Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — TKLEGRAPHIG. [ARTICLE]

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Cincinnati, Sept 7.—The reunion of old time telegraphers to-day, was attended by seventy or eighty members of the older operators and employes of the telegraph companies. The Western Union main offices have been handsomely decorated in honor of the visitors, a big “73” being hung conspicuously, as a greeting The forenoon was spent in social talk and the party took carriages for a ride through the suburbs. Galvestom, September 7.—A News special from Navasota says: A man named Peoples, returning from Milican, where he had sold cotton, was waylaid, killed and robbed by Taliaferro, a negro. Taliaferro was captured near Independence, and, while on the way back, some men disguised overpowered the sheriff and earned off the prisoner. It is sup posed he was lynched. Hr. Louis, Sept 7.—The three extensive ice bodses of Hose. Loomis & Co., and three smaller ones belonging to the Mississippi Ice Co., on the river front, burned this evening. Hose, Loam is A Co.’s loss is $21,000 on ice and $2.0000n buildings; insured for SIB,OOO. The Mississippi Ice Co.’s loss la $9,000 on ice and $6,000 on buildings; insured for $12,000. The flames spread to the extensive stone foundry and other manufacturing companies on the west, and consumed the storing, mounting and casting bouses, one third of the establishment. Loes estimsr ted at $135,000; insured for $169,000. Pat Lynch and Ed. Landers, fireman, were killed by the falling of a roof. Pat Conway sustained a concussion of the brain; John Collins is badly and perhaps fatally injured internally, and James Tooley, Chas. Sullivan and Arnold Barter, all firemen, were badly bruioed.

Bam Francisco, Sept. 7.—A special from Fort Romie says the Indians attacked and captured a stage from the east sixteen miles from Fort Cummiftgs in New Mexico. The driver and passengers, two in number, were killed. One of them was Edward 8. Madden, son of Capt. D. Madden, of the Sixth cavalry. Several horses were taken. General Buell and command were engaged at Ft. Cummings at the time of the depredations. The general has sent a party in pursuit London, September V. —Accounts of the number of men in the Seiham colliery nit at the time of the disaster vary. The pit consists of five seams, one below another shallowish seam, which is 450 feet below the surface The total depth of the colliery is about six hundred yards. Nineteen men in the top seam merely felt the nub of air, but on proceeding to the shaft found it blocked by debris. The air coming from the shaft wm exceedingly foul. Communication with the top seam was opened at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, but because of damage to the shaft the mi n could only be hoisted out singly by chains and ropes. Nearly all of them therefore elected to remain in the pit so as not to delay the explorers in clearing the way to the lower seams, from whence knocking and shouting was audible. About seven o'clock in the evening the upcast shaft was sufficiently cleared to allow the explorers to use it, which enabled the bringing up of victims to proceed more rapidly. Several men near the furnace at the bottom of the upcast shaft were found to be shockingly burned. It is thought the explosion originated in the lower seam, and that the gas driven over the furnace, the explorers for the time had to suspend the work of bringing up the survivors in consequence of the stables being on fire. A woman dropped dead on hearing of the death of her brother in the pit. The store-room is cleared for the reception of the corpses.

The latest published telegram from the inspector of the mines, dated Be ah am, at 9 o clock last evening, says: “Fifty-nine men have been rescued, and 130 are yet to be accounted for. The explorations have been stopped in consequence of fire in the two middle seams. Great anxiety is felt for those still in the pits. There is plenty of assistance, with relays of workers every four hours.” It would appear from the above dispatch from the inspector that there has been a later outbreak of lire in the mine. London, September 9—5 a. m.—lt now seems dead in Seabam. The killed numbe between 130 and 140. There are some corpses in the lower seam which are supposed to be lying a mile f rom the shaft The air is so foul there it is thought impossible that any could have survived. London Sept 9.—A dispatch from Seaham, dated at 1:30 a. m., says that a party of explorershave just ascended the shaft. They report the fire to be near the engine room in No. 8 shaft. This will shortly be extin gutshed. At present the relief party could get no furthnr. A dispatch dated Seaham 11:30 says that a party of engineers has just ascended. They report that t e bodies of the furnace men at the bottom of the sharft are quite shriveled up. Other bodies, they say, were fearfully scorched and all their clothes burned off. The coal is on fire near the engine house, but hose will be lowered and the flames probably subdued promptly. The exploration of Seaham mine was continued throughout the night The statement made in a dispatch from Seaham last nicht, that only six men had been rescued alive, is now confirmed. The number of men in the pit is unknown, but 250 lamps were given out Tuesday night. No hope is entertained for those still in the mine. Three fires were discovered in the mine during the night and extinguished. Every effort is making to clear the shaft.

