Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

no BAST. The Western Union Company has been granted permission to bury their wires In New York City, paying 1 cent per lineal foot for each street opened, and giving the city the use es twe wires. Seven structures, including the Union Hotel, were consumed by fire at New Milford, Pa, causing aloes of *40,000... .The St Albans (Yt) Iron and Steel Works Is bankrupt At a fifteen-minute conference of the Iron manufacturers and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers held in Pittsburgh action was taken which will lead to the gravest complications in the iron trade. Mr. John Jarrett on behalf of the Amalgamated Association, said that the workingmen, after thoroughly reviewing the situation, had reached the decision that the state of trade did not justify any lower scale of wages than is now paid. Neither did they believe that the new Tariff law would have such # an effect upon the ison trade as to lender it'impossible for manufacturers to pay the same wages as now prevail, and for these reasons they peremptorily refused to accept any reI duction in wages for the year beginning June L On motion of a manufacturer, the conference Immediately adjourned sine dis. At a private meeting, held later, the manufacturers determined to insist on a general reduction, and a strike is considered inevitable unless the manufacturers recede from their position. Joshua Gifford, a wife-murderer, aged 77 years, was sentenced to be hanged on June 22 at Oswego, N. Y.... Fifty members of the Pennsylvania Legislature who served in the Union army of the war of the Rebellion visited the scene of the battles before Petersburg, Virginia They were welcomed to the city of Petersburg by Senator Mahone.... The largest sale of quinine ever made in this country took place at the auctionrooms of Burdette & Dennis, New York, the total amount being 38,443 ounces... .Several tenement houses in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pa., were damaged by fire to the extent of *20,0001 Henry Mkrriott and Mary Pesun were arrested in New York, charged with stealing *75,000 worth of diamonds from Franz Kramer, a jeweler of Paris. The man eonfessed to the robbery. Three parts of the diamonds were found at the prisoner's lodging.... .Frank Mann, of Oxford, Mass, shot Mary E. Modre, of Millbury, in the same State, and then himself, in consequence of a lovers’ quarrel Both are dead. Mann was a widower, and Mrs Moore was separated from her husband, intending to marry Mann when she should have obtained a divorce In the horse-bicycle contest at Boston the former won by twenty-two miles. Seven thousand persons witnessed the close.

THE WEST. Dr. J. H. Ball, iu a drunken fight at Ball’s Mills, Mo., with Tennessee Jones, fatally stabbed the latter... .Thieves tore out the corner-stone of the colored Methodist Church at Terre Haute, Ind., and stole coins, scrip and other contents... .The stores in Darlftigton, Wis., occupied by Hooper, Driver Bros., and Farrington & Co., and the Darlington Republican office were destroyed by fire. Loss, $75,000; insured for $55,000. Union City, Ind., forty-seven miles from Dayton, was visited by a great conflagration the other night, destroying the principal portion of the town. The Joss is estimated at the heavy sum of $250,000. The most noteworthy dramatic attraction that has been afforded Chicago the-ater-goers for some time is the Jefferson comedy season, which opened at McVicker’s Theater on Monday last. “The Rivals,” which was selected for the opening performances, wag the first dramatic work of the famous Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and was first produced at the Covent Garden Theater, London, in 1775. Mr. Joseph Jefferson and Mrs. John Drew personate the characters of Bob Acres ana Mrs. Malaprop. Following “The Rivals,” the “Cricket on the Hearth,” “Lend Me Five Shillings,” and other sterling old comedies, will be produced. An engagement took place between Apaches and Mexican troops at Suqueach canon, 163 miles southeast of Hermosillo, in which the Indians were defeated with the loss of many killed and wounded. The loss of the troops was slight... .The profits of the dramatic festival at Cincinnati are estimated at $20,000. The actor who lacked the vocal capacity of a calliope and the facial proportions of the rphinx was at a terrible dis advantage in the immense Music Ha 11.... The Circuit Court at Lafayette, Ind., has refused the petition of Manaler for a new trial of the case recently won by Mrs. Gougar. He will appeal to the Supremo Court.... The floor of a farm-house near New Philadelphia. Ohio, in which a large company was gathered, gave way, precipitating all into a deep cellar. Several persons were injured, at least one of them fatally.... Harris & Co., bankers at Olathe, Kan., nave failed, with liabilities estimated at $50,000. ... .The Piegan Indians have left their reservation on the Upper Missouri for the Sweet Grass valley, with the intention of killing what cattle they can find, as they are starving; The agent of the Piegans is blamed for not furnishing the Indians the rations to which they are entitled. THE SOUTH. The three Smith brothers, with Hafley and Yocum on one side, met the three Cain brothers in a drinking-house at MoKinney, Ky., when a qurrel arose between the parties, during which forty shots were exchanged. William Caln was shot through the head, and Peter and James Cain were seriously wounded. Robert Smith was shot In the mouth. Paymaster Mason, of the United States army, was robbed of his valise, containing $20,000 destined for paying the troops on the Rio Grande frontier, as he was riding from Fort Worth to Big Springs, on the Texas Pacific railroad.... The Grand Jury at Harrodsburg, Ky., returned an indictment of murder against Phil B. Thomp. son, Jr., for killing Walter H. Davis April 27. difficulty occurred between Isaiah Cain, a prominent farmer living near Little Spring, Rranklin county, Miss., and Amos Bailey, colored, when the negro struck Cain over the head, inflicting a wound'from which he died. Fifty armed men took Bailey from the Sheriff' s posse and hanged him... .At the State Sunday School Convention at Augusta, Go., it was announced that Mont Eagle, Tenn., had been chosen tor the Southern Chautauqua.... Edward Lily, a negro near Fayetteville, N. C. was bitten by a mad dbg ana became so frightened that he died before reaching home.

