Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Henby Wickes, an aged lawyer of Albany, has disappeared. It is known that for ten years he has embezzled moneys collected for Mrs. Van Rensselaer, of Greenbush, the aggregate being #50,000. A heavy storm at Dover, N. H., caused the barsting of a sewer, which flooded the Cocheco Print Works. damaging prints ready for shipment and other stock to the extent of 850,000. Seven persons were struck by lightning and three persons killed... .The mill of Bleakie & Co., at Amesbury, Mass, valued at 8100,000, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground John Armoy Knox, of the Texas Sift Inge, and oneD. B. Shcahan, said to be% sculptor, quarreled about politics at a wine supper in New York, the matter culminating in a duel across the river, in Now Jersey. The combatants were placed twenty paces apart At the second fire Knox felt his left arm twitched, and found that Sheahan's bullet had passed through his cont and shirt, slightly grazing the skin. Shcahan was untouched The pair then shook hands, and the proceedings were over. Goy. Barstow, of Vermont;, ordered out four companies of militia to quell a labor disturbance at Ely, ,jn the Green Mountain State. Three hundred mineys, armed with pistols and knives, took pos- . session of the mine explosives, threatened to destroy the mine and burn the town unless they received their pay, which is long overt. due, owing to the mining company being financially embarrassed Gnmley, an aeronant'who ascended from Honesdale, Pa., in a balloon, landed in the Cfttskllls, and had a terrible experience. » The heat in* New York last week was most intense. There were many cases of sunstroke. The street-car companies erected temporary sheds for their horses. Each street was patrolled by carts loaded with blocks of ice and covered by tarpaulins. The greatest suffering was among the immigrants at Castle Garden. No less than 672 children under 5 years of age died in the city during the week.... John Dennison Baldwin, editor of the Worcester (Mass) Spy, is dead. He served three terms in Congress and was a member of the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1860. .. .Fire destroyed the Massachusetts Almshouse at Bridgewater. Six hundred inmates were lately removed. It is supposed that the conflagration was started by somebody inside. The loss is #150,000..... G R Marvin, the oldest member of the New York Stock Exchange, is dead... .Two leading physicians of Reading, Pa, were drowned in the Schuylkill river while swimming. THE WEST. In the suburbs of Cincinnati the Thunderbolt expresss on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio road, which was running rapidly to make up Ipst time, struck a huckster’s wagon containing seven persons, killing six instantly. The victims, Henry Kracke and his wife and family, were shockingly mutilated, and the locomotive was sprinkled with flour to hide the blood stains....A masked mob in Grand county. Col., shot four Commissioners and the County Clerk. Mr. Mills and HarvevDay were instantly killed. E P. Webber and D. J. Dean were mortally wounded The citizens have called on the Governor for military protection... .-The suit of E. J. Lehman vs. The Chicago Htrald Company was dec ded against the latter. The jury awarded # 5 - 000 damages, the amount asked for. Lehman is a leading merchant, and the paper charged him with having formerly been a swindler and confidence man. An outbreak in the penitentiary at Salem, Ore, resulted in the death of three convicts, the fatal shooting of three, and the escape of eight....A fire at Astoria, Ore, swept away property of the estimated value of #225,000. The commission house _of Whitcomb A Kendall, of Chicago, has been closed on an attachment by Philip D. Armour. The liabilities of-the bankrupts are about #109,000. ... .Wood’s’ Opera House at St. Paul, Minn., was destroyed by fire... .Twenty-six buildings at Evansville, Mina, were'burned, entailing a loss of 8150,000. It appears that Commissioner Mills, of Grand county, Col, was one of the three men who assassinated the other Commissioners and the County Clerk. The whole affair grows out of the removal of the county seat

Kansas sends the first car-load of winter wheat to Chicago. It inspected Na 2, and weighed tiffy-nine and a lialf pounds to the measured bushel... .Nelson Howard, colored, killed an official of the Wabash road, named John Kane, on an excursion train near Mound Citv, 111, on the Fourth of July, and fled t> the woods On being captured he was jailed at Mound City, where a mob saved the county the cost of a trial and execution by lynching him. The death is announced of Mlle. Marie Litta, the well-known operatic and concert singer, of Bloomington, 111. The cause of her death was a complication of troubles, resulting in cerebro-spinal meningitis. She had beem breaking down for a year or more, though the attack that ended her professional career came about two months ago For years she had suttered at times exceedingly with stomach troubles, together with affections of the kidqeys of a serious character and other complications, including rheumatic affections, more or less severe. She sang for the last time at Escanaba, Mich., May,V. fihe then went to Negaunee, where she jvas competed to take to her bed, and where she remained till June 5, when she Was taken home to die. Her age was 27.... .Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, has expressed his intention of strictly enforcing the Sunday clause of the new Liquor law. Though the Sunday law on the statute books has long been neglected, and looked upon as a dead letter, the Governor maintains the passage of it in the Downing bill revivifies the matter, “and expresses the will of the people's representatives, which he has solemnly sworn to obey....An enthusiastic temperance meeting was held at Milwaukee last Bunday. There were several addresses in which it was stated that the Prohibition pgrty of the country was preparing to nominate a Presidential ticket in 1881 THE SOUTH. Martin J ones, a ' negro, who murdered Mrs. Ambaeher at Skipwith, Miss., was hanged by a mob a short distance from the town ...On returning from a night session of court at Jefferson, Texas, Judge Haughn was fairly perforated with buckahetJH some unknown person, and died in The boiler of J. F. Kelley’s saw-mill t J? * SA *