London, September 9.—The Are in the Seaham pit has been subdued. Salt Lakr, Sept 9.—R. T. Smith shot yesterday, by Dr. S. Nedaker, died last night He made no stat- ment as .to the cause of the difficulty. He was engaged to Mias Agnes Davidson, not to her sister, as enormously stated yesterday, and her father says when Smith proposed marriage to his daughter, slm told him she was unfit to marrying him; that Dr. Buedaker had in hi a office drugged and outraged her. Smith told the girl’s brother, and urged him to avenge his sister’s dishonor. Subsequently he met Buedaker, struck him, and told him to leave the country or he would kill him. Their next meeting was at the depot, yesterday morning, when Snedaker took the initiative by shooting Smith on sight. Snedaker’s friends say nothing improper ever passed between him and Miss Davidson. The latter is half demented over the tragedy, and is inaccessible to reporters. Both men being dead, probably nothing will ever be certainly known about it

Columbus, 0., Sept 9.—Some workmen early this morning found the dead body of Kate Grimes, a woman of the town, in the eastern part of the city, with her throat cut from ear to ear, and a bloody knife not far away. The woman was a confirmed drunkard, and it is not known whether she was murdered or committed suicide The fact that during the night some children heard some screams in the neighborhood where the body was found, taken together with the fact that the bloody knife had all its blades closed when found, together with evidence of a struggle, leads the coroner to believe the woman to have been murdered. She had lately been living with an unknown man near the brickyards. Long Branch, September 9.—A northeast storm was very severe here today. The track of the New Jersey Southern railway between Highlands station and Beabright suffered considerably, suspendIng all travel from New York via J> andy Hooks. " • For twelve hours the coast has been swept by a northeast gale, blowing at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Old surfmen I say that it is the severest September gale

that has visited the place since 1854. The damage along the, shore is great. Camton, 0., Sept 9.—At New Berlin, five miles north of this city, burglars en lered five dwelling houses and a hotel last night They obtained but little booty and aroused the whole population, who gave them chase, armed with revolvers and shot guns. After being fired at several times, the burglars escaped. Bev eral parties living in the vicinity are suspected, and some lively developments are expected.

Dunkirk, Sept. 9.—The 'large bam of Joshua Oldham, living three miles noith. west of here, was totally destroyed by fire last night together with all the grain of his crop, including twelve hundred bushels of wheat The loss will reach $25,000; insured for SIO,OOO in the Farmers’ Insurance Co. It is the work of incendiaries, who are working in that neighborhood. Indianapolis, September 9.—The passenger train on the Indianapolis and Bt Louis railway, due here this evening from Bt Louis, was thrown from the track and four cjaches ditched, caused by a rail being removed from the track. Conductor George Morris was instantly killed. No others were seriously injured. Cmcaso, Sept 6. -The test race attract ed large crowds this evening. At 11 o'clock the score stood: Horses—Both man’s entry, 396; Betsy Baker, 385; Dunn’s entry, 887; Rose of Texas, 380. Men— Byrne, 896; Ktohne, 878; Colston, 859; Schock, 833; Cole, 287.; Connolly, 284; Jackson, 168. Fredericksburg, Ya., Sept 9.—The Recorder, the regular. Democratic newspaper, to-morrow comes out tor the Read] uster electoral and congressional ticket and says it believes the most effective way to secure the electoral vote of Virginia for the Democratic ticket is to support the Readjuster electors.

