Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TW S4ST. Fifty-two tumors, varying in size from a walnut to a turnip, were removed from the body of A. J. Adams, at St. Vincent's Hospital, Erie. One hundred tumors yet remain to be extracted. Mr, Adams attributes this super&bundauce of swelling to the bite of a squirrel received when he was ahoy. The tow-boat Burton, at tbe mercy of ; -a strong: current, struck Neville Island, nine miles below.Pittsburg-h, throwing the fire from under the boilers and igniting- the craft. The crew of twenty-one became panlcstricken and jumped overboard. Robert Martin, aged 53, and James B. Graves, 65 years, were hanged at Newark, N. J., for murder. Martin’s crime was the murder of his wife, being drunk at the time be committed the deed. Graves had always been regarded as a crank, and the little boys called him "Monkey Graves.” He had frequent quarrels With Eddie Soden, aged 13 years, and repeatedly threatened to kill him. On the night of Dec. 20, 1881, Eddie started out to perform his duties as a lamplighter. Graves stealthily followed, and. while the boy was mounted on a lamp-post, shot him down from behind. He was convicted Jiui. 19, 1882, of murder In the first degree. His defense was insanity. Dr. Spitka, the medical expert who testified for Guiteau, assisted by six other doctors, examined onto Graves’ ease. They certified that he was insane. The Court of Pardons refused to commute the sentence. The autopsy, made by County Physician Hewlett, Dr. Spitka and • twelve other doctors, showed that Graves was insane. Signs of insanity more numerous and intense than are found in lunatics who die in insane asylums were discovered. AH the doctors were agreed that a lunatic had been hanged. The Directors of the Northern Pacific road held a meeting in New York last week. A letter was read from Henry Villard resigning the Presidency of the company because of nervous prostration fmd in deference to the interests of the stodkholders. i The resignation was accepted,' and a special election was ordered to choose a_ successor. The Directors voted Mr. Villard $10,006 per annum for his services. Vioe President Oakes reported the line in firstclass order exoept 100 miles near the junction west of Helena. Villard is a total financial wreck. He has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors to Wm. Endicott, Jr., of Boston, and Horace White, of Hew York. After all his debts are canceled, he desires that the residue be turned over to his wife.... Robert A. Murray, who was engaged in loaning money in Boston, has fled with $40,000 or more belonging to men who misplaced their confidence in him. THE WEST. The Gould system of railroads is about to establish a telegraph school at St. Louis, with a view not only to educating curators, but of selecting pupils from the acclimated people along the southwestern lines... .Gen. Grant hasforfeited bis-Mexican submarine cable concession. A. GANG of thieves in Columbus, Ohio, arranged with the depot policeman to rob a Bee-Line train at a point nino miles outside the city. The officer kept the authorities fully informed, and steered the whole party into the hands of the police. Charles Stevens, a murderer, has been pardon from the Missouri penitentiary by Gov. Crittenden. Stevens while in prison made presents of fancy knicknacks of his Own manufacture to the Governor’s daughter, who died recently. The child, on her death-bed asked her father to pardon Stevens, and the latter complied with her wishes.... When dementi, one of the persons acquitted in the Emma Bond case, went to Irving, near Hilsboro, 111., he was given ten minutes to leave the place. He soon made the fact apparent that 'Be could have got along with less time James Williams, a burglar confined in the jail at Ottumwa, lowa, killed Turnkey Manning with a revolver, and made his escape. For murdering a saloon keeper at Wieserdty, Idaho, Charles Deitzler, a barber, was summarily suspended from the limb of a tree. Four prisoners were suffocated in a burning jail at Jerseyvllle, 111., their names being Wall Dunsdan, James Gregg, Emile Kahler and August Schultz. The courthouse was burned at tbe same time....A train was wrecked at Charlestown, Southern Indiana, on a spur of the Ohio and Mississippi, running from Vernon to Louisville. A 6core of people were hurt, including me timbers of the Yale College Glee club. The Catholic convent at Belleville, HI., took fire from the furnace, i and iD an hour was' reduced to ashes.- Sixty- pupils made desperate efforts to escape, some of them leaping from the windows. Tweptyseven young women perished in the flames. The building was a five story brick structure, valued at about s7<fffloo..".. Mary V. Young, the* seventeenth wife of the deceased Mormon prophet, died at Halt Lake City. Sixteen wHjbws stilt- tag to mourn Brigham’s death.... A Police* Justice in San Francisco acquitted Sox of" the murder of McLaughlin, the millionaire.

