Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1881 — GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

New York, Januafy 10. The tobacco sider the allegations made by the mew do not correspond in quality witn samples aud L. Waitaee v/pm - magnified and unfair,.. J l solved to take suchJ.gyUop al’wVnllq' l show the al legations .were grossly exaggerated, and to majie sucn mined 'lr.toeut iu*rw,g. AYAMMUOKjap memorial and* Masonic teasplsu proposal has received the approval of the grand,lpdge of GALvwroN, Jauparx’ 10.—A News specialfinmTaylorsvflle, Texas says: Snow begaw foiling here yesterday the depth of three inches fri! tenlay. South Chicago, Di., JaAary 10.— The private passenger deix>t ow'ned Uy Janies Aulpony, og Fort Waype A Chicago ragwy, three miles y wess 6f this n>iatT, was entirely destroyed T»y nltl this morning. Cause unknown. Loss sßpi>i m» insurance.' ’ ■**’ w j" iriMi

Toronto, January 10.—Mrs. Anders<in «(ndToW4I) was found dead byneighbors from starvation in an old shanty a£ 2e*pti vWßge, near this city. Her nuSoanu Wffs "lying beside her dying from, Ik^lagDiQcause. Hu is unable tvspeuK ai& to eat now that food has been urocured. London, ,J6J-The Daily News says the total emM of the statement of Henry- .Yeule.Heird is to vitiate the fishery AUfom by vitiating the ments on wbldh it resfos If Heird’s figures are correct, has been committed, and the whole question will be reoiauidiL •We hope the Sivernment wOi jofasa ifi the name of nglish honor to profit byui misstated W’Wj’ta n,p,rt ’ ““

PlymoutHjJnpA Jaflfcary 10. —Mrs. Susan Ball r Wife journeyman tailor of this hanged .herselfJn an outhouse tiji< afternoa**-AWfffli fopnd the feet almost tom<i4d>ltfe floor, but' she was quite doad. Deceased was kwenty-eighl y>n« of age, and very highly respecreu.* “She has been married about thoae years, and leaves a husband and tw> small children, the youngest six nionths old. She has been partially ueranged for some time. Her husband had been to church, and came home and found the youngest of the babies safoap. AL susnlcioned trouble at once,went to look for his wife, und ibu'tid ht hanging in a shioke-hoOße. Thecaus' is thought to I* family troubles In connection with mental derangement. 4 New January if.—The ••randjury were unable to ascertain tain what 4fs] xisttioij wa» Wrade of the . $50,000 obtained on a check made payable to of the president of the OrheiUfo city’ railroad company about th® the franchise was obtained ft(isr<tijAcity. To-day Fredrick Wintz, of said company, was indtotML charging him with the embezzlement of $50,000 on the 14th of October IBSV, of funds of the bompany drawn by him from the Hibernian national bank. Wintz was arrested and released o.n SIO,OOO bail. It * ” T is stated tne indictment is found upon the testimony of certain directors of the ftoinpany given before the grand jury, that there is nonaaounl given of the use of the $50,000 on t|ie books of the company, and that ’they’ are not aware that the money was used for any legal purpose. It.is weßkiiown that long after the cheek was drawn the boartl of directors of Wiptz’B company passed a resolution endorsing all the acts of the presidppt. On Mondaylast Wentz was unanimously elected president of the company, Nobwjch, Conn,, January 13. Early this morning Mrs. Geo. Richards, of New Loudon, was found on the floor of her house dead, burned to a crisp. Her husband left her. half an hour before In appvcid —good health, and no one knew -mn-thing of the mauner of her death till hex .body’ was diecovered a neighbor. She is supposed to have fallen ou the. stove in * n <i R et her clothing on fire.

