Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The railways centering in Chicago, it is expected, wttlfeXpeiid $50,000.000 in preparation for the World's Fair. At the time Shakespeare wrote his plays there were not in all the world as many English-speaking people as there are now in New York and New Jersey. To-day more than 100,000,000 people speak English. The dreams of communistic philosophers have already been realized in a town upon the island of Sardinia which has “no police, no postoffico. no registrar's office and no town council, ’’and whose people arc happy and contented. Chicago detectives continue to 1 ell fairy stories about Taseott, the alleged murderer of millionaire Snell, and say that he is a scapegoat for the real criminal who still resides in Chicago, but they do not lock up the alleged criminal. r ' * - Tiie Quaker City is considered slow and her citizens old fogy in their business methods, but they have got the “rocks, ' as may be well believed when it is known that residents of Philadelphia will receive about ten million dollars for January - interest and dividends. Bets on California have been declared off by the sporting authorities on the ground that neither Harrison nor Cleveland carried the State, Harrison getting one and Cleveland eight electors. The same rule will, of course, apply to other States whose electoral vote is divided. The so-called revolutionists now operating in Mexico are believed to be- merely a band of outlaws who have no designs whatever on the Diaz regime, but are seeking plunder merely and care not who may suffer. They are confinlug their operations to the Mexican side of the river because the chances seem to be that they can more surely escape the law in that territory. The Johns Hopkins University medical school will hereafter admit women on an equality with men. A better equipped institution for the medical student does not exist in the United States. Five hundred thou sand dollars were required for this object, and but $200,000 had been secured after two years effort, and the scheme seemed likely to fail, when Miss Mary E. Garrett, of Baltimore, alone supplied the $300,000 ! necessary. This triumph for woman's elevation is therefore due to woman’s efforts, and marks an advance in woman’s education, aud is a proud distinction for Johns Hopkins University. The liquor law which is to go into, force in South Carolina on the Ist of next July will be stringent. It will prohibit the manufacture, sale, barter or exchange, or the keeping and offering for sale, barter or exchange of any spirituous, malt, vinous, fermented or other intoxicating liquors, or any compound or mixture thereof. State agents, however, will be empowered to sell liquor, but under such close restrictions as will put it out of the power of most people to buy it. Another clause in the law makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment, for any dub to have liquor in its possession, even if it is not sold or given away. The State Legislature tried to pass the most east-iron liquor law in the world, and it appears to have done so. The Columbian stamp are decidedly larger than the old style, and persons having occasion to “lick” many of them will not. hanker for gum drops right away. As works of art they are unique and x’are, and viewed in that light the prices are ruinously low. One cent procures a blue landscape of Columbus in sight of Jandj 2 ccr.ts purchases “The Land-I ing of Columbus, 'in maroon; 3 cents, an engraving of the Santa Maria; for 6 cents you can see Columbus appealing to Isabella for aid; 6 cents shows his entry to Barcelona; 10 cents, the presentation of the aborigines to the Spanish court, in Vandyke brown; 15 cents, “Col pm bus reciting the story of his Discoveries;” other stamps of the series cost 60 aents, sl, 92, $3, $4, and $5. The new stamps are useful and ornamental, and an unused collection of the serimi mil 1 ■ ' ' ll— - 11,-IV,

unrest beneath the smiling* surface of that gay capital, but it can hardly be said that they presage a new French Revolution. The elements of discord are inharmonious, and the time for revolt, if it shall come at hU, is not yet ripe. The French -people have learned to vute, and as the power that lies within an intelligent ballot becomes better known, dynamite and barricades will cease to vex the peace of France, and the red flag no more shall have its old time power to inflame the mob. The Republic has done more to disarm anarchy in France than all the Princes of every claiming dynasty could have doue ( and it is not to be supposed that any considerable number of the French people are blind to their own interests. Business prosperity was the prevailing characteristic of 1892, and similar conditions still continue, The distribution of merchandise was “man unprecedented scale, and trade In staple lines indicates a continuance of the prevailing Owing to the competition from the South, the iron market is dull, and prices have reached a low level in that great staple. It is an established theory that the iron business is the truest barometer of the indns-t-rial prosperity of the country, and that an advance in prices, and an increased output indicate profit and activity in other lines, There has been a steady rise in hogs and a consequent