Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Mr. Vam Wtck introduced a bill in the Senate, Dea 15, to reduce by one-half the freight rates on the Union and Central Pacific roads. Petitions were presented for a constitutional amendment granting suffrage to womin, and to permit colonies of families to lay out villages on public lands. There was considerable discuss ion on Mr. Anthony's resolution concerning the proscription of American meats in Europe. Mr. Logan favored open retaliation; Messrs. Vest ana Ingalls thought a thorough system of Inspection by the Government would have a salutary effect, whhe Mr. McPherson explained the system ot slaughtering.' ‘ American cattle at British ports. The report of the committee appointed in February, 1883, to examine the work ot improvement along the Mississippi river was presented to the Senate. The System in use between St. Paul and the mouth of the Illinois is commended as adequate, and should, according to the views of the committee, be pushed to completion. The committee recommend that suitable appropriations be made; that the right of the Government to mate ial found on bars and islands be distinctly declared; that control be retained over reclaimed lands; snd that persons interfering with the channel or any Government work be properly punished. In the House of Representatives, bills were reported for the retirement of Alfred Plea-anton as Major General, approrriating sl,«M.6i» to dose the gaps of the levees of the Mississippi, and to make all public roads and highways post routes. Mr. Townshend introduced a bill to authorize the President, during the recess of Congress, to prohibit imports injurious to the public health, by way of retaliation. There was a spirited debate on the bill appropriating 11,000,100 to continue Mississippi riverimprovements.

A bill restoring to the public domain the lands granted to the Iron Mountain railroad, because the route diverged from the contemplated line, was passed by the Senate Jan. 16. Mr. Miller introduced a bill to provide means to extirpate pleuro-pneumonia. During the consideration of the joint Hiles Mr. Frye charged that any person can walk into the Congressional restaurant and purchase whisky by the cup. An order waa therefore passed excluding intoxicating liquors from the Capitol restaurant. At the executive session Col. Robert Murray was confirmed as Surgeon General. Mr. Hoar called up his bill providing for the counting of the electoral vote, being the same as that passed by the Senate of the Forty-seventh Congress. It was again passed without debate. In the House bills were introduced appropriating Jl.ixw.wo to improve the Erie canal and maintain it free to commerce, and to authorize the construction of a ship canal around Niagara Falls. Resolutions were passed authorizing a bill to appropriate the sum necessary to pay claims for rebate on tobacco; calhng for a report of the earnings of each United States Marshal, Attorney, and Clerk for the past ten years, ana permitting students from Guatemala and Nicaragua to receive instruction at West Point without expense to the Government After a long discussion, the House and Senate bills appropriating $1,000,000 for improvements on the Mississippi river were reported from the committee of the whole.A memorial from William Pitt Kellogg, asking an investigation of the charges brought against him in connection with the Texas and Pacific land grant, was presented in thp Senate Jan. 17. Petitions were presented for an appropriation of $500,070 to improve the entrance to Columbia river, hnd for the appointment of a commission on the liquor traffic, bills were introduced to establish a board of interstate commerce and to secure reasonable rates of transportation over railroads aided by the Government. The executive session was devoted to the Mexlt an treaty. The House, by a vote of 215 to 64, pass id the Senate bill appropriating $1,000,00(1 for continuing the improvement of the Mississippi. A communication was received tendering the Marine hospital at Erie to the Government for a home for soldiers and sailors. A bill was reported to grant a pension to the surviving grandchild of Thomas Jefferson. Secretary Folger reported to the House that within the past eighteen months issue of gold certificates was $107,000.0011, and during three years the value of silver certificates put out was $119,7*0.000. The Senate received a message from the President, Jan. 18, recommending that a relief expedition be dispatched for the Greely party, and asking that immediate action be taken in the matter. A bill was favorably reported to carry out the supplemental treaty with China, by prohibiting the traffic in opium between the two countries. In executive session the Mexican treaty failed for lack of one vote. The Senate in executive session rejected the Mexican treaty. A motion was made to reconsider, pending which the Senate adjourned until Monday, 21st. ‘ln the House, Mr. Bayne introduced a bill for a public building at Allegheny City. The remainder of the day was consumed in debate on the Fitz John Porter bill in committee of the whole. Messrs. Slocum and Lyman spoke In favor of and Mr. Steele in opposition to the bill.

