Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Congress bad a dull and uninteresting session on the Sth inst. The Senate passed bills to r permit the bridging of the "Rio Grande at Eagle Pass and Laiedo, Texas. A bill was introduced for the deposit In the Treasury of the receipts of the money-order system, and the payment of Its expenses out of the appropriations. After some debate on the naval appropriation bill, Mr. Hale gave notice of an amendment to set aside $1,750,000 for the ereotion of two factories for making guns from sixinch caliber to one hundred tena The House of Representatives passed bills lor the appointment of a commission to run the boundary line between Indian Territory and Texas; declaring that the Supreme Court of each Territory shall consist of a Chief Justice and three associates; and providing that Governors of Territories must have been for two years residents thereof before their appointment. In the Senate on April 9, the whole time was devoted to debate on the naval appropriation bill, during which Mr. Vest created something of a sensation by charging that the Secretary of the Navy would allow his personal feelings and partisan bias to do tinners in a public capacity that the best Interests of the country would not warrant. In the House a struggle arose as to which of the many pending special orders should obtain precedence in consideration. Mr. Dinglcy essayed to bring up the Shipping bill, but the effort was unsuccessful, the motion being defeated—yeas 76, nays 156. Mr. Reagan met with like fate, his motion to consider the Inter-State Commerce bill being voted down—yeas 101, nays 120. The Speaker ruled that the unfinished business was on the< Oregon Central Land-Grant bill. Mr. Stock - slager, asked the House to consider the public building bills, and moved to go into committee of the whole for the consideration of such bills. The antagonists of these measures and the more prominent advocates of the Oregon Central bUI united in opposition to the motion, but thev were unsuccessful, and the House, by a vote of yeas 10u, nays 61, went into committee of the whole, Mr. Wellborn in the chair. Bills for public buildings at Keokuk, lowa, and Waco, Tex., werepassed. A communication from the Secretary ol the Navy, urging an appropriation of $175,003 for a new revenue cruiser for the waters of Alaska was presented to the Senate on the 1 Oth inst. A favora de report was made on the bill to authorize the bridging of the Mississippi at St. Louis. Bills were introduced to protect employes of railroads engaged in Inter-State commerce, and to forfeit the land grant of the New Orleans and Vicksburg road. After prolonged debate on the Naval Appropriation bill, the Senate adjourned to the 14th. In the House, Mr. Eaton reported a substitute for the Senate bill governing the election of President and Vice President. A joint resolution was introduced directing the Postmaster General to apply the most effective means to protect the mails on postal cars from tire. The House went into committee of the whole to consider bills for public buildings. Favorable reports were made on measures for postoflices at New Albany, Pittsburgh, Chattanooga, and Augusta, Me.; but the House adjourned without taking action t’’croon. The Senate bill offering a reward of $25,000 for rescuing or ascertaining the fate of the Greely arctic expedition passed the House of Representatives on the 11th inst. The House adopted a resolution declaring the charges made by Mr. Keifer against H. V. Boynton not sustained by evidence. A bill for the forfeiture of the Northern Pacific land grant was reported. A message from the President was presented, urging the appropriation of $15,000,000 for armaments for sea-coast fortifica ions. An evening session was held for the consideration of pension bills. The Senate was not in session. In the House of Representatives, on the 12th, favorable reports wore made on bills to permit fruit-growers to manufacture brandy without the payment of tax, granting lettercarriers a month's leave of absence each year, and for the acceptance of the Illinois and Michigan CanaL Eulogies on the late Representative Herndon of Alabama, were delivered by nine members. The Senate was not in session.

