Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1883 — THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

THE EAST.

A loose switch threw an express train off the track of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City (narrow gauge) railway at Pleasantville. Four passenger oars were wrecked and thirty persons were seriously injured....At Ocean Grove, N. J., Eleanor and May, aged 18 and 20 years, daughters of Lewis D. Vail, of Philadelphia, were drowned while bathing... .Prof. Stuart Phelps, of Northampton, Mass, was accidentally killed by his own gun at Chamberlain Lake, Me. A Texas steer broke loose from a herd while crossing one of the Charleston bridges to Boston Rethrew one workman in the air and another into the water, and dashed through Charlestown to East Cambridge and back again to Boston, finally plunging off a pier into the Charles river, whence he was lifted with a derrick and his throat oat Several persons, principally children, were gored and trampled on, some being fatally injured ....Stephen Harris, having been elected President of the Quidneck Company, of Rhode Island, went to Wm. Sprague and demanded possession. The ex-Benator said he would kill Harris if he attempted to seize the mill, and that hla men would make a corpse or anyone who went to the property in nls absence.... A fast train which left Boston came in collision with the fast New York express at Colchester, Vt Thirteen persons vrtfre Injured, some seriously, but none, it is thought, fatally.

THE WEST. Am lowa politician, says a Washington dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, is authority for the statement that a Dee Moines law firm has speculated in the estate of the late B. F. Allen, and so manipulated the securities that the firm will make #I,OOO,(XXX The firm controls nearly all of the creditors’ claims, which were bought at from 1 to 5 cents on the dollar. The estate will probably realize 25 cents... .Edward F. Joslyn, eldest son of E & Joslyn, a leading lawyer of Elgin, HI, shot and killed jfiss Etta Buckingham in that city. Young Joslyn then shot himself, and fell dead beside the girL He was a widower with two children, 6 and 8 years of age. His victim was an employe in the Nolting House, where the crime was committed.... .The Executive Committee of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company has declared the usual quarterly dividend of 2 per cent on the preferred stock. The dividend will be payable Sept 27. Belle Harris, a polygamous wife at Salt Lake, refused to tell the Orand Jury the name of the father of her children, and has since served a term of three months In jail for contempt, and made herself a Mormon martyr. She was released the other day on the expiration of the term of coart, but has orders to appear again in December.... A warning from the Prosecuting Attorney at Atchison, Kan., caused Slade and Mitchell to cease training and to abandon the proposed prize-fight The managers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road gave notice to the people of Dodge City, Kan., that an effprt to reform the city must be made or the track and machine shops would pe removed. While several railway officials waited in a special car, the Council ordered the enforcement of the ordinances relative to gambling and prostitution, and passed another prohibiting music in dance-houses. ....Bv the explosion of the boiler of a thrashing-m&hine at Frankfort, Dakota, four men were killed and five others seriously injured... .Jason Downer, formerly Associate Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, died at Milwaukee, leaving a fortune of #225,000.

THE SOUTH. Citizenß on both sides of the Rio Grande at El Paso have made np a purse of #SOO to secure the prize-fight between Slade and Mitchell. The Alcadeof Paso del Norte, Mexico, has given permission for a mill on that side of the river. A New Orleans Grand Jury has made a report which is causing a sensation in the Crescent City. The document sets forth that officeholders are corrupt, that vice advertises itself with electric lights that sluggers abound, that the food orthe city is contaminated through the filthiness of the markets, and that the capitalists evade their taxe& The building of a crematory is suggested in which to burn the dead bodies of victims of contagious disease. Esau Smith, a negro, sentenced to be hanged in October, 1875, but who escaped from jail and was not captured till last June, was executed for his cxime last Friday, at St Joseph, La. At Marshall, Texas, a party of white men went to the negro headquarters to witness the organization of a colored military company, and were halted and fired upon. Shooting then became goneral,after which the negroes lied. Three hundred white citizens organized and patrolled the town all night WASHINGTON. The foflowing is the public-debt statement for August: * Interest bearing debt— Three and one-half per cents $ 21,404,650 Four and one-half per cents .. 250,000.000 Four per cents 737,010.550 Three per oents 305,529.000 Ref unding certificates 884.850 Navy pension fund j 14,000,000 'Total Interest-bearing debt $1,328,878,950 Matured debt 6,583,165 Legal-tender notes 845,739,891 Certificates ot deposit 12,146,000 Gold and silver certificates 175,644,721 Fractional currency 6,997,796 Total without Interest $541,527,408 Total debt (principal)..... $1,876,989,523 Total Interest * 11 033 227 Total cash In treasury sslsomwo Debt, less cash In treasury 1,535,5j5,765 Decrease during Angust g 671 851 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1881. 14]572!'442 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid $ 2 047 262 Debt on which Interest has ceased.. e’sss’ 165 Interest thereon. SYs'm Gold and silver certificates 175.644’721 U. 8. notes held for redemption of ’ certificates of deposit. 12,145,000 Cash balance available Aug. 1 151,730,400 . Total $351,503,986 Available assets— Cash m treasury 851,503,986 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable by United States — Principal outstanding $ 64 6 3 612 Interest accrued, not yet paid....... 14s 235 Interest paid by United States 69,222!093 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. $ 17,009.223 By cash payments, 6 per cent, net earnings * 566,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 41,567,870

The collections of internal revenue for the first months of the fiscal years end? lag June 80,1862 and 1883, were am follows: Receipts, 1882, #11,875,577; In 1883, #9,161,948; decrease, #2,718,8961 The principal Items of decrease were manufactured tobacco, #1,064,685, and banks and bankers, #1,007;694. The principal items of increase were spirits distilled from materials other than apples, peaches or grapes, #490,915, and fermented liquors, #1461972.

