Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Favorable reports were made in the Sonate, on the 29th nit., on resolutions to loan flags to the city of Charlotte, N. C., for celebrating the Mecklenburg declaration of independence, and to the fair at Richmond in aid of disabled Confederate soldiers, but the committee will recommend no more legislation of this sort, A joint resolution was favorably reported to appropriate $25,000 to oelebrate the completion of the Washington monument. A resolution was offered directing the preparation of a bill to provide that hereafter no patent shall be granted except to citisens of the United States. The pleuro-pneu-monia bill was debated at great length and passed. The House of Representatives passeji a joint resolution directing the President to enforce an immediate settlement of the claim of 3. E. Wheelock against the Government of Venezuela for tortures inflicted by officers of that republic. The tariff bill was taken up in committee of the whole, and Mr. Hiscock spoke in opposition thereto. He instituted a comparison between the condition of the business of the country prior to the tariff of 1861 and its oondition at the present time, and from the comparison deduced the conclusion that the protective system was a better one for the people. Agricultural - products, he maintained, seenred a higher price now than twenty years ago—a sesult which was attributable to protection. Mr. Hurd supported the measure in a spetch which attracted the attention of every member. He held that, subject to the needs of toe Government, every man had the right to buy where goods were cheapest and sell where be could realize the highest price. He claimed that the protective system had locked the United States out of the markets of the world; be urged that our manufacturers look outward across the seas for patrons, and closed by saying that if toe Ohio Democratic platform would not allow the ■ abolition of war ttxes, he would appeal to the people of his native State to repudiate toe heresy. The passage of bills to authorize the Oregon Central Road to bridge the Willamette Rives:, and to ratify the agreement with, three Indian tribes of Montana for a portion of their reservation required by the Northern Pacific Road, followed by a long debate on the shipping Mil, constituted the business of the Senate on the 30th nit. In the House a bill was reported to secure postal telegraphy on the contract system. A joint resolution was passed authorizing the Secretary of War, on proper application,,to loan tents and flags for soldiers’ reunions and to grant condemned cannon for monumental purposes. After which the tariff bill was taken up in committee of the whole and discussed at great length. Mr. Dlngley (Rep.), Of Maine, denied tnat protection had caused the decline in American commerce. Mr. Hewitt (Dem.). ot New York, declared that there wa* stagnation everywere in the protected industries. The wages of American workmen were not sufficient to give them even decent support, and during the last twenty years their progress had been downward. In the iron works last year twothirds were in blast, while this year nearly twothtrds were closed and the wages of the army of workers were reduced. He was one of the unfortuna' e manufacturers who had reduced Wages rather than turn Ms men out altogether. Mr. Kelley (Rep.) of Pennsylvania, interrupted to say he thanked Mr. Hewitt for indorsing his doctrine. Production had so iar outrun consumption that a readjustment of labor and capital would have to be made. Mr. Hewitt declared that protection would not prevent over-production, nut on the contrary created that, lamentable condition of affairs. Nothing could be done with the surplus but pile it up as long as money lasted and then stop and let the workmen starve. Trades Unions were all the protection workingmen needed. Under the present tariff these unions could not but be feeble and finally die. He held that the condition of English workmen had steadily improved since the era of free trade. He believed the tariff would have to go, but the progress should be gradual. He would begin by putting raw materials on the free list; then he would limit the rates of duties. If these moves turned out badly he would panss; if not, he would go on to the very end. Mr. Warner (Democrat), of Ohio, held that the Morrison bill was not inr harmeny with the Ohio platform. That was bomb-proof, and would win all the time. Mr. Cntcheon (Rep.), of Michgan, opposed the bill as being wrong in principle, unscientific in construction, hurtful in tendencies, and destructive in its effects. It was neither protection. free t ade, nor revenue only. It was protection with a free trade slash twenty inches wide through