Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1880 — GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Washington, D. C- December 21. —The committee appointed to report on a general plan of inaugural decoration* has concluded itework and recommend a series Of thirty-eight light arches of gas pipes over Pennsylvania avenue, with appropriate decorations representing each state In Che anion, and the decorations pf all the Statutes in the city. It is proposed, among other decorations for the executive mansion, to have about one hundred lanterns of different sizes and one hundred dozen hotel candles, and citizens will also be requested to illuminate their dwelling*, places of business, etc. The senate in executive session eonfirmed the following nominations: Eugene Schuyler, of New York, con-sul-general at Bucharest. Tobe consuls: Sidney W. Cooper, ofXew York, at Cadiz; Henry L. Atherton, of Net* York, at kemambuco; Theodore Conisiusi of Illinois, at Guatemala; James E. wharlon, surveyor of customs at Portsmouth, Ohio; Andrew J. Dumont. naval officer at New Orleans; Theodore James, of West 'Virginia, pension agent at Washington, D? C.; William Lawrence, of Ohio, first competroller of the treasury, and a , large number of army appointments and promotions. Postmasters; John N. Shipman, of Springfield, Ohio; William Hart, of Frankfort, Indiana; Thomas J. Lucus, Lawrenceburg, Indiana; N. Headington, Portland, Indiana; O. H. Woodworth, Columbia City, Indiana; Miss A. M. Lawton, Greggs ville, Illinois; Miss M. E. Jenks, Murpheysborough, Illinois. A considerable part of the senate’s executive session to-day was consumed in discussing the nomination of Judge Wm.B. Woods,of Georgia,to be associate justice of the supreme court. The nomination was brought before the senate on a favorable report frqm the judiciary, committee, but immediately encountered opposition on the ground that this appointment should have been given to a southern man, and Judge Woods’ nomination, though credited to Georgia, was really an additonal excessive appointment to the supreme bench of Ohio,of which he was a native. It was also contended that Judge Woods is an extreme partisan. On the other hand, it was argued that he had been a citizen and actual resident of Alabama and Georgia throughout the past fifteen years; that the performance of his duties as circuit judge for the southern circuit has been eninently satisfactory to the bar and people of* the states therein embraced, and that memorials have been received from the bar associations of the principal southern cities, strongly urging his confirmation for the” supreme court. At the close of the debate a vote was taken on the question of confirmation. There were only eight voters recorded against it. A motion to reconsider the confirmation was entered, however, and after some further discussion an attempt was made to end the matter by bringing this motion to a final vote.* A call for the yeas and nays disclosed the absence of a quorum, and the senate therefore adjourned, leaving the case suspended on a motion to reconsider. New York, December 21.—Neil McGrew, a ruffianly and disipated young man, who recently served a term of imprisonment for theft, went to-night to the house of his respectable married sister, Mrs. Jane Carhart, at ' 348 West Eleventh street. While there he quarreled with her, and Mr. Carhart ordered him to leave the premises. Seizing a kerosene lamp he threw it at his sister, when it brojee and the flaming oil Eoured over her, burning her so badly er life is dispaired of. She was taken to the hospital. McGrew made his escape. Lafayette, Ind., December 21. The statement which originated in a Boston paper and has been widely ; copied, insinuating that the large earnings of the Lake Erie A Western railroad may, be cooked up, brings out a statement from the auditor of the road denving the report as malicious and faise. He says the books of the company are open for inspection, and the statements of the earnings are strictly in accordance with the facts.

Van Wert, 0., December 21.—Last evening, at about nine o’clock, Miss Annie Vandine, late of Kendallville, Ind., committed suicide here by taking strychnine, at a house of prostitution, k'ept by Kata Martin,and, after suffering the greatest agony, died about twelve o'clock to-day. She came to this place last Saturday, forsaking hottie and friends to .engage in a life of shame, and the only motive for the commission of’ the rash act is gathered from two hastily written letters, addressed to FVrris Fisher, a brakeman on the Wabash, St. Louis & ‘ Pacific railroad, a former lover, residing at Lafayette, Ind., abd another to her mother, trho lives at Garret city, Indiana, in both of which she declared then to be her last. In the one to Fisher she - mentioned one Johns as the causfc of all her woes, and declaring that she would end her days in van Wert. Miss Vandine was about twenty-one years of age, prepossessing in appearance and from the tone of her letters was possessed of a good education. Your correspondent was unable to gather any more of her history than that of a too confiding nature. She fell the easy victim of a libertine. It appears that her fkther about four weeks ago committed suicide in the same manner.

