Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1883 — NEWS AND INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Ov a. the Important HapTHK WHEAT CROP. The Indianapolis Journal, Saturday, published special reports from over one humored points in Indiana and Illinois concerning the growing wheat crop, the general tenor of which is,to put it mildly, decidedly discouraging. The universal opinion, as expressed by the Journal’s correspondents, is that the crop has been much by the unfavorable winter season, and that the injury inflicted by the winter storms &as been greatly aggravated by the freeaes of the past two weeks. The reports show that there remains in the of the farmers from 10 to 20 per cent of the surplus .crop of 1882. INDIA RAID. A Fort Benton, Montans, dispatch says: Bonners and scouts bring information of the most daring raid by the Ores Indians, belonging properly beyond the Canadian line,madein many yearn. The party is supposed to number 200 braves, and is represented as moving down the Marias river Jkilling cattle and other stock as they go. At daybreak on the 19th, a small war party of Piegans, headed by Little Dog and two white men, had a sharp engagement with the Crees, killing two and securing their scalps. Two Piegans were wounded and one horse killed. Ten oxen were found near Fort Conrad, killed by the marauding band, and forty horsee were driven off by the same party near the same plaoe. The savages seem to be heading toward the Dominion. A gBMABKABLK ESCAPE. Frederick Bachman has stowed between 20,000 and 30,000 bushels of malt in an elevator that extended above all the other buildings of his brewery in Clifton, Staten Island, N. T. Friday a wall of the elevator burst outward, and the malt plunged downward in a cataract. It covered the roof of an adjoining structure and thence to the ground in a cascade William Shrieber was standing in the malt and shoveling it iqto a Inn when the accident happened. He was swept out through the hole iu the wall, and floating on top of the grain,] was carried over the roof of the lower building and lodged unharmed in the branches of a little pine tree, nearly 100 feet below where he stood a few seconds before. As he slid down 1 the trunk of the tree to the ground he remarked he would like to see some one else do what he had done. The buildings and contents were damaged about S4OO. TRAGIC CHURCH SCENE. Friday evening Major Erasmus Rinker was attending religious services at Forest Grove Church, near Harnsjmrg, Va. After the sermon he was called upon by the minister to lead in prayer, and responded by delivering an earnest petition to the throne of grace. He closed by praying that all the ignorant might be enlightened and as he pronounced the “Amen” he fell back in the pew dead. The scene was a painful one, many women and children fainting. Both Cincinnati and Louisville have refused hall room to Baiun Morse to produce his “passion play.” DEATH OP TIMOTHY O. HOWE. Timothy O. Howe, Postmaster-general, died at 2:20 Sunday afternoon, at the res- * idenoe of his nephew, Colonel James H. Howe, &t Kenosha, Wis. He contracted a severe cold one week previous at Green Bay and returned to Kenosha. He was very ill till Saturday, when he seemed to improve. The physicians pronounced it pneumonia. He was taken worse on Sat urday night, and sank rapidly, passing away peacefully Sunday afternoon. Mr. Howe was bom at Livermore, in 1816. Ha has been filling for many years a prominent position in politics and at the time of his death was Postmastergeneral

INDIANA ITEMS: The remains of Charles Soeher, of Indianapolis, were cremated at Washington, Pa., Thursday. An otter weighing twenty-two pounds was killed, Thursday, near MnntineJU, White county. Cordory Bruce, of Sparta, has been assessed $145 for poisoning cattle belonging to James E. Clements. The cost of keeping panpenr at the ' poor-farm in Bipley county is only 98 oents a week for each. The Masons of Warsaw are considering a proposition to erect a Masonic Temple on the site of the recently-burned Lakeview House. Several villages at the foot of Mount Aararat have been destroyed by snow avalanches. It is stated that 150 persons were killed and 100 injured. * Two citisenS'Of Harrison county went to law in a dispute of $5 worth of Christ mas turkey. There have now been three hung juries, the ooet is approximating SIOO and'he end is not yet Bight Rev. Soseph Dweuger, Bishop of the Diooese of Ft Way ne, wilt sail for

