Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1883 — NEWS AND INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Oar o> the important Hep* pemngrn at tine Week. AKCTIC WANDKBKKB. Ensign EL Q. Hunt, of the Rogers, and seamen J. H. Bartlett, H. W. Leach, F EL Mariwen and John Lanterbach, members of the crew of the Jeannstte, arrived at New York Tuesday,on board the steamer Westphalia. The party left Colon, at the month of the Lena, on the 25th of October last The first stage of their journey was to Nerkhoransk, and occupied ten days. It took ten days more to reach Yakoutsk, and nine days to reach Viteen, and two dayß to reach Kiriusk, where one of the party, Anignin, an Indian hunter, who was suffering from smallpox, became so ill that it was impossible for him to prooeed further, and Ensign Hunt sent forward to Irkoutsk, distant four days’ march. Seamen Leach and Lanterbach, with an interpreter, remaining at Kiriusk himself with Aniguin and others of the party until the Indian finally died. On Jan. sth the party was again reunited at Kiriusk, and proceeded together to Irkoutsk, a distanoe of four dftys; thence they continued their journey to Orenburg, on the borders of Russia, a distance of twentyfour days. All this part of their long journey had been made in sleds over the snowy steppes of Siberia, traveling night and day. At Orenburg they exchanged their sleds for steam cars, and traveled by railroad to St Petersburg, where they remained for one week and then proceeded direct to Hamburg, where, on the 14th inst., they went on board the Westphalia. ▲ DISCOURAGING OUTLOOK.

Specials, to Chioago papers Saturday, from the principal points of the* entire winter wheat growing section, are not encouraging for an abundant harvest. It is claimed that the severe- continuous cold was fatal to the wheat where it was not favored by considerable snow. Large areas where the snow was light have been winter-killed. A few localities which might have escaped the winter were injured by the fly. The Ohio lookout is deolared discouraging. Good judges estimate the crop at 70 per cent, of list year’s: others think it will not be over 50 per oent The Illinois prospect varies. The locality inspected is generally damaged by frost though in some see tion the injury is slight The loss is variously estimated at from 10 to 50 per oent. Wisconsin has a considerable crop of winter-killed. Favorable weather is necessary to insure the remainder. Missouri, Kansas, and lowa give more favorable returns, especially Missouri Reports are now very encouraging from the Pacific coast, The fairest estimate of the total wheat belt is that 75 per cent will be the average yield. Frank Miller,the inventor of the Miller shoe blacking, is dead. He by peddling his blacking about a small village in a basket. The President has received 8,800 marks from Germany for the relief of sufferers by the flood, which have been turned over to the Red Cross association.

The treasury department will offer no objections to the exportation of bonded whisky to Canada; but the spirits must return in the same packages in which they are shipped, or they will be taxed. The statement issued Monday shows the decrease of the public debt during the month of March to be $9,344,736.27; cash in the treasury, $316,034,982.46; gold certificates, $74,969,720; silver certificates, $77,625,331; certificates of deposit outstanding, $9,716,000; refunding certificates, $384,456; legal tenders outstanding $345,681,016; fractional currency outstanding, $71,057,881. INDIANA ITEMS: Another suicide at Hagerstown. The cashier of the First National Bank of Huntington is a woman, Mrs. Dick. Hon. Schuyler Colfax celebrated his sixtieth birthday on Saturday with his amily in South Bend. A woman named Bader, who keeps a notorious house in Biohmond, is in trouble for decoying innocent country girls to her den by promises of employment, and submitting them to vita treatment ' A • Dr. Nicholson has declined the Episcopal Bishopiio of Indiana, He states as | his reasons his M nnfitnees for the liigh position and regret at leaving his great work in Philadelphia which he believes would seriously suffer.” Messrs. Shirk, of Peru, and Forgy, of Logansport, during a late visit to Mexioo purchased four squares of land in the city of Chihuahua. The place has 18,000 inhabitants and has just been reached by the Mexican Central railroad. v The Jeffersonville News says there is a farmer in Clark county who owns over 1,500 acres of land. He can neither read nor write nor make figures, yet if you buy a beef or fat hog of him he can tell you quickly to a oent how much it comes to. Bev. B A. Curran, of Bourbon, died on Monday. The deoeased was grand prelate , ■ ' *\

