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

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

In the midst of the hurricane which raged in-the East fire broke out in Shenandoah, Pa., which soon grew into a wide-spread conflagration. Two hundred and fifty families are homeless. The loss is about a million dollars. The Chief Burgess has issued an appeal for aid, reciting the needs of his people and the inopportiine coming of the Arctic wave.... Tho Supreme court of Pennsylvania has affirmed a judgment against the Pullman Palace-Car company by a passenger who was robbed while sleeping in a coach, holding that the company is bound to exercise reasonable care to protect its patrons At West Lebanon, Pa., Frank Samer, considered to be a crank , quarreled with his father and killed him, and then mortally shot his father’s housekeeper, Belle Kelly Natt Head, exGovernor of New Hampshire, died at Manchester, in that State, the other day. The clearing-house exchanges—sß93,3ol,s75 —show a falling off from the previous week of $213,975,218, and are 27.7 per cent, loss than for the corresponding week in 1882, It is Stated that the movement of general merchandise is “far below ordinary proportions,’’ thus accounting for the reduction ....As the wheat crop of Canada is believed to be at least 10,000,000 bushels short, the millers are organizing to secure the abolition of the duty on Imports of grain from the . United States. The funeral of Cyrus Sargent, a millionaire farmer, took place at, Bloomington, Wis., thirteen days after his death. A niece with a broken limb was brought from Massachusetts in her bed. Sums of money ranging from SSO to SI,OOO are constantly being discovered about his house and in tLe fields, and an old Bible proved to be a mine of wealth.... Hon. Andrew Proudfit, a leading Democratic politician of Madison, Wis., has just died, in his filth year. At Charleston, S. C., a fire-trap, in which eight women and one boy were employed, went down during the progress of a fair-sized conflagration. Three women were killed, one mortally wounded and four badly burned. The boy was the only occupant of the upper floor who escaped unhurt. He was caught in the arms of a spectator.... The town of Cisco, Tex,, with n population of about 2,000, has been nearly destroyed by fire, with a loss of $75,000... .Two brothers named Bailey were taken from the jail at Comanche, Tex., by a mob, and hanged to a tree. They were murderers and toughs of the worst kind. Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, claims eighty-three votes on the first ballot for Speaker, and hopes to triumph over Mr. Randall on the second ballot by a majority of eleven. The regular annual autumnal gale swept over the country on theHth'and 12tll <• November. It was of unusual violence, mounting in Some sections to the proportions of a genuine tropical hurricane, and proved very destructive to life and property on the great lakes. Upward of twenty vessels of all descriptions were wrecked, and’twentyflve or thirty lives are ltnowh to have been lost. Tbe tug Protection aud schooner Arab, . both of Chicago, went down in Luke Michigan, and every soul on board the two ill-fat; d craft, fifteen in number, perished. A number of vessels were blown ashore on Lake Erie, but no loss of lifts is reported. A peculiarly sad disaster occurred near Petoskey, Mich. During the blow, O. M. Chase. Superintendent of tne Michigan fish hatcheries, C. H. Brownell, his assistant, and George W. Armstrong, foreman of the Petoskey hatcheries, left Harbor Sprhms for Petoskey, in a Mackinaw sail-b Oat, the boat being manned by Moses Detwilor, a former Fish Inspector in Canada, bis two sons, Charles and George, and a nephew, George Detwiler, making seven in all. The boat oapsized a mile and a half from Petoskey, and all on board found a watery grave. The new docks at Petoskey were swept away by tho wind and waters. Near Harbor Springs, Mich., a sail boat capsized and three men wore drowned. A number of vessels went ashore on Lake Ontario, and somo of them will prove total wrecks. On Lake Huron the storm was more severe, if possible, than on the other Inland seas, and many vessels were beached and wrecked. Leaving inland waters, the tempest created havoa on shore as well, raging throughout Canada, New York and Pennsylvania, and pushing its conquests far along the shpres of the upper Atlantic. At Toronto it TS described as the fiercest storm on record, the wind attaining a velocity of two and a half miles a minute. The wharves were badly damaged, and a schooner sunk in the harbor. At Hastings and Bellville, iu Canada, structures were unroofed and trees blown down. Thunder and hail prevailed at the latter place; where, in Metropolitan ball, the salvation array held forth • a panic was caused by the rattling of the scenery by the wind, and in the rush down stairs many persons were hurt. : -