Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1892 — NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY.

A woman in North China was once heard to say that the remarkable whiteness of foreign children is due to the practice of their mothers log them every day, as cats do their kittens. It is true that white women lick their children to some extent, but not in the way the China woman thought. ■ The eldest son of Cornelius Van derbilt, William H., who died about two weeks ago, was aged about -t twenty-two years and was the presumptive heir to the Vanderbilt 1110,000,000. He was already in possession of $1,0Q0,000, given him by his grandfather. of Vanderbilts, a million is a very small sum; speaking of death, he seems, indeed, to be no respecter of persons. _______ f Another New York clergyman has “advanced’’ ideas. It will be remembered that very 'acently Rev. Dr. Parkhurst visited the slums of that city, drank beer and deported hlmself in a sporting manner that he might have evidence to convict the owners of* the places visited. Now oomes Rev. Dr. Rainsford with a proposition that church people establish saloons, and sell wine, beer, coffee, chocolate, etc., obey the laws and keep the places orderly. What next from New York, please? Governor Poster, of Louisiana, hag appointed his predecessor, Governor Nidholls, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Four years ago Governor Nicholls appointed his predecessor, Governor MpEqery,who had been his competitor for the nomination, a Judge of the same court, and now the peculiar picture is presented of two political rivals occupying positions on the Supreme Bench of the State, both of whom have been Governor of the State for two terms and each having at one time defeated , the other for re-election. It may interest the great body of women wage earners to hern: that Lottie Collins, the London concert hall divinity, receives SSO a day at the Gaiety Theatre for her Ta-ra-ra Booni-de-ay dance. The most highly j cultured women of the country, who 1 have devoted the best years of their j lives to preparation for educational, work in the schools and colleges, | seldom receive SSO for a week’s sal-.j ary. Higher mathematics is ;a less ( profitable investment than high kicking, it would seem, and-nimble j Sfita and a trained intelligence have less market value than agile feet and | a suple body.—N. Y. Sun. The proposition to reduce the salary of the Director! General of the World’s Fair from $15,000 to SB,OOO, recalls the fact that this Is a small salary compared with that paid Di- j rectors of other Expositions. The Director of the Centennial Exposition received SIO,OOO per year and $25,000 for expenses, while the Directors General of the Paris and Vienna Expositions received $50,000 each. These expositions were not more than half as large as the Chicago World's Fair, covered less ground, and a half less money was invested, i »j, , - A new dormitory is to be built at Harvard University with all possible modern improvements.. The suites' of rooms will be rented at from $350-j----to SSOO yearly. Evidently the old idea of college life as a time of dis-j cipline and plain living has grown 7 I [ very dim at Harvard. But, .reaHy, should a university spend money in building luxurious apartment houses for its extremely wealthy students—its leisure class, so to say—who are abundantly JJgelves? In our humble opinion, it vastly more good to the cause ol sound education, if the Harvard authorities, instead of putting their w $l5O, building where $350 to SSOO yearly must be charged as rental for the suites, should use j the money to build two or three; modest but comfortable dormitories where students of restricted incomes could get a pleasant room at a very low annual charge. It is the students who seek Harvard to study that reflect honor on the great university, not the wealthy young fellows to whom college life is only, or mostly, a season for display and dissipation. It is stated in a fashionable Lon- ; don journal that one million bonnets were sold in tha British metropolis during one week recently.

