Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The wife of United States Senator W. B. Allison, while suffering from an insane attack, drowned Herself in toe Mississippi at Dubuque, Low* Mm Alltom left home In the afternoon, telling her servant that she W»» going to one of the near neighbom Instead of this, however, taking her gossamer on her arm, toe watt in an opposite direction toward toe oonntry, where toe has been accustomed to take almost daily walk* 1$ is ascertained that toe wandered around in the outskirts Of toe city daring the afternoon, where she was seen by several persons walking timidly and somewhat excited. Nst returning by 9 o'clock from the place where toe was supposed to be, the alarm was given, and a search was maintained daring toe entire night The following morning her body was discovered in the river, about a mile below the city. She had out up her gossamer, placed. some stones in it, and tied them securely about her neck; then wafted deliberately into toe river, about thirty-five feet from toe land, laid down and drowned herself where the water was only two and a half feet deep. Mm Allison was of a highly nervous temperament, and daring the past two or three yearn hat suffered from and beon treated for mental diseases While at a water-cure establishment in Western New York in 1881 under medical treatment, toe attempted suicide in much the same manner, bat was fortunately rescued. She was a niece mid adopted daughter of tbe late Senator Grimes, of lowa, and has been married for ten yearn She had no children. * Almost a panic prevailed on the New York Stock Exchange on toe 18th Inst The transactions aggregated 581,000 shares. The bears started a raid on Oregon and Transcontinental, which was driven from 66W to 59, and followed It up by forcing Northern Pacific down 4 points Everything on the list suffered serious depreciation Omaha common stock fell off 5 points, and Rook Island was hammered to 117%. One or two brokers failed during the day. The excitement whioh agitated toe New York speculators spread to Chicago, and there was a marked drop in the prices of provisions and oereals. A remarkably well-executed $5 gold piece, which actually contained $468 worth of gold, was stopped in toe Boston subtreasury a few days ago. It is said to have been so well executed as to place experts at variance and to make it a difficult question to determine whether it was made from a die or by superior casting... .Prof. Peters, of Litchfield Observatory, near Utica, N. Y., announces the discovery of another “asteroid.” It has a bright light of the ninth magnitude (very small), ana appears to move so rapidly that it must be a close neighbor of the earth. The street-oar officials of St. Louis, Ha, were arraigned on charge of violating the Sunday law, but the jurors decided that toe charters of the companies forced them to ran every day, and that oars had become a necessity to the publlo... .President Soto was again in Chicago. He informed a newsgatherer that-one of the principal objects of his visit to America was to secure investments of money in the Honduras Interoceanlc railroad..... The Sheriff of Hutchinson, Kan., rescued a ' murderer, named Texas Bill from toe hands ! of a mob of sixty men, who had battered down the jail doors and were about to haye a lynching.... The Indiana Banking Company, of Indianapolis, decided not to continue business,, and appointed John Landers receiver. .. .The 81aae-Mitchell prize-fight Is announced to take place at Yinita, Indian Territory. After the desperate attempts of the : liquor interest to secure an extension of the bonded period, the public will be surprised ! to learn that whisky is scarce in the market, and selling for 28 cents in advance of the tax, and that toe Western distillers have instructions from the pool to mash all they cap 5e11.... The museum managers of the United States held a convention in Pitts- I burgh to arrange plans for controlling the salaries and movements of all the human curiosities now in the country. The mutilated remains of four white ! men were found in a railroad camp on the j Cincinnati Southern road, near Cumberland Falls. Term. The theory Is that the men fought a double duel over cards....Atßal- | timore, Mayor Plckney Whyte, Thomas W. Campbell, Charles B. Slingluff, Sam- 1 uel Hannah, Samuel W. Register and Burt E Smith, comprising the Board of Fire Commissioners, nave been indicted i for conniving at frauds In the purchase of ' materials for the fire department. The affair creates, much excitement in the city j ... .Four hor-e-thieves who raided a camp- j meeting in Monroe oounty, Ga., were pursued into Mississippi and lynched.