Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1884 — THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

THE EAST.

In a beer saloon at Boston, Col. B. J. Fox, a wealthy but dissolute New Yorker, married Hannah J. Siverett, an adventuress. Both got drunk after the ceremony, and all visitors to the place were free to imbibe at the bridegroom’s expense. A three-story frame house was burned on Stanton street, in Now York city. Cornelius Van Riper, the occupant, and his three children perished within the building, and h : s wife, jumping from the third story, was killed instantaneously. By the burning of Powers & Wrightman’s chemical works, at Philadelphia, a loss of SI,OOJ,UOJ was incurred. Hundreds of people quitted their houses, anticipating an explosion of chotuicafs, and burning oil towed in all directions through the streets, eiti ens being called on to extricate the fire engines and hose. Every fire company in the city, save one. was on duty. New York dealers advanced the of quinine, owing to the large amonnt of that article destroyed in Powers & Wrightman's establishment. Wix.Lii.iiPlybeitq, a bartsnder in ’fioston, whj*e suffering from delirum tremens, killed himself by ripping open his abodmen and shaving a slice from h's thigh. THE WEST. The people of Omaha were startled the other day by an explosion that shook the entire city. Buildings everywhere'trembledso as to cause persons to run out of doors. It was soon learned that Steele, Johnson Sc. Co.'s powder-house, a short distance south of the city, had exploded and >- killed four boys: Chris Madsen, Jack Stitt, William Abney, and William Melius. None of them was over 17 years od. They were hunting around the powder-house, and were blown to pieces. The head of one was blown off, another’s legs v,ere gone, one was found with his arms torn away, and another's remains were scattered in every direction. An immense hole in the earth wji9 caused by the explosion, and tie s were blown into •mail ftagments....At Toledo, Ohio, Robert Bailey (colored! was convicted of marrying a white cirl contrary to the statute of 1840, and was sentenced to thrye months’ imprisonment nnd SIOO fine—tho full penalty.... The Hebrew Relief Society of Milwaukee reports tO • Russian reiugtes hear Bismarck in a condition bordering on starvation and nakedness and will endeavor to 1 ra se s\<Xo for their relief... .harry Tuttle, one of tho j men engaged in the recent affray with deputy i marshals, was taken tiom the hospital at ! fipearflsh, D. T., w hile in a dying condition, and lynched. V Ohbin A. Carpenter was last week removed from the jail at Lincoln to the jail at.! Petersburg, 111., there to await trial for the 1 murder of Zora Burns. The L neoln County I Board of Supervisors have employed a Petersburg lawyer to assist in the prosecution. The Sheriff at Jackson, Ohio banged Luke and William Jones for the murder of Anderson Lackey. They were taken out of the front door of the Jail to an inclosurc surrounding the scaflold. William Jones struggled until his limbs touched his brother's body. In the Illinois Penitentiary at Joliet, Frank Rande, the uotoriousorlminal, crushed in Deputy Warden McDonald's skull with a poker and slashed Keeper Madden on the arm with a knife. He-wasthenseled by two edbvict* and thrown to the toor, where be was held until Assistant Deputy Warden Gar-

Tin arrived, when he was ordered to procoed to tho deputy's off!re. On the way he seized a knife from the work-table and attacked Garvin, but the latter first broke his oano / over Ramie's head, and then shot him hi the ribs, Keeper McDonald at dearly tbe saiffe time shooting at his head, but the bullet only plowed around the back of the skull, rendering Ramie unconsotous. There are hopes that Capt. McDonald will recover, but It Is feared that Rande has not been fatally injured. During tho melee the conduct or the other oonyicts was praiseworthy... .Judd Crouch and Dab Holcomb were arrested last Week for the Crouch murder, perpetrated near Jackson, Mich., Nov. 21 last. Officials olalm that tho circumstantial cvideitco against the men warrants thearreata. . ■ —„ tue south. The law is suspended at Hot Springs, Ark., and tho Committee of Fourteen, some of whom are under indictment for crimes in other States, control the city. Twenty persons were driven out at the point of the bayonet In one day, and It is alleged that Editor More Harris must also shove... . .By the consent of nearly all tho creditors, tho city of Helena, Ark., has compromised ■ its debt of $380,000 at 50 per cent.,,. .A whale which was captured near Port Koval, 8. C., gave Dirth to a young one. \ Above and below Shreveport, La., for a hundred niHes, says a Southern dispatch, the country is a shallow sea. Tht planters lose heavily in fences, stock, and horses, aud the colored population are in great distress. Three United States Judges sitting cu banc at Nashville, Tenn., have