JZISd Before mtemhSThe wSI visit the Panal ; ■ Last Wednesday Silas Gray was sen tenoed to deathin Harrisburg, for the murder of Mrs/MbCready six years ago. Gov. Paftisem has since received a portal card stating that Jaok Petty has confessed that he committed the crime. An investigation is in progress Lev. Calvin B&xter, a oolored minister who officiated «t the Baptist church in Lexington, Soott county, is among the missing. In the abeenoe of his wife; the good man sold his household effects, forsook his flock and eloped with one of the sisters of the church. Before leaving he secured several loans from the deaooi s to pay traveling expenses. A young man named Grimsley, of Big Bone, Ky., while visiting at Biting Sun, was out ona lark on Saturday night, and was shot at by some person unknown,and but for a plug of double-thick tobaooo and a memorandum book in his breast pocket, the shot might have proved fatal As it was the ball went through the tobaooo and lodged in his pocket

Major Menzies, ot Mount Vernon, has in dis possession a very fine specimen of the eagle family. The bird was caught opposite Mount Vernon on a cake of ice, after a desperate struggle to take it aliva The bird had been wounded by some hunter, probably in the mountains of Kentucky, along the Kentucky river. It had made its escape to the ioe,and had floated from where, it, lit to opposite Mount Vernon, where it was captured. Three students, Will Pfafler, of Greencastle; John Greene, of Waynetown, an W. E. Thookmorton, of Romney, were arrested for attempting to burn the South Hall, of the Wabash college building. Greene confessed that lie and Pfafler were the guilty parties. A great many complaints have been seem to be the least particle of truth in the statements, that the wheat in the south-western part of the State is killed. Winter wheat in most places looks magnificently. The fly destroyed sc me of the early wheat, but it will not materially affect the aggregate yield. A great deal of wheat has been overflowed by back water during the reoent floods, but tanners who are posted say that wheat in the submerged districts looks better than on the high lands.

Tin remains of John Howard Payne have arrived at Washington. Hie exports of breadstufib for the eight months ending with February, indicate an increase of over the same months of last year. The last number of the Congressional Record for the XLVIIth Congress has been issued. It contains seventy-two pages, sixty of which are occupied u y Wheeler, gs Alabama, with speeches that I were never delivered. C Captain James B. Eads has resigned his position on the Mississippi River Commission, It is understood that Col. Henry Bland, who was Captain Ead’s chief Assistant in the construction of the St. Louis bridge, will sucoeed him. “. ..7 It is estimated by oompeten luiliuu* ties that at least 200,000 barrels whisky will be exported to Bermuda to avoid immediate payment of the tax now due. It can go abroad free, and returning on the same vessel remain in customs warehouses for a year before the tax is collected. Jonathan W. Bigelow will attach the “Betty and the baby" fund in the hand# of Riggs A Co., bankers, and sue Bettv for services'and expenses done and m

in behalf of her husband, Sergt. Mason. He sets dris figure at He claims that about SIOO additional, paid in Supreme Court fees, would release Mason, bat that Mrs. Mason refuses to give it. THE EAST: The United States monitor, Terror,was launched at Philadelphia, Saturday. The steamships Fulda and Solier brought 2,155,000 francs to Hew York, Saturday. During Easts' week eggs were sold in New York. Goose eggs readily brought ten oents apiece. California’s on p prospects have largely increased by copious rains in various parts of the State. Oapt Andrew M. Hitchcock, the oldest captain on the Hudson river, died on Thursday, atSouth Brooklyn. Commissioner Dudley says he is quite confident that his payment for pensions will reach by July L An Albany apt rial to the New York Times says that Tilden is in the ring for 1884, and that he has formed an alliance with Oonkling. The bill prohibiting the acceptance of railroad passes by State officers has passed its third reading in the Pennsylvania Senate. The Brooklyn, N. Y.,Carpenters’ Union has resolved to ask for an increase of 25 oents per day. They are now receiving rom $2.75 to $8.25 per dajr. Charles D. Erby, the leprous patient at tha Satan, Maas., alma houae, who oon-

AnSl well in Pleasant Hollow, N. J. Ttys is the fits* appearanoeof oil inthrtpartof theoonutry, and the people axe greatly excited. The principal glucose and grape sugar ooncerns of the oountry have been sold to the American Glucose Co., of Buffalo. It is said the experiment has been a failure. Mansion, a clerk in the employ ot the Equitable Trust Company, New York, is a defaulter to thq tune of After making his escape he kindly notified his employers. It is reported in Washington that Walsh, the Louisiana witness in the starroute case, is trying to secure the indictment of General Brady and ex-Senator Kellogg for conspiracy to defraud the government. Eighteen thousand people attended a benefit to John L. Sullivan, at Boston, Monday night Daniel Webster couldn't draw such a crowd aa that Slade and Sullivan will make a match for SIO,OOO. A disputable chve was sided u New York, Sunday night, where about thirty men and women ot the most degraded character were arrested and Bent to the Island for three months. The proprietress, Mrs. Michael Probasoo, was held to bail for selling liquor without a license. She is but fifteen years old, and has been married two years. An official call has been issued for the meeting ot the National Land League, at Philadelphia, April 26. The document asserts that “we will never eease our efforts to recover for our motherland the God-given, inalienable right of national independence, and that we will blend into one organisation all Irish societies in the United States and Canada to make a new organization,to be affiliated with the Irish National League of Ireland, of which Charles Stewart Parnell is president"

