Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

t; / . .... . If THi energy expended in politics ware exerted in any other direction what obstacles would it not surmount? The necessity of “saving the country” every fall entails a tremendous waste of time, money and good gray matter. Presidential prognosticators again have the floor. The following tables are given without political bias and with an “If." If all the States which had elections Nov. 3d, go the same way next year and the States which did not have elections go as they did in their last genera* election the net result would give the' Democratic candidate for President 243 electors and the Republican candidate 198 electors. This calculation divides the electors of Michigan equally between the two parties on account of the method in that State: of choosing electors by districts. Alj of the Territories in the Northwest which ha eeently been made States are given to the Republicans, for although they have not had genera* elections they are regarded as safely Republican. New York, lowa and Massachusetts are counted in the Democratic column as the result of the last elections. The showing of the Democratic electors is as follows: At kans&s 8 Misslouri....;.. rTT Connecticut 0 New Jersey...... 10 Delaware 3 New Y0rk........ 33 Florida 4 North Carolina. . 11 Georgia . 13 South Carolina... 9 jowa *3 Tennessee 13 Louisiana 8 Virginia.....,., 1 .. A* Maryland....... 8 West Virginia.... 0 Massachusetts .Xls , ~~ Michigan (half).. 7 Total 240 The Republican electors would be as follows: California.. ..... 9 Pennsylvania...... 32 Colorado 4 Rhode Island.... 4 ~ Illinois.. .. ...... 24 Vermont 4 Indiana 15 Wisconsin 12 Kansas 13 Wyoming 3 Maine 6 Idaho.. 3 Minnesota... Michigan (half).. .7 North Dakota.... 3 Nebraska.. 8 South Dakota... 4 Nevada..... 3 Washington 4 New Hampshire.. 4 Ohio 23 T0ta1.........198 Oregon... 4 □ The addition of the new States makes New York of less importance than it has been heretofore. For instance should the above list be a correct prophecy, except that lowa and Massachusetts cast their votes for the Republican nominee the re' suit would be Democratic votes 218 Republican votes 216, and Indiana to the Democrats would give them 233; Republicans 211. Wont it be a bat tie royal in 1892?

The Supreme Court of Michigan, says the Indianapolis Journal, has recently made a decision which ig claimed to be the pioneer in condemnation of unlawful combinations to mlki prices. Michaels, a manufacturer of machines for making hoops, required a certain kind of knife, which h<j had bought of a Buffalo •firm. Subsequently one Lovejoy called upon Michaels and said that he could make him a better knife for the same money. No agreement was m&de. But subsequently Michaels sent Lovejoy an order for two knives which were delivered, but the price was $29,15 in gxcess of the price paid the Buffalo firm. Lovejoy explained the increase in price on the ground that between the date of his offer to 6ell at the Buffalo price and that of receiving the oyder the price of knives had been raised by the Machine-knife-makers’ Association, of which Lovejoy was a member. Michael's Refusal to pay led to a suit, which in time was appealed to the Supreme Court, when Judge McGrath rendered a decision in which the court laid down the law as follows: “In the present case no price was agreed upon at the time the order was given, and there was no evi dcnce to show that defendaut had any knowledge of the price .fixed by the Knife-makers’ Trust, An attempt is made to fasten a price fixed by a combination on such a purchaser. It is sufficient to know that the price sought to be imposed is that fixed by the combination. If so, it was unlawfully fixed, and has no force as a market price for that reason. It is the combination for the purpose of controlling prices that is unlawful, and the fact that they, the manufacturers, deem the price fixed to be reasonable does not purge it o* 'any unlawful character. Independently of the unlawful character of the combination fixing it, a price so fixed cannot be regarded as any better evidence of value than that fixed „by any vender upon his own wares. A prieefco fixed is npt to be entitled to rank as the market price. It is not a market price within the contemplation of the law.

General Botler Is seriously 111. Chicago is threatened with a coal famine. ! ' ' » The W. C. T. U. was in session at Boston. The national mining congress opened at Denver. The strike of the French coal miners ■extending. W. J. Florence s condition is more encouraging. Mills and Crisp are said to be in the lead for the Speakership. At Red Lake, Minn., the thermometer fell 20 degrees below on the 17th. William J. Florence, the distinguished actor, died at Philadelphia, Friday, ill Rev. Dr. Dean, a distinguished EplseoDivine of New York, has become a faith curist. . Oklahoma is already figuring «m Statehood, and a convention to that end has been called. Filbert A. Dean, Democrat, a recently ejected State Senator of New York, died Frtdayvxßoraing. ... ~.T7~'_ Montana labor-organizations have begun a fight against the Chinese, es whom there are 4,000 in the State. Chicago is now seriously threatened with a soft coal famine. It is occasioned by the miner’s strike in the Indiana district-

