Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

the east. Db. J. Marion Sims, a sturgeon whose is world-wide, died suddenly at his residenoe in New York, in the 71st year ot his age Dr. Stans earn© from South Carolina, and graduated in medicine ini Philadelphia, From 1836 to 1863 he practiced in Montgomery, Ata He then located in New York. In Europe Dr. Sims was greeted in many places as one pf the greatest surgical discoverers and operators of the age. The French Government conferred upon him the order of Knight of the Legion Of Honor. He was subsequently decorated by the Belgian, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Governments for his great discoveries in surgery. Throughout the world he was considered the father of gynecology....J. B. Creighton, an Admiral in the United States navy, died at Morristown, N. J., from an affection of the heart.... William M. Wilson & Co., druggists at Philadelphia for the past twenty-four years, have suspended. Flames wiped out Stockwell’a immense pcper-stock warehouse on Ann street, New York, involving a loss of $150,000.... Gen. Grant has had made at Hartford, for Mikado of Japan, guns modeled after the' Gardiner patent, which have been fired at the rate of 700 shots per minute. At Prospect Park, the horse Frank, With J, O. Nay, as running mate, defeated H. B. Winship, with Hiram Bruce as mate, in the best time on record—2; 08)4- Winship took the second heat in 2:10*4. The sawmill of Mr. Maxwell, in Jackaon Township, Lycoming county, Pa., was destroyed by the explosion of a boiler. Three employes were killed and four seriously hurt.... Pittsburgh iron manufacturers are dissatisfied with the condition oYbuslness, as, notwithstanding the low prices prevailing, orders are rapidly falling off. -r—' — Col. Huguley, of Gov. Butler’s staff, has entered suit for libel, at Boston, against Collector A. W. Beard, claimed to be uttered in recent political speeches. Damages are laid at $25,000. It is stated ex-Col-lector Simmons will also sue Beard for libel. ....An iron company at Pottstown, Pa,, employing several hundred men, announces a reduction of 10 per cent. In wages, and other mills ere expected to take similar action....An unknown man murdered two women named Maybee at Brookville, Long Island, and robbed their premises of two gol4> watches and SIOO in money.

THE WEST. ' An atrocious murder is reported by telegraph from Albany, Ore. Mr. Finlayson, an old resident near there, left his farmhouse, during an absence of a couple of days, In charge of his wife, an elderly lady, and a grandson named Charles Benson Finlavson, 16 years of age. When he returned he found In the house the dead and mutilated body of his wife, and the boy was missing. By the Bide of the corpse lay a knife and a bloody ax, With which she had been literally chopped to death, and the desks and bureaus in the rooms had been ransacked and robbed of valuables. The murder was no doubt committed by the grandson.... Flames originating in a lumber pile at Oshkosh, Wis., burned with great fury for six hours, destroying two mills and several residences, the losses aggregating 8150,000. Engines were sent from Milwaukee, Menasha, Neenah and Fond du Lac..,.,The iron-ore receipts at Cleveland this season were 663,807 tons, against 883,048 tons last year; and the shipments aggregated 644,331 tons, while In 1882 they were -678,735 tons..—.. A loss of 8150,000 was caused by fire and water in the five-story building at 80 to 84 Michigan avenue, Chicago, owned and occupied by S. D. Kimbark, dealer in carriages and wagons... .The dry goods store of Mandel Brothers, Was damaged by fire to the extent of $35,000 ~ .Being unwilling to make rails at a loss, the steel-works of the Cleveland Rolling-Mill company will close at the end of November, but the wire-mills will remain in operation. - : ' Notwithstanding tbe cold weather Ct last week, the Fat Stock show at Chicago proved a great success. It is said by the enthusiastic that the exposition equaled the celebrated Smitbfield show which has been running in England for jelghty years. A terrible railway catastrophe ocourred near Streator, 111. The incoming noon passenger train on the Burlington road> at Otter creek, two and one-half miles from town, had been flagged by a man from a freight that had stuck on the grade, this side of the creek, add had stopped just by the north bridge. Another freight was following close behind the passenger. A flagman went back, but he had not gone far before the train was upon him. The grade is very heavy, and before the freight could be stopped it plunged into the rear coach of the passenger train, crushing the car into fragments. A scene of wild confusion ensued. Four of the passengers were kitted outright, while the cries of the wounded cou’d be heard on all sides. Two other passengers died shortly after of their injuries, and ninewereJmjflly wounded. sbme"«tafly. The lowimotlve exploded after penetrating the cars, half the victims Leing scalded to death. A passenger. who was one of the slightly injured, says it all happened so quickly that he could not describe it. There was a crash, the csr filled with steam, and then in a few moments all W 93 still. He did not hear any cry from the two women who were killed. They were in the seat in front of him. He found them breathing their last. Pearre, one of the men killed,