pronounced unconstitutional and void the Tennessee law which erected the State Railroad Commission. Tho law is held to have attempted to regulate interstate commerce; and to have discriminated agalnet corporations in lavor of individuals: end to have been directed against railroads alone, whereas it should have embraced Within its provisions regulations for ail common carriers and to have Veen too indefinite. The court refused to canvass, the question of vested rights, the reasons for the railroads victory over the State being already numerous enough. There Is talk of a special Session of the Legislature to frame a statute avoiding the legal pitfalls which await any attempt on the part of tho people to protect themselves... .lion Gillian was hanged at Bay boro, N. ('., Kr killing Henry Carter wfth a club.' VVi 111 arn M oo re, a neg l o was exedited at Franklin, La., ior the murder of a Chinaman. The Sheriff found, after the condemned man had been swung off, that htsfeet Touched the tioor, and he was raised to the platform and the ropo shortened.... .M. '& folk, the defaulting State Ireasurerof Tennessee, died quite suddenly of heart disease at Nashville. The Citizens’ Committee, of Hot Springs, Ark., has banished from that city Moses 0. Harris, editor of the Daily Hurmshoe. WASHINGTON. It is announced from Washington that the Public Lands Committee of the House has voted to recommend the forfeiture of all the granted lands a’ong that portion of the Northern Pacific Rai roild which was not completed July 4, 1879, which was the limit of time fixed by the aot of Congress. The total area of the lands which would be included In such forfeiture is about 38,(09,000 acres, and the value thereof is estimated from $2 to $2.25 per acre, or, in round figures, SBO 000, 7 000.... Information coines from iho White House that there has been no thought of recalling Minister Sargent from Berlin. Rf.prksehentive Brewer has been directed by the House Committee on Manufactures to report favorably his bill to impose a fine of not more than $lO3, or punishment by imprisonment for three months, on any person interfering in any way with a commercial traveler selling goods by sample. The decrease of the public debt for February was The available cash balance in the Treasury is $145,534,281. Following is the’Ofliclat statement: Interest-bearing deb Four and one-half pier cents $ 250,000.000 Fourper cents. 737.048,550 Three per cents. £64,831,550 Ref unding certificates 305.800 Navy pension fund...... 14. 000,000 Total Interest-bearing debt .... .$1,266,841,900 Matured debt...., $ 12,067,365 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes, ........ 846,739.586 Certificates of deposit . . 77. 187115,000 Gold and silver Certificates... .V..... 218,581,321 Fractional currency 6,986,3U7 Total without Interest „$ 590,522,214 Total debt (principal).., $1,869,430,479 Total interest 10,364,105 Total cash In treasury.. 396,263,451 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,453,501,133 Decrease during February 2,582,587 Decrease of debt since June 30, 188 1 67,590,074 Current liabilities — Interest due and unpaid $ 1,572,837 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 12.067,365 Interest thereon 322,646 Gold and silver certificates. 218,581,321 U. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 18,215,000 Casu baiance available 145,534,211 Total $ 396,293,451 Available assets— Cash in treasury. $ 396.293,451 Bonds issued to Pacific rail way companies, interest payable by United States — Principal outstanding... $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid....... 646,235 Interest paid by United States 61,160,793 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service .....$ 17,936,869 By cash payments, 5 per cent. UK earnings.. 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 42,569,730 POLITICAL. The lowa Senate lias passed the Donnan bill prohibiting tho manufacture of ale, wine, beer, and- all intoxicating liquors whatever, by a vote of 35 to 13... .The Governor of California is about to calf an extra season of- the Legislature to take Action in regard to the unpaid taxes of the Central Pacifio Hoad, which aggregate $1,074,000. Gen. John B. Henderson returned to St. Louis last week from a trip of several weeks through the East. He thinks Arthur will carry New York and the other Middle States, Edmunds most of the Eastern States, Blaine will have the support of the reinalndor of the Eastern States, and 11 good many delegates from the South and West, also Pennsylyan a, in case that Stated n't go for Arthur. He looks on Sherman and Logan also as strong candidates. » p"’ The Copiali Investigating Committee adjourned sine die at New Orleans on the 27th ult., after examining 152 witnesses The Ind.ana Democratic State Convention will be held at Indianapolis, June 25. President Arthur last week sent to Congress the report of the Civil