Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

« Pbof. Aughey, of the University of Nebraska, states that the indorsements on his notes were forged by a man named Viegenham. The Professor claims to 6e the victim of suspicious circumstances, and promises to pay every dollar of the false paper Miss Ellen Baker, daughter of Sir Samuel Baker, the explorer, committed suicide at her father's residence at Devonshire, England. The young lady had joined the Order of Sisters of Mercy, and so overtaxed her strength in ministering to the poor in ; London that her health broke d >wn 1 and her mind gave way. She first ‘ attempted to destroy her life by opening . r the veins of her arm with the blade Of a pair of scissors. Failing in this she struggled across the floor dripping with blood to the mirror, and there with a penknife cut her throat from ear to ear. Impatient at the slow approach of dea h, she disemboweled herself with a Japanese sword.... China, it is said, made the first proposal to negotiate for a formal treaty with fiance, and France assented readily. This at least deferred hostilities which were then threatening an outbreak at any moment.... James Carey, the Irish informer, was shot dead while landing from a steamer at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, by a fellow passenger named O’Donnell....Protracted wet ; weather in Great Britain has had an un- I favorable effect on the crops. C. W. Copeland & Co., shoe manufacturers, of Boston, with liabilities of *750,000, suspended. They had factories in Brocton, Natick, Medway and North Abington. Their branch house in New York, under the name of Stedmaq & Co., has also closed ito doors. Hoffheimer 4 Son, of Norfolk, Va., and W. N. Teller & Co. of Baltimore, both engaged in the shoe trade, were involved with Copeland &, Co., and were forced to suspend. Next came the collapse of F. Shaw & Brothers, the heaviest tannners in the world, owning a dozen or more leather factories and millions of acres of land. Copeland &, Co., owed them *40,000. The liabilities of the Sbaws are *3,500,000. Joseph Pratt, a wholesale dealer In leather at Chicago, was also caught in the wreck, and went down, owing *6O.- : 000.

The Director of the Meteorological Observatory on Mount Vesuvius states that the appalling disaster on the Island of Ischia was not caused by an earthquake, but by the caving in of the ground. A Naples dispatch of the Ist inst says the scenes occasioned by the accident were heartrending. The hospitals were crowded with the wounded survivors, and the dead-houses were filled with the bodies of the victims. Cries for help could be heard coming from the ruins, and sappers were hard at work endeavoring to rescue the persons still alive. Most of the corpses recovered were so discolored by dirt that even after they had been washed the features were unrecognizable. A.l the members of the police force at Casamicciola were killed. Only five houses in the city were left standing. The stench from the dead bodies of human being and animals was almost unbearable, and a pestilence was feared. The loss of life by the accident was believed would not fall short of 4,Co6t* The dead at Forio number 300; at Laocoanmeno, 509; at Fontana Serrarra, 200. Twentyfour children perished in the Misericordia Asylum The King and Queen of Italy have subscribed 100 CO J lire and the Pope 25,000 lire for the relief of the sufferers. Horace S. Shepard, a shipping clerk for a New York firm, and his wife were found dead in a furnished room in that city, both shot through the head. In a letter written by Shephard, .he declared the purpose of himself and wife to die together.... Two thieves on Saturday attempted to take SIO,OOO from a bank cashier at Jersey City. They were arrested on Sunday, and on Monday were tried, convicted and sentenced to ten years each in State prison One of them was formerly a policeman. In the investigation into the’acts of Supervising Architect Hill, at Washington, R. T. Crane, of Chicago, testified that his company was given no opportunity to bid on hydraulic elevators for the Chicago Custom House, and that Mr. Hill paid for those furnished twice what those used in the Court House cost. A posse ini Arkansas pursuing the outlaws from Montgomery, Yell and Garland counties, came up with the Daniels brothers in the mountains of Berry county. In the fight which ensued, two of' the pursuers were killed and the desperadoes escaped.