Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1883 — NEWS AND INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Our Compilation o* the Important Happening* ot the Week. ULBOB tboubles. The convention of railroad coal miners at Pittsburg considered the advisability of striking against the proposed reduction in the mining rate from three and a half to three cents per bushel It was unanimously decided to strike on May L and iefr.se to work until three and a half cents was paid in every case. About two thirds of the pits were represented in the oonvention,and committees were appointed to visit the mines where the men were working for three cents and endeavor to have them come out and join the strike. Ts they succeed in getting them out work will be suspended in seventy pits, and between 7,000 and 8,000 men thrown out of employment. The convention also decided that each tipple must check the weighman. The delegates heartily endorsed the plan ot the proposed federation of miners of the United States and instructed the general officers to notify each pit to have representatives at the inter-State convention to be held in Pittsburg. The cigar makers at Portland, Me., are striking for $1 a thousand advance. The manufacturers propose to substitute girls. Brick layers and carpenters of Dallas, Texas, have secured an advance of SI and 50 cents per day, respectfully, in wages. » At Berlin 25,000 cabinet makers struck, Tuesday, for an increase of wages. The cigar makers at Milwaukee have been given an advance. Two hundred brick masons at StLouis struck for higher wages, All the cigar makers of New York are on a strike.

IRISH-AMERICANS. The Land League Convention at Philadelphia was attended by 1,200 delegates. The plans and purposes as laid out for the future were fully discussed. A long list of resolutions were passed in which England was bombarded with rhetoric if not with dynamite. After a long statement regarding the condition of Ireland and its wrongs at the hands of England it was resolved, (1). A pledge of unqualified and constant support and moral and material aid to Ireland in its efforts to secure national self-government; consolidating all of the organizations in America, and all the resources thereof, and the 'creation of one responsible and authoritative body to speak for Ireland in America. (2). To be known as the Irish National League of America. (3). Endorsing Parnell. (4). Expressing sympathy with laborers in Ireland, and urging upon farmers justice and humane consideration for laborers. (5). Counseling Irishmen to buy nothing in England that can be produced in Ireland or procured from America or France; promising to promote Irish manufactures by encouraging their import into America; and by “plain statements of fact and discrimination in patronage to persuade American tradesmen from keeping English goods on sale. (6). That the policy of the English government in first reducing the Irish peasantry to abject poverty and then sending them penniless to the United States, dependent upon American charity, is unnatural, inhumane, and an outrage upon the American govefnment and the people; protesting against such acts to our national government and demanding its discontinuance. (7). Endorsing Patrick Egan. The resolutions were adopted amid much excitement and under protest of several delegates.

INDIANA ITEMS: Ground has been broken for a new opera house at Anderson. Alfred A. Smith, of Tipton, was arrest ed a few days ago for counterfeiting. Adam Peyton, living two miles from Cambridge City, has a nine year old boy who weighs 133 pounds, and is gaining rapidly. Thirteen hundred men are now employedjin the car works at Jeffersonville, and within the next two weeks the force will be increased to 1,800. | Andy Fisher, of Madison, has perhaps Ithe oldest horse known of at present. He ns forty years old, and was foaled within Ithe walls of the City ot Mexico. 1 Henry Newmeyer, a butcher at Rushkille, was lodged in jail on Tuesday, on ■he charge of selling diseased meat He (was convicted last term of court of a like ■offense. I Levi Cook, while fishing in Sugar creek |n Hancock county, found tho skull of an blk. The right horn was full in leng h, ■measuring three het and six inches, and ■has seven prongs, which are broken off at ■he points. The skull is perfect. I Howard county farmers are being vic■imized by the agents of a “tongne sup loorting company,” who induce them to Ingn a postal card which turns out to be Lnote or something over SIOO. The tanners o Howard county need “brain lupporters.” I Three prisoners confined in the city

