Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

“ Another war on the sugar trust is brewing. Nine Massachusetts convicts escaped from the penitentiary recently through theiSanitary pipes. They escaped per sewers at the public ex. pense. . Young men are on deck for this campaign. Harrity. the Democratic chairman, isn't forty-two, and Carter, the Republican chairman, is a good deal under forty. It cost $4,000 to notify Cleveland and Stevenson of their nomination. This “formal notification" of the nomination is all nonsense, anyhow, ip this age of telegraphy. Ontario convicts are now forced to make twine and rope. This is worse than the old custom of a parent sending a boy into the woods to cut a switch with which to punish him. Why do men of prominence allow their names to be used by the pro' motors of the “snide" investment schemes? is a question made pertinent by the failure of the company controlling the imaginary city of Tallapoosa, Georgia, which carried on its board of directors a list of names well calculated to impress people with its responsibility. It has already been announced that Senator Brice is to occupy the old Corcoran mansion, ip Washington. The improvements being made in the edifice will cost $25,000, which to Washingtonians seems a good deal of money to use in that way, especially as only $5,000 of the amount is allowed by the estate, and the rest comes out of Mr. price’s pocket. The rental will be SIO,OOO a year, besides taxes. /

The preference of the Western man for “a steady, healthy growth" over a boom is explained by tbestatement of a correspondent „that there are twenty well built towns in Kansas without a single inhabitant to waken the echoes of their deserted streets. Saratoga has a $30,000 opera house, a large brick hotel, a $20,000 school house and a number of fihe business T < houses, and yet there is nobody even to claim a place to sleep. At Fargo a $20,000 school house stands on the side of the hill, a monument to the bond voting craze. Tramps ought to utilize these towns as summer resorts. -- J ‘ V, Macauley once Said that English virtue awakens every seven years to sacrifice a victim, and then goes to sleep. There are recent events con. firmatory of this Parnell was hounded to his grave for moral offenses, that were virtuous compared to those of Sir Charles Dilke, the exposures of whose licentiousness shocked the world; yet the as a Liberal and a follower of Gladstone. The horror of his immorality was soon forgotten. ‘ The first pensions ever granted by the United States'were provided for in bills introduced in Congress in April, 1778. On May 15, 1778, Congress passed a bill granting that '“all officers who shall serve to the close of the war shall receive half pay for seven years thereafter, and all private soldiers shall secure a reward of SBO. ’’ This same Congress gave permission -to, South Carolina and Georgia to raise 3,000 troops ot able bodied negroes for service, for whom Congress agreed to pay SI,OOO for every soldier thus mustered into service, provided that no bounty or pay be allowed said negroes, ” and also provided that every such negro shall be emancipated at the end of the war and receive ; sso. V " /.J. ■ ' The New York Sun has found a mare's nest in the statistics of the United States census. It is in the Columbus has . .. 72.888; Milwaukee 34,941 Topeka 62.55qDctroit, 33.387 Indianapolis.:,.. 57,771 San Francisco. .. 10.537 Chicago 54.3351 Des Moines <0,5411 Total 387,725 And in the East; Boston ’...... 37.838 Concord 21.440 Philadelphia.A-- 37,329 Augusta 15,7 M Buffalo... 38,3f7i • - —;— New York 33.491; Total ~.212.999 Pittsburg 32,020 * The Sun wonders that New York should be so far behind smaller cities ot the West. But the fact revmains—that old soldiers learned a lesson in the war, and early hunted for a better camping place.

Foor cashs of yellow fever are reported from Mullet Island, Florida. At Chicago on the 10th a successful test) was made with an electric wagon. Henry McGhee, was legally hanged at Houston, Texas, on the 12th for murder. A tin plate plant with a capacity of 2,030 boxes a day is announced for Youngstown. Ohio. JA street quarantine has boen ordered In Bigin, 111., oi- account* of an epidemic of’ malignant diphtheria. . , " The fastest running time on record—--I;37J4—was made at the Mammouth Park N. J„ races Saturday. The enforcement of the anti-lottery laws has reduced the increase of the New Orleans postoffice $103,000 per annum. Congressman John G. Wanick. who succeeded McKinicv in the House of Representativc.died in Washington orr the 14th. < ’ A number of Chicago capitalists Kay® started from Toledo to seek the schooner Favorite and her cargo of whisky, which were sunk in Lake Erie -in 1857. The free miners at Tracy City, Tenn.’ put the 390 convicts employed therein box cars, and shipped them to Nashville* and then burhed the prison stockade. L. B. Sale and two sons were drowned in Fox River at Greeu Bay, Wil. The boys got beyond their depth and the father going to the rescue al) were drowned. Gen. James \V,>Denver, at one time territorial Governor of Kansas, and in honor of whom tho city- of Denver was named, died at Wilmington,'Ohio, on the lOtfe. He served with distinction in the rebellion. Stephen Maybell, one of the original sand lot agitators and Kearneyfirstlieutenant, is now tbo head of of a new creed at San Francisco, which ho calls “Heaven at Hqnd.” It is formed on the plan of the Salvation Army, and Maybell calls himself general. p A wonderful spring, so ft is alleged, has been discovered in Greenup county, Ky. The water is eold and colorless, but when applied to dress goods or carpets colors .them to a deep red. The flesh of persons who bathe in it is turned to a light blood red, and when applied to the hair it blondines it.

