Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Vhile French doctors armed with goats' milk are aztacking Dr. Koch and his lymph, Father Grieta, a missionary priest tu India, comes to the front with an infallible cure, for cholera. Satisfactory tests of the drug are said to have been made in Calcut- * ta. andit is also reported that Father Grieta, who belongs to the Passionist order, has sent the precious recipe to his superior in. Rome, so that it can be kept secret and the medicine sold at a high price for the benefit of the order. This seems hardly possible. The Sun didn't do that with its cholera mixture. That grand discover}’ was fr?cly scattered far and wide for the benefit of humanity, and we presume the Passion ist fathers will,as a matter of course, follow the ga&d example. —N. Y. Sun. < 2- .... Several persons were recently serioush and two fatally poisoned at Pittsburg as the result' of eat inc smoked fish, an examination of which showed that it was unfit for human food before it was cured. There is -very little difference in principle between putting arsenic in an enemy s coffee and sending -poisonous stuff it the shape of food broadcast through the markets of the country. The di f ferenee is in degree, for the man wha commits a definite crime on account of a definite enemy is rather more re spectable than the one who hazards the. lives of innocent persons whorr he has never seen for the sake of a few mean dollars. Before the country is many years older there will be more stringent legislation governing the production and sale of food, and t hese will be enforced, for the abust strikes home to every man. The education of our youth is not what it was when the young man used to go to college purely’ for the sake of obtaining an education, work his way through by’ sawing wood or attending to the professor’s horse, and afterwards face the world in ah seriousness. In some respects it is better, in others worse. rThe world knows a great deal more now than it did thirty years ago, and many important branches of study have opened since those who are scarcely more than middle-aged walked out of college halls with their sheepskins in their hands. In those earlier days, however, the life of the students was far simpler and more wholesome,and it would have been an impossibility for the police to find a liquor selling students’club in any college town. Another large Indian reserve will soon be opened for settlement and cultivation. The Government has completed negotiations with several tribes in the State of Washington by which it will obtain possession of a tract of territory comprising 1,500,000 acres of land as soon as the treaty meets with the approval of Congress. The people of the new State have been very desirous of the opening of this broad tracts which is fully a half of the great Calville reserve held by two or three thousand Indians. It is the finest part of the State and comprises farming, grayling, timber and mineral lands. It has all the resources needed for the support of a large population, and. as a matter of course, it has plenty as fine sites for flourishing towns. There will doubtless be a heavy rush of settlers to the reserve as soon as it is thrown open to settlement.— New York Sun.

A man who is as good a republican as he is a musician has been arrested in Munich, and will probably be imprisoned, for playing in the streets tunes thought likely to excite sedition. The arrest seems arbitrary enough, but it can hardly be called irrational when one considers how inspiring and suggestive are the tunes of popular political songs in days of political excitement, like the Marsellaise in the French Revolution and Yankee Doodle in our own, or. the quaint shrill tune they pipe in Ireland that means the boycotting of a farm. If speech be forbidden, oth- 1 er modes of expression take its place, and music becomes as significant as words, and a creed may be con-| densed in a color, as in the green of Ireland or the red of the Anarchists. Anything may be a symbol, "-from a cross on a watch chain to the shape of the beard. One might imagine a * perfume being condemned, and not without reason, as seditious. Fronj any suppression of the utmost free, dom of speech to the minutest, most intolerable regulation of private life, there is logically and practically only « difference of degree. —N. Y. Sixu

Parnell will come to America in August During the second quarter of 1891 there were 892 new industries established in the South. Nearly 2,5<0 immigrants disembarked at New York on the 23d, 1,209 of whom were Italians. During the strawberry season Furnessville shipped one thousand cases daily to Chicago. Governor Fifer has signed the bill enabling women to vote for all school officers in Illinois. A statue of Henry Ward Beecher was unveiled at Brooklyn on the 24th with imposing ceremonies. t A syndicate has been organized with a capital of 81,000,0 Oto cultivate a farm of 112,000 acres in Florida. The horse shoe mills of the Diamond State Iron Co., at Wilmington, Del., were burned on the 28tb, causing a loss of $400,000. The Dalton gang of outlaws is reported to have robbed the Sac and i’bx agency, Indian Territory, of a large amount of money. ~~~ Preparations are being made for a series of naval maneuvers off the New England coast to test the value of our ships in actual war. . ' ■ ‘ .

