Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. a series of monstrous from PhiladelphiaIn the cellar of the residence of Dr. Isaac Hathaway were found the skulls of twentyone infants and several human bones The doctor was proprietor of a hospital for relieving unmarried women of the evidences of their indiscretion, and enabling married ladies to keep up a continuous round of society enjoyments with but a slight interruption. No such infamous institution as this of Dr. Hathaway has been heard of since Mme. Bestell’s suicide in New York. It is pleasant to note that the doctor is in custody. .. .The Harvard College crew defeated the Columbian by twelve lengths in a fourmile race off New London... .The death is announced of Catholic Archbishop Wood, of Philadelphia. About 1,000 barrels of old Pennsyl-vania-whisky were burned in warehouses at Gibson&n, Pa, involving a loss of >500,000. Fifteen persons were severely scalded by the explosion of liquor.... The Boston Advertitcr says the woolen-mill industry in New England is depressed, and that mills are closing owing to the sluggishness of the'dry-goods market... .A Boston dispatch chronicles the failure of R. J. Hardy & Co., dealers in grain and wool, whose liabilities are chiefly in the West.... W. T. Cook & Co., straw-goods manufacturers at Foxboro, Mass., have suspended payment on about >200,000 liabilities. The will of Dr. Eliphalet Clark, of Deering, Me., bequeaths >50,000t0 the Methodist Seminary at Kent’s Hill, the interest to be applied to school subjects, but for any year during which a member of the faculty or a teacher shall refrain from using tobacco in any form, the interest for that period shall be added to the fund itself... .A handsome woman of Derby, Ct, has been arrested for complicity in the recent alarming burglaries in the Naugatuck valley, including the abstraction of SI,OOO from the safe of the postoffice m Bristol The intention of the senior Vanderbilt to retire from the Presidencies of the Central and Lake Shore roads not known even to his wife, his sons or his attorney. After urging his best friends to purchase stocks in the family enterprises, he slipped the noose of responsibility from his neck and next day sailed for Europe. Gould and Sage were in the remote Southwest, and it is stated that they were "oompelled to sustain Central at 120 and Lake Shore at 109 to avert disaster to their interests. They received some aid from W. K. Vanderbilt, who had ignorantly been engaged in buying stock placed on the market by his father

THE WEST. Gen. Crook says not a single Apache is on the warpath in Sonora, and he doubts If there is even a single living one of the tribe In that State or Chihuahua. The General believes that the captured Apaches and those who will come in should be allowed to • return to the San Carlos reservation. A refusal to do so on the part of the Government will prove a fatal mistake, as they will at once return to the warpath, leaving the squaws, children and old men behind. If compelled to do so they will never again surrender, but will make a life business of raids and muller.... Fire at St Lake Citv, Utah, destroyed three structures, Involving a loss of >IOO,OOO. Whl e the fiie was in progress la powder explosion occurred, demolishing plate-glass windows, sa-hes, and doors, causing an additional loss of >20,000.... The Rev. D. B. Knickerbocker, D. D., of Minneapolis, has accepted the elevation to the Episcopal Bishopric of Indiana, to w'hich he was elected a few weeks ag0....A tornado in the vicinity of Chillicothe, Ma, leveled €hirty-four houses, killed two rnten, and injured fifteen other persona While a southwest gale was blowing at Long Point, DeWitt county, 111, with a drizzling rain, the wind suddenly shifted to the northwest, bringing a scorching atmosphere that wilted oats mid burned blades of grass, causing amazement among the inhabitants.... The body of Mrs Anna Lake, who was buried at Foxt Wayne twenty-eight years ago, was lately exhumed for removal to Kenosha, and was found in such preservation as to be recognized at once.... At a roll-ing-mill in South Chicago, an explosion was caused by molten iron bursting through the rear of a furnace, and twelve men were seriously burned.

