Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Patrick "William O’Brien, an Irish giant, and Christina D. Dunz, a German giantess, were made one at Pittsburgh the other day. In their present united state they have a combined height of fifteen feet three inches, and balance 540 pounds avoirdupois. Among the curious incidents of the ceremony was a wedding-cake nine feet in circumference, a ring weighing seventeen pennyweights, and a loaf of bread five feet 10ng.... t>n Pennsylvania soil, opposite Trenton, N. X, James Golden and Patrick Scullian fought aixtv-five rounds in two hours, both men being severely punished. Scullian was declared the victor on a f0u1... .G. M. D. Little & Co., dealers in canned goods at New York, have failed. Their debts aggregate SIOO,OOO. Stickney & Poor’s four-story brick spice mill at Charlestown Neck, Mass., was burned. Loss, $80,000: insurance, $64,000. John Chisholm was hanged at Newark, N. J., for killing his wife. The relatives of Chisholm were given his body on executing bonds that his funeral should be a private 0ne....H0n. John McKeon, United States District Attorney for Southern New York, is dead. Henry A. Slater, mate of the bark Northern Light, was taken from the hold of that craft at New York and taken before a Commissioner, charged with mutiny and attempted murder. Slater had been confined in a space which only admitted of a sitting posture for fifty-three days, was fed on maggoty buiscuits and was often left for days without water. After eating a hearty meal the man became delirious and is in a precarious condition.... Bernard Boland, who was sent to the Massachusetts penitentiary for life, on conviction Of murder, has been pardoned because of the discovery that the statutes will not permit a loy to be sent to State prison... .Mary O’Connor, who last year was employed in a mill in Philadelphia, leaped from a window during a fire, apd was permanently disable-1. She had just obtained a verdict for $10,00(1 damages. Details of a terrible human butchery comes from Laconia, N. H. Thomas Samon, * cook by trade, came to the house of James Buddy, a laborer, to board, bringing with him a heavy trunk. During the night he got up and killed Ruddy and a litt'e child with a hatchet, and assaulted Mrs. Ruddy with the same weapon. Thinking he had murdered her also, he saturated the _ bodies with kerosene, set them on fire, and escaped. Mrs. Ruddy alarmed the neighbors, who extinguished the lire, and, on Samoa’s room being searched, his trunk was found to contain the mangled remains of a Mrs. Ford, with whom he had been boarding. The fiend was arrested Near Roseland, N. J., a girl named Ihrete Jane Paullin was murdered in some underbrush with a razor, after having been assaulted, There is not the slightest e’ew to the perpetrator... .The Rev. William Mitchell, pastor of the Wtsiboro (Mass.) Congregational chmch, was arrested for stealing books. He offered SI,OOO to keep the matter quiet#... A train on the Central Vermont road demolished a wagon at Lanesville, killing four persons Burglars exploded the Pottsville (Pa. ) Postoffice safe and carried off $5,000. THE WEST. Creeks in Fredericktown and Piedmont,' in Southeastern Missouri, swelled by heavy rains, overflowed and swept away hnany dwellings. Two wouirn and three children were drowned. Gen. Augustus C. Dodge, one of the pioneers of lowa, died at his home in Burlington, where he; had resided since 1838, aged 71 years. The deceased was born in St. Genevieve county, Mo., in 1812, and was ta son of Gov. Dodge, of Wisconsin. Be was elected a Delegate in Congressfrom Jowa on the organization of the Territory, and served in that bodv three consecutive terms as Delegate and R?presentative. He Was elected to the United States Senate in 1848 and served in that body till 1855. He was appointed Minister to Spain by President Pierce, and served in that 'position till 1858. He was several times elected Mayor of Burlington..... A verdict has been returned by the Coroner's jury which has been investigating the disastrous collision on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, near Streator, 111. The jury find that the accident was due chiefly to the gross carelessness of ■William H. Doyle, the conductor, and Henry ,Young, engineer of the freight train, which was running at an excessive rate of speed. Another cause, as found by the jury, was the indiscretion of George Alexander, Superintendent, A. C. Miller, train-dispatcher, and Daniel Wedge, the local yardmaster, in