Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1882 — WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

THK BAST. Thurlow Weed left a -will bequeathing his property, estimated at $1,000,000, in equal shares to three children and six grandchildren, after giving Miss Harriet A. Weed the Twelfth street residence and library.... R Porter Lee, late President of the First National Bank of Buffalo, was convicted of embezzlement and centenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Lotta Crabtree, the actress, has won her suit for $4»,000 against Benjamin F. Hand all. of Fall Hirer, Mus-a, with whom sh'- en-a/ed in the cotton commission buslne- eight years ago... .The Lackawanna Iron and Stem Company have closed tneir works at S.;nuiton for an indefinite period, throwing l,oo\j men out of employment Samuel Remington, President of the famous rifle eompony, died of pneumonia in New York. The special train bearing Mrs. Langtry to Boston killed two boys at Thompsonville, Conn., who were crossing the track in a wagon... .The/ authorities in New York are vigorously enforcing the law against Sunday desecration. TOT WIST. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, a worker in the cause of prohibition and woman suffrage, has sued Harry Mandier, Chief of Police of Lafayette, Ina., for SIO,OOO damages for slandering her character. A tragedy net on the bills ocenrred at the Coliseum Theater, Cincinnati. Frank Frayne and company were presenting the play of “8i Slocum,* in the fourth act of which Frayne shoots an apple from the head of Lucy Blocum, who on this occasion was personated by Miss Annie Yon Bohren. A common rifle es small caliber and In bad order was used for the purpose, and the bullet struck the poor girl In the head, causing her death within fifteen minutes. Frayne was arrested and the audience dismissed..... Hon. J. T. Updegraff, who was recently re-eleoted to Congress from the Seventeenth district of Ohio, died at Mt Pleasant, Ohio, of stone in the bladder, after having been treated bv the doctors for Bright’s disease of the kidneys. The North Side rolling-mills in Chicago, employing over 1,800 men, have shut down for the winter for want of work. Three departments of the steel-mill «t Joliet have suspended operations for December, throwing about l,uco men out of employment The Grand Jury in the First Utah district, having failed to find any indictments against Mormons under the Edmunds law, have been discharged, TwMexicans stopped a stage in the vicinity of Lordsburg, New Mexico, disarmed the driver and took the mall pouch. Two Chinese passengers were ordered outside, robbed of their money and cooly shot dead. A desperate hunt for a murderer was the chief sensation at Chicago on Signday, the 3d inst A negro desperado named William Allen, four days previous, made a deadly assault upon another negro, killed Police Officer Wright, who attempted to arrest him, and then made his escape. His hiding place was discovered, ana Officer Muivihifl started out to capture the outlaw, but was hit by a shot in the head. The murderer, with a revolver in each hand, then fled several blocks, pursued by officers and citizens, and took refuge in a large dry goods box. When he had been fairly riddled with bullets he offered to surrender, but the police kept on emptying their revolvers into his worthless carcasa.... Dr. H. A. Clay, of Durango, Col., was killed by his partner. Dr. Evetzky. who then blew out his own braina The tragedy arose from a cowhiding given the murderer by some ladies.... The Hteam-barge R G. Peter took fire when about forty miles off Milwaukee, and went to the bottom, with Capt. Oisen and a crew of twelve men.

THE SOUTH. Gen. A. S. Herron, member of Con-flpess-elect for the Sixth district of Louisiana, died of heart disease at Baton Rouge. The mercantile firm of McClellan & Colthorp, of Milliken’B Bend, La., has failed for $140,000... .A license to marry a lady of 19 has been procured by C: pt. Allen May, of Hardin county, Ky., who is 101 years of age. J. C. Porter, Treasurer of Newton county, Miss., was waylaid by five masked men and robbed of sl/,00 in county funds. ... .Mose Lockhart wfts hangel at Edgefield, 8. C., for the murder of Mose B.aloek last Ap it. An express train on the Gulf road was boarded at a station seventy miles south of Dallas, Texas, by three armed men, who forced the engineer to run three miles, where a half-dozen more robbers made their appearance. The guards in the mail-ear opened fire, and the thieves retreated, when the train pulled out at full speed... .A fire at Houston, Texas, destroyed a cotton compress and 8,000 bales of cotton. Loss $500,000. WASHINGTON. The House Committee on Appropriations has practically disposed of the Indian bill, and will recommend appropriations amounting to $5,425,955, which is $1,299,775 lets than the estimates and 557,200 less than the appropriation for the current year. The Garfield Boars of Audit has allowed Dr. Bliss $6,500, Drs. Agnew and Hamilton $5,000 each, Drs. Reybum and Boynton $4,000 each and Mrs. Edson $6,000. Steward Crump can have S6OO, and Private Secretary Pruden 5200. Dr. Bliss was interviewed by the Times correspondent, and announced / that he would not accept the award mode, but would secure what his services were worth or present his bill to the executors of the Garfield estate. .... President Arthur has appointed Clayton McMichael, of Philadelphia, United States Marshal for the District of Columbia. Mr. McMichael is editor and proprietor of the Philadelphia North American. GENERAL. I The steamship Cedar Grove, from London to Halifax and St John, N. 8., struck on a ledge off Cape Canso, during a gale, and sank an hour later in ten fathoms of water. Three boats were launo ed, but only two of them, containing thirteen people, reached the shore safely. The Captain, the chief officer and a passenger are among the

missing.... The confectionery establishment of Ho sack & Wood, the asbestos factory, and a block o. wooden buildings in Quebec were burned, causing a loss of $150,000. The business failures for the week ending Dec. 2 numbered 148. The Western States had 42, the (Southern 89, the Middle 22 and Canada 14 Many failures were caused by speculation »ud the unsettled condition of the iron trade. Stephen W. Dorset, in a lengthy card to the public, recites that President Garfield ordered Postmaster General James to select a commission to examine in o the star-route charges, and that full Information was turntshed by Dorsey, which was afterward given to detectives to secure testimony for the trial in court. Alter indulging in considerable abuse, Dorsey offers to pay SI,OOO for every dollar ic can be ahewn he took from the treasury. POLITICAL. The Governor of Louisiana has refused a certif cate to William Pitt Ke logg, on the ground of non-residence in the State. ....United States Senator Morgan was reelected his own succes-br by the Alabama Legislature... .A Washington telegram says that Senator I-ogan took Public Printer Rounds to the White House tnd made him solid w.th the President The only charge against Rounds was his harboring Holm. FOKBIQN. At a meeting of the Irish Privy Council it was resolved to proclaim the city of Dublin under the curfew provisions of the Repression act, which authorizes the police to arrest without warrant all suspicious persons found on the street between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise.... Gladstone stated in Parliament that the total cost of the war in Egypt was £3,500,00Q. Since Oct. 1 the expenses nave been defrayed wholly or in part by the Egyptian Government Fortt-six students of the University of St Petersburg have been expelled for participating in the recent disturbances. One of the most astounding failnres that has ever occurred in Europe is announced atSkopin, province of Riaxan,Russia, the municipal bank collapsing, with liabilities of over 12,buo,i*0 rubles. The whole town, as well as hundreds of families elsewhere, have been ruined. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Archibald Campbell Talt, Is dead. He was born in Edinburgh in 1811... .Before the court-martial at Cairo. Arabi Pas a pleaded guilty to the charge of r< bellion. A sentence of death was pronounced, which Khedive commuted to imprisonment -Jr life. It is believed that the fallen « , .‘»?#ain will find a home on British 50i1... ..Bidduiph, Wood A Jevons, iron and tin plate merahants of Liverpool, have suspended, with liabilities es $750.000