Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Se'crbt-service officers in a raid on a counterfeiting den in the mountains of Vermont discovered the existence of an oathbound conspiracy of crime with all thei paraphernalia of signs, passwords, mj’Stic records and blood-curdling oaths of secrecy. An explosion in the Excelsior Squib factory, at Kingston, Pa., wrecked the buildtag, and nine children employed there were blown in eveiy -diteption— wflM—the -flytay timbers. All of the children, whose ages range from 11 to 16 years, were shockingly mangled. Five of them were burned to a crisp, and the others received sueh serious injuries as to tender their recovery doubtful.... William P. Copeland, one of the well-known residents of Newspaper row, Washington, having been a popular correspondent for many vears, died at Philadelphia... .At the National horse-show in New York an engine company harnessed its team and made ready for a fire in 8H seconds. In the village of Lakeville, near Hartford, Ct., a life-sized figure of Christ is fastened upon a crucifix at a street corner. Merchants who petitioned for its removal have been boycotted by the Catholics, and now the Protestant ladies propose to retaliate by securing colored servants from the South. ....The New England coast has been visited by the fiercest northeast gale experienced for years. Great damage to shipping resulted, and some loss of life is reported.... The Sheriff closed the clothing house of Stern, Trautman 4 Co., at Philadelphia. The liabilities are placed at $150,000.. „A number of suits have been begun in New York against the Northern Pacific Railway company asking the injunction of the court against an issue by the company of second-mortgage bonds. Patrick B. Delaney, of New York, has invented telegraphic appliances by which he says six operators can send six messages at the same time over a single wire. Part of the six can send messages one way while the rest are sending them in the other direction. This will give a wire three times the capacity it has with aquadruplex instrument. Twentyfour Morse instruments can be connected with one wire by this system. Twelve messages can be sent simultaneously at the rate of twenty words a minute.... Fire at Pittsburgh destroyed Munderf’s plain-tag-mill, 1,000.000 feet of lumber, and five two-story buildings. The mill employes narrowly escaped, and the occupants of the houses lost all their goods. The total loss is about $55,000.. ..Hon. T. H. Murch, a stonecutter in Maine, who was once elected to Congress over Eugene Hale, has settled in Boston, and is engaged in fitting up a showy 5a100n.... W. A. Kitts, a lumber broker at Oswego, N. Y., has failed for $50.000... .William H. Jenkins & Co., door manufacturers at NewYork, have failed for $179,000; actual assets, $57 ,000... .By the capsizing of a schooner off Vineyard Haven, Mass., the Captain and three seamen were drowned. ' In the investigation of the Jersey Central lease to the Reading road at Trenton, N. J., Hon. Franklin B. Gowan asserted that ex-Senator Conkling’s method of examining

