Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

.v fc EAST* Eight* boilers of the anthracite furnaces owned by the Philadelphia and Beading Company, at Allentown, Pa., exploded. „ Although the employes were outside the building resting in preparation for drawing off the molten mass, one man was killed, one fatally wounded, two severely hurt, and several slightly injured. The furnace was completely destroyed. In the Hanlan-Ross boat race at Ogdensburgh, N. Y., the former won with ease, making the best time on record for the same distance, and defeating Boss by a quarter of a mile Previous to the race, Courtney accused Hanlan of cutting his boat at Chautauqua some years ago, whereupon the Canadian retorted by calling Courtney a •liar and a thief. ”... .Ex-Congressman Archibald McAllister dropped dead of apoplexy at Altoona, Pa Flames broke out on a wharf in Brooklyn, and soon communicated to three sailing vessels. The barks CoL Adams and Perseverance were cut adrift, their crews jumping overboard and swimming ashore. Twelve firemen were badly injured by the falling of the framework of the pier. The ship Lawrence Delap, loaded with jute and saltpeter, was burned to the waters edge. The barks Adams and Perseverance were destroyed at the end of the pier. The East fiver bridge was crowded with spectators. The loss by the disaster is* estimated at #500,000.... .Jos. Staegamer, a Philadelphia saloon-keeper, shot ms wile dead*and then killed himself.

Flames neairly extinguished the town of Ephatah, Pa. The loss is estimated at •bout *300,000. Several cases of Texas fever are reported to have developed at Boston among cattle brought from Worcester, and the State Board of Cattle Commissioners will forbid the bringing in of any more stock from the Lone Star State... .Gunn, Curtis & Co., mercantile and label printers and stationer*, Boston, have suspended. The liabilities are said to be some'#l2o,ooo, of which #72,000 is secured by the Indorsement of Curtis’ father.... E. W. Holbrook & Ca, cotton goods, of New York, have failed for #750,000. The collapse created a sensation in dry-goods circles....An assignment has been filed by the Manchester Iron and Steel Company, of Pittsburgh, whose capital stock is *500,0001 Eight more suits for damages for injuries in the accident on Decoration Day have been begun in New York city against the Trustees of the Brooklyn bridge The total claims amount to #500,000. „... The Monroe “Seaside Library” building, New York, was almost totally destroyed by fire The loss is estimated at #300,000. Several firemen narrowly escaped death, havingbeen isolated by the flames on the roof and eighth floor of the building.... A considerable sum of money was subscribed in New York at a meeting of Cubanß held to aid their brethren now in arms. Gen. Bonache offered to go to the island and direct military operations. THE WEST. A second trial of the suit 'of Studebaker & Co. against the United States Express Company ended in a verdict of #5,475 for plaintiffs. Messra Studebaker transmitted by express a package of #5,000 from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Bluffton, Ind. The package on arriving at Bluffton only strips of paper without value A very severe hailstorm passed over Clay county, D. T., destroying all the crops in its path. The damage is estimated at #200,000. In Champaign county, 111, hailstones fell measuring twelve inches in circumference The damage was quite extensive, the roofs of many houses being smashed ip, and one-third of the corn crop destroyed. There was frost in the region of Davenport, lowa, July 18... .On his way to Yellowstone Park with Gen. Sherman, Chief Justice Waite was thrown from his horse in Montana and received painful, but not alarming, injuries N. W. Wilkinson, a wealthy farmer Of Lincoln county, Mo., was murdered while asleep by some' unknown person. A reward of #I,OOO has been offered foj the arrest of the assassin.

