Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Rev. James Kemlo, of Newark, N J., went to visit his mother in Brooklyn While there he quarreled with his wile and stabbed her in the throat with a butoherkniie. He inflicted a similar wound upon ffimself and leaped to the ground from a fourth-story window. Both were fatally injured The unfortunate nun was insane from illness, having suffered for three months With ma.arial fever..... The five-storv building, 587 and 639 Broadway, New York, occupied by many firms, burned, involving a loss estimated at $>25,0».0. Several firemen were overcome by the stortke, necessitating their removal to the hospital....An assignment has been made bv Abraham * Edward Wallach, fancygoods dealers of New York, who gave preferences for $121,0DD..;. During a firemens parade at Paterson, N. J., R. AS. Adams’ silk and cotton mill burned, creating a loss of s4s,tw. A construction train on the West Shore road, carrying 150 laborers, collided with a hand car near Syracuse, N. Y., causing a fearful wreck, by which three men were Instantly killed and about twenty wounded. A BOILER in the Sligo Iron Works at Pittsburgh exploded, shattering the structure and setting fire to a block of building opposite and to the Lake Erie Railway car shopa In the debris were found eleven employes, three of whom were dead and eight badly wounded, four fatally. Four children residing in a house across the street were a so seriously injured. The. shock of the explosion was felt throughout the city, many buildings being shaken and windows smashed.... Urged only by word of mouth, Jay-Eye-See trotted a mile on Mystic Park, Boston, in 2:11%— the best time ever made on the track. The Buffalo papers, following tlffi example of those of New York, are reducing their prices. The Morning Express inaugurated the cut Single copies are now sold at 3 rents, instead of 5 cents, as heretofore ....Fire at New York destroyed Robert Ellis' planing-mil), and lumber, valued at $40,000, belonging to G. L. Schuyler & Co. Ellis' loss is $15,U.0. R. G. Dun & Co’s Mercantile Agency, reports ftie number of failures throughout the United States and Canada during the week ending Sept 22 as 118, compared with 173 the previous week. The report says: “Notwithstanding the fact that transactions, as interpreted by the bank exchanges, show a large decline as compared with last year, all symptoms regarding trade point to a prosperous condition. Speculation certainly is * less rampant than a year ago, but legitimate trade is almost as large in volume and certainly more satisfactory, both as to condition, stocks held and profits realized The' large absorption of goods at the chief jobbing centers indicates a healthy tone in the retail trade. In dry goods there has been a great deal of activity pf a very healthy character, and, as in groceries, iron and other trading staples, there is in the main a satisfactory coduition.” Bernard Gallagher was last spring notorious as one of the informers in the dynamite expedition which ended in the English prisons. He escaped the sad fate of his fellows and returned to Brooklyn where he has just been sentenced to six months in an inebriate’s asylum... .A villainous plot to blow up the Haytian man-of-war Dessaline, by means of an infernal machine, manufactured by George Holgate, the celebrated maker of dynamite machines, was frustrated in Philadelphia, by the vessel sailing under American colors. THE WEST. Henry Villard has informed the people of Astoria that the cost of a railroad track from that city to Portland is too great to be undertaken by the Oregon Transcontinental Company....A telegram from the Southwest states that little Charley McComas, whose parents were murdered some tame ago by Apaches in Arizona, has been recovered, and that the boy was in good - health. Anthony & Kuhn, a large brewing firm of St Louis, are financially embarrassed, owing, it is said, between $350,000 and J4CO, (XXL The annual report of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for 1883, shows gross earnings amounting to $7,855,459, an increase of $2,425,153; expenses, including rentals and taxes, $5,336,929, an increase of $1,764,089; net earnings, $2,518,530, an increase of $661,064. At San Francisco, the meeting of railmay magnates has resulted in a pool of all the Southern roads west of the Missouri river. The Northern Pacific is understood to stand out at present, although that corporation is expected to come in when the terms suit....At the Alhambra Theater, in St Louis, recently, a traveling salesman named Richard Whallen, fired a shot at an actress named Carrie Hart and then blew out his brains. He had been drinking to excess.... Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of England, arrived in Chicago by special tram. A banquet was given in his honor by Hon. E. B. Washburne, and on the following night the bar and the commercial community entertained the distinguished guest The Indians will probably resist the orders issued by Commissioner Price, requiring tne discontinuance of dancing among the tribes and that Indians having two wives sball at once give up one of them. The wisdom of the orders is doubted, and the Indian Agents say that any attempt to enforce them will lead to bloodshed. Twenty divorces were granted in Chicago b.V Judges Gardner and Moran in one day. The former made the best score, a decree every nine minutes. THE SOUTH. The Ford boys, who slew Jesse James, were hissed and hooted in a variety theater at Louisville, and thev declare they will never again go to Kentucky. The citizens, militia, and Confederate veterans of Winchester, Ya, turned out en masse to escort the New England Union soldiers to the Court House, where they were banqueted. The Federal? were visiting the battlefields of the Shenandoah Valley. During divine service at Rogers, Ark., E. C. Roberts shot and fatally wounded Dr. Elliott, one of the proprietors of the celebrated Cross-Hollow distillcrv. Dr Elliott first opened fire on Mr. fioberte, chpping his moustache, and Mr. RoberstH replied with the result as stated....A monument erected bv the State of Kentucky to the memory‘of President Taylor was unveiled at the Tavlor homestead, near Louisville. Gens. William Preston and T. L. Crittenden delivered addre^ses. A negro in Sumter county, S. C.. assaulted a white girl, Bettie Dixon, 12 years of age. A t later of the victim, in try- ™ protect her, was stabbed bytheneF ro L"?* f*teby. A party of citizens The- Georgia Legislature has deliberately refused to pay the bills connected With the funeral of Gqv. Stephens, and the citizens of Atlanta will be called upon to reimburse the undertaker.. ..Near bare veport, La., the boiler of a boat upon which were workmen constructing the Bed River

■4 w railroad bridge exploded, killing and drowning five persons, and wounding five others, one fatally....A loss of half a' million dollars was entailed by the burning of the Oxmoor iron furnaces at Birmingham, Ala. WASHINGTON. The Postmaster-General charges that the New Orleans National Bank, is receiving < registered letters and money-orders for a , lottery-dealer who has been debarred the mails. The Postmaster at New Orleans is instructed to redeem no orders payable to the’bank mentioned and deliver it no registered letters until evidence is obtained that the deftoijt schema has been abadoned.... Secretary Folger has called in SIMXJO,OCO more of the 3-per-cent Government Lends, inteiesc to cease Dec. 1 next.... Mr. Hill, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, has tendered his resignation to secretary Folger. Another bond call, says a Washington dispatch, may be ' made before the $15,000,(00 call just issued matures, which will be Dea 1 next. The nearest estimate that can be made fixes the further amount of bonds to be redeemed during the fiscal year at $45,0. 0,000. This would make the total amount of the debt retired during that period nearly $’•0,000,000, as $46, (XX).000 have already been called in since July 30 last.... Contractois now at ..work making ’. -cent letter-stamps cannot keep up with the demands made upon them by the Government.