it. It was a monster, shapeless, lame, and blind. The country wanted a tariff not for revenue, not for protection, but for revenue and protection, one and inseparable. When the shipping bill came up In the Senate on the Ist inst.. Mr. Frye asserted that the admission to American registry of vessels bought abroad would take from American ships the coastwise trade of tlie United States, bringing in all the old hulks of England. Mr. Vest retorted that the last thing in the range of imagination is the idea that any human being can cheat a Yankee. The Senate agreed to indefinitely itostponc action on the bill to release the ' members of the original Fitz-John Porter court-martial from the obligation of secrecy. Bills were favorably reported to' aid the construction of a ship canal between Lake Union and Puget Sound, Washington Territory, and to amend act relating to the importation of spurious teas. In the House Mr. Dorsheimer spoke against the tariff bill. Mr. Eaton declared the measure directly opposed to the Constitution, and he would do his utmost to defeat it. Mr. Hammond insisted that the Democrats were earnest in their purpose to reduce taxation and diminish the revenue. Mr. Finerty opposed the measure in a speech of considerable length. A resolution’ was aaopca by toe Senate, on the 2d inst.. calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as. to what action had been taken in regard to the entries of public lands in Colorado by the Estes Park Company and othcij English corporations. Mr. Garland, from the Committee on Territories, made an adverse report on the House bill providing that no person shall be appointed Governor of a Territory unless he has been for two years a resident thereof, because no such limitation can be placed ontiic constitutional power of the President. During the discussing on the shipping bill Mr. Vest offered an amendment to admit ship-building material free of duty and to place vessels purchased abroad; on the American register. NO action was taken. Adjourned till the sth. The House devoted tlic entire day’s session to debate on the tariff bill. Mr. Nutting (Rep.) deprecated the agitation of the matter lot purely political reasons. Mr. Deuster iDem. ) gave notice of an amendment he proposed to offer provided that after July 1 no duty should b? levied on any kind of raw material, He depicted the advantages following such a course, and advocated‘the abolition ot the duty on wool as a jneasui© of benefit to both manufacturers aud farmers. Mr. McMullen (Rep.) denounced the present tariff as a monstrous piece of injustice. He declared that it had destroyed commerce, cut down the sales of American manufacturers, and depleted the revenues of American agriculture. In conclusion he pictured the dangers of an overflowing Tieasury, which led thieves to devise every means from larceny to legislative robbery t> get their hands into the public money. Mr. Miller (Rep.), of Pennsylvania, declared that the protective system had been tried, and had inured to the benefit of every class of industry’. Mr. Cox (Dem.), of New York, argued in favor of throwing open the markets of the world to American industries. He believed in commerce and progress, not in exclusion, stagnation and starvation. In conclusion he expressed surprise that Mr. Finerty should oppose the free-ship amendment to the shipping bill, and thus give England and other foreign countries $140,000,000 in fares and freightage which should go to. America. Mr. Springer (Dcm.) gave the history oi toe Tariff Commission, and quoted from its report to show’ that the interests of the country demanded a reduction of 20 per cent. The tariff bill had only reduced duties 5.63 per cent. A reduction of revenue to the extent of at least $60,000,000 was imperatively demanded. He denied that American workingmen were protected against foreign labor by the present high tariff. Protection was of advantage , only to the manufacturers. It left thei laborers to fight and starve. The Democrats intended to< go before the country on this issue, and he felt . sure toe people would favor the reform now advocated by the Democratic party.. There was no session of the Senate on the 3d tost The House, after prolonged debate passed’the bill amending the Chinese immigration act by a vote of 184 to 13. Mr. Henley argued that too measure received unanimous indorsement in the Pacific States and Territories. Mt. Rice show edit hat a Chinese merchant to San Francisco gave fß.oou to the Garfield Hospital fund, and Mr. Bndd retaliated by a remark that the Chtocßc sold their daughters for the vilest purposes. Mr. Hitt contended that the present law had nearly stopped immigration from China, and that rartber radical legislation is not neces«*y.