a witness was “violent, brutal, and outrageous.” Mr. Conkling retorted that Gowan’s language was foulunouthcd, when Judge Nixon interfered and secured peace. Later on Conkling whispered to one of the auditors, when Gowan excitedly c aimed lhat the. ex-Senator had called the witness a d— d scoundrel. Conkling’s reply to this was that one who repented a remark thus overheard was a blackguard. This resulted in tin exciting scene, the Clerk, in the absence of the Judge, finally restoring order.... The Captain and Mate of the steamer Tropic were convicted in a Philadelphia court of furnishing arms and ammunition to the insurgents of Hayti, and each was fined ssOll and costs and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. David Adams starved himself iu Washington epunty, New York. The sum of sls ,000 has already been found secreted in his house, and the heirs are searching for $20,0:10 more. His wife died of starvation ten years ag0.... The carriage factory of Cordell, Maston & Butler Co., and Horace Johnson 4 Co., in Plainville, Cr„ burned. Loss. SBO,OOO .... Pere Hyacinthe arrived at New York last week. THE WEST, A report is telegarplied from Tombstone, Arizona, that Mexican troops had routed the Apaches at the Swisshchn mountains with great slaughter. A large body of the defeated Indians were said to be making for the San Carlos reservation. A stranger applied to James Crawford, a well-known farmer near Greencastle, Ind., for food and lodging. After eating, he struck Crawford rejfeatedly with knuckles and a slung-shot, seriously and perhaps fatally injuring him. A second man then broke the door and came in. Crawford’s wife, a confirmed invalid, attacked the strangers with a fire-shovel, when they turned and beaCher,. fracturing her SSStt’ and breaking her nose, jaw and collar-bone. Her injuries will prove fatal. Crawford, recovering consciousness, fired at them. They thereupon beat him again and then left, taking three revolvers, shot-gun and sl2 in cash. A company of leading citizens of Fargo, Dakota, have filed a mining claim of 200 acres on the town site of Lisbon, and subscribed $500,000 to work it. In all that region nothing but the gold discoveries is talked about.... At Warrenton, Mo., a mildly insane man named large robin ililJ&ltiWgtlie jail, under the court-house, by the authorities, who had taken him in out of the wet and cold. While the jailer was at supper loud screams attracted the people to the window. They saw Keeney, in an insane frenzy, hugging a red-hot stove. He was taken away, but death soon relieved his sufferings... .The wholesale fur house of Eddy, Harvey &Co., of Chicago, have made an assignment. It was rated by the commercial agencies at $350,000, and its liabilities are believed to be something less than $250,000. Special partners put in $150,000 last February to establish a boot and shoe department.... Citizens of Gardner, Colo., tied a Mexican murderer to the horn of a saddle and fright ened the horse into a run, the culprit being dragged to death over the rocks... .John N. Glidden, of Cleveland, admits that his liabilities are s'oo,ooo, and shows assets appraised at $1,020.000... .Conrad Kattentidt, proprietor Of a large copper factory at the corner of Michigan and La Salle streets, Chicago, made an assignment. Late advices from the far Southwest are to the effect that the Apache Chiefs, Geronimo, Juh, and their band of hostiles have succeeded in eluding the Mexican soldiers, and, with 2,000 head of stolen cattle, are now making their way through Chihuaj hua to the American line. On the other hand, a troop of seventy Chiricahuas have surrendered and will be taken to Fort Bowie, in Arizona. The Trade Palace and the Boston Store, at Lafayette, Ind., competing establishments. began a war of rates, one selling calicoes for 1 cent per yard, and the other giving away a calico dress with every one purchased. When their stocks were exhausted peace was proclaimed... .Near Wauseon. Ohio, George W. Williams was killed In his barn, his wife was murdered in the (house, and their babe, was left to Starve, but was rescued by neighbors.... The oil belt of Wyoming IS said to be three times as large as that of Pennsylvania, and a railroad is soon to be constructed through the district... .Judge Noonan, of St. Louis, has

decided that poker is a game of chance, and comes under the Johnson law making gambling a felony... .Charles Lorrenson, a Swede, farming near Elgin, 111., caught glanders from his horse and died after terrible siilfering. . A west-bound passenger train on the Chicago and Alton railroad was partly wrecked by a sliding rail two miles enst of Glendale, Mo., and eighteen miles from Kansas City. -The track was torn up for over 200 yards, and three coaches were thrown off the trick—two chair cars and one dining-room ctfr —injuring fifteen passengers, none of themseriously.’

The railroad bridge over the Missouri river at Blair, Neb., which cost $1,000,000, was tested the other day with six locomotives, the maximum deflection being two inches. The permanent iron structure Is 1.270 feet long and fifty feet above - high water, with trestle-work, approaches of nearly ' two miles at either end... .The Chicago Times denounced the People’s Railway Company of America as “a villainous scheme concocted io rob poor, simple people of their money,” for which the company sues the editor of the Times for libel, claiming $500,000 damages.... A passenger trainfon the Pan-Handle road collided with a freight train on the Michigan Central at the Joliet crossing, about thirty miles from Chicago., The engines were smashed into pieces. Mr. Morris, the engineer of the passenger train, the brakeman of the freight train, and rtie llagman at the crossing were killed almost instantly. The engineer of the freight train jam pled for his life when he saw the danger, but struck against a fence and was horribly injured Ho died'about three p-ijlo< >iway from the place of the accident, in intense agony, THE SOUTH. In Wilkinson county, Ga., while hunting, a negro mimed Joe Holden disooyered another negro butchering a hog belonging to a white man named Clay. Holden reported the fact to Clay, who, with Holden and two white men, armed with double-bar-reled shot-guns, went to the house of the thief. He was not at home, and his wife refused to tell his whereabouts. Clay knocked herdown, The party then left. Two sons of the negro woman and an ex-convict named Cooper armed themselves , and pursued the white party, overtaking them. They fired and killed Holden instantly. Clay returned the fire, killing Dick Cooper and wounding the other two. '

