Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Os Long Island, near Hunter’s PointDepot, two passenger trains came in coL Union, and twd persons were killed and eight wdunded... .Gruber, Hoopes A Co., hat jobbers, of Philadelphia, have suspended, with liabilities of $30,00(1 Smith: & Co.’s large school and counting-room furniture factory, at Boston, was burned, entailing a loss of $75,000.,.. Hugh Hastings, proprietor of the New York Commercial Aduertiw, died at Monmouth Beach, Nr J., aged 03 years Mr. ColliNs a student in Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa, was visited by a basing party of sophomores the other night, and, to escape them, jumpbd from his window eighteen feet to the ground, fracturing the bones of his leg and receiving other severe injuries... .8. J. Tilden and Jay Gould had a yacht race on the Hudson river. The Atlanta is not allowed to carry over seventy pounds of steam, but the Vo- 1 Semite, Tilden's yacht, put on 110 pounds and left Gould behind. A great riot occurred at a coal-mine on the Upper Lehigh, near Hazelton, Pa A fight began between constables and tougha A woman and a little girl were killed by stray bullets. Several officers and a number of roughs were wounded in the battle ....William liunyau and his wife, aged 25 and 2(1 respectively, were found in bed at their residence in Millville, Pa, with their throats cut from ear to ear. They had been dead about a week.... .A fire in Brooklyn destroyed the felt-hat works of W. A Boylin & Go., and tßte straw-hat factory of Charles E. Everett The total Ipss is‘slso,ooo. . —— — • At Narragansett Park, Sept. 15th, Jay-liye See trotted a mile to beat his record for $2,(00. He made the quarter pole in 34 seconds, the half mile in I:O6JZ, threequarters in 1:39, and finished in 2:1 Ote, without a skip or break. This is within half a second of the great feat of Maud 5... .Prof. Swift, Director of the Warner Observatory, ’ N. Y., has discovered a comet in the constellation of Draco. The motion is southwesterly. .. .Pleuro-pneumonia has appeared among the cattle in Delaware, Chester and York counties, Pa ' ■■ THE WEST. Henry Blessing, a steamboat engineer of St Louis, residing at No. 1,461 Cass Avenue, nas for years been extremely jealous of his wife He slashed her in a horrible manner with a razor, fatally shot and cut her brother, W. F. Theilman, and then severed his own windpipe It is believed that Mrs. Blessing will recover..... Fire at St Paul destroyed a furniture manufactory, two carpenter shops, a plainingmill ana a stair-building establishment The total loss will reach #."0,000... .On the McLain ranch, in Elbert county, CoL, the other evening, eight drunken cowboys had a desperate fight, in which three were killed and three seriously wounded At a council at the Flathead agency, held with the Indians by Senator Vest and Delegate Maginnis, Chief Charles made a most impressive speech. He stamped upon his hat and declared that he would never go upon a reservation alive, but would take to the plains. He said his hands were free from tne blood of white men. Senator Vest warned him to secure title to his laud at once, and he finally consented to go to Washington with Agent Ronan and discuss the matter .... The Villard party arrived safely at Portland, Ore., having gone the whole length of the Northern Pacific route. The citizens of Portland strove to outdo the demonstrations of the long line of towns through which the party had passed....D. L. Payne and other officers of the Oklahoma Company were arrested last week at Wichita, Kan, on complaint of the United States Attorney, J. R Hollowell, who has grown weary of the cost and trouble of keeping these men out of Indian Territory. A. B. Skinner, Postmaster at Windsor, Ohio, has been held to bail in Cleveland for paying #3 worth of postage-stamps for corn, thereby increasing his salary by enlarging his commissions.... A child with one body and a double outfit of -heads, legs, and arms, perfectly formed, entered the world dead at Cleveland. During the game of base-ball yesterday between the Wabash Club and the North Manchester nine, at Wabash, Ind., Charles McConnell, who was playing secondbase sor t the latter team, was run into by Ring, Captain of the Wabash? nine and fatally injured... .During a severe thunderstorm at Hartford, Dak., the house of Herman Dries was struck by lightning. Mr. Dries was coming downstairs with a 5-year-old child in his arms at the time, and both were killed. His wife and two other children were badly stunned, but will recover.... f _ a small jtesidepcg._at,; Appleton, Wis., awomamanddWo of-hcr five children were horribly burned One of the children is dead, and two cannot recover.... A package containing SS,(W in currency was mysteriously taken from the safe