Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1882 — WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

THE EAST. An extraordinary falling off in the production. of the Cherry Grove district caused excitement and an advance in tiie Bradford oil market, where the sales reached the unprecedented figure of 6,392,000 barrels The yield of one well decreased in forty-six days from 2,180 barrels’ in twenty-four hours to one barret , A monument to the memory of Capt. William Morgan was unveiled at Batavia, N. Y., by the members of the National Christian Association. Jonathan Blanchard led the singing. Rev. B. T. Roberts prayed that the people might be emancipated from the evils of secret societies. Dr. Ray classed Morgan as a martyr, and Prof. C. A Blanchard accused the Masons of murdering Morgan. Chief Engineer George W. Melville, and the seamen William Noros and William Nindermann, survivors of the Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, and of the party that discovered the dead bodies of Lieut. De Long and his companions, and Lieut Robert M. Berry, of the burned Arctic exploring steamer Rodgers, arrived at New York the other day in the steamship Parthia. The attempt to bring about a compromise between the iron manufacturers of Pittsburgh and vicinity and a committee of the Amalgamated Association resulted in failure, the manufacturers rejecting a proposition to adjust differences and end the strike by paying puddlers $5.75 per ton, an advance of 25 cents. The manufacturers adhere to $5.50, the rate prevailing when the strike began. • M. J. H. Hickney, of Baltimore, purchased the buildings and wharves lying between the historic rock at Plymouth, Mass., and the water, for the purpose of demolishing them, and thus permit the ocean to flow up to the rock.... .The 2-weeks-old child of Anton Pel ata, of Pittsburgh, was found dead in bed, and a big black cat sitting on its breast The verdict was that the child’s death was caused by its breath having been sucked away by the cat.... Dwight 8. Lathrop, assistant cashier in the office of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, has absconded with $20,000.. ..The British riflemen were victorious in the international match at Creedmoor, scoring a grand total of 1,975 points, against 1,805 by the Americans. The extensive boot and shoe factory of J. Richardson & Co., at Elmyra, N. Y., valueaat $250,000, was wiped out by fire, throwing 300 men out of employment Four firemen were seriously injured by falling walls. THE WEST. A recent dispatch from Independence, Mo., says: Mrs. M. H. Vaile, wife of the defendant in the star-route trial, has left to join her husband in Washington. A deed conveying the residence of Vaile to his wife was recorded here. The consideration was $22,000 —about one-fourth of its real value... .The Crescent mills and elevator at Denver, Col, were swept away by fire. The estimated loss is $225,000; fully insured. They were the largest in the State and full of grain... .Mrs. Garfield purchased the residence of Ralph Worthington, on Prospect street, Cleveland, for $50,000... .The postoffice at Huntingdon, Iqd., was burglarized and $2,000 worth of property taken. The rumor of an Indian invasion of the southwestern part of Nebraska, which was started in Dundy county and telegraphed broadcast over the country, proves to be entirely without foundation. The story was started by a frightened settler, who magnified a small party of peaceable Indians into an army of nostiles. The sphere of woman has been enlarged in a curious direction by the joint action of Mrs. Georgia Sackett Ruggles and Gov. Porter, of Indiana. There was a bigamist to be overhauled in Kansas, and, taking up the case in behalf of the wronged and penniless victim of nun's baseness, Mr& Ruggles applied for and obtained a requisition, and by appointment of Gov. Porter was vested with the authority to proceed to Kansas and bring the bigamist back to Bartholomew county, Ind., all of which Mrs. Ruggles did in regular man-fashion... .The Grand Trunk road has just finished at its Port Huron shops a locomotive fifty-nine feet in length, with drive-wheels six feet in diameter.

The mill and stock of the Mitchell & Rowland Lumber Company, at Toledo, valued at $325,000, was destroyed by fire.... The Missouri car and foundry works, at St Louis, were burned, causing a loss of $150,000; covered by insurance. James Ristengbrock, alias Tracy, convicted of killing Officer Huebner in the , early part of February, paid the penalty of ‘ his crime at Chicago, on Friday, Sept. 15. M The condemned man was firm to the last, and died as he predicted he would, sustained by what he claimed to be a consciousness of innocence. Clasping a black crucifix to his breast, he was launched into eternity with the name of the Savior upon his lips. * Death was instantaneous. At Metropolis, 111., on the same day, Samuel Redding, colored, was hanged. The Postmaster at Socorro, N. M., has been displaced and arrested because he is short $2,300 in his accounts..... About SII,OOO was realized at Detroit from the sale of animals belonging to Coup’s circus. The hippopotamus brought $2,900, a leopard $ 1,250, and fifty-six monkevs went off at sl4 each. s THE SOUTH. Dreadful destruction was worked in Florida by a tornado. The cotton crop suffered severely, and in some places was totally destroyed Buildings were torn down, trees and fences leveled, and many persons were killed by the storm. The sixty-eighth anniversary of the battle of North Point was celebrated by the Baltimoreans with more than usual ceremony and display... .Jay Gould has been elected President of the Texas Pacific railroad The annual report shows the assets to lie $2,375,773, and the current liabilities $395,562... .The Richmond (Va) Banking and Insurance Company has suspended business, with liabilities reported at $607,000. The amount of deposits is $600,000, one-half of which belongs to tbe State of Virginia Yellow fever pf the most malignant tyqe has broken out at Mier, Mexico, about 100 miles below Laredo, and the citizens are flee ng. There Ire many patients at ranches on ihe Texas side of the Rio Grande. The

