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

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Baenum’s circus-tent, which' was pitched on the Lake shore, at Chicago, and in which one performance had been given, was set on fire by sparks from a locomotive and almost completely destroyed, together with all the seats. Fortunately the animals were all saved. The loss is estimated at s2o,coa A cyclone in Baxtner county, Ala., demolished all the houses ou the plantations of Messrs. Bettnent, Neely, Wilkinson, Stiles, Tomes and Mrs. Meigham. One colored man was killed, and several severely injured.... The damage done by the cyclone in the region of Greenville, Texas, ,1s estimated to exceed $1,000,000. James Carey and the other informers who testified at the trials of the Phoenix Park murderers have been notified that they must indicate the places and the country to which they/wish to be sent Carey protested that he would remain in Dublin, out the am thorities pointed out that he would receive no political protection, and that on no condition would he be allowed to remain in Ireland It is Inferred from this action that the extradition proceedings in the case of Walsh, Sheridan and Tynan are collapsing..... Davitt and Healy, members of Parliament, and Quinn, sentenced in February to confinement in Kilmainham jail for making inflammatory speeches, have been released. ....Favorable weather has materially Improved th‘e condition of growing grain in Great Britain. The Guiteau case will never down for good It has come into prominence again owing to the fact that P. J. Sheahy, one of the jurors, has gone crazy and been sent to an asylum. The case is peculiarly pathetic in some points. It is reported that Sheahy believed that Guiteau was insane and that the jury should have so found, but h« had not the courage in face of the unanimity of the rest to stand out and say so. He was also afraid, it seems, of what he knew was the public clamor on the Bubject Since Guiteau’s execution it is said he has been continually haunted by reflection upon the case, and tine conviction that he had voted to hang a lunatic, until Ms mind has given way under it His insanity took a fierce turn, so that his family were afraid for their lives The Grafton Iron Company, of Leetonia, OMo, wMch has two large blast furnaces with a capacity of about £OO tons of pig-iron per week, has gone by the board, with liabilities amounting to $600,000... .The saw, lath and shingle-mill, and the blacksmithshop of Wilson, Luther & Wilson, located at Luther, Mich., burned to the ground with all its contents Cause, a lamp explosion. Loss, #50,000. The Pennsylvania Senate has passed a bill to proMbit political assessments. It provides that it shall be unlawful for any committee, or member thereof, to demand of any person in the service of any city or county of the State any money or anything of value, with the understanding that it will he used for any political purpose; At the General Convention of the Swedenborgian Church, held at Boston, the President, the Rev. Chauncey Giles, was appointed a messenger to the English Convention in August next President G les was re-elected, and T. A Plant, of Pomeroy, Ohio, was chosen Vice-President