The will of Mrs. Oswald Ottendorfer, of New York, covering property valued at $3,000,600, bequeaths $25,000 for distribution to employes of the Staats-Zeitung, and scatters about $75,000 among ch'arltable and educational institutions... .John Dillman, wifemurderer, was executed at Eastern, Pa. The exposition of the Keely motor has been again postponed, as the “work of perfecting the graduation" is not finished.... The Gloucester fishing schooner Nelson 1. McFarland and its crew of five men were lost in a recent gale.... N. B. Pierson and Thomas Vedder, brothers-in-law, of Suspension Bridge, N. Y., drove to Goat Island and quarreled. Vedder shot Pierson through the head and then it is supposed committed suicide by jumping into the Niagara Rapids. Maj. Thomas E. Moore, a leading member of the Salvation Army of America, was arrested in New York on the charge of grand larceny. TSE WEST. The Board of Trade at Minneapolis has petitioned the Postmaster General to change all the mails as far east as New York and Boston so that they will certainly arrive in Minneapolis before 4 p. m., as it interferes with their dinner hour.... The Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railroad Directors have increased their stock to $30,000,000. Two distilling companies of Pekin, Illinois, have brought suit for $5,000 each Associatlorfir damages by restraining their productive capacity in the interest of the pool A special grand jury, composed wholly of leading business men, has been impaneled at Cincinnati to investigate the riot and the burning of the court house.... The Adjutant General of Ohio has placed under arrest Col. Mott and Lieut. Col. Phillips, of the Fourth Regiment, for misconduct while on duty at the Cincinnati riots.,..ln the Sharon divorce case at San Francisco, a female witness undertook to draw a revolver on one of the counsel, and her son made a similar attempt. Judge Sullivan declined to hear further testimony unless the policeman at the entrance to the court room would certify that no one present was armed..... It was learned in Cleveland that two young scions of wealthy families, named W. H. Boardman and Gussie Bissell, were recently married in a suburban church. The young lady's mother offered to take her to Paris, when she confessed the elopement.

N. Fleetwood and wife, living four miies south of Oakland, Coles County, 111., were brutally murdered a few nights since. The assassins broke the old man’s skull with some heavy instrument, and to make sure of their work cut his throat. They then murdered his wife, set fire to the bed, and escaped without wakening the restof the family, who were sleeping upstairs. No reason can be given for the murder. The old folks were inoffensive, honest country people. The tragedy produced the most intense excitement in the neighborhood.... The widow of Alexander C. Wingate was awarded $5,000 by the United States Court at Indianapolis against the Ohio and Mississiy pi hailroad for the death of her husband, who was shot 'on the cars of that road by a drunken passenger..... .The leading'creditors of Brown, Bonnell & Co., of Youngstown, Ohio, have matured plans to place that extensive iron works on its feet. The Chicago Tribune’s special cor-’ respondent in the Idaho gold fields sums up the situation thus: “It is nonsense to write the camp down, as some are doing, ft i»criminal towrite it up—to boom it, as the Northern Pacific and a few subsid:zed papers are doing. The man does not live who can say of his own knowledge that the district is not the richest gold-producing region ever discovered. On the other band, no one can pretend to know that the amount of gold to lie taken out will be anything like adequate to the exoitement."....The members of the Western whisky pool convened in Chicago,

and induced the disgruntled distillers of Pekin to withdraw their suits for damages. •H. B. Millers states that the Western Export Association is perfectly solvent; that after May 1 production will be reduced to 20 percent, of the running capacity, and that the price of whisky will be left at $1.15 per ga110n.... By a vote of nine to five the Galesburg (lU-) City Council Increased the saloon license fee from S6OO to $1,200 and changed the closing boor from 11 p. m. to 10 p. m Juan H. Patron, ex-Speaker of the New Mexican Legislature, was assassinated at Las Vegas by a cowboy.... .Heavy rains have fallen in California recently. The rivers are swollen and have been many washduts. News comes from the Idaho gold regions of the discovery of quartz leads on Eagle Creek, said to be as rich in paying ore as the Leadville carbonate. The first discovery was made by a boy. The prospectors are greatly elated, and anticipate a splendid harvest. Many claims have been already bought by capitalists. One vein is from six to ten feet in width, and assays S2O per ton. The snow is fast disappearing, and the prospectors will toon be able to enter fully on the work of mining.... The train-load of corn