Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS. The Democrats Carry Ohio and the Republicans lowa. OHIO. -■"t l . A heavy vote was polled at the election held in Ohio on Tuesday, Oct. 9. Hoadley the Democratic candidate for Governor, was elected by a majority estimated, at this writing, at about 10,000, and the Legislature is in all probability Democratic. A dispatch from Columbus says: “Returns from 622 wards and precincts give a net Republican gain of 3,567; total vote, 182,618; first amendment, 26,166; second amendment, 92,456. The first temperance amendment is hopelessly in the minority.” A dispatch from Columbus at 2 a.m. Wednesday morning says: “Gen. B.R. Coward, managing editor of the Ohio State Journal, at this hour concedes the State to the Democrats by 12,000 as well as the Legislature. 2:45 a. m: “The last bulletin read showed a net Republican gain of 3,116 in 575 preciticts, at which 163, 968 votes were polled. On the basis of 700,000 votes being cast, the State will only be Democratic by 5,813. The Republican Committee claim at .this hour the election of their candidate for Governor by a few hundred. Chairman Ogleyee announced that no further reports would be received.” 8 a. m.: Chairman Bargar, of the Democratic ; Committee, .at this hour claims that the Democrats have carried the Legislature, and that it will have a majority of eleven on joint ballot, and that Thompson in Knox, Retallie in Perry and Welby in Hocking, close counties, are elected. He also concedes the election of three Republicans in Hamilton county and one in Cuyahoga county.” A special dispatch to the Chicago Times, dated 3:20 a. m. Wednesday, says: “The returns indicate the election of the Democratic State ticket by 4,000 or 5,000 majority, and of the Legislature being Democratic in both branches, with the vote on the Prohibitory amendment close. Contrary to all 1 expectations, the cities show Republican ; gains and the Democrats hold their own in I the rural districts, due to the Republicans in ! the country sacrificing their tickets for the ■ amendment. While the vote will be close, I the Democrats have everything, and the i Republicans concede that in submitting the ! Prohibitory amendment they armed the temperance element whose ingratitude turned on i

them ” A Columbus dispatch of the 11th Inst, to the Chicago Times says: “With returns from eighty counties and the other eight estimated, ; it is conceded at Republican headquarters this morning that the Democratic majority will he over 12,000. The Democrats do not claim the State by more than that. The. best information is that the Legislative tickets at Cleveland and at Cincinnati are divided. On the proportion mutually claimed the Senate stands 21 Democrats and 11 Republicans. The House, 61 Democrats and 44 Republicans, giving tjie pemocrats a majority on joint ballot' for Senator of 26." The Chicago Tribune's special : of the same date says: “The revolution is complete. Hoadley is Governor by 10,000 majority. There is a bare hope that the Republicans may get the Legislature. It is not probable. The Democratic majority on joint ballot ought not, however, to be i more than four or five. It will take a day yet to decide the point. From this it is seen that for the first time in nearly thirty ; years the Democracy have obtained control of the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches of the State Government of Ohio. ! It is believed the Prohibitory amendment has been defeated.” Yowa. —“ I A Des Moines dispatch, sent out at 1 o’clock Wednesday morning says: “The returns from the State at large show a net Republican loss !n forty-seven precincts of 731, which represents a little over 3 per cent, of the vote of the State. If this ratio should hold good it would result in a net Republican loss of 24,000, which would still leave the State to Gov. Sherman by a plurality of 15,- I 000. It is probable, however that it will exceed that figure by several thousands. Many Republicans claim as high as 35,000 majority over Kinne. The Democrats concede | the election of Sherman by about 15,000. —In the special election in the Sixth Congressional district, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative M. E. Cutts, Republican, the indications are that J. P. Cook, Democrat and Greenbacker, has been elected by a small majority over Edward H. Stiles, Republican.”—A Dubuque dispatch says: “Dubuque city gives 1,700 majority for Kinne, and the county will give him 3,500 majority. All the advices received here up to 12 o’clock show large Democratic gains.” A press telegram of the 11th inst. from Des Moines says: The Republican State Committee have complete and full returns from thirty counties and definite returns from twenty-seven, and partial returns from the other forty-two counties. These Show that Sherman and the Republican State ticket will have a majority over Kinne and the Democratic ticket of 26,000 to 28,000, and a majority of 12,000 to 14,000 over all. Judge Reed does not run over 1,500 behind the rest of the Republican State ticket. The result in the Sixth Congressional district is still in doubt, but Cook, fusionist, is probably elected by 200 to 300 majority. The Democratic committee-claim that- Sherman will have not above 5,000 plurality, with Hayes for Judge several thousand ahead. The Democrats insist that the Supreme Judgeship is in doubt. It is admitted that the Legislature is Republican on joint ballot, the Democrats claiming ten Senators and fifty-two Representatives. Municipal Elections. An Indianapolis dispatch says the Reputolloans elected the city ticket to-day by majorities varying from 28 on Treasurer to 800 1 on Clerk, and twelve members of the Council, a loss of six members. The Democrats elected twelve Councilmen and three Aidermen. The control of the Council will be settled by a new election in the Fourth ward, where there was • tie. A light vote was polled. In the city election at 'Newark, N. J., the Democrats elected Joseph E. Haines Mayor, by 635 majority over Henry Lang, Republican. The Common Council stands: Seventeen Democrats, thirteen Republicans a Democratic gain of two Aidermen. The Board of Education stands: Democrats 16, Republicans 13—a Democratic ggin of three.