Commander-In-Chief Palmer, of the G. A. R., favors the purchase by the National Government of Mt. McGregor, where Gen. Grant died. J. T. Chesney,a Natchez (Miss.) lawyer, has been sentoneqdloservetwo years in the Detroit House of Correction for pension frauds. Rev. Banker’s wife, at New Philadelphia, 0., was insulted by a drunken man and received a generous thrashing from the preacher. Capt. liettie Smith, of the Omaha Salvation Army, died ou the 17th from the shot inflicted by Nettie Biedler on the previous Sunday, . ■ ■ ■ ~ The dog meat craze is agitating the newspapers, audit is not improbable that it will agitate a few of the dogs before the bubble bursts. Several New York Chinamen have organized themselves into a societe called the “Hatchat,” for illegal purposes, including murder. W. H. Brothepton, the man who attempted to trundle a wheelbarrow from San Francisco to Chicago on a wager died at La Junta, Col., of mountain fever. The wife of Cashier Sinton, of the FirsJ National Bank of Louisville, Ky., was burned to death Thursday, at her home in that city, her dress catching fire from an open grate. Mr. William 11. Ropes, who, from 1859 to 1851. represented the United States us consul at St. Petersburg, is dead at Tenby, the well-kndwn watering place ou Carmarthen bay. Wales. Dr. Charles* Danzerau, of Taunton, Mass., has created a sensation by living with a pretty girl supposed to be his wife. His real wife and five .children turned up and Danzerau is in jail. The Doctor had a big practice and stood high socially. G. Henry Stratton, one of the dozen men who forty-four days ago began a fasting contest in a Now- York maseum, and who outlasted all the others and was taken to Bellevue Hospital on Tuesday in an exhausted condition, died on Thursday moru* Ing. ,; . ■ ' T~~

Commander-in-chief Palmer, of the Grand Army of the Republic, in genera orders No. 6, urges that the cases of suspended members in arrears be examined by post, commanders, and when worthy, arrears be remitted all save the per capita tax. The first steel derrick ever made in the U. S., was raised at the granite quarry of T. E. Taylor & Co., at Havre, Vt., Friday. The boom has a radius of seventy-feet,and the mast is ninety-nine feet high, it being the Wghe&t unsupported, metal column in the world. The captain of the American schooner William L. Bradley, which sailed from Charleston, S. C., on October a for Weyp.uith, Mass., and which was abandoned on Octobor 13 in latitude'37 north, longitude 02 west, states the crew of the schooiy;r took to the boats and were drowned. 'Ezekiel Sparks, of Marion, Ohio, a fortv-vear-old carpenter, fell from a new build'tig in that dty on the 10th inst., and now lies at the Carder boarding house with a broken neck. The unfortunate man fractured the seventh cervical vertebra, and his case is a puzzle to the attending physicians.

Judge Ross, of the United States Court, lias sentenced three Yuma Indians to death for the brutal murder of an old medicine man of their tribe some mouths ago. The medicine man had failed to bring rain when requested by the tribe to do so, ahd according to the laws of the Yuma tribe, such a failure is punishable by death. St. Paul on the 17th suffered one of the most disastrous fires in its history, th e buildings datnaged being those of Griggs Cooper & Co., wholesale grocers, and Farwell. Ozmun, Kirk «fc Co., wholesale hardware. The total loss is estimated at from $900,000 to $1,000,000, covered by insurance. The smallpox is now epidemic at Harris Keck, Ga. Surgeon White, of;the Marine Hospital service, who is in charge' of the sick, reports eighty-five cases and thirteen deaths. He says 1,500 people are known to be infected. There is much destitution and sufferings,. The citizens of Savannah are alarmed over the deplorable situation so near them. * Thursday n.ftcrnooti two masked men entered the Northern Pacific express car on the Missoula & Coeur d Alene railroad cud at the point of their guns made express messenger Case open the safe and give up all the monfcy it contained. $2,030. The robbery occurred between Dorsey and Miilati, near the Montana -aud Idaho line, a wild, mountainous country. Palo Alto, the game son of Electioneer, trotted & mile without a skip, at Stockton, Cal., on the 18th, in 2:OBJ£. By this remarkable performance the horse not only breaks the stallion record, but wins all' records of the world for the famous Palo Alto stable. Marvin had his charge well in hand all the way, and drove the fall

mile without even a sign of distress front the horse. The quarters were made as follows: :31Jf, TiMjC 2:08^. Several men employed by a manufacturing ooncern arrived at Crow Landing, N. Y.,for the purpose of ‘-‘making rain.” They brought an outfit of explosives which were to be fired into the clouds. The first was with 200 pounds of explosive. Almost immediately after entering the clouds there was a great ?ift* and a perfect deluge of water began failing, such an outpouring as would fill every stream to overflowing in a few hours.’' Roger S. Pease, a Minneapolis man, has ust received letters patent on an invention which, according to the claims of the inventor, will reduce the cost of making a square foot of plate glass from 70 cents to 10 cents. To perfect his idea has cost Mr. Pease twenty years of close study and $50,000 cold cash in making the necessary experiments. His invention consists in rolling the plate of glass on a perpendicular instead of a horizontal surface. It is rolled in the exact thickness required instead of haying to be ground down and polished. It comes out filie polished and free from waves and chills, and a surfac 0 of soapstone prevents its being scratched or marred while cooling. The rollers turn out two sheets simultaneously, and the production is very rapid. " •

■ FOREIGN. rhlli it as assumed a less defiant attitude toward the United States and is now believed to be disposed to arbitrate,. A shocking crime was committed at Letchfickl-with-Crofton, London, Monday morning. A woman murdered her three little girls by cutting their throats from ear to ear, and then committed suicide by , cutting her own throat The Socialists are preparing, it is said to make a warm attack in the Reichstag upon any measure proposed in pursuance of the Kaiser’s new hobby of enforcing personal, morals by law. The Kaisers yiews are not at all acceptable to the Socialists, who charge him with attempting to assume authority little short of Omnipotent, and altogether unsuited to the present stage of civilization. Between Bismarck and the Socialists Sll indications point to a lively session in the Reichstag.