Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A DKsuRTER trom the army, named Soodcn, has been captured at Park* rrsburg. 'Hie officers think be is a dad ! un. , Germany’s new array rifle has a bullet shaped like a cigarette. It xtuld not have been patterned after * more deadly model. A man in Montezuma, Ga., has doped with three girls at one fell swoop. This beats any of the historic hauls of the Montezumas. These i-ailroad quarrels mean no harm to shippers and travelers, and yet, a good rate for Shipping and passenger travel assures good wages for employes, and in a measure affect favorably all who have<„dealings with Um employes. Texas has a Hog for Governor, a Pig for Judge, a Lamb for Senator, a Durham for Representative and a Buffalo for Sheriff, It would seem as if the Lone Star State proposes to ruu her political machinery on a “regular stock combination.” Mediocritt is a crowded field in fife, notwithstanding all arc striving to get above its plain surroundings. While its rewards are few, its requirements are proportionate, and it is not improbable that this class get a Mr share of contentment out

of life.

England has exiled King Theebaw, of Burraah, to Bombay. There he lives with his harem, his stable, his servants, and all the luxuries of the season, and without a care, all at the expense of the imperial treasury. There are some monarchs now in full commission in England who would be glad to exchange places with him. The time for the visit of Sir William Gordon Gumming and his bride to the United States has not been announced, but it is safe to assume that it is not far distant. Then what a quandary New York society will be in! It will not do to offend the ”deah pwince” by recognizing the visitors, and yet the Garner family has a position of its own, and no one has accused Lady Gordon Cumraing of cheating at cards. It is unlikely that either of them will be generally received, as a woman, when she marries, assumes her husband’s position and must accept its disadvantages.

Theaters have been crowded to their doors, with the card “Standing Boom Only” displayed; men have arisen before daylight and stood in line for hours to buy tickets, and the applause has ruug to the echo, all because Joe Emmet was the star. Tie was the star of a tragedy the other day. and there were but four in the audience, This was when his body was carried to the grave. Even the wife whom he had alienated was not present, and there is scarcely a funeral would not draw more people to the grave. Emmet anticipated the end several years ago, burying himself deeply, and leaving nothing undone to alienate his friends and disgust the public. At a meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society in Boston last week, that distinguished practitioner. Dr. Collins Warren, spoke of the improvement in medical practice during the past fifty years: “The greater neatness and simplicity of the drugs used to-day are in marked contrast to the clumsy prescriptions of a previous generation. The introduction of the coal oil products, including that valuable class of drugs known as antipyretic, and the possibilities of those inj'stbrious compounds, the promaines, of which Koch's tuberculin is a conspicuous example, gives promise of a brilliant future to therapeutics. But it is not in this direction that the greatestimprovements have been made. v For all will acknowledge what a boon the reform in the system of nursing is to the sufferer of to-day, and how it emphasizes the fact that the administration of drugs is but a small part of the modern method of dealing with disease. ” There can be no doubt that these remarks of Dr. Warren will meet with the .Approval of the medical prosession all over the country. . One of the main reasons why a bride is so proud of her hi sband is because she thinks he knows everything. Something warm seems to to have been suddenly taken out of ~ UMlubsii! ne wben sire finds that he .doesn't. •.

The public debt Increased *250,000 durTbe Georgia Legislature began a summer session on tbr Btln - Two hundred jioundsof smuggled opium were captured in Chicago on the 12tli. An estimate of Nebraska’s ljnandal condition shows that *50,597,043, or $47 per capita, is deposited In the banks of the State. Many gas wells in Ohio are said to be exhausted and many more decreasing in pressure. Enormous caverns, rivaling Mammoth Cave have recently been discovered In southern Oregon. Zi “Frenchy,” the New York “.Tack the Ripper.” was sentenced at New York' on 10th, to life Imprisonment. The Falls City B&nk of Louisville. Ky., closed Its doors on the JOth. *431,300; assets, *1,223,0C0. An elaborate programme for the dedicatory exercises of the world’s fair in October, 1892, has been arranged. The noted trotter. Abo Downing, with a record of died at Waverfy, la. The animal was valued at *IO,OOO. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, the noted philanthropist of Stamford, Conn., was adjudged insane at Kansas City. Hannibal Hamlin was buried at Bangor on the Bth, atr immense number of people paying tribute to his memory. At Keokuk, la., Tuesdavnight. the thermometer reached the lowest point that it has In that city for twenty years in July Max Copperman is under arrest at Cleveland on suspicion of having set fire lohis wife while she was asleep. The woman is dead.