Valparaiso, Ind., December 21. —Miss Ella Sutton', of this city, died this forenoon from the effects of morphine administered yesterday by her own hands with suicidal intent. She was eighteen years old, and had for the last year been an employe of •the yarn mill, working there until the day she took the narcotic. Deceased and her mother lived with a married sister and she failed to get along peacably with them. This, the brother alleges, is the only reason he can assign for the rash act. He also stated that she had attempted suicide before. The cause is not generally accepted, and many are inclined to share the opinion that she is a victim of seduction, though the coroner’s inquest failed ta develope proof of this. No post-mortem examination was held. Fremont, Ind., December 21.—A man named G. Dunham took mor£hinc about six o’clock this evening, ut was discovered in a stupor in time to be taken to Dr. L. A. Abbott’s office where emitics were given and a stomach . pump used. At this hour, nine p. m., he was thought to be out of danger, and was removed to his home. Domestic troubles are supposed to have been the cause. He says he expected to be in glory in half an hour after taking the morphine. Elizabethtown, Kentucky, December* 22.—The neighborhood of Howes valley, fifteen; miles from here, is a acene of the wildest excitement on account of a terrible tragedy enacted there. David J. Carter and Bud

Harrington, both fanners in good circumstances, the former fifty-five years old, the latter thirty-five, had a law suit heard yesterday, and after its hearing they quarrelled. Harrington drew a pistol and shot Carter, the ball entering his mouth and coming out at the back of hia neck. Young Carter, a son of the wounded man, ran home and returned in a few minute® with a double barreled shot gun, both barrels of which he discharged into the body of Harrington, apparently killing him instantly. He fell seemingy lifeless and lay perfectly still where he had fallen; but old man Carter seized a smiths sledge lying near and walking up to the remains, deliberately crushed the head of the victim and then fell over him apparently in a dying condition. The wounded Carter ■and the remains of Harrington now lie in the same house, that of Mr. Randolph, one awaiting the coroner and the other the result of the wounds. ~

New York, December 22.—Inspector Byrnes’ detectives arrested this afternoon on a bench warrant, Michael P. Caffe, Laurent DeFassa and Charles Wyant, president, treasurer and secretary of the Mutual stock operating company, recently supplanted by the Guaranty income company at 42 Broadway. They were charged with obtaining money on false pretenses, and have been indicted by the grand jury. The history’ of the swindling operations of the Mutual stock operating company extends over the entire year, in w’hlch time probably as many as two hundred persons have been robbed of sums ranging from $5 to more than SIOO,OOO. St. Paul, Minn., December 21. The Pioneer Press has just received a special from St. Peter, giving the finding of the grand jnry in the matter of the asylum fire. *ln their report the jurors say that “We have been unable to ascertain the manner in which such fire was started or originated, or .the party or parties, if any, who started it. We further find from the testimony of witnesses, that as soon as possible after such fire was discovered the officers and attendants used all the means within their reach to save the lives of patients, * and to suppress the fire. We also find seine negligence on the part of certain attendants in allowing a certain patient by the name of Ben. Hazelton to be out of his room after the time when he should nave been confined in his room on the night of~the fire, and especially is this the case in this patient’s instance, owing to the fact that quite recently before such fire he threatened to burn such building. We also And that at the time of the fire there were no ladders in or about the hospital wherewith tci reach, the third story of such hospital, or to remove patients from such third story from the ontside of the building.” Detroit, December 23.—About midnight a fire was discovered in the job rooms of the Free Press, but it was quickly under control and extinguished before serious damage was done. Work on the paper will not be interrupted. Almost at the same time a fire broke out in the second story of the Newberry A McMillan block,‘the finest in the city. The fire was kept under subjection and extinguished before it reached the higher stories. The damage by water and fire will not exceed a few thousand dollars. Jamesburg, N. J., December 23, Some time ago the Chinese workers in the spirit factories here struck. The factory people replaced them by American laborers, three hundred finding employment. The Chinese quarters outside of town_have' been aliandoned, all the ocbupdnts leaving the place. Columbus, December 23.—State Mine Inspector Ray has just returned from Corning and reports the miners all idle to-day, caused by the miners demanding payment of wages semimonthly instead of monthly as at present.

