Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1881 — TELEGRAPHIC. [ARTICLE]

TELEGRAPHIC.

-4 A Palatine, Cook county, HUsoh, woman gave birth to five babies the other day, and Chicago will proceed to take Palatine within its limits at ooee. Anything to beat St. Louis in population. N ew» from New Mexico report that Col. Potter of the United Mates geological survey* who has been missing since October last was murdered by a party of three Mexicans, one of whom has just been hanged for hone stealing. - A Michigan woman having got ■ converted concluded that It was her • duty to sacrifice something to the Lord/ end accordingly cat ant her tongue, and now every man In the neighborhood is urging his wife to attend prayer meetings more regularly. It is given out that 160,600 acres of land in Missouri have been sold to a Scotch land company, and they will be lotted out to a colony of Scotch Carmen who are coming over very soon. This is a land league whieh will doubtless be worth millions to Missouri. Eight thousand miles of Germany’s .telegraph wires are laid ip . trenches three feet under ground. Such a procedure is more costly than stringing the wires along on poles, but bad weather never interrupts the connections. Perhaps such a system would not be out of way in this country if these blizzards are going to keep UP

■ The president has sent a message to the hQUse on the Indian question, having special reference to the Poqcas, recommending that those now in Dakota be allowed to stay there. He then hastily sketches an Indian policy, embodying among other features," the education of the younger so as to fit them for the duties of citizenship; the allotment of land among the tribe members in severalty, and In the sweet by and by, sooner or later, the investment ot Lo with ail ‘the rights, privilege*, duties and responsibilities of citizenship. The largest stream of immigration used to flow to us from Ireland. It is so longer so. Germany r ow surpasses it enormously. The figures for the past year at Castle Gai den was: Ireland, 66,399 ;Genuany, 103,264. But the most remarkable ol all the sources of emigration is the Scandinavian, considering the numbers it ha* to draw from. Swedeu is the third highest ou the list of our supply sources, sending last year 35,217 to Castle Garden alone; if to these we add Norway’s 9,937, we have the prodigious total of 46,154 for the united kingdoms.

The surrender of Squattiug Taurys, when his provisions have given out, |md his stock of blankets got too low for comfort,is about on a par with the spasmodic attack of religion experenced by the boy who commences going to Sunday school just long enough before the holidays to get something off the Christmas tree. A poor white man who keeps a neighborhood in confusion for a few hours, gets six months in the calaboose, but Sitting Bull and Jbis tribe,who keep a goodly, portion of an entire country not only in confusion, but in absolute danger for ten months in the year, gets fire water,guns, ammunition and blankets, together with all-the. delicacies of the season, on their prom- • ise to behave during the other two months! But then our Indian system always was a little peculiar.

Perhaps there la no single place of Interest in tne city of Washington which is approached with more reverence than that portion of the Patent Office building containing the relics of Washington and his successors, and of the great men of our earlier days. That every relic of importance and interest connected with the men who have made our history should be .'preserved by the nation, is the desire of every citizen, and the' recent to congress by Benjamin F. Steyeus, of a number of historical manuscripts by Benjamin Franklin, should be at once aeqepted by that body, without considering whether $25,000, the price demanded be exorbitant or .not. Such things wilPhare a value in the years yet to be born, that cannot be measured by any system of valuation to-day. These manuscripts were willed by the great philospher to William Temple Franklin the sou of Franklin's illegitimate sqn, whose tory principles were the cause of an alienation from his father - that extended to the grave. This love child was mentioned but slightly In the will of Franklin, while his grand- . son, whom the savant loved sincerely,

received a large legacy, the manuscripts in question and a portion of the library of his grandfather. The pa-j pens now offered for sale contain the secret history of the revolutionary war, anecdotes, etc., which if published would'make a moat valuable addition to our present histories of those times. They were taken to England after Franklin’s death, by the young man; who intended .to publish them there, but it is asserted that the English government paid him $35,000 to suppress - them at the time. Twenty-seven years later they were published in a mutilated form. The fact of the charge of the suppression of the papers'on the . eve of publication in England, and their later publication in so imperfecta manner has resulted in throwing some doubt on the authenticity of the pfpers now offered to Congress. If however, they be found to be original and untouched since the fingers of the dead failed to longer hold the pen that indited them, they should bS ‘ purchased ot once and added to the many other relics that are so valued by oh people.