THE WEST: Bloomington. 111, is going to have the electric light and a new-rolling mill. The Wisconsin Senate bill, fixing the price of public land at $2.50 per acre, has passed. Therejwere 40,522 more hogs packed in Cincinnati in the season of 1882-88 than in the preceding season. Casemer Kneoht, of Freeport, 111, a member of the grand jury, has been indicted by his associates for selling liquor without a license. The saloon license bill SIOO miniwinip and SSOO maximum, has been ordered to a third reading in the Wisconsin Senate. The. Dee Moines, la, tailors are out on a strike, and the bosses are fllfing their places with non-union men. At Shanta, Cal, Tuesday, Mrs. Barnes, to save her father’s her husband, who wanted to kill him. There were 40,522 more hogs packed in Cincinnati during the season of 1882-88 than in the preceding season. A child of five years who was bitten by a dog at Sioux < yity, lowa/ on Friday, died of hydrophobia on Tuesday. In the Wisconsin legislature, the bill granting women ihe right of suffrage in school elections has been killed.

Gilmore Johnson, a Swede employed in a flouring mill at Sterling, 111., while alone at night was caught in the machinery and literally pounded 1 1 pieces. J. O. Shirley sold his ranch of 4,000 acres on Bast river, Idaho, with 3,000 head of calves, 1,000 sheep, and 800 horses, to Keogh Brothers, of Nevada, for 990,000. Montana stookmen report that their herds have wintered nnusually well, the losses not exceeding 5 per oenh Grass is homing up finely, and there is every reason to expect a favorable season. The out of logs in northern and central Wisconsin for the season just dosing, will be about 25 per oent below the average, amounting in the aggregate to something like 1,600,000,000 feet A special from St Vincent, Minn., says Caspar Haulte, a German farmer living three miles from the plaoe, was froeen to death cm Monday afternoon about fifteen cods from his house Mr. and Mrs. Becker, of Rockdale, la,, aged seventy-six and seventy-three,whose greatest desire was that they should die together, expired Tuesday night, but six hours intervening between their deaths. The vigilantes at Greenhorn, ML T., removed the postmaster by hanging. Government fuel must be scaroe, as he was •aught barn-burning. Tbs office is now vacant. The euretMtjMTe been notified to take charge of thmAAce. The district cojftt of Cleveland has rendered an opinion which invalidates the certificates of citizenship of several thousand foreigners resident in that city. The matter has created much stir in political circles owing to the proximity of an election. The oase of the State against Lash way for the crime of rape on the person of his niece, Jennie Laehway, was oonclgded at Menominee, Wie., on Monday night, after a trial of two days. The jury was out fifteen n inutee, and rendered a verdict of

guilty. He was sentenced to thirty yearn inthn nniiili'iiiti T Cincinnati Price Current publishes an elaborate report ot the condition Of the wheat crop throughout the winter wheat belt of the Wast A comparison with the condition last year,which is placed at 160; shows the present condition as follows: Ohio, 86; Indiana, 80; Hlinois,9o; Missouri, 96; Kansas, 91; Michigan, 96; Kentucky, TO; Tennessee, 86. The winter wheat sections ot Wisconsin promise weH, the general average being about ten per cent, below last year. The spring wheat sections in Minnesota, lowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska show no change in area from last year. The Prioe Current notes that the impairment in the winter wheat prospect may be modified or made worse by futu re favorable or on favorable weather. It is hardly reasonable to look for a crop equal to last year’s. The estimates of this year’s crop will fall below 450,000,000 bushels, or 58,000,000 less then last year.