The Madison levee, below Alton, on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, was broken by the flood, and all the bottom, a territory covering between fifty and sixty square miles, was inundated. The residents became panic stricken, and escaped in disorder, taking whatever they conld carry. Live stock were drowned in meadows and the damage to crops cannot be estimated. A St/Louis dispatch hays that when the dyke broke the waters rushed over with terrible forca The Chicago and Alton embankment near Venice was swept away, and the Chicago and Alton, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and Indianapolis ana St. Louis railway tracks were destroyed. Sixty square miles of farming lands, embracing 17,000 acres of the finest fields, were flooded to a depth of tan feet, and wheat, corn and other grain ruined. No loss of life has been reported, the inhabitants having been in readiness for tho worst. Nearly all the eastern part of Venice is under water. Many families have vacaed their houses and sought safety on higher ground. The towns of Cahokia and East St Louis are flooded to a depth of ten feet, the inhabitants being forced to flee to the high lands. The loss cannot be less than $2 JO,OOO. A tornado swept through a large section of country about ten miles west of Omaha, and did great damage to farmhouses, barns and orchards. One house was carried fifty rods from its foundations. The people living in the track of the storm escaped by seeking refuge in their cellars. THE SOUTH. Stock-raisers in Western Texas are organizing and employing guards to protect their ranges from the depredations of thieves.... .Lightning from a clear sky killed two cattle-dealeis at Bay St. Louis and milted the gold and silver coins in their pockets. There was dedicated at Camden, a C., a monument -to Confederate soldiers, erected by thegvomen of Kershaw county, at which Gov. Wade Hampton delivered the oration. Mr. Hampton declared Southern women would ever repel the insinuation thatthepile marked a spot where traitors slept He claimed the war was a civil, not a rebellious one, growing out of clashing constructions of the national constitution. He maintained perfect union of the ’States was Impossible so long as the South

was tolerated, but suspected; bus held the future was auspicious, and that time was healing many differences.... Horatio N. Ogden, a prominent lawyer and Attorney General of Louisiana under the Nichols Government, died of apoplexy at New Orleans, aged 43. He belonged to a large family of lawyers and orators of South Carolina stock... .A negro murderer named Wesley Warren was hanged by a mob at Prospect, Tenn. The law’s delays meet with little consideration in Tennessee. Some day’s ago a young man named Trice, who was employed as a clerk in a country store a few miles from Pulaski, was foully murdered and the store robbed of a small sum of money. Suspicion was directed toward Wesley Warren, a colored man, who was arrested and lynched Two companions, Kyle Walker ana Harry Reid, were arrested at the same time, but the proofs of guilt were less conclusive, and thpv were discharged Certain parties who believed them guilty made further investigations, secured the necessary proof and roarrested the men. A mob attacked the jail, seized the prisoners and hanged them to a neighboring tree. They made a full confession, and expressed no regrets.... Four men who robbed a Little Rock train in March and murdered Conductor Cain, were hanged last week at Clarksville; Ark Lewis Carter was executed at Jerusalem, Va, for killing his wife.

POLITICAL. A caucus of the Republican members of the New Hampshire Legislature nominated Hon. E. H. Bollins to be his own successor in the United States Senate. Upon the first ballot Mr. Rollins received considerably less than enough to elect Mb. Evans, the newly appointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue, is making himself disliked in certain quarters by the summary removal of several of his subordinates, who have been connected with the department for several years. The Ohio Democracy met in convention at Columbus and nominated George Hoadley for Governor, John G. Warwick for Lieutenant Governor, Martin D. Follett and Belwin Owen for Supreme Court Judges, James Lawrence for Attorney General, ana Peter Bradv for Treasurer of State. Gen. Durbin Ward received 279 votes for Governor. and, on being called on to address the convention,rebuked his political brethren for ignoring his claims and announced himself a candidate for the United States Senate.... In the third ballot for Senator from New Hampshire, where 163 votes are necessary to a choice, Harry Bingham, Democrat, received 119 votes and Edwin H. Rollins, Republican, 113. The Governor of Pennsylvania has vetoed a bill to pay citizens of Somerset county for quartering State troops in 1863, with twenty years’ interest on the claim. It has been intimated to Commissioner of Internal Revenue Evans that his policy since he assumed the duties of his office is not at all in accordance with the President's ideas, and that he had better go slow, especially as his appointment has not yet been confirmed. WASHINGTON. The President has appointed the following cadets-at-large to the West Point Military Academy: Manning J. Logan, of Illinois (son of Gem Logan); Andrew Curtin Quay, of Pennsylvania; and Pierrepont Isham, of Illinois* with Robert A Emmett, of New York, and Samuel D. Hatch, of lowa, alternates.

