Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1883 — NEWS AND INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Our Compilation o» tflc important Hap* pemngs ot the Week. HEAVY STOBMB. A cyclone visited Arkansas, Saturday, doing great damage. The storm was also very violent in Missouri and lowa, and throughout the northwest A heavy snow storm prevailed throughout Dakota. The damage at Bloomington, DI, was very great In Arkansas loss ot life and destruction of property are reported from every direction. INDIANA ITEMS: - ' A fire at Plymouth, Sunday, destroyed one of the finest blocks in the town. Loss $27,000. . Two young ladies of Shelby county have been indicted for disturbing a religious service. The Madison ship yard has contracted to build five hew government barges, each 170 feet long, 80 feet beam, 6 feet hold. J. L. Emmerson, of Gibson county, found a lost hog in a hollow log, where it had been imprisoned four weeks without food. The superintendent of schools in Madison county has issued a request to teachers and pupils to unite m planting trees on Friday, April 30. Within one week William Ferguson, of Liberty, has loqt twenty-one good colts from pinkeye. Besides he has lost two good horses from the same disease. : John Knuck, the well-known fruit grower of Morgan county, says that thb peach buds are all killed in that locality, and that he will take fifty cents for his entire crop. Miss Jane Grow, an accomplished young lady of Montgomery, has been sentenced to two year’s imprisonment in the Daviess county jail for stealing silks from a store. The father of Postmaster general Gresham was at one time sheriff of Harrison county, and was killed in the discharge of his duty while attemptng the arrest of a citizen for whom he had a warrant In a suit by John B. Cobb against the Pennsylvania Bailroad company, to recoverdamages for taking two alleged kidnapped men on the J., M. & L train, after the conductor had been notified they were kidnapped, the circuit court, at Jeffersonville, decided, on demurrer, that the company was not liable. A young Indian of fifteen years died on the west bound Fort Wayne train,near Valparaiso, Wednesday afternoon. He was a son of the celebrated Indian chief Bed Cloud, and was on his way from Carlisle, Penn., whete he has been to school, to join his tribe. His ailment was consumption. According to the reports of farmers and others there has been vast improvement in the. growing wheat crop of this county during the past twe weeks. Under the influence of the favorable weather it has developed rapidly, and everything now indicates that there will be a full average crop.—[Columbus Republican. ' The first United States district judge for Indiana wars Benjamin Parke, who served from 1817 to 1825;H0n. Jesse L. Holn^i®,*of Lawrenceburg, served from 1825 /to 1842; Elisha M. Huntington, of Terre Haute, from 1843 to 1863; Caleb B. Smith of Connersville, 1863—’64; Albert 8. White, of Lafayette, six months of 1864; David McDonald, Indianapolis, 1864 to 1869 and Walter Q. Gresham, New Albany 1869 to 1883. Major Wiidman, late revenue collector at Anderson, sent his accounts as collector to Washington, for final settlement on the first of the month, and on the 11th he was notified that they had been examined, found correct in every particular and were approved. It usually takes a month to get accounts through the department, but Major Wildman’s were in such shape as to require about one-third of the time. Representative Matson has for three or four days been laboring with the department of justice to secure a pardon for Win. H. Orow, convicted of violating the pension laws and sentenced to nine months in the Danville jail. Orow has served four months of his sentence. District attorney Holstein and Judge Gresham have refused to make a rooommendation ip the matter, and the pardon will probably not be granted. Jacob G. Wolf, jun., reports that killing dogs have been among his herd of sheep this week, and that he sustains heavy losses from among his flocks. The dogs chased the sheep into* a mill race and several valuable sheep were drowned. Part of the race is in Hancock county and part is in Shelby county,And as the sheep entered the Hancock part and were found in Shelby county, it cannot be determined which county shall pay the damages. Charles Rhodes and A. B. Tinsly, laborers, of Muncie, left town with a cargo of Hercules powder, Wednesday, to blow up stumps on a farm only a tew miles

away. When only about a half from town, by some unknown means the powder, which Rhodes was carrying under his arm, exploded, tearing his body into atoms. 3is head was found about 100 feet from where the explosion occured, while his bo’y could not be found anywhere, the legs and one arm being ail that could be found. In the topmost branches of the tall oak trees could be seen fragments of clothing. Tinsly, who was walking just behind Rhodes at the time of the explosion, received serious if not fatal injuries, his body being bruised in a frightful manner and his right arm broken in twenty places. Attending physicians think recovery probable. This terrible explosion shattered the windows in the buildings near by; in one "house considerable furniture was damaged. The whole oily was shaken up. Bhodes was a young man about twenty years of age, while Tinsley is about forty.