POLITICAL. The State Democratic Convention of Nebraska, which met at Omaha, was presided over by Judge Kinney, of Otoe county. Ex-Judge James W. Savage was nominated for Justice of the State Supreme Court, and James W. Woodworth, of Douglas, Dr. jl E Daniels, of Madison county, and St. a V. Johnson, of Fillmore, were nominated for Regents of the State University. The Committee on Platform, the Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Chairman, reaffirmed the platform of last year as in national politics and Incorporated several new planks, the whole being adopted without dissent The most important planks are these; L The Government of tho United States has no constitutions! or other right to impose taxes on the people except with the intent and result of getting money into the public treasury with whioh to pay the debts and provide tor the common defense and general welfare of the United States, and all tariff taxes called protective, laid with far different intent and result, ought to be utterly abolished. a. That ‘‘protection,’’ so-called, derives no part of its Impulse or maintenance from reasoning or common sense, bnt is wholly a scheme of a few selfish men for their own aggrandizement at the expense of the masses of the people, and. Uke the late River and Harbor bill Vetoed by President Arthur, the worse a protective tariff bill the more likely It is to be enacted, because the log-rolling for It is the fiercer and more ullMlWloM, Judge Hoadlt, Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, was oompelled last week to leave for Philadelphia, being afflicted with malarial troubles and nervous prostration. He went through the advloe of hla family physician.... Congressman Carlisle, In an Interview at Frankfort, Ky., stated that he felt pretty confident of being elected Speaker of the next House of Representatives. He has now, he says, many more pledged votes than any other oandldate, and nearly enodgh to secure the nomination He thinks Randall has no chance.

GENERAL. “Samuel J. Tilden,” says a New York telegram, “apparently unmindful of the thousand and one things said about him and his Presidential aspirations, is jußt now assiduously devoting himself to yatohlng, and bids fair to blossom oat shortly as a first-class sailor. This fondness for yachting on the part of Tilden, which has been developed, it is said, by a number of sailing excursions made daring the present summer on one of the crack yachts of the New York Yacht Club, has taken a decided torn in the engagement of John Roach’s magnificent steam yacht, Yosemite, for the rest of the present season ” • The business failures throughout the United States and Canada, as reported to New York, for the seven days endind Sept 1. were 186. as compared with 165 the preceding week, showing an increase of 2L The failures were distributed as follows: . New England States, 26; Middle States, 20; Southern, 31; Western, 52; Pacific States and Territories, 22; Canada and Provinces, 28; New York City ,l.... Fire destroyed the planing-mill of Eldridge & Son, at Fort Howard, Wi&, valued, at #200,000; the Marcelin chemical works, located near Bridgeport, Ct, : worth #65,000. and the City foundry at Belleville, 18.... .Two “assisted” Irish Immigrants were sent back to Canada from Buffalo last week. They reported that 1,100 other “assists” came with them to Canada, and that it was the British Government's pur-i pose to ship from thereto the United States ... .Ten thousand men are employed on the Panama canal, and the company feel sure of opening it in live years. The sanitary condition of the workmen is excellent The fishing fleet at the Grand Banks of Newfoundland waß scattered by a fierce tempest that came suddenly and without warning. A schooner which narrowly escaped the fnry of the storm and rode into St Johns reports that for thirty miles of her course wreckage was encountered on every side. Many dories were seen bottom up, and oars, fish boards and other material in large quantities were passed from time to time. One French fishing-brig a 1 one lost four dories with all hands. A general estimate puts the lose of life at from sixty to eighty souls, while the damage to the fleet is incalculable. Articles for a 3,000-point balk-line bUliard match have been signed at New York by the representatives of Schaefer and Vignaux. The later won the battle-ground, and named the Grand Hotel case in Paris, While Schaefer desired to play in Chicago The gamewiU occupy five nights, and will be played late in November.

FOREIGN. Dispatches from Batavia report that fears of further eruptions in the Island of Java within the immediate future have subsided, and all the efforts of the Governmentand the people are concentrated on the work of burying the dead and preserving the health of the living. All along the shores from Point Lampon to the River Paquai e on the Northern coast, and from the River Tjmanderie to Tsipankok, on the southern coast, there ore found Corpses thickly strewn. In the forests of the interior from the River Tjiedom to the River Tjietarum, dead bodies' are lying a. short intervals apart, in some Instances partially buried in the sulphurous white mud or the hardened lava that flowed from the eruptive craters. Large forces of men are busy at work In all directions di. ging out bodies from beneath the beds of lava and rocks The Captain of a steamer which was in the Straits of Sunda during the eruptions reports that ashes feß on the deck of his vessel to the depth of eighteen inches He passed masses of floating pumice-stone seven feet in depth. Queen Victoria sent a bouquet of BUes and roses to be placed on Count de Chambord’s casket. The Papal nnnelo at Yienna consecrated the remains, and placed in the coffin a certificate of death. Three thousand Frenchmen journeyed to Frolißdorf to attend the funeral.... Mary Anderson made her debut before a London audience, and met with a warm reception. The play was “Ingomar,” and as Parthenia she received many recaßs.... Furtfcer arrests of conspirators implicated in the dynamite plots of lost spring have been mads Six men were apprehended in Glasgow, all Irish Two thousand peasants invaded the Hungarian town of Krapina to attack the Jews The troops fired upon them, kiiUng one man and wounding three. ... .At a meeting of Irishmen in London money was subsci ibed to pay an eminent solicitor to defend O’Donnell, who killed the informer Carey The foot-and-mouth disease is increasing alarmingly among the cattle in England.... Since the outbreak of the epidemic the total deaths in Egypt from cholera have reached 27,818... .Such is the condition of affairs in Zululand that Cetewayo demands protection by the British.