Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A dispatch from Monroe, La., states that Mullican and Clarke, who were convicted of the murder of old man Rogers and wife, last menth, wire taken from jail and banged by a m0b.... Samuel T. Wilson, a white- man, who was acting as guard over convicts, was lynched by a inob composed of colored men, at Skipworth’6 Landing, Miss., tor tbe brutal murder of a negro. Moses Fraley, the St. Louis speculator, has failed, losing on the Chicago Board about $400,000, while he is said to be short for a large amount of wheat at New York, besides dropping recently $190,000 in Union and Texas Pacific stocks. A combination formed against him in Chicago is said to have brought about the crash. Mr. Fraley states that his liabilities are about $1,000,000.... A confession has been mado by Cicero Jellereon, of Audubon, lowa, that ne and his brother-in-law hanged his rather for incest. They traveled twenty miles and back alter dark, taking the rope with them. A fire at Panama destroyed two blocks of houses and the public market building. The loss is estimated at $500,000. During the progress of the flames a mob began to rob the stores. The soldiers were called out, and many of the plundering party were shot. One soldier was shot for diso bey Ing orders. 'lheC hinese suffered heavily. Little' s Opera House, the Glens Falls Opera House, the Presbyterian Church, and the Union Hall building at Glens Falls, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. Thirty business firms who occupied stores under the opera houses and the Cnion Hall were burned out. The loss is estimated at $.50,000. Other fires reported during the week, where a loss of SIO,OOO and upward was involved, are shown in the annexed table: Losses. Trenton Falls, Ont., seventeen buildings.s 30,000 Alton, 111., dry goods 5t0re...... 35,000 Pittsburgh v Pa., planing mill. .tvrr-TJR .. 25,000 WBson, Kansas, flouring mill 30,000 Cincinnati,tannery........ 400,000 Greenville, Texas, business houses 15,000 South Coventry, Conn., flannel mill 135,000 Fitchville, Conn., cotton mill 100,000 Elkport, lowa, warehouse and contents.. 10,000 Fall River, Mass., cotton mill 600,000 Attica, Ind., two brick stores 15,000 Morris, 18., grain elevator. 15,000 New York City, business property 150,000 New Orleans, saddlery store 50,000 LeClaire, owa, hotel 10,000 Jackson, Mich, carriage factory 10.000 West Salem, O , twenty business houses 100,000 Devil’s Lake, Dak., store.. 15,000 Lindsay, Ont., convent. 20,000 Akron, 0., clothing store. . 45,000 Williamsport, Pa., sawmill 40,000 Bath, N. Y., planing mill 10,Ojo Pekin, 111., two grain e1evat0r5,..,,.,.™ 60,000 Menominee, Mich., saw mill 100,000 Marysville, Kan., business property 10,000 New York City, hotel 20,000 Cedar Springs, Mich., lumber 45,000 Fillmore City, Mich., sawmill 10,000 Pr.. irieburg, lowa, four stores 15,000 Dpumlaines, Til., business property.... —10,000 Coleman, Wis., saw-mill 10,boo Selins Grove, Pa., 5t0re5................. 15,000 Petersburg, Va., hotel 10,000 Halifax, N. S., tobacco factory 60,000 Kingston, Ont..tannery 40,000 Buchanan, Mich., lurniture factory 25,000 Brooklyn, N. Y., coffee-mill 165,000 The indictment against Gov, Ordway, of Dakota, charges the asking and reception of bribes. The accused, by his attorney, gave bail, at Yankton, in SIO,OOO. The Grand Jury, in a senes of resolutions, deny that Judge Edgerton or United States Attorney Campbell acted maliciously in promoting tho investigation. In voting for members of the Cortes throughout Spain the Liberals accuse Government officials of using their positions to Be ure tho return of ministerial candidates. Tin) Republicans will present a petition against the scandalous suppression of electoral rights.... Thirty convicts were injured at Portsmouth, England, by the fall of a cavqlry barracks which they were engaged in building ~. It is announced that a new planet has been discovered by a Viennese astronomer. When the pleuro-pDeumonla bill came up in the Senate, April 28, Mr. Coke secured the adoption of an amendment exempting Texas fever from the diseases included in the act, and Mr. Plumb succeeded to having the appropriation cut down so $150,00(1. Mr. Cullom reported an original b.U to establish a commission to regulate interstate commerce. The House of Representatives passed a bill for the sale of a portion of the Fort Hayes Military Reservation in Kansas, and adopted a resolution to attend the unveiling of the statue of Chief Justice Marshall Bills were Introduced for the enlargement of the Court House at Jackson, Tenn.; to authorize the lighting of navigable rivers by electricity; to prohibit the importation of articles falsly bearing an American brand, and to provide lor tbe World’s Exposition atNcw Orleans. Mr. Hewitt explained his charge that the Secretary of the Navy had failed to cover into the Treasury $200,000 received for condemned vessels, but deposited it subject to his check. ... , . _.