Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — THE HEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE HEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. A WELL *f natural gas, of eight thousand horse power, was struck in Pittsburgh at a depth of 15,000 feet The financial situation does not improve sufficiently fast to allay serious apprehensions, says a New York dispatch of May 24. It is said that the Bank of Montreal has recently poured into Wall street $8,000,000 in gold. A syndicate has taken from Fisk A Hatch all their Government bonds, which must prove a measure of great relief to the banks. James 11, Keene has offered his creditors notes payable in twelve and eighteen months. The common stocks of" only five railways on the list stand above par, and of late the greatest depreciation is m dividend-payers. The stock market is again demoralized. Burlington, in the-face of a quarterly dividend, closed at 111. Lake Shore was driven to 83J. Erie secondmortgage bonds fell from 61J to 55J. Northwestern common closed at 96§, and St. Paul at 67 J. Delaware and Hudson was hammered from 95 to 88J, and Lackawanna from 106 to 978- Pullman closed at 99. At Savannah, New York, an express and a passenger train came into collision on the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Bailroad, killing four men outright and seriously injuring nine others. The accident was Speed by the carelessness of the engineer the express train, it is thought. One of the injured will probably die of his wounds. ... .Brabender, President of the broken savings bank at Erie, Pennsylvania, was taken to jail, at his own request, for protection against mob violence.... A verdict of SIO,OOO was obtained against the Brooklyn Oity Bailwav Company, for running OTer a child and cutting off a limb... .James Keene’s liabilities are now estimated at about $176,000.

THE WEST. In the City Hospital at Kansas City Durfus‘Weaver, a maniac, after attacking two patients and Steward Winfrey with a knife and. attempting to bum the structure, was shqt dead by the steward... .Henry Dillon, of Akron, Ohio, desires to find his children, who were carried away by their mother. He has recently inherited a large fortune in California. A detective of Kansas City states that A. H. Sheldon, formerly President of the Bine Spring Milling Company, with $50,000 in his possession, employed two detectives to arrest him and conduct him to a train, where, assuming a complete disguise, he left for Now York and sailed for England. The story of his abduction at the instance of his partner is said to be false William Marshall, an advance agent in the United States army, who enlisted in 1823, recently died at Fort Mackinac, after thirty-six years of continuous service at that post. When the New York express from Chicago reached Jackson, Mich., the other night, three men informed the passengers in the rear coach that they must move into the next ear; and as the travelers passed out

on the platform they were relieved of all their valuables by the men. The robbery was bo skillfully effeoted that the train moved ®ff before the amazed victims cenld give an alarm.... Daniel McCamley, an 18-year-old youth, who was born in Rhode Island, was a witness in a Justice Court at Dubuque, lowa. In reply to questions he said he did not know the nature of an oath, had never been to a Sunday-school, could not read or write, had never heard of God, and believed that Andrew Jackson was President of the United States.... A 6-year-old girl, the daughter of William Dyke, living near Hillsdale, Mich., was murdered near that place. David Stone, a half-witted uncle of the girl, was arrested for the crime.... A new species of worm is said to be ravaging the cornfields of McLean County, Dlinoi9. It is about an inch long, of yellowish color, and of the diameter of a pin.... Keports of the condition of the grain crops in Illinois, lowa, Minnesota, and Dakota continue to be very favorable... .The Nebraska Diocese of the P. E. Church elected Dr. Worthington, of Detroit, Mich., Bishop, as successor to Dr. Clarkson.

A HORBYIFYING tragedy was enacted at St. Louis. At an early hour in the morning Mrs. Alexander Edmont entered her husband's room, where she procured a razor, and, returning to her own room, deliberately cut the throats of her 3-months-old baby and 4-year-old daughter. Passing to another room she tried to cut the throat of a third child, a 6-year-old girl. The screams of the child awakened the woman’s husband. While he was dressing . the wounds of his child his wife attempted to cut her own throat, inflicting a dangerous and probably fetal wound. Mrs Edmont was no doubt insane r-when she committed the terrible deetfe. .She had been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, but it was thought that she had been permanently cured George Aiylerson, an aged farmer, of Bowling Green, Ohio, was beaten to death with a hickory cane by his insane wife, who has twioe been confined in an asylum. ... .Jack Hanley has been convicted of prize-fighting in Saunders County * Neb., and will serve a term in the penitentiary. ... .The State Veterinary Surgeon- of Kansas, after a protracted tour, reports glanders prevailing among horses in fifteen counties. f There boilers in the sash factory of Carr, Byder & Wheeler, at Dubnqne exploded the other day, killing five persons and seriously wounding several others. The engineer is said to have been running with butlittle water.

THE SOUTH. Ellett, Dewey & Co., wholesale dry goods, Richmond, Va., have failed for $200,000. ) r i Thomas H. 6mith, an age d merchant of Baltimore, has been expelled from the Christian Church for taking a dollar from the contribution bncket He explains that on his rounds as a deacon he changed a bill for a lady and thoughtlessly retained it Heavy rains in the river districts of Louisiana have badly damaged the crops. . Planters and business-men arc much discouraged. WAMIinOTOn. Some of the Democratic Congressmen predict that Congress will adjourn about the middle of Jane. Nearly till are of

opinion that it will adjourn before the meeting of the National Democratic Convcntion. Much will depend on the action of the Senate ih the matter of the appropriation bills. ‘ The » House Committee oil, Agriculture lhas decided to report adversely a resolution appropriating $25,000 for the purchase ot seeds for distribution among the sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi and its tributaries. Bepresentative King . was present, and read a telegram from his? State to the effect that the people were on the point of starvation, and would die unless seeds were immediately distributed. The members of the committee were of the opinion that if star-! vation was imminent the distribution food, and not seeds, would be proper.... A bill granting a pension of SSO per month to' Mrs. DeLong, widow of the ill-fated Jeannette explorer, will be reported favorably, to the House. ' —j- "