THE EASTA horrible catastrophe is reported from the oil region. A stream of waste oil flowed across the track of a country railroad near Bradford, Pa. A crowded passenger train passed by. It is believed the fire-box ignited the oil and that a boiler explosion followed. Flames immediately enveloped the train. A panic and crush ensued. People were forced back into the cars by the flames at the doors, and hurt themselves badly in making an exit through the windows. Three woman were burned to death and fifteen persons seriously injured by wounds and burns. Charles P. Stickney, who was recently pardoned from the Massachusetts penitentiary for jn ■ A gentleman passing the house the other evening saw the upper stories in a blaze, and on entering found Mrs. Stickney dead and her husband in a very precarious condition. ; The funeral services over the remains Of Charles Delmonico were held in the Church Of St. Leo at New York, which was densely crowded. The body was placed in the Delmonico vault in the old St. Patrick's Cathedral. .. .James Egan, formerly Speaker of the Assembly of New Jersey, has been fined §SOO and sentenced to hard labor in the penitentiary for one month, for an. attempt to bribe Assemblyman Armitage..... Nine powdermills at Scranton, Pa., exploded. One man is known to have been killed, and the pecuniary loss is very heavy. On “The Devil's Bridge,” at Gay Head, on the Massachusetts coast, the steamer City of Columbus, from Boston for Savannah, was wrecked on the morning of Jan. 18. Of, the 145 souls on board, twenty-three are known to be saved, five are dead, and 119 are unaccounted for, and are supposed to have perished. The revenue cutter Dexter and two lifeboats were instrumental in saving many lives. One-third of the passengers and crew were women and children A story is current at New York that Jav Gould 105t§20,000,000 in speculation recently. ....The mixing house of the Vulcan Dynamite Works at Allentown, Pa., blew up. Three men were killed and mutilated, three. Others injured, and three buildings wrecked? ... .A boiler in the kitchen of Frank T. Sherwood at Hunter’s Point, L. 1., burst, killing Mr. Sherwood’s litt e boy, fatally injuring his brother, and blinding and burning Mrs. Suer wood A boiler explosion in E. Y. &. E. Wallace's shoe manufactory and tannery, at Rochester, N. H., killed four med and wounded seven, two fatally... .Edwurd Tappan, who was arrested on Long Island for connection with the Townsend outrages,-has- made a detailed confession of the murder of Mrs Mavlee and her daughter by his brother and himself. The former deliberately choked them to death in the stable-, then the house was searched and plundered. THE WEST. » Representative Follett, who will have charge of the pension bill when it reaches the House, is in favor of abclishing eighteen agencies scattered through the country, which are maintained at a.eost of *860,000 per year.

The general sentiment of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is understood to be in favor of providing for the allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians, and a bill for that purpose will probably be reported at an early day. According to the January reports to the Michigan Agricultural bureau, the wheat crop of the State was 23,1*7,135 bushels, of which 7,107,000 bushels still remain in the hands of the farmers. The people of Hillsboro, 111., have already subscribed s*oo for Miss Emma Bond, and propose to double the sum. Mr. Bond is confined to his bed by nervous prostration; his farm was heavily mortgaged to meet medical and legal expenses, and he will be compelled to leave it unless aided by the public. In the Governor’s Circle at Indianapolis, Ind., was unveiled a statue of the late Gov. O. P. Morton. The preceding ceremonies were held in the opera house, to which place thousands failed to gain admission, where fitting addresses were made by Gov. Porter, ex-Secretary Thompson and Senator McDonald. A terrible and mysterious murder was perpetrated in Chicago last week. Amelia Olsen, a respectable young girl, was waylaid at night in a lonely spot by some unknown ruffian, who, it is supposed, knocked het. senseless and then outraged her. - The poor girl was dragged some distance over the snow and left to perish, The frozen remains were discovered the following morning.... Jay Gould is said to have purchased a large water-front property at Port Oxford, Oregon. John Elfers was hanged in Washington Territory. He killed a man who would not pay a debt of r>o cents.... Leroy supposed to be a soil of the Mormon Bishop John D. Lee, was hanged at Rawlins, Wyoming, for killing a barber-of Rock Springs, named William Leighton. On account of a light yield in Florida, three firms in San Francisco combined and secured nearly the total crop of oranges in California"... .The boiler in Brink & Elkins' saw and grist mill, some distance from Columbia, Mo., exploded, scalding and maiming eight men. THE SOUTH. A steamship from Vera Cruz landed at New Orleans a party of Italian emigrants, wholly without money or goods, and charitable people sent them food at the police station. At