Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

COSHBESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Mr. Anthont, who has for a long time Deen on* sick bed, made his appearance in the Senate on the nth Inst., requiring assistance to reach the elevator. Every Senator rose as he was sworn in. Mr. Sherman presented a bill to encourage closer commercial relations with Mexico, Brazil, and thrfTentral South American republics. Mr. Ingalls offered a petition for pensions for ex-prisoners of war. At the executive 'Session Walter Q. Gresham was confirmed as Postmaster General. The President sent in a large batch of nominations, nearly all of them recess appointments. About 300 bills were introduced in the House, among them the following: By Mr. Lqcey, to establish a postal savings deposit as a branch of the Postoffice department; by Mr. Cutcheon, for the better protection of life and property on Lake Michigan, by the construction of a harbor of refuge: by Mr. Tuple, to abolish the duty on salt; by Mr. Muldrow, to enlarge the powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture; by Mr. Hatch, to establish a Bureau of Animal Industry and prevent the importation of diseased cattle and the spread of contagious diseases among domestic animals, and also to allow farmers and planters to sell leaf tobacco of their own'*productlon to other than manufacturers without a special tax: bv Mr. O'Neil, to prevent the adulteration of food and drugs ; by Mr. Burnes, to admit free of duty all grades of sugar; also for the relief of land-owners whose land is destroyed by any navigable river; by Mr. Slocum, a bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter; by Mr. Kelley, to further limit the coinage of silver dollars, and Mr. Smith, another to suspend the coinage; by Mr. Rosecrans, proposing a constitutional amendment suppressing polygamy; by Mr. McMillin, to make the trade dollar legal tender; Mr. Onry, to transfer the Indian bureau from the Interior to the War department, and for the admission of Arizona as a State; by. Mr. Raymond, to establish the territory of North Dakota; by Mr. Cairns, to admit Utah as a State; andbvMr. Hutchins, to provide for, the retirement of all legal tender notes of less than $5. Mr. Robinson, of New York, offered resolutions inquiring about the purchase of public lands byforeign noblemen, and asking whether Minister Lowell received the title of Lord Rector tn Great Britain. Ma. Van Wyck offered a resolution in the Senate, on the 12th inst., calling for information as to'the amount paid to special attorneys and detectives under this administration. A resolution was passed directing the Secretary of the Treasury to show under what provisions of law the reduction of the public debt has been effected. Mr. Wilson called up his joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution relating to the civil rights of citizens. The resolution proposes that the following article-amendment be numbered Art. 16: "Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to protect the citizens of tne United States in the exercise and enjoyment of their rights, privileges and immunities, and insure them the equal protection of the laws.” Mr. Wilson addressed the Senate in ■upport of the resolution, and, on his motion, it was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The House was not in session. Mr. Dolph introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 12th inst., to admit Washington Territory and a portion of Idaho as the State of Washington. Mr. Morrill presented a measure for a commission on the liquor traffic. A prolonged debate took place on tne report of thd tee on Rules. A resolution was adopted calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for information relative to the transfer of the Texas and Pacific land grant to the Southern Pacific road. Mr. Sawyer Introduced a bill to forfeit to a certain extent lands granted to Michigan to build a railroad from Ontonagon to the Wisconsin line, in order to protect the rights of persons holding proper government titles. The House was nqt in session. In the evening a caucus of Republicans was held for the purpose of nominating officers of the Senate. Gen. Anson G. McCook received 19 votes for Secretary, George Cl Gorham 13, and D. W. Ramsdell 3. McCook was then declared the nominee. Charles W. Johnson, of Minnesota, was selected for Chief Clerk; James R, Young, of Pennsylvania, as Executive Clerk; Rev. E. E. Huntley for Chaplain, and Cob W. P. Canaday as Sergeant-at-Arms. A joint resolution was introduced in the House, on the 14th inst-, by Mr. Hoblitzell, requesting the President to issue a proclamation for the commemoration of the centennial anniversary of- Washington’s