Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The census bulletin places th* mortgaged debt of Kansas at $235,485.108, or about one-fourth the actual value of the real estate of the State. Gov. Campbell and Mr. McKinley, candidates for Governor of Ohio, have agreed to joint debates, the first meeting to be at. Adah, on the Bth of October. The ar-iMrocraey of England is paralyzed at the proposition to pay members of Parliament. This would result in the election of labor and other members who now cannot offord to give their time without recompense. The discovery of snow on the moon encourages the hope that a toboggan slide ■ may turn up next, which will give us assurance that the moon is inhabited. It will also give us assurance that the inhabitants are people with whom wc want nothing to do. : !-,. . ' The Egyptian exhibit at the World's Fair will be a reproduction of a street in Cairo. The attendants in the booths and shops will be. darkskinned beauties of the Orient, sent by approval of the Khedive. Will it do to say that they can not be Tewfik to please the Chicagoans? The Prussian government has begun the prosecution of the editor of the ‘•Kladderadatsch" for. ridiculing the holy coat of Treves by a] car toon headed *‘Tho Gull Snaring Pilgrims. ’ Would it not be well, also, to add on a year or two to the punishment for having adopted such a name for a newspaper.

The McAuliffe-Gibbons prize fight at Hoboken, last week, was stopped by the police in the sixth round. As the announcement of this contest was telegraphed all over the country several times before it occurred, it seems strange that the police did not learn of it in time to prevent it altogether. The Indianapolis News has been publishing a series of articles which would go to prove that the natural gas resources are giving out. Pa. pens in the gas belt deny the truth of the statements made, and impugn the motives of the publication. It is probably true that very soon ’a general and apparently honest demand will be made for an increase in prices because of the alleged, decreasing supply. It is charged by some newspapers, also, that wealthy corporations are securing all the stock of gas territory that they can purchase. Rev. Dr. Jenckes. a distinguished Episcopal divine of Indianapolis, rector of St. Paul’s Cathedral, figures out that the world will come to an end within ten years, and is delivering a series of sermons to prove shat his predictions are founded upon Scripture. He also predicts a war within six months in Europe that will last seven years, to be followed soon after by the consuming of the world by fire. We presume contracts extending beyond the ten years will be made by unbelievers, just as they were in the days o Noah. A question has been raised in Ohio about the legality of marriage consummated by retired clergymen, Bays an exchange. The law reads that any minister of the gospel, ’'while a regular, minister of a so. ciety or congregation ” can perform the marriage ceremony. The right of retired clergymen to peform the marriage ceremony has not bclore been seriously questioned. But should it not be decided? If it is legal, all right. If it is not. then several hundreds of people in all parts of the country need to be remarried. A Bowdotn College exploring expedition has returned from -ILabi'idor, having discovered and photographed Grand Falls, a magnificent water fall. The water plunges per pendicularly 200 feet into a canyon, the rapids leading to the fall making the distance 500 feet. The river is about 500 yards wide, narrowing to a width of 50 yards before the final plunge is made. The spray of the falls is visible for twenty miles, and ' the 1 noise made by the falling water can be heard a great distance. The expedition nearly ended disastrously, the party being without food, or the means of providing it, with the exception of a revolver, 300 miles from where It could be had

