Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1881 — TELEGRAPHIC. [ARTICLE]

TELEGRAPHIC.

The banks which were so hasty in the withdrawal of their cfreflation will come sneaking back again into the ranks, protesting that it was a ease of “emotional insanity,” nothing else. " Some of the western journals are protesting against the nsr of eoro for fuel. The editors are probably worried about the amount of corn necessary to keep up their needed supply of whisky.

, Hog cholera is raging in some parts of the state, bat none of the hogs who take a paper, for a year or two and then refuse to pay for it, have as yet been attacked with the disease. We protest against such discrimination.

. It is entirely beyond the probabilities that the present congress (peace to its ashes) will do any thing further regarding the apportionment bill. The amount of ‘'ears shed over this fact will not be likely to fill any great number of cisterns.

The discharged cabinet builders can now go to work building a platform for the Democratic party, which is now to weak to do anything of the kind,/or itself. The builders have four years in which to perform the labor.

No aspirant for presidential distinction whose surname commenced with the letter C has ever been elected, although -such men as Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cam and Colhoun made the race. Mr. Conkling should sut this out and paste it on his shot gun.

Senator Carpenter’s life was insured for $50,000, besides which he owned $30,000 pf the capital stock of the Milwaukee Sentinel. He also left one of the most costly law libraries in the United States and a magnificent private library. Beyond this his estate is limited in amount.

The New York journals are complaining about walking-match nuisances, and fall to see that they could check the nuisances to borne extent by refusing to make any mention of the matches in their columns. Take the newspaper glory away, and the hard work and little money would hawe little inducement for the pedestrian fiend.

The accident on the Hannibal A St. Joe railroad, near Bevier, Missouri, waff a peculiarly sad one. A train was thrown from the track, badly, but not fatally wounding a number of passengers. - Relief was sent for, and a wrecking train left Brookfield for the scene of- the disaster. . When about thirteen miles from its starting point, the wrecking train fell through a bridge, killing seven men, one of them a physician, and wounding fifty. . . ''

A president is public property after a fashion, but the parties who are advising Garfield to use no wine in the White House are overstepping the bounds of propriety. He has received a letter asking him to walk to church oq Sunday, instead of riding. We presume some idiot will soon want tojleprive him of the Ohio man’s greatest prerogative—the privilege of blowing his nose with his fingers. .

While divers legislatures are wrestling with bills punishing men who whip their wives, nothing seems to be doing concerning a bill to punish wives who whip their husbands. Is not sauce for the gauder equally good for the goose? «•

Over 100,000 volumes containing the memorial addresses on the death of congressmen who have died during the present congress, have been printed at the public expense, and principally distributed to waste paper buyers. If the new eongress will set down on this most useless bit of extravagance, the press of the . country will see that each member gets a good send-off when he himself' shall “go 'over to the.silent majority,”

. Georqe A. Wheeler, of California, strangled his sister-in-law, on the 19th of October last. On the 19th of November he was indicted by the grand jury, and arraigned for trial on the 19th of,December. On the 19th of January he was convicted of murder in the first degree, and on the 19th of February was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead on the 19th of April. Such a coincidence of sucession in a single number is remarkable to say the least.

Mosey is a scarce commodity in Georgia, and it is as hard to borrow as “pulling teeth.” A Georgia debtor recently signed the following comical note in order to raise the wind: $393.42. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 9,1880. Sixty days after date I promise to pay to * , or order,. three hundred and ninety-three dollars and forty-two cents, and hereby bind myself, my heirs, executors, administrators and assigns to take no advantage of the homestead or any other rascally Georgia law as far as the debt is concerned, so help me God, and keep me steadfast in the performance of the same. Witness my hand and Seal.

Dr. McLean the St. Louis Inventor l is a friend of peace and proposes having peace if he has to furnish his . newly invented guns to the different nations until they kill off all their enemies, or get killed themselves. At a recent trial of his guns at the Washington navy yards the General ' Thomas fired twenty rounds, in one minute: the Vixen fourteen rounds in the same time; the Annihilgtor fifteen rounds in twenty-five seconds; * the General Grant thirteen round', per minute; and the Lady McLean seventy-two shots in one second, or at the rate of 4JQO shots per minute. The latter gun has thirty-six barrels.

Nmw Yqrk. March 7.— Thnbrig Bminn L. Hall, from Cardenas, reports during a gale February 27th she shipped at sea which swept overboard the first and second mates, and they were drowned. The Captain was badly injured and the vessel sprung a leak, ewmtog into the harbor to-day In tow of a revenue cutter. Her hawser parted and the brig went on Romm shoals. London, March 7. —The Mark Lane Express, in its review of the British grain trade the past week, says: In oonseqnence of the changeable damp weather, agricultural prospects at the beginning of March were serious. Little progress in sowing has been made since Christmas, but the young wheat crop is in a favorable condition. Good borne grown samples, from mere scarcity, have advanced Is. Both in London and the provinces bad wheats were unchanged and neglected. Foreign wheat, until the middle of the week, * was improved. American red winter ana Australian, to the extent of Is, however, was solely due to the paucity of supplies, and buyers are now waiting for prospective supplies. Flour generally advanced fid. Foreign flour in temporarily small supply. Foreign oats were In small supply and holders firm, bat buyers are waiting for the reopening of the Baltic. Maize on spot, though In short supply, improved 6a, but the demand was inactive. Oft coast market was bare during the week. Sales of English wheat the past week 81,52 ti quarters at 41s 9d, against 29,530 quarters at 44s 9d the corresponding week last year.

