Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. 1 A TRAIN on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad struck and killed four children ranging in ages from 5 to 17 j-ears, near Connellsville, Pa. They had been out walking and were returning home along the railroad track. At the point indicated they had stepped off the west to the east track to avoid a passing freight train, when the oast-botmd passenger train thundered arouad a curve and caught the party, crushing them to death. John Irving and John Walsh, two notorious burglars and safe-blowers, met at a saloon on Sixth avenue. New York. After quarreling a few moments, each saw it was high time *o shoot; They drew their revolv- ’ ers and fired at close quarters, the bullet of one going to the brain and that of the other penetrating the heart of |>is antagonist.... A ■ free fight occurred at Princeton. N. J., between studentsand citizens, the former beiny beaten off. One st udent. who nought safety ; in a church, had his collar-bone broken.... Tom Barnes and Tom King, English pugilists, fought sixteen rounds in a Brooklyn sport-ing-house in eighteen minutes. King being ! defeated... .Coffee begun to advance in i New York, with- unusually heavy transactions. after having steadily declined for years. ...Frank Smith.a New York printer. < whose wife and 14 years old boy died within the past six weeks, killed himself from grief. Before the Senate Labor Invest;- ; gating committee at Boston, Charles T. Chaunße testified that he had seen the tanned > skins of several women, and that the bus!- | ness had been carried on for at least eighteen i years, but lately has been increasing. He | designated the tanneries where the human : “hides" had been perfected, and stated the ■ proprietors themselves did most of the work I on them. ' ' ' . 7 Edward Hovey, who killed his sister-in-law, Fanny Vertnilye, was executed in the Tombs prison. New York. He was virtuallycarried to the scaffold, and presented a picture of despair. He was pinioned, the black cap drawn, and hanged in a few seconds. Henry Irving, the great English •ctor, accompanied by Miss Ella Terry, bis leading lady, arrived at New York last week. They were met down the bay - by Manager Altbey's Steamer and-a brass band, and made the voyage to the city in Gov. Tilden’s yacht Yosemite. THE WEST. The murder of Zura Burns, at Lincoln, Hl., begins to attract attention throughout the country because of its mysterious character. The victim was engaged to be married to Thomas Dukes, of Kewanna. Ind. I She visited Lincoln, where she had previouslyresided, put up at ajiotel, called at the office of a prominent grain merchant, with whom she was closeted for an hour, returned to her hotel, and two or three hours afterward started toward the depot with a sachel in her hand. This was the last seen of her alive. The dead body of the hapless girl was discovered a day or two subsequently in a lonely Igne near Lincoln, the throat cut and. knif e stabs in various parts of her anatomy. There " were buggy tracks through the lane, leading to the belief that the. murdered girl had been driven to that secluded spot by some one with the deliberate purpose of taking her life. The testimony at the Coroner's inquest casts suspicion on the grain merchant npotr whom Zura Burns called when she visited Lincoln. Creditors of the late Archbishop Purcell assembled in Cincinnati last week and passed resolutions denouncing the recent decision of the District court, asserting that the Judges were under clercial influence, and actuated by political in<f- | Uves. The assignee was requested to ap- i peal the case to the Supreme court.... Oklahoma Payne has been' indieted by a United States grand jury at Leavenworth. Se has 5.000 followers waiting for an issue in te various legal complications now surrounding the conquest of rhe famous reser- ; ration The Trustees of the Garfield National Monument, association of Cleveland invite International competition, open to all artists, for designs for the monument, which shall be on a scale of about one-twentieth of the proposed size, and subject to certain conditions... Gen. J,' B. Steadman died of pneumonia at Toledo, aged 66 years. He made a Major General for bravery at Chickamauga. Of late be has been Chief of Police at T01ed0.... The Bangor Furnace company, of Bangor, Mich., -with liabilities estimated at $112,000, have failed.

