Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Russian peasants will be prohibited by law shortly from selling or mortgaging their lands. ,_i.i ~ .. One of the most interesting presentations at the Vatican for a long time was seen the other day when the Holy Father received Mgr. Couppes, Vicar Apostolic of New Britain in Oceaniea, the first who have ever been seen in Europe from those regions. - the opening of the New Year the first Catholic periodical ever produced in the south of the Dark Continent has made its appearance. Its title is “The South African Catholic Magazine,” and its place of publication Cape Town. It is the official organ of the hierarchy. ' Australia has adopted a written constitution closely resembling that of the United States, and calls itself the Commonwealth of Australia. The chief executive is to be a Governorgeneral appointed by the Queen, but he will not be much more than a figure-hoad. In the newgovernment the power of the crown is a figment. Australia is gravitating steadily towards seperation from Great Britian and republican govei'nment.

The physician at the head of the Michigan Insane Asylum is an economist of decided ability as has been discovered by the legislature invest - gating committee. He keeps the tients on short commons, sells tho food and pockets the money, keeps back a month’s wages from each employe when discharged, and pulls the teeth of patients, ostensibly to keep them from biting the attendants, more probably to reduce the consumption of provender. A man of such marked ability should be given a wide field, say as tho inmate of a penitentiary.

Canals do not seem to have an easy time of it, in the way of money for their construction. The Suez Canal was under three different organizations before completion; the Panama Canal has come to grief after swallowing enormous amounts; "the Nicaragua enterprise “didn’t get there,” with the United States subsidy or guaranty, Now word comes that the great Ship Canal, which is to Manchester a seaport, is hard up. The Canal Company has bor. rowed all the money it could, and the city corporation has agreed to advance $12,500,000 for the completion of the great enterprise. -

The new war scare in Europe, so far as the public is able to judge, has no good reason for being. Emperor William does not appear to be in a bellicose mood at present, and if the stories about his mental derangement be true it would be to the interest of his chief officials to dissuade him from war if ho contemplated anything of the sort. France seems to bo minding its own business with a good deal of persistent success, and Italy neither desires nor can afford war. The only disturbance to this Arcadian state of affaire which is at all likely to come is from Russia, and that country is hardly in a yet, Seven with the aid of France, to plunge into the European war.

It is not often that a regular army officer has a good word to say for the Indian, but Lieutenant Glass, a recruiting officer at St. L6uis, is an wepptinn.. He'has many years’ experience as a commander of Indian scouts. He says that in spite of all that has been said and written about the treachery of the Indians, his experience is that they are only treach- " erous when they have been treacherously dealt with. Square dealing with them, he says, will always secure square dealing in return. As to their personal honesty he says: OWhen you lend an Indian money you don’t need to take a mortgage on his pony in security. He thinks more Of paying his debts than of supplying his necessities, and will pay what he owes if he has to go Jnungry himself. I have had Indians out with me for mouths, away from any source of money supply, when I have been obliged to lend the men under my command sums ranging from $1 to $8 or $lO to buy little necessaries until we could get back to heaJouar ters and draw our pay. In these transactions I have often been beaten by white soldiers, but I never lost a cent on an Indian in my life. No doubt many persons have had a very different experience with the Indians, but thus testimony from one who has bad 4 good deal to do with them should count for something.— jodianapolis Journal.

Borne, N. Y., had an SIOO,OOO fire onAhe 23d. ' New York received 2,331 Immigrants on the 23d. Bherman's friends are raising a large fund for his family. t . . ■ Two men were carried away in a cyclone near Claude, Tex., and killed. An Oklahoma Judge has' decided that womenare eligible to public office. *=== Wisconsin has a case of leprosy In the person of a wealthy Norwegian farmer. James Hopkins, of South Bend, aged ninety-sqjpen, is an inveterate rabbit hunter. _I Six hundred laborers at the World’s Fair will strike if their demand of SLSO a day is not granted. Ten diseased and pauper Immigrants, from Russia, were refused entry at New York on the 6th. Congressman Dunnell says Blaine will not allow his name to be used in the 1832 presidential race. _ - Martin Brown, a thirty-six-year-old longshoreman, died on the 6th, in New York, ofjstarvation. . Asilex mine has been discovered In Canada, being the first Glass factories are being contemplated. The erection of building for tin plate works that will employ 2,000 men have been begun in St. Louis. The new immigrant law is doing good work in debarring dangerous foreign elements from landing on our shores. A horrible cutting affray in which three lives were lost took place In an Italian tenement house in Hoboken Monday. George Whitmore, president of the Neppi (Utah) national bank, was buncoed out of 16,000 Wednesday by a gold brick swindle. The railway mail clerk who this year makes thp best case record will receive a gold medal from General Superintendent White. The Italian press complains bitterly of Jlhe leisurely manner in which Mr. Blaine replies to the Italian governments demands _ Chairman Dumbauld, of the Kansas Fanners’ Alliance, has issued a manifesto urging the farmers to join the third party movement The St Louis presbytery voted almost unanimously to recommend to the general assembly tho appointment of women as deaconesses. The Wisconsin Senate passed a bill requiring telephone companies to pay an annual license fee of 2 }i per cent on their gross earnings. ——— l : General Sherman’s daughters Indignantly deny the report that he was an improvident man. His estate was larger than was generally known.