Richmond, Va., December 23.—Dr. Janies M. Vest and Charles R Morrison, druggists, of this city, went down the river Tuesday, for the purpose of duck shooting. They got into a boat on the lower Junies river, accompanied by a negro man, and have not been heard from since. The wind was very high and a snow storm prevailing. Fears are entertained that all were drowned. The steamer Oriel, from Norfolk, to-day picked up the boat and a broken oar. A snow storm prevails to-night all along the Chespeake& Ohio railroad. Washington, D. C. December 23. —A delegation of twelve Sioux Indian chiefs and head men from the lower Brule agency reached Washington last night in charge of Captain Daugherty, of the United States army, acting agent of the Crow Creek agency. Their business here is to conduct negotiations with representatives of the several lines of railway relative to granting the right of way through their reservation. To-day, in company with Secretary Schurz, they called at the white house and paid a brief visit to President Hayes, who was introduced and shook hands with them all. The names of the chiefs are White Ghost, Iron Native, Dear Hand, Little Pheasant. Medicine Bull, BuH Head, Don’t-Know-How-Dog-Bark, Bear Bird; - Big Mane, Wisei and Handsonib Elk.

John D. Defrees, thepublic printer, in his annual report, shows the actual expenditures on account of printing, binding, engraving, lithographing, etc., for the government of the United States for the fisical year, ending June 30, 1880, as executea at the government printing office, amounted to $2,034,750; value of stock on hand at the end of the fiscal year, $34,798. As evidence of the increase of work in this offiee, the number of blanks printed during the fiscal year, ending Juue 30,1879, exceeded those printed during the previous year by 30,854,933, • and blank books by 126,511, and the increase of blanks printed during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880,orer those printed during 1879, is 25,454,886, and of blank books, 94,196. The increase of work during the first quarter of the present fiscal year, as shown by requisitions of the executive department, exceeds that of the last fiscal year during the same time by twenty-five per cent.

The president has signed the commission of Judge William B. Woods to be associate justice of the United States supreme court. The papers hi the case of Capt. Thomas F. Field, commanding officer of the marine corps at the Brooklyn navy yard, regarding charges of scandalous conduct, etc., have been received kt the navy department and are being examined. Charlotte, N. C., -December 23. Additional particulars in regard to the railroad disaster on the Carolina Central, yesterday.atlndian creek trestle, come in slowly. It is now known, however, that the following were killed: J. F. Bloom, of Charlotte, mail agent; 8. W. Goodson, of States-

ville, and general agent of the Richmond and Arlington life insurance company, of Richmond, Va.; F. W. Smith, salesman of Bendict A Hall, New York city: Bill McKenzie and James Wartick .(colored) • brakemen. H. P. Johnson, the conductor, escaped without serious injuries, and Messrs. Richard Linebrick and 8. H. Griffin, salesmen of Austin, Nicholls A Co., New York city, were taken from the burning wreck to a hotel in Llnconton with doctors in attendance. The bodies taken from the wreck were unrecognizable. Both brakeman are thought to have been killed in the fall. Bill McKenzie was seen in the burning debris transfixed through the chest with a piece of shattered timber.

Cincinnati, December 28.—John Sullivan, of Boston, and Professor John Donaldson, of Cleveland, were matched for a fight to-night with small gloves for one hundred dollars a side before a private audience. The police interfered because there had been much bitterness of feeling between the men and their friends, and a row was expected if the fight was allowed to proceed. It is understood that articles of Incorporation have been filed for a company to construct an elevated railway through the northern part of the city along<the Miami canal. Among the incorporators are Theodore Cook, Richard Smith, Wm. R. Thrall, Beniamin Eggleston, Robert Simpson, ana John D. Davey. The Gazette’s, Newark, 0., special says news of a murder reached that city to-night committed late last night eight miles from Newark, near Dudgeon’s corner?, at a ball at the house of Samuel Levison, a farmer. Oscar Loper quarreled with a man named Lenison, and a fight followed. Loper finally fled and was pursued by a man named Haniman, who had an eld grudge against him. After the two passed out of sight shots were fired, but no attention was paid to them by the party at Levison’s. This forenoon Loper was found with his skull broken, and he died soon after being found. A warrant is out for the arrest of Haniman, but he cannot be found.

