Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

And now it is announced that water applied through a hypodermic syringe has been found to be a powerful anesthetic, having been used in Europe to prevent pain during surgical operations. Those persona who are said to bare a constitutional horror for any internal use of water need not be disturbed by this alleged discovery, as less than a drop can be used at each application.

The South Dakota people are so jubilant over their big crops that they have set about the work ol raising a ‘‘grain palace in celebration thereof. Here, now, is a display of the genuine American spirit. Here is something altogether different from the. complaining and wailing which, even in this plentiful year, have stirred the air ,jn other agricultural regions. The cheerful shouts •of the harvesters of South Dakota will be of immense benefit to the State. They will draw new settlers there; they will attract capital there, they will raise the value of every acre of land in tlje young State. Kansas has done-herself immense injury by forprtir groaning,

/ After the war between Hippolyte and Legitime, the Haytian government had a rumpus about this time of last year with the republic of Do minica. Just now Hayti is in a state of civil commotion, and Hippolyte is waiting for the onset of Prophete. If Prophete should beat President Hippolyte as Hippolyte beat President Legitime, there will then be an opportunity for a revolt of the mulattoes against the blacks, or of the residents of the North against those of the South, or of the progressives against the aristocrats, or of the proud inhabitants of the cities against the rude rustics of the coffee plantations, or for another fight with the Dominicans. There are always about a hundred reasons why the Haytians should get up a war ol some kind as soon as possible. It is a favorable sign for the immediate future that they now desire to postpone hostilities until the coffee crop is gathered. The era of peace may last till October.

The census returns for Pennsylvania show that the unfortunate city of Johnstown has increased in population since 1880 from 8.380 to 21,805, a growth which makes it now the thirteenth city in the State. The percentage of Johnstown’s. increase is 160.20, greater than in the case ol any other Pennsylvania town of more than 20,000 inhabitants. In view ol the unparalelled disaster which has occurred to Johnstown since the een bus of 1880, its gain of 13,000 inhabitants during the ten years appears at first glance to be phenomenal. An examination of the figures, however shows that more than 9,000 of the 13,000 have come into Johnstown by its annexation, of outlying boroughs, namely, Cambria, Conemaugh, Millville, Prospect, Woodville, and part •of Upper Yoder. Nevertheless, the natural growth of the once overwherlmed city has been about 50 per cent., a circumstance sufficientlyremarkable to attract general attention and gratifying evidence of present prosperity.

Several months ago the War De. partment sent a special agent abroad to get samples of the different smoke less powders used by the European powers. He was not very successful. The war departments of France,Englang and Germany make their smoke less powder in government factories and the process is carefully guarded. Such secrets are not given away. The agent could only purchase •samples of the powder from private powder-mills. These private manufacturers assured the agent that their powder was equal to the government powder, but that is doubtful. The samples, however, will be analyzed and tested. The force of smokeless powder is much greater than that of ordinary gunpowder because of the high explosive character of the substances used. It does not ook at all like ordinary. The French smokeless powder has the appearance of thin sheets of glue, which are cut in strips two inches long and half an inch wide. The charge is bound together with a string and thus put into the gun. The German is cut in cubes one-third of an inch square. It is dark black and under the knife acts like soap. A thin piece cut from it is almost transparent. The value of both of these powders in -warfare is beyond dispute.

The President returned to Washington on the 15th. Prairie fires are doing great damagain North Dakota. - - The Tennessee lrgisl.it uro passed an an-ti-prize fight law. Michigan will have more than 38,C00,000 bushels of whuat. ’ _ Gov. Campbell opened the campaign at Sidney on the 17th. 1 A damaging hailstorm «wcpt over (Cumberland. Wig.* on the 15th. In a fire in a tenament house in Chicago on the 19th. five lives were lost Cardinal Manqingfavorsa World’s La bor Congress at Chicago during the Fair. Sixty-five thousand people heard Senator Sherman speak at Columbus on th< -f>. 1 1 Georgia citizens have extended an invitation to President Harrison to visit the Atlanta Exposition. The Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor of Maryland, have arranged for a plowing match. Fire destroyed nearly a half million dol-.. lars’ worth ofproperty at New York on the 15th. The old Commercial Advertisei bnilding was destroyed. The appraisers who have been look ins into the suspended Frst National Bank o: Kansas City, KaS., report that the asset.* are $1,630. liabilities 134,009. The hosiery factory of Klein & Son. al John and Betts streets, Cincinnati, burned on the 15th. The loss is $50,090. with insurance covering the loss. The Republicans of Massachusetts or, the 16th nomlnatcd_C. H. Alien for Governor. The platform endorses the administration, favors protective tariff, approve? the free coinage of silver, etc. The President has signed the proclamation opening for settlement and homestead entry the newly-ceded lands of the Sac and Fox, and Kiowa and Pottowatamie Indians in the eastern part of Oklahoma. Sheriff McHargue was brutally assassinated near Somerset, Ky., on the 12th. His daughter recognized the two murderers. On the 15th a mob took the two men, whe had been arrested, and swung them to a sycamore tree. The Fourth National Bank. New York, received $1,550,000 in gold from Europe yesterday. One million dollars of this amount was in American coin, put up <n American canvas bags, and was found to be some of the identical coin shipped abroad this spring. The Society of the Army of the Cumberland, at its twenty second annual reunion, held at Columbus, 0., elected the followingofficers: President, Gen. W. S, Rosemans; corresponding secretary, Gen. II M. Cist; recording secretary. Gen. J, W. Steele; treasurer. Gen. J. S. Fullerton. Among the vice-presidents are Gen. Jas, D. Morgan, of Illinois, and Gen. Benjamin Harrison, of IndianA. Gen. R. A. Alger was chosen orator and Gen. W. S. Boynton alternate orator for the next meeting, which will be' held at Chickamauga, Sept. 25 and 26, 1892. is probable > that as soon asthe new system of inspecting cattle for export has been thoroughly tested American cattle will be allowed to enter British ports free from the ten days’ quarantine now imposed. Secretary Rusk is now as anxious to sec the restrictions removedin England as he was in Germany. “The workings of the new inspection system,” said Secretary Rusk, yesterday, have increased the price of our cattle from $lB to sl9 a head. Our thorough inspection has reduced disease to the minimum, and it will not be long till we drive it out altogether. Under the system now in vogue there is not only careful inspection of the cattle, but in the methods of handling them. The method of feeding them on shipboard is regulated by law, and the result is that we land them at the wharves in England almost without a blemish. Sir Jnlian Paunceforte, the British minster, has officlal l y cal led the atten t ion of the United Stales to a violation of the modus vivendi between the two countries by the catch os seal in th: Bering sea. Byte agreement between the two countries the North American Commercial Company, which leases the seal islands from the United States, was restricted in the catch of seal this year to 7,500 skins. It is alleged that the Commercial comnany has exceeded this catch, thus violating the modus vivendi, and the British government has called the United States to account for itr A government official who is familiar with the Behring sea question, in speaking of the complaint, said that the question was on the construction of the treaty of June 15,1891, which allowed the North American Commercial Company to take 7,500 seals. The treaty went into effect June 15 to expire May 2. 1892; and the question is whether the company was to be allowed to take 7.000 seals after June 15 or whetheh the treaty allowed it to capture this number of seals during the entire season,which went into effect before tho treaty was signed. The official said that no trouble need bo anticipated in settling the difficulty.