Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Pour different mountain peaks in Idaho are from thirteen to* twentythree feet lower by actual measurement than they were fifteen years ago, and it is believed that this settling is going on with many others. The idea is that quick-sands have undermined them, and that the mountain market will go still lower. A tear ago the General Court of Massachusetts passed a law abolishing public bars, and providing that in bar rooms and saloons alcoholic drinks shall be served only at tables. A year's experience has taught the Bostonians what most men know intuitively, that it is easier to sit down than to stand up, that one can sit longer than one can stand, and that consequently the average beer drinker or whisky tippler will drink more, and longer sitting in a chair with newspaper on his knees and bottle at his elbow than leaning against a sloppy bar with one foot on the edge of a wooden dado and the other jostling a spittoon. The law, in fact, that was to induce temperance has been proted to promote intemperance, and those legislators who clamored Y most for its enactment are snouting for its repeal.

The Italian Government has ascertained that the riish of young Italians to this country is lessening the number of its subjects who are liable to military service, and whose names are needed on the conscription rolls. In an official Circular re. cently issued, all minors over eighteen years old are prohibited from leaving Italy without special authorization by the-Minister of and other minors who desire to leave must obtain a certificate that there js ho legal impediment to their leaving. It is to be presumed that the, enforcement of the provisions of this circular will result in cutting down our Italian immigration, so far as the younger portion of it is concerned. The Italian Government would now do well to issue another' circular, prohibiting the departure from Italy of suoh of its subjects as are debarred from the United States.

The efforts of Secretary Foster to get the subsidiary silver coin into circulation have excited the sympathy of at least one individual. He has received the following letter: To Secretary Foster: Sir: —If I understand you right, about the Subsidiary Coin, it is Coin of the United States and more or less; worn out, or is hardly passable.without Comment, you; say you; will send to any Applicant, such sums; as they; may wish—Not below two, or three hundred dollars; and free from all Express charges; and from all interest, I suppose; you really, give it to Me, right out, and if I am right please send to me the sum —of Five thousand-dollars —5,000 and as much more as you think; will be rigls and Just; and if it is sent to Me. as a Gift, or Present, you; will be a Doing A, Piece; of Christian work: Yours, Respectfully, > ■■■ From •... L B . No Andover Street, Corner of Concord street up one flight, stairs, Lowell, Middlesex Count}-, Mass,*

Sixteen graves that have just been uncovered at Fort Ancient. Ohio, are to be reconstructed just as they *rere found at the World's Fair, as a part of the exhibit of American antiquities. Fort Ancient is a great earthwork in Warren county, Ohio, overlooking the Little Miami river, ft is one of the greatest earthworks *>f the mound builders, but nobody knows yet whether it was a fortified tillage site or merely a fort, though it is quite certain it was built for defensive and not neligious purposes, and at least 35,000 people could easi. ly have taken refuge within its walls. Mr. W. K. Moorehead, who has long been excavating there, has recently published a book about this relic, in which he particularly- congratulates himself that the farmers let him excavate to his hearts content. Of one of these obliging agriculturists he writes: “The stone pavement we uncovered lies under his house and in his front yard, yet he made n° objection to our digging a large hole in the sod and flower beds in order that we might examine it.” Egyptologists have recently complained that the suspicious fellahin put every obstacle in the way of archaelogical researches, and that their conduct is particularly annoying when some object of interests £ happens to .be on or near their premises. It would be a fine thing if they could be infused with the helpful, and accommodating spirit of the Ohio granger.

Tho People’®' party has nominated State officers In low a. “* There Is a rumor of a “corner” In silver, engin«*red by foreigners. . Samuel Rohm, a rich ffrmer of Wooster, 0.. had SIO,OOO stolen from him by burglars. , c Secretary Blaine has arrived at Bar Harbor and is quartered- at ids summer house. - Devastating storms swept over portions of Wisconsin, ttiliiois;Tiidiaha and Ohio on tile 3d. The, receut storms have done immense damage. Several vessels have been lost ■on tiio lakes.