contributed by the people of Butler County, Kansas, to the Ohio River sufferers was sold at auction in Cincinnati at from two to three cents per bushel above market rates, realizing $7,000. ....Victor W. Clough, of Geneseo, 111., made 100 miles on roller-skates in five minutes less than ten hours. When he left the track the muscles of his legs were swollen and numb.... Theodore A. Hurd, of Leavenworth, has been appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, to succeed D. J. Brewer, who was called to Ihe Federal Bench—.An unsuccessful attempt to break jail at Milwaukee by fifteen prisoners, was prevented "By the j Aller's wife, who, hearing the disturbance, notified the police. Jailer Walsh received severe Injuries. THE SOUTH. Solomon Fkoman, an old and wealthy citizen of Louisville, who since October has become coo feeble to move about, has sued for divorce on the ground that his wife had confessed making several attempts to poison him, and bad finally fled. Frank James, the Missouri bandit, when arraigned at Huntsville, Ala., pleaded not guilty to the Mussel Shoals robbery, and his trial was set tor April 16, Six negroes, of eleven in a boat, were drowned by the upsetting of their skiff while crossing the Mississippi River, near Vicksburg. L. R, Redmond* the famous illicit distiller of South Carolina, isto be returned to Columbia Prison from Auburn Penitentiary, where he is serving a term for killing revenue officers. Senator Butler securedjhe change by showing that the prisoner is a cripple, carrying seven bullets, and is dying by inches in a cold climate. The Pocahontas (Va) mine was entered last week, and the remains of the victims of the explosion were removed. Some were headless trunks, others had the arms and legs torn away, and all were unrecognizable, save by their wearing apparel or other special marks. Death was believed to be instantaneous in all cases. Eight prisoners confined in the jail at Gainesville, Green County, Ark., escaped by overpowering the jailer. A posse of citizens started in pursuit. One of the prisoners, a burglar, was killed, and three were secured after they had been severely wounded. The jailer was dangerously wounded by his assailants. WASHINGTON. John T. Cramer, a clerk in the Treasury Department, Was called into the corridor by a Washington grocer and badly pummeled, for writing insulting letters to a lady. Soon afterward Secretary Folger ordered Cramer's dismissal. Gen. Adam Badeau, Consul General to Cuba, has resigned. A commttee of stockholders of the wrecked Pacific National Bank ot Boston has forwarded to Washington a series of fourteen charges against Comptroller Knox, supported by evidence, and threatens to institute criminal proceedings. Knox says he will not resign until these charges are thoroughly investigated. ? POLITICAL. = At a conference of Independent Republicans in New York City the prevailing sentiment was in favor of Edmunds and Lincoln. Blaine had friends, but it was urged that he could not carry New York State. The Independents will send a delegation to labor with the delegates to the National Republican Convention. The Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania appointed sixty Randall delegates to Chicago, but left them uninstructed. W. W. H. Davis, a county editor, was nominated for Congressman-at-large At the Republican Congressional Convention for the Albany District, after the election of a presiding officer, a mob made a rush for the platform and threw off the Chairman and Secretary. A scene of wild disorder was followed by the appointment in the same room of rival delegations to Chicago J. G. Cannon has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Fifteenth Illinois District The Republicans of the District of Columbia selected Postmaster Conger and Perry Carson as delegates to Chicago, and voted down a rcsoluton instructing them for Logan. It is thought in Washington on account of the intimate relations between TilPennsylvania Democratic Convention to indorse the former is a sure indication that he will not be a candidate for the Presidency.... The New Hampshire Democratic State Convention for the election of delegates to the Chicago Convention will be held May 31.

District conventions to select delegates to the National Republican Convention were held in the various Congressional Districts of Indiana on the 10th inst. Following is a summary of the preferences, so far as known: First District—Gen. Sherman, 2; Second District—Unknown, 2; Third District —Unknown, 2; Fourth District— Harrison, E; Fifth District—Harrison, 2; Sixth DistrictEdmunds, 1; Blaine, 1; Seventh District— Harrison, 2; Eighth District—Blaine, 2; Ninth District —Unknown, 2: Tenth District —Blaine, 2; Eleventh District—Harrison, 2; Twelfth District—Unknown, 2; Thirteenth District—Unknown, 2. In the House of Representatives, at Washington, Mr. Hopkins, Chairman of the special Keifer-Boynton committee, reported .that the charges preferred by ex-Speaker Keifer