Twenty Southern Congressmen have had a conference recently for the purpose' of devising means to procure the adoption! of legislation this session reducing the ms ternal-re venue taxation. It is thought that the plan agreed upon is to call up aJjfll already introduced removing the tax on fruit brandies, and seek to amend it by inserting a provision removing Ihe tobacco. The Southern men do not hope for favorable action on the part of the Ways and Means Committee. Capt. George H. Perkins, U. S. N., was ordered to take command of the Hartford, the flagship of the Pacific squadron, last week. He wrote to Secretary Chandler protesting against the order and asking him to revoke it. The latter replied, reminding Capt. Perkins that he has enjoyed a year’s leave of absence and two years’ practical exemption from duty, refusing to revoke the order, and telling the Captain in good set terms that if he does not obey the order before tfjie 14th of June his resignation will be accepted.

POLITICAL. The business men of New York gathered at Cooper Union in vast numbers to indorse the administration of President Arthur. The chief speakers were B. H. Bristow and Bev. Ward Beecher... .The Ohio Democratic State Convention will be held at Columbus June 24 and 25 .. .The Bepublicans nominated Gen. James S. Negely for Congress in the Twenty-second District of Pennsylvania, and T. M. Bayne n the Twenty-third District. Danville (Va.) telegram: “The election passed off without disturbance. The Democratic, or white party, nominees were eleoted. Capt. W. P. Graves beats J. H. Johnston, the present incumbent, for Mayor by 402 votes. About seventy negroes voted the Democratic ticket. One hundred did not vote. Gov. Cameron came up in the morning and remained all day. He said, pleasantly, that he had received a carpet-bag full of letters about sending troops, and had come to see for himself.,* and was pleased with the quiet and order.” .... The Fourth Indiana District Democrats have nominated Hon. William S. Holman for Congress. Congressman C. C. Matson, of the Fifth Indiana District, was renominated by the Democrats, In returning thanks, he predicted that the forty-one Democratic Congressmen who voted against the Morrison bill would be read out of the party at the Chicago convention The Republicans of the First Kansas Congressional District unanimously nominated E. N. Morrill for re-election... .Theßepublicans of the Fifth Kansas District renominated John A. Anderson for Congress.... The Democrats of New Hampshire held their State convention at Concord. Frank Jones, Henry 0. Kent, Frank A. Mac Kean, and Alva Snlloway were chosen delegates-at-large to Chicago. The platform demands a reduction of the war tariff, and insists that the Democratic majority in the House continue their efforts to establish the revenue system on an honets basis. Tilden and Hendricks received unanimous indorsement.

GENERAL. Surveyors are locating a railroad from Coalport to Cresson, Pa., to open up a large bituminous coal-field. Contracts have been made for the construction of a road of 350 miles from Washington County, Arkansas, to the eastern State line. H. C. Blanchard, coffee merchant at Bichmond, Va., has failed for $223,000. Joseph B. McDonald, lumber dealer at Woburn, Massachusetts, is insolvent, owing $125,000... .The Mexican Central Railroad has been adopted as the international postal route by the United States and Mexico.... Private letters to New Orleans say the Captain General of Cuba has liberated some desperate criminals upon condition that they join Aguero’s band and assassinate him. Aguero is burning and pillaging on his march, and his force is being daily augmented.

Charles B. Clark was hanged at Little Valley, N. Y., for killing his wife. Laban Stevens was executed at Waverly, Ohio, for the murder of Anderson Lackey. Leonidas Johnson (colored) was hanged at McDonough, Ga., and John McKetchem (colored) was swung off at Waycross, Ga. ....St. John (Newfoundland) telegram: “The French brig Senovine sank on the eastern ledge of the great banks some time in the first week of May. An English trading schooner which recently arrived brought on a portion of her wreckage—trunks, beddingj and clothing, all identifying the lost vessel. She sailed from St. Malo, France, March 5, bound to St. Pierre, M. I. Q., laden with a general cargo. The orew of ten men, with fifty-three passengers, all perished.” The St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company has been notified by the Collector of Customs at Winnipeg that no hogs could be imported from the United States into Manitoba for breeding purposes; that the shipment of hogs into Manitoba is forbidden except under regulations providing.for the immediate slaughter of all hogs entered. Under such regulations a bond, must bfe given as a pledge that they will be ’slaughtered immediately.... A rumor from the City of Mexico is to the effect that President Gonzalez will next month nsk Congress to allow him to resign. .... Thirteen deaths from yellow fever occurred at Havana, Cuba, last week.

FOREIGN. Over 100 branches of the Land League of Ireland have passed resolutions requesting Michael Davitt to forego his two years’ lecturing tour in Australia and America, saying that his services are needed jn Ireland in the interest of the national organization. Several constituencies want to have the honor of electjng Davitt to Parliament, but it is understood that he is averse to taking the oath -of qualification, and wiH not becomes candidate..,., ** .

A Socialistic outrage is reported ffom Munich. The Sodausts pulled down several of the German flags at the celebration of the thirteenth anniversary of the defeat of France, and replaced them, with red flags and revolutionary mottoes, and the police had to be called to restore the Colors and suppress an incipient outbreak Lord Dufferin stipulates that if Turkish troops are sent into the Soudan, British officers must be placed in oommand. England, he promises, will pay all the expenses, and must hfcve sole control of the withdrawal of the forces.... A cablegram chronicles the suicide of Bev. Henry T. Edwards, Dean of Bangor.. ,