Kxndallville, Ind., February 6. —Two brothorn, . earned Joint. and HhoryNessui, Jiving four miles cant of Kendailville, got into a friendly tussle at their home. John became angry and Struck Henry with a stick of wood and killed him afo mosi instantly. Job* is no* tinder a mat. Their parents are almost crazed With grief over the affair. New Ori-kaxs, February 6.—Frank E. Palmer’s 4 Co’s, paper and printers warehouse, 98 and 96 Camp street, was destroyed by an explosion tonight. The windows were blown entirely across the street and the building fired. Caude of the explosion and extent of damage is unknown. The explosion was apparently the work of inexperienced burglars, as the. safe anfl wattlt doors were blown open. The confttssion was so great that it broke all the windows and opened the doors of the building. A number of windows opposite were broken.* No damage resulted from the flames. St. Louis, February 5.—A report comes from Randolph county, 111.,, that Louis L&ckabpelle, a wealthy farmer living on the Prairie du Rocber, died suddenly last Monday, and that it is now believed he was poisoned by interested parties to get possession of his property.

Buffalo, February B.—Shortly after 9 o’clock this morning, the arched roof of the old New York Central depot, on Exchange street, over-weight-ed with accumulated snow and weakene4Jt>uJh»ronw>vai 0 f the former offiwn ic)i had formtsd a large portion of ft* sufosdrtj fell, burying a number of cam afidTiainan beings beneath the tangled lidlb'of Iron, wood,glass,snow knd brick. The St. Louis express on the Central wad three hours and a half late. The connecting train on the Lake Shofe, composed of four cars,' with the sleeper “Meta,” stood upon the outer track. The Canada Southern train had just hauled out, and only twenty minutes before the day express on the Central had borne matwXmjtoJxrge load of living freight. Switch engine No. 137, Frank Schaeffer, engineer, was on the middle track, ready to take Coroner Scott to East Buffalo. Near the other end ! of the new depot was a train of flat cars. On the track just outside the south wall were some Old-fashioned passenger core belonging to th« Central. Among the people known to be in the depot just previous to the crash were depotfnaster'Byrou King and John Reedy, of Johnston Bros’, eatfcig house, who dtood bear together about the centre of the - building: Dewitt C. Gibson, a switchman; E. M. Stevens and Robert Berry, baggagemen; R. C. Smith, passenger agent of the Lake Shore; P. J. Hart wig, Henry Eckert, D. S. Hubby, and other employes. Half a dozen passengers were in the cars awaiting the Lake Shore train, and one or two others, believed to be lost, were standing in the depot near the flat cars. Coroner Scott had just boarded the switch engine and was on the point -of bidding good-bye to Henry Walters, Superintendent Tillinghast’s confidential secretary, through whose orders the engine nad been placed at his disposal, when a sudden, hollow -sound as if snow falling in mass from a roof Was heard, and immediately the south wall, about sixty feet from the main portion, began to totter and fall. Depotmaater King succeeded in getting beneath a brick wall which held its position, but his cap was torn from hi* nead by falling fragments. Smith ran into the vestibule of the abandoned eating house and escaped through the cellars Walters, just behind him, was caught by the timbers and held a prisoner until other portions of the falling roof crushed out both life and human shape. The Lake Shore train was buried out of sight by roofing material. The switch engine was broken and partly dismantled. An unsightly gap was torn out of tte wall of the beautiful new waiting room by the fatal moss which had crushed the life out of Captain Byrnes, and the old cars on the track' were torn to pieces and the work of overhauling the ruins was immediately the fire department and employes orthe railroad company. The first bodies recovered were those of Captain'Byrnes and Henry Wallers. Shortly after this workmen found the mangled body of William Wells, a clerk foi*. car inspector Howe, of the Lake Shore railroad. Two otner bodies wdre found later. John H. Jackson factored) was in the cloget of the waiting. ro<wn, and immediately on hearing the crash Smashed a window and j i|mped into the street. He was followed by William F. Odell, agent of thetWagnefc sleeping car company. J. Cayey, who'hat.charge of the .news stand, escaped through a window, inr smashing tne glass of which he cut 4us hand severely* ■ Dewvkn, CoL, February B.—At Los Animas, Sunday night, James Butaher . and A. T. Polk quarrelled at cards. The latter, drew a revolver, when the former advanced upon him was shot, Polk then threatened to shoot the first man who attempted to lay hands on him.. G. W. Hernin g, badly frightened, started for the door, and was shot through the neck. Both men will probably die. Polk gave himself up.