It is reported that ail the barbed wire interests of the country have been merged intoa trust to be known as the Columbia Patent Company. The getieal executive board of the Knights of Labor has decided upon Toledo 0., as the meeting place for the next session of the general assembly. A negro lunatic, who was commanded by the. Lord to drive out all devils, shot and killed two colored men and a white boy near Olmstead. 111., on the 9th. A prohibition attorney named Price and his son were assaulted at Elkader, la., for having been instrumental in closing a saloon It is thought that Price will die. j Judge Ross, of the United States Dis trict Court of California, has granted a motion for an appeal of the case of the schooner M amie and Robert to the Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The employes of the Green Ridge ironworks of,Scranton, Pa., are out on a strike They presented a scale of wages which (lie owners of the works agreed to. Later ihe men repudiated their own agreement An Indian woman of 300 pounds weight visited Bath. Me., and broke through the sidewalk. The street commissioners then gave her notice that in her future visits die must keep in the middle of the road. | The City Council of Grand Rapids l Mich., Has discovered that George Perry, the city treasur, is short in his accounts to < ;lie extent of *16,987. As this amount has lieen made good the case will probably end there. „ R. H. Dungan, who was convicted of the atrocious murder of the entire Williamson family, three women and a man, eighteen uonths ago. lias been sentenced to be hanged at Eagle Pass, Tex., on Friday, September 4. Charles H. Burton, secretary of the Burion Jt Corry cider and viuegar manufacturing company, Albany, N. Y., has confessed to being a defaulter to the amount of *30,000, and it is fearod that the amount may reach *50,000. A decision has been rendered in the United States District Court at Kingfisher Okla., adverse to the Clierokees’ title ta the Cherokee strip. If sustained, Tt virtually extinguishes all rights of the Cherokees to the land. George Francis Train reached New York on the Bth on his tour around the world from Puget Sound. He expected to complete the trip in fifty-live days, but had been traveling fifty-seven days and had three thousand miles to go. Judge Blodgett has decided the Phcrbe Cousins case by rendering a sweeping decision against the ex-secretary of the board of lady managers of the world's fair, The-court held, in short, that Miss i Cousins is out of office and out for good and cannot be back.

A letter was found among .papers belonging to the late C. W. IVrry, of Lamar. Mo., written by himself a short time before his death, acknowledging that he killed J. P. Cash, near Paris, 111., twentyfour years ago. He had becu tried and acquitted of the crime. The Persian government has accepted an invitation to take part in the World’s Fair at'Chicago, and has name! Spence Pratt as honorary commissioner. United States Consul-general Crawford, at St, Petersburg, reports that Russia will be represented at the big fair. The decision, of Jpdgj Ross dismissing the libel against- the schooner Robert and Minnie, which vessel supplied the arms to the Itala, was a great surprise to officials in Washington. It is felt that this action will cause the failure of the original libel lodged against the Chilian vessel. The Kansas Supreme Court holds that the eight-hour law does not apply to any 'Of the State Institutions. This settles the question of an extra session of the Legislature, as the appropriations are sufficient to run these institutions nnder the old law and no extra session will be necessary. The New York Typothetae, a society of master printers, adopted a resolution on the oth, opposing *the demands of Typographical Union No. 6 for an increase of wages and a reduction of working hours to nine. The resolutions will be presented to the meeting of the national body in Cincinnati uext fall. The Missouri river has changed its channel at Atchison. Kansas, by breaking through Doniphan Point. The mainchannel has been transferred a mile east of where it broke through last week. The river is cutting the banks on both sides of the new channel and the water is flowing through,it. Norbert Trepagnicr, of New Orleans, is dead. He was noted asihflflrsl American citizen of that city whom the Italians

