Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST, A Pittsburgh dispatch says of the labor situation there: “What the result of the dickering between the iron manufactmers and the Amalgamated Association will be cannot be foretold with certainty,but since the last conference all fears of a long strike have been abanddhed by the men, since unexpectedly the manufacturers have said they would sign a scale if one could be agreed upon. It was feared the manufacturers would refuse to sign a scale under any conditiona Four large iron firms on the South Side say they can see no reason for a redaction of wages, and express their willingness to sign a scale for Sa 50 per ton, the present price.” The New York World has passed into the possession of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of the St Louis Post-Dispatch. The price paid was about $400,000. not including the building. The paper will continue Democratic in politics.... Sixty-one head of Jersey cattle brought $32,689 at New York. The King of Ashantee sold for the highest figures ever obtained at auction, $6,500. Ward McConkey was executed at Pittsburgh for the murder of George A McClure, in Dead Man’s hollow, near McKeesport, Pa., on the night of Aug. 2, 1881. McConkey retired to bed about 10 o’clock the preceding night and slept so soundly that he had to be awakened in the > morning. He ate a hearty breakfast, and when his spiritual advisers visited him was as uncomJterned as he had been all the time. Just as the cap was adjusted he said, “Good-by, all ye murderers.” Death was caused from strangulation. Life was extinct in seven minutes. The bearing of the condemned was of total indifference, not a single tremor being perceptible, and even laughing as he marched from the jail to the scaffold.... The Standard oil-works, at Communipaw, N. J., were struck by lightning; ana set on lire. The flames communicating with the oil tanks, one explosion followed another, and at last the storehouse where the barreled oil was kept was attacked, which succumbed. Six firemen were overtaken by a flood of blazing oil and perished. The lo i s is estimated at $1,500,000, the property destroyed including twelve large tanks, eighteen cars, six barges, a dredge, three docks and five brick buildings. Capt. W. W. Bush, of Lockport, N. Y., who was the first man to enlist in response to President Lincoln’s call for 75,000 men to serve ninety days, issued April 15, 1861, has been presented with a gold badge a foot in length, in testimony of the fact cited above... .Hannah 8. Grant, mother of ex-President Grant, died quite suddenly at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Corbin, at Jersey City Heights, aged 94 years. The Hon. Israel Washburn, ex-Gov-nor of Maine, tiled in Philadelphia after a brief illness. He was lx>m in Livermore, Me., in 1813. In 1850 he was for the first time elected to Congress, and served for five terms. He was afterward elected Governor of the State, and some time after the expiration of his term was apf minted Collector of Customs at Portand, Maine. He was a brother of the Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Chicago.... Because the saloons are closed at Wilkesbarre. Pa., Sundays the proprietors want barber and cigar shops and livery stables also prohibited, and the sale of milk stopped, but the Mayor will not interfere.

THE WEST. The people of Cleveland were startled the other day by the announcement that Amasa Stone, the well-known rialroad man, capitalist and philanthropist, had killed himself. Since last November Mr. Stone has been afflicted wit-h insomnia, brought about by indigestion, and of late his condition has been so much worse that he was unable to obtain more than an hour or two of sleep in a night He shot himself through the heart, athisre ddence in Cleveland. Mr. Stone leaves a fortune estimated at from $6,00',000 to $10,000,000.... The managers of the Bay View Rolling Mills, at Milwaukee, are making every preparation to shut down on June 1, when the present scale of wages runs out, and at which time the men were to get answer to their demand to be paid every two weeks, as the men are at Pittsburgh. Over 1,200 men will be thrown out of work... .The factional war at Dodge City, Kan., terminated without the shedding of as much blood as the exigencies of the case seemed to require.... At Asherville, Kan., three children of Isaac Wilkeson were burned to jieath in their father's bam..,.At Napponee, Ind., the boiler in Gueyer's shingle mill exploded, blowing two men to atoms, fatally wounding four others, and entirely wrecking the building. A tornado of formidable dimensions struck Kansas City, and within a few minutes it had caused the destruction of $300,000 worth of property. Three lives are known to have been lost and many persons were injured more or less severely. The storm was a terrible one while it lasted. Hailstones as large as hen's eggs fell in great quantities. The air was filled with flying debris of the buildings which stood in the cyclone’s path. Men and women, <»horses and buggies were hurled through the air. The escapes in many cases were miraculous. The storm has left havoc and destruction in its path. The streets were strewn with mattresses, pieces of lumber, and household articles In many plaoes planks and pieces of lumber were driven three or four feet into the ground. Wyandotte, near Kamas City, suffered