Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The heads of the bit? European nations have good reasons for their dislike of France, Twice in its career in the past hundred years France started movements which upset several Governments in the Old World and shook a few of the rest of them. Its present prosperity under popular rule is a constant menace to every monarch is Christendom. The res torationof either the Bonapartes or Bourbons to power iw France would, in a figurative sense, be greeted with a regular hallelujah chorus by every crowned head from the Thames to the Neva and from the Mediterranean to the Artie Ocean. There is uo douot the World’s Fair will be somewhat influenced by European politics. With Germany and England in close friendship and Russia allied with France to offse* the power of the Dreibund, there is a very sensitive and jealous “feeling in all quarters, and our commission, will have to use infinite tact in orde r to bring all these countries to the point of making generous exhibits at Chicago. Of England we are certain, and probaD’-y of Germany; but France seems coy, and it is not un. likely that Russia will need a degree of persuasion to induce her to do justice either to herself or to th e Fair. ■ ' " What is this talk about a dress reform club in Boston, and a parade of dress reformers “on the first rainy Saturday in October, in a short skir j made of waterproof cloth, reaching but an inch or two below the knee?’ Where is that prim and prune-lippet delicacy for which Boston has lon# been famed? Are the dress reformers prepared to publish to a ribald work the fact, if fact it be, that the Boston women have knees? If knees, then 1-gs—but here Propriety hides her face and props her tottering limbs against the Cass monument. Mayor Matthews should call a meeting to protest against the threatened outrage. —N. Y. Sun. Our esteemed contempory, the Atchison Citizen, avers, with modest pride and a sweet simulation of veracity, that an Atchison genius has invented a vine called potamato, which bears potatoes under the ground and tomatoes above ground. The idea is able, but the potamato vine seems to be a reminiscence of the ingenious combination which Dr. George Bailey Loring of Salem, Massachusetts, discovered when Minister to Portugal. Dr. Loring grafted the common corkscrew upon the cork tree, and succeeded in producing corks with the corkscrew growing in them. For this brilliant service to agriculture, the King of Portugal decorated him with the Garnd Order of the Leather Medal ■(second class). —New York Sun. Exglakb is having great excitement over graveyard insurance, which seems to be a new thing in that country. Ten or a dozen years ago Ohio and Pennsylvania were infested with rotten concerns, organ, ized to do just this kind of work, the agents of whieh would take a risk up r on an octosrenariau when in articulo mortis. Other States were more or less affected by the evil, but these two easily held the lead. It was a long and tedious operation, rooting out the system, but after a few of the pirates had been placed within stone walls, the rest of them gave up the business in disgust and turned themselves to some other work probably quite as congenial and quite as rascally, for men of this class would rather at. chicanery than thrive in an honest pursuit.

The game of politics in Europe is interesting to study from this side of the water, especially as we are involved in none of its complications. Wilhelm, hates the English, but Wil. helm makes a ceremonious visit to England, is feted and feasted, submits to a kiss from his grandmother, -whom he does not like, and leaves with a fair assurance that the moral if not the physical force of Gr»at Britain will be with the dreibund in the case of a general war in Europe. The French profess to detest absolutism, and the Czar certainly does detest republicanism, yet the meeting of Wilhelm and the Queen has driven France and Russia into at least a show of friendliness. On the side of the latter it is free enough in material entertainment, but one can see that it Sits ill with the Czar to consider an alliance with a power that represents all that he is endeavoring to repress. The westerly side of the Atlantic Is a pretty good place in which to live. j