was sitting just behind him. If it had been a flash of lightning that struek them It could have oome more suddenly.... A train conveying an excursion party from Minneapolis to Southern California was wrecked near Jamesport, Mo., and seven persons were seriously injured. A dispatch from Norway, Mich., •ays: “Nearly 1,000 iron miners are on a strike here. They formed a procession, secured a band and some flags and paraded the streets until thoroughly chilled. They then made a demand upon the Superintendent of the Luding'On mine for an advance in wages, and assaulted and threatened him until he complied. The chief .oil cer of the Chapin mine took a train for Milwaukee, and the strikers Bay they will stop the pumps unless they aie given more wages. The Sheriff has been sent for, and militia will probably be called out.” * Dr. J. H. Finley and Ed. Smith, injured in the railroad disaster near Streator, HI., are dead, making eight victims in all. The balauce of the wounded are on the road to recovery. The wrecked ccaeh was literally ■niintered to pieces, and the only wonder is that any one could have been in there and pome out alive. The engine drove more than half way through the car, crushing the floor into the smallest possible fragments. All around lay portioi 8, of the wreck —wheels, cars, fragments of doors—all attesting the feariul force of the •hock. Several pieces of skin, with nails attached, from scalded, shriveled bands, were picked up. The Jury of inquest found that the coming train could not have been more than *OO feet away, ap it came down from the north. The passenger train had been driven forward perhaps 200 feet by the lorce of the collision. Conductor Mat Kennedy, of the fated passenger train, gave a straightforward account of the accident.. He was flagged about forty rods from v here the accident occurred. When the train slacked up for the flagman, Conductor Kennedy went to the engine to And out what the obstruction was. The train ran along slowiy until it had approached within ten car-lengths of the gravel train to front, which the switch-engine was unable to toovn. Seeing this, he rap to' the

rear end of his tratn and ordered his brakeman to flag the freight which he knew to be behind him. The brakeman got the flag, but had gone but about four ear-lengths, when the freight came crashing down the grade, and the engiue was buried itt the passenger coach. The freight yr as a wild train and should not have run faster than eighteen miles an hour, and should not have been closer than five minutes behind the passenger, which It. was not. Sullivan, tlie pugilist, likes nothing better than to amuse himself with a darky. It has transpired that he met his match the other night, in the Tremont hotise bar-room in Chicago. He picked up a colored waiter at the counter and laid him upon the floor, but lp the attempt to have further fun with him was himself thrown upon his shoulders on the tiles. The negro, when he stopped to realize what a feat he had accomplished, went out of doors like a flash.... Nelling, the murderer of Ada Atkinson, was taken from the Jail at Fowler, Ind., by 300 masked men, and taken to Oxford and hanged. ... .A Mormon elder passed through Kansas City with seventy-eight proselytes from the Southern Stater.