THE EAST.

In the case of a colored child, Theresa W. King, who desired to attepd a school for whites In Brooklyn, but was refused admission and directed to attend the colored school, the New York Court of Appeals has decided that she was notedtitled to a mandamus, as equal facilities for education were offered in both schools, and there was no violation of the Fourteenth amendment in assigning her to the colored school. Ike Buzzabd got out of his cell in the Coupty jail at Lancaster, Pa., locked the two watchmen in, secured their keys, and then released eleven of the worst criminals, all departing after eating heartily of the prison larder... -Six children of Ligionier, Pa., named Stouffer, were poisoned by eating weeds In the woods. Four ofjhemwere saved by heroic efforts... .Near Bridgeport, Ct, the summer residence of Thomas W. Pearsoll, a New York banker, was consumed by fire, entailing a loss 0*3t26,000. Lobd Colebidge, on reaching the Academy of Music in New York, one evening recently, found $30,000 worth of Persian works of art scattered about foe corner reserved for him, and foe stage transferred Into a garden by foe use of SIO,OOO worth of plantsand ttowara. After foe addresses the

banquet-room was opened to 1,200 persons.... Miss Jentrie Noon, of Scranton, Pa., upon being told by a friend that he had heard of her death, fell into a swoon and died the following day. John L. Sullivjtn’s pugilistic combination failed to give its exposition at the Scranton (Pa.) park, on account of rain, but return of the admissian fee was refused. At night, while Sullivan was in a barber shop, a mob beset the place and threatened Sullivan's life, who, however, escaped through a side door to his hotel. Some of the officers, in suppressing the riot, were beaten and kicked. .. . .The inotherof ex-Gov. Sprague, of Rhode "Island, who was nearly 84 years of 1 age, died last week at Groton, Ct.. ..Mrs. Boniface, the well-known actress, died at North Sictuate, Mass. THE WEST. A man hired a hack in Kansas City the other night, and affer driving around the city for several hours the hackman demanded pay for the service. At this the stranger I alighted from the vehicle and ran down the ' street. The hackman pursued and overtook the fugitive. The two had a wordy alterca- ! tion, which ended in the stranger draw- ; ing a Colt's revolver and shooting ! the driver of the hack, intiicling a fatal wound. The murderer was arrested and taken to the police station, where it was discovered that he was a half-brother of the notorious James boys. There he was searched, and among other things found in his possession was a letter written by Frank James, from Gallatin, where he is still in jail. This letter read: “Dear Brother John: Things are going all right. I will soon be out of this trouble, and when I am you will soon hear of me again in the saddle. Frank James.”.... Five noted murderers imprisoned at Cincinnati, armed with shoe-knives, scaled the walls by means of planks, and lowered themselves with an extemporized rope. Thirty Shots were fired at them by the guards. One of the offenders secured his liberty, another was killed, and two were badly crippled by the rope breaking... .The California wine product this year will not exceed 111.000,000 gallons, being a reduction of 40 percent. The disease in known as “canleme” in France, made its first appearance in California this year..... Mrs. George E. White, of Tecgarden, Ind., went to Plymouth to secure a divorce for cruelty. During her absence White fatally wounded their infant daughter and blew out his own brains. . . .The steamer Coptic, which sailed from San Francisco for Hong Kong last week, carried away nearly 1,200 Chinamen. Of this number 900 were provided with return certificates. The National Bankers’ association, in

