Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST, William E. Sawyer, an electrical inventor of a universal repu ation, has jnst died in New York. He was under sentence of four vcars’ imprisonment for having shot Dr. Tbeophilus Steele, about three years ago, but bad not been sent to the penitentiary pending an appeal for pardon based nr on the value to the country of his Inventive talents.... There are 80, €B9 Odd Fellows in Pennsylvania A New York man has brought his fourth srit" in six months to recover damages for the alienation of his wife's nflfeot.i.n-, a diitereut man appearing as defendant in each action. The claims for damages vary from $5, €OO to SBO,OOO. 15 y the death of the venerable Bishop Jesse T. Peck, which occurred in Syracuse, N. Y., the other day, the Methodist Episcopal church loses one of Its foremost leaders and most beloved members. Bishop Peok was born in Middleiield, N. Y., in lbll, and was licensed as a local preacher in PGR He became a Bishop in 187 V. ....Rawit/ea Bros', fiour mill, Stauordville, Ct and three tenement houses were burned. Loss, 3‘>o,ft ■<>; msured for $34,€00.... .The Parrott Varnish Company’s factory, at Bridgeport, Ct, was damaged by fire to the amoont of $50,000. The steamer Granite State, plying between New York and Har ;ford,was burned to the water’s edge at Goodspeed’s Landing, on the Connecticut river the flame 3 spreading with such rapidity as to overtake at least four persons, who were burned to death. One lady jumj ed into the river and wasdrowne •. The loss on the steamer is $55,000; on the cargo probably as much more.... Seventeen gamblers and lottery men pleaded guilty at New York, and weresentenced to from ten to thirty days in the penitentiary, with fines ranging from $1 to $10)....Mr5. Lydia Pinkhrm, one of the largest advertisers in the United .States, has just died at Lynn, Maes, aged <’4 year a Her yearly profits I'uin her patent-medicine business are said to have amounted to s€ol',oJo. THE WEST,*

A cyclone which wrought great devastation swept over sections of Wisconsin and Illinois on the evening of May 1& The greatest damage was inflicted upon the city Of Racine, Wia The storm struck the northwestern portion of the town, destroying about one Hundred und fifty houses and fifty barns, killing twenty people or more and causing serious injury to about one hundred persons, many of whom will not recover. A correspondent, describing the, onset of the teirible visitant, says: “The day was ushered in bright and cool, with a fresh wind blowing from the southwest. During the aftemmoon the temperature was about 80 degrees, and about (i o’clock, when heavy masses of clouds, which gathered *ih the west, portended a Btorm, the fiir was oppressively warm. The cyclone was announc id by a breaking of the clouds, wnich took on awh r iag motion, and struck the earth with a noise which might be compared with the roar and rumbling of a thousand railroad trains thundering ov r a bridge. The path of the storm, is a little over half a mile long, and perhaps a quarter of a mile wide In this territory here and there a bui dmg is lalt standing. All, brick end frame alike, collapsed, and their sites are marked only by heaps of formless debris. Many occupants of the houses escaped by seeking the cel'are and other places of comparative safety, but the cyclone came with such livh nii;g quickness that many wore killed before reahing the cellar-. In only a few cases were houses moved from their foundations. Those in the center of the storm center limply exploded and fell in ruins where they had stoed. Borne nearer the circumference were turned around. and some light articles, such as wagons, were swept into the lake. The cyclone as it moved from the city out upon the waters of Lake Michigan presented a grand spectacle, such as is seen but once in a lifetime. The whirling columns of air seemed monster wreaths of smoke, as they whirled over the watery expanse. All the physicians of the city responded nobly to the calls for assistance, and did what thev could to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded, who were at once oonveved to St. Luke’s and St Mary’s. Hospital. The dead were taken, some to the houses of friends and some to the Court House.” The attempt to remove tjie headquarters of the International Young" Men’s Christian Association from