A case of fully developed leprosy Is reported from Chicago. Maryland Republicans have nominated Col. W. G. Van Nort for Governor. The Patriot ic Order of Sous of America voted against the admission of negroes. Thirteen beer saloons in Indian Territory have been closed by federal officers. Tho directors of the World's Fair have decided upon offering 1150,010 premiums for live stxrck. The Worden Furniture Company’s factory, at Grand Rapids, Mich., burned. Loss, 570,000. Secretary of War Proctor, will be appointed Senator by tho Governor of Vermont to succeed Edmunds. An explosion of gas at Chicago on the 26th resulted In the death of one man and the serious injury of seven others. The search of the ruins of tho Park Row building was completed on the 26th. Sixty one bodies in all were found.--The boiler of a largo donkey engine at Ben Dixon s ship yard, Eureka, €al., exploded, fatally injuring four persons. The wheat crop in Minnesota this sea-' son will not bo below 70,000,000 bushels, and will probably exceed that amount. Ai a stenographers’ contest at Dayton, 0., Isaac S. Dement, of Chicago, wrote 315 words in short hand from new matter in one minute. •' - V It is thought In Washington that cxGov. Cheney, of Now Hampshire, will become Secretary of War when Mr. Proctor goes into the Senate. Three bundled employers of San Francisco have organized a manufacturers’ association for the purpose of resisting the encroachments of trades unions. The postmaster at Chicago will return to the senders all the money orders and registered letters addressed to the National Capitol Savings, Building and Loan Association. Isaac Newton Raker, Col. Ingersoil’s private secretary,who was shot in a family quarrel at Croton Landing,N.Y.,on the Istlingers between life and death with four bullet holes in his body. The World’s Fair management has accepted the proposition of the Henry R. Worthington Company, of New York, to put in a pumping plant with a capacity of forty millions gallons per day free of charge. It is announced that the total number of seals taken in Alaskan waters since August 1, 18i(0, by the North American Commercial Company is 7,234, and it is estimated that poachers took about forty thousand. St. Paul Camp, Sons of Veterans won in the competitive prize drill at Minneapolis, with the Tacoma second. Judges, were officers in the Third Infantry, U. S. A.> from Ft. Snelling. Tho markings were: St. Pail, 93.6; Tacomaf 90.26. At Quincy, Ala., A. K. Allison, a son of ex-Governor Allison, was fatally shot in an altercation with C. A. Gee. Allison had been drinking for two days and behaving like a hoodlum. Gee first horsewhipped Allison and then shot him. The Census Bureau has Issued a bulletin on the assessed valuation of the real and personal property of the States and Territories. The bureau places the absoluto wealth of tho United States at $62,610.000,000, or nearly SI,OOO per capita, Michael Cramer, a wealthy farmer near Napoleon, 0., aged sixty, was arrested on tho 26th, on a charge of polygamy. Cramer has three wives, all living on the same farm. There aro three houses on the farm, and in each of them Cramer keeps a wife.

Tho friends of Estee, of California, arc urging his appointment to the Cabinet to succeed Secretary of War Proctor. It is said that Estee was promised a Cabinet position when he voted the California delegation for II arrison at the last Eepub ican convention. The largest sale of bottled whisky ever effected in the world took place at Lexington, Ivy., on the 26th, Tho stilling firm of Jas. E. Pepper *fc Co. sold to Strauss, Hart JbFelbil, New York, 36,000 ~calesof~ten-year-old Pepper whisky. The sale amounted to nearly $500,000. The first flouring mill to be erected in the United States by the Farmers’ Alliance, is now in course of construction at San Miguel, Cal. The corner stone of the structure has just been laid with appropriate ceremonies by lodges of the Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union. Divers have discovered an old wreck in Newport harbor which is believed to be that of one of the seven vessels sunk by the Hritish in Newport harbor August 8 1778, at the time Count de Estaing forced his way with part of his fleet and anchored between Great Island and Canon"lcut. Paul Conrad, President of the Louisiana Lottery, and a number of the employes of the company were held to answer at Philadelphia, on the 27th, for violating the anti-lottery postal law. The offense was the mailing of a circular captaining the revised report of tho Louisiana Supreme Court on the lottery revenue case. Wiiat would have been a terrible disaster was narrowly averted on the Illinois Central railroad, near Holly Springs, Miss. For the purpose of robbery two negroes placed a “stirrup” on tho track on a high bridge, and but for tho merest accident the entire train would have gone over. Tho engineer did not stop until the front wheels of the jocomotive had left the track. ‘ The wife of tho President on the 26th received a set of engrossed resolutions from the order of Patriotic Sons of America at Bellevue, Ky., extending their thanks to her fpr her determined efforts in having nothing but goods of American manufacture brought into tho White House, and congratulating her on her American ideas. Mrs. Harrison has acknowledged the receipt of the resolutions. Telegraphic advices received from points in northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota detail the damage to veget- ■ able crops by the frostSuuday night. Tho 1 small grains are not damaged to any ctl tent, much of the standing wheat being ripo. or beyond the period when frost would damage it. After the first scare b over it will probably be found that the damage is not great enough to seriously