of the Grand Lodge of Indiana Knights of Pythias, a prominent minister of the Presbyterian church, and was widely acquainted with the people of Indiana, among whom he haft resi led for many years. William Otis and Miss Ida Pavey, the pair who eloped from Lora, Wabash county, last Sunday night, went to Niles, Michigan, on Monday, and were there married. They have returned for the parental blessing, which is withheld and a suit for abduction promised instead. Some boys who were removing hay from a stack, ten miles northwest of Fort Wayne, ran the tine of a fork into the leg of the dead body of Jocob Swidors, a farm hand, who had been missing for twelve days. He had threatened suicide by morphine, and the coroner’s verdict wus in aooordanoj with the facts. At 7 o’clock Sunday evening there died at the county infirmary, at Fort Wayne, James H. Starke, who twenty-five years ago was the superintendent of the institution. For the last four years he has been dependent on the charily that he had once dispensed.

There is considerable counterfeit money in circulation in southern Indiana,and the amount is said to he increasing all the time. A circular from Philadelphia was received by a man at Princeton this week offering greenback counterfeit bills at a small oost, and insuring an easy fortune to those desiring to invest. The thirty Indian children for whom preparations had been made at White’s Normal Institute, ten miles southeast of Wabash, arrived Tuesday from the Indian Territory, and were sent out to the school. There were nineteen boys and eleven girls of all ages in the party. They will be educated at government expense. A couple of worthless dogs got into [a large tiock of sheep belonging to Jack Pruitt, southeast of Edinburg, the other night, and by davlight had succeeded in killing and maiming forty of the largest and finest, at the lowest estimate valued at S2OO. They were appraised, and Mr. Pruitt wa6 allowed $159.50 by the township trustee. Jackson Wallace was shot dead, and his son mortally wounded in a Boouevil le, Warrick county, bar-room, Thursday, by Simon Williams, deputy-sheriff. The trouble arose from an old grudge. Young Wallace refusing overtures of thief. The shooting was unprovoked, and Williams had no apparent justification in shooting. At Plymouth, on Snnday night, a tramp, giving his name to the ofiiceis as Gehhart, was arrested and placed in jail for drunkenness. Monday morning he was arraigned before Justice Parker, and surprised that gentleman, as well as the officers, by paying all his fine and costs, and still having considerable money with him. It is, however, surmised that he is not the original Freddie. The Secretary of the State Board of Health, Dr. E. R. Hawn, has just been informed of the termination of an important legal case at Winchester. Three reputable physicians ot that place were prosecuted by the local health officer for violating section 10 of the health law, by failing and refusing to fije death certificates. They stood fight but the court ruled against them,and assessed each one $46. . .

The new Police Commissioners recently appointed, at their first meeting decided on the number of men to constitute the new police officers at Indianapolis. The force agreed upon was as ’follows: One Superintendent, whose salary has not yet been fixed; two Captains, at a salary of S3OO per year each; four Sergeants, $720 per year each; forty-eight patrolmen at $1.75 per day, two patrolmen for patrol wagon, $1.75 per day; one driver, $45 per month; two turnkeys, day watch, SSO per month; night watch, $1.75 per night, and one cook at $25 per .month. For months past a band of horse thieves have been working Indiana, and reports of horse-stealing have appeared daily in the papers. A number of detectives have been employed, but until this week no clue has been obtained to cause any arrests. Sheriff Wm. Lewis,of Greenfield, has arrested a woman giving her name as Mrs. alias Sallie Thomington, and has taken her to Cass county to answer a criminal charge. While at Greenfield she gave away a gang of horse-thieves with whom she acted in northern Indiana, and the leadres will be promptly arrested, his is the most important detective work performed in the State for a year. J. J. Chase, a former resident of Riehmond, and Major Finney, of the same place, went to Texas some time ago. Mr. Chase writes from Kerrville, Kerr Co., that they have bought “a small ranch of 3,000 acres,” situated on the headwaters of the Guadeloupe Biver, and will stock it with Ikeep. He c.dds: “We have plenty of free range around us, sufficient to graze 100,000 head of sheep, if the land is not sold, and, as it is nearly all dry and and in one direction twenty-four miles to water, it is harly probable that it will be sold; although it is possible; for there is a great land excitement in Texas