Bending out a heavily-loaded train with defective brakes....A fire at Dixon, Cal-., destroyed the business part of the town., ■ The losses are reported at $250,000. ‘ The murder of Byron Sibley, a young telegraph ’Operator, at Marshall, Mich., another to the already long list of remarkable crimes of the day. Sibley, who was a, great favorite among the young people, was ordered to leave town by a husband who believed himself injured. The young man found it impracticable to romply, and made ,an appointment with someone unknown. At the meeting which followed the young man was killed by gunshot and left in the street. So much of the tragedy is known that the homicide cannot, and probably does not. hope to escape public attention or correctional procedure. (

Jhbee persons—two architects and a contractor —are by name charged with responsibility for the disaster at Madison, Wis. The Coroner's jury, by careful iteration, seem to hold that the building' was only in danger of collapse during erection, and tnat, had it lasted until complete, it would probably have possessed strength enough to thereafter stand alone. The two architects are blamed for their bad plans. The contractor is reprehended for not mending a pier when it gave evidence of weakness.,.. A Milwaukee telegram says that “ the propeller Manistee, which was last heard from at Ashland, on Lake Superior, is believed to have gone down in the Storm of Nov. 16. with twenty-flve persons on board. The tug Maythera found part of her cabin near Ontonagon. The Manistee was owned by Leopold if Austrian, of Chicago."....Corn in Kansas is said tote greatly imperiled by wet weather. At some points it will not be in condition to crib for weeks to come, and may (be rendered entirely unfit for shipping.... Ex-Senator George E. Spencer, of Alabama, was arrested at Austin, Nev., by order of Attorney General Brewster, for contempt of court in not appearing in the star-route cases. Horatio G. Billings, a veteran lumbermerchant of Chicago, has been-compelled to suspend payment on debts of >IOO.OOO. .. ..Flames destroyed a portion of the New Albany (Ind.) cotton and woolen mills, causing a loss of $140,003. Fire at Lima, Ohio, destroyed a livery stable, five barns, a bowling alley, and many outbuildings.... Heavy rains at Indianapolis flooded the northwestern quartorof that City, the damage aggregating $200,000. Water was three feet deep in Hickson's lumber-yard, and the railway tracks east of the Union depot were Submerged. Miss Emma Boxd ( of Taylorville, 111., who was growing nervous from fears of abduction, has been p’aced- by her paients in a Secure retreat. Hi t alleged assailants will be tried at Hillsboro in a few days. The trial of Montgomery, Clements

and Pettis, for the terrible outrage upon Miss Emma Bond, has beep set for trial in the Montgomery county. (Ill.) Circuit court Dec. 10. Miss Bond has greatly improved in health, but grows more nervous as the Qme for the trial approaches Bobbers entered the farm-house of James Crouch, near Jackson, Mich. The farmer, his daughter, her , husband, and a man from Pennsylvania, were smothered with chloroform, and killed with firearms. The visitor had displayed many thousands of dollars in Jackson, and had boasted that he meant to buy the best cattle in that region. Crouch had about $50,060 in the house, which was secured by the robbers. Two persons on the upper floor of the house were spared—a colored boy and a hired girl. They probably Heard the robbers, but dared make no noise. The house was seemingly guarded on the outside while the biitchery went on within.*..The propeller H. J. Jewett, loaded with' a cargo of merchandise valued at $50,000, was stranded on the rocks near Sand Beach, Mich., on Lake Huron. The boat is worth $250,000 A dispatch from Port Huron. Mich., says: “Of all the terrible sufferings that men have had from the effects of the recent storm, the crew of the barge lowa, now ashore near Gove island, have suffered the most. Capt. Williams is badly frozen, and is now lying in a small, dirty little fish-shanty awaiting death to relieve his sufferings, without the necessary food and medical aid. Others of the crew have their hands, feet, ears and other exposed parts of their bodies frozen. The wife and two children of Capt. Williams perished.” W. H. H. Burns, father of the murdered Zora, went to Lincoln. Hl., last week, tz> consult, as la Ing —iiisdaughter'stakingoff. Suspieioiis were aroused that mischief was meant toward Carpenter, but