THE EAST. John Wentz, a iNcw York fanner, tried io poison three of his children, aged 12, 10, andTJ years, by doses of paris green. The children refused to take the doses, he had prepared for them. Wentz himself swallowed the stuff, and died soon after. He had been drinking hard... .In a six days’ walking match at New York, Fitzgerald covered 610 miles, beating all previous YcVords, while Rowell had 602 miles to his credit. Panchot was third, with, 566 miles 4 laps, and Noremae fourth, with 545 miles 5 laps .. . In the Fourth Court of Common Pleas at Philadelphia, Judge Thayer admitted Mrs. Carrie G. Kilgore to practice, after every other court had denied her the right.,. ,»A gale on Lake Champlain, in which the waves rolled thirty feet high, injured the piers at Burlington for two miles, causing a damage of SIOO,OOO. Fokest fires in the Catskill Mountain region of New York and the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania have done vast damage. Near Ashland, in the latter State, a tract of fifty square miles of timber was burned over, The village of Gilman’s Depot, on the Port Jarvis Road, in New York, was wiped out by flames. In the vicinity of Elkton, Md., thousands of acres of valuable timber were destroyed. The towns of Brisbin and Thompson, in Tioga County, Pa., were swept away by the flames, the inhabitants being compelled to flee for their lives. The thriving town of Houtzdale, Pa., also fell a victim to the flames, scarcely a house being left, and the destitute citizens have sent out an appeal for help. The damage wrought by . these .forest fires will amount to many millions of dollars. ’ THE WEST. In broad daylight, four men rode to the Medicine Valley Bank, located in the heart of the town of Medicine Lodge, Kan., and, dismounting, two went in while the others took care of the horses outside. Cashier George Geppert and President E. W. Payne, of the bank, were the only persons in at the time. The two bandits, presenting their Winchester rifles and revolvers, said; “Give us your money or we will kill you.” Geppert and Payne refused, and instantly the robbers shot them, killing Geppert and injuring Payne fatally. The firing aroused the town and brought the Marshal and others to the spot, and the robbers, hastily mounting their horses, fled. Mr. Geppert was a prominent business-man, while Mr. Payne was the editor of the Index, and a wealthy and influential stockman .... The poor-house of Van Buren County, Michigan, with forty-five inmates, took fire at 2 o’clock in the morning. Fourteen inmates were smothered in their beds or burned alive. Only one .body was recognizable. The four men who attempted rob a bank at Medicine Lodge, Kan., and killed Cashier Geppert and fatally wounded President Payne, were captured by citizens and lodged in jail. A mob forced the doors, shot one robber in his cell and hanged the other to a tree outside. A dispatch from Kansas City gives these meager accounts of the quadruple execution; The chase was short. The bandits seemed to perceive that flight was useless and came to a halt three miles west of Medicine Lodge, where, being surrounded by the posse, a hot skirmish took place. Their ammunition gone, hopelesly hemmed in on all sides, the bandits held up their hands. They were taken to Medicine Lodge in irons and placed in jail under a strong guard. The citizens, exasperated by the sight of the dead Cashier, overpowered the guard and seized the robbers. One of the bandits fired on the crowed and was instantly riddled with bullets. The other three were taken out of town some distance and hanged to trees. Two 6t them died game, but the others prayed for mercy. The names of the men proved to be Henry Brown, the Marshal, and Ben Wheeler, Assistant Marshal, at Caldwell, and John Wesley and William Smith, cowboys. The firstnamed is a noted desperado, and one of the best shots in the West. It was Brown who fired on the crowd and thus escaped the hair ter. The men denied nothing and did not pretend to excuse themselves. A general strike on the main line and branches of the Union Pacific Road was inaugurated the other morning, fifteen hundred men going out at Omaha. One coach of the hourly train at Council Bluffs was taken off anil side-tracked by the strikers. At dark the announcement was made by General Manager Clark that the order for a redaction in wages had been rescinded.... Five members of a family named Werner, of Appleton, Wisconsin, have been attacked with trichiniaßis from eating uncooked pork sausage. Waterloo (Iowa) Dispatch; “A triple tragedy occurred at Roland, a small place ’ in the edge of Story County, about thirteen miles south of Radcliffe. A man,; whose name it is impossible