THE SOUTH. James Mclntyre, a turfman, who died at Paris, Ky.', left $20,000 to a colored mistress and her children.... Andrew McLean, said to be 116 years old, was wedded to Mrs. Martha Wilson, a widow of 27 years at Blithwood, S. C... .The boilers of Pondely's sugarhouse at Bayou Boenff, La., exploded, blowtheee men to pieces. At Vicksburg, Miss., D. R. Allen, manager of the Joliu T. Ward combination, wasshot ana instantly killed in the theater by Frank E. Starks, the advance agent of the company. The killing, accord nig to the testimony elicited before the Coroner’s jury, was unprovoked and without any mitigating circumstances. The murderer was arrested and is now in jail... .Aztec, a famous running horse, valued at $20,000, died of lung fever at Lexington, Ky. He was owned jy Powers & Son, of Decatur, Illi. At a wedding in Currituck, N. C., liquor at the supper table led to a difficulty In which several guests participated. Six shots were fired In one minute, clearing the room. The groom’s best man was killed, and another groomsman received a mortal wound. The corpse was removed to an upper room, and the young married couple sat up all night with the disabled man. All the buildings of the west side of the public square at Rusk, Texas, burned. The loss is $60,000.....The wife of John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio road, died at Montebello, from injuries received by being thrown from her carriage. M. F. Jenkins, belonging to the most aristocratic family in Baltimore, has been arrested for passing forged checks at

the bank.... John H. Smith (colored) for murder was executed at Oakland. Md. In his speech from the trap he asked that contributions be made to support his little children. Perry Jelter, one of a gang of seven negroes who fired the plantation-house of their former master, was hanged at Union, S. C. Clement Taylor, a colored man, who recently died near Little Rock, Ark.; was born in North Carolina in 1773,and for many years was valued at SI,OOO. WASHINGTON. The annual report of Mr. Wyman, Treasurer of the United States, shows a total net revenue of $398,287,581, a decrease of $5,237,668. The only increase In the receipts wps from the sale of public lands. The condition of the Treasury and the operations thereof are set forth at great length. The Treasurer recommends that an appropriation be made to pay the express charges for worn and mutilated United States money, and for the distribution of fractional silver and minor coins. He also recommends the discontinuance of the 3-ceut pieces, and the compensation and mileage of.members of Congress be made by the disbursing officer instead of the Treasurer.

The latest rumor as to the financial portion of Secretary Folger’s report is that he will content himself with showing the urgent necessity of some legislation with respect to the future basis of banking, will present a summary of the various plans which have been submitted to him, and make no recommendations unless it is that the 1 per cent, tax on bank circulation be removed .... Secretary Folger has instructed the Collector at San Franeiseo, in case of suspected fraud in the importation of Chinese, to refuse them permission to land unless satisfactory evidence is produced, leaving injustice to be righted by writs of habeas corpus. The Light-House board recommends the creation of the Seventeenth district, from Lake Michigan and Green Bay, with headquarters at Milwaukee. A new lightstation at the latter city, where the lake is encroaching on the old one, demands an appropriation of $15,000. In the case of Lieut. Col. Morrow, President Arthur changed the sentence of dissmissal to suspension with half pay for one year, and a reduction in rank to the foot of the list.... Appointments by the President: John M. Langston, United States Charge d’Affaires at Santo Domingo: John W. Scott, lola Kang, Agent for the Indians of the Ponca,- Pawnee bb& Otoe Agency, Indian Territory; John M. Churoh, Postmaster at St. Louis, Mich. Secretary Folger has issued another call for 310,000,000 of 3 per cent, bonds. ” V POLITICAL.

Lynchburg, Ya., was illuminated the other night to celebrate Mahone’s defeat, and a great demonstration was held. The resolutions passed guarantee the negroes full justice, and condemn partisan reports of the Danville riot. Hereafter women will enjoy the right of unrestricted suffrage in Washington Territory, a law to that effect having passed the Territorial Legislature and received the signature of the Governor, Clinton A. Snowden, formerly of Chicago, who for a year has been managing editor of the Washington National Republican , has resigned to accept the position,i>f manager of the New York World, The most prominent candidates for Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives are John G. Thompson and ex-Con-gressman Leedom, , both of Ohio. It is thought that the one who receives most votes in the Ohio delegation will carry off the prize. In any case Ohio will be ahead, which is not unusual when an office is to be filled.

