Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1883 — WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

THE EAST. Four men and a woman were killed and many persona were terribly wounded by the explosion of two boilers in a blast furnace at Bethlehem, Pa.... Patrick O’Reilly is in tail at Albion, N. ¥., for confessing his participation in the murder of Cavendish and Burke in Dublin. The death is announced of Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, three years Governor of his native State, and for nearly sixteen years one of her representatives in the United States Senate. He was 68 years old. The City Bank and the Fifth Ward Savings Bank, of Jersey City, closed their doors, creating much excitement The City Bank had a capital of $50,000, and the President cashier and book-keeper overdrew their accounts $40,000, thus leaving SI,OOO of the capital stock.... Amid deafena New York jury awarded Miss •Livingston $75,000. A wealthy merchant named Fleming will have to pay her that amount for refusing to marry her, after having promised to do so. At New Haven, Ct, Wm. Robanus presented a supppsedly-empty pistol at the head of his friend, Gottlieb Beck, and demanded his money or his life. Upon the latter replying that he had but a few cents, Bobanus pulled the trigger and Beck fell, mortally wounded. A telegram from New York hints that Wall street brokers are not making their salt Scarcely anything is doing in the Stock Exchange. The great holders of stock would be heavy losers if they were compelled to sell at present prices Gould, for instance, owns 850,000 shares of Western Union, and, as that stock has declined $lO a share in the last three months, this Item alone represents a depreciation of his property $3,5u0,000. Some of the big men of the street are talking about going away for a while THE WEST. Near Ulysses, Neb., Mrs. Thompson, while insane, put poison in the tea, and herself, husband and an adopted son died in a short time.... Near Mill Creek, Indian Territory, Alexander Hamilton murdered his wife and a man named Smith and then committed suicide. At a meeting on ’Change in St. Louis, $2,200 was raised for the sufferers by the floods in Germany. A gathering in Cincinnati subscribed $1,250. John Cody, of Manistee, Mich., 60 years of age, expired after a fast of 103 days, forced by ulceration of the stomach. The police of Cleveland have completed a census which shows the population of that city to be 193,300... .The Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central railibad was sold at Indianapolis by United States Commissioner Fishback to the Pennsylvania Kail way Company for $18,500,000... .Southern Illinois ana portions of Missouri and Kentucky were seriously shaken by an earthquake on the 11th inst. Two thousand cases of small-pox are reported in Baltimore. Health inspectors have been placed in the depots, and each turnpike is watched by policemen Hou E. B. Washburne was thrown from his horse and slightly injured at San Antonio, Texas. Miss Zerelda Garrison, 17 years old, one of the belles of St. Louis, while returning to the Convent of the Sacred Heart, in the suburbs of that city, was captured by two men, who chloroformed her and kept her hidden for six days, when she was returned to her family. Miss Garrison’s father says she suffered no violence at the hands of her abductors, but the young lady is still in a dazed condition. Tne affair caused the most intense excitement in that city.... Illinois had a judicial execution on Friday, Jan. 12, Philip Matthews, u young fellow hardlv arrived at manhood, being hanged at Belleville for the murder of Annie Geyer. The crime was committed last May, and was the outgrowth of unreasoning jealousy.... John B. Hoffman, a Cincinnati tailor, quarreled with his sou Robert, aged 22/ and the following morning the 'fathen. sheltered himself behind a door and shot his son mortally as he departed to go to work. ... .A passenger train from Cairo, HL, containing a number of Freemasons, was ditched near Olmstead, Pulaski county, HL Two cars were set on tire, and four or five of the passengers were fatally injured. The only lady occupant escaped unhurt, and rendered great service to the wounded. At 4 o’clock on Sunday morning, the 14th inst, the night watchman of the Planters’ House, in St Louis, discovered smoke issuing from the cook-house. He instantly gavethe alarm at the main entrance, and another watchman rang for the firemen. In five minutes Pine street was blockaded, and guests und employes came pouring out of the hotel by every" doorway. Two male servants leaped from a window to the roof of the coo K-house and thence into the alley, while fifteen chambermaids rushed shrieking down the stairway into the rotunda One guest and his wife were actually forced from their room into the corridor by an employe of the hotel. The shivering crowd was directed across the street to the office of the (,'lobeJkinotrat for temporary shelter. Theffi antes were confined to the kitchen and adjoining rooms. Investigation shows that three of the cook’s force were suffocated. The damage by lire is placed at $30,000. All guests were sent to other hotels until the cookhouse could be replaced... .A horrible catastrophe occurred near Elk Point, Dakota. The house of Henry Pierce caught Are while Pierce was at a barn some distance away, feeding cattle. Mrs. Pierce tipped over a lamp, und the whole room was instantly enveloped in flames. She endeavored to suve her two children, who were in bed. but fainted, and Pierce arrived in time to drag her out, badly burned. The heroic father then made a rush into the bnrnintr building, and fought madly toward the sleeping-mom t but wa* forced to plunge out into the snow very badly burned about the head and face. Both the children, Cyrus, aged 5, and Bertha, aged 2, were burned to death. The bodies were afterward recovered, charred beyond recognition....A fire which started in Gaffney’s store, at Neenah, Wis., quickly spread to the Pettibone Block, and later attacked the Russell House and postoffice, all of which, together with the national bank and several stores, were soon reduced to ashes, creating a loss which is estimated at $100,000... .Hom Greenbury I* Fort died at his home in Lacon, HL He had held several offices, including that of Congressman. He was Chief Quartermaster of Gen. Logan's corps, and participated in Sherman’s march to the sea.... The Mandt wagon and carriage Works at Stoughton, Wis., were destroyed by fire, and tne loss is estimated at ♦iod,ooa