Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DcßXXG^the -K-eek ending April 4, thirty companies, with a total capital of $23,078,00(1, have been organised in the South. This includes $15,000,000 for soap-works through the South. $1,580,000 for cotton-seed oil refineries. Texas has $2,800,000, Alabama SIOO,OOO, Georgia $2,000,000, wad Tennessee $500,000.

Owing to a disagreement the Yale base ball team will not play the Harvard team this year. This is a worse calamity’ than the failure of the crops in South Dakota and Kansas. The peoDle are admonished to bear the affliction with fortitude, for the assurance is given that next year we will have a presidential election and the year following a world's fair.

The great danger of the United’ States from the present large foreign immigration lies in the fact that the mass of the immigrants come from the most ignorant and superstitious elements of other lands. The Italian nation is noted in its better element for refined culture and respect for the ties that hold society together. Among the Polish Jews there are worthy people. _ Hut the trouble is that the immigration to the United States includes a very large proportion of the worst elements of these and other races —elements that European countries are | . very glad to get rid of—and that the j kings, who abhor our institutions, sinister pleasure in seeing dumped on oi.r shores. Self protection, the first instinct in individuals and nations, dictates that something must be done to restrict the admission to this republic of elements not only undesirable, but dangerous, and of no appreciable value in adding to the material or intellectual wealth or millitary strength of the United States. '

The impetus given to tunnel making by the great railroad, subway recently completed beneath the St. Clair River, between Port Huron in Michigan and Sarnia in Canada, is seen in the of work on another enterprise of this sort under the Detroit River, between Detroit and Windsor. The new tunnel is to be very muehjlonger than the one at Port Huron, its covered portion, or the tunnel proper, measuring 8,433 feet, besides 3,600 more in the open cuts at the approaches. Its diameter adds to its impressiveness as a giant among tunnels. The Port Huron tunnel has 21:feet diameter outside; the proposed new English tunnel to be carried under the Thames at

Blackwall, has 23 feet inside and 27 outside; but the big bore under the Detroit River is to 1 measure 27 feet inside and nearly 32 outside, and to have plenty of room for a double track railroad. Advances made in the manufacture of metallic tunnels and in the facilities for excavation have excited increased interest in this form of engineering of late years, and for a time the bridging of im_ portant rivers will be likely to find more strenuous competition than hitherto in plans for burrowing under them,

An association called the Prophecy Investigation Society held a meeting at the end of last month at the Mansion House, or official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. It seems that it was formed forty or fifty years ago for the study of prophecy. Of course, the prophecy of the second coming of Jesus most engages the thoughts.of the members, and the preponderance of opinion at the last meeting was in favor of the theory that He would appear before the millenium. That is the prevailing view among our own students of prophecy, as was indicated at the Millenial Conference at Brooklyn last year. The opposing view that the second coming will follow the millenium was rejected by speakers at the London meeting as an invention of’ the human mind, and palpably erroneous, on the ground that the conversion of the world to Christianity seems impossible without the return of Jesus. As one of them said, there are only 410 millions of nominal Christians in the world out of a population of 1,400 millions. More than that, heathen-

ism is factually attempting to propagate itself in Christendom, and Mohammedanism is advancing more rapidly than Christianity. There is a Buddhist temple #ith a full complement of imported priests established in Paris, and there are three Mohammedan temples in England, where the Islam propaganda is earnestly carried oa.

The Charleston has given up the pursuit of the I lata. * There were 2.563 immigrants landed in New York Monday. The cutters Rush and Bear have been ordered to Behring Sea. Margaret Mulhaney, who weighed 650 pounds, died at New York on the 25th. John T. Farris, who recently died in New York, willed 5250.000 to charitable i purposes, • A chapel car,' to be attached to railroad trains, with two missionaries aboard, was dedicated by the Baptists at Cincinnati. Congressman Houck, of Tennessee, died on the 25th. He took a strong solution of arsenic by mistake apd died soon afterward. V

Mrs. Estella Austin, known alb over the country as “Barmim’s strong woman,” died at Worcester, Mass., on the 29th, aged forty-five. Railroad men say tbatlhe Canadian Pacific is taking passengers, first-class, from New York to St. Paul, via the West Shore and the “Soo" lines, for $1.07. The city treasurer of Philadelphia, is charged with misappropriating $90,000 of city funds, ne is also accused of having TTSwtS.vnyoiX) of the State funds. Cornelius A. King, the New York agent for Hinchcliffc Bros., the Paterson brewers, has disappeared, and is alleged to be a defaulter to the amount of $20,000.