Within the last two years lands have advanced in value 3to 800 per oent, even the school lands the Legislators has advanced from 50 cento to $1 to $5 for timber lands.” The annual grand encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, of Indiana, was held at Indianapolis last week with about 250 delegates in attendance from different parts of the State, General Carnahan made a report of the condition of the Order, showing that from only forty-six Posts on February 22d, 1882, the Indiana department had increased to 155 Posts at the present time. Ti e report of Ben D. House, Adjutant General showed there had been sixty-two deaths during the year. The totel receipts for the year were $9,604 41; expenditures, $4,941.29; cash balance, $1,663,12. The aggregate assets including cash on hand and property amounting to about $2,300 During the year 110 Posts had been mustered in. There has been an increase of about 4,000 in membership, the ag gregate membership at the present time being 6,088. Some sensation was produced at Indianapolis, Monday, by the onnouncemen that W. F. Clem, husband of the notorious Nancy Clem, of the Young murder fame, has filed a suit for divorce. All through her troubles in connection with the murder, and the more recent ones that resulted in her conviction in 1879, of perjury in one of l er peculiar financial transactions, Mr. Clem maintained a loyalty to his wife that won for him general admiration, and was the relieving feature of a mys s ic tragedy. He has * given up fame and fortune in his devotion to the wife of his youth, and the freak, for such it is considered, that leads him now to seek a divorce is inexplicable. For nearly three years Mrs. C'em has been confined in the reformatory, and her time will be out in June. The petition alleges as a cause for divorce the statutory ground of conviction of and imprisonment for a heinous crime.

Wayne county, one of the wealthiest and most prosperous counties in the State, is also one of the most complete in its statistical returns, complied and reported by Dr. J. F. Hibberd, secretary of the County Board of Health. The statistics relating to births, deaths, marriages, divorces and diseases, are interesting and valuable. It appears that old Wayne is now decreasing in population, as the births for the year were 804 against 445 deaths. There were 309 marriages during the year, and it would seem that the matrimonial interest is not confined to the young alone,for while tile youngest bride was only fifteen the oldest was sixty-four, and a youthful groom of nineteen years was offset by u ripe old lover of seventyseven. Of the grooms 228 were married for the first time, fifty-four the second time and eight the third lime. Of the brides 251 were married the first timp, thirty-five the second, two the third, and one the fourth. All those who died did so for tlie first time. This is a grave joke. THE EAST: The New York Herald flood fund closed with an aggregate of $51,716.67. Produce exported from New York last week was estimated at $7,349,000. Salmi Morse presented his Passion Play in New York, Saturday night, and is pronounced very tame. The Philadelphia body snatchers have been sentenced to imprisonment for terms varying from four months to two years.

The Roman Catholic church at Norwark, Conn., wak broken into and the Epster collection, over SSOO, stolen. The Jeannette search paJty, consisting of Ensign Hunt and others, have arrived home, at New York, after a long and fruitless search for DeLong. The Vanderbilt fancy drees ball took place Monday night, and is said to have been the most brilliant affair in the history of society entertainments. New Yobk pays $7,000,000 a year for its religion and $22,000,000 for its drinks, whichgoes to show that New York is having more fun in this world than it will in the next The acquitted murderer, Dukes,had the hardihood to return to Union town, Pa. He was given twenty-four hours to leave the place. He now fears thathe will be shot. An era of retrenchment has dawned upon the Immanuel Baptist Church, of Chicago, of which the Bev. Dr. Lorrimer is pastor, and the services of its $6,000 choir have been dispensed with. Mrs. Meeker was executed at Waterbury, Vt, Friday, for the murder of Alioe Meeker. She Was the first woman ever hung in New England. She protested her innocence. Her husband and daughter refused to receive her body. A train on the Bound Brook railroad, drawn by a locomotive burning "coaldirt” arrived at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, after a 120-mile trip, on time. The M poal-dirt” consumed cost $1.05, oneseventh the usual expense. I —l They are again at it A "bright and pretty girl” living at Torrington, Cornu, is reported to have elcyed, Saturday, with her father’s negro* coachman. It will

