Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1882 — WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

TELE EAST. A fire occurred in the Callendar Building, at Providence, R 1, which resulted in a serious loss of life. The building was four stories high and occupied mostly by jewelry shops. The fire originate 1 in the middle of the building, on the third floor, and was caused by the ignition of a can of naphtha. The room was filled with light, inflammable clothes, and the woodwork was dry as tinder. The room was next the stairway, and before a word of warning could be given escape by the stairway was cut off by the flamea On the fourth floor was the workshop of William H. Robln’op & Co., gold-chain makers. The firm employed forty operatives, equally divided as to sex. When the flames swept up through the floor the employes made a rush for the windows. There was no fireescape on the building. Just across the alley-way, about fifteen feet w de, was a twostory wooden structure. The help ru-hed for the end of the building fronting on this alley. Then a panic ensued. The roof of the wooden building was about twenty feet below the wincows’ sills, where the excited girls were congregated. The persons in the rear crowded and pushed those in the act of jumping and many fell .short Others were injured by be ing jumped upon at'er they had rea hed the roof. Two girls and one man fell between the buildings and died soon after. Six girls were fatally injured, and three others had limbs broken. Coal operators representing nine of the principal mines of the Massillon district have followed their rivals by yielding to the demands of the miners, but they take revenge by ordering reductions in 'he whole sale and retail prices... .The public can not have forgotten the outrage perpetrated by lur.’iais on the t ilohrlst bro hers at Charlton, N. ’Y, las; August, when •125,000 in bonds and mortgages, •30,000 in certificates of deposit, and SBOO In cash were taken away. Part es in New York city have for some time been endeavoring to negotiate for toe return of the securities. Through the labors of Sheriff Van ienburgh all the stolen securities were purchased from a go-betw en for •950, the thieves not appearing ' o know the value of their booty. The fine residence of George Bailey, in Buffalo, was consumed by fire, involving a loss of •150,000.... At Scranton, Pa., Mrs. James Ruddy, afte« removing from her burning house her children and invalid husband, went hack to recov >r • JBO in gold from a bureau-drawer, and wa< burned to death. The petroleum gamblers of Pittsburgh, Bradford and other speculative centers have been going through a terrible experience reoent'y. Under the pressure of the bear influences the market, which had gone up to an unusually-bigh figure, took a sudden tumble, dropping from •1.05 to 80 cents n one day. The speculators, who had forced up prices, found themselves overwhelmed in ruin. The excitement throughout the oil speculative regions was unprecedented. Mrs. Melville, whose case furnishes a strange parallel to that of Mrs. Scoville, was the heroine of a sensational episode in Brooklyn. Accomnan ed by her brother she went to Miss Sarah Capel’s seminary, and carried off her daughter Maude The ch Id had been placed there by Engineer Me’ville. ....By the explosion of a tank at Greenpoint, Long island, the Brooklyn oil-works were damaged •100,000, andDerve’s refinery •60,000... .The wholesale price oi coffee in New York is lower than bar been known since the panic of 1857. THE WEST. Mark Gray Lyon, who spent some years in the Elgin insane asylum for firing at Edwin Booth tn a Chicago theater, is a clerk in a dry goods store at Keokuk. He has recently written to a theatrical manager in Nt. Louis to know which is the best acting edition of Hamlet, and announcing that he Intends to star in the small towns next winter... .John Herzer. a resident of Milwaukee, who weighed 486 pounds, was buried the other day. He literally choked to deith, and no coffin sufficiently large to receive his remains could be obtained. A band of Piegans swooped down on a party of Crow scouts, near Fort Custer, and ran off thirty ponies. In the fight which followed two Piegan warriors were killed. United States troops will be kept in motion in that region this winter, and tae Canadian , mounted i dice are working in union with them... .Mrs. Mary Long, 81 years old, living alone and destitute near Indianapolis, committed suicide by taking Paris-green... .The Northern Pacific Railroad Company has decided to sell 8,000,000 acres of land east of the Missouri river at $4 per acre. The war among the Northwestern railroads culminated last weekin the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul fixing the passenger rate at 50 cents between Chicago an 1 Rock Island, goine both ways. The Rock Island road retaliated by making the fare from Chicago to Cedar Rapids 50 cents, and to Albert Lea sl. Freights from Chicago to Mankato and Sioux City were cut to 15 cents per 100 by the Ro k Island, Cedar Rapids, and Omaha lines.... Fire at Morris Mine., destroyed sev-ral business structures, including the Tribune offic-. Th loss is variously estimated rom •S|AO to •150.0J0, with but pt oportionaliy Ujßinsurance.... The po-toffiee authorlem to have un against a case of systoHnic mail-robbery so adi oit as to baffleinves -gatiotr. The robbe. ies have occurred for several weeks in mails between Denver and Eastern cities, and without reckoning the thefts of money and valuables, the extent of which it Is impossib e to correctly estimate, the losses m drafts, checks, moneyorders, etc., nggr-gate over •600,000. An early-morning fire in an Indianapolis boarding-house burned the establishment, and t ree domestics perished in the flames... .The County Poor-house near Davenport, lows, was destroyed by fire, tuo sixteen inmates being safely removed. The large stovtf foundry of Bonnell, Duffy A Co., at Quincy, 111., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss or about •! 