The Republican New Jersey State. Convention, at Trenton, was presided over, temporarily by William Walter Philps, and permanently by Senator John Taylor. Judge Jonathan Dixon was made the party Standard bearer for Governor on toe first ballot The platform indorses President Arthur's policy, approves a fairlv-adjustsd tariff, opposes convict labor and State taxes of a direct nature, and holds that corporations should pay an equitable share of the State's expenses, and be prevented from making further encroachments bn popular rights. It also demands protective legislation in the interests of the fisheries, and congratulates (he people on the success of civil-service reform. The New York Republican State Convention was called to order at Richfield Springs by John F. Smyth. Senator Lapham presided. Among the delegates who failed to appear were George William Curtis, Whitelaw Reid, Thomas C. Platt, and Gen. Sharpe. Senator Lapham was called to the chair, and made a few remarks which evoked hearty cheers. A platform was adopted, eulogizing 'President Arthur and calling for a moderate protective tariff and the taxation of corporation-. The following ticket was placed in nomination: Secretary of State, Gen. Joseph B. Carr; Comptroller* Ira Davenport, State Treasurer, Pliny J. Sexton; State Engineer and Surveyor, Silas Seymour; Attorney General, Leslie W. Russell... .The Maryland Democrats met in convention at Baltimore and nominated Robert McLane for Governor, C D. Roberts lor Attorney General, and J; Frank TurheF for Comptroller. The platform declares that the inauguration of Hayes and Wheeler was brought about by fraud, and says the methods used by Garfield and Arthur were, “if possible, more discreditable than those adopted by their fellows in 1876. ” It denounces the Republican party as having made public lands the spoil of favored corporations, and as having “squandered the money of the country in maintaining a horde of idle,profligate, and incapable place- men;” de elazes equal protection is not given to the industries of the country, and that under the administration of the party now in power the merchant marine of the United States' has “been broken up.”,... Col Charles B. Codman was chosen to preside over the Massachusetts Republican Convention, at Boston, and in taxing the chair said there was no room in that Commonwealth for a cheap and vulgar dictatorship, but there was a necessity for a Governor of decent manners and seemly behavior. On the first ballot for Governor Hon. George D. Robinson received 996 votes and Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 117. Mr. Adams at once caused the nomination of Mr. Robinson to be made unanimous. The remaining State officers were renominated. Mr. Dawes presented the platform which" was unanimously adopted, and which, after indorsing Arthur’s adtnini>trat:on, favoring eivil-service reform,a currency based on specie and a higher standard of temperance legislation, arraigns and denounces the administration of Gov. Butler.... The Dakota Constitutional Convention, which met at Sioux Falls, has adjourned, leaving the final arrangement of the constitution in the bands of the Committee of Arrangements and Phraseology. Very stringent safeguards will be made against the monopoLes of banking and railroads. The convjjntion defeated an amendment to the article on corporations, assessing railroads upon their gross earnings. Trie question or salaries to be allowed State officers was decided as follows: The Governor, (Oil; the Treasurer, Auditor and Attorney General, SI,OCX) each; the Secretary and Superintendent of Public Instruction, $1,510. The Legislature will fix other salaries. A firovision was adopted to submit to a popuar vote any prohibitory measures upon the petition or 1,000 legal voters, and upon a majority vote it shall become a part of the State constitution. A mass, convention of colored voters of Ohio was held at Columbus, Sept 2(1 The Democrats took control at the outset, but tire Republicans reorganized the affair after recess. Then a >plit took place. One convention refused to send delegates to the Louisville convocation; the other appointed a luh set. The New York World’s Washington correspondent telegraphs: “President Arthur, according to a high Republican author.ty here, has entered into a political combination with Robert T. Lincoln* Secretary of War. Mr. Arthur believes lie has himself a fairly good chance to be the Republican nom iee next year, but if he cannot be nom nated he desires to say who shall le. He regards Senator Logan as his most dangerous opponent, and has united with Lincold on tn^Laicount.”