Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1882 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A Bloomington (HI.) paper announces the approaching nuptials of Senator David Davis, in November, to a Miss Annie Green, daughter of a wealthy and prominent citizen of Fayetteville, N. C., and wno is the Democratic candidate for Congress fiom that district His intended bride is described as a beautiful and accomjjished y u"g lady about 25 years of age... .French influence ts actively opposing a reciprocity tavai.y between Mexico and the United States. Toward the end of the year there will be held in Dublin a great Irish National Convention to review the position and condition of the country. Delegates to the convention will be elected by ]the people.... Premier G ad tone has informed a correspondent that he is powerless to interfere with the proselyting work of the Mormons, a- their converts go with them without compulsion.... In the barony of Erris, Ireland, fifty families have recently been evi ted by the militfery and police, and the peasantry have been ordered not to shelter the unfortunates... .Six more men, mostly released “suspects,” have been arrested in connection with the murder of the Heddys brothers at Lough Ma-k.... A Chinese imperial decree orders that the father of the King of Corea be kept for life undex guard at Pas Ting Fu... .Friedrich Woehler, the eminent German chemist and Director of the chemical institute at Gottingen, is dead. In a bank at Baltimore bonds to the value of $12,000 were “sneaked” from a clerk who was cutting off coupons, and the robbery was so cleverly contrived that the loss of the bonds was not discovered until after fifteen minutes had elapsed, during which the thieves had ample opportunity to get beyond pursuit.... Three strange men entered the jewelry store of Cook & Sons, Louisville, Ky., looked over some goods on the pretense of making a purchase, and, without doing so, left. The proprietors soon discovered that the shop had been robbed of stock valued at $5,000... .Of five convicts who attempted to escape from the Huntsville (Texas) Penitentiary by crawling through a sewer, the guards killed one, wounded another and captured two. By an explosion of gas in a mine at Plymouth, Pa, two men were instantly killed and a third so badly burned that he will probably die. At Pittsburgh a gallery of the Exposition building gave way, injuring s veral people, two very severely, and about the same time a shed just outside the building, on which a large number of people was collected to view the fireworks, collapsed and injured several persons.... While the guns of Fort William, on Governor’s island, New York harbor, were saluting the French Admiral the premature discharge of a cannon killed one man instantly, and fearfully maimed and lacerated a number of others... .The Franklin sugar refinery at Philadelphia was partially destroyed by fire, causing a loss estimated at f 1,000,000, and throwing 1,000 men out of employment. The Spring Meadow distillery, located some miles north of Milwaukee, owned by William Bergenthal & Co., was damaged by fire to the amount of $50,000. The bonded warehouses and two immense copper worms were saved. A Cabinet officer writes that President Arthur has been compelled to abandon his intention to visit Chicago and Milwaukee this tali.