of the United States Express Company at Muncie, Ind... .Burglars in Detroit opened the faro bank of Fitzgerald A- Wilson and took $4,1X0 from the safe. Notwithstanding the decision by Judge Edgerton that the acta of the Dakota Capital Commission are illegal, the people of Bismark keep 103 men at work on the State House using electric lights at night The Agricultural Department of Illinois reports the wheat crop the smallest recorded for the past twenty-five seasons, while the price at harvest time has only been higher twice in ten years. The AsFeasors report- 7,304,596 acres planted to corn, ana the crop is from ten to twenty day slate in maturing..... A tombstone dispatch reports that eight Apaches appeared at Antelope Springs, Arizona, mounted on barebacked horses, and killed George Ward. Twenty armed citizens of Tombstone went in pursuit of the savages. CoL Terrazas, of the Mexican army, was organizing a force to pursue the host! les to' the mountains. About 150 able-bodied men tarred and feathered two Mormon elders who had been evangelizing in the region of Brookville, Ind. A young girl had been enticed from her home by the Elders, And was found ,pnly after a determined search She had been converted to the ideas of Mor-'J monism and heartily desired to accept the aad lot which the Salt Lake Church apportions to the women «.f its faith...£ I The pioneer newspaper of San Francisco, tile Alta California, has been purchased by ex-Ueut ’ Gov. Johnson, who will jcbungn it to an advocate of Democracy John M. Krum, for nearly half a centurv a prom neat member of the Western bar Bit fit lamia, hsa“just died at the age of 7K- ...... R Connett, a well-known pork packer at St. Joseph, Ma, committed suicide. * I ■ THE SOUTH. A great etorm is reported on the South Atlantic coast Off the coast of North Carolina the wind blew at the rate of ninety-three miles an hour, and thirteen vessels wan wrecked... Tire in the busineaa portion of Fort Smith, Ark., caused a lorn of #05,000; -insurance, #3'..tM>.... Beporta from Atoansas represent the cotton crop Mb being Injured by tie continued dry

suffering severely from the drought The hot weather does not affect the corn crop very materially, it being matured in most localities. ‘ .......... Mrs. Barbara Miller ('colored),who crushed her husband’s head with an ax while he lay asleep, and with the aid of her paramour placed the-body on a railroad track, where it was mangb d by several trains, was hanged last week In the jail-yard at Richmond, Va Her no omplic’e, C H. Lee, was executed on the fid < f August.. . . A pictorial police paper in New Turk sent an agent to Atlanta to test the Georgia law against obscene publications. He was promptly sentenced to serve a year iu the chain-gang or pav a fine of SI,OOO. An appeal has been taken. Revenue Agent Powers, who has been investigating the planting of distilleries in Pickens courity, 8. C., has discovered three instances where stills were located to • secure from . the Government the fees incidental to the capture of an illicit distillery. Two Deputy United States Marshals nre said to be the instigators of these frauds.... Judge Mayo, of Westmoreland county, Va., father of Congressman Mavo...shot himself fatally; and with stßcidal intent, while ca board the steamer Virginia, from Baltimore for Norfolk..; .The peanut crop of’Virginia is almost a total failure, the loss 'being estimated at $203,000.' WASHINGTON. Washington telegram: “Postmaster General Gresham, the only Cabinet officer who has remained iu Washington any considerable portion of the summer, has a large budgett to call to the attention of the President, and it is quite —probable that a number-of Postmasters will be removed. —Among them are some Postmasters who, being proprietors of country newspapers, have inserted the latest advertisement of a lottery company, which sharply attacks the Postoffiee Department and the Administration on account of recent decisions excluding lottery letters from the. mails. In view of the successful evasion of the recent order of the Postmaster General against lotteries, it is expected, too, that another order, more stringent than the former one, will soon be promulgated.” The recommendations of the naval court-martial in the cases of Naval Cadets Benjamin Traplell, Archibald Campbell. Ellsworth P. Bertholf and Franklin Moeller, tried on charges of hazing, that they be dismissed the service, has been approved by the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and- orders dismissing them were issued from the Navy Department. A Washington- telegram of the lSth nst says: “Additional telegraphic reports from State Agents the Agricultural Department have boon received from Ohio, Indiana Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Dakota They