Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1882 — FROM THE WIRES. [ARTICLE]

FROM THE WIRES.

A Reproduction of Important Telegraphic Dlspsitches— Records of Fires, Crimes, Horrors, and Interesting Events. A Cincinnati dispatch says: A heavy rain has’been falling al morning. The river at 11 o’clock is fifty-five feet low-water mark, aud rising two inches an hour. All the cellars below Third street are flooded, practically suspending business in that part of ‘he city. A great force is kept busy removing goods. The Plum street passenger depot is inaccessible, and trains deliver passingers at Wood street. Maddux & Hobart’s distillery and the Globe Rolling Mill have been compelled to close operations. The former has driven away all its stock. Other distilleries in the same locality will be compelled to close to-day. If the rain should stop now, it is estihiated there will be, five feet mere of a rise. What will come with more rain would make the highest water ever known. : The six large columns of the old State Bank building of Nashville Tenn., Which is now being torn down, will be used for a monument to the Confederate dead. The monumeut will be erected in Mount Olive Cemetry. Another national bank will soon be started here, with a capital $200,000. Robert Mclnley, sentenced to be hanged in the jail yard March 31, appealed to the Supreme Court. He was a convict in the Penitentary and murdered a fellowconvict named James R. McM ilan last Sepetember. A St, Louis dispatch says: Rain has fallen pretty steadily and heavily here since Saturday morning, measuring nearly six inches, and has done considerable damage. All trains were from four to eight hours late in arriving this morning. Several trains which left this morning were abandoned and obliged to return. At Lane Cliff, on the Iron Mountain road, there is an extensive washout, and two passenger trains that left the Union depot last night were obliged to lay over all night at Carondelet, and are still there. The scaffolding erected for the use of the workmen, while repairing the St. Charles Bridge, on the Wabash road, was cashed away by the sudden rise in the Mississippi river, and the country arouud is much flooded by the heavy rain, and the track of the Wabash. St. Souis and Pacific, between here and St. Peters, is flooded.

A fire in the Albion Print Works, ou Water street, Philadelphia, destroyed the entire stock, worth $50,000, and the stocks of several other firms in the same building. Total loss, $150,000. The charred body of an unknown man was found on the second floor when the fire was subdued. A number of other persons are missing. : The eastjjwiug of the Kings County, New York, Insane Asylum, at Flatbush, burned the 21st. Or:e patient was lost. He was a paralytic, aud would scarcely have lived the day out. Loss, $15,000 Two or three inmates escaped from custody. Winter cholera is alarmingly prevalent at Rock Island, 111., aud is atributed to impure water. A specimen of the water has been sent away for analysis, Judge Glenn was so prostrated with Winter cholera, contracted here, that he was unable to hold court on his return to Monmouth, The Herzegovians have been successful iu several minor engagements with the Austrians. FJatcha is surrounded by three insurgent divisions, the commandant is treating for its surrender. After the Ist of March the Iron Mountain Railroad Company will charge all its employes working in its shops and yards iu South St. Louis, six miles below the center of the city, full fare, 15 cents, fcr passage between the two points. Some 300 men are concerned in the order. Heretofore they have ridden free, p *• - from Panama state ihat Trescott seems to have made up his

mind to lemain >n Chili, having rented a house there for six months. It is reported that Trescott is authorized to discues the Blaine circular in reference to the Panama Canal, and endeavor to obtain a recognition .by Chili and other Republics in the priihcipies there enumerated. James G. Allison, convicted of murdering his father at Indiana Pa., sufered the penalty of death by hanging at 11 o’clock.- Tne prisoner arose at 6 this morning, having slept four (hours. He ate a hearty breakfast, ,but preserved a stolid silence. At 10 o’clock his mother, sister and brother called but he positively refused to see them, and when they came into his cell would not recognize them. He also refused to be shaved, and would not allow the Sheriff to dress him iu a new,suit. At 11 o’clock exactly the trap was sprung, and the prisoner was launched into eternity, the only words he spoke were, I have been fetched here wrong.” The body was allowed to hang until 11 :30, when it was cut down and life pronounced extinct. No excitement prevailed. No one witnessed the execution excepting the officers of tiie law and newspaper men. The crime for which young Allison suffered was committed bn the evening of June 18, lbßo. Neighbors living in the vicinity of Allison’s residence heard the report of the several pistol shots, and hurrying out to ascertain the cause found old Mr. Allison lying on the ground with four in his body. He died three days after, and before death said his son James had murdered him. James was arrested, tried and convicted, the evidence being strong against him, and showing that a bad feeling had existed among the members of the Allison family for a long time on account of the father’s dissolute habits. t