prison at Wabash built a bonfire in the center of the structure, using their bedticks as fuel The building caught fire and would have burned down had not the officials happened in at the time. The prisoners were well smoked, but otherwise were unharmed A sensation has been caused in Wabash by Charles Ball burying the dead body of his infant in his badc yard. Ball, who is a miserly old fellow, did not wish to bear the expenses of a funeral, and so k ocking together a rough box he dumped the corpse in and placed it in a grave two feet deer. The president and trustees of Asbury University, in an appeal to the friends of the institution to raise the e 150,000 required to secure the DePauw donation urge the women of the church and of the State to contribute and solicit sufficient funds to endow a woman’s professiorship in the university. At Fairmount last week a lady, with a baby in a little carriage, was talking to another lady and letting down the top of the carriage. The baby’s finger lay across the side and was cut entirely off. The lady did not know it until she saw its bleeding finger on the sidewalk at her feet, as the baby was asleep and did not cry. Tn the case of Mrs. Thomas Naugheon, of South Elgin, against the saloon-keep-ers of Elgin for selling liquor to her husband, and thereby crushing his death while attempting to board a freight train, Mrs. Naughton has been allowed $2,000 damages in the County Court at Geneva. 0. H. Aldrich, city attorney of Fort Wayne has brought ejectment suits to obtain possession of about 1,200 acres of land and improvements, near that city, now owned ahi occupied by descendants of the Miami Indians. Aldrich bid the land in several years ago on a delinquent tax sale, and he now stoops to assert his title. The lands and improvements are valued at $45,000. In consequence of the appropriation for the signal services for this year being very nearly exhausted, the govemmen intends discontinuing the daily weather bulletins, which has for some time been sent from Logansport as a distributing center through the mails to about 500 of the leading farmers of the state. This branch of the service, known as the farmers’ bulletin is to be stopped all over the United States.

Fish stories are now ripe, and were they not we would not give the following, picked by the Lawrenceburg Press: One day last week, as a little son of Jacob Wameford was playing on the banks of a pond near Greendale, a large fish jumped from the water on the bank. The little boy threw himself on to the fish and indeavcred to drag it up the bank, but finding himself unable, he called lor assistance. It was a buffalo, and weighed forty-two pounds. On Saturday night, at the residence of a wealthy resident of Richmond, at which eighteen ladiei and gentlemen were present, a spiritual circle was formed, and a girl of fourteen, greatly lacking in vitality and suceptible to mesmeric influence, became affected and displayed some remarkable talents. She has no knowledge of any other tongue but the English, but directly after the circle was seated she became visibly affected, and finally arose and delivered a fine address, in German, on music, a subject with which she is totally unacquainted. Most of her auditors were German and were greatly pleased at this demonstration. One person in the circle was a German musician, and it is thought he might have influenced her mesmerically. On the farm of Samuel Grim, in Jackson township, Howard county, may be seen something in the way of a mastodon that will astonish any one who may be so. ortunate as to see it. Somet me last month, while Mr. Grim was ditching, he came on something which astonished him very much and which, upon dose examination, was found to be a very large lower jaw bone, which had become petrified. The dimentions are as follow: Length of left side of jaw bone, three feet; circumference, measuring around the teeth, which are fast in the bone and petrified as hard as stone, two feet The weight of this piece fa twenty-five pounds, while the whole jaw will weigh fifty pounds. One of the teeth, when first taken out of the ground, weighed five pounds. Beside .this jaw was also found something resembling a horn, but was so brittle it could not be taken out whole; but upon digging the full length of it, and then measuring the space it occupied, it was found to be six feet in length. Mr. Grim managed to pre erve enough of> •it, however, to enable him to measure its circumference, which was fifteen inches. One of the teeth of this greet mastodon, weighing one pound and ten.ounces (being one of the smaller ones), may be seen at the Kokomo Gazette office. The twenty-ninth annual convention ot the Grand Commandery Knights Templars of Indiana was held at Indianapolis on Tuesday, April 24, there being a large attendance of grand officers and delegates. The Grand Treasurer, Charles Fisher,

presented the following report for the year ending April 21, 1883. Receipts,' balance in treasury April 21,1882, $2,444; dues for 1881, $337; dues for 1882, $2,871; incidental receipts, $500; total, $5,658. Total expenditures, $2,702. Cash balance in treasury, $2,955.55. John M. Bramwell, Grand Recorder, submitted his report, which corresponds substantially with the above. He also presented some statistical tables, showing the following totals: Total membership of the order in the State for 1882, 2,006; for 1888, 2,223; increase, 217. The deaths during 1882 numbered 22. Ker talked six days for the government in the Star Route oases. Green B. Baum, commissioner of Internal Revenue, has resigned. Sullivan and Parnell, in interviews, denounce o‘Donavan Rosea and his dynamite methods. Refrigerator cars are now bringing southern fruits and vegetables to northern markets and return carrying dressed beet A commission has been appointed to investigate Congressman Belmont’s charges tr.at Hawaiian sugar is fraudulently imported at San Francisco. Gen. Diaz and party made the trip from St Louis to New Orleans, 700 miles Saturday, in twenty-four hours, and left Sunday for Vera Cruz. A statement prepared in the office of the commissioner of internal revenue shows that the aggregate receipts for March, 1883, were $1,525,120 greater than for march, 1882. The steamer Catalonia has arrived at Boston from Liverpool with 1,200 steerage passengers, most of whom were brought at the expense of the British government