Mexicans can hardly be made to appreciate the danger of a lax enforcement of the quarantine regulations. It is now announced that hundreds axe ‘ prostrate at isolated localities in the State of Tamaulipas. The disease is on the increase at Pensacola, Fla—.. Thirty buildings were consumed by fire at Crockett, Texas, causing a loss of $125,000. The blue-grass farm of the late H. P. McGrath, near Lexington, Ky., containing over 400 acres, was bought at auction by Milt Young, the turfman, for $112.50 per acre. The prisoners in the jail at Louisville recently manufactured two skeleton-keys from sheet lead and made a rope from blankets. The other morning, as the turnkey came in to extinguish the gas, three men, threw him into a cell and bound and gagged him. A revolver was placed at his temple, but one man saved his life. Seven jail-buds then unlocked the back door, battered down a gate with a stick of timber and made their escape. WASHINGTON. To GUARD against favoritism in examinations of pension cases Commissioner Dudley has issued an order directing that no special examiner shall rentain and perform his duties in the State from which he was appointed. The object is to leave examinations free from the influence of friendship or acquaintance, and to secure justice ana impartiality alike to the applicant and to the Government Miner and Rerdell, the convicted star-route conspirators, were granted a new trial, Judge Wylie setting aside the verdict because of its incoherency and the misconduct of the jury. Merrick, for the Government, acquiesced in the motion for the new trial, claiming the recent verdict simply trifled with justice. POLITICAL. A. C. Botkin, a well-known newspaper man, late of Chicago and Milwaukee, has been nominated by the Republicans for Delegate in Congress from Montana The son of the late Benjamin H. Hill, of Georgia, modestly declines appointment by Gov. Colquitt to his father’s unexpired term in the United States Senate. Learning that it was the Governor’s intention to apl>oint him, Mr. Hill wrote a letter declining the honor as one above his qualifications or aspirations. Gen. James B. Weaver was unanimously nominated for Congress by the Sixth district Greenback Convention of lowa GENERAL. The Department of Agriculture at Washington estimates the total wheat yield (winter and spring) of the United States at 520,000,000 bushels While the yield is unusually large, the yield per capita will ba less than in 1879 ana 1880. The potato crop is estimated at 150,000,000 bushels.... The Chiefs of the Fire Departments of the United States and Canada assembled in convention at Cincinnati William H. Vanderbilt says that “while the business of the country at this time is not in the best condition ever experienced, yet the outlook for the next eighteen months is certainly very good. ” At a meeting of the Western Union Telegraph Company, Dr. Green announced his intention of resigning the Presidency. A quarterly dividend of per cent was declared, payable on and after Oct 16. The united committees of the various Methodist bodies in Canada met at Hamilton, and unanimously resolved that the time had arrived when efforts should be made to ascertain the basis of an agreement whigh would unite all the Methodist churches m the Dominion.

The flight of French Canadians to the United States is a subject which has received due consideration at Ottawa, and the Governor General has expressed a will ingness to assist in colonizing them in the Northwest ....The military barracks at La Prairie, Can., which originally cost $500,1X10, were fired during a storm, and totally consumed. Engineer Melville has caused a great sensation at Philadelphia by deserting his wife and children upon the moment of bls arrival. The wife’s story of his gruff greeting and brutal departure is a pathetic one. Lieut. Danenhower’s attention having been called to notices in the press containing Innuendoes of charges by him against Engineer Melville, he has issued a card stating he has made no accusations against any one, and that his relations with the Engineer have always been of a friendly character. FOREIGN. Many prominent names in English literature, art and politics have been added to the committee for the erection of a Longfellow memorial in Westminster Abbey. The Irish leaders have in view a consolidation of all the projects for the welfare of their country, based on the platform of self-government, abolition of landlordism, promotion of home industries, rights of lai bor, and a paid representation in Parliament ....One of the buttresses of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, fell, completely decapitating four women.... Emile Plantainour, the Swiss astronomer, is dead....lt is announced from St. Petersburg that the coronation of the Czar has been postponed until 1883. In the international/owing contest at London the Hillsdale crew took the lead of the Thames Club. Half a mile from the starting point a serious foul occurred, but the H ill sd ales got three lengths ahead, when Capt. Terwilliger's slide broke, which disabled the Americans, the British beating by fourteen seconds.