Weatherford,Tex., the west-bound Texas Pacific passenger train was wrecked by a broken rail. Thirty passengers were injured, some very seriously. Agents of a New York firm are scouring the woods of Arkansas for black walnut trees, for which SI each is paid, the logs being shipped to New Orleans. . The Wool-Growers’ Association of Brown county, Tex., sent a memorial to the Legislature, stating that sheep-raisers have been warned to remove their flocks, on pain of death, and that one man had his herd killed by a mob of armed men. A great rain-storm prevailed for many hours in the Southern States last week. ... .A severe shock of earthquake was felt at Wilmington, N. C. WASHINGTON. Congressmen testify to having called for tea in a cup with a saucer, and having drank whisky as a result of that orderManagement so lax on the part of the res-taurant-keeper has excited the indignation of Congress in both houses assembled. Steps have therefore been taken to prohibit the sale of all kinds of intoxicants in the Capitol. Kansas wanted a railroad after the Union Pacific was built, and made vast grants to the Kansas Pacific. The Kansas Pacific was gobbled by the Union Pacific, and! Kansas sues for a forfeiture of the gifts. The case involves $14,000,000, and is now before the Supreme court of the United States. The Justices admit that the case is one of,, the most important which have overcome before them. For this reason and in an exceptional manner the court has advanced the case on its calendar, so that oral arguments will begin in a few‘ days... .The annual report of the agricultural department gives the corn crop of Illinois as 203,780,590 bushels, both the average and yield being the largest of any State. Kansas standi second in crop, but lowa has the second greatest acreage. The House Committee on Public lands last week listened to arguments relative to the land-grants of the Oregon Central railroad, which it is proposed to forfeit. The legal arguments having fallen to tho ground, the committee were favored with a pathetic appeal from C. P. Huntington himself, .who claimed that it was real mean in oar eat Government to forfeit the lands of opoor railroad company, evenif the law had not been complied with and no track had been laid. The committee listened quietly to the persuasive eloquence of the great letter-writer until it became evident that he was begging the question, and the admission was forced that the railroad attorneys were not prepared to meet any legal points whatever. POLITICAL. In the Ohio House of Representatives a Republican member, named Love, offered a resolution fora select committee of five to investigate the charges by leading that Henry B. Payne was elected Senator by the use of money. Various amendments were proposed, when the original resolution was defeated, members voting . withetokxs&wd Ac-party* -• ■.

A canvass of the Legislature of Texas, made for the purpose of ascertaining the preferences of the Democratic members for Presidential candidates, showed the following result: Out of twenty-eight Senators fourteen are in favor of the nomination of Thurman, six in favor of McDonald, two are for Tilden two have no choice, and Morrison, Wade Hampton, Coke and Weaver have one follower each. In the House out of eighty-five interviewed Thurman has 44, McDonald 14, Tilden 13, Morrison 4, Bayard 3, and Hancock Carlisle and Hendricks one each. This shows that Texas is in favor of Thurman. Nearly' all of those interviewed expressed themselves in favor of a revision of the tariff....H. B. Payne, the new Senator from Ohio, gave a public reception at Columbus, which was largely attended. At the banquet there were 250 guests, and the tables were loaded with delicacies. Neither Col. O. H. Payne nor John R. McLean was present, and John G. Thompson declined an invitation on the ground of illness... .Francis W. Rockwell (Rep.) has been elected to Congress from the Ma-sachusetts Twelfth district, to succeed Gov. Robinson. The lowa Republican State committee, at its meeting in Des Moines, decided to hold two State conventions. The first, to choose delegates to the National convention, will be held May 7... .The Kansas Republican State Central committee will meet at Topeka on Feb. 6 to call a State convention to select delegates to.the National convention at Chicago.... The Indiana Republican State Central committee has ordered the holding of a convention in Indianapolis for nominating four delegates from the State nt large to the National convention. April 17 being fixed upon as.the date. The State convention for. the nomination of a ticket will be held at Indianapolis on tho 19th of J uni’. ~. J . - ' .. T.. The Maryland legislature has elected Jtidge E. K. Wilson to the United States Senate, to succeed James B. Groome. DEATH RECORD. Charles H. Van Fossen, a wellknown Kansas City journalist; State Senator Pliny Hoagland, of Fort Wayne, Ind.; W. P-Rath-burn, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Chattanooga, Tenn.; John William Wallace. -President of the Pennsylvania Historical society; Dr. ,H. ,A. Dubois, leading physician of New Haren, Ct; Gen.

