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

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

THE EAST. - The corpse es an unknown lad has been having a variety of adventures in the Pennsylvania towns The boy was killed by a train at Johnstown last month, and was identified by a citizen of Bristol as his son and tenderly laid to rest, an event soon followed by the return of the wanderer from BristoL Beading of the occuiTence, an anxious father in Sharon, named Seabum, had the remains disinterred, became thoroughly satisfied that they were those of his remaining son, and buried them at Sharon, Aug. 9u. The reappearance of Eddie Seaburn caused the wildest excitement among tlnwe familiar with the circumstances of the double mistake. The real name of the wandering corpse has not yet been ascertained ... .After a conference of five hours between the puddlers and iron manufacturers of Pittsburgh, last year’s schle of wages was signed The members of the mining-stock firm of James O. Bands & Co., of New York, disappeared ten days ago. Sands was Secretary of several mining companies and is said to have gone to Mexico. Two ladies well known in society have lost S:JIO,(XX) each by the collapse, and several prominent lawyers are out about SIO,OOO each.... John G. Bigelow, St Washington, filed in the Circuit Court at Buffalo a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Sergt Mason, on the grounds that the court-martial lacked jurisdiction to try the accused, and that the detail of the battery as a. guard at the jail was in violation of an act of Congress. Judge Coxe allowed the petition to be filed, but mflde the papers returnable at Utica A frightful collision occurred in the Fourth avenue tunnel, New York. A standing train was run into, two cars telescoped, and one man instantly killed Another passenger has since died of wounds, and eighteen others were seriously injured ... .The large jeans mill of J. L Edward & Bon, at Chester, Pa, was destroyed by. fire. Loss, $80,000; insurance, $60,000. THE WEST. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, returned home the other day, after a six weeks’ absence in Europe, and was accorded a big public reception. His arrival was signalized by the booming of cannon and the firing of rockets, %pd he was escorted to his home by a long procession A conductor on the Northampton road disobeyed orders and brought about a collision of freight trains at Greenfield, Mass. The offender escaped injury, but the conductor, fireman and brakeman of the other train were killed The Society of the Army of the Cumberland, under the Presidency of Lieut Gen Phil Sheridan, and with a large attendance of ex-soldiers of rank and distinction, held Its fourteenth annual meeting in Milwaukee. The annual oration was delivered by Gen Charles H. Grosvenor, of Ohio, followed by an eloquent and interesting address by Gen Jacob D. Cox on “The Youth and Early Manhood of James A Garfield”.... A most determined attempt at suicide, which may result in success, was made by Henry Weiner, a grocer at Carondeiet, Mo. He stabbed himself thirty times just below the heart, severed the main artery in each arm, mode twelve slashes behind the right ear, cut a gash of an inch on the crown of his head, and wounded himself in the wrist. When the physicians had sufficiently revived him, he drank the contents of a coal-oil lamp. George S. Rousseau, formerly a lieutenant in the United States army, shot himself through the head at Loredo, where he was employed as a quarantine guard He was a son of Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau, and was three years ago dismissed the service for killing Dr. Rivers at Brackett, Texas. A man named Porter White shot his wife at Sedalia, Mo., and then shot himself. Cause, domestic trouble. White’s wife left him a short time ago because he abused her. He shot her through the heart, and she died instantly. He then Bhot himself in the right temple, and lived about two hours... .Flames swept away $50,000 worth' of property at Susonville, CoL THE SOUTH. Capt. Payne, of Oklahoma notoriety, has been taken to Fort Smith, Ark., where he will be tried in the Federal Court While passing through Henrietta, Tex., Payne sued out a writ of habeas corpus for himßelf and followers in’ the District Court, but Lieut Taylor refused to recognize it, whereupon a warrant was issued for the arrest of Taylor himself. This was also resisted, the civil officers not being permitted to enter the car. The affair created quite a commotion in Henrietta. A fire in the Boston warehouse, in Lafayette Btreet, New Orleans, destroyed that strheture and damaged many others, causing a total loss of $100,000; fully insured The body of Augustus Green, a wealthy Englishman, was found near his residence in Chesterfield county, Va., and guarding the remains was his dog, which was in a starving condition. It is believed Green died suddenly while in a delirium 1 The Cleveland family of six residing at Nashville, Tenu., were poisoned by an insane daughter putting strychnine in the coffee. Mr. <slsveland died from the effects, and another daughter liefi in a dangerous conditjon....At Hot Springs, Ark., Charles Matthews, editor of the Hornet, was shot four times and killed in an affray with Col. 8. W. Fordyce, Vice President of the St. Louis and Texas. Narrow Gauge railroad, and Col. Rugg, one of the proprietors of, the Arlington Hotel. It is not known whether Fordyce or Rugg fired tfie fatal shot. The trouble srrew out of a bitter newspaper controversy over local affaire..... At Searcy, Ark., an editor got into a personal difficulty with the Methodist Presiding Elder of the district over the prohibition question, and the Gospel man proved to be the hardest hitter, as he knocked down the journalist, and had to be pulled off by bystanders.... Jack Chapman, colored, was hanged at Bellevue, Rosier Parish, La., for the murder of John Wilson, colored, on Oct 2, 1881... .The United States Court at Fort Smith, Ark., released Oklahoma Payne and his followers. A fire in the business quarter of Fort Smith, Ark., burned property of the estimated value of S7S,OUS. WASHINGTON. A Washington telegram says: Dorsey’s friends say that Ben Butler has been retained to defend the Dorseys in the next , star-route triaL Senator Jones, of Nevada, expresses the opinion that at the next trial

