Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — TEE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

TEE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Ws. foot up, in the penitentiarj census, 44,000 rasle felons and 1,8 Q( femaie—entirely too many womei and too few men. The tendency of American oourti is to hold that when a saloon-keepei pays, say $250 for license to sell li quor for a year the license is not i contract and may be revoked at anj time within the year without refund ing the money. The British Parlia ment has just taken a different view, and in revoking a large number oi licenses has expressly provided for i return of their price. Thk Arizona Legislature has passed a law pmviding that a reward of S2O( shall be paid for every Indian killed while carrying arms. The Atlants Constitution protests that “this simply encourages murder. Few Indians can resist the temptation tc carry guns and pistols. Under tht present law, designing white meD will make Indians presents of cheap firearms and then murder them in order to get the reward.” --ft The following instructions, giver to a jury in a recent libel suit at Jeffersonville, Ind., by Judge Ferguson, seem to us to be about right and fail to both aides: „ . = If the jury are satisfied from the evidence that the published statement, as set forth in the complaint, 15 trite, in such case the plaintiff is not entitled to recover anything, and the verdict should be for the- defendant; but if the statement is found to be untrue, and it appears that the plaintiff has been actually injured thereby, then the plaintiff is entitled to such an amount as will fully compensate for the injury done to him caused by such publication. If the plaintiff has not sustained an actual injury by the publication, then he has nothing to be compensated for,' and should recover only nominal' damages. t 11 i It is the easiest thing in the world to assign to a rich man many mil- J lions more than he has indeed, it is, usually the case, but when he dies and his property is inventorized, there is a fearful slaughter among the seven or eight figures which have been used to state his worldly possessions. A short time since John: Plankington, of Milwaukee, died with ( reputed wealth of $10,000,000. He; was at one time a partner of P. D. | Armour, and was then reputed to be the wealthier man. He had been thrifty and prosperous all his life, and had met with no reverses. On the contrary, all his trades had turned out well. When his will was admitted to probate, his property was inventoried at $1,600,000. That is a great deal of money, but it is six times less than $10,000,000. It is possible that were the property ol most men whose fortunes are put a\ tens of millions inventoried at the price for which it would sell in two or three years, there would be a similar shrinkage. But it pleases a lot of alleged reformers to remark on platforms that two hundred men ovq the bulk of wealth in the United States. ________ The new immigration law came into force at the beginning of the month of April, just ended. Very important work has been done under it during the month. The inspection of immigrants has been more thorough than it ever was before, and a good many of those who were found to be undesirable have been debarred. At first the superintendent was over-cautious about sending back some of the steerage passengers who were legal, ly prohibited from landing, and several of the steamship companies tried to shirk their duty of taking them back;- but Mr. Weber has recently acted with decision in enforcing the law and the companies have learned that it will be enforced. All the pai ties concerned are gaining knowledge by experience. During the first fortright of the month the inspectors laid hands on very few undesirables, but during the present week they have been able to discover as many as ten or twenty of them almost every day, among them being criminals, paupers and incurables. The Secretary of the Treasury is now taking an interest in the enforcement of the immigration law, and Assistant Secretary Nettleton has been here this week, holding conference on the subjeot with Superintendent Weber. The law must be enforced.—N. Y, Cun. - - _ -