Service Commission. The document admits that there have been several violations of the law in regard to political assessments, but the amount collected was not one- ourth as much as formerly. It is still possible, say tie Commi&s oners, to prumiso the spoils of IOu.OOO offices a- rewards tor party victory, | but the civil service act is a success, and has 1 passe 1 its most difficult point The Ohio I Republican Sta'e Convention has t een called to meet at Columbus, on April S 3 Tho Rhode Island Republican Convention will meet March 20 Rodney 1), Wells, a relative of Chauneey I. Filler, has been-appoint-ed Postmaster of Rt. Louis. New York telfgram: The Herald publishes an interview with Charles A. Dana, of the Now York Nun, on the Presidential candidates. Mr. Dana first gave official utteranoe to the now familiar putase: "Mr. Tilden will under no circumstances be a candidate.” Now, however, he anuounecs a much more startling suggestion —namely,that "nothing is more probab e than that the Democratic Convention will nominate Mr. 'ldden and wait for bis reply before proceeding any further." The election to fill the vacancy

caused by thd death of D. C. Haskell in the Second Congressional* District, of Kansas, came off on tho Ist inst., and E. H. Funston, of Carlisle, Kan., the Republican nominee, is elected by nbqut 4,000 11 a ority over Sarnu-1' A. Klvgs, Kuslonist. pf Lawrence. The vote Was the heaviest for years...,Tho prohibition bill passed the lowa House by a vote of AJ to-41 —all (he Republicans tuid one Di-mo-Tirat'yotJig for the measure. There being a prohibition majority of tw< nty-four in the Senate, Its passogo in that body is certain. THE WEEK’S FIRE RECORD. The fire losses of the week, as reported by telegraph, are as follows: Six large stores at Shelby ville, Tonn.j loss$30,000; five buildings at Winamac, Ind., $15,000; three stores at Woodstock, 111., $20,010; four lesideucos at Pittsburgh. $10,000; fifty-two houses at Mayaguse. t'orto Kico, $50,000; u woolen machinery mill at Worcester, Mass., $50,000; throe fine residences in New Orleans, $30,000; street oar stables at Pittsburgh, $15,000; a business block at Cassville, W, Vo., $20,000; several shops In the Reformatory Prison at lonia, Mich., $15,000; Union Hall Block, Jackson, Mioh., $200,000; a warehouse at St. Paul, Minn., $125,000; a hotel, newspaper office, and five stores at. Henrietta, Texas, $25,000; a large clothing store at Corsicana, Texas, $50,000; a dry goods store at Green Bay. Wis„ $10,000; the hoist house of the Cali. umetjjon and Steel Works, Sfluth Chicago, lUTfiffipplbO: two hotels at ..Denver, Col., $15,-. dWftlSrhotel at Compton, Canada, $15,000; a clock manufactory at Louisville, Ky. s $60,000; a flouring mill at Osceola,. lowa, $20,000; general business houses ati Greenville, S. G., $30,000; a brush factory at Toledo, Ohio, $15,000; a 'louring mill ah' Nicholas)illo, Ky., $-.0,000; u store and residence at Harrisburg, Ohio, $20,000; the St. Charles Hotel and other buildings at. Tuncoin, Neti., $75,0 )0; a porlion of Hunter's cotton ml!!, Philadelphia, $30,000; two hotels and other property a; Duluth, Minn., $40,000:1 a wool warehouse at Boston, SBO,OO-1 i Powers & IVriy h(man's chemical works, Philadelphia, $1,000,0.(1; the Richmond (Va.) cedar .works, $10,000; some shops at Fairbault, 1 Minn., $10,000; a warehouse and contents at Paris, Ky., $20,0 0; a wagon factory at Kacino, Wls., $35,i00; manufacturing proper- , t? at Boston, $200,000; a flouring mill at Btdo- , rado, 0., $20,000; the business section of Iredell, Texas, $50,000; a carpet mill at Philadelphia, $25,000. GENERAL. R. Ryan, correspondent of the Irish JEorid, was arrested at Winnipeg, Manitoba, to do frontier service, to which he signed the Adjutant General’s name. ■ Seven seamen of the United States steamer Michigan, now lying at Erie, have volunteered to go out with the Greely relief expedition, and have passed the requisite examination by surgeons. Hon. William H. Hunt, United States Minister to Russia, died of dropsy at i St. Petersburg on the 27th of February. Mr. ■ Hunt was a native of Louisiana, and came I Of a prominent family. When the War broke j out he adhered to the Union and remained a steadfast supporter of the cause to the 1 end. He was first brought into prominence when he became the counsel for Gov. Keilovg in his contest with McEhery. i He subsequently became a candidate for At- ! torney General on the Republican ticket, and ! was elected and served one term. He was re-elected as Attorney General on the ticket with Packard, but wns thrown out of office through the influence of the MacVeagh Commission, which overturned the Fackard Government and installed Nieholl j while preparations wore being made to seat I Hayes in Washington. Soon after this Mr. Hunt was appei ded a Judge of the Court of Claims at Washington, to fill a vacancy caused by death. Though this wns a life position he