Vera Ava has returned to thicago. Secretary Foster will go on the stump in Ohio. f ’ '• Kentucky’s, .new constitution was engrossed on the 22nd. Gold in paying quantities has been discovered in Pennsylvania. The Buffalo. N. Y.,-novelty iron works will be remoyed to Anderson. The Grant monument at Lincoln Park, Chicago, will be unveiled Oct. 7. Forest and prairie fires continue to damage property in the Northwest, The product of coal mines in the census year amounted in value to >100,226,223. Ex-Governor Morehouse of Missouri, committed suicide at Maryville, Mo., on the 23d. Tha Waltham Watch Co.. Boston, has reduced the wages of its employes from 15 to 20 per cent. The Tennessee Legislature’s extra ses sion closed on the 21st without changing the conv icll ease system. The first show of the season fell at Leadville, Col., on the 25th. It snowed all night but melted rapidly. The Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor of Maryland have .arranged for a plowing match. Four thousand people saw Tommy Warren knocked out in the twenty-first round by Cal McCarthy, at New Orleans. Fire destroyed nearly a half million dollars’ worth of property at New York on the 15th. The old Commercial Advertiser building was destroyed. . -——»- President F. W. Kennedy and Cashier H. 11. Kennedy, wreckers of the Spring Garden National Bank, Philadelphia, were each sentenced on the 15th to the penitentiary for ten years. According to the Chicago News there is practically no corn of the old crop to be bought by the legitimate dealers In this edunfTy ort account of the manipulations by professional gamblers. Theodore Schwartz, the banker, who is charged with defrauding depositors in the broken bank, was put on trial at Shelbyville, Ky., on the 2.3 d. There is much interest and a long array of witnesses. The order of Railway Telegraphers and Brotherhood of Telegraphers in Chicago have been amalgamated. This action was taken in accordance with the decision of the National convention of the first named body at St. Louis last Monday. A head-end collision occurred on the Chicago & Northwestern railway near Beverly, three miles west of Coder Rapids, on the 23d, between the Pacific express and stock train. A number of old veterans on the passenger train were badly bruised. The most death-dealing sentence in the annals of South Carolina, except in cases of insurrection, was passed at Laurels on the 25th, ten negroes .being sentenced to be hanged on October 23 for the murder of another negro. Richard Edgerton, residing near Independence, la., was poisoned while sitting by the corpse of his eldest daughter. He experienced a faint feeling, and called for liquor. By mistake his wife gave him a dose of carbolic acid. He died in about ten minutes. The fire which swept over the Sioux reservation Saturday proves to have destroyed nearly everything in the shape of hay and wheat in stacks and ran from the Canon-ball river to Mareau river. Parties from the scene of the fire say that the reservation is a blackened waste. Jotin E. Kelly, who-conducted extensive grocery stores at Keyport. Freehold and Perth Amboy, N. J„ has disappeared. It is reported that Kelly owes about $25,000. He disposed of his Key port and Freehold stores just before leaving. Kelly, a short time ago,secretly married a wealthy Cuban woman. Judge Green, of Trenton, N. J.,rendered a decision in the case of lyiUiam A. Jewett against Robert Garrett, of the Baltimore <fc Ohio Railroad Company, on the 22d. Three million dollars are involved in this suit. The decision refuses to set aside the summons -served- upon Mr. Garrett and the suit will continue. Captain Schley, commanding the Baltimore, now in Chilian waters, cables the Navy Department from Valparaiso: Festivities to celebrate the anniversary of Chilian independence and the restoration of peace have passed without political disturbance. Everything is quiet. Balmaceda committed suicide September 19. The collector of customs at New York has been authorized by the Treasury Department to admit to free entry six cases of marble statuary and marble base relief Intended for the museum of the Lelend Stanford, Jr., University at Palo Alto, Cal., if upon examination the articles iu question are found to be works of art. The students of Wooster University are greatly dissatisfied with a resolution adopted by the faculty which says “that hereafter no participation in inter-colleg-iate games and contests shall be nermitted." Athletics have been encouraged for some years by the faculty and citizens. The students, assisted by citizens, erected a fine gymnasium and supplied it with all conveniences, so that the foot and baseball teams should especially have all the advantages. The following shows the vacant public lands in acres iu each of the public land States and Territories: A1abama,947,210; Arizona, 55,061,005; Arkansas. 4,995,368; California! 52,299.490;'C010rad0, 42.167,030; Florida, 2,468,381; Idaho, 33,881,851; lowa. 6.000; Kansas, 799.078; Louisiana, 1,243,118; Michigan, 781.816; Minnesota, 6,849,975; Mississippi. 1,201.280; Missouri, 1.023.898; Montana, 74,372,768; Nebraska, 11,400.436; Nevada, 53,689,524; New Mexico, 54,893,679; North Dakota, 16445,440; Oklahoma, 3,502,406; Oregon, 39,220,151; South Dakota. 14,085,394; |Utah, 35,428,987; Washington, ;20,401.691; Wisconsin, 1,003,133; Wyoming, 50,842,534, a total of 579,064,683 acres. Reports received by of Agriculture indicate the wheat crop of Italy will be very great this year. As is well known last year’s crop was the only full crop for a number of years, and every thing goes to show that this year’s crop may be •Vm better. Thezutnrns from forty-nine provinces show a crop of 45,000,000 hectolitres, while last year the crop of all Italy

was only 48,000,000. The returns from twenty provinces are yet lacking for the present year, but it is certain that they have produced more than enough to bring the total up to the amount of 18t0.

FOREIGN.

The English government ha« officially recognized the provisional government of Chili. England and Germany have each applied for 230.000 feet of floor space at the World's Fair. Spain has" decided to adopt a modern rifle for its army and to experiment with smokeless powder. There are 1.006 eases of smallpox in the city of Campeche. Mexico. One hundred deaths have occurred. The trouble in the Italian Cabinet is increasing in consequence of dissension over the fresh taxes. The War Minister projects a levy of exempted men. A letter signed “An Israelite Wanderer.” published in London, states that 150,000 to 300,000 Jews have violated laws in Russia which subject them to expulsion. It is stated that the King of Roumania, upset by the Queen’s illness and court intrigues. has Imparted to the*Roumanian Premier and others his desire to abdicate the throne. The Standard's Odessa correspondent says that tho Russian government has ordered twenty engines and 535 carriages for transportation purposes on the Warsaw line. — Owing to the illibcrality of municipal authorities.—the projects for a universal ex htoition-.ta.be h eld. to. Ronieli a-, proved a fiasco, the-promoters having no means to gj forward. Nine boxes of dynamite and six sacks o! powder have been seized at the port of ISan Giovanni destined tor Rome. Several important arrests will probably be made in connection with the matter. The promulgation of the Alsace-Lor-rainepassport decree has prod need an easier feeling in commercial circles at Berlin, quieting the vague war alarms caused by the Emperor's vehement speech at Erfurt. - It is stated that Mr. Mercier will retire from the Quebec premiership, pending the result of the inquiry into the scandal with which his name is associated, on the understanding that Joly De Leobiniere will be acting premier. The Governor of Yemen and all the Turkish officials have fled from Sana The insurgents have captured Hodeida and great alarm prevails, it being feared that the insurgents will advance to Mecca and proclaim an Arab Caliph. The Herald has this cable from San Salvador: “The reports about the assassination of Gen. Luis Bogran, President of Honduras, are utterly false. They and other rumors of a similar character are propagated by Guatemalan agents with a view to discrediting the Salvadorian government and manufacturing public opinion against It. Advices received from British Columbia indicateLthatoto promising to indemnify the Canadian sealers., for any loss they might sustain in being driven out of Behring Sea this season, the British government assumed a responsibility it had not accurately estimated. It now appear:; that Great Britain will have to pay at least $500,030. and possibly $700,000. to fulfill its pledges to the sealers of British Columbia.