Thomas Logan Tullock, of Portsmouth, N. H. , and Postmaster of Washington, died at Atlantic City. Mr. Tullock has held various offices here since 1865. He was once Secretary of the National Republican Committee. He was appointed Postmaster at Washington, in November, after the removal of Ainger... .Gen. Charles Ewing, of Ohio, a brother-in-law of Gen. Sherman, died last week, at Washington. Secretary Teller has decided that Gen. Crook’s captive bucks cannot be placed on the San Carlos reservation, but he will consent to receive the children and unmarried squaws. While the War Department has $27,000 on hand for the-support of Indian prisoners, the appropriations made for the Interior Department will not maintain 500 captives. President Arthur has appointed Capt 8. L Phelps, of the District of Columbia, Minister to Peru; Richard Gibbs, of New York, Minister to Bolivia; Robert C. Mitchel), of Minnesota, Rec iver of Public Moneys at Duluth. Minn, vice William W. Spaulding, suspended; James H. Case, Register of the Land Office at Ironton, Mo., vice George A Moser, term of office expired; Hamilton Richards, Postmaster at Janesville, Wis., vice H. A Patterson, commission expired; F. B. Jeanpert, Eureka, 111, viceF. 8. Myers, failed to qualify ; Samuel B. Price, Urbana, Ohio, vice D. C. Hitt, commission expired; Lemuel D. Gandy, York, Neb., vice Mrs. M J. Hammond, resigned; and Wheeler 8. Bowen, Yankton, Dakota, vice A W. Howard, suspended.... .The cost of the starroute mall-service in Louisiana and Texas for the fiscal year ending June 30 was >333,141 ‘ a reduction of $141,978 from the cost of the same service the preceding year. During the same time lhe cost per mile of the service was reduced from 8 3-10 to 6 3-10 cents.

Alexander Sullivan and twentyother representative Irishmen waited upon President Arthur and submitted facts showing that the British Government is assisting inmates of poor-houses to emigrate to the United States. The delegation alleged that for this purpose £IIO,OOO was voted by Parliament, and that helpless poor people are arriving steadily on our shores. The President replied' as follows: “The subject you present will receive my careful consideration. It has already been under consideration by the Secretary of State, correspondence in regard to it has been had with our diplomatic and consular representatives, and investigation into the facts is now being made by them. It is, of course, proper that this Government should ascertain whether any nation with which it holds amicable relations is violating any obligation of international friendship before calling attention to any such matter. In the meantime, the law now provides that the officers of the Treasury shall examine into the condition of the passengers arriving as immigrants inauy port of the United btates, and if there should be found any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself without becoming a public charge, they shall repoat the same in writing to the Collector of such port, and such persons shall not be permitted to land. The investigation will be thorough and exhaustive on th s side of the Atlantic and on the other, and in the meantime the law will he strictly enforced.*.... CoL D. B. Parker, a prominent official in the Postoffice Department, has been appointed Postmaster at Washington.... .Gen. Brady has given bail in |20,(k0 under the new indictment. GENERAL. It seems that H. W. How-gate, the absconding disbursing officer of the signal office, who stole about #BOO,OOO, has been

traveling about the United States in vars. ous disguises He has eluded the detectives for several months, even though being beneath their very noses. Naturally he has black hair and eyes, and always caacied a cane to assist him in walking. Hewaf seen in New Orleans, Being identified quite as much by the companionship of his mistress, Nellie BurrelL as for the reason his disguise was penetrated. He had dyed hte hair and eyebrows a fiery red, his face was marked by artificial treckies, and he walked without the cane and nnlimpingly. A Government officer was notified, but a railroad accident prevented his getting to New Orleans in time to prevent Howgate’s departure for Cuba.

“Corners” are not restricted to operations in stocks, provisions or grain. The nailmakers of the Western Association contemplate a suspension of production. At a special meeting last week trade was reported in a satisfactory condition, the demand being good, prices steady, and stocks light The object of the suspension is simply to squeeze more money out of the consumers.

The business failures for the week ending June 23, as reported to R G. Dun & Co. ’s mercantile agency, numbered 181, as compared with 186 the previous week, a decrease of five The New England and Middle States have had 23; Western, 48; Southern, 43; Pacific States and Territories. 21; Canada, 26; New York, 7.... .Three informers in the Dublin prosecutions recently landed at Quebec, ana but for police protection woula have been flung into the St Lawrence by their fellow-countrymen.