show that the frosts since the Ist inst have damaged the corn crop in those States from -5 to 15 per cent, the greatest injury having occurred in Ohio. Notwithstanding this the statistician of the department says that the 2,500,(C0 acres increase over list year’s planting will probably keep the total yield from falling below 1,600,000,000 bushels. The total for last year was 1,625,009,003 bushels, so the decrease will not, he says, be serious enough to cause a short supply.” The Secretary of the Interior, in a decision just rendered, holds that a preemption settlement, initiated and filed in good faith, is a bar to a timber entry under the act of Juno 3, 1878, for the disposal of timber lauds in certain States and in Washington Territory. He holds that where a settler alleges that: he has'filed liis declaration of intention to become a citizen and fails for a time to secure record evidence of the fact, such evidence, when .procured, , maybe filed at any'time before final disposal of the land/and when tiled is conclusive as to his qualifleatiousas a preemptor with respect to citizenship. It Jias been definitely settled that no expedition will be sent in search of Lieut Greely’s Arctic exploring party this year. It is considered that to do so would but add to the number of valuable lives in peril It is also believed that there will l e no en- ■ couragemeipt for further expeditions to the : North pole—that Congress will absolutely refuse to vote money for that purpose. 'Foo much money has been spent and too many lives have 'been sacrificed already in the fool-hardy ventures..... Commander Wyldes declares the officers of the Proteus were unskillful, and that the conduct of the crew at -the time, of the wreck was shameful... .Experts, reporting on the bitters question to the Revenue Bureau, state that in the West people get diunk on such decoctions, while in the East their use is confined to medicinal purposes. POLITICAL. Mr. Dezendorf, Chairman of tho Republican State Committee of Virginia, states that Mahone is organizing colored clubs, giving members a ticket for 20 cents for each meeting attended, payable on election day. Mr. Dezendorf has complained to Postmaster General Gresham that the postoffice officials as well as the Revenue Collectors are constantly engaged in the can- ! vass. Wf.ndf.ll Phillips denies that he i has become dissatisfied with the methods ' andadmihisteatiou Of Blaine > denies the remarks recently credited to 'him, viz: That Butler would again he elected Governor of Massachusetts, and later win the Presidential contest for the Mr. Blaine says therevetse of this are the x lews which he holds. i A bill for the incorporation of the ' Southern Pacific Company is pending in the New Hampshire Legislature. The scheme of the parties.interested is a consolidation of all the railroad and steamboat lines in Texas and Louisiana, the aggregate capital of which Would exceed , S.>-,WO,COJ, and own, beside, ( ; ,000,(XX) acres of Texas lands. ■ ... .Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts,. has appointed to a I’olice Judgeship at- Charlestown, a colored man named Edwin G. Walker. The New Jersey Democrats, in convention at Trenton, nominated Leon Abbott for Governor, but the friends of Andrew Albright declared in the convention that they would bolt the ticket Excerpts from the platform: The people should only be taxed so much as is absolutely indispensable for the frugal conduct of their public affairs; not one cent for surplus, and no unnecessary taxation. We-Yavor. the entire abolition of the present system of internal taxation, the nursery of spoils and informers, a menace to the freedom of elections, the source of the greatest corruption, and an intolerable aud unnecessary burden unon the taxpayers. . We insist that the public lands shall be reserved to actu 1 settlers, not another acre for subsidies; that the dignity of American labor shall be defended, and also the lights of American citizens abroad and at home. taror tariff for limited to the. net essarv ext enditure of the Government, and s Bo adjusted as to give protection and encouragement to home productive industry and labor, without producing or rostering monopolies. ’ Thk National Union League has perfected arrangements for giving addresses in the South oa jiolitic'al and educktional i questions Prominent Northern men will J be the speakera TDe Dakota Constitutional Convention has resolved to make the name Of * the new State South Dakota, in deference to the i protest of the Fargo meeting. Woman suf- : Sage was rejected by 36 to Cl i Mr. Ramsdell, a Washington (D. : CL) Mend of Senator Blaine, says very posi- ! lively that that distinguished gentleman i will not under any circumstances be a can- | didate ter the Presidency next year.