Caldwell. Kas., December 23. Harry L. Hill, chief of scouts of the Oklahoma colony, and Col. Thomas D. Craddock, general manager, who went into the territory on theßth,having flanked the military at Arkansas City, came into camp to-day. They were gone fourteen days. They say the territory is fiill of people. 'They met at an appointed rendezvous over fifty wagons concealed from the scouts awaiting Captain Payne, who will join them as soon as he reaches the townfsite. They report that hundreds of claims have been taken and the foundation of houses built on them. Payne having failed to get all the parties into the territory, they will return to their homes to await future movements. Most of the colonists havejgone to their homes to spend Christmas, only about one hundred remaining in camp.

St. Louis, December 23.—The Pacific flouring mill of Kehloa Bros., corner of Third and Cedar streets, was almost completely destroyed by fire between four and five o’clock this evening. About 500 barrels of flour, 10,000 bushels of wheat and some $15,000 worth of new machinery waiting to be set up was also in the mill, which was either destroyed or badly damaged. Loss estimated at SIOO,OOO, but may fall short of that. Henry Carroll and Pat. Larkin, members of fire engine No. 18, were carried down by the falling floor in an elevator on tne north side of the mill. Carroll was killed and Larkin injured, but not seriously. An employe of the mill, named Beiderman, was badly burned about the hands and face. Insurance, $46,000. Detroit, December 23.—Rev. Samuel B. Carpenter, an Episcopal clergyman, of Toledo, recently of this city, was the victim of an audacious robbery in a Lake Shore train last night. As the cars were about to stop at Monroe, a gentlemanly appearing man inquired the time. As Mr. Carpenter took out his watch it was grabbed by the thief. At the same time two other confederates seized the clergyman, bent him back over a seat, and hurriedly rifled his pockets, securing SBO. and jumped from the cars before tne passengers had time to recover from their astonishment over the affair. The watch was worth $250. Cincinnati, Dec. 25.—An audience of four thousand listened to the oratorio of Handel’s Messiah, rendered tonight by a festival chorus of six hundred voices, Theodore Thomas director, with a Cincinnati orchestra of sixty pieces and soloists. New York, December2s.—A Washington dispatch in the Telegram, says Governor Porter, of Indiana, is mentioned by his friends for secretary of the treasury, under President Garfield. He will accept, he says, if it is offered him;

Chicago, December 24.—A review of business for the year in Chicago, shows unparalelled prosperity and Increase in aggregates. Hundreds of new industries have been established, thousands of dwellings and business houses erected, manufactures have in some cases more than doubled in values and amount. Bank clearings have increased over last year, which was the heaviest in the history ,of the city, by $336,000,000, the total for the year being $1,694,000,000, and the bank gives a flourishing financial exhibition; but the chiefincrease is in the grain trade. Elevator room has been increased over two million bushels; there has been an aggregate of grain receipts of 161,000,000 bushels against 138,000,000 in 1879. and 60,000,000 in 1870. The increase of this year over last is in com and oats, the other cereals show a falling off, owing to the “corner” lof 1879, w hich brought out heavy of old grain. In l®o, the receipts were 3,370,000 barrels of flour, 33,000,000 bushels of wheat, 32,000,000 bushels of com and 17,000,000 bushels of rye and barley. This year the receipts were 3.090,000 barrels of flour, 23,000,000 bushels wheat, 95,000,000 bushels of corn, 24,000,000 bushels of oats, 770,000,000 bushels of rye and barley. The shipments this year were 176,000,000 bushels, last year 126,000,000. The prospect for the winter and spring trade is the brightest possible.

St. Louis, Dec. 25.—Christmas was very generally observed. Business was suspended, and the day was made one of festivity and pleasure. Both churches and theatres were well attended. About half-past six o’clock this evening a party of six or eight drunken roughs attempted to enter Swain’s keno rooms, on Sixth street, between Market and Chestnut, but were refused admittance by Larry O’Brien, the doorkeeper. The roughs immediately became abusive and quarrelsome, and Joseph O’Brien, a brother of the door-keeper, James McCormick, Joe Garvey and Jos. Kelly, who were

standing on the sidewalk, took sides | with the door-keeper. A general fight ensued, during which several Sersons were knocked down and ames C’Brien received a dangerous cut in the breast, the knife entering the cavity of the chest. Garvey was stabbed below the shoulder blade and severely cut in the arms. James Kelly got a bad slash across one of his arm*. The two former are supposed to be mortally wounded. A man called “Hickey” by his rowdy companions died from tne effects of his cuts. The Whole affair is said to have occurred in two or three minutes, and all of the assailing party escaped before the police arrived on the ground*. One or two other cutting scrapes occurred during the day, but not of a serious character.