Topeka. January 12.—The Farmers veirvefriieii to-dtu-udopriMliwohjlionfl calling upon the iegtslafanj»fg-otect the people of "the'staff y aghhfiir railroad exactions in the way of freight rates, etp„ apd urging the farmers of the state to organise for systematic and persistent political agttefi, and to subordinate#|l thepolitfeui Questions to the mencjjmton of the people from the oppressive and tyr&n|cM teansportation system of the raflvoad eompaA concurrent resell]A introduced in the senate te-day,|,o Suppress top irresponsible and unauthorized tramps wh? are lagging for their own benefit in the «mm+, jri ** ' of January 13^ Advices from San Domingo, m mp as December 28, says a party of insurgents en» tercd the territory hf San Domingo, near Banfoo. ifod y/ppe defeated, with a loss of one killed am) wounded, At the sanfo time, Jean pjas, a revolutionary agitator, was pursued and shot during M« flight. ■»»* •• Angola, Indiana, January 13.—A bam belonging to Horace Twvis, six miles west of Angola, wpa, burned last evening together wifii a. teiggy, two horses, sixteen he|d pf pfitle and various terming implements. Probable low, *- U . J DEI.AWABE, BREAKWVfTfctt, Ju uuary 13.—The mate and two men of the h»rk Star, of India, vrito atteifipted to reach Sh°re yesterday in a boat, were caught in )ce. drifted outward, and are probably The bark displayed signals or distress, but aid jp?t be rendered pp Recount of (he ice.' r '

Max Fbaispiscq, January ifi.-r'phe senate and a«semb)j ipcf in joint conventfon td-day,' John F, senator. Cabsom City, Nev., Janioßv U 2. con-lo-ddy rfekU i F;»ir W^ sl^Hr or '« ' v t±.—<%e boiler in rito Uriw flouriuf-in*lbs in this city, exploded tms jnorntag 7 O’clock, With terriflerin*, fclng opt oite side‘of the buMding completely and s<> wrecking the strucfrnlfiuilft u Win MavF tip, te>ten riown to. the a young man Mkined. tbMh-eman ana weW ifiiffentJy killed

and buried under the debris. A fiforth man, standing just outside, wm M*verely iujured about the head, but will probably recover. Three horses standing near were also killed. These mills Icom nrirttee<# operations last week, and Mr. Kweet, the manager, waa Just entering the engine room as the explosion. took place. He was blown some dfstAnce, but escaped without much harm. The mills were built several years ago, ami were as complete as any,similar flouring establishment in the west. Boston, January 12.—1 t has been understood there would be no more distributions from the Stone estate for a while, but thefollowing additional giftS'Will be made about the beginning of January: Hampton institute, Fertress Monroe. Va., $2,000; Olivet college, Olivet,Mich., $20,000; Ripon college, Ripon, Wis., $20,000; Illinois college, Jacksonville, Ills., $20,000; Marietta college, Marietta, 0., $10,000; Beloit college, Beloit, Wis., $20,000;. Robert college, Constantinople, $20,000; Howarduniversity, Washington, D. Ci, $25,000; Berea college, Berea, Ky., $10,000; New West education (xamnisslon, $12,500; Evangelical wojk in France, $15,000. Bvansviixe, January 14.—8. B. Vppee, jr., son of Judge Vance, a prominent attorney of this city, formerly of Henderson, Kentucky, suicided at Mt. Vernon, Indiana, this morning by taking laudanum. Young Vance was under the influence of liquor at the time of taking his life. He left a sealed letter addressed to his father, two letters addressed to two young ladies of Henderson, and. a qote to the proprietor of the hotel, . telling him what to do with his remains, and also to telegraph his father the news of his death. Vance is a brother-in-law of Shouse, who suicided in Louisville a few weeks since.

Cleveland. Ohio, January 14.—A Herald special says when Leroy Pratt and wife arrived home at Van Lue today from Norwalk, where they had been in a sleigh, they discovered their little child, who accompanied them, was dead, suffocated by a superabundance of wraps.* Pittsburg, Pa., January 14.—A collision, resulting fatally to a brakeman named Thomas Lee, occurred between two freight trains this morning on the Baltimore And Ohio railroad at Evergon Station. The train on which Lee was breaking was standing on a siding, when through freight No. 66 was thrown on the same track by a switch which had been left open, and a collision resulted. Lee was setting a brake between two cars at the time and was mashed to a jelly. The engineers and firemen of both engines, which were badly wrecked, escaped injury by jumping off. Pittston, Pa., January 14.—An exglosion of gas occurred to-day in the ittston coal company’s Ervin shaft at the junctipn. Robert Lynott and his son Michael and Martin Healey and a mine boss named Harrison were severely burned. Considerable damage was done to the mine. Boston, Jan. 14.—The republican senatorial caucus has been posponed until Tuesday. Augusta, Me., Jan. 14.—The election of United States senator is ordered for Tuesday next.