New York to the West was defeated in the annual convention of the as ©ciation at Milwaukee.... Jere Dunn, who killed EJlliott, the bruiser, some weeks ago, has been aoqultted by a Chicago JuryTHE SOUTH. A terrific /hail-stonn passed over the eastern section of Maryland, and played havoc in the extensive peach orchards in that locality. In some parts the hail covered the ground an iach deep, and stripped thousands of peach trees of their fruit-bios-soms. One of the large groweis lost 'iO.tffO baskets of peaches by the storm. Many of the smaller trees were tom up by the storm. The Wilmington (Del.) City Council brought the Western Union Telegraph Company to terms by directing the City Auditor to remove the poles from the streets unless the tax of §1 per pole was paid.....A verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury in the case of Congressman Phil B. Thompson, Jr., who killed Walter H. Davis at Hanodsburg, Ky.. because of his alleged criminal intimacy with Mrs. Thompson. The crowd in the court room yelled Itself hoarse in approval of the verdict. A judicial execution, the surroundings of which were of more than the usual horror, occurred at Pittsboro, Mlsa Henry Fleming, who was convicted of the murder of a man named Gardner, attempted to anticipate his fate, and while on the scaffold cut his own throat with a penknife, inflicting a terrible wound. The wretched man was attended by a physician, and as soon as his wound had been dressed was lawfully strangled... .L N. Dehart’s planing mill and residence, Mrs. Cronin’s grocery, and J. K. Smalley’s carriage-shop, Na-hvlie, Tenn., were reduced to ashes. Loss, #BO,(XXX 1 Three murderers were sentenced at one timp to be hanged together at Orangeburg, S. C., on June 22. Richard Jeffcoat for the murder of Louis Kumph, Wra. Trezevant for the murder of Frank Mitchell, and Hor•ce Hall for the murder of Daniel Glover.... Two judicial executions occurredin Georgia on Friday. Mav 18. Henry Knight ''was 1 hanged at I exington for the minder of Edward Hunter, and Joseph Cohen at Waycross for the murder of his wife... .Twentyfour persons were roi onod at a churoh festival in Chattanooga, Tenn., none fa.ally.

rouncAi. Washington telegram: A gentleman who recently talked with Senator John Sherman regarding the political situation in Ohio says he positively declines to be the Republican standard-bearer this fall Mr. Sherman has faith in his ability to carry' the State for Governor, but concedes that there is danger that the Legislature will be Democratic, in which event, if he should be elected Governor, the Democrats would secure both Ohio Senators and the organization of the United States Senate. In an interview the other day Congressman Henderson, of the Third lowa district, expressed the opinion that the Republican State Convention, which meets June 27, would renominate most of the retiring officers, and would not make any declaration in favor of coercive teetotalism. He be ie. es that lowa, which sent a solid Blaine delegation to the last National Convention, will send an unpledged representation to that of 1884, The Kentucky Democratic Convention, in session at Louisville, nominated exCongressman Proctor Knott for Governor. The pir, form, after indorsing the prlnc pies enunciated by the National Convention of 187 ft, and which were reaffirmed In 1880, pledges liberality toward the public schools, and recommends the calling of a convention to amend the State constitution so that it shall be more in accord with the spirit of the times The Prohibitory Liquor amendment to the Pennsylvania constitution was defeated in the State Senate, by a vote of 21 yeas to 18 nays—less than a constitutional majority. WASHINGTON; Postmaster General Gresham has issued general order directingjPostmasters to cq-operate with custodians of public buildings in aiding the Civil Service Commission in all reasonable ways in the discharge of its public duties A lawyer named H. Clay England, who is alleged to be insane, promises to bring about a termination of the star-route trial for the present bv shooting Judge Wylie, who had given orders that £e be excluded from the court-room. GENERAL. The Garfield Monument Committee of the Army of the Cumberland have selected J. Q. A Ward, of New York city, as the artist to design’and complete the monument at a cost not to exceed SoO,OOQ.

