Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Ex-President Cleveland’s girl is all right except that it ought to have been a boy. 'The principal business of the Civil Service Reform League is to meet once a year and re-elect George William Curtis as its President. The League base-ball games end with Boston Ist, Chicago 2nd. New : York 3d, etc., and Pi ttsburg the bottom. The world will now please settle down to business again for six months. The Canadian Parliament has adjourned, for the reason, probably, that it was ashamed to remain in session any longer when so many revelations of political corruption were being made in that country. Australian theater goers have concluded that John L. Sullivan is not an actor. This conclusion will hardly be regarded in America as a national affront. If the Australians will keep John L. nothing more wiß be said about it. The plundering of the wrecked savings bank in Kingston, N. Y.• appears to have gone on for twenty years without discovery, and to have been found out in the end partly by accident. Here is another instance in which directors do not direct. The past ten yearsthecorn crop has averaged about 1.625,000.000 bushels annually. This year the yield is likely to be about 2,000.000.000 bushels, a figure which has been exceeded only once, and that was in 1889. Moreover, the demand for exportation will probably be great enough to exhaust the entire crop and insure fair prices. The action of a German guard in compelling a Chicago tourist to fetch a bucket of water and some soap and scrub his name off the base of a fam-

ous monument where the wretched man had written it made “the punishment fit the crime’’ in a capital manner. It is a pity that our law officers can not do the same with defacers of natural scenery and scrib biers of autographs in public places. The total expenditure by Americans in European travel is estimated at $62,500,000 annually, of which $13,000,000 is for steamship fare. $11,000,000 for purchases abroad and the remainder for traveling expenses in Europe. In view of the magnitude of. this last item the railroads and steamboats of Europe ough t to furnish Americans with better accommodations than they do. London newspaper correspondents seem to have been taking lessons from the flowery gentlemen acting as correspondents at Washington. They report an alleged interview of Emperor William and Queen Victoria. in which the Emperor declares that he proposed to make war on France very soon, and which knowlcircumvent his war proposals, etc. “yTf is more than probable that there is not a word of truth in this alleged interview. • . i It will perhaps encourage the American geiltlemen who are going to South Africa to hunt for the Ophir of the Old Testament to know that two sculptured monkeys upon the wall of an Egyptian temple, and under them an inscription recording a sea expedition on a gold hunting quest 1.700 years before the Christian era. have been accepted’ by learned men as evidence that gold was sought further south in Africa at that early day. Some people have tried to show that Ophir was in India. —These stone monkeys, however, are unmistakably African and not Indian animhls, and perhaps the evidence they afford is as substantial as any the gentlemen will pick up in South Africa. ’ ■

A very large tree one, of the largest in California, the country of big trees, was discovered near Arlington, Snohomish county, a few days ago. It is a cedar, and measures sixty-eight feet in circumference. Around the knotty roots the tree measure ninety-nine feet About seventy-five feet from the ground jt forks into four immense branches, and just below the forks is a big knot hole. Five men climbed into the hole and explored the interior of the tree. It was found to be a mere and about forty-five feet down it would afford standing room for forty men. The tree is still green, and a remarkable feature is said to be that it is barked on the in<ude and the outside alike.

