe. an associate of Buffalo Bill, who some time ago start d n Wild West show on his own account, and has been exhibiting in Liverpool Jor some time p*st with a band f cowboys and Indian t, depicting thrill Ing episodes of alleged life on the Western frontier. Business wa3 get ting duli, and the attendance at tae exhibitions was not so satisfactory as could be desired, when the Indian scare came to the rescue. A couple of weeks ago Mexican Joe had the city of Li - - erpool placarded with flaming Pesters, headed in letters a foot long “blood en the Moon," which stated that the following Saturday would positively he the last night of his exhibition, as he and his band had been orce-ed back to the United States to fight die hostile Indians. Crowds flocked to see ‘ho prospective heroes who v>-e soon u> face the savage redskins in dreadful warfare, and buricess during the week fairly boomed. On Saturday, as announced, the band broke tvunp and moved out during the night, out taeir orders to proceed to tho s«at of war were dvidently countermaded. for a few days later the show opened np •gain on the opposite outskirts of the city, and is still running ther„, probably expecting orders from the United Government to go West.

Business Is reported good throughout the country. - Four fatal affray, occurred at Kansas City on the 25th. Dr. Heinrich Schlieman, the famous archaeologist, is dead. Forty below sere was the record of Lyn donville, Vt., on the 36th, Incendiaries have been trying to burn the -Town of Dead wood. Dak. General Spinner continues to fail. He is at Jacksonville, Fla i The census shows that there are 60,630 Jews living in this country. A San Francisco physicion is said to have discovered a cure for cancer. The Knights of Labor are seeking co-.j alitlon with the Farmers’Alliance. J v I The Bi;ou theater at Minneapolis was destroyed by fire on the 2Sth. Loss 40,000. The Kennedy House, a large hotel in Chattanooga, v. as destroyed by fire on the ■tpsr The town of Oselia, Mich., consisting of 18 houses, was totally destroyed by fire on the 33d. - A mother and three children lost their lives in a burning building at Rochester, N. Y.,on the 2011 • Aid is asked for the Alahama miners who are on a strike. They are said to be suffering from’ hunger. ' , Two students at Ann Arbor, Mich., Christmas day, while skating, broke through the ice and were drowned. A meeting of tho manufacturers and Jtbbers of the plate glass trade will be held at Pittsburg in the near future. ,✓ 1 Agigan 1c c « spiracy to flood the United States with counterfeit silver dollars has been uncart in <1 by the Pittsburg police. David Baird, owner of the Woodpatch stock farm, Springfield Center, N. Y., and • qfleneer breeder of trotting horses, is dead The temperature at Lydonville, Vt, on theflflr, was 30 degrees below zero. Ice on the Kennebec at Augusta, Me., is from 6 to B inches thick. Kean. the Chicago banker who failed ast week, has been.detected in what may prove to be perjury. The affairs of the bank are in bad shape. John Galiigan and John Johnson, two miners, have boen held up near Salina, Colo., and robbed of $6,000 in gold, which they had just secured from prospects near by. A Dakota justice has ruled that Ignatius Donnelly’s “Cryptogram' l is a meritorius work, and that the cipher can be found in I Shakespeare’s plays, as claimed in the book. Dr. M. A. Dauphin, a native of Lorraine, for twenty years president of the Louisiana lottery company, died athis resi. donee in New Orleans on the 28th, aged fiftysthreo. A three-year old child of Dr. R. A. Bak. er, at Ness City-, Kansas wanderod away from friends onto the prairie, and before it could be found bad perished from cold ! and hunger. The will of the late Charles H. Allen, of Glendale, 0., has been probated. It gives $60,000 for tho purpose of founding a school at that place in which the tenets of the Sweden borgian faith shall be taught. At I’ostoria, 0., three highwaymen im personated officers, arrested Frank Myers •nd robbed him of $1,300. Myers resisted after bo found he had been victimized and was knocked senseless. The ci-acker trust is to erect an eno « mous factory in New York. This trust is ! a, combination of all-the principal biscuit bakers in the United States, particularly tho Eastern, Middle and Centra! States. The Nursery stables of the late August Belmont were sold on the 27th. Mike Dwyer bought Potomac at $25,000 and Raceland at $>.009. Phil Dwyer paid $5,000 for Prince Royal. Tho Hough Brothers bought La Tasea for $13,000, Amount of total sales, nearly SIOO,OOO. The weekly report of New York’s mor< lality shows the largest namber of deaths during any one WOfek fiver recorded there , save when the yellow fever prevailed in j epidemic form twelve years ago—236. In j the opinion of prominent physicians the i large death rate is due to the prevalence of the grip, of which there aro nearly 30.C0J cases under treatment. Count Parisi, whose death occurred at San Diego on Thursday, and whose death was followed by the attempted suicide of his wife, came from a noble family in Aus- I tria. His father formerly occupied apo I sition of state in