In the synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia, the report on tha sighs of the times stated that Nihilism in Russia, Socialism in Germany, Communism in France, and Fenlanism in Ireland were matters of regret, and that the United States was in a good political condition, even considering that Utah Territory and the Oneida Community were within its borders.... Cuban newspapers complain of the quality of American lard imported, and ask the Government to enforce the regulations. FOREIGN. A profound sensation has been caused in Ireland by the message from the Vatican containing words of disapproval of the prominent action of some of the Irish prelates and priests in reference to tne National movement, and in a pointed manner regarding their assistance to the Parnell testimonial fund. Condemnation of the action of the authorities at Rome is general, and there is boldness and significance in the declaration of the pro-Catholic organ, the Freeman'» Journal , in saying that the Pope's circular is “The most Important document since Adrian’s famous bull The Vatican is grossly mi-inrormed. If it censure i the illustrious and beloved Archbishop of Cashel, it must also censure nine other distinguished prelates and the entire priesthood of Ireland. All must obey the Pope’s command, but the regeneration of Ireland wil l yet be effeoted by the union of priests and people... .The explosion of a dynamite bomb during the progress of a public fete in a village near Lisbon, Portugal, killed four persons and injured several others.... The North German Gazette continues its attacks upon the charaoter of the American hog, which Is unfeelingly represented as an incorrigible disseminator of trichlnlasis.... Fitzhanis. the Dublin car-driver, was convicted as accessory after the fact to the Phoenix Park murders, and sentenced to life penal servitude It is alleged by the London Times that an attempt-was recently made to destroy an emigrant steamship plying between Liverpool and New York, a box having been given in charge of the ship’s steward by some unknown man, under circumstances that aroused suspicion, investigation proving that it contained an Infernal machine. The story is not well authenticated, and steamboatmen on both sides of the Atlftntio denounce it as a senseless canard... .A treaty of peace between Chili and Peru fibs been signed, the latter conceding Tacna and Arica to the conquering power for a term of years James Mullett, Edward O’Brien, Edward McCaffrey, Daniel Delaney and Wm. Moroney, who pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to murder, were sentenced at Dublin, on May 17, to ten years’ penal servitude each. Thomas Doyle, confessedly guilty of a similar offense, was sentenced to five years beyond the seas. Matthias Brady, accused of threatening the life of the foreman of the jury which Convicted his brother Joe, pleaded guilty, but the crown and the intimidated juror assented to his discharge. This ended the labors of the special panel summoned to try the assassins of LordOaVencLsh and Under Secretary Burke, and the furors were all thereupon discharged . Bing Cetewayo’s peep into civilized methods as prisoner and guest of her Britannic Majesty has not proved of much benefit to him in his efforts to re-establish his power in Zululand. His brother Ohaxn and another insurrectionary chief named Ufibepu united their forces to resist the army of Cetewayo, whom they defeated with great loss in a pitched battle recently... .Advices from Asia report another encounter between the troops of the Ameer of Afghanistan and the Shmwaries, in which the Ameer was defeated. Seven hundred Shinwaries were killed and their heads sent to the Ameer of Cabul....The Paris Figaro publishes a letter from De Lesseps, stating that the Suez Canal Comj pany propose to construct a second canal across the isthmus. ■ A settlement of the Mexican debt to English bondholders is announced. New 6 per cents axe to be issued for half the old 8-per-cent debt, and the English agree to make a new loan of #'2O,ioo,UUUat »per cent, guaranteed by a percentage of the customs duties Daniel Curley, another of the Phoenix Park assassins, was hanged at Dublin, May 18. In a letter to hi* wif ehe said he would let'his secrets die with him, and that he would die in peace, forgiving his enemies.... An officer of the Russian army, who had been arrested on the charge of being a member of a military revolutionary c üb. made disclosures upon" his examination indicating that the organization was an extensive one, although it has no ronneotion with the Nihilists. The polioe of St Petersburg claim to have unearthed a plot to assassinate the Czar on the day of his coronation