to. learn, attacked his wife with an ax. She defended herself as well as she could, at the same time calling for help. The brother of the infuriated husband interfered, and attempted to protect the woman. At this the husband, who is a burly man, seized his brother and threw him into a deep well. As he did this he either lost his footing or sprang.into the well intentionally himself. When the neighbors, attracted by the outcry, arrived on the scene they found the two men at the bottom of the well, both dead, while the woman was unconscious. She is badly wounded, and at la£t reports it is. thought there is no possibility of her recovery.” The civilized tribes of Indian Territory are exceedingly hostile to the allotment of lands in severalty among the savages, on the ground that it would demoralize the tribal organizations. Bushyhead, the principal chief of the Cherokees, has filed at Washington a protest against the bill. Tlie Pawnees have leased 128,000 acres to cattleraisers for'five years, at 3 cents per acre. WASHINGTON. ‘ Gen. Adam Badeau, late Consul General at Havana, makes a serious charge against Secretary Frelinghuysen and his administration of the State Department, which will probably form the basis of a Congressional investigation. William Pitt Kellogg was acquitted of complicity in the star-route cases, for the reason that his reception of the drafts and note from Price occurred so long ago as to be barred by the statute of limitations. One interesting feature of the Jeannette investigation, says a Washington dispatch, is the love and devotion displayed by Mrs. De Long. Day after day, week after week, she sits in her place at the table in the committee room of Naval Affairs with her dead husband’s diary before her, the most attentive watcher of the proceedings. Not a word or a move escapes her. She prompts her counsel, furnishes data for pertinent questions to the witnesses, and in many ways gives evidence of close study and thorough knowledge of all the important facte and incidents of that ill-fated voyage in which her brave husband gave up his life.. . .Secretary Folger has issued a call for 8- per cents to the amount of $10,000,1)00.

The following is a recapitulation of the regular monthly debt statement issued on the Ist inst.; Interest-bearing debt— Four and one-lialt per cents $ 250.000,000 Four per cents;... . 737.657, '.*so Three per cents... ....... 254.62i.f50 Refunding certificates : 298.450Navy pension fund ... 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt 11,250,572,350 Matured debt $ 12,128,405 Debt bearing no interest — . -Legal-tendern0te5...'......,........ 340,739.521 Certificates ot deposit, i............. 15,025,000 Gold arid silver certificates .. 217,400,431 Fractional currency..;.. 6,H8H.t07 ■; - Total without Interest $ 586,238,089 #-J* ’ Total debt (principa1).......,..;....51,854,938,814 Totalinterest 8,845,125 Total cash in Treasury. 399,753,205 Debt, less cash In Treasury.. 1,4^4,080, 733 Decrease during April 6.232,073 Decrease ot debt since June 30, 1881 87,060,473 Current liabilitiesinterest duo and unpaid.2.l42,7< 9 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 12.128,405 Interest thereon.;.. 313,686 Gold and silver certificates 217,490,431 U. S. notes held for redemption ot certificates of deposit. 15,025,000 Cash balance available. 152,052,973 T0ta1.399,753,205 Available assets — . Cash in Treasury $ 399,753,205 Bonds issued to Pacific railway com- , panies, interest payable by United States — Principal outstanding $ 64,623,312 Interest accrued, not yet Paid,...... ' 1,292,470 Interest paid by United States 61,160,798 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service $ 18,012,840 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings ..... ........... 655,193 Balance ot interest paid by United States . 42.402.759 The President sent to the Senato last week the names of Henry W. Cannon, of Minnesota, as the successor of Hon. John Jay Knox, Comptroller of the Currency, and James A. Connolly, of Illinois, to be S Solicitor of the Treasury. Connolly-is at ; resent District Attorney for the Southern istrict of Illinois. POLITICAL. The Chicago Times (Independent Dem.) prints what it calls a “carefully prepared summary,” showing the complexion of the delegation to the National Republican Convention from all the States and Territories, which shows the following result (411 votes being necessary to a choice); Blaine.. 324 ! John Sherman 23 Arthur 200; Hawley...' 12 Edmunds 79jDoubtful 40 Logan 501 The, Chicago Daily News (Arthur Republican places the figures somewhat different from the Times, viz. ; Arthur .337.'Lagan .......... .... 