Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

m EAST, The big elephant Bolitar, the rival of Jumbo, got mad at a young attendant in Boston while being served with food, and the urchin is now at the hospital. The boy was engaged in carrying hay into the tent where the elephants are quartered, and suddenly found himself entwined in the trunk of the ferocious brute. The elephant, after swinging the lad in the air, threw him violently to the ground, and then proceaded to crush him by walking on him. The boy’s screams brought to his assistance a number of the men employed in the menagerie, who with poles, hooks and clubs drove the beast from his victim, who was picked up in an unconscious condition A physician pronounced the boy’s injuries such as to maim him for life, even should they not prove fataL A frightful disaster occurred on the recently-completed suspension bridge connecting Mew York and Brooklyn on Decoration day. Immense numbers of people had been traversing the bridge all day. At the New York end of the river span, where there is a flight of stairs abont six feet nigh, • jam occurred, followed by a wild panic The pressure from the crowd behind precipitated many people down these steps, one on top of the other, and in this way many were killed In the crush the weak were trampled upon, and children were suffocated In their parents’ arms. It was some time before the frenzied multitude OOuld be controlled and the dead and ■founded extricated Fifteen were killed, while the list of those seriously hurt is a longjone. Six men were drowned in Boston harbor by the capsizing of the yacht Skylark After a session of four hours’ duration, says a recent Boston dispatch, the Board of Overseers of Harvard College refused to concur with the corporation in conferring the degree of LL. D. upon Gov. Butler. The corporation unanimously recommended that the honor be voted By a yea and nay vote of 11 to 15 the Board of Overseers refused to concur. As the matter was finally disposed of, it was held that the Governors character was Inconsistent with the motto of the college, “Veritas”.... The boat race at Point of Pines, near Boston. between Hanlan and Kennedy, was easily won by the former by twenty lengths In a prize-fighti at Providence, Joe Beaward, of Boston, “knocked out” Tommy Marr, of the school-ship New Hampshire, in the seventh round.... Mrs. Susm E Douglass, aged '2/7. rea ding in Cumberland county, pa., during the absence of her husband, cut the throats of her three children (boys), and killed herself Insanity. At Fislikill village, near Newburgh, N. J., was celebrated, on the 2d Inst., the centennial anniversary of the disbandment of Washington’s army on June 2, 1783. There was a large attendance, and addresses were made by Benson J. Lossing, the historian, and other prominent gentlemen.... .The Salvation Army that has been operating at New Hqwen, (Jt, has been notified by the Chief of Police to cease street singing, under g natty of arrest. The army will disregard e order, claiming to have authority from e Mayor to ho.d services in the public etreets.

not WEST. McGeoch, Everingham & Co., heavy operators on the Chicago Board of Trade, refused to accept the delivery of 10,000 tierces of lard, representing $350,009, from Fowler Brothers, claiming that it was adulterated, although it had passed the usual inspection. McGeoch, Everingham & Co. claim that 10,000 tierces they received from Fowler Brothers on May 1 had proved worthless. It is alleged that there is $1,000,000 worth of adulterated lard on the market.... The Bhingle mill of G. V. Turner & Sons, eight miles be ow Saganaw, Mich., was blown to atoms by the explosion of a boiler. WillG. V. Turner, engineer; Hiram Gouidlng, fireman, and John McDowell, night watchman, were killed. J. I* Turner and Bose PJew were seriously injured, and Orlando Zeders and Peter Nelson fatally... .The fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of lowa was celebrated at Burlington on the Ist inst., and called together thousands from all aections of the State. The programme included a parade, speech-making, regatta and a ball and fireworks in the evening. A rain-storm of unusual violence occurred at Council Bluffs, on the night of the Ist inst., flooding the streets, swelling the streams to torrents, and washing away failway culverts and iron bridyes. There were several persons drowned. The loss of property is placed at hundreds of thousands of-dollars. A new drama, never before played upon any stage, will be produced on the hoards of McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, oa Monday next It is entitled “The Power of Money," and is an adaptation from the French of Busnach, author of “L’Assomnoir,” although the scenes are laid in America. The plot is a thrillingly-interesting one, and a strong company has been engaged to do the acting.