w •CENEKAL. The 200th anniversary of the victory of King John Sobieski; the last independ’ent ruler of Poland, over the mighty Turkish army besieging. Vienna Sept 12,1683. _,y,.as celebrated this yeap iu th'at city by a grand torchlight procession and display of firework.-. It is estimated that - ou, u< op arsons were assembled. At Cracow and Lemberg the day was celebrated with enthusiasm. On this side of the Water the day was'observed in an a; ppopriaie imauuei" Ij* ti e Po isli citizens, iri Chicago 5,(430 Poles paraded, and there were, also imp,.singaeinohstrations in New York, I’liiladplphia and Milwaukee... .John Roach. theCliester sliipbuitder. was again befuretoe Senate Committee on Education and Labor last week. Much of his time was given to corrections and denials of reports of his previous' testimony. .protected ships. Tree land and free transportation to the lan<l w< re prescribed, as the cure of all industrial dis.... Yellow fever has become epidemic at Hermosillo, Quaymas, aud Mazatlan, MeSieo. There were sixteen deaths at Guaymas last week, and six soldiers expired from black vomit in ohe day at Hqrmosli'lo. People are fleeing from the pestilence. The disease is also spreading at Penisacola. Since the Ist of January 145,181 packages of dry goods were exported front Now York, a larger quantity than was ever sent abroad before in the same period.... Large shipments of French gold are daily reaching New York. The relief steamer Yautie has reached St. Johns, N. F., without tidings of Lieut. Greedy or any of his party. The Yantic brought ('apt. Pike "aud the crew of the I’prteus, which vessel was crushed by ice on toe -i:d of July and sunk. Capt. Pike and his party were -exposed-- in boats for thirty-one days and nights. The business failures in the United States for the week ending Sept. 15 num—qered 136—six less than the preceding week, and a decrease of three when compared with corresponding period in 1882.—1 n a very comprehensive statement, embracing replies "from seven ty-five leading mercantile and manufacturing cities of toe Union, IJraustrvet'x shows that the manufacturing industries of the United States are enjoying a better business than might have ’been supposed. It appears.that with toe exception of a few lines of industry orders are being receivedby manufacturers quite up to the standard. Of "former years, and in many branches in 1 excess thereof. On the whole, toe industrids appear to bo moderately well employed. though at narrow-margins of profit. 1 Ordersare small, but frequent, and* promise to continue in good number. This is a healthful condition at least.—Dun’s Commercial Agency reports business throughout the country generally satisfactory, and the fall trade is quietly - progressing, with aJ. large volume of sales in niost all staples—A‘ New-YorkTeJegram-repioFts—that-Sto® drygoods men have done a better business? The speculators’ occupation returned with the series of frosts, aud the bank clearings grew larger in conse juence,” Lieut’ Garlington, in charge of the , Greely relief expedition, is criticised fori not having landed stores before he ventured, On a eruise which was likely to end in drsas-l ter to his vessel Lieut. Danenhower and (apt Tyson have volunteered tdj lead expeditions again into the -polar .-regions—to— Greely’s rescue.... ~Mrs. Giroux, of East Tcinplctbn, Ont., locked her two children in toe house while she went to milk her cow, aud when she re’ turned found the building in flames. Thd little ones were burned to ashes... .A trail} of ten ears, loaded- w.tii < aimed c. rn, haff left Portland, Mel, for Port'and. Ore., on a special fast schedu e It is conspicuously lettered to attiaat atteution on the way. The Directors of the Montreal Exchange Bank held a meeting and* resolve:} to suspend payment and put toe"bank into liquidation. The liabilities are $2,000,000. ....At a meeting in New York the of the pugilists. Mitehell and Slade, des Glared their proposed fight off. tOKEIGN. . Cholera hangs on well in Egypt, but its ravages are hardly noticeable after the record so recently made. Europeans, complain of the rapidity with which .everything