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

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

In the Criminal court, at Gallatin, Mo., the indictment against Frank James for the murder Ibf Conductor Westfall was dismissed, and he was sent back to Jackson county to be tried for the Blue-cut train- ’ y” The whaling schooner Louisa, of New Bedford, Mass., foundered in the Arctic, "Sept. 22, by colliding with ice, and six men perished. . Officials of the Postoffice department object to the proposed reduction in the rates for drop letters on the ground that the local delivery now costs nearly as much as the revenue in several cities, while in others it is carried on at a positive loss. William Sexton, member of Pariiamcnf,Tn Ills address at Glasgow. bitterly denpuncedSirStafford Northcote for the character of the speeches made during his recent tour through Ireland, alleging that these addresses had caused the present revival of religious fanatieism in Ireland.; . .Lord Coleridge is again on English soil, and expresses himself as greatly pleased with his trip. A cyclone of terrific violence and attended by a loss estimated at nearly $200,000 passed over Springfield, Green county, Mo., killing five persons outright and injuring thirty more. The names of the dead are: Mrs. Andrew Arnqujst, Mrs. Dunlap, Mrs. Holberless, Mrs. Finnev, Miss Sallie Edmondson. The cyclone, approaching in the form of a cloud moving close to the earth, first struck the northwest part of the town—and passed in -an easterly course along the north part of the city, demolishing everything in its 300-feet-wide path. At Bridgetown, a suburb of Springfield, a watchman was killed' and several persons badly injured. At Brookline Station, several homes were demolished, cne_ person killed and several wounded. Tlirec miles west of Springfield a school-house in which there were fifty children was demolished, but only three persons were hurt. There were many other marvelous escapesA train on the IVabash, Pacific and St. Louis railroad, going East, was boarded at Danville Junction, 111., by four men, who went through one of the passenger cars with drawn revolvers and obtained about SBOO from the affrighted passengers, They left the train suddenly, just as it went out, and escaped. The same crowd, or a similar one, worked the train on the Indiana, Bloomington and Western road, which connects at Danville with the Wabash, by the pickpocket process, getting $1,200 and a check for $1,700 on the First National bank, of Clinton, 111. The check, an overcoat, and a number of pocket-books were afterward found alongside the track. John L. Sullivan and his troupe of boxers gave an exhibition at Danville the same evening, and it is supposed that the robbers were a crowd of Eastern cracks following along in Sullivan’s wake The Milan (Ill.) Paper company confessed judgment for $14,750 in favor of the Kock Island National bank, and then made an assignment..... Wetzell Brothers, lumbermen of Grand Rapids, Mich., >vho owe $i50;000, and Porter Byrne & Co., whose liabilities are notknown,have filed assignments Foekier Brothers,buggy-top makers at Dubuque, lowa, have falletTfor $70,0007 Assets small... .Rice & Messmore, private bankers at" Cadillac. Mich., have suspended: ...An assignment has been made by Hinman, Moody & Co., paper-dealers at Beloit. Wis. They claim assets equal to their liabilities.