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

GENERAL.

Bishop McMullen, of the Boman Catholic Diocese of Davenport, died at Davenport, lowa, on the evening of the 4th of July. Bishop Pinckney, of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, died in Baltimore at about the same hour. The venerable Archbishop Purcell also died on the morning of Independence day, near Cincinnati

Washington telegram: “The statement made at the Internal Revenue Bureau M to the complaint in lowa as to the removal of CoflectorAherman is tiiat Sherman was not physically capable to perform the duties of his office, and that he would have soon been compelled to retire on the ground ofill-hc’dth.’’ Two Grand Trunk freight trains collided near Port Hope, Ont, the locomotives and twelve cars being demolished and a brakeman fatally injured. The loss is placed at 8200,00tt Incidents and accidents of the Fourth: Henry Q Bowen’s annual celebration at Woodstock, Ct, was a great success. Rutherford B. Hayee delivered the chie£ ad- . dress, and Mrs Hayes was forced to step to the front of the platform and receive a round of cheers. Bishop Coxe, of Buffalo, spoke bn national topics, and was followed by Senators Aldrich and Blair. Apoem written for the occasion by John G. Whittier was read by Clarence Bowen Nearly 8,0.0 persons assembled at the cemetery on -the farm of the late Gov. Williams, of Indiana, to witness the unveiling of a suitable monument All the State officers wdre present, and addresses were delivered by ex-Senator McDonald and Senators Voorhees and Harrison At Erie, Pa,, Albert Kuhn and several companions. who were somewhat intoxicated, fired from the windows of a itreet-cAr in which they were riding. Mary Steiner, who was on the sidewalk, was shot through the heart and Kuhn' was arrested for murder. Two hours later Kuhn’s brother was found in a cellar, where he had hanged himself. Prince L Moody, of Streator, BL, after assisting to fire a cannon, early Wednesday morning, sat in a window to get cooled, and fell asleep. His wife called out to him in warning, and he awoke so suddenly as to fall into the street and break his neck. While 2,000 citizens of Goodland, Ind., stood in the park listening to the Fourth of July oration, a liberty pole beside them was shivered to fragments by lightning, but no one was injured. Hon David Davis presided over an oldfashioned celebration at Bloomington. HL, where John H. Oberly was the orator of the day. Michael Davitt addressed a massmeeting at Innishowen in celebration of the anniversary of American independence. The people of Portland, Me., celebrated the 250th anniversary of its settlement by dedicating a monument and placing memorial tablets at various historic spots H. H. Ludlum made a balloon ascension at Montrose, Pa. At a height of forty feet the trapeze rope caught on a tree, and the aeronaut was hurled to the ground, fracturing his skulL The feature of the celebration at Quincy, HL, was the unveiling of a bronze statue of the late Gov. John Wood, the first white settler of that city. ExSenator Oglesby delivered the oration In New York the Continental Guards of. Charleston helped the veterans of 1812 to raise the stars and stripes at the Battery. The cadets of the Military Institute of Virginia were received by President Arthur at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and returned a flag captured from the OneTHundred and Sixtyfourth New York regiment Railway projects already outlined for unsettled sections of the province of Quebec involve an outlay of 8100,000,000 of. French and British capital. There are two lines from Montreal to Ottawa, with business for but one, and two from Montreal to Quebec, with a third in progress