Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1883 — WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

THE EAST. A peculiarly sad and distressing tragedy ia reported from Syracuse, N. Y. Miss Imogens LeWis, a respected and beautiful young lady,met her death instantly from the premature discharge of her lover’s revolver. Miss Lewis had received the addresses of Mr. George W. Gates for some time, and their wedding was announced for the near future. Mr. Gates called upon his betrothed, and, at her solicitation, was rearranging some of the evergreens about the chandelier. He had mounted'a step-ladder and- was engaged with the decorations, when a 32-caliber revolver fell from his outside coat pocket, and in its descent struck the ladder, and one of the chambers was exploded Miss Lewis was standing near, and the ball struck her in the neck. She fell to the floor, but, before Mr. Gates could reach her, arose, but only to fall into his arms with the remark: “Oh, George, you have killed-me! you have killed me!” He supposed her exclamation was caused by fright. and endeavored to quiet her, but she pointed to the bullet-hole in her neck and asked for her smell-ing-salts. She was able to walk to a settee, but expired immediately.... At Packardville, Mass, after a separation of some months from his wife, who again declined to live with him, Merriam A. Montgomery killed his young son and daughter with a'revolver. and fired at his wife and her father... .Christian Timman, who saved the lives of two girls at the burning of the Calendar Building, at Providence, It. I, was presented in the Mayor's oiUce Christmas day with a purse containing $875. Anna O’Brien and her mother were drowned in a cistern at Syracuse, N. Y. The latter perished in attempting to rescue her daughter... .A wedding of extraordinary brilliancy took place in Newport, R. I. where Bishop Clark united O. H. P. Belmont, a son of the New York capitalist, and Miss Sarah A Whiting. Oscar Wilde, just before sailing from New York, confessed to Police Captain Williams that he was decoyed into a residence and induced to throw dice until he lost 91,160, for which he gave checks. Coming to his senses as he signed the largest one, he hailed a cab, made for the Madison Square Bank and stopped payment on his paper. The steerer said he was the som of the banker Drexel, but he turnea out to be “Hungry Joe,” a notorious confidence man.... The savings banks of Massachusetts show #10,000,000 increase in deposits in a year, and over #8,000,000 in loans on personal securities.

The New York Senatorial committee which is investigating the question of “ corners” had before it John D. Rockefeller, President of the Standard Oil Company, but he refused to answer any questions as to the names or number of Directors and Trustees of that institution, or of the Standard Trust Company, or of the National Transit Company. He was equally uncommunicative with regard to the capital, amount of dividends, or other matters concerning the history and management of these institutions, and informed the committee that none of these subjects came within the scope of their power to investigate. The committee did not seem able to grapple with a witness of this character and appointed a sub-com-mittee to investigate... .An association was formed at Philadelphia, Wayne MacVeagh being elected President, for the purpose of securing to the Indians the rights of citizenship... .Mayor Grace, of New York, refused Mr. Salmi Morse a license for his new hall in which to produce his “Passion Play.” THE WEST. N. B. Jones, a Creek Indian, has been interviewed at St Louis in .regard to the cause of the warfare in progress near Okmulgee. He states that Chief Chicopee commands 700 voters who sympathized with the South in the late rebellion, while' Chief Spiochee has 400 warriors who sustained the Union, and that ever since the war there has been a struggle between them for political supremacy. George R Davis, a merchant at Wfewaka, says every Creek is armed, is a dead shot, aiid as brave as a 1i0n.... Four horse-thieves were lynched at Prineville, Ore. •A Christmas tree in a school-house near Abilene, Kan., was ornamented with a jumping-jack intended for a Miss Foreman. Her friends resented it as an insult, and held Arthur Hhodinger responsible, but were restrained by othera Several evenings after Christmas her three brothers, her lover and her brother-in-law went to a prayer-meeting to meet the offender and have it out. Twelve or more shots were fired. Shodinger was shot through the left lung, the girl’s beau received two wounds, and one brother was shot in the wrist and clubbed with a revolver. The Cincinnati Gazette and Commercial have been consolidated, the allied journals to bear the title of the Commercial Gazelle, without the hyphen Messrs. Halstead and Smith will be associated in the management of the paper, whioh will be Republican in politics... .Over a thousand men have been thrown out of employment by the closing of the Bessemer Steel Works and Rail Mills at Cleveland, 0hi0,.. .The suit of Mm Slayback, of St. Louis, against Editor Cockerill for #5,000 damages for the death of her husband w as dismissed at the instance of the plaintiff. THE SOUTH, John Townsend, Bert Cowan and W, Rain were killed during an affray in a saloon near Pine Hill, La..... Abner Webb, the oldest citizen of Baltimore, has passed away at the age of 100 years. Near Beverly, W. Va., on Christinas night, Adam Currence and four children were burned to death.... Dave and Henry Bullard attacked Thomas Jacoway at Lebannon, Ala , because he had instituted legal proceedings to close their gambling-house, but citizens rallied to Jacoway’s support, and one of the Bullards was killed ana the other wounded Jacoway shot his brother dead at night, mistaking him for a friend of the Bullards... .Two blocks of frame stores in Prescott, Ark., were swept away by flames kindled by an incendiary. The loss is estimated at $100,000.... The capsizing of the Fort Barrington ferryboat near Darien, Ga , resulted in the drowning of five colored persons... .The Galveston ' and Houston railway will hereafter be oper- • ated as port of the'Gould system, furnishing an outlet to the golf. WASHINGTON. The Commissioner Agriculture has prepared a revised table showing the