1 attempted to assassinate, the assault b« ing madc in the French market in 1859 His reported death was the cause of i popular outbreak, which resulted in th< death of thirty-one. Italians. The Hooper building, one of the finjfs, in Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire on tin Bth. Loss, *1,250.000. Burkhardt’s great fur establishment, and GeisenhorPa clothing store,with many lesser establishments were located in this building and included in tlie loss. Two buildings, one on eaci side, were crushed by falling walls. It develops that Robert Knight, president of the National Loan and Investment Comnany, of Middlesborongh, Ky., wit! *1,000,000 capital, is an ex-convict. He has disappeared, and Cincinnati, Chicagt and New York banks suffered throng! him, as did also many Middlesborong! people. A reward is offered for his capture. General Passenger Agent Whitney, o! the Great Northern railroad, of St. PauL has Just received an extended report from all of the company’s agents, in the Red River valley and No. 1 hard wheat raising district. The reports are general that thf yield will be far ahead of any previous year. A shortage of harvest hands is reported throughout the entire locality. An English syndicate, to be known as “The Atlantic & Great Lakes Navigation, and Trading Company,Limited,” proposes to open*direct water communication foi freight and passenger business between Chicago and Great Britain. The syndicate will bnild and operate its own vessels, for which purpose a capital of *5,000,000 has been subscribed. Jennie C. Crocker, of Providence, who> as an arconaut, is known as Nellie Wheeler, Is dying. At Waverly Park, Boston, on Saturday, she ascended some 1,200 feet In a balloon, and had descended to within about thirty feet of the ground with a parachute, when, fearing that she would alight upon some green houses she let go of the parachute and fell, striking on her back.

From Saarbrucken, Germany, comes an Item of news in pleasant contrast to the stories of strikes and lockouts everywhere. Villeroy’s iron-works, at Saarbrucken, have been celebrating a jubilee, and the proprietors have presented a handsome bonus in money to every one oi the. 5,300 employes. The event was of the most pleasant kind, both masters and men joining in the feast and recjoicing. Superintendent Porter, of the Census Bureau, has in preparation and will soon issue a bulletin upon the membership of the Homan Catholic Church in the United States by counties. The bulletin will show that the membership now numbers 6,250,000 communicants over fifteen years of age. This minimum limit of age to fifteen years ■will tie adhered to in the statistics of other churches which are in course of preparation——!• J. H. Phillipston and his son were killed by an incoming passengter train while crossing the tracks of the Big Four at Newport, 111., on the 7th. Mrs. Philllpston was standing on one side of the track and her husband and son were between the rails. Mr. Phillipston stepped to one side while the son walked off on the other to allow the traiii to pass. The father ran across to bring his son back and both were run over and crushed beyond all semblance to human beings. 11. E. Taubeneck, chairman of the National People’s party, is atFrankfork.Ky., taking personal control of the organization of the State for the purpose of polling A heavy vote for the people’s candidates at the election to be held Aug. 3. Robert ’Schilling will join him on the 18th. It is understood that they are hopeful of large results. A private circular has been issued by Secretary Schilling in which lie says: “A victory or even a large vote in Kentucky will do us more good in other States than hundreds of speeches and a hundred thousand documents.” Captain Hill, United States army, with a company of infantry, has established headquarters at Pond Creek, I. T., He is carrying out to the letter his orders to expel all occupants of the Cherokee Strip. Saturday numerous cowboys were arrested, and they were started on a march to Guthrie, where they will be examined by United States authorities. Some of the arrests were made with drawn weapons aud trouble was averted only by the superior numbers of the troops. The trespassing cattle have been rounded up, and .are closely herded by the soldiers. The Cherokee Nation had levied a tax upon the grazing cattle, and the Indians are enraged because the government’s action prevents its collection. The cattlemen who have so far escaped the soldiers will attempt to drive their herds into Kansas but they will experience trouble in pass? ing the inspectors’ lines, inasmuch as the cattle will come from the quarantined district.