Denver, December 25. —A Republican Secorro, N. M., special says: At a Christmas- festival held here on Christmas eve, several Mexicans created a disturbance, which was quelled by a Mr. Conkling, editor of the Bun. Shortly afterwards, while Mr. Conkling and his wife were leaving the church, two Mexicans seized him by the arms, while a third fired three shots, killing Mr. Conkling instantly. The assailants fled to a small town in the vicinity,, where they are guarded by 2,000 Mexicans. A large posse of Americans were armed, and intend to get the murderers if they haye to fight for them. Bradford, Pa., Dec. 25.—This morning Albert Magee, of Canton, Ohio, and Thomas Perry, went out to torpedo a well, one mile east of the city. While Magee was mixing nitroglycerine in the derrick. Perry, who was in the engine house, turned on the steam rapidly on the frozen compound. An explosion followed, which blew the derrick into bits. Perry was driven clear through the engine house, but will recover. Magee was blown into fragments, the only portions of his body discovered being his heart and lungs, which were found on the hills, one hundred yards away from his liver, and a leg of his pantaloons. Burlington, lowa, Dec. 23.—A fire broke out in Wesley Jones’ wholesale book and stationery house, this evening at 11 o’clock. The inside of the building was burned. It is not known how the fire originated. Loss estimated at $20,000; covered by insurance.

Paterson, N. J., Dec. 25.—Vandehook & Co.’s furniture establishment burned to-day. Loss, $45,000; insurance $30,000. The adjoining dwelling and stove store of Robert Duncan w’as considerably damaged. Danville, Virginia, December 25. At Chatham, Pittsylvania county, last night, the telegraph office and passenger depot and express office, were burned. A large quantity of express freight was consumed; also four hundred dollars in money. Petersburg, Virginia, December 25.! —The newspaper office of the South Side Sentinel, Alphens Boling proprietor, published at Burkesville, Virginia, burned. No insurance. Summit, Missouri, December 25. The Sentinel office, Times office, B. Hillburn & Co.’s store, and Masonic and Odd Fellows hall, burned. Insurance, $7,000. Pembroke, Ontario, December 25. Fire to-day destroyed the Masonic hall and adjoining property. Loss, $250,000; partly insured. Norway, Me., December 25.—The New Religion newspaper office burned to-day.

Cleveland, 0., Dec., 25.—A Leader special from Meadville says David P. Ewing, of Ft. Dodge, lowa, 72 years old, dropped dead while attending a loan] exhibition.} Supposed apoplexy. A farmer named Anipony living near Weston, Ohio, according to a Leader special, while attending a Grand army fair at that place last evening with allof his family except two children, fourteen and fifteen years of age, returneii honie to find his house in ashes and the children burned to a crisp. Nothing is known how the fire occurred. A Leader special from Cardington says Emanuel Diecient and family who were in that place on business, a •’d dwelling a few miles out, on retiming home (found their home burned to the ground. Chicago, December 25.—A peculiarly distressing and unaccountable suicide occurred on Lake Avenue, near Thirty-ninth street, this afternoon. Miss Add Hebden, a young lady of twenty-two years, engaging in manner and highly esteemed by all acquaintances, lives there with her brother, Robert Hebden, assistant manager of the bank of Montreal in this city. Last night she attended some Christmas festivities at a neigh bor’s, and was among the merriest. This morning she rose and break-fasted as usual. Shortly after dinner, finding herself alone in the room, she suddenly went to a drawer, took from it a pistol, and without warning or explanation fired a shot into her heart and fell dead on the carpet. • Columbus,O.,December 25.—Christmas was very generally observed. Among other festivities William Wagner, proprietor of a brick yard, was fatally stabbed in a saloon, it is supposed by an associate, named Ferdinand Krost. * Two prisoners in the county jail mutinied to-day, and all the police in the south end of the town were called in to quell the disturbance. One shot was fired, but with no fatal result. Cold water and chunks of coal thrown at the prisoners was found to be suffient arguments to quell the trouble. Several convicts were seriously injured by being hit with pieces of coal.