The noble red men in the Indian Territory are fast learning all the refinements of civilization. In the recent election for Chief of the Choctaw Nation, Spiochee was successful on the face of the returns, but the Council resolved itself into a returning board, threw out a score of towns on the ground of irregularity, and declared J. M. Perryman elected.... John Campbell, of Ironton, Ohio, the heaviest stockholder in the embarrassed Union Iron company, has made an assignment to cover liabilities of $500,000 or more. The chief theatrical attraction in Chicago, this week, is the reappearance at McVicker's of Denman Thompson in his original character of “ Joshua Whitcomb.” a piece of acting in which he presents, a picture of oldfashioned farm and domestic life that has probably never been rivaled upon the En-glish-speaking stage. There is something phenomenal in the success of this drama. Mr. Thompson has presented it continuously for a period of seven years, and yet theater-goers rush to see it as madly as ever, and cry and laugh alternately at the quaint scenes as heartily as upon its first appearance. No play ever took such a firm hold upon the popular heart, or held it so long. The Chinese laborers employed on the Canadian Pacific road are being smuggf jd Into the United States from British Columbia by twenties and thirties. The people of Oregon and Washington Territory ask for greater vigilance on the part of the Customs authorities to prevent a continuance of this. ....On the corner of Walnut and Paulina streets. Chicago. Andrew J. Mason killed William A. Paddacks, a photographer. They were brothers-in-law, and the dead man's treatment of his wife led to a bitter family quarrel. The fatal revolver was drawn by Paddacks and snapped at Mason, but the latter seized it and ended the affray.... From the report of the State Auditor of lowa just made public it appears that there are in that State twenty-eight savings banks in active operation, the aggregate capital of which is $1,835,000. The deposits amouut to $6,761,*144 Agnes Balter,, a paralytic of Lafayette. Ind., begged to be taken to mass at Bt. Boniface’s church. She prayed during the entire service, and at its conclusion rose from the Boot and walked out-to the carriage. The excitement over the mysterious murder of the girl Zora Burns reached fever heat at Lincoln, 111., last week, when the officers placed under arrest Mr. Orrin A. Carpenter, sufficient evidence having been secured to warrant this step. Carpenter is a leading merchant of Lincoln, has a wife and two interesting daughters, lives in a fine bouse, is quite wealthy, and, during a residence of thirty years in and about Lincoln, had a high reputation fpr probity of character and business integrity. The arrest of such a man for the heinous crime of murder naturally created a sensation in the community where he was known an<j respected. Various circumstances pointed unerringly to him as the author of the deed, but his neighbors and friends ♦eaAtslow to believe him guilty, regarding the victim of an unfortunate chain of circumstances. The murdered girl had formerly worked as a dometri" in the family of Carpenter. Liters and other circumstances gp to show

that he was criminally intimate with her and that she was enctentc. On her last and fatal Visit to Lincoltiahe was the only )>erson she was known to have visited, having been closeted with him 1 for an hour. The same evening she was murdered in W secluded spot near the town. Buggy tracks were seen near the corpse, and were traced thence back • toward Lincoln. An examination pf Carj penter's buggy lines and whip revealed disi colorations resembling blood. The articles I were sent to Chicago, where a chemist examined them and pronounced the spots human blood. The murdered girl was buried, on Friday, Oct. 21, at St. Elmo, 111. Thomas Dukes, the unfortunate girl's fiancee, upon I whom suspicion for a time rested, Waspresent i I at the burial. ( i The father of Charlie Ross was inI duced to visit Edwardsville, 111., and interI view an amateur detective in regard to a prisoner at Springfield who offered to tell the whereabouts Of the long-lost lad. But the criminal has recently been sentenced to the Illinois penitentiary for one year, and refuses to say anything until his release. THE SOUTH, • At Statesville, N". C., a white man named Redmond got into a difficulty with a negro named Campbell. The latter fired three shots, lulling Redmond? The first shot struck a bystander named Tom Ball, inflicting a painful wound. Campbell was arresteds After dark thirty masked countrymen took Campbell from jail and hanged him... . Wyatt Amts, who killed Saunders Blount while resisting arrest, at Helena. Ark., was caught and.' in attempting to escape, was riddled with bullets.By a collision of freight trains on the East Tennessee road, near Chattanooga, Engineer Bailey and two firemen were instantly killed.

