Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1882 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Business is being resumed.at Alexandria. Camden, New York, was badly schorched. A tornado swept through North Carolina, destroying crops. Attorney Qeneral Brewster will not not go on a trip to Europe. Samuel L. Sachs shot his wife, in jealous rage, at San Francisco. Scurvy has broken out among the Hungarians at Shnandoa, N. J. Joseph Li. King, a successful grain merchant, of Piqua, Ohio, is dead. Hon. Irvine C. Wales formerly a senator, died near Massillon, Ohio. Burglars blew open a safe at Armada, Michigan, and secured $2,000. Favorable reports come from the northwest regarding all crops except corn. The result of the Smith murder trial at Bucyrus, Ohio, is the penitentiary for life. It is predicted that congress will adjourn August 6th—-not later than August 15th. Three prisoners escaped from the Newark (O.) jail. The jailer was knocked down. John Goggins, a vagabond, killed his wife at St. Mark’s hospital, Grand Bapids, Mich. Ivan W. Bowman, who killed Marshal R. D. Lane, at Augusta, Ky., has been captured. A dymanite cartridge, put into the mails, wafe found in a down-town New York letter hex. * Columbus, 0., has an international portrait company, with' a capital stock of SIOO,OOO. Norvin Green has been elected president of the Vermont and Boston telegraph company. The residence of Jackson Slane, near Norwood, was burned while the family were at church. Mrs. Mary Odell, aged ninety years, a Cincinnati pioneer, was found dead in her bed at Urbana, O. James O’Donald shot and killed Green Gilbert at Louisville. Both colored coal-cart drivers. The Miami and Whitewater valley pioneer and Harvest Home association has be*n incorporated. Two horse thieveß resisting arrest were killed by a sheriff’s posse at Hayward, Dakota territory. The weather has improved in Ireland, and the prospect for a good crop in moßt par is of the island Is assuring.

The sum of $25,000 will probably be appropriated to bring home the remains of Captain DeLong and comrades. Eddie Dlckman, of the Durrell BiOthers, song and dance men, was accidentally and dangerously shot at Indianapolis. A threshing-machine boiler exploded near Dorc. ester, 111., killing one man, two horses and two mules and burning up a wheat stack. The body of Peggy Crone, a young courtesan, of a respectable family at Kokomo, Ind., was found dead in a field near Wabash, that state. Chicago has added ,an engine to increase its daily water supply by thirty million gallons, making the total supply a hundred and thirty million gallons a day. A party of Indians attacked a wagon train near Clifton, N. M., killing two men. The wagoners wounded and oaptured one Indian, and roasted him alive after the fight. In the Chicago prison an inmate named John Prendell, an imbecile, confined in the same cell with Wm. J. Clarke, unbuckled Clarke’s wooden leg and beat him to death. Jacob Johnson, a farmer, started home from Lexington, Ky., “tight.” and next morning* was found inside his gate, with his head battered, and his pocketbook and SSOO gone. The court of inquiry in the case of General Warren finds substantially that General Sheridan was justified in relieving General Warren of his command at the battle of Five Forks, and that he did not exceed his authority in so doing. Concerningthe death of Ferdinand Winter, at Huntington, West Virginia, there are suspicions of murder. His skull was fractured and a silver watch with which he left Cincinnati, is missing. At Freeport, Wayne county, Pa., two girls named Stearns murdered their mother and concealed her body, but the secret leaked out finally. One of the girls was arrested, the other fled. Governor Porter of Indiana, has pa:doned Theodore Brown, who was sentenced for a long term, in Marion county, in 1878, for killing his wife with a blow of his fist, while drunk. He has gone insane. The Commmroia’s Dayton correspondent reports 'hat Brother Barnes u losing his giip there. His audiences have dwindled down to one hundred n nd fifty a night, and not a single conversion has been made for tweek.