Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — SHORTAGE IN GRAVES [ARTICLE]

SHORTAGE IN GRAVES

GOTHAM UNDERTAKERS WORKv * ING OVERTIME. Mortality Greatest Among People ot 1 Middle Aue—Cadets at West Point Get a Shock —Roundabout Humor Shat Spain la Looking for Trouble. Dead of a Great City. Notwithstanding' largely increased Jorees of grave diggers, working by night am well as day, graves could not be supplied to fill the demand at the New York hud Brooklyn cemeteries Sunday. There was also a shortage in hearses, and it •was necessary to borrow from other eitfiea. There were 400 funerals in Now' York during the day and over 200 in. {Brooklyn. Undertakers bad said the ifnnerals of Sunday would be more nuanerous than those of any other day of Inst week, and that meant more numerous than, any- day in the history of the city. They were right. Sunday surpassed Fri>day as a day of funerals, but not by a -large number. Friday, Saturday and Bunday saw more burials than any seven days of which cemetery bookkeepers can find a record. Those are startling facts, but these further facts are as notable. The number of children among the dead W never been iu the hottest week of any jyoar been so small as last week; neither, iiaa the hottest week of any year seen co few burials of aged people. The average age of the persons interred in three principal cemeteries was 47 years. There were nearly twice as many men as women buried. Cadets Are Dismissed for Hazing. The United State? Military Academy cadets at 1 West Point neTer got a greater ehock than they did Friday evening, when • general order from the Secretary of ■War was published at dress parade dismissing Cadets Giles Bishop Jr. and H. S. -Commager, both members of the third class who were recently tried by courtmartial for hazing “plebs.” The President's approval of the sentence created some surprise, but his severe indorsement of the court-martial papers in condemnation of hazing credited um<'h greater astonishment. The President wrote: *The offense of maltreating and Abusing *iew cadets by upper classmen-ts so mean and cowardly and so opposed to every trait that should characterize a gentleman and a trtie soldier that severe sentence should not be necessary to its prevention. If, however, punishment must Ve resorted to to effect u discontinuance of this disgraceful practice I con do no less than to resist all nppeals for clemency. I am determined in all cases of this description, when the proof is clear, to refuse relief to those cadets, who, in •violation of a wholesome regulation of the military academy, indulge in the brutal and cowardly treatment of beginners commonly called ‘hazing.’ ” This is the first dismissal for hazing that has. occurred at the academy in years. President Cleveland’s determined stand is considered a deathblow to the practice. , Spain Hot for Fight. London advices say: Spain seems intent upon war with the United States. The last utterances of Seuor Comjvas show that: the chief preoccupation of the tJovernmcnt is not the war with Cuba •lone, but the coming conflict with Alio United States. Few people in Madrid seeui To doubt this conflict will come if the Cuban war is not practically ended by tifxl March. The Spanish political ers partake of the opinion that the time when, if actual war is not on between Spain and the United States, both countries will at least be quite on the verge of it. Up to the present time Spain has yielded to American demands, no matter how unjust they have seemed to Spain This course has been adopted In consideration of Cleveland's policy favoring Spain, but the moment the belligerency of the Cuban insurgents is proclaimed from the White House Spanish public opinion, which hns been with difficulty repressed, will hurst out of all bounds and the relations between the two countries will become strained to the uttnoflt point. In the Cortes the other day Seuor Canovas declared that “the extraordinary credits asked for from Parliament were needed because it was ueecaaary to place the country in a position to answer possible offenses against national dignity." Standing of National League. Following ; a the standing of the clu'os •f the National Baseball League: W. L. ‘ W. I. Cincinnati.. .(58 UOPhilrfdelpliia .43 51 Baltimore.. .(55 29Brooklyn.. . .48 52 (Cleveland . . .58 36Xew York .. .42 5(5 Chicago .. ..59 42Washingtou .36 58 IPittaburg . . .54 41St. Louis . . 66 'Boston 52 43Louisville .. .24 69 Western Leagne Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Minneapolis .. 59 3SKansas City .53 44 Indianapolis .57 37Milwaukec . .49 56 (Detroit 55 41Gr’d Rapids ..37 68 St. Paul . . . .56 44Columbus . . .36 69