Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. The military noadomy appropriation bill was passed by the Senate on the 4th inst., with l an amendment providing that any cadet hereafter dismissed for hazing shall not be reappointed. A bill was favorably reported to relieve members of the Fite John Porter courtmartial from their oath of .secrecy, and a memorial was presented from a Grand Army post of Kansas protesting against Porter s reinstatement. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill granting to newspapers or press associations a copyright on their news foreight hours. Mr. Cockrell reported adversely on the bill to lend tents for the soldiers reunion at Chicago, as none Wore at hand. A bill was passed to punish the counterfeiting of securities of foreign governments. A resolution was adopted instructing the Attorney General to report the awards for damages caused by the erection of dams on the Fox and Wisconsin Ritters, with other information on the subject. In the House of Representatives, bills were reported to amend the Chinese immigration act, to prevent the adulteration of teas, and to permanently tmprovo the Krie Canal for free traffic. In committee of the whole on the naval appropriation bill, it was agrfted that the staff corps shall, after July, be largely reduced by retirements. A Bn* to extend the limits of the Yellow■tone Park passed the Senate on the sth inst. The Judiciary Committee made a favorable report on the bill providing for the collection of marriage and divorce statistics. A bill was introduced for a public building at Jackson. Mich. An act was passed to authorize the Postmaster General to lease buildings for Postoffices of the first, second, and ■»*> ird classes for ten years, at reasonable rates, fine House of Representatives adopted a resolution unseating Tranquillino Luna as delegate from New Mexico, and admitting F. A. Manganares, who was promptly sworn in. An adverse report was made on the resolution for the relief of sufferers by the overflow of the Lower Mississippi and by the cyclone in North Carolina, but a favorable report was handed in on a resolution requesting tne Secretary of War to inform the House whenever relief is needed along the Mississippi. There was a molonged debate on the naval appropriation bill. Mu. Cockrell presented a memorial in the Senate, on the Cth inst., from the united labor organizations of St. Louis, praying that the wholesale immigration of European mechanics be restricted. A memorial from the Senate of New Jersey opposing the Morrison tariff hill, was presented by Mr. Sewell. Bills were passed to appropriate f200,00(£to Col. Albert H. Emery for inventing a machine for testing iron and steel; to provide for a system of courts in § laces outside the territory of the United tales, and to appiopriate $s,(»00 for the improvement of the Mississippi delta. In executive session it was agreed to reconsider the vote on the Mexican treaty. The House of Representatives perfected and passed the naval appropriation bill by 250 to 1. The Wavs and Means Committee, by a vote of 7 to 5, agreed to make a. favorable report on the Morrison tariff hill on Monday, the 10th. Balt, poal. and lnmlier go on the free list. Bills were passed -by the .Senate on the 7th inst., appropriating $250,000 for-the erection *of a fire-proof building for the Hall of Records, constituting a majority of the Judges of the Supreme Court a quorum, and to repay S7OO to the heirs ot Maurice Givot, of New Orleans. A favorable report was made on the bill to forfeit lands granted to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company. The House.of Representative* voted to recommit the bill to retire Alfred Pleasantoa with the rank of Colonel, and a new measure was introduced to give him a pension of SIOO per month. A bill to pension, the widow of Gen. Frank P. Blair Wits repoit.'d. Bills were passed to increase the pension of Ward B. Burnett to sh>o per month, and to grant relief to Louisa Boddy for injuries at the hands of Modoc Indians. An evening session was held for the consideration of pension bills. The House of Representatives, on the Bth Inst., by a vote of 115 to 127, refused to go into sommittee to consider the bonded whisky bill. A favorable report was made on the bill for the irection of public buildings at Akron, Ohio, and Duluth, Minn. The Senate was not in session.

THE EAST.