Various answers to questions in parliament to-day show tne government has approvea of General Sir Evlyn’s words and actions relative to the armistice with the Boers. During the duration of the armistice both parties promised not to make any ’orward movement, but retain the liberty to move sdthin their own lines. Only provisions, not ammunition, are to be sent to the garrison. Joubert undertakes to inform the garrisons of the armistice, and will use his Influence to induce the Boer commander to permit the removal of the British wounded In tbs garrisons to Natal. Joubert also undertakes to pass provisions for the beleaguered gamsons through the Boer lines. On the arrival of the provisions at the garrisons, the blockading and besieged parties are to suspend hostilities for eight days. Toledo, March 7.—lt has been ascertained that C. A. Riemehsnyder, secretary and treasurer of the City board of water works, is a defaulter add has absconded. A letter from him, dated New York, has been received in which he acknowledges ihe defalcation, and states he was about to sail for Europe. The aihount is not yet known, but is variously estimated at from $6,000 to SIO,OOO. Kiemensnyder was a prominent member of the national reform party, and reoeived his appointment during the ascendancy of that party in this locality. The city is amply secured through his bondsmen. As Charlotte Thompson, the actress, was about to leave the city last night, she discovered that her jewel cacket, containing diamonds valued at $15,000, was missing. The exact time and place at which the loss occurred is not known. Her agent remains here in search of the missing property, to which no cine has yet been obtained.

St. Louis, Mo., March 7.— Fred Diehl, treasurer of Marion county, in whose accounts a deficit was discovered some days ago. absconded last night. It is supposed he has gone to California. The defalcation amounts to between $6,000 and $7,000. His bondsmen will make the deficit good. A shooting affray took place in the town ofWalpole, 111., Saturday night, between James and Charles Fair on one side and Riley aad John Hall, brothers, on the other, in which Charles Fair was mortally wounded All the parties are reputable merchants.

St. Louis, March 7.—The Republican’s Little Rock, Arkansas special says a horrible murder is reported from Jonesboro, Craighead county. Beniamin Ishmael, on returning from a mill a few miles from his home, found his daughter, Mattie, aged 18, dead on the floor, her body being moet horribly gashed with an axe. The object of the murder was robbery. The house was sacked, but no money obtained. A number of negroes have been arrested. St. Louis, Missouri, March 7—Robert C. Pate, of this city, sold his famous pacing mare, Mattie Hunter, today to John Splan, who gave an order on C. F. Emery, or Cleveland, for the purchase money, $12,000. Pate bought the mare two years ago for SB,OOO, and she proved one of the best investments on the turf. She is now Vt Pate’s stables at Madisou, Indiana, and will probably be taken to Cleveland shortly: Pittston, Pa., March B.—H. Palfield and Curtis Dunmore, inmates of the insane asylum at Danville who made their escape during the burning of the asylum Saturday night, came here this evening and were soon after taken in charge by the police. They will be returned to Danville tomorrow. C levelaNil March 9.—Two freight trains on the Cleveland A Columbus railroad collided to-day near Crestline. Both locomotives were wrecked and fourteen cars derailed. Conductor Gross and Engineer McGrath were slightly injured. The track was blocked some hours.

Philadelphia, March 9. —This morning fire broke out in the Belmont oil works, William L. Elkins A Co. proprietors, on Twenty-fourth afld Mifflin streets. The flames spread rapidly. The Are broke out in the benxine agitator, located close to the gasoline works. Both were entirely destroyed. The high northeast winds prevailing drove the Are in a southwesterly direction along Mifflin street. Then the stable, lubricating oil shed, -and three or four dwellings used by the employes of the establishment were burned. The lubricating oil building, containing tanks and barrels, next to the shea, was destroyed, as were the contents, consisting o; about 2,000 barrels or oil, and the canning house was greatly damaged. Total loss, $100,000; no insurance. Baltimore, March 9.— The train from Washington this afternoon on the Baltimore A Potomac railroad for this city was wrecked by a washout near Winan’s station, eight miles sooth of Baltimore. The south bound train passed over the road a few minutes before. The train consisted of s baggage, two express, two comni-. nation ana two passenger cars. The engine and tender, baggage express cars and one combination car were wrecked. Hie engine fell over and L. McKever, the fireman, was killed. No passengers were Injured. A relief train brought the passengers to this city, The storm continues.