session at Louisville, Ky., elected Lyman J. Gage, of Chicago. President. Resolutions were adopted favoring-an equitable-bankrupt law and recommending a discontinuance of the compulsory coining of silver dollars. The saloonists of Youngstown, Ohio, have revenged themselves upon men who voted for the"prohibitoryamendmenfby posting notices that negroes will not be served attheirbarslTmAt abb tel in Deca tu r, 111., Gen. R. J. Oglesbyi who was attending the soldiers' reunion, had his pocket picked of SSO. At a large indignation-meeting in St. Louis, resolutions were adopted denouncing the removal of the Police Commissioners, and declaring that the Board had become “the tools of a band of conspirators organized for plunder, arid using the instrumentalities of the law ijO subserve their purpose;”... .Inflamed by jealousy, and angry at his mother-in-law’s interference in domestic matters, William Harrison shot his 16-year-old wife at Denver, Col., and then killed himself. THE SOUTH. A bloody tragedy is reported from Franklin county, Va. Joseph P. Love, his father-in-law, brother-in-law, and b rot her, Charles Love, were in the woods hunting. Love’s father-in-law pulled the tail of one of the dogs belonging to his son-in-law. This Was followed by denunciation from Love, who declared that no man _pf honor would pull a'dog’s tail. A general fight ensued, in which Love’s father-in-law, brother and brother-in-law were probably fatally wounded by him. He himself received a slight wound. Love fled. ...A negro who killed a police officer at Huntsville, Ala., was taken from jail and hanged by a m0b.... .The Tallahassee and St. Mark's railroad, in Florida, was sold to John A. Henderson for $25,000. - It is reported that two Deputy United States Marshals named Perry and Weatherford, while guarding Indian prisoners at Fayetteville, Ark., quarreled over a game of cards and killed each other with revolvers, one firing three and the other seven shots ....Up to Oct. 1 the average of the cotton crop had fallen from 74 to 68, and the Department at Washington states that the yield will be 1,000,000 bales less than last year's crop ... .The veteran lumber house of William E. Dodge & Co., of Baltimore, has made an assignment. At Marshall, Texas, a new eelored brakeman turned a switch before the last trucks of a passenger train had passed, the rear car leaving the track and falling down a trestle, ten persons being seriously hurt. The darkey, upon witnessing the disaster, exclaimed, “Dar. now!” and disapjieared in the w00d5.... A negro named Lewis Woods, under; conviction for rope, was hanged by a mob at Edgerly Station, La... .Jay-Eye-See’s record of 2:19 as a 4-year-old was beaten at Lexington?yesterday by Bonita, the time being 2:18 Near Russellville, Ky., two drunken negrqea shot and killed Dick Winlock, a white mail, who was also drunk. The negroes were 7 arrested, and boasted of their crime. The Tollowing night a mob took the negroes, who were named Nelson Cooper and Sam Daily, from jUil and hanged them to a tree. Prof. J. Lawrence Smith, of Louisville, Ky., is dead. He -was known on both sides of the Atlantic as a scientist of high ; rank. President Buchanan sent him to Turkey to instruct the people in the cultivation of volton. ' -