A. D. Bullock & Co’s, curled liair and brißtle factory, in Cincinnati, was entirely destroyed by fire. The establishment covered five acres of ground with numerous buildings, and gave employment to 150 men. Loss, $150,00)...., Charles Fisherman, a patient in the Insane' Asylum at Rochester, Minn., ended his life by leaping into a furnace in the boiler-room. ... .George McMillan, a wife murderer, was hanged at Canton, Ohio. He died protesting his innocence. The Rev. H. O. Hoffman, editor of a paper at Bloomington, 111, wascowhided by a woman of some notoriety named Mra Pritchard, whom he had characterized as a “dudess” in his paper... Chief Justice Waite has arrived in Toledo, Ohio. He is suffering somewhat from the result of his recent accident. The hurt was not verv Berious, and it has not yet been decided whether his rib wus fractuied • A tornado, having its origin somewhere in the region of Huron, Dakota swept across a large tract of country intervening between that point and the Mississippi river, killing several people and destroying a vast amount of farm property. Its track, was from one to two miles wide. In the Vicinity of Huron nine persons are rer> ported killed and a great many wounded. Leaving Dakota, the cyclone entered Minnesota, and crossed Blue Earth, Waseca, Steiae, Dodge, Olmstead and Wabasha counties. The most Berious damage; reported is at Kasota, Blue Earth county, near Owatoima, Steele county, near Manterville, Dodge county, and at Elgin, m Wabasha county. At Elgin one woman was fatally and a man and woman severely injured. Near Mantorville two persons were dangerously and seven seriously hurt; a number of houses'and barns were demolished. Near Hitchcock, a man and his mother were killed by the falling timbers of their house Near Rediield, Dakota, one woman was killed. In the vicinity of Kasota and Owatonna, Minn, numbers of houses where demolished and several people injured, some probably fatally. A ding-store, hotel, barn, store-building and postofhce building in Wasioja weie blown down Near Owatonns a Northwestern train was caught up by the blast and hurled from the track ana overturned. About fifty passengers were injured, many of them very severely. The damage to crops by the tornado is estimated at nearly a million dollars. i s - 7 * t

Gem. G. P. Stone, for many years in the service of the Khedive of Egypt, has arrived at Jacksonville 91a, to examine the three routes for a ship canal. ~ r Cowboys attempted to take the town of Toyah, on the western frontier e&Texaa The rangers stationed there killed one, wounded three and captured five Node of the rangers were wounded. Robert Williamson, the colored murderer of Frank Bussell, was hanged at Memphis, Tenn. The culprit made a short speech, and then bade farewell to each one present. Then he shook the hands of the spectators and stepped on the trap. The neck was broken at 0n0e... .David Timberlake, "colored, was hanged at Lexington, Ky., for a criminal assault on Maggie Lawson, a 9-year-old colored girl. A large crowd, mainly blacks, gathered about the scaffold. Timberlake confessed the crime. Four hundred and fifty employes of the Blrmlnghan (Ala) rolling-millsstruck against a reduction of their wages, and also Induced the puddlers at the Bneriield Iron Works to strike. POLITICAL. Gov. Sherman, Republican candidate for Governor of lowa, and the Hon L, G. Ktnne, Democratic candidate, have arranged for a series of joint debates, to take place during August and September. The first meeting will be held at Independence, Aug. '29. The Republican State Central Committee of Virginia adopted resolutions condemning the course of the national administration in the politics of that State, and declaring James G. Blaine the choice of the Bepublicans of Virginia for President.... The Chairman of the Republican State Committee of lowa, in answering the request of Gen. Weaver for a triangular debate in the cpming campaign, says he sees no reason for permitting the Greenback chieftan to take part in the debates. The reports of the Tewksbury Investigating Committee were presented to the Massachusetts Legislature last week. All the Bepublicans signed the majority report and all the Democrats the minority report The former denies the charges against the almshouse, and denounces Gov. Butler. Gen. Brady, in a published interview, unites with Dorsey in an attack upon the late President Garfield, charging Mm with perfidy in permitting the prosecution o t the alleged star-route frauds. WASHINGTON. Appointments by the President : The President has appointed Henry C. Stafford Collector of Customs at Erie, P&, vice Matthew R. Barr, resigned; E P. Freeman, to be Register of the Land Office at Bed Wood Falls, Minn., vioe William E. Dunnington, suspended; Charles F. Gardner, Receiver of Public Moneys at Sacramento, CaL; Currie G. Bell, Receiver of Public Moneys at Bayfield, Win; Benjamin W. Thompson (W. Va.), Agent of the Indians, Shseton Agency, Dakota; Matthew W. Barr, Indian Inspector, vice Chapman, resigned; hsham Young, of Knoxville, Tenn., -Revenue Agent, vice C. ML Horton, of Boston, removed.

