Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Germ ant bw a larger population than France, and Is rapidly increasing its lead in this respect. It has also a far smaller national debt, and its tax burdens are lighter. Yet France. a» baa just been shown, can float a loan touch more readily than its great riva. and on much more lavorable terms This is one of the reasons why Ger n*any. despite its great military resources and prestige, is not at all anxious for another conflict with its old enemy. ■ :> * Ths decision us an iowa court that it is no forgery to sign another man’t hams to a railroad mileage book if likely to make those volumes more marketable than they have been. The railroads of the West can get around the decision, however, if they will adopt the sensible provision in force on some of the Eastern roads. Th e Boston & Maine road, for example sells mileage books good in the hands of the holder until the contents have „R been taken up. whether it is one year or ten. The holder, moreover, can take his family with him and pay their fares with the same book. In a word, mileage on this line means simply doing business at wholesale instead of retail and making such reduction iu price as wholesalers do in other branches of business. The new order of the War depart* rnent, promulgated by the President, limiting the punishment of soldiers so» offenses committed in time of peace. i> a wise one. No one who has evei dealt with children, with dogs or with liorseß can have failed to notice tha' the lees punishment is given the less is necessary, so long as a reasonably rational course of treatment is adopted. It is easy to reason with a child,ahorse or a deg, unless the human or the dumb animal be a fool, and kindness and firmness do more than all possible discipline. So it must be with the soldiers and, when they find that there is a disposition to regard them as human beings rather than as machines «ind as accountable not only in response to punishment hut to kindness, there will be sower desertions and less dissipation among them. It is not often - grat a man has the moral stamina to be much better than his fellows think him to be. It is quite probable that a number of high minded women in Philadelphia who had the modesty and hardihood to protest against the exhibition of certain nude pictures in the recast Academy exhibition, will be called uncompromising prudes. It was not a question of the nude in art, buta question as to the interests of in (giving the objeotionable pictures a place in the exhibition. All persons conversant with art realize the necessity and value es the nude in art, under cdrt&in circumstances. The euthuslns “"fedrfendersdTthis exhibition take the board ground that European i leas are the best, and that the committee in the present instance were justified by precedent in their selections, Ken yon Cox, who was one the artists aimed at, says that the objectionable pictures "when exhibited in New Yerk, evoked no murmur of disapprobation jfrom critic or publio. I must perforoe conclude that something is wrong with isither New Yerk or Philadelphia. Is New York given over to unelsanness or is it perchance Philadelphia that is pven over to Philistinism?’' Dornicks of ridicule cannot shake the stand the Quaker City has taken in this matter. A rxw weeks since a report was sent out from Washington to the effect that one of the Sioux visiting that city. Hollow Horn Boar, had asked the Ini dia.n Commissioner for a special interview, in which he declared his opposition to having the Indians put under oontrol of the War Department because of tiie immoralities of the soldiersThe report seems to have caused much indignation among the officers in the Indian country, consequently, when Hollow Horn Bear got back to the agency several of the officers asked him about these reports, interpreting one of them, Indian Agent Wright belog present The Sioux denied making such a statement, and read from a paper in the Sioux language what he said to the Indian Commissioner, which _ was nothing of the nature attributed to him. In reply to questions Hollow Horn Bekr said that he had neithe r seen nor beard of soldiers making mock marriages with squaws since the troops were there last fall; that Indian women were not permitted to ran around th* samps by the officers, and that he had seen nothing of the kind sinoe he was a young man, although he had been wSSb the troops most the time.

