Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Gov. Brown, of Maryland receie> ly met Gov. Brown, of Rhode Island, and GoV. Brown, of Kentucky, at Chicago. The Czar has dismissed his ablest general. No more the foes of Russia will be compelled to quail before the awful name of Dragoniroff. It appears that Dragonirofl was not only too harsh in his methods to be a congenial element within thegeutie sway -gs the Bear, but he had a habit, of filling his -military skin with rum. and while under its influence would swear with a fluent'accuracy that was none the less true to its mark because the royal master was occasionally the target. So Dragoniroff had to go. Many coincidences are unaccount ably strange, and few are more interesting than this: A blacksmith at Pottsdam was married February 17, 1882, the same day on which the present German Emperor took unto himself a wife. Like the royal ruler, the humble blacksmith has six sons born on the same days as the little princes, but to make the case supremely strong in its strangeness the mechanic s wife presented him with a daugter on the same day the little princess was initiated to the uncertainties of life.

It is not often that even the tnost accomplished swindler can count so many as three thousand victims. But of all the easiest forms of duping the human animaljhejnatrimonial swindle is said to be the easiest. So perhaps we need not be surprised to learn that whole repimenta of SPQdles answered the advertisement in a French newspaper whjph announced that a youncr orphan lady, with a splendid income, wished to marry a serious airfl refined gentleman. It was not until multitudes of these hoaxed persons, each of whom had paid a $6 fee to the intermediary, clamored for justice that the police intervened. The abominable smell often noticed about very cheaply bound books is caused by the carbolic acid which is put in the paste to preserve it and keep it free from cockroaches, which will scent purfe v l ,aste a block away, and come to it in shoals. Under ordinary circumstances cloves will do as well" as carbolic acid, but ip book binderies where there is alwhys-a good supply of paste and where the other attractions for cockroaches are numerous, darbolic acid is really the only effective preventive. In the case of better bound books very little paste is used, and the leather has generally sufficient perfume about it to counteract a little unpleasantness.

There is something farcical in the announcement the policeman's club has been abolished in New York when it is accompanied by the statement that hereafter each member of the force should carry a small ‘billet of wood fourteen inches in length concealed in a pocket. This is a g od deal like the abolition of corporal punishment in certain prisions where the lash is no longer permitted, but where inmates are flogged with a strap. “Do you go to school my lad? ’asked a benevolent old party of a small boy whom he saw trudging along with his satchel in his hand. “No, sir,” said the boy indignantly; “I don’t go to school. I’m tending ’cademy.” Somebody has reported the important fact that the royal family of Russia has at length discarded the China tea, which, from time imme morial has been carried on camels across the wastes of central Asia to the Russian markets. The Czar and his household have transferred their patronage to the tea raisers ot Ceylon, in which respect their example seems to have been followed by nearly the whole of Great Britain. The weaker teas of India are being dis placed by the stronger teas of India and Ceylon, and within the past five years, while the import of Ceylon teas into Great Britain has increased fivefold, the quantity of China tea imports has diminished about one* half. This illustrates a phase of colonial policy that is becoming very noteworthy over the water. Everything has been done to encourage Ceylon tea growing and make a market for the product in Great Britain. Ger - many tries to induce her emigrants tp settle in her colonies, so that, as buyers and sellers, they may not be lost to the Fatherland; and Austria, .having no colonies, is opposed to any •migration at alL—New York Sun.

The typhoid epidemic in St Louis is ex tendin g. | -- - A lone highwayman is terrorizing some of the Chicago suburbs. A family was burned to death near Pittsburg Wednesday. - ■ !, Tho International monetary conference met at Brussels on the 23d. Fighter Corbett lias purchased ? 33,000 worth of properly in New York city. “Col” Morris Pnnchovcr, 6T"Weit know chafaclcrof WaShlngton.dicd on the 23th Tlie Michigan Peninsular err works at. Detroit burned on tlie2stli. Loss, $500,0C0. The Carnegie steel company lias made a big reduction in wages at the Beaver Falls plant. Many people are leaving Kansas forthe new Utopia of Mexico, called TopOlobampo, The family of Mr. Blaine is said to feel, much anxiety over the condition of his health. Four people were killed in a wreck on the Pacific in Nebraska on Tuesday last. —“President-elect Cleveland left New York for the South Tuesday night on a hunting expedition. Tho Hotel Scinscndorf, at Winston, N. C., built at a cost of $140,000, was totally destroyed by fire Thursday. Therp was a heavy rainfall near San Antonio, Tex., Tuesday, and the Government rain makers claim that they pioduced it. Professor Hicks, the St. Louis astronomer, predicts that the mueb-taikod-of comet will b) productive qf cholera upon the earth. t Tiie football game between tho Yale and Harvard teams. Thanksgiving day, was witnessed by 30,C00pcople. Yale won after a severe struggle! - h Rev. John W. Scott, the venerable father-in-law of President Harrison, is seriously ill at the White House, of a feverHe is 04 years old. -Dr. H. A, Sladey the spiritualist medium was arrested, in a Sioux Cily lodging bouse Monday, and adjudged insane. His case is considered hopeless. Black diphtheria is raging in the lumber camps near Ottawa, Canada. Many deaths are reported. The people are witlr. out medhal aid. At. St. Joseph, Mo., Thursday night a livery stable and twenty horses were burned. One of them was a trotter,owned by Sheriff Carson and valued at In a fire at Milwaukee Tuesday night Wm. R„ French, forCman of Karpin's upholstering works, was burned to death, and five firemen were injured by a falling wall. In Allen county, Kentucky, David R. Laycock, an old man, was beaten to death by ‘‘Navy Tom'’ Hunt, a desperado, who ormerly belonged to the Jesse James fang.

Bagley, the United States express messenger of Chicago, who stole $160,000 of the company’s money last, week, and then gave it back, has been indicted for grand ! arceny. . William McKinley Sr. father of Govern or McKinley of Ohio, died at Canton, O." on the: sth. He was born in Mercer county, l’a.. in 1807. Cbrnelius'Taii(iet'biH‘g:Nt!*portpalac\-.' •‘The Breakers,” with all its contents* was totally destroyed by lire on the night of thoJ&tli. TneJossls hundreds of thousands of dollars. It now tnrns , WrTlnfrtTrß“twsnpposcdMexican liorsethicves, killed by Texas /angers on the night of the 20th, were two brothers, Juan and Gabriel Longura, prosperous and honest ranchmen living in the ower Rio Grande valley. James Mulholland. a prominent business man was publicly caned in the streets as Louisville on the 2 d, by Miss BlcicliirtpHio wife of a restaurant keepeFwßoHU she cliargcd‘wlth having sent her an improper message. The Norton heirs of Louisville have received judgement in the United States Court at Madison, Wis., against the city of Superior for 5160,000 on a contract for the sale of a tract of land for park purposes. The city authorities repudiated the contract on a technicality, but the court holds it valid. At Monday afternoon's session of the Knights of Labor, hold at St. Louis, a secret bgl lot was taken and Mr. -Powderlv was chosen Master Workman by a vote of 106 to 6 sea fieri ng. Other offi ccrs were sciocted os follows: General Worthy Foreman, Hugh Cavanaugh; Secretary-Treas-urer, John W. Hayes: members Executive Board: Terrence V. Powderly, ex-officio chairman; A. W. Wright, John Devlin - John Davis and T. B. McGuire.