Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The seaside butterfly is in the swim and the hammock girl is having her full swing. It is said of an editor’s daughter that she rejected a suitor because he was not accompanied by stamps. Mr. Cleveland has selected Robert L. O’Brien, of Boston, a newspaper man, as his private secretary. ■ This is the age when our rich men seem to want to shell out liberally to Educational institutions. The latest is SIOO,OOO to Barnard College, the Woman’s annex to Columbia. present indications Harrison \ BW«l° d I ■- 1 Weaver j By the way. Harrison, Bidwell ana Weaver were born in Ohio, as also was Whitelaw Reid. That State seems to have some favorite sons.

Europe appears to be an admirable place to keep away from this year, When thereare received the reports of pestilence, the blowing up of pleasure steamers, the wrecking of ocean liners, frightful landslides at a popular summer resort,, earthquakes and the burial as well aa the cremation of a village by molteu lava, tnc -average American cuizen is prone to indorse the sentiment that “there is no place like home.” John Philip Sousa has resigned his position as leader of the Marine Band at Washington, which has become famous under his direction. He has signed a contract for two years with a New York and Chicago syndicate to organize a military band with * the best men that can be secured, which will make a tour of the country this fall. The Marine Band has been very poorly compensated, and Congress has been repeatedly asked to increase salaries. The band added to its income by making annual tours, but the National Musicians' Union strongly opposed this. It has petitioned the President to forbid any more of these concerts, as they injure the business of local bands, and threatened him with the loss of thousands of votes if he refuse. Sousa will be sure of an audience wherever his new band goes.

Tiie champion negro slayer oi Africa. Dr. Peters, is the first man who has thought it useful to issue a pamphlet on the best way of fighting the natives. As Dr. Peters has l|sd larger and more unnecessary experience in this line titan any other traveller, he is doubtless an expert well qualified to treat the subject. He has a poor opinion of the courage of native tribes, and says the whites have nothing to fear from them in the open, but that the tricky and treacherous character of the .enemy renders it necessary to be constantly on the lookout against surprises in forest or jungle. Dr. Peters £fills nineteen pages telling what he knows about the way to kill African natives. Inasmuch as his sanguinary doings in Africa, it is- said, are to be investigated by order of Emperor William, it is hoped he will not have any further opportunity, personallj", to practice the teachings based upon hiS large and varied experience.— N. ?. Sun.

« a *■ The French government, says the N. Y. Sun, has given its official authorization to the project of holding a Universal. Exposition in Paris in the year 1900. There will, therefore, be eight years-of preparation for it, if the peace of Europe be maintained, if Germany, or Russia, or Austria, ‘or “ItalyoFSpal&7 or r England does not raise any rumpus in which France will becihvolved. In view of the relations between the various powers of Europe it can hardly be expected that they will keep quiet until the twentieth century of Christianity. The Germans have been made so angry within the past month by the suggestion of the Paris Exposition that they will surely find it hard to restrain their jvrath against France for eight years, especially if the prospects of the Berlin Exposition of 1893 should be blighted under the shadow of the French project. Nevertheless, let us hope fpr the continuance of peace. We advise Germany to push the Berlin project without regard to the rivalry of Paris, and to get up, four years hence, an exposition not to be surpassed bjf that which is to be held lour years after it. ,

There Is said to be nnmeroua anarchists In Pittsburg. Manager -Frick, of the Carnagie works, Is recovering. Cbauncey M. on the 28th for a European vacation. G. M. Gfijv of Canton. Ohio, committed suicide because i t was so hot Patti will receive 1200,000 for singing in Jforty concerts in America next year. Four men were killed by a boiler explosion at Gaylord, Mich., on the 28th. There were seventy-nine sunstrokes in Chicago on the 26th, and thirty at St. Louis. Moses S, Beach, at one time proprietor of theeNcw York Sun, died in that city on the 2Sth. - <“ Rain has fallen in Towa, Nebraska and thronghout the Northwest, and there is great rejoicing. 6There pen fifty, deaths in Chicago on the27th And seventeen on the 28th froth sunstroke and heat. Disastrous storms created great havoc in parts of Pennsylvania ou the 28th Many lives were lost. Thirty-seven miles of horse-car strectrallway lines in St. Louis are being con~verted into electric lines. Mrs. Ellen Murphy, a native of Ireland, has just died at Kansas City at the age of one hundred and six years. There were forty-two deaths from sunstroke Friday in New York, and ninety in Chicago since the heated term began. A b<»rr glass thrown from an excursion train near Bloomington, 111., struck a woman on the head, killing her instantly.-. A New York electrician lias invented an automatic device that will make “hello” girls In telephone exchanges unnecessary. The constitutionality of the recent Democratic apportionment law of Wisconsin is to bo tested in the Supreme Court this month.