THE EAST: Ex-Senator Kellogg has been admitted to bail in the sum of SIO,OOO. The New York police have captured an important gang ot counterfeiters. No material damage has been done to the eastern peach crop, but other fruits suffered by the late frosts. Among the contracts awarded at New York, Thursday, for Indian supplies, was one to Studebaker Bros.,- of South Bend, for wagons. Three Chinamen recently bought property in Mott street, New York, paying therefor $31,000, and Intend becoming citizens of the United States. A pillar collapsed in a coal mine near Ashland, Fa., Monday, causing an explosion, and causing the loss of several fives and fatally injuring several others. Detective-inspector Ethwistle, British Criminal Investigation Department, is in New York. It is said he has come in the interest of the crow, and will collect evidence against the dynamite plotters. Bishop Doane, of Albany, has made a plan to build a grand cathedral in the city aifd he has collected $44,000 with which to begin the work. The site has been selected and the ground has been paid for. The cathedral is to seat 2,000 people, and will have cost when completed about $300,000. While the United States officials at Philadelphia were deliberating over the case of the steamer Tropic, which violated the neutrality laws by carrying war materials to the Haytien insurgents, the ship steamed away, and when ths decision was reached on Wednesday to seize the craft, it was discovered that she was out of reach of the law In compliance with the terms of the resolution adopted by the convention of colored people of the District of Columba, which met in this city on emancipation day, a call has been issued for a national convention of colored men to be held in Washington on the 24th of September 1883. The convention is* called for the consideration of tbe present and future condition of the colored people of this country, and of the best method of securing to them the full enjoyment of their social and political rights. THE WEST: Since January 1,19,800 emigrants have landed at Portland, Oregon. The Des Moines, la., city council has fixed saloon licenses at SI,OOO. The Ohio prohibitionists will hold their state convention June 13 au l 11. A plague of glanders is affecting horses and men in Carroll and Whiteside counties, Illinois. By a railroad collison Friday, noar Detroit, Mich,, four persons were killed outright Bed Cloud thinks he has struck a gold mine on his reservation at Pine Ridge, and want* to work it Owing to low water, less than onefourth of the winter cut of logs in the Wisconsin pineries has gone down. 0. J. Powers, custodian of the Lincoln sarcophagus, at Springfield, denies the story that the coffined remains have been removed therefrom. A little child fell head foremost into a post hole which was partly filled with water, near South Charleston, 0., and was drowned, on Tuesday. Heirs of of Joseph Oalver have begun suit for a tract of land in the heart of St Louis, -*■•pres in extent, under a

grant to Calver by the record, April 29, 1816. ■ Mrs. Louisa B. Stephens has been teleoed to succeed her husband as preedent of the First National bank, of Marion la. She is the first woman who ever held alike position. The coal miners at the McAllister and Havana mines, Choctaw nation, are on a and a scarcity of coal and high prices will ensue unless a compromise with the minors is soon made. For the fifteenth time in six yaers Editor Leydy, of the Lemars (HL) Liberal, was publicly whipped, his assailant being Charles Brandon, lately editor of the Pomeroy Newa The report of the Illinois entomologist, Mr. S. A- Forbs, describes a newly discovered insect enemy to the winter wheat Tthas caused considerable damage in several localities. Twenty-two of the owners of property in which saloons are kept in Cincinnati have notified their tenants that on account of the passage of the Scott law they must quit their premises. Reports from the smaller towns of Ohio indicate that a large proportion of the saloons are closing on account of the Scott law. The liquor leagues, wherever organized, have held meetings, but kept the proceedings secret. Charlie McComas, who was captured by Apaches at the time of the murder of his parents, in New Mexico, was subsequently killed by the savages becaqse he was unable to keep up with them in their retreat to the mountains.

Experiments with seed corn in Wisconsin and Minnesota appear to establish the belief that the germinating quality ot the gram was destroyed by the severe cold weather of last winter. There is, therefore, apprehension that the corn crop this year will be short Prof. Blat\ the “man fish’’ remained under water water in St. Louis Sunday, four minutes and eleven and one-half seconds, beating the previous record of four minutes and three-quarter seconds by J. B. Johnston, in London. He came near losing his life, however, becoming helpless after four minutes had expired, and when removed from the water was insenble. A telegram from Willcox’s agent at San Carlos, Arizona, says the Indians are returning to their reservation and a better feeling prevails. The Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians are said to be in a starving condition, and unless immediately relieved few of them will be alive to meet the commissioner of Indian affairs in June, as they now anticipate doing. An atrocious crime was committed nine miles from Houston Texas. A negro boy, named Adams, aged 12 years under the impression that the boys in the neighborhood were going to flog him, while playing with Cuney Williams, aged 11 years, whom he suspected as one of the party, tied a rope around Nelson’S waist. Mounting a horse he tied the other end to the pommel of the saddle and rode rapidly off, dragging Nelson through the prairie until dead, He took I the train for Houston where he was captured.

