Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Wisconsin- seems to be among the modest states in its views of sentation at the Columbian Expo&i* tion. The Milwaukee Sentinel says’ “It is just as well that Wisconsin does not combine with three other states for a general headquarters building at the worlds fair. With her small appropriation she would be able to call only about four shingles of the building her own. A tent of summer-resort proportions will be commensurate with the legislative interest in the fair.” Tdk readiness with which the Chinaman adapts himself to the position of defendant in an American court is admirable. An immigrant of another race, being arrested and confronted with a charge of any kind,Qwould be confused and might possibly-not make any defense, but the son of the Orient goes into the pocket of his baggy trousers, which is always well filled, engages a lawyer arid settles down to a fight as if he enjoyed itHe fights to the end, too. thriving on appeals and motions for a new trial, and often wiggles out of an apparently hopeless position by sheer force of litigious persistence.

TnE attempt of the Louisiana Lottery company to capture the Farmer’s Alliance in that state was a wretched failure. The company based its appeal to the state convention on the argument that as over 90 per cent of receipts of the lottery came from other states, Louisiana could lose nothing. But this did not weigh with the farmers. They do not believe they are driving money out of the state by opposing the lottery, for the reason that its existence gives Louisiana a bad name that keeps investors out, and in-" duces a mania for gambling that en geuders thriftlessness and shiftless ness among the people.

Tue widespread political turbnlenee in the Chinese empire is clearly ominous of a general uprising which may possibly involve the existence of the present dynasty. Multitudes among the working classes are rendered desperate by enforced idleness. The fiendish massacre of our missionaries was only one step in a revolution which aims at the extermination of the imperial family and the inauguration of a new government. In such a crisis it is the business of the western powers to act for tlyx protection of their own jntefests. Nothing has been doneribus far except by the American and —French consuls. England exhibits a suspicious apathy. Her old enemy, Russia, is running a Siberian railroad along the northern borders of India and China, a constant menace to both nations. Does the present forbearance of England imply a desire to make treaty relations with China which would enable her to hold Russia in check when the Czar the Celestial empire?

The proposal to pension the oman. cipated negroes is urged by the Hon. Frederick Douglas for a reason that on its face is not without plausibility. “The Nation," he says, “as a Nation, has sinned against the negro. It robbed him of the rewards labor during more than two hundred years, and its repentance will not be genuine and complete until, according to the measure of its ability, it shaH have made restitution. The argument sounds just and reasonable until it is remembered that the history of civilization has been the record of 'a'very slow and gradual evolution from barbarism, and that it is wrong to judge one generation by the ethical standard of a later generation. Each generation has to bear the burden of its own sins against such light as its own conscience affords it, and fortunately is not responsible for the sins of tire past. Until the millenium we shall have enough to do to grieve for our own individual sins and repent of them, instead of having the sins of our fathers imputed to us. Slavery and a belief in slavery has been a stage in civilization, a stage at which some nation* lingered over long, and that stage now in all civilized lands is passed forever. But it is absurd to claim that this age owes in actual justice an indemnity, not exacted by nature, for the >hnrety of the past, as it wou’u be to urge that we should all bo imprisoned to-day because our ancestors generally got drunk. Nature exacts her own vengeance for srueh antenatal crimes, and they ase gout and poverty and civil wi —N. Y. Bun.