Tho Canadian Pacific seeks a direct entrance into Chicago. I Eight lives wore lost in a wreck off Norfolk. 'Va. on the -7th. Leslie Ellis drank a quart of whisky in Bangor, Me., and died. Tlyee lives were lost in a hotel fire at -Glean. O. Y. on the 27th. At Pittsburg 500 roughs mobhgd a Chinese funeral and robbed the grave. . Banker Kean. of Ctiicago, has beenindicted by the grand jury for fraud. The most severe storm of the winter raged at Osborn, Kan., on the 25th, The Arkansas Legislature has made Robert E. Lee's birthday a legal holiday. William Pierce of Marshall, Mo. was found guilty of rape and sentenced to be hanged. A Mexico, Mo., man died recently of hydrophobia, twenty years after the bite was inflicted. The erection of building for tin plate works that will employ 2,000 men have been begun in St. Louis. Dr. E. D. Lyon, of Chicago, desired to travel alone and his wife shot at-him to teach him better manners. 7 James Watt, the dissipated son of a California millionaire, died in a ten-cent. lodging- in New York city. The New Orleans grand jury will return a number of indictments against persons who bribed the Mafia jury. It Is reported that the political differences between Mahono and Langs tone, in Virginia have been settled. The official statement of T. Schwartz & Co., failing bankers, of Louisville, are as follows: Assets, $51*553; liabilities, $802,863. The Kentucky constitutional convention recognizes tho Deity and has resolved to add the words “and invoking His blessing.” ■ - ' John Gail Hamilton Allen, who has been suspected of being the murder of Uuttidger, was arrested at East Wakefield, jg H., on the 25th. The students of the Michigan Military Academy are undergoing a season of severe discipline ou account of recent mutinous tendem-irs. The Wisconsin Senate passed a bill requiring telephone companies to pay an Sienna! license fee of -3*^'per cent, on their gross earnings. ■The report of the pork -puckers operations in Cincinnati for the winter season of 1890-1891 was 301,051, an increase of 29,531 over the nreeeeding year. S. N. Lockhill, who committed suicide at Bordenlawn, N. Y., on the 20th, de- j frauded I. O. Q. F. lodges of $3,-too, and other parties of much more. Stanley’s agent cancelled his lecture date at San Antonio because the people were so bitter against him for deserting from tho confederate army. Ihe treasurer of the Sherman statue fund at New York was instructed to announce 1 uesday t hat $44,780, or enough to complete the statue, lias been received. Capt. W. Dowell, a well-to-do farmer and treasurer of the Alliance of Arkansas was bunekoed out of $3,000 on the 20th, by three sharpers by the same old card game Mr. Deery, of Dubuque, la., has a rare art treasure in the form of an oil painting. It was found recently in the ruined palac e of the bishops at the Spanish mission, near Santa Fe. Tom Hurley, colored, brutally murdered J. A. Burke, a telegraph operator at Cumberland Gap, Tena., and was soon after lynched by the people. There is a great deal of distress among cattle, slump and other live stock in New Mexico. The weather has been cold and she ground is covered with snow so that the sheep can not eat. The 2.000 coal miners employed in the Laurel Jelico districts are to strike May 1- ! They ask pay on coal before it is screened - and eight hours per day. The operators i have agreed not to allow the demand. The Maine Honso of Repifmontat.lvo*. "has passed a blil providing for SOOO fine or two years’ imprisonment for preventing byintimidation or force any person from en- ! tering or remaining in any man’s employ. ; Much damage hasbccndone-8.1 lOar j Moines by high waters. Bridges have j been swept away, and much valuable j property is threatened with destruction. j The river, which is already very high, is 1 still rising. A dispatch from Little Rock says the bill to pension disabled confederate sold iers and their indigent widows, and to ap propriate »10,000 for a soldiers’ home at Little Rock, has passed both houses of the Arkansas Legislature. The Tennessee Senate has rejected the bill appropriating $250,000 for a State exhibit at the World’s fair. The House, however, passed a bill allowing count authorities to appropriate money for ex hibits at the fair. In a three mile race M. Jacobs, of San Francisco, an amateur, broke the world’s record by skating three miles on an eightlap track in nine minutes, thirty-five and & two-fifth seconds. Tiie record for thre. miles has been held by Skinner, whose best time was 9:41. Senator Edmunds, who has arrlvedat Washington, declines to say whether there is any truth in the report of his intended resignation from the Senate, but intimates hat Senators are not ia the habit of resigning. . . "i' The Michigan Senate has adopted a resolution ordering a full investigation Into the allegations of Senator Wilcox that he was approached with a bribe by Gen. O. Owen, editor of the Shiawassee American* Resolutions have also been adopted by the House calling for an investigation into the charges of attempted bribery, reflecting upon members of the Senate and into the charges against Representative Fried, lander. Congressman Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, arrived at Boston to-day. He said the Farmers’ Alliance smote Senator Ingalls more in kindness than in wrath, and he believed him all right nfrw, and that he could hereafter be relied upon to further the interests of the people. He believed the Farmers’ Alliance wonld carry twelve, at least, of the Southern States in 1892, and it was almost certain they would have a presidential candidate in the field at that time. His views on the temperance ques-