0,000 Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, for many years an iflnuential member of Congress from Ohio, and a prominent figure in the politic’ of the country before and dur ng the war. diet! the other day at ns homi in Hamilton, Oh 0.... William Wiight an-1 w.f J. t BiJinx near St Louis, h' ar I the report of a gun in the r ho se while they w- re at work in a field. They soon dlacov red tba their 6-year <> d on h id playful y drawn a loaded shot-gun upo i bl* younger sister, a t.tally blow ng away her headT...W. D. Hoyt, a telegraph opera-

tor at Leaven worth, quarreled over the wire with Mr. Bailey, Union Pacific train-dis-patcher at Lawrence. The latter refused to retract an offensive remark, and Hoyt traveled to Lawrence and shot him in the tneast The schooner Collingwood was wrecked during the recent gale on Lake Michigan, fifteen miles nprtheast of Milwaukee. The particulars of the disaster are thrilling in the - extrema Four ot the crew, including the Captan, were lost The center-board chain parted, causing the board to drop down its full length. The additional strain proved toe much for the old craft, which went to piecea The sailors were left struggling in the water, and some of them went down. The three survivors had a terrible experience upoh a raft One of them was rendered bund and insane, and died from the terrible exposure. They were rescued by the propeller Wisconsin, eight miles from Grand Haven. THE SOUTH. At Frostburg, Ky., a party of young people were out walking, when a young man, Cook, called his sweetheart. Miss Austin, one side and conversed a few moments with her. Cook placed a pistol to the girl’s temple and shot her dead, and then put the pistol to his own heart, and shot himself through the body and twice through the head. Both were dead in two minutes. It is believed Cook asked her to marry him, and she refused. Cook was employed in a saw-mill. Miss Austin was a beautiful young lady. ....Five well-known business men of Arkansas have leased the State penitentiary at rates which will amount to •45,000 a year and all incidental expenses The testimony ot steamboat Captains and pilots before the Congre’sional River Commission at New Orleans was emphatically in favor of the outlet plan and against the extravagant levee system. Capt Leathers, who has been on the Mississippi longer than any man now living, and whose practical knowledge of the subject is probably not exceeded by that of any man living, is an earnest advocate of Ca;»t Cowdon’s plan of drawing off the excess of water through natural outlets prepared with especial reference to that result, and an equally earnest opponent of both the levee-and the jetty systems. From the romantic regions of North Carolina, near Rockhill, comes the recital of an extraordinary duel between two rivals in a love affa r. They met in the road, armed respectively with an ax and a bludgeon, and then and there fought it out to the death, the one with the club for his only weapon being killed by a frightful gash in the side, while the sutvivor was little better than dead when found. Peter Dick and Charles Roads, two Vrginia clerks with gen'eel aspirations, fought a desperate duel with knives in the hardware store where they were employed. Roads was shockingly mu' da'ed in the region of the abdomen....R. W. Barnwell, formerly Senator from South Carolina, died at Columbia, in his 81st year. WASHINGTON. Washington telegram: The President and Cabinet are in favor of a reduction of tuxes on tobacco and whisky and the abo ition of all other internal-revenue duties, bringing down the receipts to •100,000,000 per annum. The Garfield Fair in the rotunda of he Capitol was opened by President Arthur who made a few formal remarks expressive of his hope that the wishes of those who had inaugurated it would be realized. The fair includes an art exhibit and a bazaar, and is a very creditable exhibition. The Department of Agriculture at Washington reports that, by reason of a clerical error in the department, the estimate of the yield ot wheat in the abstract of the Commissioners’ reporc was 100,000,(100 bushel* too small. The estimated yield was 510,000,000 bushels, not 410,000,000. It is predicted at Washington that Judge French Is to be removed from the Assistant Secretaryship of the Treasury, having been the object of attacks from manufacturers dissatisfied with his tariff rulings. ... .Thomas L Tulloch has been appointed Postmaster at Washington, in place of D. B. Ainger. GENERAL. About thirty persons gathered at Hamilton, Ont., to hear a lecture by Mrs. Scoville, hut she announced a postponement on account of the smallness of the audience. The Labor Congress, in session at