Memphis, September 10.—The crop report of the Memphis cotton exchange for the month of August embraces 122 responses from points m west Tennessee, north Mississippi and north Arkansas; 20 report that the weather has been favorable in most all respects; 109 report the weather has been generally unfavorable, compared with last August; 14 report more favorable; 13 about the same; 105 much less favorable, cotton fruiting; 51 report forming and blooming well; 34 moderately well, 47 not well; 29 report retaining fruit well; 103 report serious shedding of forms and young fruit On uplands top, the crop is generally reported as almost entirely lost Condition of the crop: 10 report very fine condition in all respects; 80 good condition as to cultivation; 11 excessively grassy; 81 dead condition as compared with last month. It is represented as 15 per cent less favorable as with the same time last year; 9 per cent less favorable picking reported. Average date for commencement of picking, August 27; last year, September 8; the average date which picking would be general, September 9; 107 report no material damage by worms; 25 report some ball-worms; aggregate damage trifling; damage by rust and shedding: 18 report the damage by rust slight; 89, very serious damage; damage reported at from 10 to 50 per cent., averaging 16 per cent. The severe loss occurs with the August or September crop, which is almost an entire loss. In bottom lands everywhere there is much complaint of too rank growth of plant at the expense of the fruit. Late planted corn will not average more than half a crop.

London, Sept. 10.—The explosion in the Seaham coal mine makes seventy-six widows and 284 orphans. A- large majority of the Victims were single men. At 2 o’clock this morning the first of the victims of the disaster were brought up from the mines. Before all the bodies could be removed, fire again broke out and was not extinguished until 7 o’clock. One hundred and thirty is the lowest estimate of dead, and it is estimated there were 400 horses and ponies in the mine. The bodies of twelve men brought up are frightfully disfigured. There are eleven more bodies near the pit shaft It will be ’some time before the other bodies can be recovered, and some may never be found, as they are burned under the debris of the explosion. Another fire has begun in No. 8 shaft at the ventilating furnace. This will delay explorations. From the list published, it appears 102 men and boys are missing. The latest official statement places the number of killed at 147. A broken safety lamp has been brought up from the main seam, and it is believed throws some light on the origin of the disaster. London, Sept. 10.—Thirty corpses have been recovered from the Seaham pit up tn 7 O’clock last evening, when the search was suspended for the night, in consequence of the accumulation of gas. ,

Lnri.B Rock, Sept. 10.—Deputy United States Marshal Kyle has arrived at Fort Smith with nine prisoners from Oklahoma. Among them are two Seminoles, charged with murdering two white men, Bateman and Davis, in the Cbickasavy country, 200 miles west, in November, 1878. There were six full-blooded Semlnoles engaged in the murder. The deed was deliberate, Bateman being shot off his horse and Davis met the same fate six miles from where Bateman was killed. The murderers have had no rest from the marshals since that moment One Billy Boweges, a son of the famous Flonda-sem-inole war chief, Billv Boweges, shot himself through the heart Another was killed in a feud, and but two of the six are left. They lived in a full-blooded Seminole settlementand the officers will soon have them. The murderers found only S3O on their victims, which they divided. ' y Chicago, September 10.—The Commercial Bulletin presents returns from 210 connties in the northwest as to the condition and amount of the spring wheat crop. They say it seems evident that the culture of winter wheat is coming into greater favor in the northwest, especially in the older agricultural districts. The farmers appear also to have enlarged their com area at the expense of spring wheat. The yield of the latter is, however, greater than in 1879. The old crop is sold very close, much closer than usual. The total yield in the states of Illinois, lowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin and Daketa territory, reckoned on the basis of the returns received, is 147,731,000 bushels of spring wheat, against 126,466,000 bushels last year, and the average per acre is 13-58 against 12.15 percent, in 1879. The average is 361,000 bushels greater than in 1879.

