Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. A train on the Baltimore aid Ohio railroad struck and killed four children ranging in ages from 5 to 17 years, near Connellsville, Pa. They had been out walking and were returning homo 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 east-bound passenger train thundered around a curve and caught the party, crushing them to death. ' - Mr. Matthew Arnold made his first public appearance before the American people at Chickering hall. New York. He was welcomed by an immense audience for whose benefit he expatiated on the moral inferiority of the French people as compared with their • German neighbors. He presented his peculiar ideas on the subject of majorities, believing the mere preponderance of votes to be pernicious, and expressed but little sympathy with the American form of government as a whole....At a tannery in Allegheny City, where a deep vat was being dug, three men lost their lives from foul air. A small frame structure in New York- in - process of-demolition fell—white children were gathering kindling wood, killing two of them instantly, wounding another fatally, and injuring a carpenter seriously. ... Burglars took $7,000 in stamps and SSOO in cash from the postoffice at Haverhill, Mass. Four well-known citizens of Eric, Pa. —John W. Eyster, Frederick C. Kesley, Giles Russell and Charles Brown were caught in a storm while duck shooting in the bay, and drowned. Eyster had his life insured for $20,000. College rowdies, known as “Freshmen” and “Sophomores,” of the Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, at Troy. N. Y., indulged in a row which damaged the building to some extent and seriously injured several of the participants. Both classes have teen suspended, and many students have left for their homes....lt is reported that the anthracite mines of t'- e Pennsylvania railroad are soon to be leased to a syndicate, headed by .Scott. which will send 3,000.000 from Buffalo and Erie each year... .Jos. McEneany, cashier of Thompson & Co.’s steel-works, at New York, has been arrested for embezzling $35,009, which he lost in betting on the races. Charles A. Mathews, one of the fifty-seven children of the thirteen-wived Isaac M. Singer, the late sewing-machine manufacturer, committed suicide in Philadelphia. He refused to bear his father’s name. Mr. Mathews was only 26 years old, and a refined gentleman. He was in possession of an Independent fortune. He was very sensitive on the subject of his parentage, and the slightest allusion to his father would fill him with mortification. For tha|; reason he generally avoided society.... Arthur B. Johnson, a prominent lawyer of Utica, N. Y., was fonnd dead in his office with a bullet in his breast. He had committed suicide.... Rachel Layton, colored, died at Trenton, N. J., aged 406.... A safe in the car-penter-shop of George Larkin, at. Bridgeport, Ct.,was blown open and robbed $6,000. THE WEST. In the case of Zora Burns, at Lincoln, 111., the jury rendered the following verdict: “In the matter of the inquisition on the body of Missouri Burns, deceased, held at Lincoln, 81., from Oct. 17 to Nov. 1, we, the undersigned jurors, sworn to inquire of the death of Missouri Burns, on oath do find that she came to her death by the means of a wound in the throat produced by some sharp Instrument in the hands of some person or persons to the jury unknown.”.... The Illinois and Michigan canal commission met in Chicago and reorganized by electing John C. Dore President. Addresses were delivered by Senator Cullom, Mayor Harrison, Congressmen Springer and Henderson, John C. Dore, William Bross, C. C. Bonney, and several others. It was resolved that the Government ought to conduct a waterway from the lakes to the Mississippi in the interest of cheaper transportation for the products of the Northwest. Nellie B. BailEy, 21 yeats old, well educated and good-looking, agreed to go to Texas with a rich Englishman named Clement Bothelmy and start a sheep ranch. In Indian Territory she shot and killed him, burned nis body, and took possession of his money, jewelry and outfit, in all worth $107,000. Then she started south, but was arrested, and is now in jail at Wichita, Kan. The woman formerly moved in good society in New York and New Jersey In a land case at Denver, Jpdge McCrary decided in favor of the cancellation of sixtyone patents fraudulently obtained in Colorado through the pre-emption law, although the title had passed into the hands of innocent parties... .Fourteen Federal Marshals and detectives had a desperate engagement at a station near Evansville, Ind., with a gang of counterfeiters, nine ol whom were captured, two of them being dangerously wounded.... Miss Aggie Hfil, claiming to be Mrs. Sharon, has brought suit for divorce against the California millionaire, asking a division of the community property and alimony Two children were suffocated at Middleton, Ohio, and a lady and her grandson at Cincinnati, by fires in theiPhouses. Mr. Dion Boucicault, the great Irish comedian, makes his appearance at McVicker’s theater, Chicago, this week, for the first time in several years. The “Shaughraun" will be given the first week, and the cast includes the talented author, Missfiadie Martinet, Miss Grace Thorne, Miss Edna Carev, S. Miller Kent, A- H. Forest, Gus Reynolds and F. Bret Harte, a son of the wellknown author; “The Colleen Bawn” will be played the week after. The report that Frank James is allowed to walk the streets of Gallatin, Mo., is untrue. He is not permitted in the jail yard unless accompanied by an officer.' Attachments were issued last week against the property of the Rock River Paper company, in Chicago, and the concern is now in the hands of the Sheriff. The company operated several paper mills in Illinois and Wisconsin. Investments in real estate, upon which they were unable to realize when pressed for „ money, was the cause of the collapse. The old, old story..... The St. Louis grand jury has returned indictments against Police Commissioners Dr. Lutz and David W. Caruth, for conspiracy; Henry 8. Newman, Commissioner of Labor Statistics; malfesanoe; Hugh G. Bradly, member of the Legislature* bribery; Warren F. MeCheeny, leader of the gamblers' ring, attempted bribery; and against Managing Editor Moore, of the PostDispatch, and F. D. White, a reporter on the same paper, for abstracting court records. The report censures Gov. Crittenden for granting pardons, particularly to convicted gamblers, and suggests that the pardoning power be taken out of the Governor's hands P. W. Parkhurst. Cashier of the Clyde bank, at Clyde, Ohio, is being looked for by the bank officials, and pending nis return the institution is closed to the depositors.... About, twenty stores, dwellings and barns were burned at Willoughby, Ohio, resulting ip a loss of $100,000; half insurance. ... ,Bx-Scnator Tabor secured a judgment in • Denver court for $20,000 against his former partner, William ■ H. Bush, whose claim for aid in securing a divorce was not allowed. The missing St. Loum* girl, Mary Churchill, was found in the. insane asylum, near Indianapolis, where she hired out to do laundry work. Thomas J. Gallagher, sporttag reporter Of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,