The annual Convention of Nurserymen and Florists of the United States was held last week at St Louis, Mo. The following officers were chosen: President, M. A Hunt, of Chicago; Vice President, Franklin Davis, of Baltimore; Secretary, D. W. Scott, of Gelena, HL; Treasurer. A R. Whitney, of Franklin Grove, HL; Executive Committee. C. L Watrous, of Des Moines, Iowa; George B. Thomas, of Westchester. Pa; and W G Barry, of Rochester, N. Y. A number of Vice Presidents were also elected for their respective States Chicago was fixed upon as the place for holding the next convention in June, 1884... .Owing to the influx of navigation to Northwestern Canada, the Government has decided to make no further sales or grants of lands for the present.

FOREIGN. In the course of a speech before an audience of 20,000 people at Birmingham, England, John Bright said the large surplus revenue of the United States would prove the death of the protection policy of this country, andpredicted that the next Presidential election would be f ought upon the tariff issue.... The explosion of the magazine at Scutari, mention of which has been heretofore made, was caused by lightning. One hundred and fifty persons were killed and fifty-three wounded. Two hundred barrels of gunpowder and 6,000 cartridges were destroyed. ....Reports prevail in Paris that American officers have asked leave to serve in the Chinese navy In case of war with France,

A dispatch from Sunderland, England, says: The number of deaths from the catastrophe at Victoria Hall has now reached 202. The funeral ceremonies over the victims were very impressive The streets were crowded with sympathetic pedple, most of whom were in mourning. The blinds of the houses were drawn and the church in which the funeral services were held had a black flag at half - mast One hundred free graves were prepared in one cemetery for the reception of the victims, exclusive of those for which the parents of children who lost their lives will pay. The liberality with which Americans have responded to the request for contributions to erect a memorial bust to the deceased poet Longfellow in Westminster Abbey has found a responsive chord in the hearts of fully 500 Englishmen of note in literature, science ana politics: and they contemplate returning the compliment by defraying the expense of a bust to be placed in any New England town the immediate friends of the deceased may decide upon.

The American horse is once more in the ascendant in England. At the racing at Stockbridge the £3OO cup was won by Iroquois. The bookmakers conceded that such would be the result of the contest, as the betting was six to five in his favor. Sachem was second for the Beaufort handicap. Aranza won the Johnstone Plate handicap. The three horses belong to /Pierre Lorillard, of New York.... Bo’and, a Belgian swindler, on trial at Brussels for embezzling (W 0,000 francs, said that Gambetta had paid him large sums to secure certain papers concerning Bismarck, and that the funds he was accused ot pilfering were given him to bribe members of the French Chamber... .The French Consul has been informed that the Queen of Madagascar died six months ago, and that the fact was kept from the world by the military party..... The British Ministry announce its abandonment of the criminal procedure bill for this session of Parliament... .The Norwegian Storthing,has refused to vote the additional grant of 50,0 X) kroner to the Crown Prince—--80 to 32.

Gen. Lew Wallace is represented as having a lively time as Minister to Turkey. He refused to accept a tardy-notice of the termination of the treaty with the Unit d States, forced from the Sultan a promise that the recent attack on American missionaries should be atoned for, and demanded an apology because an American physician was compelled to take out a Turkish diploma.... Placards threatening the destruction of the Royal Palace and eminent monuments were recently posted in the streets of Athens by anarchists... .De Lesseps appeals to the inventors of Europe to compete for the prize offered for the best means of lighting the Suez canal by electricity... .The difficulties between France and China have been amicably arranged. Lord Rosebery has declined to accept the Viceroyalty of India unless the Government will consent to abandon the bill giving jurisdiction over Europeans to the native magistracy. The Cabinet is divided on the question, and everything points to a speedy break-up of the Gladstone administration. Parnell has compelled the Government to abandon the Criminal Code bill, and the obstructives are having matters all their own way in the Commons... .During severe fighting at Miragoane, Hayti, Gen. Casimir, the rebel leader was killed, and the Government forces are now in ' possession of the lower portion of the city. Twenty-four; insurgent ringleaders at St Louis and ten at Cavalion were shot June 14... .The German Government will not permit men belonging to its navy td take to China the iron-clhd recently launchedat Stettin.... Louise Michel was found guilty at Paris of Inciting to pillage, and was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment and ten years’ police'surveillance. The foreman of the jury which pronounced her guilty has already received a letter threatening his life. The New Zealand passenger vessels, the Aurunui and Waitara, collided in the English Channel, and the latter went to the bottom in two minutes. The steerage and second-class passengers, numbering twentyfive, were all drowned. ;-Z. J ‘.. 1- ?. ..J J-.tfekj J* .J