in toe way of sanitary service has been abandoned by the Egyptians now that their fears have subsided.... A mob of Chinese burned the houses and wharves of several European merchants at Canton. The foreign residents sought refuge dll vessels in the river, and Chinese troops dispersed the rioters. — Twa; British gunboats were sent t<? Jhe scene from Hong Kong.... The cattle ilisease has spread all over England, and only American beef can be obtained in some sections... .Admiral Pierre, who recently returned from command of the French forces in Madagascar, has just died in Paris .. .Upon suggestion of Cliff ford Lloyd, the British Governinent has decided to form the nucleus of the new Egyptian police .from the Irish constabulary.... The Croatian rebellion glows to such importance that the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs has been forced to send a dispatch to all representatives abroad, informing them of the precise character of the insurrection. He promises an immediate suppression of the tiprising, which is general throughout toe; province. There is undbilbtedly a Russian ferment to the trouble. Advices from tlie Stanley expedition in Africa to Aug. 1 have been received at London. The general health of the party is reported to be very bad, and their numbers are being Rapidly, lessened by /disease and desertions. Several have died from fevers, and others are too ill to travel furtuer. Mr. Stanley, writes hopefully of the results of his explorations, and asks for European volunteers to join the expedition, One of his boats, he says,, was capsized on the Congo river, and Lieut Janson, a Belgian, and a civilian, were drowned ... . Michael Davitt is so ill with inflammation of the lungs that his engagements for League meetings in Ireland have been canceled. Wittenberg celebrated the quatrecentenary of Martin Luther’s birth on the 13to inst Fifty thousand visitors thronged toe streets, which were appropriately decorated. Lectures on Luther’s life and works were delivered in various parts of the town, and there were banquets and other festivities in the evening...? The police of Paris claim to have frustrated a plot to assassinate King Alfonso in that city... .At Jakoboracz, Croatia, soldiers tired into a concourse of rioters, fifteen of whom were killed and several wounded. During the recent Canton outbreak one French, two German, ten English and one American house were burned Placards were ’’posted throughout the city, applauding the woik of the mob, and at i resent tlie, situation is serious for the European colony. The Consuls hold the Viceroy the des motion of property, as fie failed to send troops at thfe first intimation ot the outbreak.... The French forces and the Black Flags had a desperate battle, Sept. I. in Tonquin. The f Ormer "killed 5t(3 of their who -.were beheaded at once.... A Paris dispatch says that at a meeting of the French Calfiinet, Challeinel-Lacour stat ed that negotiations with the Chinese Embassador were progressing favorably. The Ministers decided tn tax Or of a conciliatory policy, but indorsed the forwarding of reinforcements to Toneme. Michael Davitt, in a recent letter, describes the measures being taken in Ireland to take advantage of the provisions of toe ‘’migration* and other clauses of the Tramways act, of the Laborers’, and of the Fisheries acts. He says that tile English peasants are about entering on an agitation

- ■/ somewhat similar to that which has been carried' off in Ireland for land reform. Mr Davitt has been invited to take part in this new agitation. He thinks that the appreciative tone of the English press in reference to Mr. Parnell funlishes good grounds of hope for Ireland, and of a better state of feeling between the Irish and the English people. —The reported illness of Mr. Davitt is denied... .1 he Croatians continue turbulent. Several encounters have taken place between them and the Hungarian military bodies.... Disastrous 1 floods prevail in the district of Taranto. Italy, and many lives have teen lost.. ..There is a serious increase in cattle diseases all over England. In Leicestershire there is not an uninfected farm.