To evade work, Thomas Wall, a longterm convict at the Frankfort, Ky., penitentiary, chopped off three fingers of his right hand. . " F. Malllck was arrestedatUong P.ranchand 11. Bauer at Allegheny as accessories in the attempted assassination of IL C Frick. Both are anarchists. There is a great harvest in Dakota,'but the farmers are In a panic, fearing they will not have sufficient help. Each county needs from 303 to 400 hands, Clayton C. Clough,,a Boston job printer, has been loft $5,000 bfiHerford Drummond of London, for stopping a pair of runaway horses and saving Drummond’s life. Tho State Convention of the Federation of Labor was held at Logansport on the 20th, 27th and 23th, with about eight labor unions represented. Thos. M. Gruelle, of Indianapolis, presided. Advices from Bering sea are to the effect that the patrol squadron of United States revenue cutters and cruisers, besides chasing seal • poachers is breaking up the lucrative industry of hunting sea otters. The long contested and famous Myra Clark which has been in the courts for more thairftfty years, lias been settled by the payifcent by tho city of New Orleans of $923,788 to the heirs of Mrs Gaines.

Henry Papineau, a three-year-old boy Avas Inmied-to death at Kankakee, 111. Monday, by a bonfire which lie and his companions made in his father’s barn. The barn, outbuildings aiul a house Avcre burned up. George K. Sistare. one of the firm of Sistaro Brothers^bankers, Avhich failed dishonestly a year or so ago. comuxttted suicide at the Manhattan Club, Noav York, on the 2Slh by shooting himself in the right temple No cause is known ——~ Mr. Charles Page, of the banking house of Page & Cp.v doing business in Fourth street, Philadelphia, Avas shot in liis office by on#of his customers, Wednesday, and killed. The customer, whose name is Kennedy, then shot himself dead.

Selections from Ingersol were rend at the funeral of Margaret Colter, aged fourteen. in Springfield, at the request of the father, who is not a believer in the Christian religion. Mr, Colter’s mother, who is a believer, retired from tho services. Three cases of smallpox have been discovered among the Japanese railroad la hotel's at Nampa, Idaho. Oho hundred and fifty Japs have been run out of that place and Caldwell, and there will proba J bly bo ft further uprising against them along the Oregon short lino. The steamship England, which arrived at New York, Monday, brought ICB asses consigned to a Mr. AncUrson, at Bowling Green, Ky.. and accompanying the animals were.two men under contract to caro for tliera $ year. The men were detained as contract laborers, and will probably be returned to France. A queer sewer .explosion occurred at St. Louis on tho 2t>th. Without warning 500 feet of the street shot up into the air. Three people were killed, three injured and three are missing. It is believed to have been caused by an accumulation of gas from oil which had flown into a sewer after a recent fire. <**

The Tn man steamship City of Paris, which sailed from Liverpool on the 20tli inst. and Queenstown on the 21st, for New York, arrived early Wednesday morning, beating the record for the western trip across the Atlantic. The time of her passage across the ocean was five days, fifteen hours and fifty-eight minutes. » Rev- Tyrrell, pastor of the M. E. Church at Clarion. lowa, occupied a seat. In the judge's stand Tuesday and officiated as time keeper in a race between two local trotters. The spectators questioned his decision, whereupon he promptly shed his coat and announced that he could whip any man that called him a liar. Mutual friends prevented the affair from going further, but it naturally caused much comment. Considerable comment has been caused through Oklahoma by legal opinions rendered by Judge John Dille and other prominent lawyers of the Territory, that Indians Will be entitled to vote at the com ing elections. They say that the law provides that Indians taking land in severalty bavethe same franchise as any citizen, and’ if this opinion bo good law, the caadidateSVill have 3,030 Indians to button--eh ‘ j "' '