THE SOUTH: . The cyclone caused 81 deaths in Georgia. Henry D, McDaniel was Tuesday elected governor of Georgia by a light vote. He js a democrat It is estimated that the loss to the government from smuggling carried on along the Rio Grande amounts to $500,000. Another cyclone visited Louisiana, the 30th, doing great damage, but destroying no lives so far as reported. The Texas land commissioner says he could sell from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 acres of land at from $1 to $2 per acre if he had the authority. There were about forty persons of Jewish extraction iu Beauregard during the cyclone. All of them were picked out of the debris and not one was seriously injured. At Norfolk, Ya., Lucy Haulsey, a negroes, has been arrested for whipping her sister’s orphan child, seven years old, to death. The child was flogged with a cowhide and burned on a stove. The husband was arrested as accessory. Much excitement prevails over the reported discovery in Bertie county, N. 0., of the remains of a number of gigantic men in a mound. The skeletons were discovered in a sitting posture, and their heights rangt from seven to nine feet Advices received at Little Rock, from Washington county, Arkansas, are to the effect that great terror prevails in the vicinity of Sulphur Springs on account ot mad dogs. Horses, cows and hogs have been bitten, and many narrow escapes of human life. . Hen. Philo B. Thompson, a Congressman from Kentucky, on the train near Harrodsburg, Saturday, shot and killed the seducer of his wife, named Davis. The sympathy of the community is generally with the Congressman, and his act is said to be fully justified. Walter Davis, the victim of Congress man Thompson's outraged “honor,’* was

buried at Harrodsburg, Ky., Sunday. A great division of sentiment in thfr community on the subject of the killing was made manifest, and unless Thompson can clearly substantiate his claim that Davis debauched his wife a violent reaction will set in. FOREIGN: ~ A fire in a cabinet-maker's shop at Warsaw, Poland, burned to death sixteen workmen. A quantity of dynamite has been dis covered in the forts at Chatam, England. No fuse was attached, and it was probably placed there as a threat The trial at Dublin of Michael Fagan for the murder of Burk atPhmnix Park, was concluded, and Fagan oentenoed to be hanged May 28. The German government in order to facilitate the conveyance of troops if needed, has decided to lay a second track on all railways leading to Russia. The Russian government is equally active. Minister Sargeant’s report on the action of Germany in prohibiting the importation of American pork is severely criticised by the Berlin papers, and it is rumored his recall will be demanded. An explosion occurred, Wednesday, in a mine at Beeseges, France. Nine bodies have been recovered. At roll-call, after the explosion, 127 miners failed to answer and many deaths are feared. The ship County of Aberdeen, from Calcutta, was in collision with the ship Brittish Commerce, for Melbourne. The latter sunk and twenty-five of her crew were lost The weather was thick at the time.

The volcano Ometepe, Lake Nicaragua, is in eruption for their first time in history. A large island at the mouth of the Atrato discovered by the United States steamer Firebrand in 1862, is reported to have entirely disappeared. The workmen at the end of the Canada Pacific railroad, in Manitoba, are threatened by Indians, who complain that their country is being invaded. Tbe Indians* have shown an unfriendly disposition for six months past, and trouble is feared. At Antwerp, the authorities refused to grant a concession to a company wishing to erect grain elevators for 'unloading grain. Previous to the announcement of the decision a mob attacked the town heard smashing windows and injuring several persons. The police charged on the crowd, and made a number of arrests Turkey’s failure to reform the administration of Armenia is again attracting the attention of Europe. Lord Dufferin, immediately on his return from Egypt, will demand that the Port institute the proper reform at once. Russia, it is also intimated, may move in the matter, if action is not previously taken, after the coronation of the Ozar. Lord Carlingford, Lord President of the Council and Minister of Agriculture Thursday received a deputation headed by the Duke of Richmond, which came to confer on the subject of the foot and mouth disease among cattle. Lord Carlingford said they practically asked for the general prohibition of the landing of live stock in England,. The department was only prepared to use its powers where the need existed. The assertionwas made in America that the disease was practically non-existent there. It might be incorrect, but, generally speak ing, there was very little disease in that country, especially in the West.