grain production for the year ending Dec. L It is as follows: BnShels. Corn 1,635,000,«w Wheat 6lo,oo<MM> Oats 47t',000,000 Bxrlsy t .. 45,0e ',000 Rye..... 30nu0,000 Buckwheat 12,1)00,000 Total 2^WJ)00,ooo Mr. Randall stated in the House the other day that for two yean Capt John F. Trout, of the regular army, has had leave of absence with full pay. during all which period he has drawn #3,000 per annum from the Pullman Car Company. The recent auction sale.at the Dead Letter Office realized #4,497, which has been deposited in the treasury to the credit of the Postoffice Department. Gen. Sherman contradicts the rumor recently noised about that he intended to become a Roman Catholic GENERAL. It is currently reported that Gen. Tecumseh Sherman has beoome a convert to the Roman faith, in which Mrs. Sherman has always shown so much zeaL The Spanish-American Claims Commission, after an existence of eleven years, adjourned sine die Awards were made in twenty-eight cases, amounting to about #1,200,000, and eight cases, involving #4,048,600, remain in the umpire’s hands for decision. .. .Oscar Wilde sailed from New York on the 27th of December. Two JJfntucky farmers, a father and son, named Begley, were enticed to New York to purchase counterfeit money, and paid #3OO for a #5,000 package of bank notes and gold. All parties were arrested by a Police Inspector, when Begley’s bag was found to contain stones, paper and a small bag of salt. 'political. A dispatch from Hartford, Ot., says: “The decision delivered in New Haven by Chief Justice Park, of the Supreme Court of Errors, that the black ballots polled by the Democrats in that city in the November State election are illegal, has created a sensation in political circles all through the State. The feeling is intensified to-night by the announcement that Mr. Cole, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, intends to take abtion calculated to place in office Republican candidates for State offices, although they received the minority vote. The bluck ballots in New Haven counted for the Democratic candidates were about 7,000, and throwing these out as illegal gives the election to the Republicans.” * FOREIGN. Westgate, who implicated himself in the murder of Cavendish and Burke, and received free transportation from South America to Ireland, has been released. The Pope has agreed to the proposition of England to accredit a diplomatic agent to the Vatican upon the same conditions as Prussia is represented. Persecution of the Jews has broken out afresh in Russia The Senate has decided that no court can authorize the transfer of land to Hebrews, and the Perfect of* St Petersburg has ordered the punishment of those found living in the capital without official permission... .German and Austrian rivers have again been overflowing their banka Travel and traffic were impeded, and many bridges were -wrecked At Larrach, in Baden, twenty persons were drowned by the collapse of a bridge.... Russia has concentrated along the Kars frontier a force of 70,000 men and eighty guns... .A tall chimney at Bradford,England, fell upon a building full of workmen, thirtysix of whom were killed and fifty seriously Injured. The damage was £OO,OOO. The French Government has received Information from its Swiss Minister that large quantities of dynamite have been shipped from Switzerland to France. Many dynamite conspirators have been arrested in the Department of the Rhone.