has been at work on the case for over a month, and at last traced the missing one to the above-mentioned place. She returned home with her father... .An express agent at Portage, Wis,, carried some money packages to a midnight train in an old sack, which caught on the door-fastening in the depot and ripped open, spilling its contents on the platform. He soon discovered his loss, blit was unar ble to recover an envelope containing $5(090....' Albert Aylward, the man who led the Boer forces in the war against the British, in the Transvaal, was locked up in a Chicago police station, charged with being drunk and disorderly. He could face the British bullets, but Clark street “booze” downed him.... The police of Sioux Falls, D. T., cut the electric wires, the company having disregarded an ord*er for the removal of the poles to the alleys... .A notorious counterfeiter known as Coiner, alias Faulkiier, was captured in Frenchtown, Harrison couhty, Ind. Orrin A. Carpenter charged with killing Zora Burns was arraigned for a hearing at Lincoln,lll., on Saturday, the 3d Inst., and demanded a change of venue from Justice Rudolph to Justice W. D. Wyatt. The prosecution demanded that the case be taken to Justice Maltby, and gained their point. Mr. Maltby, however, adjourned the case till Monday. A great crowd witnessed the proceedings, but the accused bore himself calmly, his blanched features being the result of confinement in prison. ....M. J. Bond, a Grand Rapids (Mich.) lumberman, has failed for $175,000.

