Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

THE EAST.

On the Atlantic coast, from Hatteras to Penobscot Bay, a hurricane raged for two days, doing much damage. The destruction Of railroad tracks and other property on Coney Island entails a loss of $500,000, while at Long Branch the pavilion was wrecked ~ and a railway bridge washed away. A high ktide at Atlantic City carried off stores, dwellings, bath-houses and piers, and at Portsmouth, N. H., three fishing schooners foundered and. twenty coasters slipped, their cables and lost their anchors. ThtrEtna waff wrecked at Portland and several crafts were damaged by colliding with the wharves or with each other. One lightkeeper reports the -sea the heaviest ever known.... The President of Harvard college reports a decrease in the number of students from New England, but announces an increase in the attendance from the Middle States. The Treasurer show* investments of $4,021,000, and an income of $228,000. Geobge Jeffery confessed at River Bead, B. 1., that he killed his step-child by twisting its head first one way and then another till he broke his neck; that his only motive for the crime was that he hated it because it was not his, and that it prevented bis wife from earning money for him... .The English bark Elmira was lost, together with her crew of ten men, on the New Jersey coastAt Schoerck, Pa., two boys enticed another lad into a secluded spot, and under threats inflicted on him such injuries with blunt instruments that he died from bis wounds. At the cathedral hi New York was celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination to the, priesthood of Cardinal McCioskey. The edifice was thronged with priests and laymen. Addresses were read, to which the Cardinal feelingly responded, and dosed the sendees by pronouncing tne benediction. Among the presents received by his Jbnlnence was a large cross made of olive wood, grown in the Garden of Gethsemane.... Gen. Mackenzie, now in an insane retreat near New York, is reported to be considerably Improved In condition, but the medical officers have no hope that he can ever resume bis command in Texas... .Dr. Tanner, the famous faster, is practicing medicine in Jamestown, N. Y- The physicians of that city made a fruitless attempt to secure his indictment man* to a hard-glove fight *fmr |f non a side. A $250 lorfeit haa been posted. ~.,Fonr members Of the Salvation army were arrested at Paterson, N. J., for parading the streets on Sunday. ..The public debt of New York was reduced $3,595,01)0 during the year, and is now $92,548,000. the west. ' < , , fy Am Wausua. Wis reA dispatch from " ausua, porta a bloody combat between Chippewa

a band of Pottawatomie* and Menominees moved their camp, and subsequently a band of Chippfl was encamped in the same place. The difficulty began when two ponies belonging to •the Chippewas strayed away into the camp of the other Indians and were shot. The Chippewas assumed a hostile attitude, which resulted in one of their number being shot by one of the Pottawatomles. A few days later the two bands met in a. bloody fight, in which five of the combatants were killed." . New Tear’s day Mrs. Ch M. MeConaugbey, the young wife of a Nebraska attorney, was buried at Rochelle, 111., where ( she had been making a visit to her parents. Day after day the young husband visited the grave in the country churchyard. One day last week the appearance of the little mound excited his suspicion. Investigation showed that the grave had been robbed. Detectives were employed, who found the body at the Homeopathic college in Chicago. Two students were arrested for the robbery. One of them was a devoted admirer of the young girl before her marriage. The day after New Year’s he rode to Chicago on the same train with the bereaved husband. The grave had been robbed the night before, and the other student came to Chicago with a huge trunk containing the remains... .The fall of a scaffold at. Milwaukee killed one man and injured two fatally The thirty saloons a t Kan., closed their doors simultaneomsty, the proprietors deciding to quit the business. In the school-house in which Emma Bond was so terribly treated, fifty citizens gathered to pass resolutions of respect toward the y’oung lady, and to declare that justice was outraged by the acquittal of Montgomery, Pettis, and dementi. A passenger train near Pendleton, Ore., was taken possession of by a mob of 200 men recently discharged by the railroad. They demanded a free passage to Portland, The train heing on the Umatilla Indian reservation, the State authorities had no jurisdiction. Gen. Miles sent two companies of regulars from Fort Walla Walla, but a crowd of roughs joined the rioters and overpowered the soldiers Stephen Richards was executed at. Auburn, Cal., for the murder of Thomas Nichols.