A new Iron scale has been agreed upon between tho Amalgamated Association and the iron man ufactiirers, and thousands of idle men will resume work as soon us tho mills can be started. Both sides made concessions. r Ae threatened strikes of the iron workers in Pittsburg and the West have thereby been averted. Mr. Ballard Smith, editor-in-chief of the New York World, has resigned, and his resignation has been accepted by Mr. Pulitzer, the proprietor of the World. The cause of Mr. Smith’s withdrawal is said to be his editorial policy regarding the Homestead strike. Under his leadership the World took ultra grounds in defense of the strikers. I <1 ' The Knights Templar had an immense time at Denver, Col., last week. Tho attendance was far beyond expectations and it taxed the city to tho utmost to provide for the visitors. Tho parade of the Knights was a hrtUUyiL spectacle, there being 35,000 swords in line. The next conclave will be in Boston. Hugh McCurdy of Michigan was elected Grand Master. E. G. Dumas, of Boston, was arrested in Chicago on the. 12tb. He Insisted that his name was Moore and not Dumas, and took him up to his room to prove it by some papers ho had in a trunk. When the detective leaned over to pick u p the papers, Dumas seized him by tho heels, dumped him into the trunk (which was a large slammed the lid, locked the door of the room and escaped. The detective was not released for fifteen minutes, and is still looking for his man. * The figures on South Dakota’s prospective yield, given by competent men, are simply astounding,, ranging from 50,000,000 to 6),0C0,(03 bushels of wheat, besides im'mense quantities of other grain. The elevator experts jdace the wheat yield at 50 - 000,000 bukhels, while the Milwaukee and Northwestern railroad exnerts place it at 55,000,000 and G0.0C0.000 respectively. Even at the lowest figures, it is claimed that the State will carry tho banner of the entire Union. \ .- Joseph L. Tomlinson, \>f Milwaukee, Wis., arrived at Reading, Pa,, several days ago andjegistered at Dr. John Stewart’s sanitarium, at Ridgewood, two miles below Reading. He told Dr. Stewart that he was a somnambulist. The first night the Doctor overtook him on the grounds as he was about walking over a one-hun-dred-foot precipice. The second night Screams of murder came from his room. Here he was found in a terrible condition. 14 appears that he dreamed tfiki his toes had been cut off, and he deemed necessary to sew them on. In his somnambulistic haste he pro'cured a rusty needle, with a strong string and drove, it through Spur toes, literally sewing them together. Ho then ayoke and yelled. The rusty needle has caused blood poisoning, and he may die. x The Governor of Tennessee has commuted the death sentence of Col. H. Clay King to imprisonment for life. King is an ex-Judgc and a man of great prominence at the bar. Kiug had established, amorous relations with the widow of Gideon Pillow, of confederate fame, to the neg tact of his family, and during Which he involved some of his property. In a suit which followed David H. Posten,. Mrs. Pillow's lawyer, produced evidence to substantiate the claims .of the widow that '•reated a deadly 1 hatred in the; breast of King for l’osten.and Up carried a revolver for two years with the object of killing Posten This he did March 10,1891. shooting him down in cold blood. He was given a fair trial and sentenced to death, and was to have been executed Aug. 12. Strong influence was brought to bear, however, after the higher courts had been appealed to in vair, and executive "clemency was extended Aug. 10 by the Gov ernor. The action of the Governor caused the greatest indignation. The press speak in unequivocal terms of condemnation, and the best citizens unite In protest. The Governor was hung In effigy at Memphis, Wednesday night. A mob was forming to

take King from the Jail and hang hftn. The authorities being'informed of inspirited the murderer away to the penitentiary. , -■ FOREIGN. Cholera Is decreasing in the Crimea. One hundred and eighty Jewish families hrve returned to Bremer-Haven from th« Argentine Republic |n a pitiable condition. Venezuelan rebels captured the city oi “Bolivar Saturday. One thousand mec were slain, the losses being five hundred on each side. . ’" Six men were killed’'and many persons injured by a premature explosion of fire works at a celebration at Casa, Italy, on tho 14 th. *. A dispatch from Calcutta says that the ’ending papers there, in view of the alarming fall in rates of exchange, urge the Government to -Immediately close the mints to a free coinage of silver. News has just beep 7 received*in Paris of a 6 bull fight in the townof Nites. Six horses were disemboweled and two bulls killed, amid the enthusiastic applause of 20,000 people. Bull fightrng is illegal in France. -: ■ Gladstone’s foreign policy will not differ from Salisbury’s in that he will not entc alliances with continentfll powers. H< will permit no one to twist the lion’s tail, however, without loosing the dogs of war. The House of Com mons, Thursday,voted h “No confidence” m Salisbury and his Cabinet by a vote of 350 to3lo—a majority ,of 4\ On Friday tord>alisbury tendered the resignation“6f“ himselfandCSbtnetto tho Queen, and on Saturday Mr. Gladstone waited upon Her Majesty, at her request, and will at once proceed to form a ( now Cabinet. «