THE SOUTH* A bull met a train on the Kentucky Central railroad and hung a baggage-qar and three locomotives out over an embankment. It was for the bull, however, a dear-bought and gory victory over the march of modern improvement... .The first bale of cottonever picked from the field by machinery is on exhibition at the Charleston Cotton exchange. Joe Holder, an industrious colored man, while herding his hogs near Toomsboro, Ga., surprised a couple of negro desperadoes skinning one of his swine, which they had stolen. Both of the thieves fled into the swainp. Going back to the settlement Holder enlisted the aid of a couple of white men in a search for the culprits. The morning's search proved fruitless, and the throe men laid down beneath a tree at noontime and went to:sleep. An hour later they were attacked by five armed negroes. In the encounter which followed, Holder and three of the were almost instantly killed.... Fire broke out in Garnet, Stubbs & Co.’s warehouse, at Savannah, Ga., consumed it, and, spreading, destroyed the Electric Light works, Tynan's foundry, and several wooden dwellings. Three thousand bales of cotton in the Garnet structure were burned. The total loss will reach $1,000,000... . .Mitchell Putnam, 103 years of age, traveled alone from Texas to South Carolina to see his former home. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and in thc*Texan struggle. The election excitement at Danville, Va., culminated in a bloody riot, in which five negroes and one white manwere killed and a number of whites and negroes hurt A big meeting of citizens was in progressed resolutions were passed denouncing Mahone. A negro who mixed in the crowd shoved a white bystander from the sidewalk. Both parties fell to blows, pistols were drawn, and firing began on both sides. Four of the negroes were killed and several wounded. A white youth, Walter Holland, son of a prominent tobacconist, was shot through the head and mortally 1 wounded. The melee became general. The firing drew crowds to the scene, and the Mayor at once ordered out the military to quell the fight. The negroes, however, i etired to the black quarter of the town before the soldiers arrived. The whole city was roused by the melee and the wildest excitement prevailed. One company of mililia at once cleared the streets and something like order was restored. Later in the evening a platoon-of soldiers was fired upon by the negroes ambuscaded in a house, but without fataleffect. Thehouse was surrounded and one negro captured. The soldiers * were fired upon by the negroes in different parts of the city..... At New Orleans William Sykes murdered the keeper of a brothel, named Kate Townsend, by plunging a large dirk into her chest five times. They had cohabited for twenty-live years, and had quarreled many times. The dead woman is said to have been worth $200,000....Mr5, Elizabeth B. Gibbs, widow of United States Surgeon Gibbs, threw herself from a railway’ car near Baltimore, Md., and was killed... .A fire at Algiers, La., destroyed twenty houses and other property. The total loss is placed at SIOO,OOO. • ■

WASHINGTON. In their report to the Secretary of the Interior, the Utah Commissioners declare that unless the Territorial Legislature shall adopt laws looking to the extirpation of polygamy (which it will not likely do) the commission will be prepared to recommend to Congress the most stringent enactments compatible with the limitations of the constitution which may be considered necessary for the suppression of so great an evil.... The Superintendent of the Railway Mail service reports 993 lines, and recommends an increase of $50,000 in the appropriation for cars and of $318,000 fOr clerks. Following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist Inst.: Interest bearing debt— Three and one-half per cents ......$ 4,970,000 Four and one-half per cents 250,000.000 Four per cents.. 737,620,700 Three percents.. „„ Refunding certificates 332.850 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 '. ■ "I- ir.-ru” —■ Total Interest-bearing debt 51,312,446,050 Matured debt ...4,348,745 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes.. 347,739,816 Certificates of deposit.: 12,620,000 Gold and silver certificates 182,908,081 Fractional currency.... 6,990,303 Total without interest $549,258,200 Total debt (principa1)51,866,052,995 Totalinterest 9,801,243 Total cash in treasury 364,317,501 Debt, less cash in trea5ury.....;1,511,506,737 Decrease during Octub-r,... . 10,304,798 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1881 39,584,470 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid,...s 2,698,375 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 4,348,745 Interest thereon 288,857 Gold and silver certificates 182,908,031 U. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit.. 12,620,000 Cash balance available Nov. 1 161,4-4,44’3 Total $364,347,501 . Available assets— Cash in treasury. 864,347,501 Bonds issued to Pacific rail way companies, interest payable by United States— Princinal outstanding....,....s 64,6.3,512 Interest accrued, not yet naid. 1,2 >2,470 Interest paid by United States 69,222,093 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. $ 17,056.755 1 By cash payments, 5 per cent net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 41.510.138 One of Hallett Kilbourne’s dinners while he languished in a Washington dungeon under the accusation of contempt of one of the houses of Congress, cost $34.55... .The War department has ordered a court of inquiry to investigate the cause of the failure of the Greely relief expedition.— - . Commissioner McFarland states that over 19,000,000 acres of public lands and 400,000 acres of Indian lands were disposed of during the year, for which $11,713,883 was received. He recommends the repeal of the Pre-emption and Timber Culture laws, and the amendment of the Homestead law. He states that much valuable timber land on the Pacific coast is being taken up“by persons hired for that purpose. Postmasters in twenty of the largest cities report an average increase of over 6 per cent, in the amount received for stamps, Detroit alone showing a decrease* The Postmaster General has ordered that special wymfy shall hereafter be paid for their ex-