soon be unsafe to keep a negro ooechman. - Ihr. Lewis Swift, director of the Warner Observatory, Rochester, N. Y., has reoeived from Puis 540 francs,the LaLande Paris academy of scienoe award to the astronomer most distinguished during the year. Frank Byrne, who was made notorious by Carey’s testimony in connection with the Phoenix Park murders, has arrived at New York with his wife. He denies all that Carey swore to,, and doesn’t favor dynamite as an agent of war. An investigatioT nto the me* hods of the Tewksbury almshouse, Boston, show there has been a regular system of disposing of theremains of the orphans to the mediosl institutions. The prioes realized ranged from three to five dollars per body of each infant. The institution was a charitable one. The developments are of the most revolting character. In a public speech at New York,Thursday night, Frederick A. (.'onkling charged that the knit goods manufacturers of the country had raised $90,000 as a congressional corruption fund, and expanded it. He also said there was an organized conspiracy, represented by the Knit Goods Manufacturers’ Asiociation, to cheat both the people and the government out of enormous sums of money by manipulating the imi ortation of knit goods. The oost of the Vanderbilt fancy Easter Monday ball, exclusive of oostnmes, was, for floral deoorations, $10,000; for the supper, $10,000; for beverages, sß,ooo,and for the music, $1,500 total $29,500. Some of the modistes allowed rival society ladies to inspect each other’s oostnmes, which caused bad feelings, and will lead to several law suits. The only reporter who obtained entrance to the house aside from the agent of the Associated Preet, went disguised as a cook.

THE WEST: An outbreak of the Umatilla Indiana, Oregon, is reported. The law department of Michigan University has turned out a class of 155. Ex-Governor Boberts, of Texas, has been made president of an Austin university. Already about fifty persons have been killed by the Indians since their recent, though almost continuous “outbreak.” S. G. Pratt’s opera, “Zenobia,”is having a successful run at Chicago, the first successful production of the work of an American composer. The funeral of the late Postmaster General Howe took plaoe at Kenosha, Wis., Wednesday afternoon. The remains will be interred at Green Bay. All the schools, churches and public resorts in the city of Harper, la., have been ordered closed in oonsequence of an epidemic of scarlet fever. Seven deaths in one family oocured Sunday. A city ordinance oompels the Linooln, Neb., saloons to dose at 10 p. m. There promises to be a lively time at the approaching municipal election between the liquor element and the people in favor of the present law. James Robinson, the old circus man and famous bareback rider Saturday sold his extensive and highly improved farm of 920 acres, situated eight miles from Mexioo, Mo,, to William Black, of St. Louis, for $45,000 cash. The syndicate controlling the .Champaign, 111., sugar works, has purchased the works of the Kansas Sugar and Syrup Company at Sterling, Kansas, and will invest $250,000 in the manufacture of sorghum sugar. General Crook reports that the marauding Indians in Arizonia and New Mexioo are a portion, of the Chihuahua Apaches who were driven into Mexico last year. To these Indians General Cook charges the murder of at least one thousand persons during the last ten years. The discovery has been made that a ballot box with a false back, permitting the box to be "stuffed,” was used at the primaries in Hamilton, O. The box worked to a charm, but the maker is having trouble in getting his pay for it. He has sued the Mayor who was re-nominated by the use of• he boxes. A gentleman just returned from Arizona confirms the report that a secret society exists among the whites of Arizona to exterminate the male Apaches on the San Carlos reservation and all found roving north of the frontier. The reservation is looked upon as a mere refuge for the In ’ians, where they retire when hard pressed/ibtain provisions and arms and are ready for another raid. Judge McCombs, of Silver City, N. M., formerly of St Louis, was murdered by the Apache Indians, Thursday,at Thompson Canyon, 25 miles east of Silver City. The body of his wife, shot through the head, was also found 200 yards away. Both bodies were stripped of all thajr clothing. Their boy is still missing. The town of Queerida, CoL,is in a state of insurrection, the employe* of the Bassiok Mining Company demanding the removal of the superintendent and foreman. Armed miners are parading the streets; and law is defied. Gov. Grand has been called upon to proclaim martial

