Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The impression is genera} that money will be plenty after the middle of this month. { This will make stocks advance all along the line. Stocks ljust now are the only weak property on the market. All other values are well sustained. Th* appropriations for the benefit of the Sioux last year aggregated $1,523,000, and the present troubles will entail a large additional expense on their account. That is to say, tfiey are costing far more than they ate worth for any purpose. For four years, from 1877 to 183 V. the Sioux wore under military control, and during that time they made more progress in civilization than" is to be credited to thorn for all the rest of their career. Is not this a lesson thaj should be heeded in the work of sqlv; ing the Indian problem? The bonded debt of the country, which is the only part at till burdensome, will probably be cut considerably below the $600.000,000 mark long before the close of the fi seal year ot June 30 next. It now amounts to $618.000.000, and it was reduced to the exs tent of $7,000,000 ! in December. Of this sum $59,000.000 is in 4Js, which mature next September, and $559,000,000 is in 4s. which run to 1908.

- Wk are told that the Indians who attacked Qapt. Wallace’s party would hive surrendered if they had been ab lowed to retain their arms, and that the trouble would all be over. Perhaps this particular party would, but that would not have affected the course of the other roving bands, or o! •this band on the following day. But supposing that this party should have given up In good faith if its members had been permitted to keep their arms! What did they want with arms? Arms could have been used for butone purpose—to kill the soldiers and the settlers. Game is extinct in their locality, and the government furnishes them with food. Arms should never have been allowed them in tb place. The fact that such large r- M# bera of savages should have been allowed to rotain them in a section where tho settlers were so numerous and helpless, and the soldiers so few, is one of the amazing features of our extraordinary and infamous Indian

policy.

We infer from some recent pieces o! East African news, says the New York Sun, that the German Government does not yet fully understand the business of managing foreign territorial possess •ions. Of all the Nations of the world, England is the most dextrous operator In that line. She holds vast dominions in many parts of the globe; she establishes great and powerful colonies In lands faraway from her own shores, and she keeps under her sway hundreds of millions of people belonging to many races. She maintains the peace throughout an empire far surpassing that of ancient Rome i,h populousness and magnitude. English statesmen have learned by long experience how to govern foreign colonies and other possessions. Somo of them have their own Parliaments and enjoy Quasi-Independence; others are under

the direct rule of a Governor and Council, and othere are governed under an authoritative system from the Foreign Office. Instead of laying down a uniform system of government for all her foreign dominions, she seeks to adapt the political institutions of any given country to the character and condition of its people. Sb 6 blunders at times, but ordinarily meets with notable success. Now that Germany has become a large landholder in Eastern Africa, the Kaiser would do well to take notice of the way in which England administers the affairs of the region now under her flag in that part of the continent. ' The Methodists of Germany are almost unanimous in their opposition to the proposal to ad art women to the General Conference. A correspondent of the Zion's Herald, writing from Berlin, says that when the vote w»s taken, in the First Methodist Church in that city it was found to be 44 against to 1. In favor of the women. Whereupon' the pastor cried out; “Oh, children, I am ashamed!" Many of them regard the woman movement as ond led by atheists ana anarchists. The German Empress Augusta Vic. toria, who has already given her Emperor husband five fine sons, is now in her thirty-first year, but her fair, fresh complexion makes her look younger. She has an oval face, soft blue eyes, beautiful teeth and an abundance of blond hair, an ensemble which is pleasing and attractive, If not decidedly prfMf.

An ostmeal trust has been formed. The baseball war basoome to an end. Senator Ingalls has no chance to be reelected. The Indian war is over and tho Indians are snrremrerlng. - . The Nebraska Supreme Court recognizes |. Boyd as Governor, A negro has confessed that Mrs Sheedy, wife of an Omaha gambler, hired him to kill her husband, 9 " 1 One hundred Chicago Knights Templar j had pieces of their entici* transplanted to ! the thigh of a fellow knight. Four farmers driving across the railroad track near Clyde, 0., on the 13th, werestruck by a traiii and all billed. Mrs. Geo. W. Steele, wife of Governor Steele, of Oklahoma, was seriously injured by a fall at Mari on on tho 16th. The temperature at Lydonvilie, Vt, on the 9th, was 30 degrees below zero. Ice on the Kennebec at Augusta, Me,, is from 6 to Pinches thick. Judge J. A. Warder, of Chattanodge, •hot and killed S. M. Fugette, his son-in-law, wounded his daughter, and was himself wounded by Papeete. Three earthquakes occurred Thursday at Parral, In the State of Chihuahua. The gallery at the convent of the Sacred Hear gave way, killing six persons and wound