the Austrian empire. He was forced to retire on account of the burden of years, but he still stands at the head oi one of the foremost banking houses of Austria. • The hull of a steamer, designed for South American waters, built at Elizabeth, Pa., is about to be shipped to New York, and over thirty cars will be required for that purpose. It is now being taken apart and loaded on the cars. It will ply on the river Magdalena. From New York it will be shipped to Barranquilia, nearthe mouth of the Magdalena. There it will beset up and launched. | The President on Friday appointed E. Darwin James, of New York, and Philip C. Garrett, of Pennsylvania, to be membersof the Board of Indian Commission* ers. vice W. H. Morgan, resigned, and Clinton B. Fisk, deceased. He also appointed Joseph W. Paddock, of Nebraska, to be a government director of the Union Pacific railroad company, vios James W. Savage, deceased. ——7 Cuch storms of sand dust as are prevails ing at Bloomington, Illinois, hss never been known at this season of the year. No rain has fallen for months. The wind has blown strong and continuous for several days and the dust and sand lay in deep drifts in the ditches like snow. The streams aro drying up rapidly and scarcity 0* water is occasioning great inconvenience among the farmers. The new anti-kidnapping league’s nation - al committee on the 29th issued an address from New York to the public stating that many sane persons have been proved in court lately to be illegally imprisoned in lunatic asylums, and that such imprisons m rnt is easily inflicted and to escape from. They say that rich people Whose property is coveted, and persons whose •pomes wish to get rid of them are specially l.ae.e to kidnapping. A dispatch from Martin's Ferry says:

■ Martin** Ferry has a woman who has accomplished something that Signor Sued, the faster, cannot do. She is Mrs. Timothy Callahan, seventy years old, and she has lived on milk and tea for four months, or 122 days. Her son Dennis says that for sev» en years he never saw his mother eat‘a bite of bread. This abstinence was not on account of poverty, but, stomach trouble. Mrs. Callahan has sever; children. She is active and is able to do housework every day. ——— An accident occurred at the Chicago Stock Yardson the 23d in which two men were instantly killed and several fatally Injured. The of on old packing house? the property of Armour & Co., was being torn down when suddenly the wall col* lapsed and fell, burying a number of men in the ruins. Mike Barry and an unknown man were taken ofit dead. Wm. Devine and John McEnery were fatally and several others severely injured. The Custom Department has imposed a fine of S2OO on the German sealing schooner Adele, which was seized at Victoria, B. C., last week. The vessel was charged with making a false clearance and failing to report on returning to Vie toria. No action was taken with regard to her cargo of sealskins which she had obtained from the rookery at St. Paul’s Island, belonging to the United States. It is held, however, by the best lawyers that the vessel can be prosecuted for bringing a contraband cargo into Canada. The fino imposed by the Department was promptly paid. The snow storm of the 25th and 26th in many places was tho heaviest for mauy years. At Albany and Utica street cars were stopped, a regular blizzard pre vailed at Portland, Me. Thursday was the coldest night of the season at Buffalo. A tremendous Chinook prevailed in the vicinity of Pierre, S. D. Ihere was from twelve to fifteen inches of snow throughout Missouri. About twenty inches of mow fell at Pittsburg, stopping street cars. Business at Wilkesbarre was par tially suspended and all trains are late. ' —— FOREIGN. ’ " Berlin has a population of 1,574,485, an increase of 359.000 in five years. "" Two hundred lives were lost by the burning of the steamship Shanghai, near Woo Hoo, China. The result of tho election in Kilkenny was as follows: Hennessy, 2,502; Scully, Parnellite, 1,356. Majority for Hennessey, 1,146. ! The Gaulois announced Tuesday that j Emperor William has decided to visit | Paris. The Emperor, according to the j Gaulois, will travel in strict incognito, and j will not take up his residence at the German embassy. Subsequently he will, according to the paper mentioned, proceed to Canes and San Remo. Further advises from China to the burnin f of the steamship Shang Hal, near Woo j Hoo, in the province of Ngan Noel, show | that the disaster was much more serious than at first imagined. It now seems that tho number of lives lost will amount to over two hundred, and that they all lost their lives by drowning; •- At a meeting of the national committee at Dublin on the 23d, Mr. Wm. M. Murphy who was in the chair, said that Parnel; had disregarded Ireland’s voice, and that it would be necessary to stop him in his mad career by every legitimate means. Tho committee decided to start a daily morning newspaper, which will be edited by Mr. CPBrien. The carriage of Archbishop Cro'ko awaited Sir John Pope Hennessy at Thurles. The arrival of Sir John in the town wss the signal for .rival demonstrations by the two factious.