Cleveland, voted to strike out the protect-ive-tariff plank from the platform. The tendency of some of the speeches Was antagonistic io tue Knights of Labor organization, and S-cia istic organizations were denounced. A furious wind storm prevailed on Lakes Huron a'd Erie on the 24th of November, causing many wrecks of vessels. Fortunately there was little loss of life. The business failures in the United Stat s and Canada, for the week ending Nov. 25, numbered 157, and were confin *d principally t > tho smaller class of trader’s. The Eastern States had eighteen .allures; W s - <rn, lorty-nine; Southern, twenty ihr e; Middle, twenty-sis; P cifio, eleven; Can-da, sixteen; and New York city, founeen. POLITICAL. United States Senator Davis, of West Virginia, declines to be a candidate tor re-election. The names of Congressman Kenna, ex-Gov. Matthews and ex-Senator Hereford are mentioned in connection with the place, with the chances in favor of Kenna.... Frank H. Hurd and other leading Democrats of Ohio have arranged for a tariff and labor dinner at Columbus on Jan. 8, when Messrs. Thurman, McDonald, Watterson and others will respond to toasts The Alabama State Temperance Convention, in session at Montgomery, declared itself opposed to making the temperance question a political one, but demanded a better enforcement of the present license laws of the State. FOREIGN. The awfnl midnight murder of the Joyce faml yinConhoma a, Ireland, a region inf. mous for the many deeds of atrocity there perpetrated on the 17t iof last August, wil be punished in a manner scarcely less hrilllng than the crime its *lt Three of the leaders of the band of assassins had trial at Dub in, an t received the scntenc ■ of dea h, and last week four accomplices ph a ed guilty and threw themselves upon 1 1 e mercy of the Crown The appeals of their counsel, and the acqu escence therein of the Attorney General, were, however, of,p'> avail, and they too, were Sentenced to die on the scaffold Dee. 15... .Queen V.ctoria decorated at Winbo. 370 ot the officers and men engaged in the Egyptian campaign. She th nked them for their gallantry and devot on, and w s proud of them for the laurels the / had added to other nob e achievements of the British army....

The French Chamber of Deputies passed a btil ratifying the treaty made by De Brazza, Stanley’s hated rival, with Makako, the Congo chief, and the Government will ask a grant of 200,000 francs to enable De Brazza to establish twelve scientific, commercial and hospital stations along the Congo river A Cairo dispatch states that a report prepared by the Egyptian Public Prosecutor, in which he summarizes the evidence against Arabi Pasha and other rebel leaders, was submitted to the Khedive and approved. It will be presented to Lord Dufferin. It is understood the Egyptian Government is prepared to leave it to Great Britain to decide whether the evidence is sufficient for proceeding with the trial on the charges »perilled in the report The authorities of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, have agreed to send a detachment of police to the Isle of Skye, if their expenses are paid, to assist in serving processes. Meantime tenants are organizing for mutual protection, and threatening any man who shall pay rent... .Thirty lives were lost by the foundering of the steamer Winton in the Black sea. Gladstone denied in the British House of Commons that the Irish Arrears act was a failure, as the full benefits of its provisions had not yet become apparent Trevelyan, Secretary for Ireland, Informed the House that the Government were doing their utmost to improve the condition of the country, and would see to it that distress would be alleviated in whatever district it made its appearance. In the Commons the procedure rule was carried by a vote of 82 to 26. It provides that if the Speaker believe that a motion to adjourn is made for the purpose of obstruction, he may put the' question from the chair... .On the appeal of Great Britain, the Spanish Government will liberate the Cuban reiugees seized near Malta, on the promise that they shall not return to Havana. The Khedive ordered a column to move to the Soudan to check the onward march of the False Prophet, but it is said the troops, well kuowing the danserous character of the expedition, and taainJful of the fate of thousands of their comrade’ who have been slaughtered by the barbaric legions of the pretended successor of Mohammed, refused to proceed unless they are given Arabi as their leader. The outlook is said to be gloomy in France from a variety of causes. Paris is at fever heat, and some new and stirring developments in ihe political situation cannot be much longer deferred. Englund watches the progress ot affairs with profound attention, but with too much skepticism as to the future of the republic... .English capitalists regard with u; savor the tricks of Wall street. The general condition of English financial affairs is good, the only disturbing element bein'? from Ntw York.... Detective Cox was fatally shot in the streets ot Dublin by a man named Christopher Dow.ing. Detective Eastwood pursued the assassin and shot him in the head, arm and hand, and he is not exnected to recover. It seems that a paitv of ten men had come out of a public hopse frequented by Fenians, when they commenced to fire orntire officers. -■S -