increase in value in many lines of provisions, and, as a consequence, farmers are developing stock for market as rapidly as possible, and business has been good with country banks in supplying money to move the increased production. There is a diminished foreign demand for wheat, but prices have remained steady. Stock markets indicate higher quotations, and values remain firm in all the leading shares upon the market. One of the “infant industries” of South Dakota is the divorce mill,one of which is in operation in all the organized counties, and this institution, though not altogether peculiar to that far western, commonwealth, has been “protected” by statutes of remarkable elasticity. Singular as it may seem, there are citizens of the State who do not take kindly to the existing oi*der of things, and a sentiment is growing that bodes ill to the people who emigrate to those fertile fields for the sole purpose of obtaining a legal separation from uncongenial partners in the matrimonial relation. Bishop Tlare, of the Episcopal church of South Dakota, on a recenl Sunday, at Sioux Falls, created a great sensation by attacking the evil in a sermon, alleging that the divorce industry in the State was a national scandal, and denouncing the custom as consecutive polygamy; denouncing the perjury, which is almost universal, whereby it is possible to so readily secure the divorce of foreign parties, who almost invariably marry immediately, and all for the benefit of a few lawyers and hotel proprietors who encourage the industry, and claiming that a shadow of disgrace is being cast over the State by the practice. The Bishop argued that the time of residence should be lengthened, provision made for limited divorce, and that the church should “ventilate, agitate and educate.” - ____________ That a standing army is a hothouse of National discord and a breeder of war has long been known. Men are prone to exercise the calling to which they are trained, and idleness is distasteful even when action meaus bloodshed and death to those who would plunge their country into 1 the horrors of war, thatdhoroby they might find an outlet for their suppressed energies. Russia' has for years enjoyed an unaccustomed ]>eaoe, and the Czar, while still maintaining a vast army of well-drilled soldiers, still resists all attempts to force his empire info strife with other European powers, using his imperial influence in the interests of peace, and being content to maintain the army in idleness as a police force and an assured defence against assaults from without. But Russian officers waut an outlet for their welltrained valor, ami great discontent prevails throughout the array at the prolonged peace and the prospect of an indefinite extension of the same conditions. As to whom they will fight, or what they shall fight about, - thoy do not particularly care, so long as they get a chance to air their uniforms and otherwise distinguish themselves. War may be considered us an almost certain result of the present state of affairs, as a Nation with a powerful army ready organized, unless wisely ruled, accepts as a provocation to conflict, matters that would otherwise be amicably adjusted. ' ■; Time is a disease none can escape.

A trust is the last. Ex-President Hayes' ICTY a iSrlune of $500,000. .:JT Fifr.nJe Kimble. the once noted actress, died ::t London, Monchiy. f - " Tim Louisiana lottery will do basiness In Honduras after Jan. 1,1804." Mr. Cleveland will attend tiie funeral of ox-Pres idem Hayes at Fremont, O. Chattanooga is without light or water ss a result of tiie low temperature. Kernel Lot h was electrocuted at Clinton prison, Datinemore, NrY.,Monday. 2 The late W. S. Ladd, of Portland, Ore., left $450,000 for charitable purposes. Three racn were killed in the collapse of a building at Philadelphia, Monday. Xx-Prcsident Bayeslsdangerously flT'of neuralgia of the heart, at Fremont. O. 1 Miss Lillie Brown, mysteriously missing from ’Pittsburg, Pa., was located in 'Marion. Daniel Coughlin, convicted of the mur--der of Hr.. Cronin, has been granted a new trial. , • i : 11 ~ ■■'■■■ ■ At Chester. Pa.. Thomas Rogers killed his father and mother and wounded his sister. The new practice ship Bancroft will be given a trial in Lone Island Sound this week. Delaware peaches are acknowledged to be safe so far in spite of the frigid temperature. The Kentucky Legislature has appropriated 4;C0, 030 for an exhibit at the World':. Fair. Mgr. Satolii. the Apostolic delegate, will, it is stated, reside in Now York and notin Washington. Dr. Gatling’s new gun trill operate by an electric motor, and discharge two thousand shot 3 a minute. Another street car was run down at Chicago. Monday higlit, and seven persons were hurt, one fatally. - Judge Nelson, of tho United States Court at- Duluth, lias declared the Chinese exclusion act unconstitutional. Gov. Brown, of Maryland, refuses to recognize the requisition of Gov. Chase, of Indiana, for the Iron Hall embezzlers. Governor Flower, of New York.indorscs, the scheme of substituting electricity for horse power on the canals of the State. In a collision on the Pennsylvania railroad near Jersey City, Thursday, one passenger-was killed and fourteen injured The ice bridge at Niagara is one of the most substantial