Chicago, Sept 10.—The Journal's Little Rock special says all the amendments to the state constitution of Arkansas, which provides ior a repudiation of a portion ot the state debt, had been adopted by several thousand majority. It also says the majorities for the Democratic candidates for state offices in Arkansas range from 50,000 upwards. Oilumbiana, 0., Sept 10.—This morning, about 9 o’clock; a man named Benj. F. Peoples committed suicide by taking oxalic acid and died in about twenty minutes. He was recently azrested for forgery to the amount of seven hundred dollars on two wealthy taimen, both of this town. He plead guilty and was bound over to court in the sum of SI,OOO, which bond his brother and mother signed, and he was discharged. He is of good family, and had many friends. He was thirty yean old. Canton, O n September 10.—The realdence ol Lewis Koontz, op North Market street, was entered by burglars last night through a kitchen window. Alter going through things in the kitchen and dining room, they took Mr. Koontz’s pants from his bed room with about fifteen dollars in money in them. Fry’s merchant tailoring

establishment was also burglarized, a lot of cloth being stolen. Wooster, O-, Sept. 10.—This afternoon Nicola Acolie, a peanut vender of this place, entered Zimmerman A Co.’s drug store, and while the clerk’s back was turned, drank from a jar containing a ablution of strychnine, supposing it to be wine. He is now in a precarious condition, but may recover. San Francisco, Sept. 10.—A Beattie dispatch says: Captain Smith,of the steamer Josephine, has just arrived from Skagit, and reports that while ascending the river on Tuesday last, when opposite Mount Baker, be observed the mount in a state of violent eruption. Flames were streaming up from the summit and large volumes of smoke ascending. Chicago, Sept. 10.—The Milwaukee turners, who have been so successful in contesting with turners on the continent for prizes, arrived to-night on their way home, and had a warm reception by their German friends here, who serenaded them, had a torch light procession in their honor and gave them a fine banquet, where there were many speeches. Chicago, Sept. 10—A Ban Francisco dispatch from Colistage says : Excitement has utted in this vicinity for the last two weeks over a report that the hot springs their carry large quantities of gold in there solution. A. C. Tlckner, who recently bought the Hot Bprings hotel prop-

cently bought the Hot Springs hotel property. has been at work for the past two weeks extracting gold from water, by a Krocess known only to himself. The cleaniga yesterday shows he has succeeded in extracting $1,660 from ten barrels of water. The gold is of a high grade of fineness, and as the springs 4n this locality are numerous, and the volume of water exceedingly large.it would be useless to attempt to estimate their value if they continue to yield as rich return as experiments have proved thus far. • New Yore, Sept 11.—The Coney Island jockey club had today good weather and a large attendance. The three-quar-ters of a mile race was won by Guaple; Charley Gorham second, Carrie third. Time, I:l7Jf. The one mile and a quaiter race was won by Oder; Charles Lawrence second, Telemachus third. Time, 2:15. The Gravesend handicap, one mile and three furlongs, was won by Checkmate; Gabrielle second, Bcotilla third. Time, 2:28KThe handicap steeple chase, full eouree, was won by Disturbance; Pomeroy second, Bertha third. Columbus, Sept. 11.—The safe of Cline Bros.’s store, of Martinsburg, Knox county, was blown open by burglars yesterday End robbed of $1,325, The Cline Bros, being leading merchants, had on deposit various ’ moneys belonging to neighbors and others. Four hundred dollars was township funds; but SSOO belonged to Cline Bros. The officers of the Btate Mutual Aid Association, whose affairs have recently been undergoing' an examination by a legislative committee, have brought suit for libel against the Bunday Morning News, claiming SIO,OOO damages. New York, September Hr—The funeral of T. J. O’Reilly, a well-known and widely respected journalist, who was connected with the Express and Times, and at different times with other papers, took place to day at St. Bernard’s church. Rev. John B. Steward, of. Bt. Mary’s church, Rochester, assisted by Rev. Gabriel A. Healy and other clergymen, officiated. Mayor Cooper and almost all the prominent city officials were present. The pallbearers were members oi the press. The remains were interred in Calvary cemetery , ;