GENERAL. Several craft were lost in Chesapeake bay during the recent gale. ' The Captain and eight men of a sloop were drowned. Three coal-laden barges were lost in Long Island sound, and eight men perished. Off the Highland light, Boston harbor, the wind for more than twenty-four hours blew at the* rate of sixty miles an hour. A dispatch from New London, Ct., says the barges Ida, Dunderberg and Osprey were lost, and seven of the crews were drowned. A Providence (R. I.) telegram, says James' Island was strewn with wrecks, and twelve lives are known to have been lost. A Cleveland dispatch says the steamer Francis Smith, with 106 passengers on board is believed to have been lost in bake Huron. ' ; > The fine freight propeller H. C., Akely, valued at SIOO,OOO, went down in Lake Michigan, off Holland, Mich., during the recent severe blow. Capt. Stretch, the Mate. Steward and two firemen were lost, but twelve of the ore.w were rescued by the schooner Driver. The United States revenue steamer Michigan was driven

ashore at Erie, Pa., and badly damaged. A family of four persons, named Fetrault, were drowned in attempting to cross Mitchell’s bay, in Canada. Reports from Northern Maine report the storm as the most violent and destructive ever experienced ip that region. Many buildings were destroyed, several persons seriously injured, and millions of dollars’ worth of valuable timber in the forests destroyed. The damage in Oxford county alone, is estimated at $76,000, while the loss in the town of Bethel is upward of $200,000. Many cattle were burled in the ruins of the barns destroyed. Franklin county reports $50,000 damage. The region about Baltimore- was visited by another furious gale on tho 14th inst., increasing the destruction which resulted from the previous blow. On Chesapeake bay many vessels were wrecked and a number of lives lost. The oyster-boats and small schooners suffered severely. The recent gale on the lakes was the severest anp the most destructive of life and property experienced in a period of twenty years. It Is believed that when a full and accurate statement of the ruin wrought shall have been obtained It will be found that not less than fifty craft have been totally lost, and as many more badly damaged. The loss of life on the lakes will reach at least 100, and in the entire country fifty more. The property loss will mount Into the millions. In Maine alone the storm inflicted a loss of $1,000,000, largely In valuable timber. Reports of dam 1 age by the great blow continue to be flashed over the wires. Following are the last reported: Grain barge Milwaukee, with her Captain and five men, was lost on Lake Ontario. The propeller Fred Mercur, loaded with coal for Chicago, went ashore near Erie, and was scuttled to prevent pounding -on the —reeks. Her —crew were taken off by the life-saving service.... Tho tug Torrent put out from Port Huron and rescued the barge Merrimac, fifteen miles off the Canada shore. She was nearly a mass of Ice, and her Captain and erew had been without food or sleep for four days An unknown vessel, with her craw of eight, was lost on Lake Erie. f It is said Jay Gould’s recent visit ip the West meant the wrecking of the Wabash —not so much through Mr. Gould’s pilotage as through the real weakness of the road itself. Many persons believe that Gould will refuse to put up money enough to carry-the company over a crisis which will ensue upon the maturing of the next set of coupons.... The Union Pacific road reports gross earnings of $21,551,287 for the nine months ending with September.., .Dun’s report reckons the failures in the United States and Canada last week at 235, against 215 the week before. Judge Gresham, the Postmaster General, will come West on a health-seeking trip as soon as he has finished his annual report. . He suffers from the malaria peculiar to the Washington climate. The system of standard time went

