Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1881 — TELEGRAPHIC. [ARTICLE]

TELEGRAPHIC.

Bfwi City, April 4.—There is no particular change to note in the condition of the Missouri. News from tow ua above is of a distressing character.- One Teport is that Veiiadlion, with the exception of a few houses, has been entirely swept away. Ii is not believed any loss of life resulted. All the lower part of Yankton is under water, caused by a gorge in the river opposite that' city. The town of Neobrara, In Nebraska, has been flooded. London. April 4.—The Mark Lane 'Express, in its review of the British grain trade the past week, says: The -growth of young wheats has been checked by the sharp east winds and frosts, and genial temperature and showers are Wanted. English wheat continues in limited supply at provincial , markets. Dry sound samples, being in small proportion. The realized improvement in trade is narrow, and limited and inferior qualities are difficult to sell. The supply in London has been lamer. Foreign breadstuff* slow ana quiet throughout, and the wheat supply restricted. Friday’s spot trade was quiet and firm, millers resisting an advance. Off coast market ia scantily supplied: No. 1 American red winter ana No. 2 California being the only cargoes arrived, and only ons of these was sold. Boating cargoes quiet and weaker. In London trader both spot and off coast, was unaffected by American advices. Flour was in less supply and the demand sluggish. Country makes, however, sustained last week’s currencies. The foreign supply, which has been good, was chiefly from America. Millers, in view of prospective arrivals, are refusing to concede an advance, and the market was mostly in buyers’ favor. Barley was weak everywhere, but the scarcity of good j samples and the demand for- seed have supported provincial values; foreign drooping. Oats quiet and unchanged; foreign In 9mall supply and firmly held; buyers awaiting * arrivals from the Baltic. Maize in limited spot supply with large prospective American and Danubian arrivals. Bales of English wheat the past week, 28,617 quartern at 44s Id per quarter,-against 24,609 quarters at 48s 4d for the corresponding week last year. Cincinnati, April 4.—A dispatch from Cannellton, Ind., says news has been received of the killing of Richard Welch, by his son Montgomery Weltfh, at the little village of Derley, Perry county, last evening. The father had previously fired several shots at his sons 2 ana at the time of the killing met his son and his mother who were returning from a visit to a lawyer for the purpose of prosecuting Welch. «Hedrewa revolver and sata “one must die.” The son shot first and tho father fell.dead. The deceased was a farmer in good circumstances.

■ Yankton, April 6. —Only change in the river situation is another rise, which exceeds by a foot that of the 28th, ; heretofore reported lower. Yankton is submerged to-day, and th * people have been removed to the upper portion ot the city. News received to-day from Bon Homme is that out of fourteen persons ten have been rescued alive and well. A family named Bates and ope named Haddeman ate undoubtedly drowned. Seven other famillies are probobly lost. Six miles this side of Green IslaDd the people have been in part removed to that place. Water and ice to the depth of .twelve feet is across the village site. The ice has probably choaked up the channel of the river. A short distance below Yankton it is turning a great volume of water across the low lands on the Dakota side and flows eastw-ard thirty miles before it enters the old channel at Vermillion, a point on the river bank, which is reported washed away with the loss of thirty lives. This report needs confirmation. The riyer at this point is about six miles wide. Its surface is covered with broken ice. East a few miles the breadth of the water broadens to fifteen miles.

Topkka, Kansas, April 7.—The rolling mill owned jointly by the Union Pacific and the Atchlnson, Topeka A Saute Fe railroad companies, located at Topeka, burned at Mine-o’clock to-night. The fire caught from the explosion of a lamp in the hands of a deaf and dumb boy who was oiling the shafting. The burning oil blazed up. and caught the dry board roof, and the flames spread with wonderful rapidity. Tire Boy made his wav down from the beam on which he stood in some manner and appeared before the engineer himself ablaze. Tbe alarm >was given by the engineer, and the operatives, nearly one hundred in number, barely had time to escape before thereof fell. Loss estimated at SIOO,OOO. From 200 to 300 men are thrown out of employment. St. Louis, April 7.—Two freight trains collided between Litchfield and Booker 'HiIR on the ‘ Indianapolis A St. Loul| railroad last night, and an unknown man killed and a number of ears demolished. Dbnvkk, Col., April 7.—William Lave, a fugitive from Farmingham, Mexico, where he had killed a man, was shot dead at Del Norte, to-day, by J. H. Jackson, for stealing his horse and threatening his life on different occasions. Albert H. Pfeiffer, a pioneer and comrade of Kit Carson, is dead. Nbw York, April 7.—The Gutteuburg bible, printed is 1450, the first book printed with mobable types, was boughtfat public auction to-night for $8,0&.

London, April 7.— The Greek patriarch at Constantinople telegraphs the Greek committee ip Liverpool as follows: “News from Chico is heartrendering. The catastrophe surpasses all belief. I implore you to receive subscriptions in aid of the sufferers. The need is urgent. The lord mayor of London has opened subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers. Nearly £IO,OOO have been raised. Park, April 7. —ln the senate the minister of finance declared that Faance, the United States, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain, would agree upon the principle of a doui le standard. Bi-metalism was making progress in Spain. Public opinion in Belgium was in favor of it, and chambers of commerce in England had made declarations similar. The sense of the adhesion of England might still be hoped for, and that' would be to establish international monetary regulations. France would support bimetalism- M. Parieu drew attention to the fact that France pays in gold an,d is paid in silver, .whence arises continuous losses. M. Buffett urged that that no silver coins * be struck without consulting the legislature. “IhWDON, April 7.— The'bukc of Aigyle has resigned theofflce of lord Sseal, owing to a difference of on with his colleagues on some of revisions of the land bil