Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1881 — TELEGRAPHIC. [ARTICLE]

TELEGRAPHIC.

New York, April 29.—Louisa Harvey, aged forty, of 240 West Twentythird street, was fatally shot to-day by her brother, William Mclntosh, who called upon the woman in her own house and demanded money, which was refused. Mclntosh was formerly in the liquor business, but has been sick for sometime. He says his sister owes him over SII,OOO. Madrid, April 29.—1 tis said the free traders will urge the cabinet to negotiate r treaty of commerce with the United States in order to obtain special concessions for exports from Cuba. Wheeling, April 80.—Judge Jackson, of the circuit court of the United States, now in session at Parkersburg, decided the case of the state of West Virginia vs. Taylor Strouder (colored) Indicted for murder in this city nine years ago, allowing the pleas in abatement to be filed and overruling the demurrer to the pleas by the state and adjudging the pleas good in law. He also overruled the motion on behalf of the state to remand the prisoner to the custody of the state authorities, and refused to hold him for Indictment in the United States court and discharged Strouder from custody. This case has been before the United States court for some years, and involves a question under the civil rights bill allowing a colored man the privilege of being tried by colored jurors. He has been twice tried in the courts here and sentenced to be hung each time. He was then taken to the supreme court of the state and from thence to the United States supreme court, and then removed back to the United States distric court for West Virginia. .

Galveston, Texas, April 30.—A News’ Weimer special says: This morning, eight miles north of here, Sam Brown, while laboring under temporary aberration of the mind, cut his wife’s throat and then his own with a razor. She had recognized his condition and fled across tne fields, but was overtaken. A little nine-year-old daughter attempted to take the razor and was badly cut. St. Louis, April 30.—Police claim to have found the murderer of policeman Michael Walsh, who was shot and killed on the night of the 4th of last December while attempting to arrest two men on the corner of sixteenth and Olive streets. The murderer is Tom Higgins, now in jail on a charge of burglary, and is a notorious thief and a desperate fellow. City of Mexico, April 80.— The reception this evening to Gen. Grant by the American minister was attended by the cabinet, supreme court, congress and the diplomatic corps. An immense throng was present, and there was great cordiality.

Washington, May 2.—Following is the public debt statement for the month of April, 1881: « pot m>L bond. 6196.J7-.000 Spot emit bond. M«,'22jW Rafundltx crUSotn T2J.100 Marr pwMion mod HS.UQUM) Total Ooin bonds 1,666.149,3 W Matnrad dabt *,704J« LapalMndara. M8.U1.M6 OarUflcatae ot depoatt. 826,000 Gold and aUrar oartifioatae 66.60,740 Fractional currency 7.116,046 Total wltbont latoraat .. 417A"43‘1 Oaab In troamuT 256.731.196 Debt laaaoaa. In traaaniy Dacraaaa dorian April MBOJOO Dacraaaa .inoajnaa 10, 190 78,0119,601 otrssnrr uabflitixs. interval doe and unpaid 2,710,492 DaU on which lotaraat has caaaad 6.7U4, 68 lota «<t thereon __ 780.70 Gold and lilrw co/tlflcata. dapo.it t.M.000 Ceah balance arailabto April Ist, I*Bl .. WJH'W Total 235.731.18 t atailapui asana. Oaah In traaaury .SS.'ifflJOt Bond, tamed to Pacific Railway Oompany payable la iawlul money, principal oot•tandloa 64.628,621 Intareet accrued ■ nd not yet paid In tercet paid by United States. 49,628,M6 interest repaid by oompaniae by transportation wrrico 11, 747,5TU By cash payment. I per cant earning. 656,198 Balance of interest paid by Uhltad States. 84,6'26.997 Constantinople, May 2.—The retreat of the brigands who captured Sutor, an Englishman, and demanda ransom for him, was cut off on the land side by Turkish troops and by sea by gun boats. A Turkish gun boat recently chased a bark which was believed to be manned by brigands, and after having several times vainly summoned her to stop, sank her. It is feared Sutor was on board the bark. It will be remembered that the vast treasure Abdul Azesiz amassed mysteriously disappeared after his decease, and that the then ministry gave out it had been used for war expenditure. The present inquiry, however, tends to show that a considerable part of it was appropriated by high officials and others connected with the palace. Nouay and Mahmand have began to criminate each other. Nouiy, fur example, accuses Mahnißiid of having caused a slave to be disemboweled tq discover whether she had swallowed a valuable diamond which was missing from the treasure. During the examination of Fahri Bey, chamberlain to Abdul Azesiz, who is accused of an active part in bis murdei*, although his victim had formerly conferred great benefits on him, the sultan became very much excited, and dec'a red he could nardly refrain from taking vengeance on him with, his own Hands. On hearing this,' the chief eunich beat Fahri with his fists until the sultan ordered him to desist.

Vienna, May 2. —Six thousand Albanians attacked three tabors of Turkish troops on Saturday near Prisrend. The Turks were hard pressed until reinforced with four tabors of troops, when they totally defeated the Albania .s. The total losses are 1,800 killed and wounded. Turns, May 2.—The government has information that a fight occurred between the French and Kroumirs at Arn Ismael, on April 26, the day the French troops cr.wsed the frontier, which lasted nine hours. Seventyeight Kroumirs were killed and eighty-nine, wounded. The French loss is declared to have been greater. Fifty-eight Tunisian soldiers and many non-combatants were killed by the bombardment of Taborca.