the chief conspirators would be convicted. He said the administration is thoroughly in earnest, and will not relax their determination to convict Mb. John «C. New, acting as Secretary of the Treasury in place of Mr. Folger, made a call for $25,000,000 of extended 5-per-cent bonds, the call to mature Deo. 23. GENERAL. A Rochesteb (N. Y.) dispatch says: “ Dr. Lewis Swift, the director of Warner Observatory, is receiving messages from all parts of America claiming the discovery of the large naked-eye comet now visible near the sun. The doctor says ft is the same comet recently discovered in South America moving west, and is not the comet of 1812, nor is it identical with any known comet." The breadstuff's exported for the eight months ended Aug. 31 were valued at $110,015,703, against $157,505,205 for the same period last year. Prof. Boss, of Dudley Observatory, Albany, believes the comet we now see near the son is the return of the great comet discovered by Dr. Gould In South America on the sth of February, 1880... .The end of thei Christiancy scandal has been reached at last, the plaintiff having been granted a divorce from his wife on the ground of desertion. At the annual meeting of stockholders of the Northern Pacific rood, held in New York, the gross earnings for the year ending June 80 were reported at $5,430,305, and the operating expenses, rents and taxes at $3,572,840. The average number of miles operated was 797; the track laid for the year was 285 miles, and 272 miles to be constructed after January next will complete the road. The land department received $1,709,338 during the year. Henry Villard was re-elected President and Samuel Wilkeson Secretary. ... .The National Distillers’ and Liquor Dealers’ Convention, in' session at Cincinnati, resolved that, while sobriety, good order and respect for tne customs of others are unwritten laws of the land, and would be obeyed by them, yet a judicious license system would benefit the Government and aftord them protection, and they were opposed to prohibition as detrimental to the rights of the majority... .The United Presbyterian Synod announces its intention to raise $500,000 in honor of its quarter centennial... .The bursting of a ferryboat’s boiler near Lachine, Canada, caused the death of four persons and the burning of many others by escaping steam. The business failures of the week ending Sept 23 aggregated 141, an increase of two oyer the previous week, and fortyfive more than in the corresponding period in 1881.

The United States signal station in the North Atlantic in charge of Lieut Greeley is inaccessible by reason of a large ice barrier which extends from Cape Inglefleld to Ross bay. The expeditiesi which sailed July 8 from St Johns, N, F., with additional supplies for Lieut Greeley’s station was unable to reach its destination, and as ice had formed four inches thick on the sth the expedition returned to St' Johns to avoid being ice-blocked for the winter. Lieut. Greeley and his men, however, are supplied with stores of all kinds sufficient to last two years, and no anxiety is felt concerning them... .Capt Rogers, of the steamer Lepanto, which arrived at New York from Hull, England, reports being in collision in a fog, Sept 21, with the steamer Edam, which foundered All the Edam's passengers and crew, save the third and assistant engineers, were saved.

FOREIGN. One thousand ejectment decrees have been posted at Swineford, County Mayo for the special benefit of tenants on Lord Dillon’s estate... .The Portuguese Government has contracted for laying a telegraph cable between Lisbon and the United States, which shall touch at the Azores... .The Czar left St Petersburg Sept 20 for Moscow, where, as alleged, his coronation will soon take place. Great military precautions were token for his safety. The Emperor and Empress of Russia, upon their arrival at Moscow, were received with great enthusiasm. They were deeply impressed with the popular manifestations of loyalty....A Catholic clergyman of Breslau has been fined 200 marks for libeling Bismarck... .Stanley; the African explorer, has arrived at Lisbon. Two hill tribes marched to Scutari and plot got up by the Albanian League to massacre and rob the richest Christians, and among them the English Consul... .A meeting at London, under the auspices of the Democratic Federation, adopted a motion calling upon the Government to frame measures to prevent the importation of Chinese workmen..,.. Four towns were entirely destroyed by the floods in the TyroL The bodies of twentysix persons have been recovered... .The last of the Irish suspects has been released from Kilmainham jau. The President of the last Servian Skuptschina has been arrested for complicity in the forgeries of requisitions during the war... .Patrick Walsh was executed at Galway, Ireland, for murder. He protested on the gallows that he was the victim of perjury.... Snow-storms and avalanches have ruined the crops in sections of Switzerland. ... .The Exhibition Building at Sydney, in New # South Woles, was totally destroyed by lire, with all its contents. The loss is £500,000. The two heroes of the Egyptian campaign, Gen. Wolseley and Admiral Seymour, are to be raised to the Peerage in recognition by the British Government of their distinguished services... .The shotking destruction of a school-house, together with its inmates, including' both grown persons and children, is reported from the town of Grodno, the capital of one of the governmental departments of Russia A hardware dealer used the oellar of the house for storing powder, in whi<!h he secretly conducted a contraband traffic. While he was moving about incautiously in this place w th a light the powder was ignited and the whole building was blown into the air. Tre number of persons killed was not at last accounts accurately known, but many disfigured corpses and mangled limbs and fragments of bodies have been taken from the ruins. The curious fact has been disclosed that women are extensive holders of bank shares in New York. The Bank of Commerce has 1,829 shareholders, and 778 women hold more than onefourth oft its $5,000,000 capital stock. The oldest bank in the State is the Bank of New 'York Banking Association, 10,270 of whose 20.000 shares are held by 247 women, fifty-two trustees of estates and nineteen charitable institutions. It is the popular belief that the stock of the great banks are held almost exclusively by men of immense wealth, but the foots concerning tnese two powerful New York banks are wholly against that theory.