Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1883 — ME NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

ME NEWS CONDENSED.

THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS. were held in ten States of the Union en Tuesday. Not. A The result*, as Indicated in the reports telegraphed from the various Staten on the morning following the polling, are noted below: Massachusetts.—Ths election In the Bay State was for Governor and other State officers and a Legislature. There were five tickets In the field for the sovereigns to choose from—Republican, Democratic, Greenback, Independent Greenback, and Prohibition —and the choice ffll upon the Republican by a good round majority. Gov. Butler was sat down upon pretty solidly. A very heavy vote was polled, as the result of the bitter canvass by the Butler and anti-Butlerites. The majority for George D. Robinson, the Republican candidate for Governor, is between 12,000 and 15,000. Butler gained on bis vote of last year In less than a score of places In the State, while the Kepnblicans gained heavily In all pa rts of the State. Butler ran about 16,000 votes ahead of the rest of his ticket. Both houses of the Legislature are strongly Republican. The Prohibitionists polled less than 2,000 votes in the entire State. The Massachusetts Republicans are greatly elated at the overthrow of Butler. New Port.—New York elected a Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney General, Engineer and Surveyor, and both branches of the Legislature, and voted upon a proposition to abolish contract labor in the State prisons. There were four tickets in the field—Democratic, Republican, Greenback and Prohibition. The vote was a light one. Geh. Carr, the Republican candidate for Secretary of State, is re-elected by a majority of 10,000 to 16,000; Mavnard, his Democratic opponent, was cut In aU directions, on account of his Strong prohibit ion record. The balance of the Democratic State ticket is elected by a small majority. The State Senate stands 18 Kepnblicans and It Democrats; the Assembly, 68 RepubUn.n« and 60 Democrats. The Democratic majority in New York city is about 48,000, in a total poll of US.LOJ. ■ • , Pennsylvania.— Pennsylvania voted for an Auditor General and State Treasurer, and there were four tickets from which to make a choice— Republican, Democratic, Prohibition and National. A light vote—only about (00,000 Was polled. The vote In 1880 was nearly 800,000 above this, and last year 743,000 votes were cast. Great apathy prevailed In all parts or the State. 'William Livesey and Jerome 8,. Niles, the Republican candidates for Treasurer and Auditor, are elected by a majority of 15,000 to 20.0 U). Virginia.— The election in Virginia was for members of the Legislature. One of the bitterest canvasses in the history of the Old Dominion bad been waged for weeks between the Democrats and the Readjusters and Republicans, under the leadership of Mahone. The negroes stood by Mahone in solid phalanx. The returns ,at this writing indicate that the Democrats have (Secured a majority, though small, in both 'branches of the Legislatnre. The Democrats 'made gains In all the white districts, and in some •of Mahone’s strongest counties. The latter held ibis own prettv well in most of the black counities. The election passed off quietly, contrary to general expectation. There was a slight disturbance at one of the polling places in Petersburg, during which Senator Mahone was struck in the face by an unknown person. Minnesota. —Minnesota elected a Governor And other State officers, and voted upon three 'Constitutional amendments regulating elections land the tenure of certain State officers. The entire Republican State ticket was elected. Hubbard, tot Governor, runs several thousand behlnd his ticket, his Democratic opponent capturing a great many Republican Norwegian votes. :Hubbard'a majority is about 12,000, while the balance of the ticket is elected by probably 18,000. Connecticut;— Twelve Senators, a full House Of Representatives and eight Sheriffs were voted lor in Connecticut. The Republicans secure 'both branches of the Legislature, the majority being 60 on joint ballot, and capture the Shrievalty in five of the eight counties. Maryland.— Maryland chose a Governor and other State officers, and a Legislature. A very. Jarge vote was polled. McLean, for Governor, and the entire Democratic ticket are elected by .majorities ranging from 8,000 to 15,000, The (Democrats also secure a majority in the Legislature on joint ballot New Jersey .—Hew Jersey elected a Governor, six State Senators and a full Assembly. The •Democrats, Republicans, Nationals and Prohibitionists placed tickets in the field. Leon Abbott, Democratic candidate for Governor, has abont 7,000 majority. The Democrats have a majority of the Legislatnre by three on joint ballot Nebraska.—The voting in Nebraska was for a Justice of the Supreme Court and a Regent of the State University. The Republican candidates for both offices are elected by from 6,000 A® 8,000 majority. ’ Mississippi.—ln Mississippi a Legislature was chosen. Returns indicate a sweeping JDemocratic victory. The election passed off quietly. The only disturbance in the State, as far as heard from, was in Copiah county, where Wheeler killed Mathews. Mathews went to the polls with a pistol in his hand. He received twenty-four buckshot in the face. Chicago. —There w*s an election in the city of Onicago and Cook county for Judge of the .Superior court and for County Commissioners, resulting in the success of all the Democratic candidates bv majorities rtinging from 2,500 to 4,603, in a total poll of 46,000, or less than half of * full vote. , ~ Other Elections.— County elections were theld throughout Kansas, the Republican candidates being successful in most of the counties. At a municipal election In Detroit, the Republicans captured the Mayoralty by 400 majority and the Democrats the City Treasurershlp by 4,200 majority. Tne City Council Is largely Democratic.