The Coroner’s jury at Belleville, Hl.» returned a verdict in which the management of the burned convent is blamed for the terrible loss of life, as the precautions required by the character of the building and the number of inmates were wholly neglected. The jury say that dormitories should never be allowed above the second story in institutions of learning, and urge the necessity of legislative action on the subject. The Roman Catholic Total-Abstinence convention, which met in Chicago last week, passed resolutions approving of the Harper High-License law, recommending opposition to the election of saloonkeepers and their sympathizers to municipal or State offices, an aotive propaganda in favor of temperance reform, and co-operation with the non-Cathollc organizations to procure enforcement of the laws regulating the liquor traffic. The President’s report showed gratifying progress, and that which seemed to be most pleasing to the assembled delegates was the announcement of the Piesldent that be had administered during the year temperance pledges to nearly 12.000 persons.... .The orchards in the peach belt of Michigan passed uninjured through the recent severe weather, h XHE SOUTH. A telegram from Shelby, N. C., reports that a terrible and fatal knife combat took place about fifteen miles from that place. “For some years past a vendetta has existed between the Lepaugh and Runyam families, both of whom have large connections. Philip Lepaugh was this morn? ing driving his wagon to a sawmill, when Craige Runyam, accompanied by his father and brother, made an attack upon him. They pulled Lepaugh from his wagon and cut and hacked him with bowie-knives, inflicting some terrible wounds. They left him for dead on the road. Aa they were fleeing, the wounded man’s two sons-in-law came up. They galloped after and overtook tlio Runyam party. A desperate hand-to-hcCad conflict ensued, jp which every man engaged in the affray was mortally wounded." While thirty prominent cattle-men were having a banquet in a restaurant at Austin, Texas, a notorious character named Ben Thompson entered the establishment, and, having first littered the floor with lemons and delicacies provided for the feast, -he then drove the entire gathering into the street at the point of two loaded revolvers. The name of Thompson is a terror in Texas. He was formerly City Marshal of Austin, and has been tried several times for murder, but so far has escaped the hangman.... Jerry Alexanderwas hanged at Sparta, Bienville parish, La., for the murder of Sam Fleming last winter. Isaac Anderson, colored, was .hanged at Barnwell, S. C., for the murder of Alf Williams, a white man, in September last. The murderer attempted suieidfe in jail by swallowing concentrated lye, but recovered. John Jervis was executed at Norfolk, Va., for the murder of C. W'. Bonney. A Texas stock-dealer asserts that 2,000,000 head of cattle are fed on “free grass” in his State. The net profits of the owners of the stock is about 25 per cent., and the aggregate value is $40,000,000. The lands on which the cattle are fed are largely the property of the public schools of the State. ... .Orange groves in the region of Mobile, Ala., suffered damage to- the amount of $1,000,000 by the late cold spell. Many trees in*Florida were saved by bujlding fires in the orchards. | WASHINGTON. The Commissioner of Patents reports that large numbers of examiners Mveresigned to enter into practice before the office, on account of insufficient salaries, although they have nothing to fear from changes of administration. It is said that the prestige acquired by a commissioner is worth SIO,OOO per annum on his retirement. Senator Anthony is unwilling to undertake the duties of President pro tem. of the Senate, because of his feeble condition.. . .Secretary Folger has issued a call for $10,000,000 in 3 per cent.' bonds.

An agent of the Department of Agriculture purchased some infected cattle sent from Virginia for beef, and slaughtered them in presence of the House Committee of Agriculture and some Western stock-raisers. The lungs of two beeves, exhibiting pleuropneumonia in its advanced and final stages, were shown the party.... Superintendent Conger, of the Yellowstone National Park, says that the Park Improvement company has transgressed all the rules and laws laid down by Congress for the protection and preservation of game, natural beauties, and curiosities. He favors a more complete control of the grounds by Congress.,.. .The Secretary of the Treasury announces that the principal and interest on $10,000,000 3 per cent, bonds will be paid on the 15th of March. POLITICAL. Appointments by the President: A. Leonard, Consul General for the United States at Calcutta. United States Consuls: Robert J. Stevens at Palermo; Bolivar J. Pridgen at Piedras Negras; Oscar Malmros, of Minnesota, at Leith; Frank H. Mason at Marseilles; John L. Kaine, of Wisconsin, at Cognac; George Gifford at Basle. Michael H. Fitch, of Colorado. Receiver of Public Moneys at Pueblo, Col.; Thomas Wrong, of Kansas, Receiver of Public Moneys at Concordia, Kan.: Adolphus 0. Leming, of Arkansas, Register of the fed Ope St Dardahielle.Arlc.; 'Reuben A. Allen, of Ohio, Indian agent at the Blaekfeet agency, Montana.... At the caucus of Democratic members of the Ohio Legislature, at Columbus, Payne won on the first ballot. The figures wikfc: Payne. 43: Pendleton. 15; Want, 17; H. J. Booth, of Columbus, 1; George W. Geddes, 1. 6 The Michigan State Temperance Convention, at Jackson, resolved in favor of a new party, to be known as the Union party, and to advocate strict prohibition of the liquor traffic.