Fadejew, Russian Director of Roads and Canals; Hon. David Sankey, of New Castle, Del., father of the famous evangelist; Hon. Philip Phillips, ex-member of Congress from Alabama: Samuel Williamson, a leading citizen of Cleveland, Ohio; Abram French, for forty-five years a crockery; importer at Boston; Charles Delmonlco, famous restaurateur of New York; ex-Congressman 8. Bridges, Allentown, Pa.; Mrs. Valeria Stone, of Malden, Mass., who had distributed sl,500,000 in educational endowments; George Swarbrick, an eminent New Orleans merr chant; John Martin, of Alton, 111., aged 102 years; Ralph Sellew, a leading citizen of St. Louis, Mo.; Amos D. Loekwood, a leading cotton manufacturer of Providence, R. I.; Wm. G- Weed, a prominent lawyer and politician of Albany. THE WEEK’S FIKE RECORD. Flames swept away three warehouses in East street. New York, causing a loss of $230,000, the chief ‘sufferers being L. Waterbury & Co., rope manufacturers. Other fires are reported as follows: Proctor & Gamble’s soap and candle works, Cincinnati, loss $250,000; a business block at Prankfort, Ind., loss $75,000; the Centennial elevator, Monticello,lit, loss $T5,000; the Lake View hotel, Evansburg, Pa., loss $15,000; three business houses at Natchir toches, La., loss $75,000; the Clinton paper mill, Steubenville, Ohio, loss $50,000; several stores at Bay City, Mich., loss $22,000; the County jail at Columbus, Ohio, loss $15,000; S. Davis & Son's extensive * cigar factory, Montreal, Canada, loss $140,000; Powell’s music store, Phelpston, Ont., loss $50,000; two grocery stores at Paducah, Ky., loss $10,000; Kennon & Hill's store, Selma, Ala., loss $33,000; Lemon’s general store, Lucas, Ohio, loss $40,000; George Jess’ fine residence, Waupun, Wis., loss SIO,OOO Mrs. Bauer’s barns and forty-five fine dairy cows, near Elgin, 111., loss $10,000; the cooperand boiler shops in the State prison yards at Stillwater, Minn., loss $100,000; the Opera-house block at Meadville, Pa., loss $500,000; Smith, Winston & Co.’s coffin factory, New York city, loss $200,000; a portion of D. B. Fisk & Co.’s millinery store, Chicago, loss $30,000; fine business houses at Pittsburg, J£an., loss $21,000; a sawmill at Butler, Ky.. loss $13,000; several stqres and shops at Maysville, Ind., loss $20,000; a cotton warehouse at Jonesboro, Ga., loss $35,000; a hotel at Ashtabula, Ohio, loss $20,000; Moder’s brewery, Onalaska, Wis-, loss $20,000; three business houses at Blunt, Dak., loss $15,000; St.VincentOrphan asylum, Toledo, Ohio, loss $12,000; Edwards’ opera-house, Selma, Ala., loss $15,000; Schwier’s grist-mill, Batesville, Ind., loss $15,000; the Willowdale mills, Ipswich, Mass., loss $50,000; the main office of the Telephone Company, Boston, Mass., loss $40,000; Ludster’s farm machinery warehouse and other

property, Beloit, Wis., loss $12,000; four business houses at Trenton. Ga., loss $15,000; two shops in the penitentiary grounds at Nashville, Tenn., loss $15,000; the Southern Central railroad repair shops at Auburn. N. Y., loss $25,000; Knowles’ woolen mills, Newcastle, Del., loss $30,000; Hirsch & Griswold’s confectionery store, Peoria, HL, loss $15,000; a business block at Monticello, Ind., loss $21,000; the Tivoli theater, Pueblo, Colo., loss $15,000; Asmuth & Co.’s elevator,Milwaukee, Wis., loss $20,000; Backus & Hayes, hominymill, Indianapolis, loss $18,000; Bannon Bros., tile factory, Joliet; 111., loss $15,00Q; Stindis’ flouring-mill, New Martinsville, W. Va., loss $18,000; Swartz & Co.’s tannery, Elmira, N. Y., loss $26,000; John Zeller’s residence, Brazil, lud., loss $10,000; a Baptist church at Janesville, Wis 7, loss$T0,000; several stores at Tunnel Hill, Ga., loss $15,000; ten stores and several residences at Naples 111., loss $35,000; the Episcopal church at Middleport, N. Y./ loss $30,000; the Baptist church at Port Norris, N. J., loss $25,000; Clubertson & Blair’s store-house, Chicago, losß $20,000; a Baptist church at Janesville, Wis., loss $40,000; the business portion of Seligman, Mo., loss $30,000; the University building at Galesville, Wis.. loss $25,000; the female college building at JJolumbus, Ga., loss $60,00!); about a dozen business houses at Baird, Tex., loss $80,000; Herzler Bros.’ flouring mill at Akron, 0., loss $60,000; a .brewery at Pittston, fa., loss $30,000; a hotel at Sheffield, Pa., loss $15,000. A WEEK’S FAILURES. Failures: S. Hogan, jewelry, Cleveland, Ohio, liabilities $15,000; J. H. Yellman, hemp speculator, Lexington, Ky., liabilities $30,000; Duncan