against Gen. Boynton, the Washington correspondent, had not been sustained. Gen. Keifer was present, but made no objection to the adoption of the report. It is understood that Mr.Keifer tried to induce the Republican leaders, particularly Hisco, k and Reed, to oppose the adoption, but they refused. The ex-Speaker has now determined to appeal to his constituents for a double vindication. He wants them to re-eleet him to Congress and send him as a delegate to the National Republican Convention... .The Missouri delegation to the Chicago Republican Convention is said to stand 11 for Blaine, 9 for Arthur, 7 for Logan, and 5 for Edmunds. Washington telegram: “Virginia politicians are in a fluny of excitement over the report that Senator Rfddieberger and John D. Wise and Benjamin S. Hooper, Readjuster Congressmen, paid a visit to Mr. Blaine and remained closeted with him for a considerable length of time. Tbis is interpreted to mean that Mahone Is making terms with Blaine, believing him to be the strongest cand date The straight-out Virginia Republicans, or Wickham-Dezendorf party, will have, it is skid, one-half of ttye delegation? and, as their votes will be -cast for Blaine, Mahone now proposes to give him the rest if he can secure for himself the recognition that suchanofler should be worth." Gen.'Denver, in whose honor Denver, Cbl’ was named, and who was at one time Governor of Kansas/ is the latest person

mentioned as a Democratic Presidential candidate. He has a literary bureau at work for him. THE WEEK'S FIRE RECORD. loss of SIO,OOO and upward was involved, is shown in the annexed tabulated summary: ixisses. Scranton* lowa, business property....s2o,ooo Aurora, Ind., Freiburg's distillery 1. lOu.Ok) St. Louis, Ma. wire rope factory.so,ooo Shreveport, La., cotton mi 11.............. 30,00*1 Philadelphia, woolen mi 11.... *lo,ooo East Saginaw, Mich., furniture factory.. 15,000 Bertamont, Mich., saw-mi11...j 20,00 fl Hampton, lowa, grain elevator 15,000 West Point, Ga, cotton warehouses 150,003 Parsons, Kan., flouring mill 10,000 New York, apartment house.. 200,000 Philadelphia, malt house s 60,000 Moberly, Mo„ railway warehouse........ 30,000 Chatham, Vi, business property 15,00) Pensacola, Fla., bank and 5t0re5......... 35, oqo Boston, warehouse and contents 30,000 Marseilles, HL, Clark's paper mill 60,000 Port Deposit, Md., stores 35,000 St. Louis, Mo., business property 75,00 u Montreal, tea warehouse.3o,oo3 Athens, Texas, business block 80,000; Evansville, Ind., small stores 10,000 Muncie, Ind., barn and live stock.... iw.oooi Waverly. N. Y., railway shops,. iJo,OpO Churchill, Md., carriage factory?. . .... ..> is.ooq Hubbardston, Mich., ten bus ness houses. 30,000 Huntsville, Tex., a square of stores 80,000 Hampton, Va., thirty buildings „... 125,'KXX Athol. Mass., Cook's b10ck....25,0-00 Montreal, iron foundry .... 60,c00 Corsicana, Tex., wholesale grocery store. 60,000; Van Alstyne, Tex., five stores 25,000. Pensacola, Fla., hotel, depot, etc 65,000 Augusta, Ark., business property 15,0 K) Winnipeg, Manitoba, planing mills 20,000 Detroit, Daily Times office 20,00 A Lanesville, Minn... stores 10,000 Knowlesvllle, N. ¥.. business property... 16,000 GENERAL The First National Bank of Monmouth, 111., closed its doors, owing to the discovery by some of the Directors, tjs is alleged, that the Cashier had used about $120,000 of the money of the concern for hiej own purposes, and had lost it in speculation; ....T. R. Jenkins & Sons, provision mer-j chants, of Baltimore, who have been rated at over $500,000, suspended payment on account] of the decline in grain and pork. Theii] liabilities are said to be over $200,000, onehalf of which is due to the city banks... The Bank Examiner at St. Albans, Vt., ordered the First National Bank to close be*" cause it could not pay its drafts in Boston? Unfortunate speculations in stocks are charged against the officers... .Lee, Potts & Co., pork-packers at Richmond, Va., havei failed for $200,000, principally due in Chicago?; Thomas Scott, a well-known thief,lyingin jail at Jackson, Mich., made to the Mayor and nine leading citizens surprising statements In regard to the Crouch murders.' The Prosecuting Attorney then offered him $5,000 in cash, a pardon from the Governor] and a ticket to Liverpool if he would divulge! the name of the murderer. His re-{ fusal to do so stamps him as a 1iar....; James McHenry, the English railway mag-] nate, was arrested by a Federal marshal on board a steamship about to leave New York,' on account of a judgment obtained years ago! by the Erie Road. Rather than be delayed,, -he turned over to President Jewett bonds' and stocks aggregating $1,800,000, with a written promise to pay the remainder. J. B. A. Beique, an extensive contractor for water-works in the Canadian towns, has been compelled to suspend, with liabilities of ' $155,000... .The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company has for the first time in seventeen years"passed its