resigned it on March 5, 11-81, to become Seeietary of the Navy, and received the appointment as Minister to St. Petersburg April 12, 18S2. John Lowe, Secretary of tlie Canadian Department of Agriculture, was ex- ! amined by a special Parliamentary committee ; at Ottawa, and swore that the statistics issued from Washington as to the immigration to tho United States iroui Canada were incorrect, and that American customs officers had been instructed to fraudulently augment the number of persons leaving the Dominion. .. .The steamer Norseman, on arriving at Boston from Liverpool, reported having steamed along a solid wall of ice for 110 miles. — ; FOREIGN. The explosion at the Victoria Railway Station, London, threw the great city into a state of excitement similar to that ! which it experienced eleven months ago, be- j fore Dr. Gallagher's expedition had gone to ; Its reward. The Super ntendentof Explosives ; has looked at the ruins of tho depot, and says dynamite did the business. His reason for : this belief is that the greatest damage was .done laterally, wh ch Is not 1 ikely to charao- i terue tho effects of more powerful explosives. The damage is $20,000... .The British House of Commons elected Arthur . Wellesley Peel Speaker. The London police found a large quantity of explosives under the Charing Cross Railway station, and a clerk discovered in the cloak room a box thought to coniain .dynamite. A statement was made in the House of Commons that an infernal machine of American manufacture had been found at the Paddington Railway station... .Prince Rrapotkine, the anarchist, imprisoned after a trial in Southern Fiance a year ago, is to be Lani.-hed from the republic. This clemency is the result of several influences. The Prince is ft great scholar, and hi - health is j very bad ... .Russia and the Pope have come to aut understanding, and a Ru sian Minister. to tho Vatican w ill be appointed. The police authorities of Paris are convinced that tho Irish revolutionists have made that city the headquarters in Europe for tho perpetration of their dynamite schemes....C. A. So mer, the Norwegian Minister of State, has been impeached, and sentenced to forfeit his place and pay costs Of $5,000. The English Government is about to |end to Washington a courteous dispatch relative to the countenance and assistance Hi ven to dynamiters by American citizens. The clocks discovered in the London railway stations are said to have been made in the United Statca <: and in one of the valises was a copy of the New York Sun of Feb. 0. ' The police ari ested three men and seized their stock of dynamite, on information that they intended to blow up the courts. The victory of the British troops at Teb, near Trlnkitat, under the command of Gen. Grahcm, was complete. It appears that tho English force, numbering about 5,000 men, formed Pself In battle o der in an oblong square, with the Highlanders m the advance, as they weie at Tel el-Keblr, and commenced its inarch on the Arab army. They had proceeded but a 11 ilo when the Arabs epenei fire upon them, at the same time slowly retreating. The British steadily ad" vanced lor three miles, until tboy came in si.ht of the Arab earthworks. The Hiahlanders. cheering, moved forward until they were within 1 00 yards of the works, and Waited for the.r ranks to close up. The Arabs were on their flanks and in front in great numbers, but still the Scotch pressed on. 'the Arabs charged them wifi thoir spears, only to be mown down iiko grass in great numbers. Having cleared the space in front of them, the British army stormed t e works and carried them, and alter four hours' fighting the whole camp was in their possession, together with the cannon which Baker Pasha's Eg- ptian she -p had lost ttareo weeks before. The Arabs retreated, with the Briitsh troopers pursuing them. In spite of the fierceness of the Arab attack, the British aro reported to have l .st but fortyfour killed ar.d 142 woundird. while the Arabs lost UO 0 killed, besides the wounded, the number Of which is not given. Gen. Graham's loroe advanced and occupied Tokar within a few hours after his victory tit Teb. The opinion is said to prevail in Enj..'... . .. . ... ’ - - t- -- -—A' •'

gland among the Irishmen that the dynamite outrages endanger Irish lives far morultix&n English; that even If successful they will result In the death of ten Irb-hmen for that of ono Englishman, and will unest all Irish relorm for years. The Tories already use dynamite as a strong argument against the extension of the franchise in Ire and, and the opinion Is universally expressed that an appeal to the American Government by Lord Granville Is now certain A bust of Longfellow was unvoiledi at Westminster Abbey, In the presence of Harl Granville, Minister Lowell, and the Misses Longfellow, 406 placed in the Poets' Corner The Freaoh Government has decided to expel suspected dyaamltards from Franoe.