A terrible pieee of criminal recklesness on the part of a United States Marshal, which resulted in the killing' of three school children, is reported from the Indian Territory. Deputy-Marshal Mershon, with a Sosse, was looking for a oouple of murderers 1 the Chickasaw Nation, near Red river. They were supposed to be at a certain house, and just before daylight the officers surrounded the place. * The woman 01 the house, with two of her children, aged 11 and lt>, were sleeping put under the trees, •wing to the heat of the night, and the third one, only 9 years of age, was sleeping in the house. The Marshals, on riding up, woke them, and they, supposing some drunken Indians were carousing around, ran for the house to barricade themselves The Marshals, without waiting for closer investigation to see whether they were the parties wanted. Opened fire on them, killing both of the bojjs and wounding the woman They then rushed fn the house, and, seeing the other boy lying there in the dim light, shot and killed him... John Hamner, who recently murdered an old man named Newell under circumstances of unusual atrocity, was tjken from jail at 'Winterset, lowa, by a mob, hanged to a tree and soot through tbe body. The raob operated with remarkable speed, surprising the guard and executing their errand before an alarm could be given,. -..Amasa Stone, the deceased Cleveland millionaire, bequeathed the use of fSOO, to his widow during her Sfe, and gave ♦600.0. H) each to Ms daughters, Mrs. John Hay and Mrs Samuel Mather.... Incendiaries in Eastern Indiana are continuing the policy of burning the barns of fanners who have suppl ed themselves with adlf-plnding reaping-mdchines....The Da-

kota Capital Commission decided unanimously in favor of Bismarck as the- future capital... .The damage by the recent rainstorm at Council Bluffs, lowa, is estimated at $300,000, Contrary to first reports, there Was no one drowned. \ Frank Brown and John Anderson, notorious desperadoes, undertook to “run” the town of Wiota, lowa, threatening peaceable citizens and firing their revolvers. As they passed up the street, a public-spirited citizen fired aload of buck-shot into'them. Anderson has since died, and Brown cannot recover. THK SOUTH. . Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, delivered an address before she literary societies of Yanderbilt Univertity, at Nashville, Tenn., on “The Homicidal Side of Southern Life.” WMle admitting that there is much crime in the South, the LouisvUle editor claimed that the North was equally bad, and that nowhere else in the world are the weak and poor so secure as they are in the South. A disastrous fire occurred at Lynchburg, Ya, a large hardware establishment, a tobacco warehouse, and a newspaper and job-printing office being the principal concerns burned. The property loss Is about $400,000. While the firemen were at work, a brick-wall fell upon and killed five of them, injuring a sixth quite severely. At Baltimore a quarrel arose on the track in the summer garden, where the contest was progressing between Hughes and Hart, the colored pedestrian, in which the latter’s eye woe blacked and he was knocked over the‘railing. There was great excitement for a time. A statement by Mrs. Phil B. Thompson, the first she has made for publication, of matters causing the killing of Walter Davis by her husband has' appeared in the Cincinnati papers She denies pointedly that she was drunk at the St Clair hotel, and calls God to witness that Walter Davis was innocent of any wrong toward her. When she went into his room that night, she says they could not waken Miss Buckner, and therefore she went into Davis’ room. Her story was told at Mrs Davis’ house and in her presence.... There was a doable hanging at Macon, Ga The victims of the halter were John Bailey for the murder of John Tapman, and Henry Wlmbush for the slaying of Morgan Washington. Fifteen thousand people were present Bob Henderson was executed at Oxford, N. C., for the murder of his young wife. The three expiators were negroes

A tornado swept over the town of Greenville, Hunt county, Texas, with disastrous results. Over 150 houses were blown down and moved off the blocks on which they rested, while a large number of others are more or less damaged Strange to relate, only one life was lost—that of a colored child Several persons sustained severe injuries, however.... Several insurance companies, domestic and foreign, having failed to comply with the laws of Virginia in not presenting their annual reports, will be prosecuted for doing business in that State Security deposits of the delinquents are held in the ‘ State Treasury.