The Republican members of the Ohio Legislature held a caucus at Columbus to select a candidate for Senator. The Cincinnati and Cleveland representative* refused o honor Gov. Foster, and it was resolved to vote blank. , In the event of Senator McMillan securing the. position on the bench recently vacated by Judge McCrary, the Minnesota Senatorshlp might fall to C. K. Davis, exGoVenor; to W. D. Washburn, now in Congress, or to Martc H, Dunnell. A. WEEK’S FAILURES. fc Sherman Brothers, Cincinnati, liabilities $75,000; A fisher, grocers, Grand Rapids, Mioh/, liabmifes $15,0C0; A. Wossells, real estate, St*Xoui«,Mioh., liabilities $60,000; D. F. Wadsworth & Co., bankers, Ishpeming, Mich., liabilities SIOO,000; S. H. Mbrrell, banker, Lonngton, 111., liabilities, $40,000; W. M. Furbish fSc Son, pianos, Portland, Me., liabilities $27,000; Goldsmith* & Kuhn, diamond merchants, New Yor wf 1 liabilities $45,000; M, H. Myers, dry goods, Cassopolis, Mich., liabilities '$16,000; W. E. Phelps & Co., coal thine operators, Elmwood, IlUiabilitSU S7O/000; A. Sigler, jewler,Adrian, Mich-., liabilities $17,000; Renner & Moore, bankers. Morris, Minn., liabilities $100,000; James Murray, fancy goods, Montreal, liabilities $10,000; Henry Villard, railway magnate, liabilities not stated; L. R. Slasson, dry goods, Cat'ettsburg, Ky., liabilities $22,000; A. J. Jacobs, general store, Henrietta, Tex., liabilities $27,000; J. 8. Borustein & Co., drygoods, Oshkosh, Wis., liabilities $17,000; Charles & Rudolph Von Bermuth, Importers, New York, liabilities $150,000; McClurg, Briggs & Co., dry-good 3, Toronto, Canada, liabilities $150,000; Vorse & Fowler, agricultural implements, Dos Moines, lowa, .iabilites $12,000; B. R. Smith, cotton broker. New York, liabilities $150,000; Putnam & Phelps, tanners. North Loominister, Mass., liabilities $75,000; Dietrich & Co., canvas-bag manufaetuers, San Francisco, liabilities $75,000; the National Paper Mill, Rock Island, 111,, liabilities $20,000; Landorf & Adler, clothing, New York, liabilities $61,000; Lynd Brothers, hardware, Des Moines, lowa, $26,000; J. Paddock, boots and shoes, Terre Haute, Ind., liabilities $25,000; Walter Simmons, hardware, Lockport, N. Y., liabilities $10,000; White & Meyers, notion* and furnishing goods, Cincinnati, liabilities $30,000; Isaiah Price, clothier. Mount Sterling, 111., liabilities $£0,000; J. H. Dacus, general merchant, Ozark, Ark., liabilities $22,000; A. A. Anderson, jewelry and musical instruments, Ishpeming, Mich*, liabilities $40,000; Williamson & Co., dry goods, Brantford, Canada, liabilities $25,000; Buck & Keech, confectioneries, Cedar Rapids, lowa, liabilities $11,000; Leopold J. Zeiner, clothing, Bushnell, 111., liabilities $15,000; Rosenfeld & Co., tobacco, = Detroit, liabilities $50,000; M. Wolf & Co., hats, New York, liabilities $250,000; D. S. Young, clothing, Wyandotte. Kan., liabilities $15,000: Baum Bros., willowware, New York, liabilities $75,000; Hiram Brush, furniture, Chicago, liabilities $15,000; R. B. Ogilvie, dry goods, Madison, Wis., liabilities $65,000; the Oragin Falls Paper company, Cleveland, Ohio, liabilities $65,000; McLelland & Greenough, furniture manufacturers, Chicago, liabilities $15,000; Francis & Vaugh, shoe manufacturers, St. John, N. 8., liabilities $40,000: Eben Sutton, woolen manufacturer, North Andover, Mass., liabilities $100,000; Thomas Chandler & Co., general merchants, Ennis. Tex., liabilities $30,000.