severely, and the little manufacturing suburb of Argentine was completely wrecked. The divorce suit of Theresa Fair vs. James G. Fair came up in the District Court at Virginia City, Nev. No defense was made and in onq hour the case was closed and a. decree of divorce granted Mrs. Fair. She was awarded $4,500,0G0 in bonds and considerable property. She was also awarded the custody of the three minor children, Virginia, Theresa Alice and Charles. The oldest boy, James G. Fair, Jr., was awarded' to the defendant.... Reliable reports from tne spr.ng wheat section of the country, embracing Wisconsin, Dakota and Minnesota, Northern lowa, Northern Nebraska, and five counties in Northern Illinois show the outlook to be favorable, more so than for a number of years, with a material increase in the acreage 50wn..... The Chicago Anderson presed-brick works were destroyed by fire. The loss is $250,000..... The Jackson Iron Company’s furnace at Fayette, Mich., was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $.00,(00; no in-uance....Fire in the lumber district of Cincinnati destroyed property of the aggregate value of $175,0C0. the sovra. Paymaster Washoe, of the United States army, who claimed to have been

robbed of $24,000 on a railway train near Fort Worth, Texas. fcas confessed that fae was not robbed, but, there being a deficit of $5,5C oit his accounts, he abstracted slßjsop more,' thehiding place of which het nas rs- - to this superior officers. His bondsmen will make good the embezzlement of The trial of Congressman Phil Thompson for the murder of Walter Davis opened at Harrodsburg, Ky., on the 9th inst. Senator Voorhees, Congressman Blackburn and T. C. Bell, of Harrodsburg, and Judge Jacob, of Danville, conducted the defense The prosecution was assisted by ex-Gov. Cantrell, W. C. Owens, Geo. Denny and Jesse Morton.... Ex-Treasurer M. T. Polk, of Tennessee, executed a bond of $35,000, at Nashville, and was released from jail by order of Judge Alien, of the Criminal Court The bondsmen are three well-known citizens, each of wht m was required to give a written statement of his property.... Eight hundred thousand bales of cotton were received at Galveston, Texas, this season. The Florida Ship Canal Company was organized at Washington by the election of ex-Goy. Brown, of Tennessee, President, and the Hon. William Windom Vice President It is estimated that the canal will cost $30,000,003, and will be completed in three years. An aged gentleman who had long been paralytic, and a colored servant, lost their lives by the burning of the house in which they lived in Baltimore A third inmate of the house sustained serious injuries by leaping from a window to escape from the flames ... .Five thousand dollars’ worth of gambling apparatus was burned on the public square of Nashville. Tenn., by order of the Criminal Court Five hundred gamblers left the city on account of the law making gambling a felony. A large number headed for Chicago At Warwick, Texas, two Mexicans killed themselves with the same knife One stabbed the other in the region of the heart, leaving the knife sticking in the wound. The other then quickly drew the knife from his own breast and stabbed his antagonist At the South Carolina convict camp on the Georgetown and Lanes railroad, nine lavor of the defenaants. The royalty sought to be recovered under the Deuchfield patent for cooling and drying meal amounted to $1,000,000, while the Downton patent for manufacturing middling flour was estimated to be worth $3,000,000... .The Supreme Court denied the petition for a rehearing of the Louisiana and Virginia bond cases. As D. C. Hutchins, who had killed a man near Shreveport, La., was beingtaken to jail his guards were surrounded by a mob bent on hanging him. Seeing that escape was impossible, Hutchins drew a dirk and stabbed himself to the heart.... The Hancock building at Austin, Tex, was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $225,000; insurance, $76,000. POLITICAL. Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts, refuses to sign the resolution appropriating $264,000 for double-tracking the Hoosic Tunnel Line. The official canvass of the Michigan State election, held the first Monday in April to elect two Judges of the Supreme Court and two Regents of the State University, was made at Lansing last week. The result for Judges was officially declared as follows: John W. Champlin, Fusion Democrat, 127,376; Austin Blair, Republican, 119,870; Thomas R. Sherwood, Fusion Greenback, 124,639; Thomas J. O’Brien, Republican, 122,330; D. P. Sagendorph, Prohibition, 13,950; J. H. Taten, Prohibition, 13,467. The result on Regents was not largely different from the above figures A bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and use of any article, device or invention for the purpose of surreptitiously destroying human life and injuring property by explosion or fire passed the Pennsylvania Senate. During a debate in the Pennsylvania Senate upon the proposed Prohibitory amendment to the constitution, a member censured President Arthur for countenancing the drinking of liquors in the White House, a practice, the Senator said, which had not prevailed during the incumbency of Presidents Hayes and Garfield... .The Vermont Senate has refused to enlarge the Governor’s powers so that he could remove the Superintendents and physicians of the State institutions.