Washington telegram: “The reported disagreement in the Cabinet is not only true, but the cause, it is said, involves two members, oneof whom emphatically com-plains-of- nnwarranted-inter sere free with the affairs of his department. The President having assumed the entire responsibility for the cause for the alleged grevtance, the complaining member of the Cabinet has only "to gracefully yield or resign.”.... Full returns of the recent fcwa election from all the counties givethe following: For Governor, Sherman, 164,182; Kinnie, 139,003; Weaver, 23,089; Sherman over all, 2,000; for Supreme Judge, Reed, 163,396; Hayes, 141,049; Church, 21,439; Reed over all, 909. . . .T. C, Latrobe, the regular Democratic nominee, was elected Mayor of Baltimore by 3,540 votes over Heiskcll, the fusion candidate. An epidemic of diphtheria in the past six weeks has carried off over 300 children in North Carolina. Between some counties quarantine was established. The disease is now abating.

A court of inquiry engaged in investigating the origin of the yellow fever Outbreak in the Pensacola navy yard is convinced that it was germs remaining after the epidemic of last year.... Miss Blanche Gray, whose 517 pounds of flesh have been her fortune; was marriedTjut’ a few weeks ago to another of the “freaks” exhibiting at the same time in a New York museum. Her wedded bliss was but brief, lor she was found dead in her bed in a Baltimore boardinghouse last week. She was but 17 years old, and died of tatty degeneration of the heart. Eight members of a Ku-klux gang in Ranks county, Ga., have been convicted of disgraceful outrages, and sentenced to from one to six years in the penitentiary. The rirgleaders are men of considerable wealth. When the verdict was Twd;' several of the accused sobbed audibly.... In New Orleans, as Alfred Gossett was l>eing taken to the Criminal court to receive a lifetime sentence for the murder of Policeman Cofirey, a young son of the latter killed the criminal on a street corner with a revolver. ... .Grave robbers, made an attempt to steal the corpse of Blanche Moses, the fat woman, buried in a Baltimore cemetery.

, WASHINGTON. Upon the recommendation of the Commissioner of Pensions, the Secretary of the Interior has ordered the suspension of the following-named pension attorneys: J. R. Cilley, of Rockland, Me.; Francis Kegester and Wm.H. Druen, of Philadelphia; Milo B. Stevens & Co., of Cleveland, Washington, Detroit and Chicago; Wm. H. Wells & Co., of Washington, D. 0., and Janies R. Russell & Co., of Trenton, N. J. It is said that Gen. Hancock is likely to go to Chicago as the successor of Gen. Sheridan. The commandant at Governor’s island is personally much averse to leaving New York city. It is announced from Washington that “Judge Freeman, Attorney General for the Postoflice Department, has prepared aii Order of importance to newspaper publishers. It will require them to number the pages of their supplements in regular order with the pages of the regular issue.” Postmaster General Gresham, says a Washington dispatch, has put new energy into his war against the lotteries, and now announces Tt to be his policy to proceed" against tho patrons of lotteries as well as against the lotteries themselves. Those who buy lottery tickets probably are unaware of the fact that they are not at liberty to use the mails for that purpose, and that any letter requesting that a lottery ticket lie sent is an offense against the laws of the United States. Postmaster General Gresham will base nis action upon Sec. 3,894, Revised Statutes, which provides that “no letter or circular concerning lotteries shall be carried in the mail. Any person who shall knowingly deposit or send anything to be conveyed by mail in violation of this section shall be punishable by a tine of not more than $590. nor less than $100; with costs of prosecution.’’... .The Myra Clark Gaines case has been placed before the Supreme Court of the United States. The record is bound in one gigantic book, which weighs 200 pounds. One man cannot alone open the volume. Postmaster General says a Washington dispatch f is urged upon all sides to recommend in his annual report radical changes in the law relating to rates of postage upon transient newspapersand mail matter of the third class generally. The sender of a transient newspaper of ordinary size, to insure its transmission through the mails, is cautioned to carry the same to the postoffice and h'ave it weighed, or else prepay postage enough to place his newspaper beyond any risk of dropping into the postoflice wastebasket. The revenue derived from the sales of these confiscated newspapers is considerable in the course of a year. Transient newspapers, as a rule, are sent for some specific purpose, and to those concerned it is almost as important that they should reach their destination as should a letter, but neither the sender nor the person addressed is notified if there is any lack of postage. It is urged that the weight limit of newspapers to be .sent for the ordinary rate of postage should t.e extended, or some provisfon adopted tor notifyingthe sender of a newspaper or the person to whom it is addressed. In his anniial report, just published, Indian Commissioner Price enumerateaamong the four things necessary to solve the Indian problem one law and three appropriations, tin .statute being designed to punish- person; furnishing arms to the red mep, and the ap proprlations for police, surveys and to def raj