A. Grant, lace dealer, New York, liabilities $63,000; Block & Co., prihters, Cincinnati, Ohio, liabilities $40,000; P. W. Gerhard, agricultural implements, Austin, Tex., liabilities $20,000; J. C. Hauge, boots and shoes, Aberdeen, Dak., liabilities $10,000; Isaacs & Samuels, clothing, New York, liabilities $35,000; H. B. Dessoir, furniture, New York, liabilities $35,000; Charles Hudson, general merchant, Waunakee, Wis., liabilities $10,000; M. Waterman & Co., grain dealers, San Francisco, liabilities $1,000,000; Buckley & Co., dry-goods, Utica, N. Y., liabilities $200,000; James Bislnnd, dry-goods, New York, liabilities $50,000; Johnson & Austin, wool, New York, liabilities $75,000; Samuel Better, banker and grain merchant, Wapakoneta, 0., liabilities $80,000; Hyde & Turcotte, fancy goods, Montreal, liabilities $30,000; J. Bluhm, dry-goods, Columbus, Miss., liabilitiessso,ooo; John E.Tepil, clothing, Lancaster, O„ liabilities $10,000; Henry, Colton & Co., wholesale grocers, Peoria, 111., liabilities not stated; J. Sell, general store, Farmerville, La., liabilities $12,000: E. W. Coleman & Co., grain brokers, New York, liabilities $637,000; J. M. Fuller & Co., grain brokers, Now York, liabilities $106,000; W. P. & A. Parsons, builders, New York, liabilities $300,000; S. B. Ueshonc, groceries. Marion, Nd., liabilities $9,000; Mrs, A. E. Davis, millinery, Columbus, Ohio, liabilities $35,000; Nesbit & Co., cotton merchants, Savannah, Ga., liabilities $100,000; Kelly, Gilchrist & Co., liquor dealers, San Francisco, liabilities $90,000; Thomas, Puryear &Docomb, hardware dealers, Evansville, Ind.,-liabilities $30,000. GENERAL. ..JTeN be used in constructing the palace for the carnival at Montreal next month. The Governor General has accepted an invitation to be the guest of the city. Seventy-five trotting horses are entered for the races on the ice. Robert Harris, President of the New York, Lake Erie, and Western road, was unanimously elected President of the Northern Pacific line, and Thomas F. Oakes, of Boston, was chosen Vice President. This selection pleases the public interested in the securities of the road, and in Wall street it was looked upon with such favor that values immediately showed an upward tendency. FOREIGN. Karl Wager, one of the most pronounced of-the Berlin Socialists, has made some significant statements as to the spread of Communistic principles in Germany. Several newspapers have been established, and the burdens' of taxation are making new converts every day. The'only ground for discouragement to the Socialists is the stubborn refusal of Bismarck to sanction a revision of the German constitution on a more democratic basis Four thousand people committed suicide in Paris last year. In the Spanish Cortes, Castelar asserted that Alfonso's visit to Germany was imprudent, and accused the Sagasta Cabinet of being a tool of Germany and hostile to France. He was called to order fol- attacking Emperor WilliamA cipher letter from a Nihilist in London, who has been ii) communioation with some of the Irish extremists, advises a simultaneous attack upon the German and Russian Emperors The Mersey tunnel connecting Cheshire and Lancashire, England, has been completed: Cardinal Simeoni, the Papal Prime Minister, has made a number of declarations highly important to the Catholic Church in America. The most noticeable pointlieslna seeming l.beralization of the American branch, "to meet the exigencies of the times”—that is, there is to be “a broader study of the physical scierfces and a wider biblical exegesis.’’ The new programme thus foreshadowed will be unfolded to the American hierarchy, next November, at Baltimore.,...ln the Gamont colliery, in Wales, the breaking of a rope sent a cage to the bottom, killing ten men and a boy. | Boland, a journalist and speculator

of Brussels, who pretended to have bribed several French Deputies, has been fined two thousand francs and sentenced to three years' imprisonment lor obtaining money by false pretenses. Fifty acres of Parnell’s estate were plowed by farmers, who brought 160 plows and 320 horses..... King Alfonso accepted the res'gnatlon of the Spanish Cabinet, and intrusted Canovas del Castillo with the formation of a new Ministry Mgr. Cesare, a Idignitary of the Cathode church, was murdered in his bed at Rome, and his room plundered by the assassins..., .Great Britain has refused China permission to obstruct the Chinese rivers. ;The political situation of the heathen Chinee'is peculiar.