Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THI BAST. At a meeting at Boston of the creditors of the leather firm of F. Shaw k Bros, the assignee presented statements showing the assets to be #5,262.000, and direct and sontingent liabilities amounting to #7,500,XX)... .Oapt Rhodes, after being warned by the Canadian authorities, made an inspection of the whirlpool in Niagara river and abandoned Ids plan of imperiling his Ufa In a prize-fight near Pittsburgh Albert Cavanaugh, of New York, “knocked out” William Wagner, a Pittsburgh bruiser, in the fourth round. In a “mill” at Hunter s Point, L. L, Dempsey and Turnbull fought twenty-three rounds, the former being then declared the winner... .Arthur W. Blanev, late cashier of the American Loan and Trust Company, of Boston, has been sent to the penitentiary for seven years for. embezzling #40,000... .The National Convention of the anti-muslo party of the United Presbyterian Church was held at Allegheny City, Pa., 2,L00 ministers and elders being in attendance. Boston will shortly open an exposition made up wholly of foreign productions, for which Congress passed a bill admitting exhibits free of duty. Exhibits will tn most cases be attended by natives in their national costumes. King Humbert has forwarded a marble bust of himself. A group of fourteen Japanese women will make wicker and straw goods daring the exhibition... .For a special purse of #2,000 Jay-Eye-See, at Rochester, beat his own best record for 5-year-olas-»-2:ls— trotting a ml'e in 2:14, thus excelling the record In the world In a boat race at Sterling, Mass., Hanlan won, Hosiner taking second place, and Lee third The difference between Hanlan and Lee’s time was four seconds and a half.... Prof. S. J.* Wilson, an eminent scholar and divine of thd United Presbyterian Church, died at Sewiokley, a few miles from Pittsburgh, Pa....JobnDevoy, editor of the Irluh Nation, has served his term of sixty days in the penitentiary at New York for libeling August Belmont. Judge J. S. Black died at his home In York, Pa, Aug. 19, aged 73 yeara He was bora in that State, and became Chief Justice of its Supreme Court tn 1854 He was Attorney General and Secretary of Slate under President Buchanan. He participated in nearly all the great cases before the Supreme Court, including the constitutionality of the Reconstruction aots, beside being engaged in the Vanderbilt will case, the Belknap impeachment, and the McGarrohan claim. On the Stewart farm on Long Island, forty sheep were killed by lightning and several others were severely Injured. THE WEST. The bank safe of J. T. Williams* of Erie, Col, twenty-five miles north of Denver, was robbed of #OI,OOO by a party of highwaymen. The robbers found the banker in the house They compelled htan to open the safe, and afterward took him out on the plains and made him swear that he would not divulge the matter till the following morning. The old gentleman respected his oath, and the facts were not known for twelve hours.....An Irish demonstration at Ogden's Grove, Chicago, was attended by 12,000 people. There were speeches, all in the Irish National vein, by Thomas Brennan, Dr. Cronin, Congressman Flnerty, and others. A declaration of principles of Chicago Irish-Americans asked for a general support of the Irish right of revolution against tyranny, lauded Parnell, and indorsed the Philadelphia Convention.... The Mayors of Fargo, Grand Forks, Bismarck, Tower City, and Jamestown have signed a call for a convention of representative men of the region lying north of tste 46th parallel, to take measures to protect the Interests of North Dakota.... The buildings and materials of the United States Rolling Stock Company, located at the junction of Blue Island and Hoyne avenues, Chicago, valued at $500,000, were destroyed by fire.... The Directors - of the Illinois Central road elected James C. Clarke President, and W. E. Ackerman and Btuyvesant Fish Vice Presidents President Ackerman declined a re-election to the Presidency.