GENERAL. At an exciting meeting of the Montreal Loan and Mortgage company, at Montreal, it was announced that the absconding Treasurer, Craig, was a defaulter for at least $550,000. Some of the Directors are accused of securing loans in an irregular manner. ....The Mutual Reserve Fund Life association has sued Editor English, of the Insurance Time s, for SIOO,OOO damages for libel Iron worlds in Pennsylvania have started very generally, a reduction of wages having been accepted by the men. BEcent deaths: Judge Nelson Poe, an eminent jurist of Baltimore, and cousin of the late Edgar Allan Poe; Rev. Lawrence Walsh, of Boston, ex-Treasurer of the American (Irish) Land League; William Gerlach, a prominent and wealthy Milwaukeean; Col.. George H. Slaughter, a pioneer of Wisconsin; at Galveston, Texas, Mrs. Campbell, wife of Jam.>s Campbell, the trusted lieutenant of the famous buccaneer, Lafltte; at Washington. Mrs. Patterson, wife of ex-Senator John J. Patterson, of South Carolina; John Allison, father of Senator Allison, of Iowa; Herr Edward Lasker, distinguished German statesman; Col. J. I. Nevin, editor of the Pittsburgh Leader; Mary, seventeenth wife of the late Brigham Young; W. J. Wise, the wealthiest citizen of Vincennes, Ind.; Luke Clark, a veteran Fenian and exiled Irishman; Keshub Chunder Sen, a celebrated scholar and philosopher of India. Mr. A. M. Sullivan in a letter to a New York gentleman asserts that the aggregate expenses of the O’Donnell trial were about $12,500. He himself received but S7BO, and Mr. Russell received but SI,BOO. Mr. Ford, of the Irish World, collected about $60,000 for O’Donnell’s defense, and Congressman Finerty, of Chicago, collected about $5,000.... Canada is raising a standing army of 1,200 men, to serve for three years. The full number applied at the recruiting office in Montreal, where tho quota was only 100.... The starch-sugar industry of the country consumes 40,000 bushels of corn per day. and the product is valued at about $10,060,000 per year. FOREIGN. At Paris Deputy Talandiers has been indicted for inciting to murder, because his journal stated that movements would soon. occur in the United Kingdom to avenge the execution of O'Donnell... .A correspondrnt' stat&rtbe l»opw banHpluOrnTtfiF the secret archives of the Vatican the details of his conversation with the German Crown Prince, and that posterity will be treated to a statement of great importance.

At Vienna three men entered the shops of one Eisert, a money-changer, threw sand in his eyes, and attacked him. Eisert shouted for help, when his two children and their governess ryshed to his assistance. A robber killed one off tne children with an ax and fearfully wounded the other child and the governess. Eisert himself was mortally wounded. The man escaped with their plunder....A bailiff was assassinated at Tullamore, Ireland... .Nihilists attempted to murder the Chief of Police at St. Petersburg. As the Comte de Paris left Paris to visit King Alfonso, a crowd of Royalists gathered at the depot and yelled “Vive le Roll’’ For this four arrests were made. It is said the pretender deprecated the demonstration of “his people.”....“Chinese” Gordon has been compelled to resign a Geaeral’Eteommission in the British army in order to fulfill an engagement with the Kingof Belgium to go to the Congo river and suppress the slave trade.... The widow of Informer Carey declines to go abroad, and asks for safe employment in Great Britain.... There is a reaction in France favoring the admission of American meats. Eael Granville refuses to become mediator in the Chinese troubles, and so does Prince Bismarck. Marquis Tseng says the Pekin government feels disappointed, and says China, as the result, contemplates doubuug the inland tax levied upon foreign commerce in order to pay war expenses, and that the capture of both Sontay and Bac-Ninh will not alter the decision, and, furthermore, be has doubts whether China will now accept mediation from any quarter.. The Common Council of Limeridk has decided to oonferthe freedom of that Savift. High Sheriff Gray and Lord Mayor Dawson, of Dublin. Similar honors were conferred on Mr. Parnell and Mr. John Dillon last year..,..The mission of Henry George will probably be fruitless. Be has already gained the enmity of the press by his advocacy of the confiscation of landlords’ property without compensation, and even the Irish papers urge Irishmen in England to have nothing to do with him.. ... A man has been discovered in Birmingham who has kept the body of his sister for twenty years because he had no mbney to pay for k decent funeral..,. .The Grand Duke Michael

(Nioolalevitcta) has been reappointed President of the Council of tbe Russian empire.... A Nationalist meeting in Fermanagh, Ireland, was prohibited by tbe Lord Lieutenant. Mr. Biggar was the disappointed orator... .Queen Victoria will spend the spring on the continent —at Baden Baden and Darmstadt.... The Catholics in England have completed arrangements to begin the erection of a cathedral at Westminster, to cost over £500,000, and to be erected within a stone’s throw of Victoria station.... A meeting of 4,000 unemployed workingmen was held in Paris. Violent resolutions were .adopted ;Leou Chotteau is coming to America to use his influence for the prevention of retaliatory measures against Franoe because of the pork prohibition.