Paul Strobach, who was the Republican candidate for Congress in the Second district of Alabama in 1880, being defeated by Herbert, Democrat, was recently appointed United States Marshal for the District of Alabama Preliminarv to a transfer of the office, agents of the Department of Justice have been examining the accounts of his predecessor, especially as regards the alleged Irregularities in the payment pf Deputy Marshals, of whom Strobach was one. The result is that the Grand Jury of the United States District Court at Montgomery has just returned five indictments against Strobach for defrauding the Government while acting as Deputy Marshal Strobach claims that he is being made the victim of a conspiracy by an opposing faction of the Republican party. In an interview the other day, exGov. Seymour, of New York, said that Samuel J. Tilden’s business habits had caused him to be misunderstood by the Democrats of the country, but nevertheless he was an able man. On the tariff question Mr. Seymour favors one for revenue only, and thinks it will be a subject widely discussed in the ccming Presidential campaign. The ex-Governor also said that Congress should pass a law preventing plots being hatched in this country against the lives of citizens or of residents of foreign countries... .Since the refusal of the Supreme Court to grant a rehearing in the Virginia bond case, leading Virginia Democrats say that the debt question will not be permitted to become a political issue in future campaigns, but that their supporters will accept the validity of the Riddleberger law, and try and defeat the “Liberals” as represented by Mahone and Riddleberger on some new issue. WASHINGTON. Col. Bliss closed his argument in the star-route conspiracy case Washington on the Bth is st, having spoken seven days A communication from “Brewster, Attorney General,” to Mr. Merrick, of counsel for the Government, was read, claiming for the Government the right to two closing arguments, one of which he himself proposed making; but in case the court should decide that there should be but one closing argument, Mr. Brewster said he would leave the closing to Mr. Merrick. The court stated that the invariable custom had been to allow the Government but one closing argument, and there was no reason why an exception should be made in this case. Mr. Charles Lyman, Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department, has been appointed Chief Examiner of the Civil Service Commi sion, the nomination of Mr, Keim having been recalled from the President President Arthur has not yet fully mapped out his programme for the summer

months, but it is quite certain that he win tak;®»trip to California about the Ist of Augtuf....A statement prepared b/ihe Sixth Auditor of the treasury shows the ireceipte of the Postoffice Department from July Ito Dec. 31, 1882, being the first two quarters of the current fiscal year, to b$ $22.033,979. Expenditures for the same period, $20,645,445— leaving a surplus of $1,389,534. GENERAL. The Pope has released from her vows the npn in the Hochelaga convent, Montreal, whose alleged illegal detention caused asen> Bation a few weeks since, and the young woman has returned to her family.... .Tobacco manufacturers complain that they are subjected to great inconvenience and loss by the inadequate supply of Government tax stamps Col. Unda, chief of staff of Gen. Fuero, the Chihuahuan military commander, Who is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, states that Gen. Crook’s presence in old Mexico is approved by the Government of Mexico, ana that the combined forces of Gena Fuero and Crook will form a cordon about the Apaches which will be impossible to penetrate. Col Uhda is confident that the campaign will result in the extermination of the hostile Apaches.... The National Temperance Society and Publication House have -re-elected John N. Stearns Secretary, and have chosen Bishop Hopkins, of Massachusetts, President The receipts in the past year were $60,000, the expenditures $51,000... .The rebels at Miragoane, Hayti, are reported to have blown up a bridge there with dynamite, killing 200 people and wounding as many more. Five murderers fell victims to the hangman on Friday, May IL Angelo Corretti, the Italian murderer of Daniel Cash, a fellow-convict a 1; Sing Sing, Dec. 81,1881, was hanged in the prison yard at that place. Sylvester K. Makinson, for the murder of Mrs Maggie Copeland, was hanged in the jail yard at Cambridge, HL The condemned protested his innocence. He ate and drank heartily at his last dinner on earth. John W. Jackson, for the murder of Samuel L Hull, was strung up at Jackson, Ohio. He slept soundly over eight hours the previous night, ate a hearty breakfast, and was cheerful Jerry Blalock, the murderer of Thomas Bradenburg, was hanged at Jacksonport, Ark. The condemned was converted. He said