WASHINGTON. i Washington telegram: There is excellent authority for the statement that the Hon. Benjamin Butterworth.of Ohio, ex-Con-gressman, will be appointed Commissioner of Patent's to succeed Mr. Marble. It is said that Gen. Hancock is likely to go to Chicago as the successor of Gen. i Sheridan. The commandant at Governor's island is personally much averse to leaving New York city. As the result of publicly printing the list of pensioners, but one communication alleging fraud has thus far been received at the bureau in Washington. The Commissioner believes the publication of th© list was illadvised, as it has let loose the whole pack of claim agents on the recipients of the Government’s bounty, and will work much harm to the unsophisticated... .President Arthur has confirmed the sentences of Col. Ilges and C'apt, Hubbard, and set aside the sentence of Lieut. Simpson. ... .The President and all the members of the Cabinet received the Corean embassy at the White House the other dav. • As a result of further deliberation on the subject, and in accordance with the preferences of Gen. Hancock and other officers, says a Washington dispatch, it has been decided that Gen. Hancock shall remain in command Of the Division of the Atlantip, with headquarters at New York; Gen. Schofield shall take command of the Division of the Missouri, with headquarters at Chicago; Gen. Pope will succeed the last named in command of the Pacific division at' San Francisco. Brig. Gen. Augur will succeed Maj. Gen. Pope in command of the Department, with headquarters at Fort Leavenworth. Brig. Gen. R. 8. Mackenzie will succeed Gen. Augur in command of the Department of Texas. The Department. of the South has been consolidated with foe Department of foe East, with Maj. Gen. Hancock in command. The official order making these changes has been promulgated at the

: ,1 1 War department. Maj. Gen, Hancock was offered the command of the Division of the" Missouri, but declined it, ; preferring co retain his present command.... The distillers will try during the coming session of Congress to get the bonded period on all goods in bond the Ist of September extended for two years. The quantity is 1,500,•barrels... .Secretary Folger has issued a call for $15,000,000 Of 3 per cent bonds. Redemption will begin Dec. 15 next, and the interest will cease at that date. POLITICAL. Senator Edmunds, in conformity with a programme laid down by himself when elected to preside over the Senate, states that he will resign the position of President pro tern, after the organization of the Senate. It is said Senator Anthony wfll be elected in Mr. Edmunds’ place. Sir John A. Macdonald’s agents are declared to have obtained his election as member of Parliament for the county of Lennox in June, 1882, by means of bribery, and the seat has been declared vacant. The Premier of the Canadian Government has heretofore represented two constituencies— Lennox and Carlton. He will hereafter sit for Carlton alone. , The Women Suffrage National convention, in session Kt Brooklyn, N. Y., adopted resolutions that Congress and the State Legislatures be petitioned for constitutional amendments granting suffrage to women. —May B;—day, of Kentucky, was e lected President. _ A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch of the 12th inst., says of the election in that State: Complete but unofficial returns from all the eighty-eight counties of the State show Hoadley’s plurality over Foraker to be something over 13,000, but the rest of the ticket is less than 12,000. Hoadley has not a majority of all, as the Prohibitionists cast more votes than his plurality. The Prohibitory amendment got over 300,000 votes. Both of the Temperance amendments, however, are defeated. The Legislature is Democratic beyond a doubt thus securing to that party the United States Senator who succeeds Mr. Pendleton. The Senate stands 32 Democrats toll Republicans: the House, 63 Democrats and 42 Republicans, being a majority of 33 on a joint ballot for Senator... .In regard to the lowa election, a Des Moines dispatch of the 12th says: The size of Sherman’s plurality is still uncertain, but will probably fall within the Democratic concession of 15,000 and the Republican claim of 30,000. Returns show the next Legislature will contain not less than 34. Republican majority on joint ballot. The Senate will consist of 40 Republicans, 9 Democrats, with lin doubt. In the House there will be 52 Republicans. 47 Democrats and”Fusionists, 1 Independent and 1 in doubt. Conceding all the doubtful to the opposition the Republican majority on joint Lallot is 34 overall.

A Democratic conference at Albany, N. Y., between the State Central-committee, editors, candidates, leading representatives, and County' Chairmen, decided that the schemes of organization were satisfactory. At a serenade in the evening, Gov. Cleveland said, with reference to the result in Ohio, that the first battle of the campaign of 1884 had been fought and won, and that it was an earnest of greater things to come. , Judge David Davis has been sounded by a.correspomlent aK.tO.hls views touching politics and politicians. The Judge thinks that if the Republican party is beaten in the next national canvass it will break'up, and a new party wilt be formed; that Tilden can have the Democratic nomination if he wantsit; that Blaine is the choice of three-fifths of the Republican voters of the country; that Logan will have the vote of Illinois and a large support from the Western States in the next liepublican Convention. The same correspondent (Chicago Daily Scks. Stalwart Republican) reports Ex-Sena-tor-Coukliug as predicting the success of the Democracy next year, and as saying that their success will be their ruin. Republicans Will go to pieces,” their downfall,and out of the twoa new party will be born—a new and independent nationalparty—apartyof broad ideas, into which all classes and sections may c0me.”.... A Cincinnati dispatdh says: Figures from every county in Ohio except Stark shows that the prohibition amendment received 309,413 votes, while the total vote in the State was 709,335, by which'showing the • amendment has been deli sited. The figures are not official, but they have been carefully gathered, apd it is not probable that they will be much changed by the official count.