Margarst Harrison and Taylor Bryant (both negres) were hanged, the former at Calhoun and the latter at Monroe. Ga. Mrs. Harrison, who was a murderess, pleaded her innocence, harrangued her- auditors. , and joined in the singing. Bryant was executed for outraging a white woman. At Columbus. Texas, James Stanley (colored i was hanged for the horrible murder*of a white boy. Robert Strickland, aged k>. for $64. The culprit left a written confession on the scaffold, informing his hearers that he was going straight to heaven, and inviting them to meet h’m there... .Since March 3, the Southern cities have sent to the subTreasury at New York $11,000.0001 n gold, to obtain silver certificates.- . ExFEßTsrsenL by the - Surgeon General to Brewton. Ala., report the epidemic prevailing there to be yellow fever. There have been thirty-four cases and eighteen deaths, and the adjoining towns have established quarantine... .The cotton-and sugar regions keep increasing their demands tor silver certificates. WASHINGTON. J It is said that Gen. Hancock is likely to go to Chicago as the successor of Gen. Sheridan. 1 The commandant at Governor's island is personally much averse to leaving' New York city. ' More banks and a greater amount of national bank. notes are affected by the recent call of 3 per cent, bonds that was at first supposed. The two calls together will cause a contraction of $12,500,000 in circulation unless the banks interested shall determine to purchase 4 or 4tj per cents asa-substitute for the called 3s. Secretary Chandler has written to Commander Wildes that the steamship Yantic defeated the object of the Greely- Relief expedition by keeping twelve days behind the Proteus, instead of serving as a tender. He also asks the Commander to explain why provisions and supplies were not landed for Lieut. Greely at Littleton island.

POLITICAL. The decision of the Supreme cdurt in the civil-rightib eases causes great exeitement among the colored politicians of Washington. They seefti to think the moral effect of the decision will be bad at the Sojith. and that the law will ’ practically be null and void in the District of Columbia as well as in the States. Ex-Senator Bruee, Register of the Treasury, is very greatly discouraged by the decision, and says that it will carry the country back fifteen years; that nothing has happened since the war to so much discourage the colored race. In three months the Civil Service Commissioners have had a chance to appoint only twenty elerks. The reason the number is so small is said to lie in the fact that tne clerkships were gotten well Under coVer by the political wiseacres before the civil-service shower began... .Gov. Butler got the Attorney General of Massachusetts to decide that a woman was not legally a person, and then removed Mrs. Clara T. Seward from the State Board of Health and Lunacy.... A Greenback conference of forty persons met at Worcester, Mass., and nominated a State ticket, headed by J. T. Arnold for Governor. The feeling of the gathering was strong against Gen. Butler... .The majority of Cook, Fusionist, in the Sixth lowa Congressional District is 234. The Lower House of the Legislature will be composed of fiftytwo Republicans and forty-eight Democrats. A bill granting women the rights of suffrage passed the lower house of the Washington Territory Legislature by a vote of 14 to 70. The result caused much excitement among the friends of woman's suffrage. The leading representative negroes of Lousiana have been interviewed on the subject of the late decision of the Suprefjfe

court, declaring the Civi’ Rights bill unconstitutional. COl. James D. Lewis, United States Surveyor General, thought the Civil Rights bill worked to the detriment of the negroes. The decision did not affect Louisiana, and there was no desire oh the part of the whites to deny the colored man his civil-rights in public conveyances or public places. P. B. S. Pinchback attached very little importance to the decision. Every 1 negro who behaved himself in Louisiana enI joyed the same privileges as the whites. ’ Race prejudice was rapidly dying out in i Louisiana. Henry Dernas, State Senator, I regarded it as the best thing that could have happened for the colored people of the South, who would now understand that they must rely upon their, own manhood for recognition socially and otherwise. A, J. Dumont, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committtee and United States Naval Officer, was of about the same belief. 1 Nearly- all the other colored leaders ex- ■ pressed similar views. Gov. Charles Foster, : of Ohio, was asked to-night what he thought iof the decision. He said: “I shall rec--1 ommend in my message the adoption of i a State law which will give to the colored pooi pie all the rights and immunities guaranteed i them under the Civil Rights law. I cannot ; reconcile myself fully to the decision. It , might be welt to submit a new amendment.” I The Des Moines Register prints official returns i from eighty counties in lowa, and definite i returns from nineteen others. These giving ■ Sherman 25,47S /majority over Kinne, and ; about 5,500 over all. The exact official can- ! vass will not vary much from these figures. Pittsburgh opinions on the civil I rights decision: The negroes are very in- ' dignant, and say they expected better things of the Republican Judges of the Supreme court. Some of them threaten to revenge themselves by voting the' Democratic ticket. District Attorney Stone is bitter in his denunciation of the decision. The Hon. Thomas Marshall, an old Abolition war-horse, is outspoken in condemnation of ■ the decision. He'says it is the greatest outrage ever perpetrated on the colored people. Other leading Republican members of the Pittsburgh bar hold the same opinion. Mayor Peterson thinks that the work of the Repub-’ lican party for the last twenty years has been undone. Postmaster Myler thinks the decision will work a great hardship upon very many people. ’ < The lower house of the Wasliington Territory Legislature* by a vote of 14 to 7, passed a bill giving women tho right of suffrage on an equality with men. ■

