Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Mr. Cockrell presented a memorial In the Senate, Deoc S*. from the merchants, manufacturers, and business men of St. Louis opposing the repeal of the Vaporising law of 1879, which permits vtoogarmakers to produce low wines lor the purpose of making vinegar without payment of the United St&trs tax. The Senate confirmed this appointment of Royal At. Johnson to be Surveyor General of Arizona. Adjourned until Jan. 7. Tike Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting the report of the Secretary of State, and the papers relating to the trial, conviction, and execution of the late Patrick O'Donnell. Laid on the table for toturc action. Speaker Carlisle announced the Standing committees, and the House adjourned to Jan. 7. __ THE EAST. Dick Peiilek and Dyde Bright fought eighty-seven rounds near Wilkesbarref Christmas day, for S3OO a side, Pedler winning the contest, in which great brutality and enduranee were displayed. _ ■ •' - The banks of Providence hold 9787,000 of the paper of A. D. Smith & Co., the bankrupt manufacturers In alighting from his coupe at his residence in New York. Gen." Brant slipped and foil upon the ic£ sidewalk, being painfully wounded near the hip. No bones were broken, but the sciatic nerve was bruised and the General is compelled to keep his bed... .S. C. Blodgett, recently Treasurer of the Providence (B. I.) Institution for Savings, Is a defaulter and fugitive from justice. He had served the bank for thirty-sev-en years, and close a his career by the theft of $20,000. . the west. An Ounay (Colo.) dispatch reports a terrible accident, by which nearly half a score of people lost their lives: "The Virginius mine is owned by the Carolina Mining company, of Boston, employs thirty-five men, anil Is situated above the timber line at the foot of the Sueffies range. Friday afternoon a huge mass of snow started from the top of the range and swelled into an avalanche as it descended, striking the building used as a boarding-house, where eleven men were resting. It swept thebuiid- . tog completely awaf. crushing and burying toe men fifteen and twenty feet under the snow, among the rocks and timber, fortunately missing the engine-house. After toe noise and confusion the other miners were posted from the shaft and started in search for their comrades. Five were taken out alive, but badly crushed, and may die. The other six were found dead." While a party was returning to Ouray, brings tog the bodies of the dead men, another snow■lide struck the sleds containing the corpses, carrying them 2,000 feet down the mountain, whenoe they plunged i>oo feet over a precipice, where they must remain until spring. The party reached Ouray half dead from exhaustion.

Bishop Warren, of the Methodist diocese of Georgia, was married to Mrs. Biff, of Denver, 0010., at that city last week. Bishop Simpson officiated... .John A. Clark was hanged at Bozeman, Montana, for the murder of Thomas Rogers. A terridle railroad accidfcnt on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad occurred Christmas eve, near Salem, Ind., resulting in the death of 6even persons and toe wounding of a number of others. Tlie place where the accident happened is the bridge over Biue river. Tho stream is a narrow one, and in the summertime is an insignificant brook. The speedy melting of snow and the heavy rain following had swollen it to undue proportions. Tho flood had washed away the earth from under tho shore-supports of tho bridge, rendering toe structure weak and shaky The train consisted of a baggage car, smoking car, ladles' car, and tho Pullman buffet car Escaria. Just after the engine had gotten safely across the bridge suddenly settled. The awful crash followed. The chasm Is about forty feet deep. The baggage ear pitched headlong into the river, while tho other cars telescoped and were badly smashed. Some of them, however, remained partially on the track, although what was left of the cars was scarcely anything but debris. Tho bridge was only about half again os long os a passenger coach, so that all the cars did not go into too * water. A scene of excitement and confusion ensued, and tho passengers, many of whom were bruised and otherwise injured, began crawling out of the coaches. Some were asleep in the buffet car, but managed to get out all right. Through the overturning of the stoves the wreet( caught fire, and all that was above water'burned. A dispatch from Telluride, Colo., says that “a snow-slido came down Marshall basin, carrying off a shaft-house at toe Mendota mine containing fourteen men, eight of whom were killed outright. Two . were wounded and four dug themselves out.” An Alma (Chi.) telegram reports that “a snow-slide occurred near Montezuma, which carried John Headstrotn, John Amstrom and John ling, three miners, half a mile down the mountain. Ahlstrom and Ling were badly frozen and will probably die. Headstrotn is ■till missing and must have been killed." The eleventh and twelfth days of the Emma Bond outrage case at Hillsboro, HI., were oonsumed by the defense In further building and strengthening their alibi Structure. Clementi, one of the defendants, was placed in the stand and accounted for hfs whereabouts on the day of the outrage to a straightforward story. A number of witnesses, all of them, with one exception, relatives of the accused, were called to the witness stand and corroborated the stories of the three defendants. -On the thirteenth day Of the trial Miss Bond was recalled and gave important testimony directly contradictory of John C. Montgomery. She had to leave the witness stand for tho Judge’s private room, where she fainted and fell heavily to the floor. On recovering she remarked V, that her condition Wns caused by the presence Of Montgomery. William Fox, who perpetrated a treacherous murder to procure money by which he dud his paraAiour could secure divorces from their respective spouses, was executed at Nevada, Mo., and met death to a feaoiess manner. The woman for whom be committed toe crime brought him to the gallows.... The Ohio liquor dealers, after a two days’ convention at Columbus, resolved that the Bcott law was Inimical to the best interests of the (State, and asked the coming Letris ature to repeal toe Scott law by a judicious and constitutional enactment.