*hdle. If the Indians vote, It Is liable to make quite a difference in the congressional race. ' The followers of Jack Cooley, the leader of a gang of outlaws in Pennsylyania. aro avenging his recent death in a frightful manner. Wednesday evening they proceeded to the house oL Wesley Sister., who had participated in Cooley’s capture and. death, bound and gagged him and repeatedly outraged his daughter. The daughter was but a child, and probably'will not recover. A sheriff’s posse is in pursuit of the outlaws and if captured there will be more deaths to avenge. Adam Fuchs, a yourg man employed at the Kentucky woolen mills. Louisville, met with a horrible accident Tuesday. He was walking across the tXnk of boiling water used for washing the oil out of wool, when he slipped in. The water only reached about midway of his body, but the part below the surface was almost literally boiled from bis bones. The unfortunate man shrieked with agony, but retained sufficient presence of mind to wade to the rim of the vat and was lifted out, leaving great flakes of flesh in the seething water. The withdrawal of soldiors from Homestead has commenced. - Wild! y enthusiartic cheering Tuesday among the hundreds of white tents on shanty hill proclaimed the fact to the strikers in their homes at the foot of the slope. The lucky boys in blue who were the first ones to get marching orders were the members of the Eighth regiment. It is believed that the tijpops will gradually be removed unti l only two regiments remain. These two regiments will bo held until there is no further danger of trouble. Would-be assassin Bergman was given a preliminary hearing Sn the county jail office at Pittsburg, Friday, before Aiderman McMasters, and was put under bonds aggregating $24,000. O’Donnell Is in New York, his friends say, preparing “a disagreeable surprise” for the Carnegie company. Wba-t that “surprise” is to bo is not known." It is very probable, too, that it never will be known. It Is announced that ninety workmen who struck on the -SBth of Juno havoTeturnedTo workr Ills believed violence will be resumed as soon as the troops are removed. There is nothing encouraging so far as the strikers are concerned. ■.'*• ~-,T, At 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon one of swiftest, most destructive, and most formidable war vessel in tho world was launched at Cramp's ship yard at Philadelphia. It was the much talked of and much wrfefcten about “Pirate,” of cruiser number 12, a vessel which will do much toward placing Uncle Sam's navy on a par with tho marine armaments of Europe. The Pirate is four hundred feet long on the mean load line, beam molded fiftyeight feet, draft twenty-four feet, displacement about 7.300 tons, speed sustained twenty-one and indicated horsepower 26,590, Every ounce of material in the craft is&f domestic manufacture, this being one of the conditions of the contract and the bill which tho Messrs. Cramp will render at tho completion of their work amount to just $2,725,000. - _ Startling discoveries have been made at Fort Kinney, Wyoming. Koiscr. a soldier under arrest at tho post, has confessed tlift-t ho was hired to blow up the building in which the stockmen Ayerc confined when brought from the T. A. ranch. On this information a bomb made of four pieces of two-inch gas pipe Was found Tuesday morhing, under the floor It contained two sticks of giant powder, and the a - acajit Apace-was -filled-AVitlr- -gua-eetteni-Ivelscr says he was paid $25 in advance, and was promised $l5O upon completion of tho job. It was to bo fired by an electric friction tube, but ho pulled tho wire too sharply and itr came away without ignitiug tho charge.

FOREIGN. The famous “Robber Tower” at Zeni* am, in Moravia, one of tho oldest relics of tho Middle Ages, has fallen. Five persons were killed by the falling walls. Four conspirators who attempted the life of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria wor e executed on the 27th. Others who participated in the conspiracy wore sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. Sixteen anarchjsts, charged with a conspiracy to ptcaS explosives, were found guilty at Liege, Tuesday. Tho leader was sentenced to twentydive years’ penal servitude; two others to twenty years each; four to, fifteen years each, and twojtqten years each. Henry T. Hardy, one of tho most desperate and reckless bank robbers and jail breakers tliat this country has ever produced, was arrested at Frankfort on the Maiu, Germany, Tuesday, where he'"Was living as an “American mine owner and millionaire,” maintaining a fine establishment and spending money lavishly.

Max Limon, imp! lately a rfiSh banker of Kiev, Russia, recently exiled by the Czar's edict against Hebrews, is working in tho stock room of Kahn Brothers, clothing house, Chicago, for a weekly sal-* ary of 87. At ono time Limon's fortuno amounted to 8500,000 roubles, almost half a million dollars, yet for five weeks he wandered about the streets of Chicago in search of work, and had it not been for a pittance occasionally bestowed by the charitably inclined, he would have starved to deatli. A letter from Celebes gives details of the recent eruption of the volcano Gunona, on Great Sdhger island. The eruption commenced at 6 p. m. on a day early in June aud wasHinheraided by the slightest siesrhic warning. . .Immense volumes ofiflame and smoke and masses of stone suddenly burst from the volcano. The sfones foil all over the island, killing hundreds of natives, who were busy in the fields getting in the rice crop. Those who reached the supposed shelter of their homes found no refuge, many having been crushed beneath the weight of the falling stones and roofs having collapsed under the weight of ashes, burying the inmates, in .many instances whole families. Streams of lava flowed with frightful rapidity down the slopes of the mountaias, on #fiich were situated numerous farms and villages. Houses and fugitives alike were Overwhelmed by these rivers of molten rock. It is estimated that over 14.000 nave perished on the slopes of the mountains and many hundreds more in the low lands, bat tho total loss of life is unknown.