Muncik, Ind., March 9. —An east bound passengertrain ran into a drove of cattle t a point seven miles west of here this morning, And the engine thrown down an embankment flitoen feet high. Reuben Hickok, engineer, and Frank Hickok, fireman, brothers, were held undo' the broken cab and horribly scalded by steam. The baggage ear was thrown diagonally across the track. No other can were misplaced/ Frank Hickok will probably London, March 9.—ln the house of commons this afternoon several Irish amendments to the arms bill were rejected. The borne secretary, in opposing one giving persons arrested under the act the right to a jury trial, said in tne present state of Inland there was no reasonable prospect of obtaining either witnesses or jury in agrarian cases. The present agitation is undoubtedly a Fenian conspiracy under another name. Various Irish members protested against the assertion. Captain Nolan, as an argument against summary proceedings, pointed out he had that very day reoeived a telegram from Germany announcing two persons had been arrested whom he believed totally incapable of suspected crimes. At three o’clock Parnell was speaking against the government endeavoring, in subservience to the landlords, to abolish jury trials for political offences. When the chairman put the smendment to a vote the amendment was rejected by a vote of 278 to 36. The other amendments were rejected by similarly overwhelming majorities, and bills passed through the committee.

Buffalo, March 11.—The large boiler In the Phoenix boiler -works, owned by Donaldson A Patterson, exploded this afternoon, instantly killing six men and wounding seven others. Patterson, one of the proprietors, is among the killed. The manufacture of boilers is their business, while their specialty is testing old boilers. The old boiler belonging to the tugboat Mary E. Pierce, which has been in use nearly eighteen years, was being tested, when, without any apparent cause, it burst, literally levelling the works, 100 feet long, 80 feet high and 40 wide. Patterson, with a ponderous mass of the exploded boiler, was hurled across the street and through a solid board fence, to which a portion of his entrails and fragments of his limbs clung, while his leg was recovered fifty yards further away. The others killed were scattered in all directions. The force of the explosion was so great that the windows of buildings nearly half a mile distant were blown out and many people in houses in the vieinity were thrown to the ground, tables overturned and windows demolished. The adjoining buildings were shaken to their foundations. A large piece of the exploded boiler was thrown hundreds of feet in the air and falling crashed through the roof of Wells’ elevator, 500 feet away. The dome of the boiler was thrown one hundred feet in the air and landed half a mile distant. The known killed are: Robert Patterson, aged fifty-six, leaves a wife and six children. John Langenfeld. aged thirty-eight, unmarried, was found under the remains of the boiler, burned almost beyond recognition. Francis Cnadwick, aged sixty-two, engineer in charge of the boiler, side blown away, blea to death, leaves a wife and three children. William Wagner, married, blown to pieces, leaves a wife and four children. William Gibson, a nephew of Patterson, blown through the shop and across the street, leaves a wife and two children.

An unknown man, blackened and bruised beyond recognition. Wounded—Carl Otto Valts. both legs blown off, cut in the back and chest, cannot recover. George Renner, aged sixteen', leg broken, and head bruised badly. Henry Mackay, left leg Droken. head cut, injured internally, and will probably die. Alexander Rupert, right leg broken, injuied internally and will probably die. Robert Mexyich, left side of body and face badly cut, was standing twenty feet from the boiler when struck, will recover. Michael May was standing about teu feet from the boiler, hurt in the stomach and left side of race. William Knorr, right foot smashed, but will recover. Sixteen men were employed in the works at the time of the disaster, and six are unhurt. Donaldson, the other proprietor, had but a few moments before the .explosion drove from the works and was only a few squares away. Detroit, March 11.—Will Freeman, known as French Joe, was murdered at Twin Lake, Muskegan county, Wednesday, by unknown parties. He had sold some pine lands to Win. Blight for S3OO, to rob him of which sum he was struck on the head with .an axe. His body was found in a shanty yesterday. The murderer is still at large, but detectives are on his traek.

St. Louis, March 11.—The Republican's Clarksville, Mo., special says B. G. Read, superintendent of the paper mill at that place, went into the basement of the mill this afternoon to oil a shaft journal, and was caught by a nut on a pully wheel and carried around the shaft a number of times and killed.

Omaha, March 11.—Fred. Grossenbacher, a live stock dealer from Toledo, blew out his brains this forenoon in a fit of desperation, resulting from financial losses and fear of the insane asylum. * - ‘ O. Dublin. March IL—Only three persons have neen lodged in Kilmannam jail owing to the want of sufficient escorts. These are the first arrests on of treasonable practices The American consul has had an interview with Boynton,* and has forwarded the particulars regarding his citizenship t* Minister Lowell, with a strong letter written by Boynton, claiming the intervention of the American government. . Minister Lowell has made no representations to the foreign office. St. Louis, March 11.—The Republican’s Little Rock special says: Information has been received here that the four negroes. Green Harris, Giles Peck, John Woods and Burt Haskins, Implicated in the murder of Miss Mattie Ishmael, near Janesboro, a few days ago, have been lynched by a band of masked men numbering 200 to 800. Hie lynchers suddenly appeared from the woods, surrounded the house where the negroes were temporarily placed, overpowered the guards, and took the prisoners out and hung them to a tree in the vicinity- They disappeared as quiokly and silently a*, they gathered, it is claimed that prior to their execution the negroes made a full confession, giving a detailed account of the erime, alleging that Miss Ishmael was killed for refusing to disclose the hiding place of a large sum of money which her father had received a few days before t)H tragedy oocurred. i