POLITICAL. The New York World publishes a letter written to Mr. Pulitzer by Senator Bayard respecting the tariff question, in which he Bays: Anything like finesse or the appearance of finesse or trick, in deuling with such an issue as the tariff for revenue or tariff for protection by certain classes of our citizens will weaken the party resorting to it I know of no position more impregnable and upon which it is more important for the Democratic party to form its line than that public property cannot be taken for private use under any pretext” The Constitutional Prohibitory Convention of New Hampshire, in session at Concord, adopted resolutions asking the next Legislature to take the necessary steps to have submitted to the people a Prohib T itory constitutional amendment, pledging the supjjort of the delegates to the movement, asking churches and temperance organizations to circulate petitions to the Legislatuie to call a convention, and deprecating any weakening of the present Prohibitory law. The Republican and Irving Hall Democratic members of the New York Excise Commission have formed a coalition against the county Democratic member, and the entire patronage of the board will be divided between Irving Hall and the Republicans. Gen. George P. Buel died at Nashville, Tenn., in consequence of a recent surgical operation. He entered the volunteer service in 1861 as Lieutenant Coronel of the Fifty-eighth Indiana regiment, soon succeeding' to the command of that regiment, and afterward being promoted to the rank of Brigadier General of volunteera On the disbandment of the volunteer army, Gen. Buell was appointed to the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the Twentyninth United States infantry, with the brevet rank of Brigadier General At the lime of his death his actual rank was Colonel of the Fifteenth infantry... .Ricardo Menocal, who fled |rom Cuba seven years ago with 9-100,000 of the public funds has been recaptured.... During 188:1, 22,280 toes of steel rails were produced in the United Statea

The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed a bill which deprives the Standard Oil Company of the monopoly it has virtually enjoyed in the pipe Jine. A bill was also passed prescribing .penalties for discrimination in charges for the transportation of freight by common carrier.... .The election fraud cases at New Orleans resulted in a verdict of “notguilty.” The Massachusetts Board of Health and Charities has refused to remove its Secretary, Mr. Sanborn, at the request of Gov. Butler, who accused Mr. Sanborn of showing disrespect for him in the course of official correspondence.... The Independent Republicans of Massachusetts will hold a State Convention at an early date to nnminate a candidate for Governor, in order to thwart the supposed design of Gov. Butler to secure a re-election. WASHINGTON. Senator Don Cameron has rented his Washington residence to Representative Washburn, of Minnesota, for a term of two years. The star-route-ring prosecutions began a year ago, and, at the rate they have progressed, it is possible they will continue a year longer Then come the Kellogg case and the jury-bribery ease, and possibly a pntrial of charges against Brady, Dorsey and Vailc....-The decrease of t’e public debt duriugTtfay amounted to $4,890,47(1 The Court of Claims has at last cleared its docket of the final case bronght before that tribunal under the provisions of the act of March, 1863, relativfe to captured and abandoned property in the Southecn States. Almost tul the property which was received by Government agents, and to which this act app ies, was cotton. From official records the court has pre-

pared some Interesting statistics oq the subject The wholfe amount of proceeds of the captured and abandoned property was $81,72a,466, of which $6,55i,w0, or more than 20 per cent, was absorbed in the cost of collection and sale... .Postmaster General Gresham has issued an order that Postmasters of first and second-class offices must personally attend to their duties, and must not absent themselves without permission from Washington. Violation of this rule renders them liable to removal GENERAL A gathering of free traders at Detroit was presided over by Hon. David A Wells. About seventy delegates' were present Mayor Thompson, who delivered the welcoming address, urged the formation of an American Zollverein, composed of the United States, Mexico ana the Canadas The adoption of such a union, he said, would result In freedom of trade between the countries named. Mr. Wells delivered a lengthy address in advocacy of the policy of free trade Thomas G. Shearman, of Brooklyn, and Hon. William M. Springer, of Illinois, also made speeches. An address to the people of the United Statfes was adopted, which, alter declaring the tariff question to be the paramount issue in national politics, sets forth the benefits that might be expected to result to the country from the freetrade policy. David A Wells was elected permanent President, with an imposing list of Vice Presidents.... Advices from Oposnra, Sonora, indicate that the Apaches, learning of Gen. Crook’s advance, had left their ranches in the mountains and were seeking security in the interior of Sonora The Mexican force there was regarded as insufficient to intercept them, and the opinion was expressed that Crook’B campaign was a failure. It is alleged theft the General arranged no plan of co-operation with the military authorities of Sonora, who have been entirely ignorant of his intentions.... The example of the iron manufacturers of Pittsburgh in signing the scale of 1882 is being generally followed in the Ohio district, and there is now mo probability of any suspension of work at the rolling-mills that will materially reduce the production. The Bay View mills, near Milwaukee, closed last week, although the workmen, who number nearly 1,200, were willing to continue at the wages of the last contract yean They wUI probably remain closed all summer. The Hon. Edwards Pierrepont, who was Attorney General under President Grant, and subsequently Minister to England, when asked by a Chicago reporter if he thought Tynan and Sheridan could be claimed by England under the Extradition laws, replied that if Guiteau, after murdering Garfield, had taken refuge in England his case would have been a parallel of the Phoenix Park affair. If the murder had been accepted as a political crime then Guiteau could not-have been extradicted But Mr. Pierrepont regards the Dublin criminals as murderers, and expresses the belief that if Guiteau had escaped to her Majesty’s dominions he would have been promptly surrendered on demand,.. .Failures In the United States last week numbered 160, beating the previous week’s record by five, and being an increase of fifty-six over the corresponding week in 1882.

