Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The Pittsburgh Exposition buildings, loottsd in Alleghany City, caught fire the other night and were entirely destroyed, notwithstanding the united efforts of the entire fire department of both cities. The tire originated in the boiler-room Nothing in the main building was saved except a few trifling articles of no value. All the valuable exhibits were destroyed The relic department was in the building, and everything was lost, including the locomotive Arabian. Also $6,000 in the safe was consumed. The loss is over $1.000,L00. At New York the clearing-house transactions for the fiscal year aggregated $41,382,138,453, the daily average being $137,7M,40?. The total transactions since the clearing-house was organized in 1853 amount to $115,201,540,837, with a daily average of $77,012.755.... .Seven rounds were fought on Long Island by Mitchell and Sheriff, in presence of sporting oelebrities and prominent men of New York, the result being a draw... .Kimball Brothers, carriage-dealers, of Boston, whose Hahoittpn are very heavy, have made an assignment George Bancroft, the historian, gave a dinner party at Newport, in commemoration of his 83d birthday... .Canterbury & Haskell, boot and shoe manufacturers at Boston, have failed for $190,000. John A. Decker’s paper-mill, at Lee, Mass., was consumed by fire, entailing a loss of $35,0C0... .James McSteen, a Pittsburgh wife-murderer, was hanged in that city last week. A street-car moving along at the. corner of Susquehanna aveuue and America street, Philadelphia, was demolished by a Beading train. Two men were killed, one woman terribly mangled, and ten others injured. The car had no oonductor, the driver having to watch for fares and look out for trains at the crossings Trinket beat St. Julien at Albany, in straight heats. Best time, 2:18. At Allegheny, Pa., a street car, with disordered brakes, ran down ap incline and into the yard of the Port Wayne railroad, colliding With a passing freight train. The car was wrecked, and the twenty-five occupants were wounded, four.fatally......Because of a recent unsatisfactory sermon on the murder of Rose Ambler, the TTniversalist Society of Boston has decided to dispense with the services of their pastor, the Rev. M. H. Houghton, after April 1 next Mrs. C. P. Huntington, wife of the Pacific railroad magnate, died suddenly at New York. ----- THE wrtT. - Leland Stanford and other Californians have incorporated an agriculturalimplement company with a capital of $5,000,000... .The sash and door factory and warehouse of O. J). Peck & Sons, at Oshkosh, Wia, was burned, causing a loss of $60,000, with $41,000 insurance.... Henry C. New, son of John C. New and one of the proprietors of the Indianapolis and John G. Thompson, of the Washington Sunday Chronicle, met on the streets of Indianapolis, and renewed their fight about where.they left off"fi year ago. Pistols were drawn, but there was no bloodshed. The police appearing, both parties were arrested. The residence of Mr. William Dittton, of Adrian, Mich., was entered by burglars, who carried of about SBO,OOO in mortgages, United States bonds, and Michigan municipal securities, besides a small amount of money, a watch, and some articles of family jewelry. The present week is tlie last of John McCullough’s engagement at McVlcker’s theater, Chicago, and It will be devoted to “The GladiaUA,” “Othello," and "Richard HI.” This emlhent tragedian seems to grow in popularity with each recurring season. The present engagement has been the most successful he has ever played in the West. A horrible accident occurred on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad at Pittsford, Mich. A freight train was standing on the main track, and was cutting out a car, when another freight came around the bend a few rods to the west and crashed with terrific force into its caboose, completely telescoping it. The latter immediately took fire, and three passengers were burned to death. The three bodies were burned beyond recognition, the limbs and heads being entirely consumed. ~ . Col. James Tullis, Special Land Agent of the Government, who h«fe been for some time investigating the manner in which several parties have obtained possession of land in Utah, has become convinced that the most unblushing fraud, chicanery, perjury and dishonesty have been resorted to by many of those who are now the owners or quasiowners of large tracts of land in that Territory. He will so report to the Secretary of the Inteiror, and will recommend, in some cases, that the lands be restored to the public domain. THE SOUTH. Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi were represented at an Inter State Levee Convention which met at Vick Bbu rg and adopted resolutions declaring it the imperative duty of Congress to improve the Mississippi and its tributaries in the interest of commerce and as a protection against annual overflows of the adja ent territory, indorsing the plan of the Mississippi River Commission, and advising the formation of a permanent association representing the people in the Mississippi valley to continue the river-im-provement agitation. Koxia Kittle, lor many years a respectable fanner of Barbour county, W. Va, has confess: d complicity in a large number of robberies, together with Circuit, Judge Marion Howse, Deputy Marshal Price and other leaders in the order of Bed Men. A dispatch from Natcliioches, La., reports a frightful affair in that parish. A crowd of colored men quarreled in a saloon and a pitched battle with dirks ensued. James Hand stabbed Isaac Robinson to death; then a son of Robinson shot Hand dead. Ezra Robinson shot and killed two others, and before the melee was over six men were dead and fcrur fatally wounded. At a negro card-parti* in the same parish, Ned Bradford won all the money. As he refused to surrenderit, his companions held him over a brisk log fire until he was fatally burned, and he soon died in the greatest agony. The New Orleans National Bank lias brought suit against ' Postmaster General Gresham for SIOO,OOO damages, sustained by reason of his instruction to withold moneyorders- from It on account of its aiding a lottery. A fibe which broke out in Howard & <3o.’s elevator, at Dallas, Texas, quickly Spread to the cotton yard adjoining and to surrounding structures, destroying twenty or twenty-five dwellings, 1,000 bales of cotton, and 20,000 bushels of grain ini the elevator. The loss is heavy. . . .The large dry-goods bouse B. Lowensteln ft Bros., at Memphis. Tenn., was destroyed by fire. Some of the adjacent buildings were considerably damaged. The loss was about a quarter of a million, WASHINGTON. Notwithstanding all that has been written nod said upon the subject of reduced postage, thousands of people are still ignorant of the law. Hundreds of foreign

letters are posted daily upon which only a ! cents have been paid, the sender believing that the reduction in domestic rates extends also to the foreign service. The public-debt statement shows a decrease during September of $14,707,279, os follows: ■ ' \ r Interest bearing debt— —j- • Three nnd one-half pCr cents $ 0.148,000 Four and ono-fanlf per cent 5......... 250,000.000 Fonr per cents.... 737.612,860 Three per cents 305,M8.”00 Refunding certificates N avy pension fund ■. 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt $1,310,017,600 Matured debt. 6,643,665 Legal-tender n0te5................... 846,759,871 Certificates of deposit...... 1i,915,000 Gold and silver certificates 170,985,481 Fractional currency ~.. 6.-‘- 2,!HH Total without interest $3 1 2 ,o ■/ 3. 6 8 Total debt (principal)..., $1,804,924,623 lota 1 interest 12.337,083 Total cash in treasury...... 355,460.070 Debt, less cash in Ireasurv. , 1,521,811,535 Decrease during Sep: ember....... . 14,707,229, Decrease of debt since June 30, 1883. 29,279,671 Current liabilities — - Interest due and unpaid.. $ 2,027,133Debt on which interest has ceased.. 5,643.665 Interest thereon. ... 3 3,384 Gold and silver certificates 176.985,431.. U. 8. notes held for redemption of —_ Casa balance avai1ab1e*".............. 158,5 46,066 Total $365,450,670 Available assets— Cash m treasury 365,450,670 Bonds Issned to Pacific rail way companies, interest payable by United States — Principal outstanding ...$ 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid 969,352 Interest paid by United States 69,222,093 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service $ 17,028,522 By cash payments, 6 per cent, net earnings 666,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 41,538,372 Postmaster General Gresham is suffering somewhat seriously from chills and fever, the result of his residence in Washington during the summer...... Work has commenced pn the Garfield Memorial hospital at Washington, with the hope that several small buildings will be under roof by the advent of winter. - POLITICAL. The names of 750 or 800 Postmasters will be sent in to the Senate by the President during the next session of Congress In the first place there have been about 500 Postmasters appointed by the President since Congress adjourned, whose names must be submitted to the Senate. In many of these cases reasons will have occurred to change the President's mind, and he will not renominate the men appointed in the recess. Then the commissions of about ;.0J Presidential Postmasters will expire during the session. In addition to this gallant'OOO who will charge the Senate, at least 150 or 20u persons will be nominated to fill vacancies caused oy death, resignation and removal. and to manage offices promoted from fourth to third cla-a The managers of Butler’s campaign in Massachusetts have issued a “ballot,” which is a resemblance of the human skin when tanned, and is headed. “Regular Republican Ticket” For candidates, it bears the names of prominent defenders of Tewksbury. .;Virainiß“is~in the mldst Oif' the hottest political campaign ever witnessed in the State. Correspondents who have canvassed 746 leading Democrats of Michigan, representing all parts of the State, are reported in the Detroit News at length. Their figures, boiled down, show the following preferences for President in 1884, and for Governor of the State. Democrats interviewed., 746: Choice for President—l Choice for Governor— Samuel J. Tilden....2Bs]Josiah W. Begole... .476 Benjamin F. Butler. 