at Huntsville, exploded, killing four men instantly, and severely wounding four or five others... .A bale of new middling cotton, weighing 885 pounds, was sold at Albany, Ga., ar cents per pound. Six negroes, four men and two women, were drowned in Columbus county, N. G On reaching a bridge that spanneda swollen stream, they found that a portion had been washed away. Determined to cross the stream, however, they looked for a boat, and, being unable to find one, made a raft of legs and grapevines, and on this they attempted to cross. When the middle of the river was reached the raft went to pieces, and thia whole party of six found a watery grave. Three men, one holding a large bucket of boilidg-hot pitch, were standing on a sky-light in Atlanta, whence glass gate way, precipitating the miralfety feet, the black nuid’pouring ti&theifi fitter their fall Although the victims wefonh fearfully bruised and their bruises sculled with pitch, yet none of them wtil die?.., .Joseph Brewster, a soldier, guiltysef criminally assaulting Mia Davis.:-t Fort Duds, was banged at Ysleta, Texas. .He made no confession, but delivered a speech of twenty minutes, during which he took two big drinks of whisky, his religious adviser taking the bottle from him once. The knot was tied in a bungling way. and after the fall Brewster writhed and twitched terribly. Then the rope slipped, and he was hauled up from the trap and upon the platform. The rope was replaced and the man was then rehung... John Cone, colored, was hanged at Houston, Texas, for a criminal assault on Mrs Effie M. Scott He made a speech from the scaffold asserting his innocence. , , Subscriptions amounting io SIOO,000 have been guaranteed ip aid of the World's Industrial and • Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans next year. The total amount wanted is 8500,000. , ' POLITICAL. The National Anti-Monopoly Convention, with 325 delegates in attendance, asin Chicago, the 4th'of July Hon Allen W. Root, of Nebraska, was called to the chair. After £ hot debate of an hour, Dennis Kearney was ruled out by a vote of 118 to 74, and took his departure. John F. Henry, of Brooklyn, was elected Permanent Chairman, and C. C. Post, of Indiana, Secretary. At the evening session, principles .were discussed by Cant Stickle, of Nebraska; B. F. Snlvely, of Indiana; Mrs. Todd, of San Francisco; a farmer named Dean, from thfe Pennsylvania oil region; and J. C. Magie, of Illinois. Gen. Chalmers’ Independent State Convention was held at Jackson, Miss., with Reuben Davis, a Confederate Brigadier and Congressman, in the chair. The first plank in the platform is for a free ballot and a fair count, and the fourth demands legislative supervision of railroad®. About thirtyfive counties were represented. At the second and last day’s session of the Anti-Monopoly Convention, in Chicago, Martin Todd, of San Francisco, spoke of the oppression of labor. Mr. Crocker, of lowa, thought railroads the most damnable of all monopolies. W. 8. Wolf, of New York, regarded the tariff as a question which should be left outside the conventioa Bev. Gilbert De La Matyr, of Ind, denounced class legislation for the robbery of labor. A.' J. Streeter, of Illinois, presented the report of majority on platform, which adopted. It pronounces all corporations subject to the control of the States or the Federal Government, and demands an investigation by Congress of the cost of railways and transportation It urges the establishment of a postal telegraph, postal savings banks, a graduated income tax, and the amendment of the patent laws It opposes the issue of currency by banks, and favors paying off the national bonds in lawful money. The tariff is- denounced as being wholly in the interest of monopolies. WASHINGTON. Attorney General Brewster has rendered an opinion to the Secretary of the Treasury that the exportation of bonded whisky to Bermuda with a view to its reimportation, for the purpose of evading or delaying payment of the tax, is not an exportation within the meaning of the law. The Attorney General holds, however, that the tax due upon spirit? at the time of i importation is collectable upon its return to ■ this country. Following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst: Interest bearing debt— Three and one-half per cents $ 32.082,600 Four and one-half per cents 250,000.000 Four per cents 737.586.300 Three per cents 304,204.350 Refunding certificates 355.900 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 TotaUnterest-bearing debt 81,838,229,150 Matured debt 7,831,4J5

Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes 846,740,001 Certificates of deposit.. 13,376,000 Gold and silver certificates 170,995,471 Fractional currency 7,000,690 Total without interest $538,111,162 Total debt (principal)sl,Bß4,l7l,72B Total interest 12,309,382 Total cash in treasury 345.389,002 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,551,091,207 Decrease during June 18,098,201 Decreaseuof debt since June 30, 1882. 137,823,253 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaids 1,702,845 Debt on which Interest has ceased.. 7,831,415 Interest thereon 306,821 Gold and silver certificates 170,995,471 U. 8. notes held, far redemption of certificates of deposit 13,375,000 Total $345,389,902 Available assets— Cash in treasury 345,382,902 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable by United States— Princinal outstandings 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid 1,938,705 Interest paid by United States 67,283,388 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation services 16,777,380 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings 665,108 Balance of interest paid by United States 89.850,809

As a result of the prolonged conferendtsat Washington, it has been agreed by Secretjpries Lincoln and Teller that the captured Apaches shall be cared for by and kept under the control of the War Department at somepointon ths San Carlos reservation. The War pepartmen . is to be intrusted with police control of all Indians on the reservation and the protection of the agent... .The Postmaster Ge ieral has decided to order the Postmaster at New Orleans to pay no postalorders to Mr. Dauphin, connected with the Louisiana lottery, and to return ail registered fetters sent to his addre s.