THE EAST: The charter election in Albany. N. Y resulted in a complete democratic victory. Secretary Folger will appoint a commission to investigate the charges against Supervising Architect HilJ/ An intimate friend of Senator Edmunds says he will not be a candidate for the dresidential nomination. The cotton exported from ‘ New York the past three months aggregated 39,903 packages, against 36,458 packages for the same period last year. The Salvation Army, of Syracuse, has been placed under arrest for breach of the peace and for obstructing the streets. The lauieville detail is also in trouble. The Chinese engaged to play base ball, who struck for salaries of S2O a week and expenses, have been allowed the advance, and practice for the tour has been resumed. New Yobe pays $7,000,000 a year for its religion and $22,000,000 for its drinks, which goes to show that New York is having more fun in this world than it will in the next. ■ t The complete record of the Guiteau trial makes 2,681 pages, divided into three volumes. An edition of 250 vol* umes only was pointed, and copies were in great demand. A railway collision occurred at the crossing ot the Lehigh Valley and Phia delphia and Reading railroads, N. J., Thursday in which thirteen persons were fatally or seriously injured. The will of Peter Cooper has been filed. He leaves SIOO,OOO to Cooper Union, and divides the remainder of his estate, except $200,000 in special bequests, between his son and daughter, Edwin Cooper anil Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt. The estate is valued at $2,000,000. « The Western Uninn earnings this year, if they keep up to the present rate, will amount, General Eckert says, to $21,000,000. The interior business of the com pany has increased greatly, especially along the Northern Pacific road, where 2,000 miles more wire is wanted. Ninety-three persons have been killed in Hermosillo, Mexico, since the Apache outbreak, of whom twenty-seven were Americans. It is believed that many killed are not yet reported. At Palmo Ranch ten men were killed, last Tuesday; two women were hung up by the hands and ripped open. • The bodies of the men were horribly mangled. * relief of sufferers by the Rhine floods,and forwarded to the president of the Reichstag for distribution, had, up to the 22d of March, been applied to the purpose for which it was designed. Annie McGuinness,a comely New York miss, was found by her father Sunday night preparing to marry Hong Gee, a Chinaman. She told a reporter that she was determined to marry the heathen. “It’s not his looks,” she ’aid, “but his ways that I like, and he’s well off, too.” Dorsey, in explaining his reason for assaulting his venerable lawyer, Lilly, who has just brought a suit for damages against him, says that while that lawyer had accepted a retainer from him, he lea h he reoorted his oonfidentia statements immediately to the government counsel, and acted as a spy. A Chinese baee-ball club has been organized in New York. The club will play its first game next Thursday in Philadelphia, after which it will give exhibition games in Newark, Trenton and New York. The manager is inclined to believe that his club of foreigners will do better than giving burlesque exhibitions of the game, and says they are rapidly THE WEST: An Indian outbreak is feared in Oregon. Packer, the Colorado cannibal, has been convicted. Prairie flies are doing considerable damage in Nebraska. In thirty years the Washington Gas Company has cleared 750 per cent profit There was a perceptible earthquake shock at Cairo, HL, Thursday morning Ex-Governor Roberts, of Texas, has been made president of an Austin university.

