Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The President’s salary comes id monthly checks for $4,166.66. Harrison, Cleveland, Reid and Sherman ate all Jeff Davis. Roger Q. Mills and Adlai Stevenson were all born in the same neighborhood to.. Kentucky. The-neighborhood also gave to the world Abraham Lincoln. A Nebraska man lately got a divorce from his wife because, as the petition recited, she was “the most accomplished liar in the world.” and had “told 10,000 lies.” Is Nebraska, trying to get the Deadwood on Dakota in the matter of divorce? It was back in fS6S, when Cyrus W. Field was continually talking and planning how to lav the Atlantic cable. “Oh dear, Cyrus," said His wife, one night, “I do wish that old cable was at the bottom of the sea.’* “So do I,” said Cyrus, drily. , Benjamin Franklin made a more substantial will than did Samuel J. Tilden. The latter s testamentary desires were ignored by the courts of New York Soon after his death, but after more than a century the Su' preiUß Court of Peunsyivantadeclares that the will of. the former must stand. The discoverer of electricity left a fund to enable mechan- , ics to msrry. His heirs of the pres" ent day. tvho dcr ffct want mechanics to marry at the Expense of Franklins estate, asked the Court to turn tre money over to them, but the Court said them nay. '» ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■—■ About six months ago an Indian named O-we-o of reservation in Oregon, was killed by a railroad train. Some time previous to his death he had borrowed -S2O from a bank in Pendleton, giving his note, secured by the name of another Indian, She-wa-wa. O-we-o.s wife, , Lucy, skinned dead sheep found on the range during the winter and spring, and hustled hard in other * ways until she had scraped together about $25. • Last week she vaent to the bank and paid ,her bus Band's note, and also insisted bn paying the interest to the astounded cashier. The bank refused to . accept the interest. .

The department of transportation exhibits the Columbian 'ExposU' Jon, covering railways, vessels and Vehicles, gives notice that all applications for space must be made before August 1. Applications already received call for at least twice as much space as the department has at its disposal. But applications received up to the close of the current month will receive consideration. In the allotment of space which will then begin, the value and importance of each exhibit in its relation to the whole will be duly considered. Ex. hibitors are urged to plan for the best Exhibit possible, rather than the largest, and to study especially economy of space. The artistic effect oi exhibits will have much to do with their location in the building. Indianapolis recently enjo ye d some fine horse-racing, and may now be considered reasonably happy. Horse-yacing in itself is not condemned as an evil by a large part oi the people, but the gambling that seems to go with it so naturally is. At the Indianapolis races the gambling was in brbad daylight. Ko attempt at concealment was made* Not only were the book- makers many and loud, but gambling de vices of various kinds were exposed to the public view, and the patron age, except as to the amounts wagered, would have done credit to Monte Carlo. In one instance an “Old Hy” plant was run with twelve tables, and the public crowded each other in their efforts to place their money. The gamblers consisted of , all ages and kinds—boys from fifteen up, who could not afford to risk move than 10 cents on the turn of the dice business men who rapidly dropped silver dollars into the pockets of the proprietors, and old men who ought' not to be guilty of gambling under any circumstances'. Why should this be allowed at horse-races? Gambling and “skin games” such as were witnessed AVindianapolis, is not—at least, ought not to be—a part of the genuine sport and exhiliration to be found in witnessing speedy races tc test their qualities. Book making, gambling devices and skin games of all kinds should be prohibited if the true sport of horse racibg is to sur

Kalamazoo had a hail storm on the 4th. The public debt, was reduced $1,197,815 in duty. The wheat crop in Kansas will reach nearly 85.000,000-bushels. z corn crop promises to be three fourths of last year A Philadelphia syndicate is said to be attempting acorner on wool Lumbermen at Warsaw, Wis., are on a strike for ten hours work, and pay once a week. The Nebraska wheat crop’ will average thirty bushels per acre, and other crops are promising. Three distinct and fatal accidents occurred in the mines at Joplin, Mo., on the ...3d— all by falling rocks. Highwaymen held up a train near Cullis. Cal., on the 4th, dynamited the express car and robbed the safe. H. C. Frick, the chairman of the Carnegie Company. lost his son by death on the 3d. The child was but a few weeks old. Cincinnati saloon keepers are putting in soda water fountains, land in retaliation the druggist are talking of selling whisky at 5 cents a drink. The wavering ranks of the Homestead strikers have been strengthened and the leaders are again very hopefuTof winning against the Carnegie Company. man, who was over eighty years of age. and who had been' a confirmed invalid from gout for forty years, died at San Mateo, Cal - , on the 2nd>\ Reports received from the principal grain growing Western States show that the crops tn all kinds of grain have been favored with growing and ripening weather. It fas estimated that the yield of.wheat this year in Minnesota Dakotas will aggregate bushels. If the weather holds good, 10,000^000bushels inay be added to this amount. Operations at the Champion iron mine were suspended at Marquette, Mich., for an indefinite period, and the entire force of six hundred employes discharged. The suspension is due to the fact that the company is unable to market its ore. The New Orleans chief of police has received a letter stating that Judge Marr? 'who mysteriously disappeared in April,Js being held for a five-hundred-dollaf ransom and will be delivered for that amount The missive is thought to have come from the Mafia. • j • **- It is claimed by the Metropolitan Phil-' UteTist, of New York, that the Postmaster General has adopted designs for a new series of postage stamps, to be issued in commemoration of the discovery of America each representing some incident in the life otjQolnmlftis. " J • • While preparing quarters for his family In a berry patch fifteen miles from Monominep, Mich., Monday, John Reichgeld'ssixyear old son wandered off and has not since been seen. It is believed the child wasdevoured by bears, as the berry fields are said to be full of them. ' 1 II

Edward Nest, of Brandon. Wist" aged nineteen, has been for bigaiby. Oil July 21 he was married to Edith Able, at the town of Spring Vale, and oniyhe following day eloped with and married Miss Gertrude Cole, of the same town. The runaways wer§,Dvcrtaken atH2rand Rapid*. -and were broirghttrackT6'ipT|ren - don on the 4th. Nqst’s victims are both young daughter of farmers. FOREIGN. K The eruption of Mt. Etna is subsiding. The flow of lava is decreasing. Parliament reassembled on the 4th. Gladstone was given an ovation, ® Returns of the triennial electrons bad in the provinces of France, M<mday, for members of the Councils General, have •'cen received from 1,132 districts. They show a Republican gain of 110. // U. Baesetti, manager of “Loteria Bencficencia Publica,'.’ of the City of Mexico,.reports that that institution is in a •‘busted” condition, and tile//Americans whoihvestedareminiis The entire non-union crew/ of the bark Richard 111 was kidnaped by; union sailors at Nanaimo, B. C., made prisoners for. several hours/ °f the union sailors were arrested, tried, fofind gui 11y and sentenced to fourteen months’ imprisonment. / A petition.has been filed against the return of Rt. Hon. Arthur James -Balfour as member of Parliament for the east division of Manchester, On |he ground that bribery was resorted to in the last election. Mr. Balfour is First Lord of the Treasury and Conservative leader in the House of Commons, and 1 represented the east division of Manchester since 1885. Le Canada published at Ottowa. Ont. has another article in favor of annexation to the United States. Dealing with the judgment of the privy council, in the Manitoba school cases, it says that the EhglTsli speaking people are driving the FrencirGanadians into a political union with the United States, and that the only recourse left to the French people is to present a memorial to the Queen, asking ihatKjuebec may be permitted to become annexed to the United States.