law, and fears are entertained of bloodshed. THE SOUTH: Fuur baches of snow fell at Baltirn >re Friday. Smallpox is prevailing to a terrible ex tent at Paducah, Ky. Oliai kvs Williams, a colored youth, wae hung at Leesburg, Va., Friday, for rape. There were sixty-five deaths from smallpox in New Orleans last week, 40 per oent of the entire mortality. A bill was passed both houses of the, Tennessee legislators allowing pools to be sold on all raoee, but conferring that privilege to blooded horse nnnocintirinn and fairs. A twelve-yenr-old girl in Holmes county, Miss., whose parents are as black as native Africans, has white ears, cheeks and nose, and the color is spreading over her whole body. Elder Morgan, a presiding elder of the Mormon ohuroh, left Chattanooga,Thurvday, for Utah, with 150 ooaverts from all parts of the South. Ninety missionaries in the South claim.t a secure 600 converts annually. The Tennessee legislature has passed a bill imposing an extra fine of $5 upon unlicensed salesmen from other States,to go to the party making the arrest, also, providing fine and imprisonment of officers who, after arresting salesman, aooept bribes and release them. Henry Farrier, a wealthy farmer living near Chattanooga, Teqn., was visited by four masked men, Sunday night, who, being refused SSOO that Porter had hidden in the house, set the building on fire and it was consumed. Its value was $4,000. .

FOREIGN: The pope has promised td be present at the coronation of the czar. John Brown,the noted personal attendant of Queen Victoria, is dead. Extensive gold and silver deposits have been discovered on the northern end of Vancouver’s Island, A woman nihilist arrested in Bussia, Friday, threatens to capture and overturn the entire government. A panic exists among the inhabitants of Sicily near JEtna. They are abandoning towns for the open country. The trial of six more members of the Armagh Assassination society was begun Tuesday, and resulted in their oonviotion One hundred and fifty persons left Island Achill, County Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland, and sailed for Amerioa on the steamer Nestorian. They were driven from their homes by famine. Mr. Parnell leaves for America the second week in April. He has not yet decided to acoept the invitation of the Philadelphia convention. A committee of the Irish National League, Timothy D. Sullivan, M. P., pre siding, has repudiated the charge that the League is connected with the dynamite party of America. Rossa and Haroourt must fight their own battles. An Eton gentleman of high paeition denoees to seeing Lady Florence Dixie during the whole time she stood where the alleged outrage was committed, anl saw her walk away without anybody accosting her. Accounts of the boiler explosion at St. Dizier, France Sunday,show the number of persons killed and injured to have been much larger than at flr-t reported. Thirty-one persons were killed outright, and the number injured, it is now stated, reaches sixty-five. Many of them are fatally hurt.

A socialistic manifesto is in circulation in the southern part or Russia, inviting the people to avail themselves of the corn* ing fetes on the occasion of the ooronathm of the Ozar to pillage the houses of the nobles and Jews. A deputation of nobles have gone to Si Petersburg to ask Count Tolstoi, minister of the interior, to provide for the protection of their property. The prefect of police unearthed a band of nihilists at their obscure residence in St Petersburg, Friday. The police force, in attempting to capture them, met with a stubborn resistance During the fight three officers were wounded One nihilist, finding capture inevitable, suicided on the spot Eight remaining conspirators were arrested. It is supposed that only a section of the party have been secured. Among the implements of destruction were found four pods of or about 144 lbs. Serious floods are reported from Charkoff and vicinity. Several persons have been drowned. ,/ An excellent shampoo is made of salts of tartar, white oestile soap, bay rum and luaewarm water. The salts will remove all daadruffi the soap will soften the hair and clean it thoroughly, and the bay rum will prevent taking cold. Fillifag a lamp when it is lighted is something that ought never to be dona It oan be avoided by filling it in the morning.