the expanse of detecting and prosecuting persons selling liquor to the Indians.... Secretary Lincoln has decreed that a white mule, Of unknown antiquity, ahull be kept at Mount Vernon barracks, Ala. The animal was ordered to be soldi when the officers and inen sent in a petition on the subject. Gan. Sherman reported on the petition that he believed the mule was at Mount Vernon w hen Gen. Jackson’s army camped there in 1819-20, ap'd he thought .he also saw the animal at Mobile Point in 1842. Upon this showing the Secretary issued the, order for the mule’s maintenance.

Belva A. Lockwood, the well-known female lawyer of Washington, has been suspended from practice before the Interior departipent for receiving illegal fees and with holding pension money. A Washington, paper publishes an interview with I nited States Histr.ietAttornev+o- kilFTn regard to theta* vesJgation now.bping ttfiide by that ofl'cer -into the fraudulent operations of pension attorneys’. The District Attorney says a large number attorneys have engaged in fraudulent practices, and that he has received hundreds’of letters since the publica- . cation of his communications to ; Secretary; Teller containing specific complaints of attempted frauds on the part of firms in the pension business in this city. He estimates _ that soldiers and their relatives have been .defraudedout of s|,vt>o.oot) through the fraudulent practices of these attorneys, and expresses the intention of bringing the matter , to the attention of the grand jury. The President has issued the following thanksgiving proclamation: In furtherance of the®ustom us-this people at.the clese of each yea?, to engage upon a day set apart tor that p it pose, In a special festival of praise to th" Giver of all Good. I, Cly ster A. Aithtir, President of the United States, do hereby designate Thursday, the 29th day of November next as a day of national thanksgiving. The year which is drawing to an end has been -loplete wl h evidences of divine goodness. The pre' alenceof health, fullness of t;:e harvests, the standing or peace and order, the growth of fraternal feeling, the, spread of intelligence and JearijJjtg,the Continued enjoyment of civil and religions liberty— -all these, and countless other blessings, are cause for reverent rejoicing. Ido therefore -commend that on the day above namol the people rest from their accustomed labors, and, meeting in their several i laces of worship, express their devout gratitude to God that He hath dealt so bountifully with this nation, and pray that His grace and favor abide with it forever. Chester A. Arthur.

POLITICAL. The colored people of Chicago, in mass meeting assembled, resolved to cheerfully acquiesce in the civil-rights decision and look for redress of all their wrongs to the proper State authorities; that the names •■l’''”ii><'rat.” “Bourbon” and “Rebel Brigadier” have lojt their terror; that they will wecome any issue that will consolidate the negro vote in its interest; and appeal to the State Legislature for legislation to prevent any abridgement of their rights. GENERAL In Spite of the machinations of the disiiffecteir Irishmen of the! Dominion, tne Marquis of Lansdowne was inducted to the office of Governor General of Canada with all the ancient rites and ceremonies. In an address the new Governor General thanked those present for the hospitality he had received, and promised to do his best to merit their good wishes. Joseph D. Weeks, Secretary of the lion association, just returned from Europe, gives a gloomy account of the condition of the laborer and mechanic. Ono-third of the puddling furnaces in Northern England are idle, and mills are. working-Suit part of the time. Arbitration, he states. is becoming a factor in the settlement of labor questions. In the Protestant Episcopal Church convention, at Philadelphia, it was reported that from 1833 to 1883 the growth of the churcn has been such as to more than double tire numl es of dioceses (from 18 to 48). to increase the number of parishes in a large ratio, to increase the number of clergy fivefold (from' 592 to 3.572), anil the humbet of communicants more than ten-fold (from 30, 939 to 372, 484); also the number of baptisms in nearly the same proport'on. The number of missionary jurisdictions shows a gain of 100 per cent, since 1871; the number of missions a like gain,” and the offering’s! a gain of 100 per cent, from 1868 to 1880.