It is found that the loss of the steamer City of Columbus was due to the carelessness of Capt. Wright, who was the only authorized pilot on board the ship.... John McGinnis was executed at Philadelphia lor murdering his mother-in-law. Two membees of the jury which acquitted Dukes of the murder of Capt. Nutt at Uniontown, Pa., have brought proceedings for criminal libel against a newspaper, and wlil institute damage suits against its editors. Rev. Joseph Cook, while taking a nap at Keene, N. Hi, was aroused by a local clergyman to attend a prayer-meeting at his church. A \s it was seven minutes too early, Mr. Cook seized the offender by the coat-collar and removed him from the d00r... .Theboiier in Trees’ dyeing establishment of I.awrenee, Mass., exploded killing one man and wounding two others mortally. Three buildings were demolished, and pieces of the boiler erushed in the roofs of dwellings 400 feet away. Mrs. Carrie Kilgore has been refused admission to the bar of the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Two Chinese boardlng-houso keepers were fined SIOO each and given one month’s imprisonment in New York, for allowing opium smoking on their premises. Several of the smokers were also fined. THE "WEST. The Chicago Tribune prints the A--ftsetegennserniSw»Taho.-. outbreak of.- .-She foot-and-mouth disease at Neosho Falls, Kas. A district circular-in Shape-of a diameter of fifty miles, with its center somewhere in (Greenwood and other counties, in Southeastern Kansas, is affected. Gov. Glick, a prominent stock-raiser, is giving exclusive official attention t!o the matter, and believes that the disease can be stamped out with the expenditure of $5,000. The locality is already closely quarantined. This is the first outbreak of this cattle-pest in America. The disease generally leaves the animal without feet. The office of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, corner of Adams and Franklin streets, Chicago, has been the victim of a heavy robbery which, lor audacity, has rarely been equaled. The amount stolen was about $27,000. The robbery was perpetrated at midday, while the employes were busy at their desks, the money having been abstracted almost from under their very noses. So skillfully was the job consummated that the thieves left no clew by which they could be tracked up As compared with last season, ’the hogs packed at Cincinnati the present winter decreased 60,000head’ while the comparative decline in weight approximates 21,400,000 pounds. The average cost, per 100 pounds gross, was $1.20 less this winter than last Frank Kande, the noted desperado, who was serving a life term in the penitentiary at Joliet, committed suicide a few nights ago. By tearing his underclothing into strips he made a rope, and hanged himself to the grating of his cell d00r....A propeller which reached Milwaukee the other day reported Lake Michigan completely frozen over, with occasional icebergs twenty-five feet high.... Farmers in Dane County, Wisconsin, report their winter wheat in better condition than foryears. . . _ Five men employed in the construction of a railroad in Pyle Canon, Union County, Ore., were caught under a mass of earth and rock and instantly killed.. ..A party of ten prospeetors wfao recently left Ratbdrutu, on the Northern Pacific Road, for the Creur d'Alene mines, are believed to have perished in the snow, as they have not been heard from for thirteen days. A Topeka dispatch says, “The cattle plague which has broken out in Woodson County, Kansas, proves to be the genuine foot-and-mouth disease and in its most viru- ■■ ’■ '' r "

lent form. Dr. Holcomb, United States Veterinary Surgeon at Fort Leavenworth, after visiting Woodson County Rnd examining tho cattle, pronounces the situation serious. Of one herd of 120, S O are affected, each animal either having Ipst a hoof or a portion of the leg. lu another herd of 96, 85 are affected. Theoo herds are in the same neighborhood, but the disease is spreading rapidly. The cuttle men of the Stale aro aroused aud will do all In their power tostairlp it out, and have already invited the aid of the State by passing n resolution at a large meeting in Emporia urging the Governor to coll a special session of the Legislature to pa.-s laws which will aid in its extermination. Tho disease made its appearance about throo weeks ago in Keith s herd, and, as the weather was extremely oold, and no such scourge ever haviug appeared in this State before, it was at first supposed that the feet had been frozen. The first symptoms notioed were ♦he jerking up of one leg by the cgttlo and arching their backs as if 001d.”