seen for years. Large numbra of tourists are visiting the place. Tho Mississippi river is full of floating ice from Cairo to Vicksburg, and the prospects for navigation tho next three weeks are gloomy. Richard Greunncr. of: .Dubuque, who killed himself by drinking carbolic acid, was ;i wholesale forger and dealer in spurittns mortgages. Defendant Dempsey was on the stand at Homestead, Wednesday, and denied that any poison was used in the food of nonunion workmen. Ex-President Hayes, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, an<f“B)uc Jeans” Williams were raised on three adjoining farms in Pickaway county, Ohio. Tlio girls of Vassar college intend to present SophociC3 in April or May. They will make use of the very latest theories In regard to the Greek stage. General Joseph Bartlett, one of the most prominent of the military men from from New York in the war of the Rebellion, died at Baltimore, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt will srcct a building for student's rooms at ¥a!e University, as a memorial to W. H. Vanderbilt, a member cf tho senior class. The Colorado Supreme Court has grant»d a noV trial to Dr. Thatcher Graves, jonvicted of tho murder of Mrs. Barnaby, at Denver, and ho will bo released on bond. 4 Horace Smith, who died at Springfield, Mass., Sunday, left his entire estate, valued at about. $8,000,000, with the exception es SIO,OOO, to bcnevolentand charitable institutions. The first regular session of-the twentyfifth annual convention of the National American Woman SuiTrago Association was opened at Washington, Monday, There were about seventy members present. - Ex-Senator 11. G. Davis has tendered President Cleveland a handsome cottage at-Deur Park for next summer. It will bo remembered that the President and Mrs. Cleveland spent their honeymoon at Doer Park. An autopsy on the body of Gen. Butler showed that tie died from the bursting of a small blood vessel an tiie brain. Ilis brain weighed foul* ounces mere than that as Daniel Webster, which was one of tho largest >m record. Owing to the Illness of Attorney-Gener-al Pillsbury, of Massachusetts, it is stated that tho. trial of Miss Lizzie Borden, for the murder of her stop-mother and father, will not come before March, and probably not unti! a much later period. The trial of the Homestead poisoners, Dempsey, ct al.. is in progress at Pittsburg, and very damaging testimony is being elicited. Cook Gallagher testified that lie received powders from Dempsey which he put in the soup, and tho nonunionists were made sick. Tho exercises of the opening of the World’s Fair next May. it has been deeded by tho executive committeo of tho board of directors, will be open to tho public They will bo held out of doors, and as many cs can find space around a big grand stand will have an opportunity if seeing President Cleveland and hearing his speech. Several riles of antiquity have been found on a large hill near Huron, where a group of seven mounds can easily bo trac-» ed at the top. with an obscure winding path leading to a cave below. Tho central tumulous, where the relics were found, has' a double circular wail, and was probably used for sepulchral purposes. Whltelaw Reid says that he Intends to leave New York for a tbreo months’ trip to Cal Horn lit In about three weeks. Mr. Reid sayS that the severe winter has had a very bad effect on his ihroat. While In Paris he had a serious attack of asthma, end It Is for fear of a return of this complaint that ho is seeking another climate. A Philadelphia dealer In China is swindling; patrons with the centennial souvenirs made in imitation of Martha Washington’s Inauguration set, and many people have paid large prices for what they believed to be a valuable relic. A. New York lawyer paid $250 for a plate and •übmlttod ft to an expert wh« In termed

him that the dish was made In 1876 and cost $1.47, In response to a Senate resolution relative to the disbursement of the appropriation of $2,500,000 in souvenir coins, in aid of the World’s Columbian Exposition, tiie Secretary of the Treasury in a letter laid before the Senate, says tho disbursement is being made on the recommendation of a committee of three employes from tin: accounting offices of the I're.asury Department. 1 - Jung Din Kan, .a Chinese laundryman. was chopped to pieces at Chicago, Wednesday morning. Jung Jack Sin, an alleged Kansas City high binder, whose clothes were covered with blood, was arrested for the crime. , Rev. A. S. Orme, of Haverhill, Mass., permitted his one-year-old daughter to die of typhoid pneumonia without treatment, other than laving on of hands and prayer, believing that as “God did not heal the child. He has another object in view in taking her away.* An accident occurred Tuesday morning on-the Louisville & Nashville railroad at Milldale, Ky. By the neglect of the watchman, who says he was benumbed with cold, he allowed a freight engine to run on the main track at the same time that a passenger engine was coming in tiie opposite direction. The engines met. on the bridge over the old Licking river. One of the men jumped forty feet. Engineer Walter Galson, of Louisville, was fatally injured. Engineer James Carr and fireman Godman, of Louisville, and fireman John Wanke, ol Milldale, were painfully hurt.