he was prepared’ for death. Henry Rivels, who murdered Henry Hyams five years ago, was executed at East Providence, La. A large crowd witnessed the execution.... There were 149 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet's during the week ending May 11,17 more than the preceding week, 31 more than the corresponding week of 1882, and 65 more than the same week of 1881... .The recent flgnt between the Mexican troops under Gen. Torres and the renegade Apaches in the Sierra Madre mountains was a fierce one, tbe Mexicans showing remarkable courage and skill The Indians left eleven dead bucks on the field, while the loss to the troops was five killed and eight seriously wounded. The resignation of Lieut. Col. Guido Ilges, to take immediate effect, has been received at Gen. Terry’s headquarters. CoL Ilges recently tendered his resignation to take effect Jan. 1,1884, but was notified by the Secretary of War that, unless he amended his resignation as he has now done, he would be court-martialed for duplicating his accounts... .A new counterfeit $5 gold coin has made its appearance. It purports to be a coin of the United States struck at New Orleans in 1843. It is heavily plated, and 49X grains light

FOREIGN. Four thousand Chinese or Annamese troops attacked Honoi, the capital of Tonquin, but were repulsed by the French France is determined to establish herself at Tonquln, and asks the King of Annam to recognize her protectorate over his dominions. At Dublin, Joseph Mullett was found guilty of conspiracy to murder Dennis Field, one of the jurors in the Hynes case, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. Another adjournment was taken in the case of the men arrested in London for the unlawful possession of nitro-glycerine. At the next hearing their commitment on a charge of treason-felony will be a-ked... .At Paris, as a wedding party was going to church, a relected lover shot and killed the expectant >ridegroom, and then poisoned himself. Windthorst, the Ultramontane leader, speaking in the German Reichstag, on the budget bills, said republics were not congenial in Europe; that France would again be ruled by a monarch, and that order and true liberty could only be conserved by a powerful regime.... The death sentence of Patrick Delaney, one of the Phoenix Park assassins who pleaded guilty, has been commuted, Edward O’Brien, Thomas Doyle and Edward McCaffrey, recently indicted for conspiracy to murder, were arraigned at Dublin. O’Brien and Doyle pleaded not guilty. McCaffrey was subsequently indicted for the murder of Burke, and arraigned to plead to that charge. He said he was not guilty, and asked that counsel be assigned him The trial was postponed.... In the Bow Street Police Court, London, all the dynamite conspiracy prisoners except O’Connor, alias- Dalton, whom the authorities are unable to connect with the others, were committed for trial on a charge of treason-felony. Lynch, alias Norman, the informer, was committed on a charge of misdemeanor. O'Connor was discharged.... The Pope Informed Archbishop Croke of Dublin, at an aud ence, that certain grave resolutions regarding the Irish trouble would speedily be promulgated, including a censure of such of the Ir.sh clergy as had promoted the Parnell fund... .Mullett, who was sentenced at Dublin to penal servitude for life for participating in the attempt to murdqr Juror Dennis Field, exclaimed on leaving the dock, after receiving his sentence, that he would get justice elsewhere. The Irish, he said, would get justice for him.... Announcement was made in the House of Commons that the British Government would consider the question of permitting the planting of tobacco in the United Kingdom ... .Oherlihy and Kennedy, alias Featherstone, charged with having been engaged in the dynamite conspiracy, were arraigned at Liverpool and remanded for another week. Joe Brady, the first “Invincible’* convicted of participation in the Phoenix Park butchery, was hanged at Dublin on the morning of the 14th inst. Reporters were denied admission, the Irish executive and British Home Secretary having sternly resolved that none but officials should witness the execution It is sought to make the.culnrit’s fate mysterious and ignominious, and to cast all possib eAobloquy upon his memory. The Duke of Connaught, third son of Queen Victo la, has been appointed to the command of a brigade in India, In order to give hini an opportunity to qualify himself fori the office of Viceroy of India, which the (iieen desires to see hiim occupy. ....'lhe liuernational Fish Exposition at London was opened by the Prince of Wales, whe regretted the unavoidable absence of Q een Victoria, but, in her Majesty’s name, returned thanks to the nations participatiig in the display.... Bismarck’s illness is n w said to have been greatly exaggerated, his only ailment being his customary ne iralgia