95 Michael Shoemaker.. 42 Winfield 8. Hancock 73 Don M. D ckrnson... 27 Thos. A.Hendricks.. 41 Byron G. Stout 26 Wm. S. Holman 35 Geo. V. N. Lathrop.. 23 Thos. F. Bayard 35 Orlando M. Barnes.. 15 Jos. E. McDonald... 28 William L. Webber.. 13 Allwi G. Thurman... 23 Scattering 40 Grdser 8. Cleveland. SNo choice 384 Scattering ..... 69 No choice... 671 ..—l u_

GENERAL. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Oct. 6, numbered 160, being four less than the preceding week, but an increase of thirty-seven when compared with the corresponding period of 1882. R. G. Bun & Co., of the Mercantile Agency, report that the week Was one of quietude in New York, with a very considerable decline in the volume of business. Reports from Western cities indicate ipore activity, and the exchanges in that section show increased business. The failures continue to be numerous, but they seem to reflect more mistakes of the past than any serious defects in business at present. The money market continues easy. A cable dispatch fi-pm London states that news had reached there from China, to the effect that Charles Seymour, of Wisconsin, United States Consul at Canton, had been assassinated by a mob of infuriated Mongols. Dissatisfaction with what was deemed by the Chinese the too light sentence imposed by the British Consulate upon Tidewaiter Logan, who was tried as the ringleader in the riots of Sept. 10, had embittered the native population of Canton against all foreigners indiscriminately. The mob finally vented its blind fury by the mur-" der in cold blood of a man who had taken ho part in the existing troubles and given no offense, but who, in the eyes of the mob, was guilty of the high crime of being a foreigner, and, therefore, worthy of death. Mr. Seymour was postmaster at La Crosse for many years, and during his entire residence in Wisconsin he has been prominent in the workings of the Republicans in the Congressional district in which he lived. He was a public speaker of considerable power, and stumped the State for Garfield during the last Presidential campaign. > 'She ytesrifoero liaiiroad Directors have re-elected the old board of officers and authorized the issue of $20,000,000 second mortgage bonds, subject to the approval of the preferred stockholders. It will require the consent of three-fourths of the shareholders, and it is thought no serious objection will be made to the issue. The proceeds will wipe out the floating debt, and will also be applied for the completion and equipment of the line The Germans throughout the United States have been celebrating: -the bi-centennial of the first landing of a colony of their race near Philadelphia. FOREIGN. Joseph Smith, one of the Phoenix Park informers, who was pot permitted to land in Australia, reached Marseilles, France, the other day, from Caledonia, and is reported to have immediately taken passage lor China. Another snrmise is to the effect that Smith. Joseph Hanlon and Michael Kavanagh will go to India, where James Carey intended to take up his residence until dssnaded by his wife.... A Limerick ballad-singer has been sent np for a month for celebrating O’Donnell in song, and advising all other Irishmen to treat all other informers even as O’Donnell did Carey.... The Spanish Cabinet, after discussing the insnlt to their King, ai Paris, advised, Alfonso to call the Cortes together as soon as possible A mob stbned the French Consulate at Saragossa, Spain, but were dispersed by the Police Tinker, a participant in the murder of Lord Mountmorris in Ireland, three years ago, has tirrned informer. The resignation of Gen Thibaudin from the French Ministry is welcomed in Berlin as favorable to the peace of Europe. In Madrid the War Minister's downfall i| looked upon as In a great degree compensating for the Insults offered to Alfonso by the Parisian rabble. The Grevy Government is

evidently doing its utmost to appease the Spanish King and its angered subjects.).,. .Ani Orange procession returning to Belfast from a meeting addressed by Sir Stafford Northcote, near that city, was attacked by the Catholics. A desperate fight ensued, ’ during which many on both sides were severely wounded...A “Plunger” Walton was highly successful i» tho raoes at Newmarket last week. He hai backed horses In two coming events for £150,000 Tho Pope deprecates the aggressive attitude of the Orangemen in Ireltmd toward the National League .Earl Monnteasbel, aged 92, is about to contract marriage with the daughter of Col. Kennedy, of the 18tb Hussars, aged 19 The new issue of Panama Canal stock has all been taken to Paris.