Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Tffltrecent strike of Streetcar employes at Indianapolis, impresses the Indianapolis Sentinel as a timely occasion to suggest a State Board Arbitration as one of the real and Tfflrstoical philosophy of some na' tures passeth all understanding. The recent victim of a Delaware whipping post chewed tobacco while the stripes were being laid upon him, and wore a broad grin after the operation was pver. The Princess Frederick-Leopold of Prussia appealed to Kaiser William tor permission to raise her infant son was graciously granted. Strange custom that which requires the in* tervention of imperial royalty to per' mit the exercise of a true motherly instinct on the nursing of her own offspring. - - y;---—3— t. .. A paßtt of five train' loads of Washington people, including members of Congress, have been to Chieago to see what progress is being made, with the World's Fair build' ings. They were “speechless with admiration - ’ in noting the work al' ready accomplished. They might have known that when Chicago wills she will, and there’s an end of it.

When the obscure or rascally relative of a prominent man gets into any sort of disreputable scrape the relationship is always heralded abroad —no great man being able to escape this sort of responsibility for the cousins to the third and fourth degree. The announcement, how ever, that “the Duke of Manchester’s cousin’s wife is charged with murder” seems to carry the principle to unnecessary lengths. No man, however wealthy or Jpowerful, ought to have the sins of his cousins’ wives visited upon him. It is really burdening him too much. There is a bill pending in Congress to provide for a thorough exploration of the interior of Alaska which is, in some respects, as unknown as the darkest parts of Africa. Nearly a quarter of a century has elapsed since'the acquisition of Alaska by the United States, yet nothing, comparatively, is known of the interior of that vast region or its possible resources er inhabitants. Alaska eontains about 600,606 square miles of territory, more than fifteen times the area of Indiana, and we know very little about any part of it, except the edges and some of the water-courses. As a matter of business it would seem that the government ought to make a thorough exploration of tho territory. -

Perhaps there is only one place in the world where the flags of four Rations, each on its own soil, may be seen waving in friendly rivalry or in defiance, according to the condition of European politics. Midway in the narrow channel at the southern en. trance to the Red Sea is the dar kgray island of Perim, above which floats the union jack of Britain. Surmountng the steep cliff on the neighboring *hore of Arabia is the crimson banner of Turkey, and on the opposite coast is the border line between the Red Sea territories of France and Italy, whose flags are flung to the breeze within a half mile of one another. If four nations should have a serious falling out, it would be interesting to watch the corner of the world where their frontiers meet, Representative Cogswell, of Massachusetts, has introduced a bill to establish a national sanitarium for the treatment pf consumption. The bill authorizes the president to appoint a committee of three or more physicians to visit New Mexico and Colorado to select a suitable site for the purpose named, the exto by the 'Within six months after their appointment the committee shall make a report to the president concerning the best location for the sanitarium and regulations which, in their judgipent, seem best suited for its government. A further provision of the bill stipulates that the secretary of war shalFbe authorized to furnish the Committee a list of abandoned military stations in New Mexico and Colorado, one of which may be selected by the committee *or the location. The bill provides that an appropriation of $50,000 shall be made for the maintenance of the said sanitarium. If the government is going into tbc sanitarium business a will feel likepeti-

Salt Take City is having a natural gas boom. „ »■ Congressman Springer is rapidly recovering. The“ King of Sweden will visit the world’s fair. By the colliery disaster in Belgium 215 ives were lost. . A hospital patient at New York slept himself to death. The Texas delegation to Minneapolis fa olid for Harrison, _ 1 . The officers of the Now Orleans lotterF have been indicted in fourteen States. Twenty-tliree horsesVereburned in the Dexter stables at Pueblo, Col., Tuesday. An envelope trust, with a capital of $5,000,000, is said to be forming in New York. Gen. Russell A. Alger announces that he will be a candidate for the presidential nomination. The prospect Is that a general strike will occur by Chicago labor organizations about May 1. Reports favoring tfie admission of Arl zona and New Mexico as States have been made at Washington. It is.said. thaldA trust-of alLlhe_.co.pper mining except 1 he Quincy,'which refused to go in, is forming. Dinah |Hogan, aged 115, died at Otterville, Mo., Tuesday'. She was a slave of Gen. Ilogan, of Mississippi. William Clorn, living near Warsaw, 111., went into, a field where a bull is kept, and was set upon by the animal and mortally wounded. Senator Fuller is opposed to the renomination of Harrison l>ccauso he is not in Sympathy with his silver views. MrFuller favors free coinage. Reports from various cities and towns throughout Illinois and Kansas are to the effect that winter wheat, has been greatly damaged by the recent blizzard. CA young Frenchman of Dcs Moines, wanted a wife and advertised for her. Not receiving a favorable response, he committed suicide by tire pistol route. Senator Hill says he will not answer Congressman Harter's request as to hi g position upon the - silver question, upon th(*ground that Harter is seeking cheap -notoriety. '■' ' ; ——: —- The San Francisco Stock Exchange wil] Imtits granite building, erected at a cost of S7OO,(XX). At one time seats in the board were worth 125,000. To-day seats are worth $2,500. I The first entry of goods destined for the World's Fair exhibition was entered at New York Tuesday at the custom house There were ten cases of antiques, which arrived on the steamship:Claribel from PortLimon.