dividend, causing its stock to drop in the Boston market from 225 to 200.... The steamer Grecian landed at Boston 886 immigrants who were assisted from Galway by the Tuke fund to the extend of from $5 to S4O per family. Nearly all have started westward. Most of them had been evicted from Irish estates... .The complications arising from the collapse of the Garden City Warehouse Company were increased by the arrest of H. J. Dike on a capias secured by the First National Bank of Chicago. Postmaster General Gresham has made arrangements by -which a fast-mail train on the Central Pacific Road will hereafter be run west from Ogden, Utah, making the time to San Francisco in thirty-nine hours. The mail time between New York and San Francisco is thereby reduced twentyfour hours. . The Governor General of Canada will visit Manitoba thia summer, and make a brief • stop at Chicago..... H. C. Atkins, Assistant General Superintendent of the St. Paul Road,! fell in the street at La Crosse, from a stroke of paralysis. A man calling himself Dr. Coss recently wrote from Chicago to Sir John A. Macdonald that he -could unveil a plot matured in the United States to destroy the Canadian Parliament buildings with dynamite. Coss was invited to visit Ottawa, where he is said to have given satisfactory evidence; to sustain his charges. ; Col. Aguero, the Cuban leader who' crossed from Key West, made hi? way toward the interior and was joined by numerous sac-i tions. The government has called upon Spain for more troops, and has re-established the;

censorship over dispatches. A coal operator well knoWn throughout the United States, when Interviewed in Chicago, stated his belief that anthracite wilß sell at from 26 to 50 cents per ton less this) summer than last, as the pool '/has but little, strength. Soft coal is lower, and the production is increasing... .The Mexican Govern, mens secured peace with the mercantile) class by agreeing that only goods actually sold shall be stamped. . , ' Charles Reade, the popular English novelist, died in Lon lon the other day, aged, 70 years. For some months he had been in delicate health. Other deaths among during the week were: M. Jean Baptiste, Dumas, a French , litterateur and man; Dr. James G. Ramsey, physician; and author, of Nashville, Tenntl Ex-Congressman Charles D. Hodges, of Can rollton, HL: Harrison Gray Otis, a distin-j guished citizen of Boston; ex-Lieut. Gov.] Jabez Fitch, of Ohio; Emanuel Gerbel, GerJ man poet; Jem Ward, the old-time English, pugilist; Rev. Thomas A. Cheek, a noted lowa] colored minister; Henry Hitchcock, of Gales] burg. 111., a prominent railroad man; Jarneu Lake, of Rockford, HL, who was Quarter-! master under Gen. Rosecrans: Gustav Rich-* ter, famousGermanpainter; William Procter, the well-known soap manufacturer, and Alfi Burnett, a noted humorist, both of Cincin] nati; ex-State Treasurer John M. Milliken,’ of Ohio.

Aguero and his followers in Cuba are marching toward Bazamo, the seat of former insurrections, and are hailed with joy. by the villagers on the route. His band has been largely augmented. Some plantations have been burned, and tax collectors despoiled of their funds. .>. A floating paragraph about the sale of relics from the scaffold oa on' which Osawatomie Brown was hanged calls out a statement that the. original structure was demolished and carried off piecemeal by Gen. Patterson’s command in the latter part of July, 1861. , foreign. The London Observer, the organ of the clubs, says that if the American law cannot reach the dynamiters it ought to be altered so that it may. It urges the British Government to make a demand in this direction, and says that Americans should be held to the doctrine urged by them at the time of the Alabama claims—that it is "the duty 1 of every government to suck municipal law*, as will prevent injury to citizens of friendly states.”.... There are serious strikes in various parts of Germany. In Saxons ’inost"<sf the stonecutters, masons, apd giassworkers have struck. There is general dissatisfaction among the cary enters also. The spread of the strike movement seriously alarms the capitalist classes throughout t.ie empire.... Mr. Kenny. a Parnellite member of Parliament, in a speech to h s 'constituants at Ennis,, Ire and, quoted with approval Biggar’s description of Earl Spencer

M a drunken - housebreaker A letter from Japan statps that the Army is to be increased to 100,000, and that the new conscription laws require three years’ service of all male citizens between 47 and 40 years York, United States Consul at Mannheim,’ Germany, died recently of apoplexy in an English railway car According to advices from Hue, the Annamites state that Hoang Ho has been evacuated. .. .Ghishin, banker, of Charleroi and Antwerp; Belgium, has failed. Liabilities," $3,000,000.... A new Russian loan of $7,500,000 will be devoted to the construction of railways.... Marquis Tseng has been summoned to Pekin. It is -expected he will return to England.