- mine caved in ngjr Iron Mountain Mich., Wednesday, engulfing ei/ht men who were fatally injured. : t 7 <,*'■’ t An unnatural father was arrested at Monticello, 11L, Saturday. His daughter • was but thirteen years of age. At Cincinnati, 1,200 cigar-makers are on a strike, demanding an increase of $1 a thousand in consequence of taking off the tax of $2 a thousand. , The funeral of the. late Postmaster General Howe took place at Kenosha, Wis., Wednesday afternoon. The remains will be interred at Green Bay. - ’ JL canvass of the votes in Michigan show that the fusionists elected both judges of the supreme court and both regents of the State university. The Bev. W. F. Black, an evangelist,in a sermon at Clinton, HL, prophesied the conversion of the Jews in 1974, and the arrival of the millenium in 1987. The revival at Springfield, HL,conducted by Dr. L. W. Munhall, was concluded Monday night with a jubilee meeting. Professed conversions number 963, Fannie Austin, a comely colored woman of Chicago, has brought suit for $lO 000 damages by breach of promise against Robert Light, an Englishman. A tract of 280 asres of land one mile south of Lawrence, Kas., has been purchased by the government as a site for an industrial school for Indians. It is designed to erect buildings capable ..of accommodating 360 pupils. Chester, 111., penitentiary will receive two distinguished inmates this week—S. fi. Russell, ex-marshal of Texas, embezzlement, $50,000, two years; J. F. Burril, ex-grand secretary Masonic Grand Lodge of Illinois, embezzlement $7,000, five years. The first installment of Irish paupers sent out by the English government, arrived at Boston, Sunday, by the steamer Nestorian, landing 650. Sixty-nine evicted farmers from Mayo and Galway arrived at Philadelphia in the steamship Indiana. A riot among the students of the State Normal University, at Normal, DL, occurred Thursday. Several noses were “punched.” The cause of the rouble was as senseless and unjustifiable as such college troubles usually are. The joint legislative committee recommends the appropriation of $1,831,890 for the support of the nine charitable institutions of Illinois for the* ensuing two years. This is $160,000 less than was asked for by the superintendents of the institutions. One of the mysterious disappearances that caused so much wonder in Milwaukee the latter part of 1882 has been explained by the finding of the body of Mrs. Mary A Nelson in the river, weighted down with a heavy piece of iron giving evidence that she had committed suicide.

A dispatch from Williams’ ranch, Texas, states that an immense meteor fell, Sunday, destroying the house of M. Garcia, killing him, his wife and five children. Every window in town was shattered and all the houses shaken. The meteor is still steaming and covers an acre of ground. Indian Agent Wilson, of San Carlos agency, in a telegram to Commissioner Price, says it is rumored that a company, of rangers is being organized at Tombstone, and the general indications point to an invasion of the San Carlos reservation. He adds that the result of such an invasion would be disastrous. Kansas liquor men are going to carry the question of the constitutionality of the prohibition amendment to the United States supreme court, Senator Vest, of Misiouri, is their attorney,|and he says “the constitution of the United States guarantees the right to sell and manufacture liquor, and no state has the right to abridge any right which is guaranteed by that constitution by amending an organic act”

In Catholic circles at Milwaukee it is reported that the pope has given Bishop Spanlding hisindorsement ot theprojec of a Catholic university in the United States, for which $2,009,000 has already been promised, and that indications point to the present site of St Francis’ Seminary. south of Milwaukee as the seat of the university. The most disastrous fire that ever occurred in Nebraska is reported a. tew miles north of Lincoln. Bams, houses, graneries and baystacks were licked up by the flames. Several deaths are reported. It is estimated that fifty square miles were burned over. The flames lit up the country for many miles around. The regular circus season advertisement which is expected to well circulated by the press, was sent but from St Louis, Wednesday. Jennings,a reporter, entered a cage of lions wintering at a drone there, and was fgfttUy clawed. Jennings claim#! was no danger in the act of ehtefing the cage as lion tamers do, and would not heed the entreaties ot those near for him not to attempt it. Congressman Guenther, of Wisconsin, who was active in his efforts to Secure a