into operation on the 19th of November, very generally throughout the United States. Fire losses: At Mount Yernon, HI., $40,000; Boston, Mass., $30,000: Vincennes, Ind., $40,000; Lawrenceburg, Ind., $15,000; Newcastle, Pa., $5P,000; Johnsonville, N. Y., $15,000; Sumter, S. G\, $40,000; Orleans, Ind., $17,000; Brattleboro, Vt., $25,000; Niles, Ohio, $15,000; Allentown, N. Y„ $25,000; Pittsburg, Pa., $20,000; Monroe, La., $30,000; Columbia, Miss., $100,000; Jackson, Miss., $45,000; Communipaw, N. J.. $125,000; the steamer Parish, at Natchez, Miss,, $250,000; at Harrodsburg, Ky.. $50,000; Chicago, 111., $25,000: Philadelphia, Pa., $150,000; Lake City. Minn., $15,000; Madison, Ind., $18,000; Nashua. N. H., $20,000; Belmore, Ohio, $35,000; Paterson, N. J.,*540,000. FOREIGN. Cardinal Manning 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 deathsfsom 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 Hobenlohe is on baa terms with the Vatican. The police at Birmingham, England, seized three cases of sheepskins Ailed with explosive machines. A loaded shell, weighing twelve pounds, was found in the roadway at Lambeth and removed to Woolwich arsenal Three Venetian girls, named Angel), belonging to a rich and influential family, committed suicide by taking poison, after having wreathed their mother’s tombstone with flowers. It is said that all three had grown melancholy from unrequited 10ve.....5t. Petersburg journals have been forbidden to discuss the probability of a war with Germany. London dispatch: “Preparations for O’Donnell's defense are well advanced. Roger A. Pryor had a long and satisfactory interview with the prisoner. Mclnerny, of o’DonneH’s counsel, has brought from Ireland a mass of evidence, and he feels confident that the verdict will not be willful murder. William J. Hoppin, Secretary of the American legation, in the absence of Minister Lowell, visited O’Donnell and formally ascertained the fact of his American citizenship.”... .Both the St. Petersburg and Berlin press are inclined to interpret the visit of De Giers, the Russian Secretary of State, to Germany as a token of complete accord between the two empires. Nihilism in Russia has resulted in two more tragedies, both culminating at St. Petersburg, and each having# woman for its victim. Both were hanged, one by the official executioner, the other by her own hand, evidently in full view of the fact that death awaited her in any case. The official victim was Sofia Woskrepensky, a young student. The suicide was a woman named Ossinsky, who had,*by her vehement, eloquent and reckless devotion to the principles of Nihilism made herself a leader among the terrorists of Little Russia and other southern provinces of the empire... .Germany will send an Envoy to Pekin to secure, if possible, a peaceful solution of the Tonquin difficulty.

" De Lesseps is again in England, arranging for the construction of a second Suez canal. It is said that the proposed agreement Includes a loan of £8,000,000 sterling from the British Government, and that it is intended to make the administration of the company 44 per cent. English and 56 per cent. French. The French send Chinese have not yet decided to go to war with one another, the Marquis Tseng continues to be interviewed, the Parisian journals continue to denounce the Marquis, and there are reports of disquieting ifews from Tonquln in the

French capital. It may be, however, that all will end peaceably. Both parties seem to be afraid to offer fight De Lesseps said at Liverpool that a second Suez canal could only bo built near to und parallel with the present one, and, when Unished, vessels going to the Red Sea could take one canal and those to the Mediterranean the other... .in Southern Russia the confflets between the peasants and the landlords call for the intervention of the military. Agrarian troubles are rife throughout Eastern Europe. The peasants are rebelling against the exactions of the qsurer and the rent-collector.... Eighteen persons were lost bn the British steamer Condor, which was wrecked in a gale off the coast of Holland. .'. .The members of tho Spanish Government deny that the visit of the German Crown Prince to Spain has any international significance.., .It is reported that the Vatican has agreed to appoint a Nuncio to the United States. Paris and the whole French nation have been thrown into a state of commotion by an attempt on the life of Prime Minister Ferry. 1 A young man, evidently a crunk, had made ropeatod attempts to obtain an interview with M. Ferry, but was met., with a refusal each time, and was finally ordered off. He made believe to go away, and finally slipped in behind seme visitors, and reached the library unobserved. The usher again ordered him to leave the building. On this the youth changed his tone, and said excitedly:

“I camfe to see M. Jules Ferry and kill him. As I cannot kill him I will kill you." Suiting the action to the word, he pulled out a revolver and placed the muzzle against the breast of M. Philibert. Very luckily, before he could fire, M. Philibert managed to oloae with him, and both rolled struggling on the floor. In a moment several officials and visitors threw themselves upon the youth, and, after considerable resistance, managed to disarm him. The young man then drew two pieces 01 paper from his pocket, which be quickly put Into his mouth and swallowed. He was taken to the pAlice station. The name of the wouldbe assassin is Carrieu. He is not insane, but a fanatic, and has been a constant attendant at anarchist gatherings.