The shoe manufacturers, Elliott & Co., of Haverhill, Mass,, doing yearly $500,000 of business, shut down because of labor agaitation and dull trade. Seven negroes who were to have been executed in Indian Territory escaped through tho connivance of tho9e who had been placed on guard over them. A number of special United States Treasury agents have been appointed to prevent immigrants crossing the Canadian border into this country via Halifax. Capt George Henry Mackenzie, the noted chess player, who had been in failing health for some time, died inNew York, April 14. Ho was a very successful chessplayer. Washington Frick, a prosperous farmer, near Waterloo,after a protracted debauch, and in lieu of whisky, drank nearly a pint of camphor. His death followed twentyfour hours later.

Monday was an exciting day in the coke regions and there were many small riots and disturbances, tlypugh no one was seriously injured. The women were the aggraaateef" oll The legislative investigation into the charges of cruelty in the penitentiary at Stillwater, Minn., resulted in finding Dep. “uty Warden Lemon guilty as charged, and a recommendation for his immediate discharge. - - - - Joseph Mulhatten, the traveling sales’ men's nominee for President of the United States during the last presidential election and a well known character throughout the country, has gone insane, the result of an Injury. Alliance members of the Minnesota Legislature have Issued an address to the people in which they declare that the wheat inspectors at Duluth have permitted, through connivance or gross negligence, 500,000 bushels of wheat, valued at nearly $600,000, to be stolen.

The marriage of Miss G&brielle Greeley only surviving daughter of the late Horace Greeley, to Rev. Frank Montrose Clendenin was solemnized at Pleasantvllle N. Y., in the presence of a large congregation, composed of relatives of the two families and the villagers on the 23d. Th“ Auditor of Allen county, Ohio, has reported to ’the Supreme Court that he has placed upon the tax duplicate, la accordance with its decision, the taxable property of Calvin S. Brice not returned by him for tho years ISS4-9. The aggregate is $600,000, upon which Brice will be requiree to pay taxes and 50 percent penalty for four of the years. The New York Herald prints a very sensational story regarding the incarceration of Miss Anna Dickinson in a mad house. Miss Dickinson claims that her imprisonment and the many indignities showered upon her was the result of her sister’s en- \ y and jealonsy. She is now tn New York to seek means of legal redress. Secretary Foster, in paying Hllnols her Share of the direct tax—sl,o47,ooo—held: p $316,807 as the amount due the United States by Ullnois on account of arms advanced Illinois in excess of her quota. This action of the Treasury Department is In accordance with the opinion of Controller Mathews, who held that a number of States owed money to the Government on this account, and that the amounts cue should 5e deducted from the direct tax refunded.

The unanimous impression among Wash* ington physicians teems to be that Sur-geon-General William A. Hammond has struck the limit on doctor’s bills. His changes lor removing a wen from the scalp

-of Senator Stanford’s wife the other day lyas $5,000, and the bill has been paid. To remove such a wen is one of the simplest operations in surgery, requiring only £ moment’s attention with a sharp knife,; and that is why physicians here feel Indignant with Dr. Hammond. The court house at Hansford, Tex., in course of construction and nearly completed, was destroyed by a tornado on Wednesday afternoou. A brick mason and another man were killed, Hal Wright, a citizen of the little town, was Injured. Every house was more or less damaged. From there the tornado traveled in a northeasterly direction to Pauldora, a little town on the Beaver river in Beaver County Oklahoma, which place is reported as entirely destroyed. Btfth localities are many miles from railroad and telegraph, and this accounts for the lateness of the reports. One hundred and forty delegates from the sub-Alliances of Sedgewick county met secretly at Wichita, Kansas, on Wednesday. One of the primary objects is to formulate a plan which will enable Alliance farmers to hold their grain until such a time as the markets suit them. Wheat, under this arrangement, is not to be sold at less than $1 a bushel, and it is proposed to raise a fund by a general levy and aid those who would otherwise be forced to sell. Another proposition is tho establishment of an Alliance bank with a capital of SIOO,OOO. This scheme carries with it a proposition to lend money to stockholders at 1 per cent, a yearT - u