reduction of the tariff on glass bottles, says that even now, before the new tariff has gone into operation, tae price on small bottles has been increased about one dollar per gross, and it is expected that when the pew tariff goes into effect the price will be still more increased, the old rate was 35 per cent ad valorem, and the new tariff owing to the extraordinary action of the Conference Committee, fixes the rate at one per cent per pound, an increase of over one hundred percent. . A schoolmistress of Eureka, California, while on her way to school, was attacked by an infuriated steer. “She seized the animal by the horns and held him until help came.” The next day she saw a rat in the school room, when she hastily gathered her skirts about her, jumped upon a desk and yelled murder. A rat has no horns for a woman to grab hold ot, The tide of immigration haa decreased very perceptibly. During the last year the falling off has been fully twenty-five per cent. One-third of the immigrants come from Germany. Englaadand Wales frunish one-seventh of the new-comers, white only one in fifteen comes from faminestricken Ireland. The percent. Of decrease has been about the same for the different nationalities. The effect of the embargo upon Chinese immi has been to reduce the number of arrivals at San Francisco mere than one-halt

THE SOUTH: Four inches of enow fell at Baltimore Friday. A war cloud is hovering over. France and China. It is said that Captain Howg: te was seen on the streets of Washington Tuesday. The prohibitionists in Kentucky have concluded not to act independently in political matters. Henry D. McDaniel, of Walton county, was nominated for Governor of Georgia by the Democratic State Convention. The! steamer Wylly collided with a bridge at Fort Gaines, Ga., Thursday, drowning ten persons, including the purser and others of the crew. A twelve-year-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. On account of the reported existence of yellow fever in Cuba and other southern islands, the National Board of Health has decided to establish quarantine stations on the southern coast earlier than usual this year. * Lyman Potter, who, on a wager, was attempting to roll a wheelbarrow from New York to New Orleans, was killed on a railroad near Salisbury, N. 0., Monday morning. He once walked from Albany, N. Y., to San Francisco. Bailie Pruitty, a colored girl twelve years old, living on Warren Bush’s places |in Monroe county, Ga., killed two children of a woman named Philits, working on the farm, because she was tired of nursing and wanted to go back home. The case against Dick Liddell, a notorious member of the James gang, who was convicted at the last term of the United States court at Huntsville, Ala., of conspiracy to rob, sentence being then suspended, was called up Wednesday and Judge Bruce released Liddell upon his personal recognizance. This is regarded as a settlement of the case. Liddell is free, and can now testify in the Frank James trial in Missouri.

FOREIGN: It is the intention of the Spanish government to gradully release the Cuban refugees. Moody and Sankey and their party sailed from Liverpool for this country on the 19th. » Carry, the Irish informer, is* found to be one of the chiefs in the Phoenix park murders. A bill for giving local self-government to Ireland was rejected by the British House of Commons—ayes, 58; nays, 281. There are now 20,000 dock laborers pn a strike at Marseilles, and the number will be increased. Shipping is at a stand* stilt An explosion of fire damp in the coal mines at Lourches, department of Nord, killed seven miners. Many were severely injured. The Evening News reports 2,000 per sons arrested in Moscow on suspicion of being engaged in plotting against the life of the Ozar. . A Gibraltar dispatch says four slaves were sold in the public street at Tangier, near the British legation. The Europeans at Tangier are indignant. A large section of country in the southern part of Bussia is covered with water owing to floods in the rivers. Bail way traffic is temporarily suspended. ' Manitoba has entered a protest against the action of Dominion government looking to an increase in the duty on agricultural implements from the United States. Late reports from Coomassie, Upper Guinea says that the king of Ashantee has relinquished the throne, and the entire coast of western Africa is in a state of comtnaion-

It is hoped in political circles at Vienna that the United States government will adqrpt legal measures for the suppression ot Fenianism and dynamite plotting in that country. Bernard Gallagher, under arrest in connection with the dynamite plots in London, strongly protests his innocence, and calls upon the United States minister to interfere in his behalftclaiming citizenship here. A disastrous fire occurred, Wednesday, at Mandalay, Burmah. One thousand buildings were destroyed, including ths residences of several cabinet ministers. Two prisoners, were burned to death in their cells. Accounts of a dreadful domestic tragedy have been received from Cham, Bavaria. A rope-maker killed his wife, moth-er-in-law, and two eons, and then poisoned himself. Joe Brady has been convicted of the murder of Burke at Phoenix Park, and sentenced to be hanged May 14th. He protested his innocence. The verdict was received on the streets with great disfavor and condemnation.