Boston, February B. —The steamer Bohemian, reported wrecked on the Irish coast, was one of six steamers of the Leyland line plying between this port and Liverpool. She was built at Belfast in 1870, and combined speed with a large carrying capacity, apd was 408 feet'long. The engines bad a horse-power of 600. • She had six water-tight compartments. She sailed from Boston Januaiy 27, under command of Capt. Grundy, with a pargoof produce. A dispatch received by the agents of the .Leyland line gtates oply the second mate and twenty seamen of the Bohemian were tuved. Among foe lost is her commander, Win. L. Grundy. The whole number of persons aboard is estimated it about sixty, among whom were the men in charge of the cattle and refrigerators. The total less of life by the the disaster is about* 39. She was probably worth a half a million when wrecked. It is not known here whether she was insured or not. The cargo was valued.at Insured. Mehfhs£, Tenn., February 9.—City Mandat L. Hy Abington, of Collierville; 'Tana., attempted last night to arrest a desperado who was creating a d isturbanee in a saloon in that city. The man resided and shdt Abington, also a young man named Will Paine, who had gone to the assistance of the city marshal, whereupon Paine seized a shot-gun and blew off the head of the unknown rough. Abington and Paine’s wounds are slight. The man killed claimed to be a detective, is JffSM 1 * 1 " 100 pounds, and is fnpaasws reoeived so-night it is that the man killed was (James Hickey, anefeddesperado, who has figured throughout the country in mhny large robberies. He was re-

eently sentenced to the workhouse of this count}’, but made his escape three days ago. New’ Yokk, February 9.—A special from Biloxi, Miss., says the steamship’Joeephine, Captain Staples, from Havana to New Orleans, broke up at 3 o’clock this morning near Shy’s island. The passengers and crew were all saved. After seven hoinrs’ floating the four boats were safely picked up. Among the passengers were H. Kraun and family, theatrical artists. The passengers lost everything, no baggage being saved. The Josephine Was a side-wheel steamer, 1,283 tons; was built at Wilmington, Del., in 1868, and was owned by Chas. Morgan. She was a double-decker, and has been running between New Orleans and Havana, calling at Cedar Keys and other Florida porta. Detroit, February 9.—The wife of a plumber of this city, named Charles M. Miller, made a desperate attempt to cut bis throat with a 'razor which she procured while he was eating breakfast this morning, but he escaped with two severe cuts. She was undoubtedly insane. Steps have been taken to send her to an asylum. Cleveland, Ohio, February 10.— There was a frightful explosion to-day at P. C. Mazer & Co.’s coal mine, at Robbins, on the Niles & New Lisbon railroad, with an appalling loss of life.

.A Leader special from the scene of tne explosion a few miles soitih of Salem, says: “A man named Smith was going into the mine. The superintendent cautioned him about going to a certain room, as it contained firedamp, but as that way was dry, while around 'the track ,was filled with water, Smith disobeyed orders and attempted to pass through the - forbidden room with a lighted lamp in his hat. Immediately a terrific explosion occurred, In which a hole was blown through fifteen feet of earth composing the roof, and carrying death and destruction all around. About twenty men were at work in the mine, six of whom were killed outright and a number dangerously wounded. A mule and a train of eight cars were shot out of the main entrance as if from a cannon. Another mule, drawing a car in which a man was seated, was blown on top of the car, killing the driver. A dog was also blown out of the mine. One man, Jackson Leek, who was just entering, was blown' back and over a high railroad embankment into a creek below, and was badly hurt. The men not disabled or killed escaped through a shaft. to the open air. The killed are James Logan and son, James Mehan, William Hanley, George Henshilwood and Ed’ Smith, the man who caused the explosion, was badly mutilated, and bis body burned to u crisp. The wounded are James Crouch, Robert Haley, Ed. Creigbau, John Aikeu, Peter Wilson ana two brothers. Nearly all are badly hurt and some will die. Mrs. Griffith had gone to the door of the mine to call her son when the explosion occurred. She saw the mule shoot out of the mine and found her son, injured. George Henshilwood died in his wife’s arms. The scenes were heartrending in the extreme. A eoips of physicians were summoned and rendered assistance to the woundeel.

COLUHHUB, 0., February 9.—The high water is making mnch trouble for the railroads in this section by undermining bridges and washing out culverts. Early this morning as a train on the Sciota Valley railroad was about crossing the bridge of Rush creek, near Pleasant Vale, the engineer discovered one end of the bridge was damaged by water. It was too late to reverse the engine, and he opened the lever and succeeded in forcing the locomotive upon the sound part cf the bridge, and than stopping it with no further damage than the loss of the tender, which fell into the water* The engineer then jumped into the stream, and after being carried down the stream nearly naif a mile, landed in safety. No one was injured, and the bridge will be repaired at once. A train on the Piqua division of the Panhandle, while near Unionville, this morning, narrowlv escaped a wreck. The train passed over a large culvert with the exception of the rear trucks of the hotel car, when the culvert gave way, but the train was going sufficiently fast to cause all the care to keep the track, and aside from breaking tne dishes and other small articles no damage was done. The train whieh came in on the Hocking Valley road to-day ran through the water over a foot deep near Hooker station, but the. track thus far is all safe.