A .Chester, Pa., dispatch says: About 8 o'clock an explosion occurred at the pyrotechnic works of Professor Jackson, in this city. The building was badly shattered, and took fire, and was consumed. At least fifteen, and probably more, lives are lost, and many dangerously wounded. The building was the old homestead of Admiral Porter. 9:40 a. m.—A number of colored families lived ir. the old Porter manj sion. It seems that, when it first took | fire, and while the firemen were playng on the flames, and a large crowd surrounded them, an explosion oecur- ' red, scattering destruction far and wide. The number of killed is “between fifteen and twenty. About twenty are dangerously and fifty more or less seriously wounded. The dead are being laid out in the City Hall, and the wounded are cared for in the various drug stores, so that no accurate list can be obtained now. The following is a list of the killed: John Lamptugh, Thomas Dollison, Thomas Anderson, Alexander Philips, John Pollick, Joseph Kestner, Gee. Taylor, James Dougherty, Benjamin Gartside (colored) Anthony Barber, William Wood, John Daiers, Edward Stropschire. All the killed lived here. 1:30 p. m.—Fifty persons were more or less wounded, three fatally. Part of the mansion had been used by Professor Jackson, a Pyrotechnist, for some years as a olace of manufacturing explosive commodities. The firemen, after being assured that there were no explosives in the place went to work. After playing on the flames about half an hour a terrific explosion occuned. The bodies of the victims were thrown in every direction, the air was filled with rubbish, and the ground oovered with manglea forms—some killed, some seriously injured, and others badly hurt. Tile dead bodies of the men lay coiled on the ground, others lay in the agonies of death, and a number, writhing "in their blood, moaned and groaned piteously for help. Many lay insensible their surroundings, aud others, bruised aud bleeding, groped their way from the scene of the terrible accident. The scene beggars description. The fire was abandoned, and everybody in condition to do so turned attention to alleviating the distress. The houses n the vicinity of the explosion were converted into hospitals, and the wounded removed thereto. A Boston dispatch says: Midnight—A fire broke out at Haver!: ill, Mass., at 11:45 and it now burning fiercely. The authoiities have telegraphed for assistance to Lawrence, Newburyport, Lowell and other towns adjacent. Haverhill was settled 242 years ago, and contains 15,000 inhabitants. It lies on the north bank of the Merrimack river, the head of navigation, fifteen miles from the ocean, on the Boston aud Maine Railroad, thirty-

, three miles north oi Boston. It has I from twenty to thirty churches, ami a ; fine city hall. It is a great manu- ! faeturing town. . Haverhill, Ma=s., February 18 —The fire is under control. But oue block remains on. Wingate street aud two at ; the upper end of Washington street, ! All else in the square bounded by tile ' Merrimack river on the south, Washington Square and Essex street on the east, the nortipside of Wingate street on the north, and Railroad square on the west, burned to the ground. This tertitory embraces the largest part of the boot aud"shoe manufactories. Joseph Pratt, a firemau. was killed, and George Whittier was fatally injured. Wnat yesterday was the finest street iu the city and the principal business mart, is to-day a smoldering mass of ruins. Bome eighty, shoe firms have been entirely burned out, and others suffered „more or less damage.- Two thousand people are. thrown out of employment. Several families are homeless. The loss is estimated at $2 500.0'0. Engines are present from Newburyport, Lawrence aud Lowell, Men are already at work clearing away the debris. Ober & Blake’s and the Gardner block, on the north side of Wingate street, were several times on fire, but were saved. The wind blew fresh from the northwest, which, with a scarcity of water, and the freezing of the hose, made it difficult to control the fire. Several persons are reported to be missing, but nothing definite is known yet. The Journal says the insurance men believe the loss by the Haverhill fire will fall almost entirely upon the insurance companies. The net loss to the firms will not exceed a quarter of a million.