Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

WntKKT and a concealed weapon fhavc brought M. B. Curtis to the foot of the gallows, though he may get off with life imprisonment. In the eye of the law drunkenness is ro palliation of crime. A man who drinks whisky should nover carry a pistol, and hew ho carries a pistol should never drink whisky. A safer rule is never to do either. —Indianapolis Journal.

The fastest long distance run on oa railrand was made on the New York Central from New York to East Buffalo, two weeks ago. The distance is 4371 miles and was run in 489} minutes, a rate of 61.44 miles perbour, allowing for stops. The trip from New York to Albany, 143 - miles, was made in 140 minutes without a stop, and from Albany to Syracuse. 148 miles, in 146 minutes without a stop. The train then pulled outon its last 150 miles which it made in 143 minutes with a stop of ■seven minutes at Fairport because of ah* box, very good time. But wait until electricity takes hold of railroad trains.

r The daily and Sunday newspapers are keeping abreast of the progress of the times. They hot only give a record of events as they occur, but many of them have successfully entered the literary field, giving daily and weekly what at one time could •only be had through the monthly magazines, or by the slower process of book publication. The magazines for a time seemed to meet the demands of a sleepless people, and did and do cover an extensive field, but cf late days the Sunday newspaper has essayed the highest-priced and highest-classed literature, and are producing weekly what would make volumes little dess valuable if published in book form. Every large city now has its mimmoth Sunday paper, made up of literature, art, science, etc., to say nothing of pages of politics and current news. What does it all mean? Simply that the newspaper is equal to the progress of the day, and that as rapidly as the world advances the press will adwance with it It may mean, in time, that immense capital will be required to conduct the newspaper, as is now required to conduct and con,trol rolling mills and factories of any kind. Without the purpose of ad-vertising-any particular paper, for -every large city of the country is nearly, if not equally, as fortunate, iwe remark the prospectus of the New York Sunday Sun for 1892. First, it has secured an original story from Mark Twain at the highest price ever paid for a newspaper contribution, and, beside, the hu morist will travel through Europe as its exclusive correspondent. Then follows the names of such distinguished contributors as William Joel Chandler Harris, Francis Hodg son Burnett, Henry James, Frank R. Stockton, Octave Thanet, Herbert . Ward (Stanley's lieutenant), Gen. Howard, John Tyndall, and a long list of Athens -of almost equal note in their respective spheres, and em bracing every department of fiction, human, Science, art, adventure, etc. Wonderful promise. But the Suu, we judge from its past, fulfills al promises. Surely Harper's Century and-Cosmopolitan Magazines, filling distinctive fields as they do, must look to their laurels, or that field •will yet be invaded. Not only the Sun ought to be praised. The World, Herald. Press, and the other New York papers; the Cincinnati Enquirer and Gazette, the Indianapolis Journal and Sentinel, Chicago Inter-Ocean, Times, Tribune, Herald, the St Louis Globe-Democrat and Republic —any one of their Sun* day issues is a repository of a week's reading—each and all magnificent productioM, and worth many times the price charged. It is equally; tru j that the country weekly,the paper of the people; the paper that reaches into homes and fills the heart, has made no less advance than its larger city contemporary. This medium tor the dissemination of State, county, town and township news, which praises the good and condemns the wrong of its own fireside, so to speak, will never be supplanted. ’The city papers one may have; the home paper one must havp. John 1* Sullivan ought -o g» to M<m*ana Any new state is prefurabie lb his m; —PUtoburg Cluroniclo. ft!.. ,‘ . ■ '

Hocking Valley miners may strike. Planklngtnn-, S. D., has a grain pajacc, Philadelphia had a half tnillloflr-dollar fireonthe 29th. Gold in paying quantities has been discovered in Pennsylvania. Four men were killed in a freight train train wreck at Rent, 0.. on the 30th. Three thousand members of the Olin family held a reunion in Vermont on the 29th. . Michael Fasnow, of Machettstown, N. J,, is alleged to have been asleep since Oct.. 20, Ixß7. ' ' The Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor of Maryland have arranged for a plowing match. Senator Gorman, of Maryland. Is an alleged candidate for the Presidential nomination on the Democratic ticket. President F. W. Kennedy and C&shler H. H. Kennedy, wreckers of the Spring Garden National Bank, Philadelphia, were each sentenced on the 15th to the penitentiary for ten years. Mrs. Frank Leslie was married Sunday at New York, by the Rev. C. F. Deems to William C, Kingsbury Wilde, M. «f London, eldest son of the late Sir William Colorado Democrats met at Denver on ■ the 23th, and in the platform demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver, Col brad® Republicans met at Glenwood Springs on the same day, and made the same demand. The Democrats of Massachusetts held their State convention at Worcester on the 29th. Gov, Win. E. Russell was renominated by acclamation. The platform demands the repeal of the McKinley bill, and opposes the free coinage of silver. A dispatch from Helena, Ark., states that the authorities located thirteen of the riotous colored cotton pickers, and after a tight in which two were killed and two escaped, the remaining nine were captured. Before arriving at the Jail a body of masked mon overpowered the officers in charge and took charge of the nine prisoners, marched them into a thicket and huiig tlicm-imtil they wore dead;—-—— A dispatch from Uvadale, Tex., says: District Judge Paschal created a sensation by refusing to naturalize R. V. Sauer The applicant, upon being questioned by the Court, stated that he was a socialist and a disciple of Herr Most. The Judge stated that the principles of socialism were directly opposed to the constitution of the United States, and he would therefore refuse to make him an American citizen. The Judge rendered Jiis opinion in writing. Sauer will appeal.