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

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Diamond experts at New York are greatly interested in the importation from South Africa of a rough stone weighing 125 carats... ."Juniusßrutus Booth, the actor, died at Manchester, Mass Yellow-fever rages at Guaymas, Mexico. Business has been totally suspended, and all who could escape have fled. The work of burying the dead has been given to a-band of Indians, and it is charged that they have frequently interred patients in a comatose condition The ravages of the epidemic at Maz.atlan are said to be ,lright-fu!7..‘7Goiden7thewell-knowTrtrainer,Tnade an offer of $25,C00 for Jay-Eye-See. He was informed that $30,000 ‘had already been refused. It is probable that Mr. Caro would not sell the colt for $50,000.... -A- Halifax- dispatch says the-bark Brittannia was lost on Sable Island, and the Captain's wife; three children and eight of tirtr crew were drowned, including the first and second mates... .The lumber propeller- Oakland, bound irom, Bay City to Erie, foundered off GiraajJ, Lake Erie. Two of the crew escaped on a raft. The rest, it is feared, are lost. A large meeting of the League was held at Mallow, Ireland, at which William O’Brien, M. P., editor of United Ireland, made an address. He urged his hearers to persevere in their win the independence of Ireland from English domination, by peaceful means if possible, but to win at all hazards. A Land League meeting at Carrick-on-Shannon, which was attended by ' .’>(»,< :o > people, was addressed by Thomas O’Conor Power, M. P... .Frenchmen may now turn’their wrath from Berlin editors to the Sublime Porte. Turkey Jias made the cheerful announcement to Bismarck that in the event of war between Iruuce and Germany she will undertake to make diversions upon the French in Tunis and Algeria.... One of the imperial chamberlains at St. Petersburg, having been defected by the C arina in placing Nihilistic documents in her apartments, immediately slew himself. ... .O’Donnell, the slayer of Informer Carey, was landed at Southampton, England, and taken thence to London. He w-as closely guarded Pool Commissioner Albert Fink appeared as a witness before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor. He believes the pgpjjng system necessary to the existence of any railway service whatever. The growth of this necessity he instanced -bynwatihg that wheirhe began as Pool Commissioner he re; resented but five roads, all run mug east and west Two association - similar to the one which he controls now exist in the West, covering territory not occupied by the F. stern ;.o 1. Podim; on ti grand scale began in lb.;> in the South. But for the water routes, Mr. Fink admitted, it would go very bard with the people, as the pinch which shippers now get at the close of navigation wdiiid be an all-destroying grip but that the dread of something after springtime puzzles the magnates’ will. The gospel according to F,nk is, that when competition itself; but when corporations get into snch a fight it cannot be s topped by-the mere ruin of the properties involved Competition must be eliminated in order to make the business of transportation possible. Mr. Fink pronounced the scheme of Governmental purchase and control of the railroads the wildest folly ithagin'able. To a question as to whether the people could not be relieved of their causes of complaint, Mr. Fink grimly iesponded that so long, as the people were charged anything at all they would remain obdurate. ■ Prof. Dodge, the Statistician of the National Agricultural Department, is of the opinion that the corn crop will probably be as great as that of 1882,. The damage to the corn in lowa by the early frosts has, according to trustworthy railway reports been much over estimated,—A Southern cotton expert estimates the yield of that staple for 1883 at not abdve 5;25.',tx 0 bales; The crop has been seriously damaged by "drought ana by the pestiferous cotton worm.—lt is found by-repi rts received at -the Agricultural De= partment in'Washington from the tobaccogrowing districts that the tobacco crop in the New England States, New York, Pennsylvania and' Wisconsin has greatly suffered from, the recent frosts. At the best, not three-fourths of the crop in the States mentioned will be harvested It is said that Henry Villard lias purchased the Northern Pacific Coast railroad, running from San Francisco to Duncan's Mills, and intends to continue it to a junction with bis Oregon system. With other lines which he is said to have secured, be M-ill have- tratiks,-from Puget-Sound to San Diego, I,’oo miles?. . .Henry Mosher, a murderer was hanged by a mob at Cheyenne.