penses only tie sum actually disbursed... .11 is believed that the reduction in the rate ol letter postage will not lessen the net profit of the postoffice, counting in, however, the natural growth of the system.’.. .The Northern Pacific road has made arrangements with the Government for the free distribution ol carp from St. Paul to Portland... .It is estimated by the Commissioner of Pensions that $40,000,000- will be required for the payment qf pensions the next fiscal year. '

POLITICAL. CONGRESMAN ; ERMENTROUT was knocked doWn and badly mauled in a political fight at Readidg, Pa. After a long conference with President Arthur, John C. Now has decided to retain the Assistant Secretaryship of the Treasury. Gov. Ordway, of Dakota, devotes much space in his annual report to the arraignment of certain portions of the people wh6m he characterizes as factions, and makes a long argument in defense of his opposition to the efforts to create a new State. He asks Congress to provide for a Constitutional convention for Dakota. A Democratic Congressman is quoted as having said that it would not surprise him if the Speakership contest should last several days, in which event lie predicted the success of a dark horse. This estimation is based upon the expectation that Randall, Carlisle and Cox will remain in the field. GENERAL. The case against the Collector of Customs at Montreal for confiscating the works of Voltaire and Paine has been dismissed upon a technicality, the Judge not entering upon the merits of the suit... .A military guard will be stationed at the Government house, Ottawa, and the watch on the Parliament buildings is to be doubled,... With twenty-seven oil wells completed in October, there is a decrease of 319 barrels in the daily production. ■

A number of disasters are reported to the lake shipping. Two largo schooners laden with ore, the John B. Merrill, of Milwaukee, and the Sophia Minch, of Cleveland, went ashore near the latter port. The schooner Ketcham, of Chicago, went ashore hear Leland, Mich., and is probably a total loss; and the Homer H. Hine, abandoned by her crew, was driven on the rocks near Ambcrly, Ontario, and will be a total wreck.... The Directors of the Pennsylvania road have declared a semi-annual dividend of 4J4 per cent. Frank Cihckering, a lumber-dealer of Grand Rapids, Mich., is insolvent, with assets and liabilities estimated at SIOO,OOO each....A. J. Scott, a stock dealer at Paris, 111., has made an assignment to cover liabilities of $53,000.j. .J. B. Vogel & Co., merchant tailors at Fort Wayne, Ind., have been closed by the Sheriff....Kautner, organ manufacturer, and- R.- H. Savage, hat-maker, at Reading, Pa., are insolvent,.... Simon Lauterbach, shirt manufacturer, at New York, made an assignment, giving preferences for $120,000... .Business failures in the United States and Canada numbered 215 last week according to Dun’s report, three less than the week before:.. .The liabilities of the Rev. G. M. Pierce, of the Rocky Mountain Christian Advocate, Salt Lake City, are $38,000, with assets of SB,OOO. This is the largest failure for years in that section. Daigneau & Co., bark dealers, of St. Hyacinthe, Canada, the scene of a great fire eight years ago, have assigned, with liabilities estimated ata quarter of a million.... The Marquis of Lansdowne has received several letters threatening his life--—— FOREIGN. Cardinal ManJKng asserts that Bismarck is favorably inclined toward the Vatican, and will agree to any measures 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 are mostly needed.... Cardinal Hohenlohe is on bad terms with the Vatican.