the latter shows no fear, and is alleged to be paying detectives large sums to secure clew’s. Public feeling is not changed, and the officials still believe that Carpenter is the guilty man.... At Marshall, Mich., the death of Byron M. Sibley, wh/b would have created a great sensation in that region but for the overshadowing character of the fourfold murder at Jackson, has resolved into a putative suicide.... .Masked burglars entered the house of Horace Alien) at Newton Falls. Ohio, and, after binding the Inmates, secured property valued at $711,000... .The attempt to reorganize the iron corporation at Youngstown, Ohio, known as Brown. Bonnell & Co., has failed... .Frank James, now in jail at Independence, Mo., is said to be dying of consumption. Messrs. Bates & Barron’s new play of.'Southern mountain life, “A Mountain Pink,” is the attraction at McVicker's theater, Chicago, this week. The cast includes Miss Louise Sylvester, Frank E. Aiken, Harry Hawk, Barry Maxwell. T. J. Langdon, .1. .J. Holland, L. P. Hicks, Harry Stoddard, Helen Sedgwick, Genevieve Rogers and Marie Lear. Followingthis will come a two w eeks’ engagement of John Stetson’s traveling company in “Pique” and “Divorce,’' thecast incTutHng Ml«s Sam. Jewett, Mr. -John Jack, and other well-known names. Walter S. Haines, a Chicago chemist. reports himself unable to discover traces of narcotic drugs in the stomach of the murdered Zora Burns. A dispatch from Lincoln. 111., says: “Since Carpenter was released tn bail expectation hasbeen direetedto the report of the Chicago chemist making an analysis of the internal organs of the late Zora Burns. The hope of discoveries from that quarter has proved delusive. Had the report been tte the effect that narcotics had be?n used, much of the suspicion would have been directly in another channel. But as the case now stands, public opinion here holds that Carpenter is under a still darker cloud. Since his release from JarTfie has said tnathe is as innocent as a babe unborn, but his refusal to prove this by testimony or even a statement, creates sentiment against him.’’ As an East-bound Southern Pacific passenger train passed a po'nt thirteen miles east of Duning, N. M., it was stopper! by a i party of seven cowboys, who opened fire on ■ the train About twenty shots w ere tired and Webster, the engineer, was killed. The robbers removed a plate and spread the rails, throw nL;the engine, mail-car, one coach, and the front end of a sleeper ir.im the track. The robbers hung around the track | until night and then lo"t. takI ing about $7Ol, from the express-car.... I Miss Hill, the alleged wife of Senator Sharon, and her attorney, have been indicted at S.in Francisco for foig ry. perjury and conspiracy. .. ..A company of the Third United State s infantry and the Marquette Chasseiirs have been sent to Iron mountain, Mich., to I prevent the destruction of pr< perty by striking miners. , THE SOUTH, A sub-committee of the Committee of Forty appointed to investigate the Danville (Va.J riot of the 3d qf November, reports that the negroes were the aggressors: that the election was free and fair, nnd that the colored citizens of Danville abstained from voting under advice of their party | leaders. A tornado passed over Arkansas and Southern Missouri, going northwestward, and reached as far north as Carmi, 111. At Melbourne. Ark., the funnel ruined many houses. The home of the Sheriff was demolished and the family buried in the debris, the Sheriff being killed and six people wounded. ~. .The Mississippi Valley bank of Vicksburg, Miss., has made an assignment. - tlie village of La Crosse, Ark. Onl'v six houses are left. Three persons'were killed and several were seriously injured. Andy Taylor, the last of the three brothers who became famous in the criminal annals of Tennessee, was hanged at Loudon, in that State, in the presence of 300 invited guests. He died as he had lived—a brutal, defiant villain. While on a train going from the Knoxville jail to Loudon, to meet his doom, the desperado slipped a revolver but of a guard’s pocket and got the muzzle to the head of the Sheriff. Mistaking the weapon for a self-cocker, he lost time and was knock® 1 down before he could raise the hammer. The rescue Of ’the elder Taylor, by his two brothers, involving the assassination of a Sheriff and the capture of a train with 100 passengers, the death of the two elder Taylors, and the killing of still another Sheriff, are matters of quite recent, but highly remarkable, h'story.