Ex-Statb Tbeabueeb Potx, «f Tennessee, was rearrested at Nashville upon an order of the court based upon suspicion that he was about to leave the city, and because his sureties were of dbubtful worth. Mr. Polk was most hospitably entertained oy the Sheriff....ln the United States Circuit Court at New Orleans Judge Billings rendered a decision in favor of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines against the City of New Orleans for the sum of *1,925,667. Mrs. Gaines has fought her cases persistently for a generation, and is naturally greatly elated over this decision. The defendants will appeal to the United States Supreme Court W. A. Braggs & Co.’s fertilizer factory, Kelly 4 White’s box factory and several smaller stores in Richmond, Va, were destroyed by fira Loss probably *25,000; partly insured.,..Cattle thieves on the Mexican border have been causing great trouble of late, and the Governor of Texas has ordered the rangers to act promptly against the bands of thieves.... D. F. walker was executed at Trenton, Ga, and John Lee (colored; at Gainesville, Fla A row followed the former hanging, the Sheriff’s brother being shot and others badly injured. Governor Etelson, a negro, suffered the extreme penalty at Lewisville, Ark., makings religious harangue on the scaffold, and asserting that he would meet his victim in heaven. political Secretary Teller, through a friend, denies the charges brought by Senator Hill against his administration of the Interior Department, and especially as regards the employment of improper persons and favoritism in the Yellowstone Park lease... .The Montreal City Government has decided against permitting female taxpayers to vote. /.• The Pennsylvania Legislature has enacted a law prohibiting the performance of any play representing Biblical characters. ....Secretary Chandlernasappointed Commodore Shufeldt Superintendent of the Naval Observatory. Chairman Cooper, of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee, has issued a call for the meeting of the Republican State Committee in Harrisburg, July 11.... The lowa Republican State Convention will be held at Des Moines, June 27 next The New York Legislature has adjourned sine die. The Senate referred to the Finance Committee a message from the Governor calling attention to the neglect of the Senate to confirm his nomination for Emigration Commissioner. Before adjourning, the Assembly passed the bill forbidding the giving of free passes on railroads to any one except employes and officials of the roads. The political topic of the day in New York is the split between Gov. Cleveland and Tammany Hall John Kelly and his faction think the Governor has treated Tammany unfairly in the matter of patronage. The Tammany legislators have therefore brought about a final adjournment of the Legislature, leaving twenty-six of the Governor’s nominees unconfirmed.