For the purpose of obtaining a joint guaranty from the other Central American states the Nicaraguan Congress has provided by law-4hot-t|ie- net profits of the proposed canal through Nicaragua shall not be less than 3 per cent, and the > capital not: more than $'15,000,000, the guaranty to last for twenty years from the opening of the canal.... Dun’s Mercantile Agency reports business improved, with a marked increase in clearings. Profits are not’ large, but money is being made, and most all traders feel satisfied with the season’s business. The money market is easy, and the present low prices of iron and other raw staples invite capitalists to in vest, feeling assured of' a rich return in " the future. No fears about the promptness of collections are entertained. It is stated that Claus Spreckels, proprietor Of the California Sugar Refinery company, of San Francisco, who holds a monopoly of the Hawaiian sugar trade, has contracted to purchase the entire crop of sugar of the islands on condition that all shipments be.made in his vessels Lord Coleridge has sailed for England, but his son will travel extensively in the West FOREIGN. ToucHlNGL._afiairsLdji Tonquiu, ihe French Yellow Book states that the negotiations with China have been conducted in a friendly spirit, but nothing has been gained, China demanding the whole of Northern Anam and giving the French a foothold only in the Southern provinces. Cardinal Manning asserts that Bismarck is favorably inclined toward the Vatican, and will agree to any metjsu.res which will settle the difficulties between Prussia and the Pope.... Many deaths from fever and exposure are threatened in the districts recently wrecked by earthquakes unles help is given. Clothing, medicine, and building materials ate mostly needed.... Cardinal Hohcnlohe is on bad terms with the Vatican. The dreadful epidemic of cholera, which raged in Egypt throughout the summer, but which was thought to hav<*--pffftia-' nently subsided, has broken out again at Alexandria with great violence, and a renewallof the horrors of the past few months is feared... .Henri Rochefort asserts in his journal that the French Ministry and tho Due d’Autnale have entered in an agreement for the establishment of an Orleanist monarchy. Other papers state the' alliance is simply a parliamentary 0ne.... Herr Richter,a Deputy, for insulting the German imperial family four years ago, was sentenced at Liegnitz, Silesia,, to six months’ imprisonment and deprivation of his rights as member of the Reichstag. A Nihilistic press is reported £o have been discovared in the Imperial Marie institute at Moscow, and two female teachers were arrested for connection with the publication of incendiary papers... .Kavanagh, Smitti apd Hanlon, informers in the Phrenix' Park murder trials, have reached Calcutta, the capital of British India,. ,\.Tho Geographical Society at Lisbon has informed simitar associations In Europe, that Stanley’s letters from the Congo region ire offensive to Portugal. i It is stated that at the meeting of the English Cabinet, last week, it was decided to introduce at the commencement of the next session of Parliament a bill extending the present household franchise of the English boroughs to the counties and to Ireland. A section of the Cabinet opposed this course, but Mr. Gladstone objected to postponement, the Premier urging that it was his desire to' .get through with the reform of the franchise next year; after which he proposes to retire from Severe earthquake shocks were felt in the Vicinity of Smyrna, in Asia Minor. At a

pjace <sft!!ed You: la bitt persons were seriously and sixty-one slightly injured... .Mary Anderson appeared .as Faunae In the “ Lady of Lyons” at London, and achieved another triumph... .John Fright states that the report that he Intended to visit America this winter is untrue; he has no Intentton of coming to this country. ... .The King of Portugal thinks of abdicating on account of Liberal ■ agitation in his kingdom... .A cablegram from Paris chronicles the death of the Archbishop of Rouen, who was 83 years of age. A panic prevails at Alexandria otying to the reappearance of the cholera. Europeans going to Egypt return without disembarking. The disease also exists at Cairo.