A case of fully developed leprosy Is ret ported from Chicago. The Tennessee legislature is In extra session at Nashville. The outlook for the rice crop in South Carolina is discouraging. ; u • ■— The Chilian war is ended, and the socalled insurgents have, taken charge of the government. The threatened deficit in the World's Fair appropriation will probably be’avoided by a cut In the salaries of the officials. Lieutenant- GovoKiof Jones, of New York, has expressed a willingness to run for Governor on an independent ticket this fall. The American steamer George W. Star has been seized by a Government revenue cutter for smuggling Chinese tote the country Mrs. Cavender, of Newago, Mich., was tarredjand feathered by the wives of two men with whom Mrs. C. was reported to be intimate. < Senator Squires, of Washington, denies emphatically the reports that he has been tenlered and will accept the appointment as minister to China. The world's record for speed hy pacing stallions on a half-mile track was broken by Roy lie.went the mile in 2:l4*<. Secretary Rusk has returned to Washington froriThis visit to the President at Cape May. He has resumed his duties at the Department of Agriculture. David Rro.wjileer a compositor, shot Cyrus Leemilig, a decorator and paperhanger, at Orange, N. J.. Sunday. The latter traduced the former's daughter. Tite special race Tor *3,000, between Kingston and Vanßuren, of Chicago, was easily won by the former in 1:50%, the distance being one mile and a sixteenth. John Ruttiman and his seven-year-old daughter were killed at Dearborn, Mich.. Sunday, while walking across the railroad track. Both were fearfully mangled, J. A. Ross, treasurer of Kingsburg county, South Dakota, lias been placed in jail in default of *3,030 bail, charged with defrauding the county out of a large sum of money. Five thousand acres of hay l«md, studded with stacks, were swept clean&y a prairie fire supposed to have caught from a Northern Pacific locomotive, near Grand Forks, N. D., on the Ist. The schooner l’anrionia, of San Francisco, with four passengers and a crew o { seven Americans, was wrecked on the rec* northwest of the Hawaiian Islands. All on hoard perished.

Rev. S. C. Stons, a Methodist minister, was arrested at Memphis for setting fire to a storage house which he purchased some time since. He declares that the use of opium has unsettled him. Isaac Newton Baker, Col. Ingersoll's private secretary, who was shot in a family quarrel at Croton Landing,N.Y.,on the Ist lingers between life and death with four bullet holes in his body. By a majority opinion, the full bench of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts has decided that a wife who leaves her husband for good cause may bring a petition for separate support immediately after leaving. Alary Salisbury, aged 102 years, died at her home near Buckingham. Her husband, Daniel Salisbury, who is 103 years old, has been sick for over a. week and is rapidly sinking; They- had been married over eighty fears. , Trie Treasury Department, having sassed to continue all the matured 4>j percent, bonds at 2 per cent., will redeem those that are presented. The total continued amounts to *23.403.550. So far *2,500,000 have been offered for redemption. Six weeks ago Jolln Webb, a wealthy 63-year-o!d farmer of Benton, 111., became a widower. Last Sunday his wife’s funeral was preached at the church, and thp minister accompanied him home and united him in marriage to a second wife. An attempt was made to hold up and rob an express train near Modesto, Calyon the fth. The attempt was a desperate one, men. (JflP-oFtHc’train men, named llar--ris,-was killed; —Thoroboars were finally driven off.

The receipts of wheat at St. Loui6 for the montti of August were the heaviest for one month in the history of the city; being 5,UM,505 bushels, au increase over August last year an in. crease uvec- the highest previous record of bushels. At a largely attended meeting of Boston bakers Chairman Newton announced that on May 1. 1803. the organized bakers affiliated with the International Journeymen Bakers' Union, will strike from Maine to 1 California for a redaction in hours of labor and an increase of wages. The tenth annual convention es the State Railroad Engineers is in session a Omaha, Neb. New York, Chicago, St. Paul, St. Louis, Minneapolis. Denver, San Francisco and all the larger cities are represented. Delegates hint that an important political organization will bo formed, probably to join the Farmers' Alliance. A secret order of boomers has been organized all along the border of southern Arkansas. Already over three hundred members have been sworn in. They propose to arm themselves early In October to make a raid on the Cherokee Strip They will burn the grass, kill the cattle and make a determined stand to hold the Strip for homes. — 7 — O. 11. Wisely, the son of a prominent farmer living four miles east of Findlay, 0., was found dead in his fathers, barn on the Ist., with a bullet hole In hts head and a revolver by his sWe. It was afterward learned that he hgs secretly married a Miss Marvin at midnight, against his parents" protest*. After the ceremony he rode home and put up his horse before laying violent hands on his own life. Prof. W. S. Ohaplin, professor of engineering In Harvard College since 1885, hay been elected Chancellor of Washington University, of St. Louts. Previous to his Harvard professorship, Professor Chapiin held * many Important positions, chief among which , was the professorship of ctvfl engineering tn the Imperial University of Japan, at Tokio. That curious woman who calls heraetf

Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton, but wbpm th courts decided, to be Mrs. Joshua Mann has once more shuffled the cards and ha made a new deal In the entertaining, if un certain, venture which she began so manyears ago. In Boonton, N. her debut asaa actfcss In a. play embracin; and centering about the incidents of he lire. The national board of lady managers o the Columbian Exposition met at Chicagi on the 2nd and proceeded to the election o a secretary as the first business of the ses sion. It was supposed that there wouk be something of a struggle to replace Mis: Phoebe Cousins in that position, but, w ith ouL opposition to speak of, Mrs. Susai Gale Cook, who has been occupying thi place since Miss Cousins was deposed, wa: duly chosen. The Missouri Farmers’ Alliance is divided. One section is called “anti-monr polDts” and “socialists,” They believe ir force in attaining their objects. One, o. t-hem, defining his position, is quoted a: saying: “It is high time for the rnajoril to hang the minority if the minority wil not do what the majority wills. If ballot 1 won't do the business, bullets will, anc there are a lot of us pledged to go tha: far.”

In the. Lower House of the Tennessee Legislature a resolution was adopted declaring the General Assembly powerless tt abrogate the present lease of the State’: convicts. A resolution to investigate tin conduct oflabor anc his assistant created a sensation. - It war charged that they had abetted the miner: and encouraged lawlessness. The resolution was adopted, and the investigutioi will be made at once. Four persons were instantly killed bj lightning six miles east of Magnolia, Ark.: on the 3d. Mr. Couch,a prominent planter, was in a small cotton-house with five oi six others, weighing cotton. The Tight? ning struck the end of the building, tearing it to pieces and setting it on fire, with the -cotton. The killed were'Samuel Carter and his fifteen-year-old son James, John Brown and Dock Blakely. Mr. Couch was rendered insensible for some time, butrimuw ou t of da n gnr. The marriage of Miss Mary Lincoln, daughter of Hon. Robert Lincoln, of Illinois, United States Minister to England, and Charles Isham, a young lawyer o! New- York, was solemnized on the 2nd at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, the parish in which the American Minis, ter and his family reside. Itwas a quiei wedding, only the members and intimaU friends of the two families being present, it being the desire of Minister Lincoln that the affair should be without aJiuteol officialism. '

Nearly all the old soldiers now to the National Soldiers’ Home at Milwaukee, who aro able to work, will be compelled to leave tho institution shortly. This is the result of the action taken recently by the National Board having charge of the veterans. The question of pensions will cut no figure, and all able-bodied men with or without pensions, will have to leave. The action of the National Board was caused by the. discovery that the National Homes all over the country ar s greatly overcrowded, and that many of the inmates were vigorous, hearty men, able to earn their own living. This was especially true of the home near Milwaukee. It. was decided to order a thorough medical examination of all the inmates ol the variqus of.th.ehome,-wJUi a view of reducing the numberof permanent inmates by having airable-bodirid men secure outside employment aud become independent of the home. The examination will toko some time, as there are now 1,940 regular inmates. ——— —— Ex-President U. S. Hall, of the Missouri Farmers’ Alliance, is priming his guns for war against the sub-treasury and thirdparty movements. He has sent a circular to every county Alliance in Missouri and the anti-sub-treasury leaders in other States, asking them to call a meeting ol the antis as' soon as possible and elect three delegates to the national meeting oi the anti-sub-treasury wing, to be held in St. Louis September 15. In the circular he says: “The object of the movement is not A-o destrovv bHY to sffve £lKvAlliSricer T Mr. Hall fears that if the “sub-treasury craze." as he terms it., is not, stopped somehow it is hound to destroy the usefulness of the ordcr._