WASHINGTON. Following is the regular monthly Debt statement, Issued on the Ist of May: Three and ene-half per centss 45,948,106 Four and one-half per cents 250,000.000 Four per cents 737,571.650 Three per cents 300,589.800 Refunding certificates 365.950 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt 51,348,478,000 Matured debt 9,091.085 Legal-tender notes 346,740,051 Certificates of deposit 1<>,105.000 Gold and silver certificates 162,104,951 Fractional currency 7,008,973 Total without interest $525,958,975 Total debt (principa1)....51,883,528,061 Totalinterest 9,711,225 Total cash in treasury 319;159.401 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,574,079,885 Decrease during April 2,851,402 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1882. 114,834,575 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaids 2,205,615 Debt on which Interest has eeased.. 9,901,085 Interest thereon 369,722 Gold and silver certificates 162,104,951 U. 8. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 10,106,000 Cash balance available May 1,1833... 135,283,026 Cash in treasury 819,159,101 Available assets— Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money— Principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid 1,292,470 Interest paid by United States 57,283,388 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service 16,516,033 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 40.112.155 A valt'able discovery of did records has been made in the Treasury Department For years past it was supposed that the oldest records of the pay department in existence were dated 179 i Recently the pay records of the Continental establishment from 1784 to 1792 were found in the dustcovered piles under the roof of the treasury building. These books contain the accounts of Gen. George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Aaron Burr, Jonathan Trumbull, Marquis db Lafayette and many other distinguished champions of the Revolutionary struggle. The books show a balance due the Government and unaccounted for from Gen. Washington of $161,8391 There is nothing in existence to show how this deficit occurred, but it is surmised the money was lost in military operations. There is also a large shortage in Washington’s specie account, but this is probably due to the depreciation of JContinental money. Benedict Arnold was apparently short in his accounts $1,831.67, and Lafayette’s receipts did not tally with his disbursements in the sum of $2,2021 The increase in the capital of the national banks during the last six months has been $8,677,500. and the decrease in circulation $3,899,791. The increase in lawful money deposited for the purpose of retiring emulation was $1,002,401....The President has appointed William 8. Woods, at present a Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, to be United States District Judge of the Seventh district.... The President.has decided to name the three steel cruisers to be built for the navy, the Chicago, the Boston and the Atlanta. The Societies of the Armies of the James and the Potomac will hold a consolidated reunion at Washington May 16. Fare from all points will be reduced... .The British Minister, West, has requested the dismissal of Edward, O’Meagher Condon from the Treasury Department at Washington for alleged incendiary utterance's against Englahd. GENERAL. A terrible catastrophe is reported from Victoria, British Columbia. The steamer Grappler, which plied between Puget Sound ana Alaska, was discovered to be on fire when about four miles from land. She had nearly 100 Chinese passengers on board, and these became uncontrollably. Threats to shoot those who would not obey orders proved useless, and when the »ship was finally beached, the tenified Celestials rushed blindly into the water, although by availing themselves of the facilities at hand all might have been saved. Over

sixty perished by fire or drowning.... While the miners were ascending the vale mine at New Glasgow, N. S, the rope broke, and the cars were hurled doWn the shaft, killing four men and two boys and Injuring many others, some fatally.... .The Mexican Government has 'contracted with a French firm for improving Vera Cruz harbor at a cost of *10,047,000. The work is to be finished in twelve yearn Gen. Crook, in a telegram to army headquarters, promises to observe the treaty stipulations with Mexico, but intimates that he has assurances from the State Governments of Sonora and Chihuahua that, should his troops cross the border in pursuit of the hostile Apaches, such action will not be regarded as a violation of the treaty. Advices from the border state that Gen. Crook crossed the frontier with his command on April 26, leaving guards with orders te permit no one bearing orders for him to follow. The Indians are forty miles from Gaudaloupe, in the Sferra Madre, where it will be difficult to reach them. > The directors of the Vanderbilt railroads—the New York Central, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and Michigan Central—have just elected officers The position of Chairman of the board was created in each Instance, the incumbent to have general supervisory control Cornelius Vanderbilt was chosen Chairman of the boards of the New York Central and Michigan Central, and William K. Vanderbilt of the Lake Shore, the latter retaining the Presidency of the Nickel-Plate, William H. Vanderbilt retiring from the Presidency of the several companies. James H. Rutter was made President of the New York Central, John Newell of the Lake Shore, and H. B. Ledyard of the Michigan Central The senior Vanderbilt thus relieve/ himself of the active management of the three railroad companies (although still a member of the directories), the task devolving upon his two sons ... .Business failures for the week ending the 4th Inst numbered 132, a decrease of fifty-four from the preceding week, but thirty-six more than fn the corresponding week of 18821 Joseph Pulitzer, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is reported to have purchased the New York World, intending to transplant a portion of his St Louis staff to his newlyacquirqd property, and inaugurate radical changes in the management and policy of the paper.... .Moody and Sankey, the evangelists, arrived at New York last week on board the steamer Alaska, from England. They return to that country in October..... The Rev. Josiah Henson, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ideal of Uncle Tom in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” died lastweek at Dresden, Oat,aged 94.

