Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1882 — WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

THE EAST. At an auction sale of seats for Mrs. Langtry’s opening 1 performance in New York, Charles Wyndham bid off the lower proscenium box for $320; other boxes brought $45 and SSO, and orchestra chairs went at $17.50, the average price being sll. J. C. Tiffany, ex-Indian Agent in Arizona, was arrested at New York on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government, embezzlement and perjury. Tiffany contrived while Agent to make himself very odious to the Indians, and was alleged to be responsible for the outbreak leading to the massacre at Ciiiicu creek in 1881, and which was suppressed by the vigorous campaign of Gen. Carr. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, being requested by the Boston Traveller to reply to the comments of flew England ministers on his withdrawal from the Congregational body, writes a curt but incisive criticism of the religious lo bbies of mauy learned institutions, and hopes before bis death to evoke a theology that shall be acceptable to aIL Fire almost entirely destroyed the Flint mill at Fall River, Mass., valued at SBOO,OOO. The fire caught from a belt in the filcker-room The mill employed 50 ' hands t ha/1 50,0 ft) spindles and on annual production of 18,000,000 ' ards of print cloths The property was insured for $000,000... Eighteen cars were burned and a flremJun and brakeman lost their lives by the wrecking of a freight train on the Delaware and Hudson River rabroad, near Whitehall, N. Y.

THE WEST. A dispatch from Grand Forks, Dak., says that Charles Thurber, the negro who outraged Mrs. Burbank and a Norwegian girl named Norton, in that Territory, was taken from jail by a mob 2,000 strong and lynched. The Sheriff, Chief of Police and othe» officers fought the mob with clubs, and fought hard, but were overpowered A large number ’ of the mob were badly hurt by clubs, and all the oftioers were injured, some severely, with kn ves, bricks, stones, eta Hon. John Hanna, one of the leading attorneys and politicians of Indiana and a former member of Congress, died at Plainfield, after an illness extending over a year. He was a member of the first Logis ature of Kansas, and introduced an act to abolish slavery in that Territory The planing-mill of’ A. Backus A Sons, in Dotroit, said to have been one of the best equipped in the United States, which was valued at $150,000, was destroyed by fire The Kewanee Bank robbers were sentenced at Cambridge, 11., Pratt, Webb and Dhnkle to *ix years etch, and Dr. 8 ott to four yem The citizens of Kewanee think that Dunk e’s punishment was too severe cr Pratt's too small. Adalbert College, of the Western Reserve College. Ohio, was dedic ted last week. The college is the gift of Am sa Stone. Jr., of Clev iand, *nd cost $500,000... .Robert Ford, who w s tried at Plattsburg, Mo. for the mi.rder of W >od Hite w s acquitte d by the jury sifter forty-one hours’ bal oting. He walked over to the telegraph office and H'-nt the new to Gov. Crittenden and the Chief of Police of Kansas Citv... .A matinee at the Olymp c Thea er, Sfi. Louis, gven by John McCuJiough as a bene it for the widow and children of CoL Slaybaek, netted between $7,000 and SB,OOO. The first prize in the army rifle match at Fort Leavenworth was won by Sergt. Barrett, of the engineer corps at Willett’s point. New York harbor: ‘he second by Sergt. Clark, of the First; C»v rirv, and the third by Sergt. James, oi: the Eighth Cavalry. The tug Wetzel, of Racine, Wis., exploded abdut sixteen miles from that port, while steaming north in company with the tug Sill in search of tows. The onlv persons on board were the Cap am, Frank F I/ivell, of Racine; the engineer, William Kelly, of Chicago, and the fireman, Pat Whi'e, of Racine. The three weio blown to atoms, and the largest piece of the tug left was a board on which the name of the boat was painted....A Chicago jury, after listening to evidence for nearly a week bearing upon the mental condit on of Mrs. Scoville, sißter of Preside nt Garth 'ld’s assassin, foun i that she was ins me, and that her disease ha* lieen of six months’ duration, and hereditary. ,I' found ha she does not manifest suicidal or homicidal tendencies, and that she is not a paui er.... Neary 5,000,000 feet of lumber on the docks of H mi ion, McCl re & Co., near East Saginaw, Mich, was burned, causing i loss of $75,000, partly covered by about $70,000 insurance. THE SOUTH. A party of Mexican customs officers were riding along the Sonora river in search of smugglers, an l came upon a camp of stocknx n in the dark. In the ii rht wh:c x ensued one man was kited an it wo taxea prisoner before the mistake was developed. An earthquake shook was felt at Newborn N. C. and neighboring towns one day last week. Houses were violently shaken, and n loud, rumbling no se was heard. Tiro negroes, terror-*tr cken, tied to the o|>en fields and prayed for Pours... .The business portion of Hopkinsville, Ifv., was lad in ashes by moeu l ary fires. l\ve blocks were consumed, entailing a loss estimated at S3OO, IKK). Louisville announces its intention to hold next year a cotton exposition, to represent every fe.ture of cultivation and manipulation, for which a large amount of money has already been pledged... .In Lowell county. Ky., Fountain Tankersley, Jr., poisoned his wi e and two children with strychnine so that they died. He then fled with his brother. « / A cowardly murder was perpetrated at Nicholasville, Ky. The victim, Dr. E. £• Evans, was at the raf.road depot to take the train tn response to a elec-ram from his dvintf mother when h w s detained by a writ of a bachme t sued out by G orge B. Let cher, a Iswy r w om he owed a b( 1 of s3> Subsequently meeting Lrtcher n the street, the latte ro en d tire on Ev ns, who was un rim d, an t out of five shots rom Ins revolver one W ig fata', Evan* failing dead. WASHINGTON. A. B. MCL LETT, at one time Supervising An-Wte it of the Treasury, but whoa a edfknection with that department has not been recognized since 1877, formally tendered his resignation a few days a. o as tiu-