• Rich silver ore has been Ljand near West Superior, Wfe. Gold in paying quantities has been dis covered in Pennsylvania. - • Welsh tin plait makers are said to bo preparing to erect worksjn Atperica. Gen. W. 11. F. Ix*e. son of Gen. Robert E. Lee, died at Alexandria. Ya.. op-the 16th. __ ' The G. A. R. are preparing to erect a 110.000 monument to Gen. Grantat Wash- , fngton City. The Executive Committee of the Nation al Republican Committee is, called to meet in New York Nov. 19. -"" Five criminals sawed outof the Greenville. 0.. jail on the 13th. Two were recaptured on the 14th. Miss Florence, the daugliter of M rs. is" to wed Mr. Carl Weisbrod, a New England manufacturer. The Pan Handle limited was wrecked near Steubenville, 0., on the 16th. Two ..men jwere killed and four employes in jured. ■ Genera! MiV-’s annu il report says thIndians are like a quiescent volcano. H c recommends mobilization of the militia at the world’s fair. .1. W. Rivers, of Chattanooga, jumped frbm"”TEtr'”secohaPstqry window of his burning home with a child in his arhY They were uninjured. , A Newfoundland dog awoke Mrs. Emma Smith in time for her to save herself and four children from burning to death in their home at. Covington. Ky, Marshal L. MeGeo. of Owensboro, com - unit ted .sulci d e tectivcs were knocking on his door with a warrant for his arrest as a defaulter, Mrs. Allen G. Thurman, wife of the ‘‘Old Roman.” died at Columbus. 0.. on the 17th. Judge Thurman is bearing up under the affliction as well as could be ex peeled. At Denver. Col., on the 15th. Jim Conners and Mike Ryan, enemies of C; J. Finecum. bound and gagged him. and threw him from a third story w jndow, the fall causinghls death. Mrs. Ann A. Dodge, an inmate of the poor house at Butte. Mont., received ‘notice on the 19t h that she had fallen heir to $8,060,000 in England. There is no quest tion about her identity nor of thejnheritance. J aeob. L. Sul pi n. aged fifty.. a well - known resident of Morristown. N. J ..committed suicide on the 15th. by shooting himself through the lretr± --He had„ jus’ returned from a visit to the grave of his wife when he committed the act. There are thousands of dead fish along the shores, of the Mississippi. The, river fell lower than for twenty years, leaving large numbers of fish iiithe pools, which gradually dried up. and the. fish have died on their bed of scorching sand. Be rnard Sa vi 11 e. who swi nxlled ex -No na - tqr-Fair out 0f5560 on the strengttr df a forged letter of introduction from ex-Sec-retary of State Bayard. Was sentenced at San Francisco on the 14 th to three years imprisonmentatSanQuentin, The police of Baltimore Tuesday liande to the grand jury a list of 176 persoitswylio on Sunday were guilty of offenses against tho Sabbath laws. About one half tire charged with working on Sunday, while ■the others an* accused of selling goods. A' young woman left her berth while asleep and stopped off a moving train on the New York Central while the train was passing through West Batavia, N. Y. u dri the night of the 13th, and was so badly injured that she died soon after being EnEfIZLSBa was a somnambulist. Three Chicago reporters were killed on the C. & E. I. R. R. near that city on the 16th. They were riding on the pilot of an engine, which left the track and crashed into the road house. Qneof the reporters was Leonard Washburne. of the Inter Ocean. onc of the brightest writers J njChtrcago. A thirteen-vear-pld daughter of Mrs. Lottie Loey was shot and killed at Canton, 0.. Thursday, by Charles HawkinsHawkins then tried to kill himself by slashing three gashes across his throat with a razor and cutting four holes in his head with a hatchet. He will hardly recoter: .1 ea!ousy was t he ettuse. ...AChic'agodisp&tchsays that George M. Pullman, who controls the stock of the Pullman Car Company, has decided that the capital stock shall be increased from F25.0C0.ai0 to $30.000.010. This .is Ihe eighth time the capita] stock has been increased iii twelve years, starling in 1879 with $6.000,6iX). The surplus has increased until it was ,*16.730.0(< last year. President Hoey, of the Adams Express Co., has been impeached from his office, which pays $30,000 a year, because of malfeasance. Clapp Spooner, the vice president. Vvas allowed to resign, though charged with the same offense. The alleged malfeasance was the sale to the Adams Express Company of the Boston Dispatch Company and thb Ketisly Express Company by these two officers and others, for $850,100. Secretary-Rusk has a number of samples of sorghum surgar manufactured by a new process, by which he says about two lumdred pounds of sugar is obtained from a to.n of sorghum cane. When asked what the new process was. he said: ‘‘lt is called th“ alcoholic process. Alchhol is mixed with the sorghum sirup, and after treatment the former is recovered by by rc-distilation, so th&t there' is appreciable loss. The sugar is nearly White is strong in saccharine qualities. I have received a dispatch from Mr. Swenton w ho has been trying the alcoholic process, and he says that about twice as much crystalwedsugar per ton of eane can be lie obtained by the process than heretofore in. use.” ' SOHEIGn, Salvador and Guatemala are preparing fop war with Nicaragua and Honduras. A terrific gale swept over North Wales on the 13th. flooding the lowlands and doing great damage. There is no prospect, between the-Irish factions. as was hoped would result when Parnell's death occurred. “Bankruptcy or annexation” is the cryin Canada where political union with the United States has become the paramount issue. Tradesmen of Rome fear that the Pope

f win fulfill his threat to leave that city. ' Upwards of 15,000,000 annually is spent ft Rome by ecclesiastics and other visitors t< the Vatican. The earthquake shocks at the Island oi Pante.llaria and its vicinity continue. A volcano has arisen in the bed of the sea qfl the coast of Pantellaria, which ejectmasses of stones to a great height.