Money is needed for the sufferersln the oil refions. v * Minneapolis flour mills produced 114,939 barrels of flour last week. ' - Chicago on the 15th began receiving arrivals to the national Democratic convention. The primary school at East Tawas, Mich., owing to the prevalence ofdiphtheria. The Indictments against the Maverick Bank Directors of Boston were quashed In the United States District Court. Dr. Ogden and Dr. Houser. Christian science doctors of Lincoln. Neb.. are under arrest for practicing without a license. ) Four men were killed and twenty-five more or less injured by the wreck of a C., B. & Q. construction train near Gladstone. 111., on the 18th.; Tbeßupreme Court of Michigan upholds the Miner electoral bill, whereby members of the electoral college are elected bv congressional districts. An alleged weak minded woman at Cincinnati resolved to stop eating. As-she stuck to her resolution till she died of starvation her will mu?t have been strong enough. The saloon'men of Washington dornot take kindly to the proposed license, and are threatening to start drug stores and groceries and sell liquors under Government license. At Kingfisher, OkJa., a negro mob attempted to hang James Holland, a negro real estate agent, who swindled hundreds of blacks by promising to give each a claim in exchange for 110. . - -- At Cleveland. Q„ on the 16th. the livestory wooden cooper shop of the Standard Oil Company was burned. The flames extended to one of the separators and destroyed that also. The loss is about $500,000. Tho postoffice at Genesee, N. Y., was entered by burglars at 2 o’clock Wednes-day-morning, and robbed of about SBSO. Postmaster Olmstead was shot at and had a fight with the burglars. He is slightly hurt. The iron workers of the Pittsburg district remain firm in their opposition to the ieduction in wages proposed by Andrew Carnegie, and a big strike is expected next Friday, when the new segfe is to go lnt 0 effect. At Angora, Pa., two men who jumped off a train in obedience to orders were run down and killed by a train coming from an opposite direction. Three of their friends, who had also been put off, opened fire on the trainmen, killing ono and fatally injuring another. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has secured control of the immense Win. Penn colliery at William Penn, Pa. The output of the colliery has heretofore been shipped via the Reading road. This is the first blow dealt that combine by its big competitor. At Elizabeth, W. Va., on tho 10th, fire destroyed $300,000 worth of property. It broke out in the Independent bung factory, the largest in the United States, which was destroyed, with a loss of OCO. The flames spread to Burns Brothdfe’ aud Honman’s work?, and they also were destroyed. Mrs. Jules Leroy, wife of a coal miner at Imperial,Pa., tried to hasten breakfast Tuesday .by pouring kerosene on the firo. An explosion followed and Mrs. iLeroy and her two children, aged three and tea years, were burned so badly that tho yOnngest child died in an hour and the njother and other child can not recover. Father Mollinger died at Pittsburg, Pa.V" on the 15th.rt» Father- Moliinger-was-the-noted Catholic priest, who, for several | years, has attracted thousands to Pi US- j enrg to be cured of affliction by the power ■ which they believed him to exercise. Dur- ! ing this week he has had thousands of j people attending his services in the hope I of being cured. The will of Robert J. Anderson, the ! steel manufacturer of Pittsburg, who died two weeks ago, was probated Wednesday. One-half of his estate is bequeathed to D. Shaw, a bnssness partner, the balance to Mrs. Mary Miller, who was Mr. Anderson's housekeeper. The bequests occasion great surprise, as Mr. Anderson had a number of near relatives. During a thunderstorm that passed over Chicago Thursday evening lightning j struck the Grant monument in Lincoln! Park, in the corridors of which nearly five ! hundred people had sought shelter. Three ! were killed and two seriously injured. All j of the others, witMthe exception of three, I were thrown violently toithe stone floor of the monument, and some received severe sjiocks. The monument was but slightlydamaged. Darker,A-profflinenUarmereighty- . nine years of a“ge~feslsitig'‘"hear Otway, 0.. in attempting to catch a mule was attacked by the animal, which bit and j kicked him, tearing his lower jaw and the ! -flesh on his Shoulder and face loose and ; crushing his body beyond resemblance to five neighbors were attacked aud only es- ’ <ape4-by-climbrngtreesnearbfrArtflei was secured and the brute killed, after 1 being shot six times. r. is a local option tutfß.Several days ago Henry A. Burdette, a 4ottetive.took the “blind tigers” in hand hnd bcgah~to~wdrk~u‘p^ ~£Sses agai nst theIllicit whisky selling on “Battle Row,” a negro settlement, and one white man and five negroes were arrested on warrants. ,Frank Turner, the white man, hails from [ Berks county. He was fined SICO each in'f 1,577 cases, amounting to $157,700. A ne- j pro named Jphn Smith, who was engaged in the business with confessed in JSSSS cases. His fine was $158,500, Presbyterian minister named Bolden', who prophesied that in 1846 and'47 there w,ould be a three years' war in the United States, with auothef war in IS6I-'65. He also prophesied that in IS7O-‘7l there would be war in Europe. Still that in 1887-’93 ;there would be tlieigregtest destruction of Jife and property ever known, while in 1913 or 1914 would come the final dissolution of all things. These propecies are now in the hani§ of William Miner, aged jelghty-two, a cousin of David G. Phillips, Madison. All but the last one has been fulfilled. , ' r ... '-i™** The Vi-ginia Supreme Court of Appeals

on the 16th, decided the celebrated Bettle I Lewis Thomas case In favor of the plaintiff. By this action a colored woman,who is a resident of RfcSftond, becomes the possessor of an estate valued at about $200,000. Her father, W. T. Thomas, who was a white man, died in 1689, at the home of this daughter, and left no will. of the deceased, as well as Bettie. engaged some of the ablest legal talent in the State, and sought to obtain possession of the property. The Chancellory Court decided in favor of Bettie, and the Supreme Court affirms that decision. The will of tho late millionaire, Samuel B: Duryea-who died suddenly in Brooklyn last Week, has been offered for probate. The bulk of the estate is left to the widow Kate Duryea, and liberal bequests are made to Hermanns Duryea, father of the testator, to bis half brothers, and to numerous cousins, aunts and other relatives. The executors are directed to sell the extensive property in Flatbush, and distribute the proceeds in equal shares to theso institutions: *Y. M. C. A., Polytechnic and Collegiate Institute, University of the City of New York, Yale Theological Seminary. memorial fund of Plymouth church, the National Temperance Society and Publication House, New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, and the Brooklyn Art Association, Brooklyn library. The estate of Mr. Duryea has been valued at over $5,000,000.