..,.At Alta, Utah, a suowslido killed eleven jiersons 'and swept away the works of the new Euuna Mine. The snow was piled forty feet high. THE SOUTH. ffHE stockmen of Texas are said to be moving- for a division of the State on the 100th meridian, as their interests are totally different from those of citizens in the eastern portion. The Adjutant General is advised, that fence-cutting has nearly ceased, and that tnciosuraa are being rebuilt David McClain, white, was banged at Folkston, Ga., for tl.e murder of William F. Saxton in February, 1870. Harrison Williams, colored, was executed at Austin, Tex., and Noah Jackson, colored, was strung up at Lake Providence, La...;The Mississippi is now widening. At Blackflsb, Ark., the river is forty miles wide. Sixty miles is the flood width. El Paso (Tex.)telegram: “News lias reached here of an accident at the Prfeteas mines, Sonora. It is said that twenty men lie buried in one of the shafts, which caved in without a moment’s warning. —None of the bodies have yet been recovered. There is no hope sustained that any of the miners at work in the shaft at the time of the accident are alive." A New Orleans dispatch reports a serious break in the Mississippi levee above that city. The waters were pouring through in. torrents, and all efforts to mend it had proved unavailing. Small breaks had appeared at other points. The Tennessee River at Chattanooga had overflowed and railroad traffic in that vicinity was interrupted. The Cotton Exchange of Galveston unanimously adopted resolutions urging Texas Congressmen to oppose* the further coinage of silver dollars Col. B. B. Cash, the notorious South Carolina desperado, was captured by a posse of State Constables*at his home near Florence, but his son, who has outdone his father in deeds of violence and murder, escaped to the swamps in the neighborhood, where at last accounts ho was being liotly pressed by the officers of the law. The elder Cash was taken completely by surprise, and surrendered without a flglit, unconditionally. - ......1..-.--—==4=^= —=a===@ ._ r WASHINGTON. The Senate passed an important bill touchiug tho proceedings of the Supreme Court. A majority of the Justices are constituted a quorum. A. Justice will be prohibited from sitting in a case which he *has -heard below while oil circuit..... Ex-Senator Spencer recited to the SpringerCbmmittee his connection with the prosecutions of the mail contractors and Assistant Postmaster General Brady. Spencer claims to have been the man who started the bail rolling, yet he denies that he knows or ever knew anything likoly to damage the pleas of any of the defendants. Where statements which he has made are nailed homo and clinched by the testimony of meii of recognized probity, Spencer falls back on the declaration that if he made the allegations thus fixed on him he must have been drunk... .The German Minister at Washington has received iroiu Berlin the Congressional resolution on tho death of Herr Lasker, wit h an expression of regret by Prince Bisinark that he felt compelled to return it, The venerable Kenneth Raynor, Solicitor of the Treasury, died at Washington last week, after a few days’ illness. Mr. Raynor was 76 years of age, although he always desired to be considered much younger. He had been Solicitor of the Treasury since 1877, having been appointed by Ilayes. He was one of the two old Whigs who were found in the South through whose influence it was hoped to divide the Democratic party. Ex-Postmaster Key was the other. A. M. Gibson testified before Mr. Springer’s committee relative to his connection with the star-route investigation. He said he had received $5,000 for his services us counsel, and that it wasa small coin p-nsation in comparison to what was paid to other parties. Thewitnessfurthertestifledthutin prosecuting the star-route men the Government took the most complicated case, when it was, its business to take the simplest and plainest case. Continuing, Mr, Gibson said: “After Brewster was made Attorney General ho said the duties of his office were so engrossing that he could not give time to eases of this kind. He liad been in the case before simply to make an argument as to the legality of filing an information. That’s all he did, and for this he received $5,000.” About fifteen educational bills are before Congress for action. Senator Blair proposes to "appropriate $120,000,000 for common schools, to be expended within fifteen years in the States and Territories in proportion to illiteracy. Representative Willis "has introduced a measure to set aside $55,000,000 within ten years. Senator I-ogan’s bill provides - for the annual Appropriation of $50,000,000 from the internal revenue, and Representative Perkins introduced a similar measure for disposing of $30,000,000. .y POLITICAL. The Illinois Democratic Committee met at Peoria and decided that the State Convention to nominate candidates for State offi. eers and choose delegates to the National Convention at Chicago, should be held at Chicago on the 3d of July. The basis of representation will give 1,300 delegates. A strong sentiment was manifested in favor of nominating Mayor Carter H. Harrison, of Chicago, for Governor.... The Republican State Central Committee of lowa has published a pall fora State Convention, to be held in Bes Moines on Wednesday, April 30, to elect four delegates for the State at large to attend the Republican National Convention. A sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Postoffices and Post-Roads examined William Henry Smith, General Manager of the