FOREIGN. The importers of pork products at Hamburg have written to the New York Chamber of Commerce on the question of American pork prohibition, and say that rule has been brought about by Injudicious publications in newspapers and pamphlets, asserting that product has been manufactured from diseased hogs To effect a repeal of the order, they say the American Government should institute an investigation. It should insist that no tainted product be exported, and that the strictest examination should be made at the point of shipment.... The Dublin jury in the case of Fitzhams, the cab-driver accused of connection with the Phoenix Park murder conspiracy, brought in a verdict of acquittal. The verdict was in accord with the charge of the presiding Judge. A real setback for El Muhdi, the False Prophet, is reported from Cairo. It is alleged that Col Hicks, an English officer in command of Egyptian troops, had a halfhour s engagement with 5,000 rebels and defeated them, with slight loss on his part. Over 500 of the False Prophet’s troops were killed, including his Lieutenant General.... Tbe Affirmation bill was defeated in the House of Commons—392 to 289. A Dublin dispatch says the Grand Jury returned true bflls for murder against Peter Tynan, alias “Number One,” John Walsh and P. J. Sheridan, and a bill as accessory to murder after the fact against Fitzharris. Walsh and Sheridan are in America, and Tynan is supposed to be here. The dispatch adds: “Now that true bills for murder have been found, it is considered no longer open to the United States to refuse to extradite Sheridan, Walsh and Tynan. It is believed Tynan will turn informer. ” The Grand Jury also found true biHs against Lawrence Hanlon, James and Joseph Mullett, and Daniel Delaney, on the charge of attempting to murder juror Dennis Field They also found a true bill for conspiracy to murder against the two Mulletts, Lawrence Hanlon, Edward McCaffrey, Edward O’Brien, George Smith, Peter Doyle, William Moroney and Daniel Delaney; and against Edward O’Brien and Edward McCaffrev for participating in the murder of Cavendish and Burka The Freeman's Journal, of Dublin, declares that the British Government was informed from the first of all the facts connected with the dynamite plot concocted at New York, the facts being so minutely revealed as to show that the spy was in the governing council of the conspirators.... The Irish Nationalist party in London is organizing a fund for the relief of the families of Irishmen who have been arrested for political offenses or who have been obliged to fly the countrylt is reported that the Orleanist Prince, Dim de Aumale, is seriously ill in Sicily.... Prince Bismarck is again ill, suffering greats ly from neuralgia. His physicians have ordered strict quiet and an avoidance of all physical exertion... .Bradlaugh having written to the Speaker of the House of Commons asking that he be permitted to take the oath,Nqrthcote moved that he be prevented from so doing. Bradlaugh explained his position from the bar of the House, after which Northcote’s motion was adopted, Gladstone voting with 104 others in the negative. Bradlaugh then quietly took his seat, and the matter was dropped.

Tabreez, a city or North Persia, baa been visited by an earthquake which destroyed many houses and caused the death of a great number of people. The city, however, contained few buildings worthy of note except its citadel and the tine remains of a mosque. It has been a center of trade between Persia, India, Russia and Turkey, and was well known for its manufactures of silk. It is supposed to have been founded in the time of Haroun-al-Raschid, toward the close of the eighth century. A French cruiser arrived at Loanda, on the Congo river, recently, and the commander took possession of the International Company's property. Henry M. Stanly represents the International Company, a Belgian concern, and the seiz Ae grows out of the. rival claim of De Brazza to priority of possession in behalf of the French Government.... A dispatch from Rome to the London Standard says that Cardinal Jacobin!, Papal Secretary of State, has sent a dispatch to Cardinal McCloskey a'-kjng if it is true that he received Alexander Sullivan, President of, the National League of America, and demanding an explanation of his action if the fact is as stated... .The meeting of Francis Joseph of Austria aud Humbert of Italy, at Bei.in, has been deferred until next November. .. .Another vessel, the Wilhelm Barenks, has been sent in search of the Dutch Arctic expeditior-