42 81aine.......... ... .271 The field 42 Edmunds 1071 It is charged that the Secretary of the Republican State Committee of Georgia has issued circulars “ directing” Federal officers in that State to contribute to a fund for political purposes. Postmaster General Gresham purposes resisting the efforts of the “assessor.” The Nebraska Republican State Convention, which met at Lincoln, organized by electing Congressman E. K. Valentine Chairman. The following were elected dele-gates-at-large to Chicago. John M. Thurston, N. S. Harwood, John Jansen, and N. S. Brooks. They are all said to be for Blaine. A resolution to instruct for Blaine was tabled by a vote of 220 to 207. The platform declares for the taxation of such home products as are luxuries and for a tariff that will protect home industries without being burdensome to the people. The national convention is requested to provide that in future representation at national conventions shall be in proportion to the number of Republican votes cast for President in the last preceding Presidential election. The resolutions close with an indorsement of President Arthur’s policy. At the Montana Republican Convention, held at Bozeman, Mantle and Sanders were chosen delegates to Chicago, with Learning and Knowles as alternates. Sanders is for Blaine and Mantle for Edmunds. The alternates are for Arthur and Edmunds respectively. The New Mexico Republican Convention elected H. W. Llewellyn and Eugene Romero delegates'to Chicago. There were no instructions, but they are believed to favor Arthur, with Logan as second choice. Strong resolutions indorsing Arthur’s administration were adopted. GENERAL. A SPECIAL agent of the Interior Department in Colorado reports that the Estes Park Company, organized in England by the Earl of Dunraven, has secured thirty claims through persons who never saw the Park, and obtained eight more from people who made occasional visits, but in no case was the law complied with. A Quebec dispatch reports that the ship Alantine, of Drammen, Norway, was wrecked in a northeast gale and sleet storm, five miles east of Wolfe Island Station, Magdalen Islands. She broke up immeNineteen lives were lost. The second "mate is the only survivor. The hangman at Cincinnati swung off William McHugh, who killed his wife with a knife in Sixth street market, three years ago. The execution took place in an in* closure in the rear of the burned court house. While on the way to the gallows, the condemned man knelt in prayer; He had been convicted of murder in the first degree in each of three trials.... Thomas Dickson was executed at Bloomfield,,Mo., for the murder of James McNab, four years ago. Four thousand people witnessed the hanging... .Williamßrooks (colored) was swung off at Alexandria, La., for the murder of big. wife.. . .Enoch Brown (colored) was executed for wife-murder at Halifax; N- C... .Jacob Dobson, one of the gang whp murdered Sheriff Adkins in Boone County, West Virginia, was lynched that Grithsville, that State. The High Bluff branch of the Manitoba Farmers’ Union has adopted resolutions calling upon the Provincial Legislature to petition the Imperial Government for the right to become an independent British colony, and declaring that nothing short of free trade or secession will satisfy the people of Manitoba.. . .Lieut. Emory telegraphs from St. John’s to Secretary Chandler that two whalers -have sailed for the artie regions, in the hope of securing the Greely reward, and two more will soon take their departure. The iron steamer State of Florida was wrecked at sea about the 27th of April. There is a mystery surrounding her fate. One story is that she was destroyed by dynamiters, another that she was crushed by an iceberg. It is believed that nearly, if not all, of the crew-were picked up by a passing steamer.... Near Independence, lowa, John Duffy’s 13-year-old daughter perished by fire, and his Wife and infant child were fatally burned. FOREIGN, William Shaw, a Home-Rule Member of Parliament, is .gaining great favor and success in organizing opposition to Parnell. He differs from Parnell in his plans fox the

relief of the Irish peasantry, and believes that the position of the, Government is as near right as possible at this time, aqd that Parnell's opposition will prove a dismal failure.... The struggle for a ship-canal from , Liverpool to Manchester has I already cost $1,000,000 in lawyer’s fees, and the question appears to be as far . from settlement as ever.... The Russian Government recently called for a loan of £15,000.000, with which to construct railways, and now announces that seventeen times the desired amountwasoffered... . The- Empress Anna, widow’ of Emperor Ferdinand IV., of Austria, has just died at Prague, aged 80 years.