John McKeown, son of the millionaire oil king, and two other boys were drowned while bathing. Young McKeown wa s worth 84.000,C00 in his own right. The United States legation in Mexico will be raised to the first-class rank on July 1, and after that date Minister Ryan will receive an annual salary of 17,590. The Nashville (Tenn.) Savings Bank closed its doors on the 23d. It was considered, heretofore, a very strong institutionLiabilities are placed at about 8700,090. The United States court atChicago held that a clause in an insurance policy exempting the company from liability in case the insured dies of poison or asphyxiation is valid. , In a fit of absent-mindedness Jay Gould came near being run over by a railroad train at Irvington, near New York, the other day. He was dragged from the track by a baggageman. Senator George, of Mississippi, is out in a 7-column letter approving all the principles of the Alliance, including the subtreasury scheme, and taking advanced ground of the Alliance itself. Rev. Mr, Cleveland resigned from the Boston Baptist Ministers’ Conference on account of a denunciation of Masonry, declaring it to bo a Godless institution, which the conference approved by a vote of 50 to 7.

Mrs. Ann Jane Thomas, of Patterson, N. J., aged 62, a poor woman employed as a spinner in a thread company's mills, has fallen heir to $200,000 and several valuable pieces of property by the death of an un cle in Liverpool. Harvey Mullins and Pike Cooper, two of a notorious gang of moonshiners, were chptured in McDowell county, Va., on the 27th. The gang was a desperate one, and were accused of several murders. The arrests were made at the muzzle of Winchesters. The Michigan House of Representatives has passed the Senate bill making the legal rate of interest 6 pei cent., and the outside limit on contracts 8 per cent., but defeated the making ten hours a legal day’s work. The Senate has killed the bill repealing the local option law. There is a prospect of a big furniture strike at Grand Rapids, Mich. The employes of the Grand Rapids School Furniture Company claim that they are locked out, and that their employers intend using non-union labor. The Furniture-Workers’ Union may support them by going out Secretary of Agriculture Rusk has put In working order at Chicago, his new bureau for the microscopic examination of hug products for export. He se’ected a corps of thirty microscopists, fifteen men and as many women, and they were set to work under the direction of Drs. John Michels, of New York, and F. H. Bernard, of Pittsburg, microscopical experts. The force will be increased until it is large : enough in examine under the magnifying lense a piece of the diaphragm and of the tenderloin of each hog killed. Those ToundTohe"diseased will be condemned.

The Department of State has been notified that the British government has appointed Sir George Baden-Powell and Mr W. Dawson, of the Canadian survey department, as agents for that government ! to visit Alaska and collect information i respecting the seal fisheries. The state- I ment coming from London that these men ; have been appointed arbiters (s erroneous. | The negotiations looking to arbitration of the claims made by the United States to jurisdiction over Behring Sea have not yet progressed to a point that would permit of the appointment of arbiters, and, in fact, the nature of the arbitration itself has not been agreed upon. Presumably it will be intrusted to a board composed of two representatives of the United States, two of Great Britain, and a fifth ’jiember to be selected by the first four. j<ut this presumption may be negatived by an insistance upon Russian representation, or it may be that some neutral power will be called In.

FOREIGN. . Serious riots have occurred at Bordeaux, France. I Parnell was married to Mrs. O'Shea on the 25th. | Chinese have murdered several missionaries in the district of Canton. Others have been abducted and are held for heavy ransoms, under-threat of death. - I Much indignation exists in government circles at Berlin over the renewed bitterness of the Bismarck organs toward the Kaiser and his policy, and especally the covert assaults upon the triple alliance. Most of the articles are inspired by Bisr .arck and serve to widen the breach between the ex-Chancellor and the Emperor, and there is yet a possibility that Bismarck may find himself called to account, notin the way of a judicial proscution. but as an officer of the imperial army endeavoring to undermine the faith of the people In the sovereign. Those who arc ' near the Kaiser say that his animosity to-

ward Bismarck has grown rapidly of lat< and may take a form unpleasant to th( Prince. •