The Third Assistant Postmaster General has Issued a circular to Postmasters throughout the United States, In which he says that the reduction of postage to 2 emits on first-class domestic mail matter will go into effect on Oct L He instructs Postmasters to limit their requisitions of 3-oent stamps and stamped envelopes to the actual needs of their offices, so as not to have a stock of unused stamps on hand He calls attention to the fact that the head of Washington has been adopted for the new 2-oent stamp and the head of Jackson, similar to that on the present 2-cent stamp, has been adopted for the new 4-cent stamp. The price of both the 2-cent and 4-cent stamped envelopes will remain the same as on the exiting schedule for like sizes and qualities. He directs attention to the tact that no arrangements have been made for the exchange of 3-oent stamps or 3-oent stamped envelopes in the hands of Postmasters or private parties. The old 2 and 3 cent stamps and stamped envelopes will be valid after Oct 1, and must be accepted in payment of postage The new 2cent stamps will be issued on Sept 15, and stamped envelopes on the Ist of September, but they are not to be Sold before Oct L There are no other changes in the rates of postage. The disbursing officers of the national banks and sub-treasuries have been instructed to refuse payment on any check drawn by a Paymaster of the United States army in payment for services to the officer or enlisted man, unless the period covered by the payment is stated in such check. This action is taken in compliance with the request of the Secretary of War. 1 GENERALThe members of the Brotherhood of Telegraphers employed by the various lines struck with remarkable unanimity shortly before noon of Thursday, July 19. The cause of the strike was a refusal of the Western Union and other companies to accede to the demand of the operators for an advancement and re-adjustment of salaries. The operators’ desks from Maine to California were abandoned promptly at the word'from the Executive Committee of the Brotherhood, the men walking away in a quiet and orderly manner. In large measure the places of the regular operators were at once filled, either by persons in the employ of the company who had risen from the operators’ ranks to positions of greater responsibility, or by men who had been secured m anticipation of the strike. The Boston office was the most badly crippled on the line of the Western Union Company, being entirely cut off from communication with New York. The press was furnished with its usual quantity of news, though the commercial world suffered much on account of the inability to secure telegraphic service with the leading financial and commercial centers In New York 800 operators went on the strike, in Chicago 750, and in other cities the number, was proportionately as large. There was no violence or disorder of any sort upon the part of the strikers.

The statistics of immigration for June and the half-year ended with June show that the arrivals for the six months were 770,122 in 1882 and only 593 324 in 1883. The immigrant arrivals from all countries for June this year numbered 75,034, against 84,786 in 1882. But the arrivals from England increased by 1,752, from Ireland by 1.575, and from Scotland by 2,(021 Italy is 'the only other country showing an increase The greatest decrease is from Sweden—--4,848... Jlev. Mr. Shaw, acting Consul of the United States at Monterey, was mobbed by Mexicans and terribly beaten The books and furniture of the Consulate were destroyed. The twenty-third anmial festival of the North American Sanger bund, held at Buffalo, was a great success financially, musically and otherwise. The next gathering

will be held at Milwaukee, the time tobe decided by the local societies... .The deaths by yellow* fever for the first half of July, at Vera Crux, numbered 144. The exceptional feature has been the rages of the disease among the shipping. The epidemic commenced in the harbor among the Norwegian vessels. The Mexican Consul at Tucson, Arizona, has reoeived a letter from the frontier in Sonora, stating that near the place where Gen. Crook left the h os tiles in the district of Montezuma they attacked a Mexican settlement, killing five Mexicans A detachment of sixty Mexican infantry pursued the warriors, but found them in too strong force, and were repulsed with the loss of seven soldiers killed. The Mexicans, it is said, ace very bitter toward Gen. Crook, whose campaign has, they say, proved a corse to that country by his relieving the savages of the care of their women, children and disabled old men, and leaving the warriors to depredate on Sonora The business failures throughout the United States and Canada for the seven days ending July 21. as reported by E G. Dunn A Co. ’s Mercantile Agency, numbered 168, as compared with 159 the preceding week, distributed as follows: New England States 15, Middle States 23, Southern 17, Western 50, Pacific States and Territories 25, Canada and toe Provinces 28, and New York city 10. A vessel from Vera Cruz having appeared off Appalachicola, the Collector of Customs was instructed to send her to Ship island. The Surgeon General has information that yellow fever exists at Cienfuegos, Cuba, and that cholera has appeared in Champeachy and Oaxaco, Mexico.... Quarantine has been established in Canada on all vessels from Mediterranean porta There were thirty-nine deaths from yellow fever at Havana last week. FOREIGN. Three iron steamships are being built at Glasgo ( w for the Canada Paciflo Railway Company. They will be temporarily out in two in transportation to the Upper Lakes, and will ply between Algomah Mills and Port Arthur, the route being the water-link between Montreal and Winnipeg.... Miss Anita H. Murphy, of San Francisco, was married in Kensington, England, to Sir Charles Michael Wolsly, Baronet Cardinal Manning, officiated... .Four men have been arrested at Newry, Ireland, for fatally beating a man who took a farm from which the former tenant had been evicted.... The European press regards the appointment of ML Waddington as French Emlfassador to England as a pacific act Polling for member of Parliament for Rexford, Ireland, took place July 17. The O’Connor Don (Liberal candidate) was hooted as he passed through the streets,’ and, despite efforts to maintain’order, the windows of his committee-rooms were smashed. The election resulted in a victory for Redmond, Pamellite candidate, receiving 307 votes against 126 for the O’Connor Don. A sensational tragedy occurred during the progress of a game of lawn tennis in Bedford. England. An army officer named De Vere, without warning, drew a revolver and shot dead Miss McKay, a handsome young lady of 20 years, and then blew out his own brains Jealousy 41 believed to have been the motive for the crime... .Sennig, the German-Americam student whe killed a fellow-student in a duel near Wurzburg, has been arrested In Switzerland.