perintfendent of Construe Mon for public bu idings in St Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati This action is regarded as a pro. im. nary step in the assertion of a claim for compensation from 1877 to the date of his formal resignation... .The Acting Secretary' of the Interior hasrever-od the practice in the Pension Bureau by a decision that seven years’ absence may be accepted a* proof of the death of a soldier.... The Second Assistant Postmaster General is now sending out advertisements inv ting proposals tor star-route service upon 2.3(16 routes in Illinois, lowa, Michigan and Wisconsin. Special Counsel H. H. Wells, investigating the bribery scandal in the starroute cases, reports that the guilty parties acted without the knowledge or approval of any officer of the Department of Justice, and is clear v of the opinion that it was a conspiracy against t.he administration of justice. He recommends the prosecution of Fall, Payne, Thomas A. Foote, and others not named... .John Pope has been promoted to Major General, being the senior Brigadier, and having the support of Gen. Grant. R. a Mackenzie, of the Fourth Cavalry, the youngest Colonel on he list, is to be commissioned Brigadier General. Five thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds, laces, silks, etc., was purloined from the house of Gen. Sturges, at the Soldiers’ Home, in Washington. In the trunks of the French governess, employed byH. L Dousman, the General’s son-in-law, were found some of the missing property. ....A warrant was issued at Washington for the arrest of Wiliam Dickson, on the affidavit of Juror McNelly, for endeavoring to improperly influence the verdict of the star-route jury. Another warrant was sworn out on the affidavit of Brewster Cameron, charging Dickson with conspiring to get money from the United States for the purpose of impeding justice. It will be remembered that Dickson was for-man of the star-route jury. The report of the Assessor of the District of Columbia shows that the assessed value of taxable real estate in the District on June 30, 1882, was a little more than $92,500,0 0. To this may be add d the value of the property of the United States, which was more tuan‘sßs,ooo,ooo on June 3J.

general Adam Hope & Co., iron merchants of Hamilton, Ontario, have followed their Montreal branch into bankruptcy. The liabilities of the firm are estimated at $1,000,000. ....Christine Nilsson landed at New York, after an absence of eight years, to remain until the end of April Prof. Hind, of Nova Scotia, reappears in print tn connection with the Halifax award. He writes to Secretary Frelinghuys»n that subord'nates at Washington anil Ottawa manipulated statistic* made up tor use by thecomml-sion... .There ha* been ter ible suffering on a.-count of the scarcity ot food among the native* of the islands in tbe Arctic region north of Alaska In one ilaee there were found the decomposed lodies of 100 native- who hud died or starvat.on . . All the dead iiodi-s wa*he<l up after the Asia d-sastor, near Owen sound, Canada, have lieen robbed by Ind ans, aiid in some instance* all the clothing stolen. A letter received at New Bedford, from Capt. Crapo, of the schooner Surprise, of that port, says that three boats’ crews have been murdered lately by the natives of Baskit island, noa- Punta Arenas, South America....A control mg interest in the New York, Chicago and Sc Lout* ro id—known as the Nickel-Plate road —amounting to 125,0)0 shares, has been secured bv J. H. Devereux and 8< evenson Burke at the rate of 17 for common stock and 3* for preferred. The buyers me aid to bave acted for a syndicate controlling the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis and th* Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo roods A New York telegram says that the purchase of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis road by a syndicate extremely favorable ro Vanderbilt is the ail-absorbing topic in Wa 1 street The Hocking Valley road has aoqu red an outlet to Chicago tor its vase stores oi coal, and what might have proved an aggressive factor among the trunk lines has been divided up among several interests. The purchase money is to be paid in ins ailments, and the stock will be delivered wnen 60 pier cent shall have been handed over. POLITICAL. Senator Windom, in a speech at Spring Valley, Miml., said the luxuries of the nation should pay a large share of tae public burdens; that Congress has the power to break so>ne monopolies, and tbe people will demand it, and stated that down to his boots he is a civil-service reformer.