THE SOUTH.' By the sinking of a ■Government steamboat near Opossum Point, on the Mississippi, three men were drowned Simon Cameron and a party of friends are at Hot Springs, Ark., and Intend tovigit Mejtioo next moYtth. W. Irving Landell arrived at Eexington, Ky., a few days ago witli a brother 12 years old and only sl. He gave the money to a boarding house to feed the boy, went to work as a brakeman himself, without getting 4my food* and, after thirty-six hours' labor 'ln rigorous weather, died of hunger and exposure. Valmak Rector, a negro, was hanged at Baton Rouge for the murder of Duncan Williams. The condemned man refused to remain on the scaffold, and screamed and begged for life until he was bound, TJho Sheriff: at Eastman, Ga., on opening the cell ' floor of a colored murderer named James Cruminidy, about to be hanged,-was attacked with a knife. The doomed man then made himself unconscious by hacking his ttaroatHe was taken to the scaffold on a stretcher, and supported until the drop fell. The New Orleans Times-Denwcrat’s expedition makes Its report of its adventures In the Florida Everglades. Myriads of alligators, fish, leeches, and poisonous bugs were enconnteied, and the region is set down aa utterly irreclaimable, and, even if it could Be drained, is worthless for any purpose of cultivation. They found saw-grass ten to twelve feet high und very dense, the edges of the blades being sharp on one side and serrated on the other. No Indians were seen by thee.Apedlt 0n... .Themdidtttffnt Charleston, B. C., stood at 13 degrees above "zero on the 6th of, January, being the coldest weather experienced in that fit'.' in IS" years. x a There appears to, be a general sentijsent in Congress in favpr of retaliatory legislation <*«*«* Kofc France. RepKm the West especially say^Gm BWIO9 pTOullcpn tnl tuv 1 lalBU ey ,are diseased and unhealthy. [Son intimates that (every

member of Congress will have an opportunlty to gb“on record on the tariff iSSde.' It is, lu fact, his intention to put the matter so squarely that there will be little chance lotdodging. Following is tbe statement of the public debt, issued on the Ist inst.: Interest-bearing debt. Four and one-half per cents $ 850,000.000 Fourper cents 787.632,750 Three per cents 274,937,850 Refunding certificates 315.150 Navy pension fund H,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt $1,276,885,150 Matured debt $ 10.138,795 Legal-tender notes. 845,739.6' 6 Certificates of deposit j 14,300,000 Gold and silver certificates.......... 200,930,531 Fractional currency 6,989.423 Total without interest $ 669,219,055 Total debt (principal) $1,861,243,600 Total interest- 12,172,323 Total cash in treasury 375,374.200 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,498,011,723 Decrease during Dermbrr 11,743,337 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1883. 58,049,483 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid .....$ 1,930,22) Debt on which interest has ceased.. 15.t38,794 Interest thereon 336,198 Gold and sliver certificates.......... *200,980,531 U. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 14,650,000 Total $ 375,374,200 Available assets— Cash m treasury $ 375,374,200 Bonds issued to Pacific rail way companies, interest payable by United States— Principal outstanding $ 04,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid.l,9 s v.y.. Interest paid by United States Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service $ 17,631,893 By cash payments, 6 per cent, net earnings 656,198 Balance Of interest paid by United .States 40.935.000 The decrease in the public debt during December amounted to $11,713,337. The decrease since June 30, 1883, was $58,049,483. POLITICAL. Mr. Hodgson was not permitted to take the oath in the Maryland Senate, his being a minister ut the time of election rendering him ineligible. Mrs. Logan is credited with a neat political triumph at President Arthur's New Year’s reception. Noticing that the wife of Register Bruee, a , colored lady, -was almost igdored by her sex! she quietly escorted her along the line and introduced her to each of the ladies assisting the President. GENERAL. The resignation of Henry Villard as President of the Northern Pacific road was presented to the directors last week. The failures in the United States for the past year numbered 9,184, with liabilities of $173,000,000. The yeui- 1878 developed 10,478 insolvents. Commercial failures: C. A. Constant & Co., retail dry-goods, Chicago, liabilities $165,000; Jeffords, Bailey & Co., lounge manufacturers, Jamestown, N. Y., liabilities $100" 000; F. J. Conklin & Co., hats Binghamton, N. Y.; William Carroll & Co., New York city, liabilities $170,000; H. E.Mann, dry-good,s St. Paul, liabilities $50,000: Ullman & Lamb, plantation supplies, Natchez, Miss., liabilities $29,000k Eager, Bartlett & Co., woolen goods, -Boston, liabilities $80,000; Gillies & Bro., teas and spices, New York, liabilities S7S,LTfO; Delos ■ £ Pratt, furniture, Toledo, liabilities $80,606; A. M. Church, jeweler, Chicago, liabilities $10,000; J. A. Anderson, clothing, Atlanta, Ga., liabilities $35,000; John D. -Leslie, grain,—Elkhart, — Ind., liabilities $30(000; Thomas S. Henard, notions, Cincinnati, liabilities $75,000; Reis Bros. SiCo., fancy groceries, Cincinnati, liabilities $600,000; Isaac Reis, wholesale cigars, Cincinnati, liabilities $300,000; C. W, Savage & Sons, general merchants, Miles City, Mont., liabilities, 8100,000; Jacob Jacobs, fancy goods, Nashville, Tenn., liabilities $40,000; H. E. Duelling, hardware, Shelbyville, IU-. liabilities 810,000; J. E. Musselwhite, notions, Peoria, 111., liabilities $20,000; Landrum & Butler, dry goods, Augusta, Ga., liabilities $38,000; Gillison & Donaldson, hardware, Minneapolis, Minn., liabilities $15,000; A. J. Defossez, operatic manager, New Orleans, liabilities $75,000. Last week was noticeable for an enonmous number of failures, the score exceeding all previous records in recent years. In amount of liabilities, happily, the reports tell a much more encouraging story. Jan. 3,4, 5, and G were four of ’the coldest days experienced in the North west in many years, the thermometer ranging from 2 to 40 degrees below zero. “Young Mrs. Winthrop” lias proved a great attraction at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, and will be played for another week. It is an American drama, strongly constructed, and clean and pure from beginning to ending, and the cast of characters is one .of exceptional strength. David H. Bates, Vice President of the Western Union Telegraph company, resigned, to accept the management of the Baltimore and Ohio lines. v {;■