OKNERAL. i A'fiendish grime is reported from ■ Berkley county, W. Ya. Mrs. Geo. W. Maupini wife of a farmer,.'was confined to her bed. having given birth to an infant a few; days , before'. While left temporarily alone by a I servant, the husband being absent on the I farm, the mother and child were beaten to ; death. Their bodies, together with the bed | clothing, were piled in the middle of the room, aud then set on fire. The bodies were • almost eopsunied when found, but enough re- ; mained to show they had been murdered, i The tragedy created intense excitement' in 1 the neighborhood. • Maria McCabe, of Hamilton, Ontario, who drowned her illegitimate-child, has been sentenced to execution Dec. 18. Her shrieks ip the court-room nearly' drowned the words of the Judge....At the Parker house, in Halifax, the police arrested two strangers carrying loaded revolvers and dynamite cartridges, and in satchels in their room was lound .4.100 pounds of dynamite,... A .contract "with a French firm for two transatlantic cables has been signed by J. W. Mackey and James Gordon Bennett The Pullman Palace Car company declared a quarterly dividend of 2 per cent., together with an extra comforter of 1G per cent. The net earnings of the enterprise for the year ended Aug. 31,1883, are represented to have been 19 per cent. . :: I’f.llow fever is raging in Altata, Mexico, on the Gulf of California. While the pestilence was at its height, the deaths numbering twenty a-day, a hurricane came upon the town.- destroying the greater part and killing many people. The inhabitants then fled to the mountains.

Statistics from the Postal departinbnt show that under the free-delivery system Now York carriers handled 258,890.064 pieces of mail matter during the past year. Philadelphia Coming second, with 160,030,999. and Chicago third, with 136,886,386.. The business failures for the week ending Oct. 20, numbered ISO, increasing last week's record by fourteen, and being fourteen more than for the corresponding week in 1882.... Three pair of 3-year-old .ostriches have just been shipped from New York to Sylvan Lake, Orange county, Fla. They come from Africa, weigh about 200 pounds, stand seven feet high, and eat hay. At the close of the fiscal year, June Jl£L_l.BS3, there were 303,658 pensioners drawing in the aggregate $32,245,192 annually, but there are still left 962,601 living soldiers and sailors and 62,340 pensionable relatives who have not forwarded-their applications for ■ assistance. The agricultural condition of the country, says the Chicago inter Ocean, is highly favorable, notwithstanding the unusual large amount of soft corn. Between the late spring and the early fall, corn suffered severely. The corn production of the year will be,howcver,aboutl,ooo,ooo,()oobushels. Fortunately the Soft corn is confined almost entirely to the regions which consume nearly all.their own crop, tlgts and-Jbarkty were never so abu ndaht as theJiAEC this year< and we have not had as good a potatocrop since 1875; The wheat - will be about 11.3 bushels ]-vr acre, or,in —the aggregate, between 400,000,000 and 420.060.000 bushels. At the South the cotton crop is not quite up to last year, but enormous, exceeded only twice in the whole history of cotton-planting ip this country. The crop aggregates 6.000,000 bales. Taking everything into, account, the. .productive returns. for 1883 must be set down as a guarantee against hard times for legitimate business, .... A.treaty of peace between Chili and Peru has been signed.