A summary of the annual report of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company is as follows: Road earned over $24,000,000 and spent as “expenses” about $20,000*000 in various ways. The preferred stock paid 8 per cent, and the common 7 per cent The road earned over 10 per cent. The road has out about $70,01)0,000 of securities, an increase of $5,578,000. Over 306 miles of new. railway were built.... The Yesemite stage was stopped by three highwaymen near Merced, Cal, and the passengers robbed of $'- 1 00 cash, watches and jewelry....An incendiary compassed the destru'et on of the unfinished Passavant Hospital at Milwaukee, valued at $60,000. The old building adjoining contained twenty persons, who were safely taken out The oar-shops at Dayton,' Ohio, paid Its workmen $75,000 in checks, for fear that its messenger might be robbed in carrying the currency one mile from the bank. Fifteen hundred men quit work for this reason, and paraded the streets with a brass hand... .The war between the Illinois Central, Alton and Wabash roads has ended in agreement to form a mutual pooL Passenger rates between Chicago and St. Louis have been fixed at $8.70, which is higher than have prevailed for several years The Second National Bank of Warren, Ohio, has closed its doors. K. M Fitch, the cashier, admits having lost SBO,OOO in stock speculations. Bank Inspector Ellis, of Cleveland, states that the institution can pav all depositor* in full within thirty days, while the stockholders must be. satisfied with about 30 per cent. The treasurer of Trumbull county had $58,600 on deposit George Hensen, a negro barber, of Cedar Falls* lowa, by the aid of his white wife, abducted a young girl named Celissa Codner, a cousin of the woman. The girl escaped, and on telling her story Hensen Was arrested Just as Hensen had left the court in company with a Deputy Sheriff after the preliminary trial, La than Codner; the father of the victim, pasred his arm behind the officer and shot Hensen so that he died in half an hour... .A loss of 92*0,000 was incurred a•> Moline. IIL, bythe burning of the mill and yards of the Heater Lumber Company, a J Heater broke his arm in two places while at work fighting thefiamea ... .Millionaire F.oed is about to commence work on a brown g one mansion in Son Francisco, to cost $3,500,00j, exclusive of THE SOUTH. Near Goldsboro, N. C., the porter B « sleeping-car caused an explosion while

fining a lighted lamp and was Immediately enveloped in flames. A passenger, to pewvent the oar taking fire, forced the Liming man into a close compartment, from whence he lumped through a window, and, when the train was stopped, was found to be fatally horned and in a dying condition. Six hundred citizens of Oakland, Miss., took a negro murderer from jail and tried him by a public court, the Mayor presiding as Judge and the citizens voting as jurors. The prisoner confessed to an assassination for money, and the citizen* voted unanimously for immediate death by hanging. A gallows was ereoted and the prisoner was soon hanged, following most of the forms of legal exequtiona.... A oase of yellow fever having occurred at the navy-yard in Pensacola, instructions were telegraphed from Washington to transfer the marine guard to Cape Anson, six miles distant... .The South Carolina Bailway Company has expressed its willingness to furnish face transportation to organized bodies of negroes who will agree never to return to the State. At Winchester Crossing, Ky., a train on the Kentucky Central road dashed Into another belonging to the Chesapeake and Ohio line, the rear of which, containing 400 kegs of giant powder, zested on the crossing. Sparks from the wrecked locomotive ignited the powder, and an explosion followed which shook the earth for milea The depot building, three cars and an engixfe were blown to pieces, and an imaginative reporter says the debris was driven so high m air that It did not come down for ten minutes Two men were almost instantly killed, and five others mortally injured.... Perry Cely was hanged at Greenville, S. C.; Taylor Banks at Scottsbbro, Ala, and Deno Oaaat at little Rock, Ark. Beuben Robebson was lynched at Spring Creek, Ga Two other participants in a horrible woman-murder, his comrades, had previously been lynched... .Martin Bradley (colored), for attempted outrage, was taken from tail at Terrell, Texas, by a mob and banged in the asylum grounds. At a colored camp-meeting on the outskirts of Nashville, Tenn., the religious fervor of the negroes caused white spectators to fire twelve shots into the people, one white man being killed and eight negroes wounded.... Twelve stores and six warehouses were burned at Crawford, Miss., causing a loss of # 100,00 a

WASHINGTON. N. W. Fitzgerald, a pension agent in Washington, made a brutal attack upon Gen. H. Y. Boynton, the well-known correspondent, and was knocked down by the latter’B assistant Subsequently ex-Congress-maa Pelham took up the fight and fiung Fitzgerald into the gutter. The Treasury officials are very much puzzled at the appearance of another counterfeit coin which is likely to deceive even the average expert It is a#s gold pieoe, and Is worth #4 53 in gold. The counterfeit is said to be the best ever made, and its perfection has created the grave suspicion that the Government dies have been tampered with or an Impression taken from them. Placed side by side with the genuine #5 giece, the difference can scarcely be detected y any but experts. The weight is nearly the same, and can only be detected by the gold scales; It is. stated at the Treasury Department that, by reason of the vigorous action of the Government in prosecuting the opium smugglers on the Pacific coast, the duties collected in San Francisco on opium during the last fiscal year were more (ban #1,000,OCO in excess of the collections from that source in the previous year. A mechanic in the Treasury Department at Washington recently found bills aggregating #IO,OOO under a punch, but it is claimed that they had beeen canceled. A young woman sorting paper in the basement found #4OO in good money and took it to tbe proper officer. Another discovered #25 worth of good revenue stamps in waste paper.