The Atlantic cables, according to Mr. John Pender, are capable of accommodating three times the amount of business that is at present required of them. FOREIGN. • •Count Zacharoff, agent of the Allan Line at Galway, Ireland, who h v been engaging factory girls for Massachusetts mills, has been secretly warned to quit that city on pain of death. Lord Derby, British Secretary for the Colonies, refuses to sanction the annexation of New Guinea by Queensland, but will permit the establishment of English stations on the coast of the island.... Alexander K. Isbister, who was largely instrumental in breaking up the Hudson Bay Company’s monopoly in the British Northwest, died in England, aged 60 years... .The Pope’s “Peter’s pence” collections show a very marked falling off, and it is among the Irish faithful that the decrease is the most noticeable. Fighting between the forces of the Ameer of Afghanistan and the Shincuarris has been renewed, says a cable dispatch from Calcutta. The losses have been heavy on both sides. Raft-loads of dead bodies have been brought down the Cabul river.... Dr. Gallagher, Whitehead, Curten, Ansburgh, Wilson and Bernard Gallagher, the dynamite conspirators, were indicted at London for treaßon-felony.... German commerce with Chinese waters is threatened by the trouble between France au,dTonquin. If the French blockade the ports it is believed England and America will join with the Berlin Government in entering a protest... .Twenty-two workmen were drowned at Oleggio, Italy, by the capsizing of a boat

The • specter of the Duke of Connaught ruling the Indian empire as the deputy of his mother, Queen Victoria, and the Duke of Edinburgh in Dublin Castle as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, is said to have determined the British Ministry not to establish a precedent by the appointment of the weakling Duke of Albany to the Governor Generalship of Canada.... Capt Riviere and fifteen marines, captured by the Annamites at Hanoi, suffered death by impalement The Captain, with an advanced body, were surprised by a larger force, and the rear guard were too far distant to he of any service. Senor Castelar, in a banquet at Madrid, attended by statesmen of Spain and Portugal, advocated a union of both countries; but the Portuguese Viscount Almendinka said there could be no union between a distracted nation like Spain and a tranquil Btate like Portugal... .Liberty in certain directions has been conceded by the Czar to the dissenters from the Greek church, who have hitherto been prohibited from changing their domiciles, engaging in trade, holding office or performing religious rites.... Thomas Caffrey was hanged in the Dublin Jail on the 2d inst, being the fourth to suffer the death penalty for the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke. In a letter to his mother Caffrey expressed the hope that as he was to suffer punishment for his crime in this world he would not have to suffer in the next... .A great fete was given in the Petroffsky Park at Moscow, 1,000,000 persons participating. Four mammoth theaters had been erected, in which performances were given. Beer wai dispensed to the multitude without cost... .In a prize-fight at London, the Prince of Wales being one of the auditors, Lord Charles Beresfora whipped Jem Mace, the noted pugilist Slade, the Maori, refused an encounter with the nobleman after-witnessing the pummeling inflicted on his"protector. ....The pilgrimage (ft “Bonanza” Mackey and his wife to Moscow attracts great attention, and the European press is taken up with descriptions of Mackey’s magnificent private car and Mra Mackey's more-magnificent court dresses. They ratify threw, the Ozar iutp the shade George Cassagnao fought A duel with an old Sergeant Major en the Swiss frontier, and was wounded in the throat, probhbly fatally.