surrender of his commission, Dec. 24. Mr. Horr asked leave to offer a resolution calling the attention of the President to the recent riots at Danville, Va.,but Mr. Morrison objected. Mr. Cox desired to introduce a joint resolution to repeal the test oath, but Mr. Horr objected. There was no session of the Senate on the 14th. THE EAST. A ball at the New York residence of Wm. H. Vanderbilt was the social event of the season. Two bands were in attendance. Delmonico served the supper at 12:30, and the cotillion began at 1:30 a. m. The decorations are described as being lavish? and beautiful. A Boston dispatch says the Gloucester fishing schooners Rutherford B. Hayes and Witch are now given up as lost, swelling the number of wrecked vessels to seven and the number of lives sacrificed this season to ninety-one... .Mrs. ex-Senator Chris.tiancy died at Brooklyn, N. Y., of Bright’s disease. Two negroes broke into a subsistence shanty in the midst of an Italian camp of railroad laborers, near Newburg, Pa. Upon this the Italian camp at tacked a negro camp from which the thieves had issued, and a battle followed. The Italians fought with shotguns and the negroes with clubs and stones. Four of the blacks were wondded, one fatally, and their side :. wm cosb pelted to abandon -the ground THE WEST. Fob several days a strange young man had been calling at the residence of Mrs. Garfield, seeking an Interview with the widow of the late President. He was well dressed, aristocratic in manner, and good-looking. He annoyed the Garfield family very much, anti said his name was George Washington, and that he was a distant relative of the Father of His Country. He claimed that it was all arranged that he was to marry Miss Molly Garfield, and that he came all the way from St. Louis for that purpose. The police took the matter in hand, and the crank disappeared Three days were consumed in selecting a jury for the trial of the assailants of Miss Emma Bond, ate Hillsboro, lU. Miss Bond fainted in the court-room and had to be propped up in an easy chair with pillows. San Francisco is convulsed over a sensational tragedy. Charles McLaughlin, a pioneer, President of the Central Gaslight company and a millionaire, ■ was shot and killed by Jerome B. Cox, a contractor. The history of the case is remarkable. Tne murderer had recovered 9150,000 judgment against McLaughlin no less than five times, butthe Supreme Court had in each instance reversed the decision of the lower courts. This so embittered Cox that he last spring tried to kill Justice McKinsley, of the Supreme Court, whom Cox held to account for the numerous backsets to his litigation. He demanded $40,000 in settlement of McLaughlin, and, being refused, shot McLaughlin three times. The victim -lived but thirty minutes Miss Emma Bond, in telling her sad story in * court-room at-Hillsboro, HL, positively indentified John C. Montgomery as one of her assailants. Before her testimony was finished she was attacked by hysteria and carried but by her mother and ulster.... JuUa Reese and George Bolles. the servants “employed by Jacob D. Crouch near Jackson, Mich., were arrested the other day for the butchery perpetrated on the night of Nov. 21. They were taken' before a Justice and remanded to jail to await examination Jan. 8. This charge was made by Daniel Holcomb. .. ..George Orr. a boy employed on the farm Of M. M. Trimble, near Paola, Kan., kiUed the aged couple and escaped with what money they had secrets*... . Vigilantes in the Niobrara Valley (QSPT recently lynched five , horse and thieve*. Four others, s&w in <4afl, if not punished by the law, will share the same fate.... Jrank James, the Missouri bandit, was released st Kansu City on $3,000 bail, but was immediately rearrested on the charge ot UUtoff jUMdt cashier at Gallatin, la X 866....

Hunter, who was recently arrested m Peoria in connection with the murder of Zora Burns, proves to be Thomas P. Russell, the eon of a respectable farmer in Macon county. 111. He was set at liberty at Lincoln, ana given a small sum of -money with which to leave town. '* Minneapolis re-ports the erection of 3,539 dwellings and 681 stores and factories during the year, which, with the improvements in progress, will require ovef $12?000,00(L... The fifth day of the trial at Hillsboro, 111., of the men charged with the outrage on Miss Emma Bofid was devoted chiefly to hearing the testimony of Lawrence Heinlein, an uncle of one of the parties indicted, in which he swore to several damaging admissions made by John C. Montgomery just after the crime. The opinion was freely expressed that Heinlein could tell more if he chose, and that ho had been induced by threats to withhold the most damning of the confessions made.to him.

Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence are booked for a two weeks’ engagement, covering the holidays, at McVicker’s theater, Chicago. The first week will be devoted to a new comedy entit’ed “Faets,” in which Mr. Florence, as Pinto Perkins, has created it character said to be a companion picture to his Hon. Bardwell Slot©. Mrs. Florence also has a character well suited to her talents. The second week these fine artists will be seen in the popular play of the “Mighty Dollar.” It has been definitly settled that the American Catholic Hierarchy will meet in Baltimore next November... .There were 249 failures in the United States last week, but 73 per cent, were those of traders with less than $5,000 capital. THE SOUTH. A dispatch from Austin, Tex., referring to the recent report that a suit is soon to be brought in the United States Court of Claims to Recover the value of slaves emancipated during the war says: “Gov. Ireland, Attorney General Templeton, and several prominent lawyers consulted by the reporter scout the idea that Texas has any morerelalm onjthe Federal Government than any other Southern State. They consider the scheme a very foolish one, and that if anybody is engaged in it, which is regarded as doubtful, it is for political purposes.” . Four quarrelsome persons refused to leave W. H. Fields’ still-house, on the Cumberland river, in Kentucky, when Fields shot all four, one dying instantly, another the next day, and the remaining two are mortally hurt. A Deputy Marshal and posse in Arkansas, who were watching a road for an outlaw. fired upon Judge Noisywater and three other Cherokees returning to their homes at night. One hundred buckshot penetrated the Judge’s body. A dispatch from Columbia, S. C., records the death of Mrs. Preston, the last surviving child of Gen. Wade Hampton, of Revolutionary fame... .Norris Bell, colored, was hanged in the jail at Macon, Ga., for the murder of his wife last August. X Distillers in Kentucky, to the numbey of seventy-five, have formed an association to reduce the production of whisky. The agreement has been signed by men representing half the registered capacity of the State. <■ Levi James, a Choctaw Indian, convicted last November of the murder of James Fulsom, was shot at Scullyville Court-House, Indian Territory, in accordance with Choctaw law. James sat upon a blanket. The Sheriff held one hand and a deputy another. Another deputy’ took position five paces distant, with a Colt’s revolver, deliberately aimed, and shot the murderer through the heart. He died in two minutes. Burt Ellis, a negro murderer, was hanged at Shelby, N.C.; Enoch Brown, also colored, was executed formurder at Halifax, N. C.; Pleasant Hall, another negfo murderer, was strung up at Rolling Fork, Miss.; and Juan Duran, a Mexican, paid the extreme penalty of the law at Fort Davis, Texas, for the murder of a Chinaman.... During the Democratic primary elections in New Orleans trouble arose at a poll on the corner of Monroe and St. Bernard streets, where forty .shots were fired. Capt. M. J. Fortier, Gus Renaud and Edward Mason were killed, and Sheriff Brewster and ten others were wounded. The Sheriff and three of his deputies were locked up. WASHINGTON. Washington telegram: In conversation with a prominent Senator, President Arthur spoke of the proposed English expedition to the arctic regions as “more of this arctic insanity.” He said that while he was willing that everything that could be done for the relief of Greely and his party should — be done, he would prefer that a whaling crew should be sent instead of a big Government expedition. He thought that after Greely was brought back There would never be another sent by this Government to the arctic regions. “They are cruel, inhuman, and useless,” said the President, “and public opinion is right in its decision that they have been more the work of misguided enthusiasts than the judgment of practical men.” John C. Dore, of Chicago, is in Washington in the interest of the Hennepin canal, and hopes to form an alliance with the friends of Mississippi levees which will secure a victory for both. The first movement toward an inquiry into the action of the Government with respeet to the roads has been made in the Senate. That body has adopted a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Interior vfor the papers in the matter of the New Orleans and Pacific road. The United States consul at Bremen has forwarded to the State Department a copy of a letter sent to Bismarck by the Chamber of Commerce; protesting against the continued exclusion of American pork products, and showing that a retaliatory duty upon German stockings would cause a loss of nearly $5,(.09,000 per annum. Congressman Haskell, of Kansas, died at Washington after- a somewhat prolonged illness, brought on, it is thought, by overexertion in the last session of Congress, when he was the leader of the protectionists in their opposition to the Tariff bill. Representatives Hanback and Ryan of Kansas, Kasson of lowa. Burns Of Missouri, Browne of Indiana, and Le Fevre of Ohio, were appointed a Congressional committee to accompany the remains to Lawrence, Kan. POLITICAL. The election in Boston gave Martin, the Republican and Citizens’ candidate for Mayor, 27,051, against 25,753 for O’Brien, Democrat. The National Republican committee met at Washington on the 12th inst. Ex-Sen-ator Chaffee, of Colorado, was chosen temporary Chairman, and Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, was elected jjermanent Chairman. It was resolved that the National convention be held Tuesday, June 3, and on the fourth bal- s lot Chicago was*selected as the place of meeting. A proposition by Senator Frye to give Increased representation to the Republican States of the North was voted down. Private Dalzell, in giving a reporter his views on the political situation, asserts that the Democrats will take up Gen. Sherman and elect him if the Republicans do not. He regards Logan and Lincoln as neck and neck in the race for the nomination.... Both houses of the Virginia Legislature have passed a resolution instructing the Virginia Senators and requesting the Representatives in Congress to use their best endeavors to secure the unconditional and immediate abolition of the internal revenue system. - - GENERAL. Burned: The Annisquam cotton mill, at Bockport, Mass., loss $400,000; the Athena worsted mills, Milbury, Mass., loss $150,600; a five-story buFding On Congress.