The election news heretofore printed Is in the main correct, later returns making but little change in the figures and results there announced. Full returns from Massachusetts give Robinson a majority of 10.101 oyer Butler* ■while Ames has 13,000 for Lieutenant Governor* Abbott is elected Governor of New Jersey'by 7,r,0a and the Democrats hold the Legislacure by five majority on joint ballot. Tfhe Republicans in New York have eighteen majority In the Assembly and four in the Senate, but the Democrats seem to have secured the minor State offices, with the exception of Secretary of State. Democratic rains in Virginia give the Legislature to that party by large majorities. Reese, Repnb ican, is elected Supreme Court Judge in Nebraska by a majority ol 10,000. Four-fifths of the members of the Mis- . alssi pi Legislature will be Democrats. The Republican majority in Pensylvania is about 00,uuj. There is great rejoicing among the Dem-ocrat-of th; Soothe n States at the overthrow of Mahone in Virginia, and Massachusetts Ho publicans rejoice with exceeding great joy at he downfall of Butler in the Bay State.

TUB EAST. While Alexander L. Strauss, a Baltimore merchant, was enjoying his wedding toast at Brie, Pa., his pocket was picked of $30,000 in'bank notes and checks by a colored waiter, who concealed the plunder, but indicated its hiding place after being arrested..... The trotting horses Winship and Frank had a contest at Boston, last week. Each had a running mate. Winship made three miles, without a stop, in 2:10)4,2:1214 and 2:1134.... Charles E. Leland, proprietor of the Brighton Beach hotel, on Coney island, has made an assignment. . 1 Ex-Gav. Theodore F. Bandolph dropped dead at his residence in Morristown, N. J. In the “Reace Congress" of 1861 Mr. Randolph inaugurated the measure for the relief of the families of Boldiers. In the same year he was elected State Senator, and served until 1805. He served as United States Senator from 187* to 1880. He has been the President of the Morris and Essex railroad since 1867, and was elected Governor of the State Id 1808. By the explosion of the boiler of the tug J. N. Thompson, off Ward’s Island, N. Y., four persons, including the Captain and his wife, were instantly killed, while three member* of the crew were taken tp the hospital badly wounded.... A gale at Buffalo? N. T., blew down a fourstory building being constructed by Jacob Hold. Twelve men were burled in the ruins, l ive were klled and seven other* were seAt Atlantic City, N. J., three children of George B. Baynes, hotel-keeper, while

THE WEST. XiAtf.r accounts of the cyclone at Springfield, Mo., say four more persons have died from the. effects of their injuries—-Mrs. Pennington, Jeff Edmonson, William Ilger and tbe infant son of John Champieux. This makes eleven deaths in all, and two others are not expected to live. At a meeting of manufacturers of barbed wire held in Chicago, a committee was appointed to arrange a basis of compromise with the Washburn & Moen company under more favorable terms, It being claimed that the royalties at present are unjust and excessive.... S. P. Swartx, a lumberman of Grand Rapids, Mich., bas been pulled down by accomodation paper. Assets $40,000 and liabilities of $44,000....Ke110gg, Sawyer & Co., lumjber men at Kalamazoo, Mich., have made an assignment. Their liabilities are placed at between $150,000 and $200,000, with assets reaching $300,000.... Frank A. Fletcher, a shirt manufacturer of Chicago, made an assignment. Scheduled debts aggregating $88,698, and assets of $67,086.... Newton Jackson, a lumber dealer in South Bend, Ind., has failed, with assets of SIOO,OOO and liabilities of $88,000.... Adolph Hoeber, a St. Louts liquor dealer, failed for $23,000. .... A smash-up on the Pan-handle road, near Newark, Ohio, caused by a careless brakeman leaving a switch open, resulted in the killing of an engineer and fireman and the mortal wounding of two other employes of the r0ad..... At Logansport, Ind., George West shot and killed editor Williams, of the Advertiser, because the latter accused him (West) of being too intimate with Williams’ wife... ,K. N. Fitch, formerly cashier of the Second National bank, of Warren, Ohio, pleaded guilty to embezzling SBO,OOO, and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.