POLITICAL. A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Timet reports that Ex-Senator McDonald, of Indiana* has made his appearance there on a political mission; that “he (McDonald) has ascertained that Mr. Tilden is determined to secure the nomination for the Presidency next year, and that important conferences are daily being held at Greystone.” The Virginia Bepulican Straight-out Convention met at Richmond the other day. The platform adopted favors a strict adherence to the Republican principles and protective tariff, indorses James G. Blaine for ihe Presidency, condemns the action of the administration in aiding Gen. Mahone in the repudiation of one-third the State debt, declares the power thus given Mahone has been used for the persecution of lifelong Republicans, that the power given by the administration to Mahone makes him virtually President of the United States for the State of Virginia* expresses unalterable opposition to one-man power in Virginia, represented by Mahone, and ca’ls the attention of the administration to the results of such a system in other States..... The Michigan Prohibition State Convention met at Eaton Rapida They voted to raise $lO »,100 as a campaign fund, indorsed the platform of the National Convention at Chicago, declared in favor of constitutional and statuaiory. prohibition of the manufacture of liquor as a beverage, arraigned the Republican party for bad faith in not submitting the / question to the people, and declared that the party is incompetent to deal with the liquor question. The New York State Republican Convention will be held at Richfield Springs on Sept 19 The delegates will number 476.... .Acall for the next Congress of the National Liberal League, to be held at Milwaukee, Sept 21-23, has been issued Official returns from 109 out of 117 counties in Kentucky show the following vote for Governor: Knott, Democrat, 129,191: Morrow, Republican, 85,620; Knott's majority, 43,571. In 1879 the same counties gave Blaokburn 42,775 majority. The remaining eight counties in 1879 gave a Democratic majority of 1.142. Gov. Busk, of Wisconsin, has pronounced for Lucius Fairchild for President, and pledges the State for 40,000 majority for him... .A Biermann has accepted a nomination for Governor of Minnesota at the hands of the Democratic State Central Committee: Ex-Gov. William W. Holden publishes a card in a Raleigh (N. G.) paper an.aooncing his withdrawal from the Repub- ' llcan party, and stating be is not a member of the liberal party. GENERAL. Mexican advices report that in the town of Nacori, Lieut Moreno, commanding a detachment of Merlon troop#, bed » battle with a band of V*) Apscbes wiiO bad killed five of bis pickets. Ttoe troops rm out of ammunition and war# to retreat

4- copy of the new commercial treaty between Mexico and Germany has been published in Galveston. By its provisions Germans are to pay no taxes not levied on Mexicans, and are to be exempt from military service and forced loans John W. Mackey has been made trustee of a majority of the stock of the Postal Telegraph Company. He intends to have a uniform rate of 1 cent per word to all points reached, and to sell stamps for various amounts, which can be affixed to any message..... John Jarrett having declined a re-election as President of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, William Weihe was chosen as his successor. Weihe is a Democrat and a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly. He announces his sympathy with tbe tariff principles of the association and his determination to pursue the same policy in tbe future which has marked the administration of affairs in the past under President Jarrett The long strike of the telegraph operators came to an end on the 17th of August On that day the Executive Board of the Brotherhood of Telegraphers sent out an order to members to return to work, and expressing regret at the failure of the strike. The manager of a Boston office told a committee of the Brotherhood that he would select fifty of the best operators from the strikers. One of the la.ter, with a destitute family, took a desk at a reduction of $5 per month, a committee called at the War and Postofflce Departments at Washington and asked the dismissal of clerks who were spending a vacation by working wires for the Western Union Company in Philadelphia Master Workman Shaw, of St Louis, i* said to have piedic ed that the Brotherhood will be renewed and a second strike occur within six months. In Chicago a striker named Adam Snell is held in #4LO bonds for a brutal assault upon John B. Odell, employed by the Western Union Company. In New York the brotherhood voted to give the girls the first opportunity to resume work. Twelve to them secured situations, and forty-five men were taken back, all of them signing an agreement