.., .After an acrimonious debate, the Massachusetts Prohibitionists, in conventdu at Boston, refused to indorse the Republican nominee, and named Charles Almy, of New Bedford, for Governor. Secretary Teller maintains that the lowest grade in his department to which the,Civil Service law applies is that of $4,200 clerkships. In this the Civil-Service Commissioners were at issue with him. The Commissioners find considerable difficulty in framing rules to govern promotions from grade to grade, and are said to be far from agreed among themselves as to the extent to which competitive examinations should ; govern appointments. GENERAL, I The New York reading public were surprised, the other morning, by the announcement of a reduction in the price of the Times trem 4 cents to 2 cents a copy. The Tribune partially followed suit, reducing its price from 4to 3 cents. The inultiplicitv of cheap mornink papers, which had made heavy inroads upon the ctrcu’ation of the blanket sheets, brought about the reduction. THE Chicago Christian Convention* led by Moody and Sankey, opened at FarweU Hall, in that city, in the presence of an immense audience. Many noted eyangelical workers were in attendance, and during the series of meetings the best methods of Christian work were elaborately discussed Interest in the meetings did not flag as they progressed, but there was a great rush and pscked houses each day. A hurricane of great violence swept over the Bahama islands. Fifty vessels were wrecked and upward of sixty lives lost At Nassau many houses were blown .down. / - - p Rev. R Hebeb Newton, testifying

before the Senate Sub-Committee on Education and Labor, paid the condition of the laboring classes was a subject sor * expert study, and at the piesent time there was not sufficient information regarding it upon which to base any intelligent legislation. The difficulties met with by labor reformers were the intemperate habits of the laboring classes and the improper methods to which dabor resorted in endeavoring to accomplish its desires. The great want of the people he considered to be Industrial education. Instruction in public schools was woefully deficient, and its tendency was entirely one-sided. It has given to the youths of the country a dislike for manual labor, which had a very dangerous tendency. .'Cooperation was spoken of by the witness as the greatest aid to the elevation of the working classes. Lillie Deveraux Blake, another witness, advocated the establishment ■of matronsliips in all the penal institutions and state reformatories for girls. Mrs. D. G, Croly, a newspaper writer, who has given cr nsideruble study to the condition of the laboring women in New York city, recommended a system of compulsory education, riot only in the common schools, but in industrial schools Mrs. Dr. Clemance H Loz er advocated the use of the baHot by women a? the next practical means of improving their conditions,

The Sovereign Lodge of Odd Fellows, in session at Providence, refused to eliminate the word “white” from their constitution. The lodge meets next year in Minneapolis... .This morning the offices of the Central and South American Telegraph Company have been opened in New York City. President Arthur sent a congratulatory dispatch to Don Pedro, of Brazil F. B. Thurber, leader of the New York Anti-Monopoly League, ' was before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor In the opinion of the witness the use of steam and electricity had revolutionize! labor and commerce within a few years, and had much to do with the present unsatisfactory relations of labor and capital Corporations had grown to tremendous proportions, and had conferred benefits on humanity as a whole, but the attending evils had likewise made their appearance, and proper regulation had come to be a necessity. There were numerous monopolies, such as those in land, currency, transport artion, tariff, combination in trade, and taxation, and all had a nearing on the problem under discussion. Intemperance and ignorance were also vital factors. The carrying trade on land could be centered in a tew hands, but on sea competition would prevent undue exactions by the carriers Legislation was enacted in ‘the interest of corporations, and offenders in this direction could only be reached with great difficulty. If the State constructed railroads and directed other public works it would not have watered stocks, discriminated against persons and places, corrupted elections and Legislatures, and debauched the courts Witness asserted that in the last Congress there were 264 lawyers, the majority of whom were retained by cor; orations, or were directly or indirectly: influenced by others in legislation in the interest of corporations Explorer NorDenskjold has penetrated into Greenland for a distance of 360 kilometres, and -reached ‘ an altitude of 7,000 feet above the sea. He finds the country simply an ioe desert, with no open water. ' On the northwestern coast he found a very low temperature, but on the eastern shore the weather is comparatively moderate. .. .The ’ Canadian Pacific ‘Company expects to construct 916 miles of road this year. Grading is nearly finished to the summit of the Rocky mountains, and trains wall run to that point by Oct, 15. The completed track is 1,9(>3 miles in length; 25.