street, Boston, loss $150,000; Craig’s cabinet factory, Montreal, loss $70,060; a portion of the Union rolling mills, Cleveland, Ohio, loss $150,000; the Mount Hickory rolling mills, Erie, Pa., loss $275,000; Zille Brothers’ store. Third street, St. Louis, Mo., loss $25,000; a bag factory in Federal street, Boston, loss $40,000: the steamship Otranto, in Boston harbor, $160,000; a portion of McManus, Haike & Doolin’s dry-goods stock. Providence, R, 1., loss $50,000; several stores at Marianna, Fla., loss $25,000: a flouring mill at Metamora, Ind., loss $20,000; a warehouse and half a million pounds of sumac, at Petersburg, Va., loss $100,000; Ott & Madden’s furniture factory, Indianapolis, loss $20,000; the Coosa River furnace, at Gadsden, Ala., loss $200,000; two blocks of business buildings at Pine Bluff, Ark., loss $125,000; several stores at Dallas, Tex., loss $15,000; a portion of St, Mary’s institute, Dayton, Ohio, loss $20,000; Williams’ saw-mill, St. Joseph, Mich., loss $10,000; several business houses at Hubbard City, Tex., loss $50,000; the Drake block, St. Paul, Minn., loss $100,000; Brown’s hat factory. South Norwalk, Ct., loss $25,000; the court-house at Butler, Pa., loss $50,000; the Kirkwood house, Carrington, Dak., loss 40,000; a grain warehouse at Lancaster, Ohio, loss $10,000; two stores at Mcßride, Mich., loss $10,000; Payne, Potter & Co.’s store, at Georgetown, N. M., loss $40,000: Spencer’s grocery house, Oskaloosa, Iowa; loss $25,000; Brown’s machine shops, East Hampton, Ct., loss 40.000: a grist mill and elevator at Eau Claire, Wis., loss $50,000; Kellogg's drug store, at Castleton, N. Y., loss $30,000. The December report of the Agricultural Department at Washington states that the returns of corn production are more conservative than in October and November, from injury to soft corn by the warm, moist weather north of the 40th parallel. Corn that has been cribbed is in a worse condition than for many years. The proportion of unmerchantable corn is therefore large. The final estimate of the quantity produced will fall a few millions short .of the indications of previous returns, or twenty-three bushels per acre. This estimate relates only to quantity, and makes no discount for inferior quality, which seriously increases the practical shortage. Losses from packing in masses or injury to soft corn from mild and wet weather arc treated as after-harvest considerations. An investigation will be made as to the extent of such injury. Wheat—The aggregate slightly exceeds 400,000,000 bushels. Oats —The crop is about 4 per cent, larger than last' year, and exceeds .'>00,000,000 bushels. The yield of rye and barley is little less than in ISP2. Buckwheat is reduced more than one-third. Returns from the South point to a cotton crop of about 6,000,000 bales. It is possible the cotton movement of rhe year may pass that limit The Union Pacific, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads have formed an agreement for twenty-five years to divide the through business between Ogden and Chicago. It is considered one of the most important railroad contracts for many years. By it the lowa pool is at an end, and, though other Western roads, it is said, are at liberty to enter the alliance, the three roads chiefly concerned plainly have the bulge so strong that the rest cannot probably get in on satisfactory terms, and the result, as forecast, will be a damaging war on nearly all sorts of Western business, involving breaks in the Colorado pool and possibly the Northwestern and Southwestern traffic associations.