FOREIGN. Tjif, frill extent of the calamilv suffered ' y tire people of the Philippine islands from the recent terrible typhoon Ls just beginning to be made known. Ail the wooden and thatched houses, the barracks, hospital, factories and Government ofitces were destroyed, and bO.ut'O fami.ies are rendered homeless, deports from the other islands will swell the catastrophe to feartul proportions... .Atthe opening of the autumn session of the Brit-i'-h Par iiiment Lord Randolph Churchill attacked the Government tor unconstitubiona y conven ng that body, and moved adtourmnent as a rebuke to the Ministry Gladtone replied to Ctiurchi i, and trie adjournment movement was defeated 200 to 142. Excitement and disturbances prevail in All ihanistan because the Ameer deposed the Governor of Herat, and appointed his (the Ameer's) son to the position. The inhat>tants of the Cabul region have revolted and murdered their Governor... .A terrible hurricane prevailed in England Oct 24, causing great damages. By a collision during the gaie in the Channel nine persons were drowned... .Many places in the West Indian islands were shaken by earthquakes during the second week of October. The inquiry into the Alexandria massacre reveals the fact that Arab! Pasha ordered the b'oody proceedings to be begun. Last July Arabi offered Earl Granville to dirband the leaders of the Egyptian army, and, as for himself, he would quit the country; but Granville demanded nothing less than complete submission. Shameful treatment is da ly inflicted upon the re.alives of the political prisoners, and Arabia faml y Is compelled io keep moving fiom place to place to avoid violence.... Tbe French Minister oi Justice states that the Government have in their hands c ews to « vast revolutionary or aniz tion, in accordano ■ with which Fr nee is divided into local federations, directed by a committee having Its headquarters in Geneva.., .Aquar rel at .Shanghai b- tween sailor i of Britlsn and German men-of-wa> res t ted in the serf us wounding of ix Englishmen.... Miss Emily G >vin, of Chic >po, a talente t elocut. < nlst, die i in Alg ers, of lunr isease.,.. Tbe woe of Egvf t south < f K -,r oum Is overrun by the sol liery of the Fa se Prophet Gladstone announced in the House

of Commons that the Government was considering the freedom of the Suez canal in time of war. Dilke, the Under Foreign Secretary, denied that a convention nad been concluded with Egypt to charge on her r eonle the o-st of the army of *ccup -tion. Sir Wilfred Lawson offered a vote of thanks to the army in Egypt, and moved that t:>e war be declared an unjustifiable one, which was voted down by 354 to 17, and the vote- of thank* was passed.... A st-Atue to Thomas Carlyle was unveiled byPror. Tyndall on the Thames Embankment at Chelsea In concluding his address the Professor hoped that ere long a memorial to Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was a it e-long friend of Carlyle, would be erected in the same place... .The English counsel have refused to defend Toulba Pasha and Mahmoud Barod because the proofs of incendiarism against them seem to be sarong.

An uneasy feeling pervades France, owing to the revelations concerning the Anarchist conspir icy. A Lyons dispatch says: “The Anarchist conspiracy has taken deeper root than was suspected, and this morning the situation is very erit-cal. The citizens are panic-stricken at the revelations made yefcerdoy of the local strength and far-reaching power of the desperate men who constitute the organization, and consider an outbreak a most inevitable. A mob was former in the s reet, and in addition to threats against the Repub ican newspapers now direct their venom against the banks and public bui.dings, whicu are being carefully guarded. The police have discovered a dynamite manufactory in the suburbs of the city.", The elections in Pru'sia resulted in favor of the Conservatives.... Among Arabi Pasha’s correspondence was found a letter from the Sultan which urges the rebel ch es to resist the invasion of England and France, or any other foreign pewers, and to defend the faith of his country against those who busy themselves to bring about a triumph for its adversaries. At a meeting of socialists in Paris, Louise Michel and others violently denounced the Governments of France and Italy for expelling the turbulent and dangerous socialists at Lyons. Letters making threats against commercial fix-ms were daily received, and added to the general sense of insecurity. A person engaged in the clandestine manufacture of dynamite has been arrested at Lyons....A Cairo dispatch says the preliminary examination in the case of Arabi Pasha has been concluded, and no more testimony will be taken by the commission Aralii’s counsel has been furnished with a copy of the documents which the Egyptian Government proposes to use on the trial, and it looks as though the captive leader was to have something like fair treatment before the oour .... Egan, treasurer of the Irish Land League, cables James Money, President of the American League, that the charges of misappropriation of the moneys are simply liiie-ous. ... .Three hundred people on Tory Island, off the northwest ooast of Ireland, are said to be without food, and other portions of the population of Western Ireland are threatened with starvation.