Associated Press, in regard to the relation of the association with the Western Union Telegraph Company. Mr. Smith explained that the Associated Press is a private business, enjoying no exclusive contracts; that its news is personal property; that its Wealthiest members take upon themselves (he largest payments for expenses: and that at some points it pays the telegraph company more than is asked from the papers receiving the reports. A bill’ has passed the Rhode Island House forbidding the location of dram-shops within 400 feet of schoolhouses.... The railroad supervising bill has passed both houses of the Mississippi Legislature. It provides for the appointment of three Commissioners by the Governor The Governor of California has issued a proclamation calling an extra session of the Legislature for tfic 3HK inst- The Republican State Committee of Wisconsin calls a convention April 30, at Madison, to elect delegates to tbe National Convention, nominate on electoral 1 ticket, and select a State Committee. Tbe regular State Convention will be held in September. The following nominations for State offices were made by the Louisiana Republican Convention, at New Orleans: Governor, John A. Stevenson, of Iberville; Lieutenant Governor, William BurwelU Secretary of State, F. W. Llggins; Attorney General, John H. Stone; Auditor, Claudius Mayon; Treasurer. Dr. A-

Duperrier: Superintendent of Education, B. F. Flanders, formerly sfib-treaetrer; A resolution wae offered in the convention instructing the delegates to the Chicago convention und greeted with applause,. It was rpferrod to the committee on resolutions, which reported in favor of Arthur. The sentiment of the convention, however, was so favorable to Logan that the, matter was not. pressed au<| the delegates go uninStr ueted. The Maine Democratic State Convention has been called to meet at Bangor on the 17th of June.... Hon H. Stone, nominated for Attorney General by the Louisiana Republloans, declines on the ground that ho Is a Democrat... .Ten towns in Ulster County, New York, voted "no license." Ellenville women threatened to boycott merchants who supported the whisky interest. John Kelly’s personal organ, the New York Star, strongly urges the nomination of the old ticket—Tilden and Hendricks. It pledges the enthusiastic support of the Tummanyites. THE WEEK'S FIRE RECORD. The week’s fire record, where a loss of SIO,OOO and upward was entailed, is as follows: Baker's wagon manufactory, Mishawaka, Ind., loss, $25,000; several stores at Chesterfield. HI, $50,000; Hayden's brass works, Lorain, Ohio, $35,000; a block of buildings at Amcsbury, Mass., $40,000; the opera house and Blizzard office, Oil City, Pa.. $50,000; a number of stores at Laurenburg, N. C. $40,000; a grain warehouse at La Grange, Mo., $30,000; the United States Stamping Works, Portland, Ct., $500,000; the City National Bank, the Observer office, and eight other fine buildings, in Utica, N. ¥., $800,000; an engine manufactory, at Painted Post, N. Y., $40,000; the Court House and records at Weatherford, Texas, $50,000; the Academy, at New Paltz, N. Y., $20,000; six fine build--mgs, at Cainsteo, N. Y., $100,000; a drug warehouse, at Fond du Lac; Wis., $10,000; a flouring mill, at Fentwater, Mich., $25,000; a steamboat, at Bastrop, La.. $30,000; a hotel, at Denton, Texas, $20,000; five business houses, at Seneca, Mo,. $10,000; a flouring mill, at Freeport, 111., $10,000; business property, at Waucedah. Mich., $10,000; the dyehouse of a bleaching mill, at Somerville, Mass., $20,000; a private school-house, at Fottstown, Pa., $30,000; several stores at Hannibal, Mo., $20,000; a grist-mill.atHori-con, Wis., $15,090; a wire factory, atWaterville. Me., $25,600; the Kiinball House. Ankoua, Minn., $15,000; a yarn factory, near Providence, R. 1., $20,000; Fardridge'B dry goods store, Detroit, $10,000; half the business portion of Odessa, Mo., $50,000; an oil-cloth factory at Philadelphia, $100,000; a New York Central freight house at Rhinebeck, N. Y., $40.000.- During the month of February there were 181 fires where the loss was SIO,OOO and over, the total losses aggregating $7,000,000. The total losses from fires in January were $12,000,000, making $19,000,000 for the first two months of the year. GENERAL. With reference to ex-Postmaster General James’ statements before the Springer committee, conveying the impression that the star route prosecutionsled to Garfield’s assassination, Charles H. Reed, Guiteau's counsel, asserts that in private conversation, the last one taking place the day before his execution, Guiteau solemnly averred that no one but God and himself knew of his purpose to murder the President... .The Ontario Legislature has decided that women shall bo admitted as students in the Toronto Provincial University, and the fair sex are now petitioning the local government for the right to vote. Boston capitalists liave invested $29,891,500 in the Mexican Central Road, tho Government granUng a subsidy -of~~SUSJ)GO per mile. Fresniilo, - where the divisions join, is 750 miles from the American border, and 475 from the City of Mexico... .The freeing of slaves in Cuba, which has been going on for several years under the law for the gradual extinction of slavery, is progressing favorably, and within abouttt year the last one will have been manumitted.... An increase in the weekly number- of failures is reported by the commercial- agencies. The total number for the United States and Canada was 325. Since the first of July 250,552,7."0 postal-cards have been Issued from the Postoffice Department at Washington, against 260,226,250 issued during tho corresponding period 6T last year. lie fore ,Tu ly there had been a gradual increase averaging 14 per cent, per year. The decrease since that time has been due to the introduction of the 2-cent letter postage...