The Indiana State grange, recently in session at Columbus as the place for holding the next convention, and the second Tuesday in December, 1884, as the time. A determination was expressed to put more vigor into the workings of the order hereafter. The Financial committee reported a balance in the treasury, after paying all indebtedness, of 51,720. The Wisconsin State grange, in session at Madison, elected the following officers: Worthy Master,'S. C. Carr, Milton Junction; Worthy Overseer, M. Anderson, Cross IQains; Worthy Lecturer, Aaron Broughton, Evansville: Worthy Steward, R. A. Williams, Worthy Assistant Steward, W. A, Sprague, Reedsburg; Worthy Chaplain, S. N. Jones, Fennimore; Worthy Treasurer, Miss Hattie M. Huxley, Neenah; Worthy Gatekeeper, Enoch Wood. Black Earth; Worthy Ceres, Mrs. H. E. Huxley. Neenah; Worthy Pomona, Mrs. S. C. Carr, Milton Junction; Worthy Flora, Mrs. A. Brougton, Evansville; Worthy Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. W. A. Sprague. Reedsburg.—The Pennsylvania Grange, in session at Harrisburg, adopted resolutions favoring the introduction of additional instruction pertaining to agriculture in the public schools; urging that the State College be restored to a technical school of agriculture; that corporations claiming immunities as common carriers bo forbidden by law to discriminate in freight rates, and that taxation be equalized.

Gen. O. O. Howard denies that he wants deserters from the army branded with iron, but insists that an indelible mark in ink or some other substance would prevent the re-enlistment of these persons. NOREIGN. The Rotunda at Dublin was packed the other night on the occasion of the Parnell testimonial and banquet. Davitt made the opening speech and was followed by Parnell, who arraigned the Irish executive for tyranny and oppression, asserting that Earl Spencer was only a “bottle-holder to Buckshot Forster.” At the next election he expected that eighty Nationalists would be elected, and with that number Ireland could say how England would be governed—whether by Whigs or Tories. Parnell was presented with a check for £38,000, the national tribute, by Lord Mayor Dawson.,,, A throffft- of pocr people gathered about* the house of a deceased merchant in Moscow to participate in the usual distribution of money, and the pressure became so great that several persons were crushed tu death... .Mario, the famous tenor, died at Rome, aged 75. Advices from Hue, the capital of Annam, confirm the correctness of th© report that Hicphma, the King of Annam, is dead, and that he was murdered by secret enemies acting in the capacity of servanis in the royal household. The death of Hiephma has caused a tremendous sensation in China, and has aroused the Annamese and Tonquinese to indignation..... Buckshot Forster has been compelled to follow the advice of Joseph Chamberlain, and now proposes to extend to Ireland t);e provisions of the Franchise bill Another London stock-jobbing firm has failed. Abbot, Page & Co. are reported to have £160,000 in liabilities, with an- utterly unknown amount of assets, which are believed to be light. The Russian Nihilists continue to display a blind devotion worthy of a better cause. One fanatic, named Rutchkoff, escaped from prison at Charkow, but returned to free his companions. He was seized by the guards, whereupon he shot a gendarme and then himself...:.Henri Martin, the historian, and Pierre Richard de la Prade, the poet, died recently in Paris.... .The freight steamer Duke was wrecked off the English coast, and her crew of twenty-one all drowned. A violent storm swept over Great Britain. The Exhibition building at Wolverhampton was demolished, a gas-holder near Bradford was capsized, the tower of the Cathedral at Lincoln was blown down, ships were torn from their moorings at Belfast, the roof of St. Mary's church at Berwick was damaged, the gasometer at Kildwick was demolished, and the monuments in a cemetery at Bradford were toppled over. Thirteen persons were killed in, the streets in various towns. .... Englishmen are j ust now pouring out more than the ordinary quantity of wrath on the head of Parnell. At the recent Irish banquet the usual toast to the Queen was omitted. This has horrified all England. Patrick O’Donnell, the slayer of Informer Carey, was hanged at London on thel7th of December. He was firm and determined to the last. He said he was prepared to meet death, and added that he knew ft - would be avenged. Johnson Pool was hahged at Dublin, Dec. 18, for the murder of John Kennedy. Peter Wada teas

been sentenced to hang at Dublin, Jan. 16, for the murder of Patrick Quinn, in October last, at Pathfarnaham, near Dublin. Thb prisoner stated that he belonged to a secret society, whose orders he obeyed in committing the murder King Alfonso opened the Spanish Cortes by mating that all foreign relations were harmonious. Certain reforms, including trial by jury, would be introduced, and later the plan for extension of the suffrage, which if passed would conclude the labors of the present Cortes, when, if the Government were successful in the succeeding elections, a scheme for revising the constitution would be presented to the next Parliament The first cargo of American wheat ever imported into Austria has just been landed at Laube.