The preliminary examination of Orrin A. Carpenter, for the murder of Zora Burns, has been dragging its slow length along during the past week, at Lincoln, 111., before Judge Lacy. Little bas been aided to what was developed at the Coroner's inquest, the testimony elicited being about the same as that given before the Coroner. While Mrs. Dukes was giving her testimony, the father of the murdered girl was observed standing beside the prisoner, and trembling violently. Tbe Sheriff searched him, but found no weapons, and the old man declared that he had nft thoughts of assassination. A brother of the murdered girl appeared on the scene, and swore that he had received a letter from Zora announcing that tbe object of her visit to Lincoln on the 14th of October was to have an operation performed on her throat. The defense summoned witnesses td impeach the character and veracity of Mrs. Rebecca J. Carpenter (no relation to the accused), the woman who testified that she took Zora's letters from her trunk and read them, and detailed the contents of one to Carpenter at Lincoln, In which Zora urged him to come over to Decatur and have some fun. A number of the Carpenter woman’s neighbors testified they would not believe her on oath. Tbe prosecution offset this swearing by the testimony of an equal number of the woman’s neighbors that her reputation for veracity was good. There was some talk of lynching Carpenter during the progress of the investigation, but they were only the utterances of hot-headed and irresponsible parties. Dr. A. N. Miller, of Lincoln, went to St. Elmo, and, accompanied by a Justice of the Peace, exhumed the body of Zora Burns. The brains, liver, kidneys and intestines were removed and hermetically sealed in cans. They were taken to Chicago, where the parts will be examined by a chemist at Rush Medical college. It is the Dootor’s opinion that O. A. Carpenter is guilty of the murder, and he thinks the coming examination will substantiate the theory of abortion.

The south front of the south wing of the Wisconsin State house at Madison, the structure being In course of erection, fell upon the workmen, the roof following. The building was 70xJ20 feet in breadth and depth and seventy feet high. The noise of the collapse was frightful, and the detonations followed each other for fully half a minute. The ruins were filled with groans and cries for help. Four thousand people hurried into the park and beheld a terrifying spectacle. Three tottering wails partially surrounded the scene. Six workmen " hung by the limbs in midair to dangling rafters, three of the victims being dead. Five men were killed, nearly all being horribly mangled. Four others were mortally hurt. Seventeen were less seriously injured H. C. McGee, a farmer, living ten miles from Kansas City, killed his wife end a daughter, aged 20, with a shotgun, and then took a fatal dose of morphine. The three corpses were discovered by McGee’s younger children when they returned from 5ch001.... Aggie Hill produced, in a San Francisco court, her alleged marriage contract with exSenator Sharon. The latter looked at the document and used such language that the Judge ordered him removed from the courtroom. .. .Mrs. M. E. Sabin, mother of Senator D. M. Sabin, died suddenly of heart disease, at Stillwater, Minn. Citizens of Cheyenne have filed articles of incorporation qfor the Black Hills and Montana Railroad company, with a capital of $10,000,000, which intends soon to lay track into the cattle region and to the coal lands near Fort Fetterman The main walls of the great Mormon temple at Salt Lake City have just been completed. They are ten feet thick, of solid granite, eightyfive feet high. The foundation was laid twenty-eight years ago. The cost to the present time 4s $4,500,000. Six years more will be required to complete it.