(00 men are employed, and SIOO,OOO per day is paid out in wages ... .Cadet John V. Hamilton has been dismissed from West Point for unbecoming conduct. The yellow fever is spreading at a terrible rate along the Mexican coast A recent dispatch from San Francisco says: “Capt Caveriy, of the steamship Colema, who touched off Manzatlan on his way up from Panama, confirms the report of the burial of the dead by a band of hired Indians, who, he says roamed from house to house, gathering corpses as a garbage-man would make his rounds This resulted in many persons being buried alive. In one case a man, taken up for dead, was carted away and buried in less than half an hour. It was rumored that u noise was heard in the box as it was being carted off, A friend hearing this, went to the cemetery, disinterred the remains, and found tne body turried over from the agony of suffocation. ... .The comet recently observed by ProL Brooks will be visible in this country before Christmas It is the comet of 1812. FOREIGN. When QJJonnell, the slayer of Carey* tpe informer, was marched from Millbank prison to Bow street, large crowds gathered at every point, and gave vent to cheers and hisses; ' The pri oner was formally charged with murder on the high sea The hearing was adjourned to Tuesday, Sept 25, to await the arrival of witnesses from Africa . _ 1— The royal family of Denmark and the Czar of Russia lunched with Mr. Gladstone on his yacht off Copenhagen. The poet Tennyson read selections from his works after the repast, after which Mr. Gladstone set sail.for England... .Col Clioborn, of the Salvation army, has been expelled from Geneva, Switzerland, and Miss Booth isin prison atNi ufchatel for viol ating theorder prohibiting salvation meetings.... James McDermott, re; ently arrested at Liverpool, upon his arrival upon Brooklvn, as being an ’lrish conspirator, has been discharged for lack of evidence Kavanagh and several o-Imt Irish informers in the Phu nix Park trials were n allowed to land at Melbourne, but have been slipped back to Europe....-Holtz, a murderer, was guillotined in the horse-market at Rheims, France, in the presence of 5,000 persons,.... John Payne (. oilier, philologist, and a noted commentator on Shaksj eare, died in London at a great age... .Direct taxes in Cuba have been increased 50 per cent by the Spanish Government The chief organ of the Russian Nihilists, which seems to favor Jew-baiting, says that in the recent riots at Ekaterinoslav the military killed lOi of the populace... .A principal portion of the colossal statpe of* Gen. Robert E. Lee, des gned for the city of 'New Orleans, was cast at London last week. . 1 -- Gen. Blumenthal, commander of the Fourth German army corps, was created a Count at the close of the maneuvers at Merseburg. The Emperor said he had pr bably reviewed this corps for the.last rime.... The tenants pf Lord Sligo, near Westport, Ireland, seized his guns and prevented him from shcotfbg over his estate. Avenger O’Donnell is reported to be disgusted at the apathy of the Irish people in his case, and has remarked that £2u,(00 could be collected in a week to save the man who commuted the mo. t popular murder of the cuv. A solicitor* retained by friends of the accused was refused admittance to birfcell, the Governor of the pr.eon insisting that the Atr-erican Consul must be communicated within regard to the defense. ... .The Paddock handicap sweepstakes at Manchester were won by Passaic, formerly owned by Loriilard, but now the property of Lord B< ssmore. A cable dispatch chronicles the ternm. of China’s ultimatum as submitted to France. China will sign a convention which shall blind France to a recognition of ChineseAuzerainty over Tomi ujn and Annam's v&wasage to Cnina, I rance to entirely evacuate Touquln and China to admit a nominal French protectorate over Annum so ' long m it Bha.l remain strictly nominal Even the Baered French Ministers were not prepared for a demand bo sweeping, arid pointed out

. J j . to the Marquis Tseng the extraordinary character of the proposition. But the unfortunate Marquis cou.d Only refer Uftm tc the peremptory character of his instructions, the Pekin authorities having instantly rejected former arrangements which ihe Marquis had agreed upon m the belief that they were highly favorable to the Flowery Kingdom. Strange to say, it is said’that Ferry, Grevy and Waddington are willing to eat tile Celestial leek, it being recommended as the proper medicine bv Lord Grativillfe... .Russia is making extensive military preparations along the Austrian and German frontier... .At the Colonial exhibition at The Hague United States exhibitors obtained Atty-seven,of the 2,553 awards.