Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A Florida dispatch says that Nelson Jordan, a negso, while drunk and riotous, resisted arrest at Archer, Alachua county, and shot the Marshal in the bowela Other negroes then joined Jordan The Mayor summoned a posse who were fired into by the negroes. The posse then returned the fire, killing Jordan. Sam Duncan, a colored politician, formerly in the United States Land Office, was arrested among the olher prisoners, and jailed.... A bloody encounter between three Smith brothers and John and Riley Cecil with pistols occurred at Helenswood, Tenn. Both the Cecils were killed. The two Smiths were wounded. Four years ago the Cecils killed the Smiths’ father, and two years later the Smiths killed two other Cecil Lrothers.... .Capt Ed Bfcckley, a dealer in land and live stock at San Antonio, Texas, has made an assignment, placing his liabilities at $440,030 and his assets at SIOO,OOO. Margaret Graham, aged 30, made desperate by destitution, threw her two children into the East river at New York, and then jumped in herself. All were rescued.... John L Sullivan, the pugilist, played as pitcher for the Metropolitan BaseBall Club of New York, against a picked nine. His delivery was wild, and his playing not good as was expected.... George Sharswood, ex-Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, died at Philadelphia, aged 73 years. About 150 women, the wivetf of striking coal-miners, visited several of the principal mines In the Belleville district, in St Clair county, HL, where work was in progress, and by threats compelled the men to leave the pits. On application of the operators,, three companies of militia were sent to the Reinecke mine, which they reached at dusk. A number of strikers who bad taken up a position in front of the mine defied the militia, and after some parleying the offioer in command ga,ve the word to fire. A volley was discharged, killing one of the rioters outright and mortally wounding another. Six other strikers were hurt and about thirty were captured. The strikers are alleged to have assailed the militia with stones, bricks and lumps of coal as soon as they disembarked from the cars, aud when the soldiers did not retaliate such of the mob as were possessed of fire-arms discharged a volley at them. In the Collinsville district there were threatenfngs of a riot, but the firmness of a Deputy Sheriff was effectual in dispersing the disturbers without a resort to force..... At Cedar Hill, near St. Louis, Mo., a young cpuple going home from church were met by a disappo nted suitor for the lady’s hand, who, being armed w th a double-barrel gun, shot his rival through the breast, killing him, and then discharged the second barrel at the lady, indicting a dangerous wound. The murderer then reloaded his weapon and fired the contents of both barrels into his own body, expiring instantly.... The rate war between the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Companies resulted last week in the company first named reducing the passenger rate from Peoria to Kansas City, Council Bluffs, Atchison, Keokuk and Des Moines to 25 cents, • while the Burlington road advertised to carry passengers from Peoria to Chicago, Rock Maud, Des Moines, Kansas City, Atchison, St Joseph or Leavenworth for 15 cents each... .The Pine Lake Iron Company’s furnace at Manoelona, Mich., was burned, causing a loss of $50,000. Abd-el-Kader, whose death was announced by cable the other day, was me of the most remarkable men of whom history makes mention At the age of 14 he knew the Koran by heart and had made a pilgrimage to Mecca, thereby gaining the title of El Hadji (the holy). He was a most accomplished cavalier, and Before he attained his majority had acquired several foreign languages. His noble and prepossessing exterior, his affability and simplicity of manners, won the affections of his countrymen, and his purity of morals and acquirements as a scholar and soldier insured their respect and esteem to -such a degree that he was elected Emir before he was 23 years of age. For fifteen years the young Emir waged a bloody war with the French, hut at last he wqs forced to capitulate. He surrendered on condition that he should be allowed to retire to Egypt or St Jean d’ Acre. The nation’s word given by the Duke d’ Aumale was broken, and Aba-el-Kader was taken to France, where he was detained as a captive until near the end of the year 1852, when he was released by the order of Louis Napoleon.... Statues of the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt were unveiled in the presence of the Emperor of Germany.... Alphonse Daudet, the French novelist, fought a duel with a writer for the Prussian press named Delpit The latter was slightly wounded... .Michael Fagan, one of the Phoenix Park murderers, was banged in Kilmainhain Jail, Dublin. He declared from the scaffold that he was innocent