to abandon their organization. Alexander & Taussig, sugar-dealers at No. 27 River street, Chicago, made a voluntary assignment. Their liabilities ore about #60,000. This disaster carried down the house of Taussig A Hammerschlag, of New York, whose liabilities are said to be #235,000.... Notwithstanding seven days of considerable apprehension, during which weak firms founa it hard to stem the commercial tide, the failures of the country last week fell twelve in number below the scores of the previous two weeks, whieh had been 182 for each week. D. C. Leroy, an American oattle dealer, spent two weeks at Casas Grandes Mex, in an attempt to organize a band of Pueblo Indians to enter the Sierra Madrea and rescue Charlie McComas from Juh’s band. Ha offered #I,OOO, but oould get no aid... .The boot and shoe factory bf B. McCreedy & Co., at Montreal, valued with its stook at #IOO,OOO, was destroyed by tire..... News reaches San Francisco of great gold discoveries on the Yukon river, in Alaska

FOREIGN. While thirteen men were being hauled to the surface at a mine near the town of Redruth, in Cornwall, the rope attached to the car broke and twelve of the men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft ana*instantly killed.... The de-positors-in the small London savings bank, upon being refused their funds on demand, wrecked the premises and the police would not interfere.... Thirty armed men stopped a Spanish railway train near Barcelona, obtaining plunder to the amount of $10,000....1ta1y and Morocco are having a misunderstanding, which will, without doubt, Increase the troubles of the Spanish Government In Ealing,Middlesex county,England, a private insane asylum was burned, five of the inmates and the proprietor perishing in the flames and many others being seriously burned. James McDermott, the Irish leader, of Brooklyn, was arraigned in Liverpool and was remanded on evidence that be had been seen examining public buildings in company with Dillon, a convicted conspirator. ... .Some of the Spanish insurgents have already been garroted by the King’s authorities Mr. Foote, the newly-appointed Minister to Corea, reports having secured at the capital a house made of wood and paper, in the midst of hovels and filth. He can only find pine boughs for fuel, and says nearly all articles of fuel are brought from other countries.... In the British House of Commons, during a debate on the vote for the expenses of the Land Commission, Parnell declared that unless the deficiencies of the Land act were speedily remedied he would lead a deeper and more desperate agitation than any yet witnessed.... Spanish newspapers lay the blame of the rebellion on the heads of French speculators in Iberian securities The corruption and rebellion fund raised is alleged to have amounted to $150,000. The Russian Minister of the Interior has ordered the enforcement of the decree prohibiting Jewish raanu acturers from employing Christian workmen. Redmond, who represents the Irish League in Australia, writes that his mission is proving successful... The electrical exhibition at Vienna was opened with great ceremony by the Crown Prince Rudolph. In the British House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster stated that the foot-and-mouth disease in cattle had been carried from England to America, and that the Canadian cattle now suffering at Bristol had been in contact at Liverpool with Infected Irish animals.... Twenty-two students in Russian universities, about two for each institution of the kind, who have recently been editing papers without the aid of the Imperial censors, are now starting on a press excursion to Siberia... .Eight thousand English weavers struck last week for an increase of wagea Mr. Gladstone, in the English House of Commons, emptied the vials of his eloquent wrath on Mr. Healy, not long ago elected from Monaghan. At the close of his philippic the Premier declared he regretted that Mr. Healy had pleaded the wrongs of Ireland as an excuse for remarks so reprehensible: Mr. Biggar interrupted the Prime Minister so often that the Chairman took him severely to task. Mr. Hehlv replied defiantly.... The Prince of Wales will soon visit the Emperor of Germany, and will attend the autumn maneuvres of the German army. It Is thought that the French may take tuis as an indication of an alliance between Germany and England. . r .The executions of the four Spanish in-urgent sergeants re-' parted seme days ago appear to have been exceptionally cruel and brutal Three volleys were poured into them by fellow Insurgents who had surrendered.... It is announced that the Pope has already broken the tacit agreement recently entered Into with Prussia This important statement Is made by the organ of Bismarck.. . .Casamicciola, which was r cently destroyed by an earthquake, is being rapidly