hurt th« or grade of the berry, savt in the fields which were backward. Cort and small crops have been seriously damaged. Gen. R. S. Dryenforth, in charge of th« recent rain experiments at Midland,Tex.. passed through Ft. Worth on his way tc Washington. He is jubilant over his successful experiment. He says that in three ! weeks, under great disadvantages, six rains were produced, three of which were down-pours, and the last one was the heaviest rain in three years. General Dryenforthsays the principle is correci I beyond question. A mile in 39 4-5 seconds, at the rate o! overninety miles per hour, is the fastesl run ever made by a railroad train. This unparalleled feat was accomplished on the Bound Brook railroad, between Neshami-j ny and Lanhorn, by engine No. 206, drawing two ordinary coaches and President McLeod’s private ear, “Reading,” which is equal to two coaches in weight. The fastest five miles in 3 minutes 26 4-5 seconds; the fastest ten miles In 7 minutes 1‘ seconds, averaging 43 seconds per mile. An attorney named Cattln, hailing (rons Terre Haute, was placed under $2,00( bond at Chicago on the 25th. It is alleged that at the Palmer nouse he called upon J. W. Phillips, agent of Keeler &Jennings carriage manufacturers, Rochester, N. Y. and while Phillip’s attention was diverted, purloined papers valued at $50,000. Among the documents was a conveyance to Phillips of a half interest in a patent for aroad vehicle invented by George Herman, oi Terre Haute, a client of Cattin’s. After caving the Palmer House Cattin is said to have atonco mailed the coveted papersto Herman. Tho board of directors of the Gettys. burg Battlefield Association has decided to restore (he line of breastworks along the front of McGilvery’s artillery brigade on the left center of the federal line, to construct the traverse along the position held by Green s brigade. It was discovered that Indiana is the only State whose troops were at Gettysburg that has failed to make an appropriation for tho purpose of keeping in good condition the monuments erected to its regiments. At the meeting of the association, held on the 27th., a committee was appointed to lay this matter before the Indiana authorities, Charles E. Davies, better known as “Parson” Davies, manager for Jim Hall, the Australian pugilist, and Hall himself, got into a fight in a saloon at Mt. Clemens, Mich., on the 25th. After an angry word or two Hall struck viciously at Davie 9 with a bottle. The big prize-fighter’s arm was caught by a bystander, but shaking himself free, Hall attempted to repeat the blow, and Davies, at, bay, grabbed a lemon knife lying on the bar and dodging Hall’s powerful fist lunged back at him with the knife, striking him in the throat and cutting a terrible gash from chin to ear on tho right side and narrowly missing the jugular vein. Hall had a close call, but will probably recover.

FOREIGN. A woman named Lombard has Ibeen arrested in Paris for an attempt to murder her husband by pouring molten lead into his ear while he was asleep. Russia will not allow exported grain tq contain more than 3 per cent, of rye or I per cent, of bran. Reports, from Odessa say there is a talk thero of a prohibition ol maize. Four women have been arrested at Szcnttamas, Hungary, on the charge of poisoning their husbands and selling poisons to other women for a similar purpose. Orders have been issued to exhume tho bodies of many supposed victims. A tame bear, belonging in a village of Vitna, Russia, having been trained by tho servants of its wealthy owner to drink whisky, entered a tavern on the 27th, and staved in a keg of whisky. The owner tried to prevent the bear from getting at the whisky and the bear set upon him and killed him and three children. British society is.scandalized by a statement made by the Edinburg Scotmanthat a daughter of the Prince of Wales was recently seen lounging outside the pavilion of the naval exhibition smoking a cigarette ia full view of the crowd. Officials hasten to deny the truth of the report.