"lng ninii; “ —.7—- —= —-—:-v~vProfessor Koch’s report, published Thursday, describing the composition of his lymph, is comparativelybrief. lt says thelymph consists of a glycerine extract derived from the pure cultivation of the tubercle bacilli. A prize fight between Jack Dempsey, of America, and Fitz Simmons, of Australia, at New Orleans, on the 14th, for the middle weight championship of Australia and America, was witnessed by 4,500 people. Dempsey was knocked out in the thirteenth round. The Cincinnati ballot box case was reported by the House'Committee of Investigation- Tuesday— All whose names were on the forged paper are declared to have had no connection whatever with any ballot box schema. Governor Foraker and Mr. Halstead are declared to have had no knowledge that the paper was fqrged until after Mr, Halstead had printed it, and it is set forth that the moment he discovered it to be fraudulent heat once exposed its chai acter. • Great uneasiness is felt along the lower Mississippi owing to the unfinished and unsafe condition of the levees, and heavy snows North with prospects of a thaw. A repetition of the horrors of last spring’s overflow is greatly feared. Many thousands of dollars have been expended in the last year on levee work, and it is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible by the contractors, who hope to complete the work before the spring rise, as that would prove destructive to the entire Bystem if caught in an uncompleted condition.

A dispatch from Dubuque, la., says: “Thirty Dubuque saloon Keepers have locked up their places of business and left the city. Writs of attachment against them, running for three days, have been issued underthe prohibitory law, and they take this method of evading service. They will return Monday next. Wednesday another squad of 6aloon men will leave, and 'Thursday still another. Sheriff Phillips and his deputies were out Wednesday attempting to serve writSj but could find no open saloons, aud will so report to the court. Next week the storm will have Mown over and everything will be running as usual.” Delegates from 300 towns, villages and cities met in Topeka, Kan., on tho 13th in secret session to form a permanent organization of the Citizens’ Alliance, President Zercher, of Olathe, Kan., says the or ganizaticn is very similar to that of tho Farmers’ Alliance; iff fact, is a sort of supplementary organization. It will work in harmony with the Alliance, and for the same ends. No farmers, however, will be admitted to membership. The new organization will bear tho same relations to towns and cities as the Farmers’ Alliance bears t o the country. A joint executive committee . will decide upon matters in which both organizations Will take action Tho proceedings of the convention to day were strictly secret.

FOREIGN.

Minister Lincoln has arrived in London. A revolution has broken out In Buenos Ayres. Nine skaters were drowned at Paris on the 14th. The sugar crop of 1890-91 is expected to be one of the largest, if not the largest, ever gathered on the Island of Cuba. Only a small quantity of tobacco leaf has been Out so far in the Remedios district. If tho weather is favorable the growers will set out new plants In their fields in the place of those destroyed by drought. A dispatch from Tobolsk says that the terrible scourge known as “black death” has reached the city of Tobolsk, the capital of West Siberia. The whole of Asiatic Russia from Samarkand to the mouth of the Obi is suffering from the scourge. Thousands are dying at Obdorsk, near the of the Obi, owing to the lack of physicians. It seems almost hopeless t 0 try to check the spread of the fearful dis-

A visitor to Galway paints an appalling picture of the destitution in some of the districts. In Carraroe and other places many hundreds of the children are obliged to remain from school because they are absolutely without clothing-even a single garment, much less caps, shoes and coats. They remain In their cabins hungry and naked, crouching over a wretched fire. Clothing isas urgently needed in these dis tricta as food.