When twenty-five miles off Holyhead, in the Irish sea, the British steamers Alhambra-and Holyhead came into collision, and both sank. Thirteen seamen from the Alhambra and two from the Holyhead were lost, the rest of the passengers and crew escaping in safety... .The Prince qf Wales closed the Fisheries exposition at London in the presence of a vast assemblage. He sald the show had been very successful, the profits large, and hoped; the buildings might be kept standing, so that hygiene, inventions, and colonial exhibitions might be held in 1884, 1885, and 1886, respectively Rumors are published in that the explorer De Brazza was killed by a band of negroes in the Congo country... .It is assorted that Bismarck informed the Orleans Princes that Germany would not approve of their making claims to the Frence throne.... Hicks Pasha reports to the Khedive of Egypt that the False Prophet has probably been done up.

Regarding the London explosives, details show that the number injured is fully as large as first reported. It has also been determined that nitro-glycerine entered largely into the composition of the explosives used. ' The Irish in London are greatly excited, and are free to confess that the crime was planned by enemies of the National movement. O’Donovan Rossa-eWHns the Explosions were caused by Fenians, of whose movements he is aware. All the banks, public buildings and'prisons at Glasgow are carefully guarded against explosions. The explosive used at Frankfort-on-the-Maln was nitro-glycerine, which had been placed in eight small glass shells, perforated with holes. Orangemen at Londonderry, Ireland, seized the City hall to prevent the Lord Mayor of Dublin from making a Nationalist speech therein. When the procession escorting-" the Lord Mayor to his hotet> passed the building the Orangemen opened fire and also threw slates from the roof and windows, One man was killed and another man and boy were shot and dangerously wounded. The police dispersed a mob, which gathered after the Nationalist procession dispersed and stoned the windows of the City hall A French Admiral has seized a strip of the African coast 250 miles in length, including a dozen towns. Three men-of-war command the chief points, and troops will be stationed at other places. A number of failures among the British cotton merchants have followed closely after the big collapse of Morris Ranger. The latter’s liabilities reach the stupendous figures of $3,500.000-... .The betrothal of the Crown Prince of Portugal and the youngest daughter of the Austrian Emperor is announced.... Five hundred pounds reward is offered by the London authorities for information which will lead to the arrest and conviction of the persons who caused the explosion in the underground railway... .A Polish actor named Protowski, who was arrested at Dirschau, East Prussia, confessed that he was a Nihilist who had been selected by a band of conspirators to assasinate Prince Bismarck. „>. ■ The British Cabinet have decided that the dispute between China and France has reached the verge of open warfare. A London dispatch says the most explicit and positive instructions looking to a proper and thorough conservation of British interests hare been issued to all the departments.... The committee of the Austrian delegations, in its report recommending the adoption of the foreign estimates, says the German alliance was not formed for hostile purposes, and that Austria will endeavor to maintain peace with all nations..;. Fire, which broke out in Wylie & Lochead’s great warehouse in Glasgow,, spread with great rapidity and consumed several busincA structures, involving a loss of $3,000,000.* Many wounded persons* were taken to the hospitals... .The Rothschilds have advised the British Government that no Egyptian

loan could bp placed If the troops were en- ' tirely withdraw#. It has therefore been decided to maintain in Egypt an army of occupation of 4,000 men.... The latest accounts from Afghanistan show that the country is in a state of complete aaarchy; the exchequer is without funds, the troops are demoralized, and the Ameer is a meer plaything In the hands of the GMlzais. .... It is reported at Pari? that when the Malagassy Envoys reached Madagascar they were strangled... .Two hundred and forty cholera deaths occurred at Mecca in one week.... Moody and Sankey have began a series of meetings in a new iron hall specially • arranged for the purpose at Islington, London. The meetings are proving a great success.