The second - act in the' 1 tragedy at Lincoln, 111., was ended last week, and resulted in the third material victory for tho defendant in the case, the first being Prof. Wheeler's report of the examination of the lines and whip, the second the verdict of the Coroner's jury that did not hold him, and the third the decision of Judge Lacey that Carpenter be admitted to bail, the amount of which was fixed at $lO, 000, and was promptly furnished. The decision gives general satisfaction, and in a measure appeases the want of numerous individuals thirsty for vengeance in the conviction of some one, though it is conceded there is by no means a stroug case, or one that should receive the attention of the graud Ju*y in the absence of further proof. Judge Lfcey, says a Lincoln dispatch, has given the greatest satisfaction to prosecution, defense and the people for his conduct on the bench and rulings in the case. Riving the widest latitude to the evidence submitted

for the discovery of the guilty party. At the conclusion of the argument and amid almost breathless silence the court read from manuscript his decision in the case and at the conclusion Of which the friends of Carpenter crowded around him to congratulate him upon the very favorable answer to the charge against him. The father of the murdered glri made an attempt to do violenoa to the aocused, but was seized by officers. The prisoner was immediately driven to his home, and the meeting with his family after his three weeks’ confinement is said to have been a most affecting scene. Efforts are now being mado to trace out the abortionist at whose hands Zora Burns met her death. A dispatch from Madison, Wis , says the men wounded by the State-house disaster are progressing favorably, and that no more deaths are likely to result. Five lives were lost by the accident, and tne Coroner has been investigating the matter,, with a view of ascertaining who is to blame. The Building Commissioners secured the services of A. C. Nash, a prominent Cincinnati architect, and Godfrey Ludwig, Superintendent of Public Buildings of Cincinnati. They went to Madison, and last Monday began an expert examination of the ruins. Other experts-were also summoned to testify. The testimony gobs to show many serious defects in construction. Two residents of Caldwell, Idaho, who lay asleep in their blankets in an unfinished hotel, were killed with coupling-pins by a brace Of desperadoes. t The murderers were captured, but it is believed that they will be left to the Sheriff to execute. THE SOUTH. ' After the pdlla kid closed at Wak*: AAU- IT*.. U W Whita xriU rtQrUllT tTQUDded fIBBTI y Sn W» tT Otto new ****** '•'y

In a row. W. H. Morris, who is supposed to have fired the shot, was pursued bjr Infuriated citizens and probably, killed John L. Martin, a wife-murderer, was taken from the guards at Luling, Texas, by masked men and banged. Moses, tbe husband of the fat woman Who recently died in Baltimore, claiming that he was impoverished, sold her remains to a physician, to be exhumed in December. At Laurinburg, N. C. while a gathering of colored people was in McLean’s hall, the floor gave way, followed by the wall tumbling down. A wild scene of excitement ensued. After all bad been exticated from the ruins eight were found injured, two mortally. “> ’ James Truxhill, a white man, 'was hung from a crossbeam of the high bridge that spans the Kentucky river, on the Cincinnati Southern railroad, by a mob. Truxhill was accused of outraging a lady named Mrs. Coones. He was dragged from the jail by tbe indignant people and. swung in mid-air forty feet from tfie trestle and 250 feet above the ground..,. A negro murderer was lynched by a mob o f blacks at Mount Monroe, N. C,‘...A human . skull, measuring forty inches around the forehead, has been unearthed near Kingwood, Va.

WASHINGTON. The jury in the case of Mallett Kilbourne against John G. Thompson, for $350,000 damages for false imprisonment, returned a verdict of $60,000 for the plaintiff. Amotion for n new trial was made by tbe defense. Postmaster General Gresham has caused such inquiries to be made as to the average, weight of single-rate letters as to lead postoffice oljicials to think that he intends to recommend an increase to one ounce. It is said that Gen. Hancock is likely to, go to Chicago as the successor of Geii. Sheridan. Tho commandant at Governor's island is personally much averse to leaving New York city. POLITICAL. The Senatorial contest in Ohio is the hottest ever known. Pendleton seems to have drawn on the hostility of all the Democratic leaders, and it is now thought that, after a complimentary vote is given him in January, Henry B. Payne will he taken up. Other candidates are Gens. Durbin Ward and George W. Morgan, Judges Seeney and Geddes, and Hon. John W. Bookwalter • At a meeting of the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, George L. Ruffin, the colored lawyer, was again nominated for Judge of the Charlestown District court....A call has been issued for a meeting of the Republican National committee at Washington on the 12th of December. Many of Ben Butler’s friends bemoan their confidence in his election. A man in Lowell mortgaged a house to raise .$17,000, and lost it all in bets. One enthusiast in Boston and several in Essex county lost their homes, and a milkman in Stoneham wagered his route. A conductor on the Fitchburg road won SB,OOO on Robinson... .Senator Mahone’s son was fined sls. at Petersburg, Va., for drawing a pistol at the polls on election day. Washington telegram to Chicago Tribune: A member of the administration