THE 80UTH: Four inchee of snow fell at Baltimore, Friday. The,Legislature of Tennessee has passed a new-law requiring that executions be conducted hereafter in private. The Mississippi river commission, now examining that stream, think the floods have not damaged the government work any. Lieutenant Hunt has passed through St Petersburg from Irkutsk, where he left the bodies of Commander De and comrade for transportation to America. An entire family, consisting of six persons whose home at Helena, Ark., was inundated daring the flood, have died of pnenmnoia. Floods are now prevailing in fisundn Snow is packed on railroad tarcks at some points to a depth of five feet Several towns are overflowed. Mrs. Marion Poe, of Chattanooga, gave birth to a child weighing only one one-half pounds and no larger thfm a man’s forearm. There was a severe snow storm,on Friday, in Virginia, extending as far south as Wilmington, N. 0. Snow also fell throughout Canada. The floods in Nova Scotia have done much damage. There is an old woman living at Fairfox, Vs., who is said to have dined with Washington, Jefferson, Randolph, Madison, Monroe, and all the big men of revolutionary fame in that State. The Tennessee Legislature has passed s bill granting a pension of $lO per month each to such citizens of the State as, serving in the Federal or Confederate armies in the civil war, lost one or both eyes.

FOREIGN: DeLessepe is on his way to the desert of Sahara. It is now believed the Lady Dixie outrage story is a hoax. Mt. Etna has resumed business at the old stand, in other words, is again in a state of eruption. Queen Victoria was seriously, but not dangerously injured by slipping and tailing on the steps of the palace. Nothing is known at Berlin concerning the scheme attributed in America to Bismarck for acquiring land in Anwriw on which to settle German emigrants. The commander of the French squadron in Madagascar waters has been ordered to spare the natives as far as possible, and to but few porta. The inhabitants of Cardova, Sopot and Kalofer have risen against the importation of foreign woollen thread, and several depots of such thread have been pil* aged and burned. A twelve-year-old girl in Holmes ooumty. Miss., whose parents are as black as native Africans, has whits sets, cheeks and nose, and the color is spreading ever her whole body. f The emigration from Switzerland to America is becoming alarming. Several districts are fast beooming depopulated. Guttenneu is without an inhabitant. The eaodnsia owing to bad harvests and American competition. Five cars of a freight train on the fhn. ada Pacific railway left the mis en Range bridge, near Calumet station and fell six-ty-five feet to the river below, breaking through the ice and going to the bottom. The train hands escaped. Loss SBO,OOO. Advioe from Buenos Ayres, under date of 24th nit., report that a fight oocured at Patagonia between troops of the Argentine Republic and Chilian troops, owing to refusal of the former to quit Chilian territory. Several men were killed and a number wounded. The Argentines finally retired across the frontier. The eruption of Mount Etna is in-1 creasing in vioienoe. A new orator has opened, and the lava threatens to over, whelm Miooloai and otoer villages. People are fleeing from their hornet Troops are assisting to save property. There are eleven fissures in the moon tains, and the central opening is active. There is no discharge of lava.

A student who attempted suicide in a l*th last month, confessed that the Nihilists commanded him to shoot the Osar at a banquet and fete given by the Finland regiment The student waa at the banquet, disguised as a waiter. His courage foiled him, and knowing his fate from the Nihilists, he resolved to commit suicide. Business at Eraroum is at a standstill consequent on a movement of the Russians in the Caucasus. The growing opinion is that a RuesoTurkiah conflict is imminent. The Armenians are wearied with the indifference shown by Great Britain to their wrongs, and would welcome Russian occupation. The Russians along the frontier number KXIOOO. The trial of Nugent and twelve other members of the Armagh Assassination Society, on charge ot conspiracy to mardtr, was concluded at Belfast Counsel for the Crown, is closing the ease on hir side, sought connect O’Donovan Rinse, John Devoy, James Redpalh, and P, J. Sheridan with the society, which, he said,, promoted conspiracy. Judge Lawson, in oharging yie jury, spoke strongly against the prisoners. After consideration, the jury ga.e a verdict of guilty. The Commercial Advertiser of Honolulu, regarding the reports of a general* spread of leprosy in Hawaii, says: The districts of Wailuka, Make was, Oulapolakua, of tiie island of Wani, comprising an area of6oo square miles of the most dense-ly-populated portion of the kingdom,, with 10,000 inhabitants, has bean thor oughly searched for leppers by the Board of Health. The result is that twentyeight natives and no foreign lepers were found. Ten foreign lepers are at the leper settlement at Molokai, most ot whom contracted the disease by Uoentionsness.