Jay Gould has given $25,000 to. the University of the City of New York. The gift was made a few days after he gave his check for id 0,003 to the Presbyterian church extentiou committee. It was Mr. Gould’s desire that the gifts should be kept secret, A New York special says that the reason Mr. Gould abandoned his propose visit to Mexico was because he had an intimation that if he ventured iuto that country in the present unsettled condition he would be kidnapped and held for ransom by the revolutionary party. Nicholas Groesbeclc, of Salt Lake City, pardoned last year by President Harrison an his promise to abandon polygamy, has been ariested and held in SIO,OOO bonds for the same offense. It was a very flagrant case, the offending parties living openly lu polygamous relations. The United States Government has de termined upon the manufacture of smokeless powder, for use both in small arms and heavy ordnance, and with this object* In view Capt. Pitman, a well-known orJnance officer and expert chemist, has been detailed by General Flagler, chief of ordnauce, U. S. A., to take charge of the laboratory at the Frankfort (Pa.) arsenalSaits have been tiled in tho United

States Circuit Court by attorneys repre- ! sentiug the heirs of six of the Italians j slain by the populace at the parish prison en the 14 th of March last, against the city ; of New Orleans, claiming damages in the sum of $30,000 in each case. The petition alleges that the death of the men resulted from a conspiracy, and avers that- s no proper steps wese taken to protect the I prisoners, though the purposes of the conspiracy wore well known. A war between England and the United 1 States as au (outcome of the Bering sea complication is seriously talked of by Erastus Wiman, the well-known economist and financier. Mr. Wiman is visiting friends in Chicago. “The. English Gov ernment,” said he, in an interview, “ia un. ! der tremendous pressure now from the ; Canadian Government,.which, being tory ; iii complexion and strengthened by the re- | cent elections, is in a mood to insist that 1 Canadian sealers be protected and given TtpneUrights with Americans on the high seas. «Besides the coining contest in England Between the tories and Gladstone and the liberals, makes it that a diversion of some kind beccratede ated to insure tory success at the pqYi’.s. Nothing will so fire the British heais with enthusiasm as anything calcijhft«d to maintain the fiction that Brijafaia rules the wave. Erider such-drmjffijstauces, it is not improbable that vigorous foreign policy ,vvULpreyailrf[uring the coming summer, in which the peace of the world may be threatened. Actual hostilities are doubts ful, but many wars have sprung from less serious causes, and it is a fact that party exigencies have caused half of England’s wars. At any rate, no party was ever in greater straits than is the tory party now.’’ E. D. Howard, a, machinist of LynnMass., died Sunday. He had lived the life of a miser. In his room however, 830,000 has been found.

FOREIGN. Archbishop Ireland is to be made a Car dinal this mentis. The strike of 400.000 English coal miners has gone into effect. A crazy shoemaker in London Sunday, February 28, killed his four chidreri by cutting their throats. The GrandDukeofX.HdwiglV,of HesseDarmstadt. died at Darmstadt, Sunday morning. He married Princess Alice, the .second daughter of Queen Victoria, who

diedjslx years later. The German cour will go into mourning for three,weeks. The Novoe Vremya, of St. Petersburgassefts that the wood from the state forests, which was placed at the disposal of the famine sufferers by order of the Czar, does not go to the poor but to the profit oi rich peasants, who take the logs to build houses, while their unfortun&Je brethren are perishing with cold because they dc not possess horses to transport fuel. On the Dinley estate,near Port Qf Spain Trinidad, a coolie farm hand suspected his wife of intimacy with a white overseer and openly charged her with infideii' ~ty. She fled an<T look iip quarters with the overseer. Next day the husband came into town and bought a number of presents, with which he persuaded his wife to return to his bedftrld boardr In the after g noon they went up the river in a canoe, to fish. At 6 o’clock he returned with a boat load of fish, but minus tho woman. Asked where she was, he exhibited a bloody knife, saying he cut ter up for fish bait. He is now in jail awaiting trial for murder. A most appalling disaster occurred in a Colliery in Belgium. Friday. Fire damp exploded in Audells Colliery near Charlein a gallery five hundred feet below the surface. It was very heavy and the shock caused by it resembled an earthquake. Tho ground for a large area in the vicinity of the Colliery rocked and trembled for several seconds from the immense force made by the exploding gases. Houses were shaken to their foundation, windows were loudly rattled and-smashed, and crockery and other articles of the household were thrown about and broken. The . work of rescue soon began, Thenumber of deaths cannot be accurately stated, but nearly all who were in the mine were killed. Many of tho bodies have been recovered.