lOKEIGN. A Land-league meeting at Rosier.. County Fermanagh, Ireland, was addressed by Healy, Sullivan and Biggar, members of Parliament A meeting of Orangemen was held at the same time. A collision between them and the Parnellites was prevented by a force of police and soldiers. The Orangemen at thejr meeting resolved to do their utmost to resist the attempt to put Ireland under the government of murderers and rebels. Many Orangemen and Parnellites were armed with revolvers. A number of the Orangemen assaulted and severely injured a person whom they mistook for Healy.... A Committee* of Justices at London, after a full investigation of the complaint that Avenger d’Donndli was deprived of the use of tobacco, decided to continue the prohibition .... A society in London will ascertain and report, to the Government how many Londoners are poor enough to feel inclined to., emigrate to Northwestern Canada on a "free pass. Commander Cheyne should be given a chance to" take them thither In bis ba1100n...,,. The Vatican has instructed its Nuncio at Paris to observe strict neutrality as regards the political parties.... At Ermsleben, Prussian Saxony, 180 persons were attacked by trichinae, and many deaths occurred... .Cetewayo, the Zulu King, has surrendered to the British Resident and will be taken to Natal. A cable dispatch from Constantinople says that “an earthquake which bids fair to prove almost as destructive as the one on the island of Ischia occurred on the peninsula bet Ween Chesme, Asia Minor, and Vouria, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Smyrna. Six villages were completely destroyed and many others seriously damaged, while, as far as can be learned at present, upward of 1,000 persons have perished. This list includes only those living in the more accessible hamlets along the coast. What damage and what loss of life, has been caused in the interior will not be ( anown for days. The survivors of the dis-' kster are suffering fearful privations. The first shock seems to have been felt early' in the morning. This was but light, and no attention wg.s paid to it. In a few minutes a second shock oecurred. Then the houslPkj . flimsy structures at best, collapsed. Most of the people were sleeping. These were buried under the ruins. Those whose houses were strong managed to escape. In a wild panic they sought the field, and could not be persuaded to return to the rescue of their less fortunate fellow townspeople, whose cries were pitiful. Many of them are still.huddled in the fields in a starving condition find suffering from cold, but'more terrified by fears of a repetition of the dreaded (shocks. The oitizens of Smyrna; who were the first to hear of the disaster, sent help to the stricken people. Hundreds were rescued from the villages more or less wounded.”

Near Atlatasa, Asia Minor, houses and people were swallowed up by the recent earthquake. Assistance is urgently needed in Chivs and the mainland, in which latter district the British Consul reported 1,000 persons killed and wounded. Vast crowds of people gathered at St. Petersburg to witness the laying of the corner-stone by the Czar and Ckarina of. the church to be erected over the. spot where Alexander ll.' fell a victim to the Nihilistic system of warfare...t China is actively preparing to close the port of Canton. Troops from the northern frontier of Tonquin will be landed gt Wchampoa. ... At Cork rowdies gather nightly about the hall where Moody- holds his services, but interference with the meet>ings is prevented by the police.... Seventeen peasants in Styria, Hungary, have been condemned to imprisonment for robbing Jews... .Several deaths from Cholera have occurred in a village near Alexandria, Egypt. brigands were sentenced to death fit Palermo, Italy, and eleven others received life sentences. They infested the Amarosi district and murdered fourteen*persons in the past six y ears....Midhat Pasha, exiled for complicitrhn the murder of the Sultan Abdul Aziz, has been released. ...A blastshot caused an explosion in a Yorkshire mine, resulting in the death of twenty menGen. Messey; of the Chinese army, a native of the Island of Jersey, is authority for the etatement that the Black Flags who are fighting against the French in Tonquin are subsidized by the Chinese Government;

also, that they are in <hp habit pt eating the bodies of those Frenchmen who fall into their hands, as they believe that the flesh of ferocious men makes them brave.... Turkey is disturbed by earthquakes, a threatened rising of Arab Moslems, and a trade dispute- with Italy. But, on the other hand, the Sultan has dined with the English ambassador. While Mukhtar Pasha, his representative, is well received in Vienna and Berlin. Th&cholera and the bondholders are still trying to keep the", English troops in Egypt,’ but half the number is going to leave shortly... .Earl Granville has advised the Marquis Tseng, the Chinese Ambassador, that English meditation between France and China for the settlement of the Tonquin question must be undertaken only as a last resource.