FOREIGN. Large crowds attended the Orange and Nationalist gatherings at Dromore, Ireland, New Year’s day. Numerous soldiery and police prevented a-collision between the factions, B@f not without bayoneting two men, wounding them mortally,; jfcordsGeorge and Claude Hamilton and Caledoh addressed the Orangemen, while T. D. and O’Brien were the principal speakers at the Nationalist meeting. The Orangemen attacked the Nationalists, but cavalry and infantry charged the combatants and wounded a number of the Orange party. Infantry with fixed bayonets escorted the Nationalists out of harm’s reach.... New Year’s was memorable for crashes in the English coal and iron trade, something much like a panic Mkving mado its unwelcome appearance. Four great failures were announced, the total liabilities being over *8,000,000 A Jesuitic missionary, while preaching in Vienna .denounced the workingmen for their immorality. This led to the pulpit being stoned, and in the rush to escape several persons were injured... .China, after a bluff which deceived nearly all the world except the Frenchmen, is now making abject overtures for peace at any price.

Touching the recent to the Czar a Vienna paper says that while returning from a hunt with his suite, six persons wero noticed ahead of the Czar's party on the road, who stood aside, when so ordered by the Imperial escort, but that as the Czar’s sledge passed three shots were fired at him, one bullet lodging in his shoulder. The assassins escaped in a dense wood near at hand, pursued by officers, , but the —Chase was fruitless. One of the pursuing party has not yet turned up.... An account of tbemurderof Informed Carey, published in Dublin by United Ireland, shows that there was no struggle, O’Donnell deliberately killing his man. The United States Consul General at Cairo reports the deaths by the cholera epidemic at from 65.0Q0 to 70,000. A member of the International Tribunal says there : are still from one to three fatal cases ; each * day. ! . ..The youth" -Currieu,— who f some - time ago" evinced a disposition te - kill Premier Ferry,' has been sentenced at Paris to three months’ imprisoujoent.... The Rothschilds are reported to have offered France 4S0:t)00,0oO francs for the state railroads, ancTif the tender is accepted the contemplated .loan of 400,000.000 frajice Will be. unnecessary.., .The Khedive has cut down 4ps own wages 10 per cent, oai applied tftc samo economical principle to the income at Egyptian court. A cable dispatch says the excitement in St. Petersburg over the assassination of Lieut. 001. Sudeikin was greatly intensified

by the final reports of the detectives and Burgeons who were deputed to make special Investigations into the causes of Sudeikin’s death. The official report stated that Lieut. Col. Sudeikln, who was at the time of his death chief of the Department of,. -Military Governorship of St. Petersburg, was tortured until ho made certaiu disclosures, and then killed to prevent his Informing the 1 Government that the NihiliEfs possessed the extorted information .... Marquis Tseng, Chinese Embassador to France,;baa not held communication with the Froncli Government since the capture of Sontay. The menaces of the press in regard to indemnity for tbe invasion of Tonquin wHI not deter China from continuing to assert her rtghte.