GENERAL. The earnings of sixty-nine railroads for the month of September were $27,882,082, against $25,839,087 in September, 1882. Since Jan. 1 sixty-five roads have earned $208,633,828, against $190,861,637 for the same period last year—an increase of $17,772,191. This was earned on 51,730 miles of road this year, against 47,259 miles in 1882. This statement includes the operations of the Southwesterns. Grangers, Northern Pacific, Manitoba, Grand Trunk and other leading companies... .The Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise have left Canada for- England. The hangman was kept busy on Friday, Oct. 12, five murderers having on that day paid the extreme penalty of the law for their crimes. Ellis Craft, one of the' murderers of the Gibbons family, two or three years ago. at Ashland, Ky.. was strung up at Grayson. Ky. He refused to make a confession and died protesting his innocence. Jack Radford. who was executed at Fremont, Ohio, caroused all .Thursday night and jspent hiE last moments in* ’cursing everybody. Frederick Mann, whp literally butchered the Cooke family at Little Rtdeau, Quebec, joined the devotionalxsxercises at the ■scaffold, and died bravely. A wife slayer named Carl Bach, at Bowling Grech, Ky., and a negro named William Johnson, at Monticello. Ark., completed the quintet of the day. ... The. National Agricultural Department reports state that the corn average has fallen six points since the Ist of September, which then reached 84, and place the yield at about l,6Oi>,bbb,&®i> bushels. The wheat yield is averaged at two and one-half bushels per acre less than last year, and the total crop nay reach 420.000,000 bushels. Oats, barley and potatoes are above the average yields. By the falsification of the reports of the Jerome Park (N. Y.) races last week, it is estimated that pool-sellers and bookmakers throughout the country lost SIOO,OOO. The fraud, it is thought, was perpetrated by expert telegraphers who tapped the wires outside of the park. FOREIGN. The appointment of Gen. Campenon as Fregch Minister of War, to succeed Gen. Thlbaudin, is officially announced at Paris. What has thus happened has been every little while reported as about to happen ever since the retirement of the Orleanist officers from the army last spring. Gen. Campenon is a Gambettist. It is stated the Spanish Foreign Minister proposed at a Cabinet meeting in Madrid that the Spanish Embassador at Paris be recalled if France did not make a fuller apology for the insult to Alfonso, and threatened, if this Step was disapproved, that he would resign his portfolio Solicitor Guy,'of London, reports the receipt of £3OO for the defense of O'Donnell, the mOrderer of James Carey, and the entire amount has been expended in bringing witnesses from the Cape of Good Hope. O’Donnell complains of the severity of foe prison rules.... Croatia wins. The Lower House of the Hungarian Diet has ordered that the escutcheons on the public offices in the disturbed province shall bear only, the Slavonic inscriptions to which the Croatians have been accustomed. Spanish politicians are still constructing a new Cabinet. The excuse for the disintegration of Sagasta’s Cabinet—namely: the hooting of the Parisian proletariat At Alfonso—seems already forgotten.. L. .The anni versary of foe' discovery of America was celebrated at' Madrid, representatives of the American republics being present. A statue of Columbus was un-

veiled at the close of the ’festivities..... A Boman Duke promises to the Pope 60,000 Catholics Who “willstrike” for the restoration of his temporal power... .The Spanish village of Laestrella was inundated. Sixteen houses were wrecked and over forty persons killed. The disastrous eruption in the Strait of Sunda has been connected at Yokohama with a peculiar appearance of the sun, which, from the noon of Aug. 30 to the evening of Sept. 1, resembled a full’ moon, the atmosphere beinirobscured with adust-laden smoke emitted from the Krakotan volcano and carried up 2,500 miles by the southerly monSoon. ... .Austria assures Greece that the Danubian kingdoms and other small Eastern monarchies need have no fear, of the Empire’s policy.