(jtenebal satisfaction has followed the appointment of Waddington as French Minister at London. It is felt that the Tamative'affair is in the hands of a man who can eat a good dinner and give Lord Granville just the right impression of the people across the channel from Dover. At the same time there is no doubt that the task of placating England, left in unskilled hands, would have ended badly.... The Burmese Embassy at Venice is unaert going quarantine. The tVance asserts that they will make a formal appeal for a French protectorate over Burmah... .Orders have been received at Aldershot, England, to prepare four batteries of field artillery for active service. Their destination is not known. ....The European powers are increasing their quarantine regulations Nine persons were killed bv a powder-mill explosion at bt Petersburg Friday. Cholera claimed 140 victims at Cairo, Egypt, on the 20th of July, and the death roll was growing day by day. There were twenty-nine deaths from the disease at Mansur ah, twenty-four at Samanoud, twenty-eight at Ghizeh, forty-four at Chierbin, and three at Damietta. Cairo dispatches give an alarming pictnre of Egyptian -customs The clothing of persons dying in the hospitals from cholera is often taken for use by relatives, and corpses in their coffins are borne on men’s shoulders through the streets. A driver conveying a Sitient to the hospital gave him a drink om a water-bottle used by customers at a case. English correspondents urge their Government to take control of Banitray measures at once A London cablegram says the European powets are increasing their quarantine regulations against persons, goods and vessels from Egypt, owing to the prevalence of cholera them The ravages of the cholera in Egypt are spreading to an alarming degree. At Cairo, between the hours of 8 am. and 6 p. m. of July 22, there were 481 deaths from the disease. There the same period thirty-three at Mansourah, ninety-three at Shirbin, and over 150 deaths in other Egyptian towns All efforts to confine the plague have so far proved unavailing. AU business and agriculture are suspended The Sanitary Commission has decided that all passengers must undergo a medical examination before leaving Egypt The disease is very sudden in its effects People frequently fall dead in the streets. The epidemio ib spreading northward as well as southward Europeans at Alexandria have made the unpleasant discovery that the drinking-water canal connects m the cemetery with the place where corpses are washed

Iwakcka, a statesman as celebrated in Japan as is Castelar in Spain, and nearly as well known by reputation to American newspaper-readers, died recently at Kioto, Japan. He was sent by the Mikado in 1872 to visit the Western powers of the earth, and headed a distinguished delegation of his countrymen. It was through the natural attractiveness of so learned, patriotic, and polished a gentleman as Iwakura that the people of this country first came to regard the Japanese as a nation worthy of the friendship of the New W0r1d.... The American rifle team were beaten by the British team in the great international long range shooting match at Wimbledon. The aggregate scoi e of all the ranges at the close stood: British, 1,951 points; American-, 1,906, the British team being 45 points ahead...:The Irish riflemen won theElchp shield, making 1,600, against 1,589 by the Scotch team andl,s64by the Englishmen.. The State Department at Washington has been advised of the death of James M. Priest, Justice of the Supreme Court of liberla He was bora in Paris, Ky., and emigrated nearly half a century ago.