Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1882 — FROM THE WIRES. [ARTICLE]

FROM THE WIRES.

A Reproduction of Important Telegraphic Dispatches—Records of Fire#, Crimes, Horrors, add Interesting Kvents, New York dispatch says: There is alarm about the British steamship Titania, which sailed from this port for Newcastle and Dundee on January 24, and has not since been heard from. She was commanded by Captain O’Neil, aud had a <7rew of thirty-two men. Her cargo consisted of provisions, wheat, corn, cheese, beef and canned goods, valued at about SIOO,OOO, and insured in Boston. She carried no passengers. The Titania was a water-ballast vessel, 270 feet in length, and 1,283 tons cargo capacity. Syracuse dispatch says: A westward bound freight train on the New York Central dashed through a freight train of the Rome. Watertown and Ogdensburg road at the cossing nortli of here. No person was injured. The Central Locomotive is lying in Onondaga Lake. The wreck took fire, and was generally destroyed. Johu Major Hicks, a colored man, born in Boyd couuty, Ky., April 15, 1862, was hanged at Covington Ky. The execution was the second ever had in Kenton county, auJ was the first quasi private execution in the State of Kentucky, and is likely to be the last, as the law requiring executions in an in closure has just been repealed, and will go into effect in thirty days. This execution was in a shell a building built o brick. All the lower-story • windows were nailed with boards. The condemned man was brought on the scaffold attended by Father McGiniey, Father Lambert and two other priests. At seven minutes past 10 o’clock they knelt and prayed audibly. The prisoner repeating, after Father McGiniey, the Lord’s prayer and the Apostolic creed. After this the prisoner was brought to the platform, where he shook hands with the priests. Then Father Lambert came to the front, and, addressing the 300 spectators admitted, said: “Mr. Hicks will say nothing. I speak for him. He takes this death as a punishment for his sins.” The noose was then fixed, hands manacled, straps and cap adjusted, Hicks all the while weeping profusely and saying. “God is good. Oh Lord Jesus, have mercy.” The priests exhorted him with the words; "Trust in Jesus. He can save the soul.” The trap dropped at 10:15, and the body was cut down at 10:44.The e was no struggling. He was hung for the murder of Henry Murray Williams, at . Ludlow, Ky., December 15, 1880, early in the evening. There were no liviug witnesses to she crime. This utterance of Father Lambert on the scaffold is the only confession he made. A Clinton, lowa, dispatch says: Tiijere was a wholesale poisoning at the Central Hotel in this city at 7 o’clock last evening, caused, as believed, by arsenic put in a pan of milk, by accident or design. A dozen guests, waiting girls, and others, at supper were more or less attested, the most serious case being Hon. J. W. Miles, of Miles, lowa, a banker, aud the founder of that town, who was attending the Masonic Convention at Lyons. He drank heartily of the milk, and was seized with vomiting aud purging, and lay in a critical condition all night. He is now vtry weak, but is believed to be out of dauger. George Hitchcock, an engineer, drauk milk in bis coffee, and was very

sickalb bight, He Is on, duty to-day. Johanna Thand, a serving -girl, Wag the most seriously affected of the waiters, but is now out of dauger. The affected milk has all been traced to one pan, aud as the other pans were filled from the same can, it is certain that the poison was placed iu only the one pan. Physicians pronounce the poison to be arsenio. A portion is under chemical analysis to-day. The only known theory, which is currently credited, is that .the poison was put in the pan by a colored cook named Johnson, who was discharged. He is known to be revengeful, aud was seen about the premises. He will be arrested. Louisville dispatch says: The forty-first drawing of the Commonwealth Distribution Company took place Tuesday February 28. The follow prizes were drawn: Capital prize, $30,000. by ticaet 87,473; second prize, SIO,OOO by ticket 73,014; third prize, $5,000, by ticket 90,574. The following tickets drew SI,OOO each: 11.040,.26 441, 44,250, 51,299, 69,300, 72,367.' Bloomington, 111., dispatch says: H. E. Ferguson, Deputy Circuit Clerk of this county, has been indicted by the United States Grand Jury at Springfield for collecting illegal fees from a soldier’s widow, for whom he had obtained a pension. Ferguson collected $1,700, and paid the claimant only SI,OOO of it. Several cases of this kind have occurred here, where certain Bloomington lawyers , have obtained fat fees through fraudulent misrepresentation. A dispatch from Batileford, Northwestern Territory, says the Blackfeet and other Indians in the vicin'ty of Forts Red Deer and South Branch are committing numerous depredations, and driving off aud killing cattle. In the Bow River country several American whisky traders were killed by them, and several other Americans have been found dead in the neighborhood, are aud supposed to have been killed by the same savages. ;