Mr. Keuffll and clerk were murdered n Keuffe's s tore at Feodor, Texas, by robbers, who obtained only $5.....An aged couple named King, living on a farm near Hickman, Ky., were killed with guns and knives, and the house robbed of $2,000.... A. J. Leo, a member of the Texas Legislature, died from a fly-bite in the face. A Little Rock dispatch says the trial in Howard county, Ark., of the colored rioters indicted for murdering Wyatt several months ago has just ended. Three of them have been sentenced to be hanged and twentynine to terms of imprisonment ranging frdm five to eighteen years. WASHINGTON; George Washington, a colored waiter in a restaurant at the National cap ital, recently assaulted a policeman with a shoe-knife. While on trial, the other day, for the offense, he stated that he mistook the officer for a medical student seeking hjs corpse, and said he- never entered a drug store without clinging tt> the counter, for fear of trap-d00r5.... President Arthur has appointed John R. Tanner, United States Marshal for the Southern district of Illinois. No more appropriations are to be asked by the Department of Agriculture for the purpose of making experiments in the production of sorghum-sugar; but instead the Commissioner will recommend that SI,OOO be allotted to each State for the pirreh asc Or lease of land on which sorghum is to be planted, with the hope of securing valua jlu

information as to thd climatic conditions of its growth Robert Murray has been appointed Surgeon General of the United States army. —_ ■- ■ - • Representative Cassidy, of Alabama, will introduce a bill early in the session providing for a record of marriages! in Utah and for the disfranchisement of women in the Territory... .President Arthur has appointed Lawrence Weldon, of Bloomington, 111., to fill the vacancy on the Court of Claims. ... . Sergt. Mason, Who was sent to prison for an attempt to kill Guiteau, has been pardoned by president Arthur. POLITICAL. The Congressional election to fill the vacancy in the First North Carolina district, caused by Mr. Pool’s death, resulted In the choice of Thomas G. Skinner, Democrat “Democratic Senators say that they will place no obstruction in the way of reorganization of the Senate. Senator Edmunds is quoted as saying that the Republicans will reorganize the Senate, and that Mahone will be treated as a Republican Senator and given the same consideration as any other Republican but no more, and that no special concessions will be made to him with regard to the Secretary of the Senate.” So telegraphs the‘Wa’shington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. A tariff-reform mass meeting in New York was presided over by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who pronounced the protective system terribly oppressive to tire poor men of the country. The main ack dresses were by David A. Wells ignd Henry' Watterson. Gen. Bosecran's has set on foot a scheme to organize the llemoeratic voters of the country in small groups and grand armies, with a chief for each division, and to collect 20 cents per year from every voter, giving the campaign committee an annual income of $1.500,000. GENERAL A dispatch from St. Johns, Newfound hind. says; -A hurricane from the north, which blew over the Newfoundland coast for three days, has worked terrible destruction to marine We and j roperty. The coast is str e .vn with the debris of wrecked vessels, and many dead bodies have been wa-hed ashore. His believe! that not less than fifty craft succumbed to the terrible blast, and tire totally lost, while the loss of life will reach, probably. sixty or seventy souls, it was ore of the worst gales ever experienced on the coast." For a number of years Brisco Sanchez, a famous Mexican brigand, has defied the law and terrorized the unprotected inhabitants. A few days ago he and his band were surrounded near Chianita, in Puebla. After a desperate resistance the- body of Sanchev wasJfound riddled with bullets, and his fonowers killed, although several were severely wounded, . The boilers o’ the tug Erie Belle exploded at Kincardine, Ontario, tearing the boat to atoms, killing four men and blowing eight others into the lake, whence they were rescued,... .Assignment has been made by Michels, Friedlander & Co.. of San Francisco and New. York, dealers in furnishing goods. Their liabilities are placed at $400,000 and their assets at $659,000. They have done business for thirty years, with an enviable record. Sharples’JSons & Co., of Quebec., lumber dealers, have asked an extension on liabilities of S7OO 000. The failures are announced of J. C. Farr, a lumber dealer of Hoboken',- N. J.. who owes $100,00). - and Of 877 Rothschild, a jeweler at Memphis, Tenn. A colored baby, belonging to a teacher in the {Southern States, has won tlie A ale cup for the class of 1881... .The failures in the United- States, for the week ending Nov. 21, according to the gospel of BrailHtieet’r, numbejied 2!8, which figure is 113 larger than during a November week in the hight of the Loom of 1881. All the railroads centering at Chicago. with the solitary exception of the Michigan Central, are runningtheir trains on tlie standard time—that of the ninetieth meridian. FOREIGN. In opening the Prussian Diet, Von Putkamer, Minister of the Interior, said the financial situation showed improvements, aijd stated the estimates of receipts and expenses for 1884-85 were placed respectively at 1,112,100,000 marks. A bill taxing incomes 1 from property and for the purchase of railtoads by the State wUlbe presented... .Poole, the Irish invincible, on a second trial, has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to death,._.. Chatles W. Siemens, the scientist and electrician, died in London from rupture of the heart. Dispatches from Cairo, Egypt, bring the intelligence that the army of Hidks Pasha, which left Khartoum, in Southern Egypt, in September, to punisn El Mahdi, the Falsa Prophet, instead of annihilating the forces pf that fanatic, as was reported, has been annihilated by them, only one person escaping to tell the story. The battle took place at El Obeid, a town in Kordofan, about 150 miles southeast of Khartoum, and within Fgyptiun territory. -It is said to have lasted t A l '£&4v ß - The. taree of ,Hwk^Ji«>i numbered 25,000 men, there being ten English officers in the command, was well armed, but It was overcome by superior numbers, though armed only with spears and swortis: The number of the palse Prophet’s army is stated at 300,000... .James Russell Lowell.. United Stalos minister to England, has been chosen Rector of the Scottish Univer’sityof St. Andrew’s, defeating a member of the British Parliament by 18 votes.... Following an Italian custom the brigands who captured the Duke of Cast lemon te have been paid $30,000 ransom... .Morris Ranger, the Liverpool cotton king, had unsecured liabilities of £BOO,OOO and assets £9,000. The Spanish Military Republican society threatens to inaugurate a revolution if the Government does not pass the Universal Suffrage bill at the next Parliamentary Session.

Edward Wolf, a Socialist, was arrested at Loudon for having infernal machines and explosive's in his residence, with which, it is alleged, he intended to destroy the German Embassy. Among his documents was a threatening letter to Count. Von Munster, the German Embassador.... The Nihilist organ stages, political prisoners in the Peter and Paul fortress, both men and women, are driven to insanity by barbarous treatment, and often kill themselves... .The Chinese Ambassador at Paris informed the British Foreign Secretary that war between France and China is certain. El Mahdi’s annihilation of the Egyptian army under Hicks Pasha has again brought the eastern question into a prominence which dwarfs even the importance of the Franco-Chinese difficulty. Mr. Gladstone's Government has receded from the idea of withdrawing the British fqrces from Egypt; and -has instructed Gen. Stf Evelyn Wood, the commander of the English forces there, that he may, in the event of El Mahdi's troops advaneing down the valley of the Nile, push forward his troops as far as Syrne, but no farther. This dees not satisfy the Egyptian Government, for the Khedive has informed. Gen. Wood and Sir Evelyn Baring,that Egypt will not consent to the abandonment of the Soudan to the False Prophet, and that if England will not undertake Its reconquest the Egyptian Government may be forced to demand the aid of other European Governments to accomplish that end. A still more singular phase of the situation is that France, which refused to act with England against Arabi Pasha, is said to be intriguing to re-establish the dual control, of France and England in Egyptian aflairs.... 1 The Chinese attacked Haid Zuong on the 11th, but were repulsed after seven hours’

fighting. The French lost twelve killed and wounded, and the hull of their gunboat »a» pierced in many places. The Chinese loss was heavy....A l-'rench man-of-war bombarded the unfortified town of Vohent'ar. on the north coast of Madagascar, without giving notice. Five British subjects were killled and much property belonging’to' neutrals destroyed.... A grand military review was held at Madrid in honor of the Crown Prince of Germany. Troops to the number of 15,000 were reviewed by King Alfonso and the German Crown Prince... .Orders have been issued postponing " the evacuation of Cairo by British troops.... Lord Overstone, who died last week in England. left £20,000,000 to his only daughter, the wife of Col. Lloyd Lindsay.