London, May 2.—The Mark Lane Express, in its review of the grain trade the past week, says: More genial weather has had a beneficial effect. Wheat looks healthy, though it is still very backward. Supplies of English wheat have been nominally maintained at a few provincial markets, but in London and generally elsewhere trade has been slow and drooping. Buyers refused to do business in foreign breadstuff's, except at a concession, and the tension has now become very great, and in view of the supply on spot and afloat, it would appear that lower rates are imminent Of the twenty-seven wheat cargoes which arrived the past week, only seven are reported sold, and four more vessels are due for orders the ensuing week. Flour has been lower, and in very liberal supply. The importation of American flour has assumed proportions which have completely revolutionised the British millers’ trade, and has been a dead

weight on the wheat trade from the commencement* of the ccrial year. Maize has been easier. Barley is firmly held, but foreign Is scarce, and from six penee to one shilling dearer. Oats dull and unchanged. Bales of English wheat the last week 29,918 qqarters at 44s 9d, against 26,955 quarters at 45s 9d for the corresponding week last year. New York, May s.—The PubUc says: With full exchanges for April before us, in which the business actually transacted in all parte of the country has recorded its own volume, it Is not possible to conclude that everything is going to the bad. The comparison, it should be noticed, is with money in April, 1880, In which business wss extraordinarily large, although much of it resulted in loss instead of profit, but the amount of transactions was much larger than it had ever been in. the month of April, and a reaction from a period of extravagant inflation of prices had jnst begun. Qn the other hand, current reports have indicated that the business of the country in April, 1881, was completely prostrated by disaster: that many roads were ruined or blockaded, many farms and valleys desolated by floods and vast quantities of grain in stack destroyed; that almost every branch of trade was stagnant and dead, and that wholesale dealers waited in vain for buvers. who were injured by the widespread disaster. How did it come to pass, then, that $4,820,128,680 was paid through the banks, against $4,382,427,259 in same month of 1880? Speculation on stocks does does not account for it, for, as will be shown, as exchangee that arise from the sales of stock were precisely in the same proportion to the entire transactions of April, 1881 and 1880. Nor can it be said that New York operations, possibly inflated by speculations in merchandise, accounts for the increase, for the aggregate of exchanges at twenty-five oth r cities were $1,114,078,655 in April, 1881, against $1,006,814,926 in April, 1880. At New York tne increase was 9.8 per cent, and precisely the same if the doubt value of stocks sold be deducted for both years. The conclusion to which these returns irresistibly lead, is that the public have been greatly deceived by current reports in regard to the condition of business throughout the country. There is only one city (Milwaukee) at which any considerable decrease in the volume of business appears. The snow and floods seriously affected operations during the past month there, and in the country tributary to that city. If the decline in prices of many leading articles of commerce be taken into account, it will be seen that the volume of business measured in quantities and exchanged was lai ger than ever before at every city, with the possible exception of Milwaukee. Boston, May 4.—A fire in B. T. King’s seven-story brick building, 409 and 418 Atlantic avenue, occupied by a number of firms, caused a damage of about $30,000; partially Insured.

Ottumwa, lowa, May 6.—This morning at 3 o’clock a fire was discover* d in the wholesale drug and book house of J. L. Taylor & Co., near the corner of Market and Main streets. Owing to the inflammable nature of its contents the whole building, 40x132, four stories and a basement, was soon wrapped in a sheet of names. This fine building, together with the First national bank, on the corner, was totally destroyed. The wholesale hardware house of Harper, Chambers & Co,, west of Taylor’s, had the roof crushed in by the walls of the Taylor building falling on it, and was damaged by water and fire seriously. Taylor & Co.’s loss is estimated at $117,000, the First national bank SIO,OOO, and Harper, Chambers 4 Co.’s $25,000. The total losses will foot up from $150,000 to $175,000; Insured for about one third of its value.

Springfield, 111., May 6.—A Wabash passenger and freight train collided near Illiopolis this morning, resulting in the almost total destruction of both engines. The passenger engineer and two firemen had limbs broken. No lives were lost. The total loss on property is not far from $25,000. Mepmhis, May 6. —Yesterday afternoon, while some school children were playing under a small tree in the yard of F. Homer, eight miles east of Winona, lightning struck the tre*> and immediately killed Minnie and Willie Homer, aged nine and seven years, and Mary Hightower, aged six. London, May 6. —There was a gala procession yesterday from the railway station at Salzburg to Play, on the occasion of the arrival of the queen of the Belgians and her daughter, the Princess Stephanie, who are on their way to Vienna for the marriage, on the 10th inst., of the princess and Prince Rudolph. The town was elaborately decked with flags and adorned with triumphal arches. Last night a state dinner was given at the palace. Afterwards there was a reception, the deputation bearing wedding gifts. The town was brilliantly illuminated, and there was a torch-light procession of the students, who formed before the palace, making with torches an outline of a monogram of Rudolph and Stephanie. Beacons were lighted on the neighboring bills, and there was a grand display of fire-works as the royal party drove through town. Prince Rudolph returned to Vienna last night. London, May 6.—A parcel of powder exploded under the walls or the barracks, at Chester, last night, but the damage was trifling. It is believed the pespetrators are militiamen who have been punished. / Chicago, May 6.—Hon. Charles Hitchc«ck, one of the most prominent lawyers and citizens of Chicago, died this morning.