Ex-Attorney General AlphonsoTaftdied on the 21st in California. Mayor Mosby, of Cincinnati has sat down on Sunday base-bail playing. The New York authorities will make a determined effort to enforce the alien labor law. *' In three sections of Texas, on the 17th i tost, hail storms nearly destroyed 24,000 acres of crops. Two-thirds of the California fruit canning factories have been bought by an English syndicate. ~~~ i The California fruit canneries have formed a trust capitalized with two million dollars’ worth of stock. Eleven hundred Italians arrived at New York Saturday with two cases of Smallpox. and were, quarantined. The 103 d annual Presbyterian General Assembly convened at Detroit on the 21st with a very largo attendance. it Is understood that the faculty of Harvard College has decided to prohibit athletic contests with other colleges. At the Elks’ convention at Louisville John L. Sullivan was declared not a mem ter of the order, and ineligible to it. ' 111., have teen starved out and have accepted a reduction of 5 cents per ton. A recent article in imitation of coffee has been introduced to the trade in the United States. It was discovered by a Swede. 1 Charles Krockel, a deaf mute of eleven years, in the New Jersey State prison, Is said to be the youngest convict in the country. Joseph Moncko run amuck in a hotel at Scranton, Pa., killing one man and injuring several more. He was insane from jealousy. A tremendous cloudburst of hail took placd near Salina, Kan., and the farmers’ wheat was nearly destroyed. The damage will reach <50,090, J udge’Tliayer. of the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis, has decided that trusts cannot compci flrnra teughtout by them to remain out of business. Pete Jackson, colored, of Australia, and James Corbett, fought sixty-one rpunds at San Francisco on the evening of the 21st, The fight was then declared a draw-. President Harr'r.on has issued a proclamation opening to public settlement about 1,600,000 acres of the land.of the Fort Bertholdi Indian reservation, in North Dakota. ■ • The deserted wife of Michael Welch, of Pittsburg, started on foot to reach friends inNanceburg, Ky. Near Portsmouth, G., she gave birth to a child in a ditch by the roadside. For fifteen weeks the life of E, H. Whitney, of Saybrook, 111., has been kept up solely by injections. He swallowed carbolic acid by mistake and his stomach was burned out. He will die. The sixth annual reunion of the B. P. 0. E. (Order of Elks) was held at Louisville on the 13th. Two thousand members participated in the parade. An Elks’ Rest (cemetery) was dedicated. At Coffeyvilie, Ivan., the postoffice was burglarized. About SSOO in stamps and the same amount in cash, all the registered letters and the money-order books were stolen. There is no clew to the robbers. Judge Van Brunt, of New York, has overruled the demurrer of the New Haven railroad directors to the indictment charg ing them with keeping stoves in their steam cars contrary to the statute. They must now stand trial. Dr. E. R. Carswell, an influential Baptist minister, has’ created a sensation at Atlanta by predicting the end of the world. His calculation is made on a mathematical proposition based upon Daniel’s numerical prophesies. The Hessian sty has made its appearance in the wheat fields near Jacksonville, 111., in great quantities and is causing considerable alarm among the farmed. The hay crop will be a total failure unless rain falls very soon. Charles King, of Salem, Mass., who was a kicking baby when Cornwallis; surrendered to George Washington at York town, died on the 16th at the age of 110 years, ; leaving upward of six hundred descendants through four generations. | Sam Jones is having remarkable success !in his evangelical work at Chattanooga. ; Among his converts are ex-Governor Taylor, Chancellor DeWitt, the chairman of ; the Democratic county committee, and a ! well-known Republican leader.. 1 Tlie liabilities of the Davis Shoe Company. with manufactories at Richmond, ; Ya.. Kennebeunk, Me., and Lynn Mass., ' are said to exceed $1,000,000. Hon. Joseph Davis, formerly president of the corporation has made a personal- assignment, i What is known as the Merritt conspiracy law, being a codification of thecommon , law on the subject of conspiracy to commit crime, the passage of which was the j result of the anarchist riots in Chicago I lias been repealed by the Illinois House. ' The switchmen who were foment ing and had arranged to strike on the Northwest- . ern railroad were discharged and new men put in their places before they could carry their design into effect. The eom- ! pany now refuses to take any of the old ! men back except as vacancies are created ! in the natural course of events, and the | leaders are notified that they will never again be employed by the company. THE CHARLESTON LEAVES ACAPULCO. Acapulco, Mexico, May 18. The Unitvd States'cruiser Charlestorileft Acapulco last night,. about 9 o’clock, after filling her bunkers with coal. She steered in a general southerly course, m a direction supposed to have been taken by the Itata. No onifhere knows what thecruisei 'g plans as Captain Remey kept his own counsel, and said nothing of his intended route The opinion is general here that the Esmeralda communicated with the Itata just outside of the harbor on Friday evening, and received from the transport a supply of provisions, after which the Itata continued her flight to the south. Even ■ if the Esmeralda secures credit and per- ; mission to coal, it will take her two days to get fuel abroad, so it seems hardly pro- [ bable il at she will be able to be present w hen the Charleston overhauls the Itata.

The Charleston took on board a sufficient coal supply for a ten-days’ run at topspeed, which should enable tier to catch the Itata, provided she fc on the track of the fleeting vessel. * The-Chilian Times announces that by special agreemerft with Germany, Great Britain is taking German interests in Chili under her protection until the arrival of three German-war ships, which are now en route. The Times says the War Sprite forced an apology out of the insurgent man-of-war Blanco Encalada just before the latter was sunk by the torpedo boats. The Blanco was engaged in blocksiding Iquiqui when she, with other vessels of the blockading fleet, pan out of coal. The English and German merchantmen were lying side by side, bctil coal-laden. The rebel fleet took hold of them on the pretense that they were in range In the event of firing and towed them out to sea, despite the protests of the captains. When out of range of the fort’s guns the insurgents made a forced purchase of such coal as they needed. They voluntarily paid an extravagant price for it, but nevertheless the captains of the vessels reported the matter to the British Admiral, Holham, who gave the Blaneo the option of apologizing or fighting inside of twenty-four at noon the Blanco ran up the British and German flags above their standard and fired a royal salute. The coalwould have been replaced and the ships towed back to their former anchorage but for the fact that most of the coal had been burned and the two merchantmen had no further business at Iquiqui. " :