There were 254 business failures in the Uuited States during the past week, as compared with 237 the previous week and 232 during the corresponding week of 1890. * General Gordon lias issued an address to the South calling for subscriptions for the erection of a monument to Jefferson Davis at Atlanta,

The Florida Legislature on the 20th reelected Senator Call. The contest-forthe-position has been very bitter and a long one, lasting several months. Miss Lucy McKeegan, of St. Louis,died Tuesday from Typhoid fever and want of medical attendance, her parents having resorted to the Christian science treatment to restore her to health. Gen. 15.15. figgleston died at WicBTEaT Kan., oh the 28th. Gen. Eggleston had a brilliant war record and has held many places of trust and honor, atone time being Governor of Mississippi. Belle Britton, a concert hall actress’ who married Viscount Dinlo, a scapegrace, has become a countess by the death of her husband's father. His family are not at all pleased in the,matter. The control of the Salt Lake Herald, the leading organ of the Mormon church, has passed into Gentile hands, and the paper will be made strongly Democratic, advocating the admission of Utah as a State.

Eigbty-seven students left cthe classroom at Wyoming Seminary owing to a difficulty in the culinary department. The faculty ate strawberry short-cake, while the students had to content themselves with plain berries—hence the result. A crank at Seneca. Mo., purchased a flouring mill, closed its doors and constructed a catapault. Ho then made large numbers of big clay balls with which he -bombarded the town. The catapault would throw one of these balls a mile. The crank is now in jail. Henry L. Strahn, of South Carolina, the colored messenger in the Treasury Department who was connected with Green B. Baum, Jr., in securing appointments and promotions in the Pension Office for pecuniary considerations, has resigned on the request of Secretary Foster, to take effect June I.] A bloody riot occurred at Mahoney City, Pa,, on the 28th between canvassers of Wallace’s circus and a large crowd of men and boys. The battle was a severe one, and seven men, two fatally, were injured The showmen in this instance were not the aggressors, the trouble arising from the efforts of a gang of boys to force their way into the show. Information has been received at army headquarters from military sources at Ft. Bayard, N. M., to the effect that rumors of Indian hostilities are again rife in that quarter. It is reported that a man named Whittam was kfiled on Blue river, In Arizona, and that a family was killed on Eagle creek. A man named Campbell was killed on the Monagala mountains. Troops have left for the scene of the atrocities. The appointment of Rev. Dr. Briggs as one of the faculty of Princeton College has been emphatically (410 to 53) disapproved by the Presbyterian General AssemblyDr. Briggs was accused of heresy and found guilty before a committee of the New York Presbyterian Assembly. He appealed to the General Assembly and his case has beendiscussed with great vigor. The result is a vindication of the orthodoxy of the church. The U. S. Supreme Court handed down a decision Monday relating to the original package law. In effect the decision declares that the original package law passed by the last Congress i 9 valid and constitutional, and that it went Into effect in all the States where prohibitory saws prevailed without re-enactment by the States of the laws by which they forbade the sale of intoxicating liq, uors within their boundaries, whether imported from other States or not.

A game of ball was in progress at Springfield Ohio, Sunday, when two ladies with male escorts parsed. Taking in the situation at a glance,one of the girls quietly left her companion’s side and walking to where the batsman stood waiting a ball, knelt on the ground and offered a fervent prayer to Heaven that the hearts of the Sabbath desecrators might be touched, Then she arose, and approaching the captains of the two clnbs, in kindest tones reminded them that they were no}, keeping God's day and asked them toceaseplaying. The captains, deeply affected by her remarks, feelingly replied that her wishes should be respected, and they were. Announcement was made that Representative Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, will go into Ohio soon to stump the State for Governor Campbell, or any other man i minuted by the Democrats against Major McKinley for Governor, and that many other Alliance and independent

' workers will take the forum in opposition to the author obthe present tariff law. It is expected that some very advanced steps jvilljfee Recommended to Congress for the checking of immigration when the commission of which ex-Congressman Grosvenoris chalirman has made its tour of Europe and reported upon the necessities in the way of remodeling our immigration laws. He said Wednesday that the inflow of promiscuous foreigners must stop, and that it was working hardships upon our labor, since the bulk of the immigrants were laborers. Tim.second member of the commission is a brother to General Master Workman I’owderly, ol the Knights of Labor, who. is in favor of very stringent laws against immigration.