A mwdcr occurred at a St. Louischurch ■dedication on the 31st. and the attendants tried to lynch the murderer. Charles Bracken, of Covington. Neb., died from blood poison resulting from a cut on his linger with a piece of glass. At Chicago, 500 lathers struck for an increase of :.0 per cent, in wages. Ail the big contracts in the city are interrupted. Santa Fe, the oldest town in the United Suites, voted on the 2d for ineorporation. Out of a vote of about !tfO, £OO were for incorporation. —Six men •were-Imried twenty-seven feet* by the caving in of a sewer at Minneapolis Tuesday. and were rescued after two hours of hard work.

The standing committee of the Episcopal diocesy "f Virginia lias unanimously given assent to the consecration of Rev. Phillips Brooks ns Bishop. Secretary Foster has called Am national hank* depositories for $3.(.0/.oob of deposits to replenish the depleted surplus. This will make the surplusSß.uo3,<xio. It is announced that flic veteran, John M. Nchoiiehl. commander-in-chief of the _Ulifted is to marry M isstreorgia N. Xiibounie. of Keokuk. la. Under tlie act of March, 1801. thoTroasury Department lias assumed entire control of tlie immigration in Maryland, 'Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, At Grand Rapids, Mich., Charles W. Seidell pleaded guilty to bigamy, admitting tlie existence of five living wives and that he was preparing to take a Sixth. The President lias reduced the six years’ sentence of Robert Sigol, son oLGeneral Sigel to two years and nine months, and directs that a pardon issue to young Sigel tlii'ii. Ail tlie oat meal mills of tlie country are now under one management, with headquarters at Akron, O. The incorporators say that prices will probably be lowered. ■A yellow lir tree, measuring 113 feet in length by fifty,- two inches in diameter at the big end, has been shipped from Seattle, Wash, to lie exhibited in Clricago. The tree will is* called “The Seattle.” The sureties of State Treasurer Boyer, of Pennsylvania, have placed upon deposit, in several Harrisburg banks, $125,0001(I make good tlie losses sustained by the State in the Delamater and Jamison failures.

For several weeks a young son of D. N. Strayor, of Sidney, 0., has been, sick, his stomach being in a constant state of rebellion. Tuesday lie vomited up a snake ten.inches long, and about, as thick as a wrapping cord. It had hut one eye. t'l rt&in Tennessee coal miners and dealers entered into a combination to prevent competition, and to maintain the price of fuel. Judge Key. on the sth, decided that such an organization is unlawful, and a decree prohibits the combine doing business. Moke Hollyti«>ld v recently acquitted of train-wrecking in Baldwin county, Alabama, has been identified as the murderer of man named Williams, nineteen years ago, hi Mississippi, and has" Been indicted by the grand jury of Jackson county, o* that State. Andrew C. Merrill.a convict in the State Prison at Jackson. Midi., is preparing designs" for United coins of the dollar, half dollar and quarter dollar denomination in competition for the five hundred dollar prize lately offered by the Government. lie was sent up in 1889 for embezzlement.

Assistant Secretary Cronnse of the Treasury Department, has been directed to fully investigate the charges against Captain Meredith, of the Korean of Printing and Engraving, of ineompeteney and favoritism. They arc made by repcsentatives of the K. of 1.. Near Atchison. Kan., a mad dog hit a steer. The steer was soon afflicted with hydrophobia, which spread to the other menibers of the herd. The owners were three Yandorbiirg brothers, and each of them was bitten by one or another of the afflicted animals. The three brothers are each liovv' dead of hydrophobia', the last expiring on the 9th.

The board of election officers of Confieetieut refused last November to count ballots for Morris, the Democralip candidate, reading "Fbr" Governor, and. on this flimsy technicality. Birekly declined to give up the office to his lawful successor. The State Supreme Court yesterday decided that the “For" ballots were legal. These votes elect Morris.. She Standard Oil Company announces that #50,000 has been embezzled by its assistant Western manager and cashier John \\. Campion. He was turned over to tlie New York Trust Company, in which he was bonded. Campion came to Omaha from Cincinnati four year ago. He was a prominent churchman and frequently occupied the pulpit of the Church of the Good Shepherd. Ex-President-Cleveland has secured a lease, with purchase option, of what is known as the "Joe Jefferson place,” in Saddle River valley, near the line that divides New York State and New Jersey. The estate comprises about fifty acres. The large stone house upon it,which, it is said, the will use for a summer hqme. is Jong and low, being built in Diitch stvle. The farm is-in the prettiest part of the valley, and the house is surrounded by beautiful lawns and shade. I t ees.