6aid to-day: “Chester A. Arthur is a candidate for Presidential nomination. I know it, and I do fiot know that there is any necessity for keeping quiet about it any longer, and I think that before long the party will have no doubt that he is a candidate. The result of the election in New York has, perhaps, made it proper that the candidacy should be avowed. I think that Gen. Arthur is the man to carry New York, and that from present appearances he will convince the patty leaders that he is the man.”;. . . Ex-Speaker Keifer, says a Washington correspondent, is said to be sounding the Republicans as to the complimentary nomination for the Speakership. Under ordinary circumstances the nomination would go to the ex-Speaker as a matter of course; but some Republican leaders attribute the blunders of the late Congress in great measure to Keifer, and do not feel willing, by giving him the Speakership nomination, to seem to assume any responsibility. The persons mentioned as likely to be proposed instead of Keifer are Kasson and Hiscock. Mr. Carlisle, while quite hopeful, is by no means confident of success in the Speakership contest, Mr. Randall’s friends are working actively in the interest of their candidate and under his instructions, it is believed that in the event of Carlisle's failing to get a majority in the caucus hissupporters will unite with the supporters of Mr, Cox to defeat the Philadelphia candidate. Mr, Eaton, of Connecticut, is looked upon as a promising compromise candidate.

GENERAL. Gen. Grant has written to Fitz John Porter, saying Porter’s simple restoration to his rank in the army would not be adequate reparation for the wrongs he has suffered. The ex-President hopes Congress will vindicate Porter, and that the public will also become satisfied of his innocence.. . .The safe in Darling's jewelry store at Simcoe, Ontario, blown open and robbed of watches and jewelry valued at $12,000.. ..The steamer 'WlsconsJa landed at Kew*¥ork converts front Great Britain and Scandinavia. Gen. James R. Carnahan, Adjutant General of Indiana, addressed a letter to the Secretary of War proposing a national encampment of State troops be held in Washington next May.

The Northern Pacific syndicate is now sure of authority from the company for the issue of the new second mortgage loan. The suits of the “kickers” are still pending, however, and promise to occasion no inconsiderable’ delay... .A duel with swords was fought at Chepultepec, Mexico, by Degheest, of the National bank, and Olivier, a French merchant. The former was seriously wounded* and the latter was killed.*... An excursion party representing $60,000,000 of Mexican capital left Chihuahua last week for a trip to Chicago, to establish closer commercial relations... .Senator Biair, Chairman of the Committee on Education, is responsible for the statement that the recent Investigation has resulted In a good deal of valuable Information upon the subjects inquired into. About 200 witnesses have bepri already examined. The committee now goes to the South.

It is believed that the plan for a standard of railroad time will go for naught. The Illinois Central railway repudiates It and other companies show great weakness on the subject... .Great excitement exists in Jamaica, where the people threaten to follow the example pf the American people and throw off the English yoke. The celebrations in honor of the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther were characterized by spectacles throughout the Christian world, and especially in Germany, Great Britain and the United States. In Berlin 80,000 school-chil-dren, in fifty-three divisions, headed bybands of music, marched to the churches and did honor to the memory of the greit leader of the Reformation. Special services were held in three hundred churches in London. In Milwaukee the anniversary services attracted 14,000 persons to the Exposition building, the choir comprising 500, voices, and at C hicago a praise service at Battery D Armory was attended by 12,000 German citizens. “ r ■T- FOREIGN. Donald proprietor of the steamship line between London and the Cape of Good Hope, refuses to bring one of O’Donnei’s principal witnesses, named MoHardy, to London, unless he is paid SI,BOO. Currie had previously contracted to bring five other witnesses for $1,200. This la alleged To.-be a. part of a plot to insure the conviction of Carey's slayer.... Bin ns, the new English executioner, per*

formed his first official “job" satisfactorily, hanging Harry Powell, In Wandsworth Jad with neatness anddispateh... .The effects ot deceased hangman, were sold at auction at London. The bidding was active and at times exciting, special desire being shown to possess the ropes used in executing criminals. Prime Minister Ferry has announced that he will ask for no more troops for the TonqHin expedition, as he is confident Admiral Courbet can accomplish his ends with his present force Tne balk-ling billiard contest between Schaefer and Vignaux will begin at Paris Nov. 26. Schaefer, who won the toss, selected an American table. - ■>_