tion were quaintly summarized in the remark that, “The Alliance thinks that it is not a question whether a man goes home drunk or not, but whether lie has any home to go to. The Alliance wants to first look after a man’s-physical welfare, before li undertakes his moral regeneration.” :TbO«teamer which w eat ashore a mile below Chipamicomico life-saving station on the North Carolina coast on the night of the 20th, is the British steams’mp • Straitfisrty, hound from Santiago de Cuba to Baltimore. Out of a crew of 'twenty.. six. nineteen were lost, including all the officers except tho second mate. Tinsteamer will be a total loss. The steamship Straitliarly was a British vessel of 1.236 tons. She was commanded by Captain Wynm_ShsJ£ft Baltimore Febuary* 25ToFHavanria7wbere she arrived March 7. She proceeded from Ilavanna on the 13tR'for Santiago Pe Cuba, where she arrivedoa the 16th. ,She was on her homeward trip from Santiago to Baltimore when she went on the North Carolina coast with such fatal result. The War Department is taking advantage of the cessation of hostilities among the Indians of Dakota and has of late been engaged in gathering some authentic in formation as to the probabilities of an* other outbreak this spring. Careful investigallons have been made by the bffteers of the army serving as agents at the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies and tha reports are not altogether reassuring. In officers assert that them need or need not be trouble, just as tha Government desires. An outbreak can be prevented, or, on the other hand, very little will fan the slumbering feelings oLtha. aborigines into a fierce flame. That is to say, the whole case rests upon the care exercised in the distribution of the appropriations. If the Indians get prompt ly all that is due thorn and there is not too much haggling, the.ro will bo peace. But the moment the Government attempts to Dakota tribes the hitherto friendly Indians, who do not feel very complacent over the late trip to Washington, will, it is predicted, surelyrevolt. These Indians are at present in the majority in the two Dakotas, as most of tin' hostile chiefs have Been taken bv an Indian show for a European trip, and the remaining hostiles are thus short of ieaders. They realize perfectly, well that the chiefs are not held- as hostages, but have gone as a matter of enterprise, and so .they would not necessarily be deterred from an outbreak through fear of retaliation on their fellows. These absent chiefs, however, are perhaps the worst fighters of the nation. Among them is Lean Bear, who has the reputation of being one of the most dangerous Indians in America, a well as one of the most atrocious. Has absence and that of his comrades from the ranks of.the hostiles would be a great gain to the government. Within a few days the Secretary of Agriculture will promulgate the regulations which are to govern the shipment of dressed meats to European ports under the new meat inspection taw. Secretary Rusk refuses to give out for publication the details of the instructions to agents of the department who will be charged with the duty of making the inspections, but he said all meats destined for Germans especially will be subjected to a microscopic test such as the German government requires. When the United States takes such'precautions as this to insure the healthfulness of her meat products it will scarcely do for any foreign government to refuse to lift the embargo on account of any alleged fear of impurity. Should Germany continue to refuse admission to American dressed beef and pork after the Inspection laws have been thus fully enforced it will place that country in the attitude of enmity toward the food products of the United States. Secretary Rusk has already demonstrated what course he will advise in such a contingency, and It, is understood that in the correspondence between Secretary Blaine and Minister Phelps tho department ad ..yflwd J4r.--Bhelps that the tests were to bo made, and intimated to him that unless they wore looked upon as satisfactory to the imperial government the United States will regard tho continc ued refusal of Germany as prompted by unfriendliness on the: part of Germany and in that contingeneylhe President will feel called upon to impose .discriminating duties upon all German products. FOREIGN. San Domingo is moving for reciprocity. Maurice Healv denounced Mr. Parnell at Sligo as a coward, libertine and liar. , Fugitives from Chili state that a veritable reigu of terror prevails in Valparaiso. □ It is claimed that, Parnell could not, elec a candidate to Parliament from any dis trict in Ireland. The exchange of compliments between he Parnellites and McCarthyites is fast becoming, unfit for publication. At a charity ball at Belfast, Ireland, a madman tired a shotgun among the dancers, kitting one gif!. Sunday the 29th was the liveliest day oi the campaign in Sligo, Ireland, and the time was chiefly occupied by tights between the factions. , Duriftg the performance of “La Mage” In Paris, on the 19th, the opera house was connected with London by telephone, and the music was distinctly heard in the latter city. , ■ i, r . It is becoming apparent that the lon£ threatened war iu Europe is not rnanj ' months distant. The English ministry i seriously embarrassed in this respect b> the Newfoundland troubles. The statement that the Portugese authorities in South Africa had declared a state of siege to exist ,iq Manicalaud is Is not credited. On the other hand it Is; semi-oifically announced that the Portugese government desires to maintain the modus vivendi, and to in no way interface with the rights of the British South African Company or with British subjects, esidingin Manicaland. A Singular case before the English privy council relates to thf, immense estate o the late Rajah of Andel in India, who lef all his property to the support and main tenance of his Tamil jr idol. From this the two wives, who thought they ought to be the idols, appealed. The Rajah had, It appears, no children. Decision has beet, curved.