-Congress is being asked to prevent the further coinage of silver dollars on their present basis of valuation,,,. A great assemblage at Tresvillo, Mexico, witnessed the driving of the last,spike in the Mexican Central Hailrpad, making a continuous line from the capital to the Rio Grande. .... It is rumored in Ortawa that the Marquis of Lansdowno, Governor General of Canada, has been threatened by Chicago Fenians. The guards at his official residence, it is said, have been doubled... .The Ontario Legislature, by a majority vote, decided in favor of coeducation of the sexes, by passing a motion 111 favor of the admission of ladies to University College, Toronto. FOREIGN. The German Reichstag opened with the usual formalities on the 6th of March. Two significant points in the speech from the throne are the reassertion of the divine right of kings, and the intimation that the relations between Germany. Austria, and Russia are more friendly than they have been. The haste with which Berlin and Vienna have contradicted rumors of alliances will but cause many to think there is even more in the recent brotherly greetings than was at first supposed. .Tho Nirttonirt Literal mein-* bers of the Reichstag have agreed to await the International issue of the Lasker affair before acting on the matter at home.... Another suicide, due to gambling losses, occurred at Monte Carlo the other day, making the nineteenth since the Ist of January.... In the House of Commons, Gladstone said the Government had no intention of assuming control of Egypt, and that the troops would be withdrawn at the earliest moment possible... .The committee in the French Chamber of Deputies will report hi favor of the proposal to settle the pork question by the appointment of aboard for the inspection of pork imported into France... .One thousand rebels marching from El Obeid uptjn Khartoum were defeated by tribes friendly to Gen. Gordon. In tlie German Reichstag, the other day, tho death of Lasker was announced, the matter being a formal proceeding. Upon this the parties of the Left precipated the debate, which was fairly uproarious, but on the whole well repressed by the creatures of Bismarck, who rule the House. Tho dogma of the President of theßeichstag andßotUcber, Bismarck's First Assistant Despot, was that Bismarck must not he criticised. The mention of the American Congress once or twice created tumults which blocked ' all proceedings for several minute* each time Parnell and his followers intend to woriaup excitement in Ireland for thommendment of the land act, and to open subscriptions toward a special agitation fund The Italian Ambassador has been instructed to confer with the powers in regard to the proposed European demand upon the United States Government to legislate against dynamiters In a residence in a suburb of Vienna, opposite the mansion of Baron Rothschild, was found a quaniity of dynamite and nitro-glycerine. ....British ship-owners threaten to register their vsssels under a foreign flag if the proposed shipping bill becomes a law. The Irish Invincibles have not a monopoly of dynamite operations. It is reported that the Comte de Paris was sought to be assassinated last week by means of an infernal machine operated by clockwork, which was done up In a railway package and directed to film. Tbe package was found at a railway office in Lyons and examined. Had it reached its destination the domestics of tbe Count would have been tbe sufferers, as ho was at Cannes. Another dynamite machne exploded in the Lyons Custom House, killing t an official.... The French police

aro watching the movements of eighty, three suspects, who are supposed to be dynamiters. A dynamite plot has been ‘ discovered'and ' several packages of explosives have been seized.... For advocating assassination through the columns of Socialist newspapers in Farts, a man named Murphy was fined 1,000 frunes and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.... . A Radical paper of Madrid has been suppressed and its type and machinery confiscated in consequence of violent attacks on King Alfonso.. .. Since the murder of Sudeikin the Russian masses have been so scared that it is difficult to find persons willing to become policemen. ... .Minister .Sargent has decided not to resign on account of the Lasker resolution, blit will submit his cose to the State Department.