Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1884 — THE MEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE MEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Tn trae inwardness of the Penn Bank collapee at Pittsburgh reaches the public in interesting slices. President Riddle has died * confession of judgment in favor of the wreck for $99,760. The overdrafts of $350,000 reported previously havo own swollen to $1,900,000, and it is cxpectodthat the liabilities will reach $2,000,000. Tho officers of the concern aro charged with desperate speculation in oil ever sinoe the Cherry Grove district was opened. Thb western end of tho Lnnrol Hill tunnel of the South Pennsylvania Railroad, near Somerset, Pa., <_ caved in, fatally injuring eight men, and seriously crushing two others.... President Riddle, of the Penn Bank, of Pittsburgh, after making another confession of judgment for $82,400, bus issued a card reqneeuug his friends to withhold judgment open him. It is stated that nearly all the $40,000 currency known to he on the counter when Uie concern closed lias been abstracted, together with bonds and stock to a considerable amount. George Mountfort, son of one of tho leaders es the celebrated Boston “ten party,” died in tho Massachusetts capital in his 87th year. Thb Coroner’s jnry investigating tho Knapp Tunnel accident iu Pennsylvania, by which eleven men lost their lives, returned a verdict exonerating the contractors. Aox YE-IK under tho tracks of the Reeding Road at Turkey Run, Pa., caused a suspension es work in tho collieries. Tho ground is gradually sinking. A heavy frost in Northern New England the other night did very groat damage to.tho oom and bean crops, also to fruit trees, injuring most of the apple and peach buds in some sections. The loss to fanners and gardeners is the greatest for many years. Jobbth Ei den, engineer at Lackawanna mill at Senuiton, Penn., caught his overshirt ®n a shaft He was whirled agaiust the irow beams at the rate of two hundred revolutions per niinue, and when the mnohineiy was stopped his body was a shapeless mass of matter..... It appears that John C. Eno managed to escape from New York by the aid of Mousignor Duoey, pastor of St Leo’s Church. The charge against the absconder is forgery, in signing a check for $90,000 as President of roe Second National Bank after his forced resignation. His father was competed to make the amount good.

THE WEST. TWO MASKED men, armed with Winchester rifles, halted too Fort Benton coach twenty-five miles from Helena, robbed the passengers, and rifled tho mail bags. It is charged at Yankton, Dakota, that the United States Marshal has “fixed" n jury to flavor of Gov. Ordway, who will bo soon tried on the bribery charges ... A dynamite cartridge was discovered iu the basement of too building, ut Xenia, Ind., iu which the Journal of that place is printed. The discovery, as a matter of oourae, caused "intense excitement.".... Prentice Tiller, who stole a large amount of money from an express company at St. Louis, was arraigned in the Criminal Court of that city. He astonished everybody by pleading guilty, whereupon Judge Van Wagoner sentenced him to five years’ imSrisonment in the Penitentiary Dave tone, the imbecile who outraged mid killed his C-year-old niece last w eek near Hillsdale, Mich., confessed, was taken into court., pleaded guilty, sentenced to solitary life imprisonment, and immediately removed to the Jackson Penitentiary. A vast crowd assembled in the Criminal Court-room at Chicago to learn the result of the McKeague trial. Judge Anthony ex-

pressed ti»o hope that tho udienoe would make uo demonstration over tho verdict, but when tho acquittal was announced the floor shook with applause. Tho accused was permitted to hold a reception, when he was returned to his oJll to await trial on an indictment tor the murder of Mrs. Willson. ▲ BKVKIUS frost in set end of the Western States damaged com considerably, and fruit and garden truck were severely injured. Wesley Johnson was hanged at Napoleon. Ohio, for the nmrdcr of George W. Williams and his wife near that place the 23d of October. 1883. Kikalft Brothers' latest attraction, "Excelsior,* a grand spectacular and pantomimic ballet, will be the attraction at McVicker’a Theater, Chicago, during the currant mouth. Extra attention wiU be given to music, scenery, and . other accessories; and the fourteen exits of this wellappointed and commodious place of amusement enable an audience, however large, to sun the streets in three minutes' time after the. close of each performance. Strangers visiting the Garden City during the session* of the great political conventions should not flail to see “Excelsior." AN enthusiastic mass meeting was held at Union Pork Congregational Church, Chioago, at which the Rev. Dr. Tlanuas. the Hon. Leonard Swett, and others made remarks denouncing Sunday racing. .. .On a flurm near Aurora,lll.. M. O. Fletcher killed Otto Hope and mortaUv wounded one of his employe*. The tragedy arose from a dispute about pasturing cows on the roadway. Neal McKeagik, who was acquitted of the murder of James L. Willson at Winnetfca, was released from the jail in Chicago, State's Attorney Mills having entered a nolle prosequi on the remaining indictment, for the murder of Mrs. Willson. XeSeague at once started in search of his father, with whom he will probably go to Owaada for a visit.

THE NOITH. H. T. Dckcax, editor of * Amlt newsjmper ad Lexington. Ky.. has been fined ffiM for malicious libel because bis journal pubhabed the card of a «tia*n casting refiactfama «n the Judge of the Circuit Court. Duncan «M away from hone a hen the ißaatsttUKS burned the Court House at Fkirorrille, Tesaa. the record*, deeds, mortgagee, and all valuable papa* being eoe- , uumed.... The Belmdot coal mine*, in JackaOn County, Alabama, which mare rur«ha«ed by Grant A Ward from Gen. John B, Gordon, have dim down, throwing actml ktHlvdfid wuw Gwf of anmk SsvcmaJUinebriated manat Sharpebuig. *y M Manned themselves by ahoottag at lighted lamp* la a grocery etona. One of

the lamps exploded and set fire to the building, Tho flames spread rabidly* and nearly all tho principal business places of the town were destroyed. The total loss is-placed at $40,000. Hooper’s building at Baltimore collapsed from tho weight of cotton it contained, the fourth floor first giving Way, and forcing the others down. Of a number of persons in tho structure six bodies have been recovered. Three persons were fatally injured, and two othera are missing and supposed to be in the debris In Mitchell County, North Carolina, two prominent gentlemen resorted to the code to settlo a mining difficulty. The parties were Col. Nellis Borden, late of Louisville, Ky., and Capt. Lineback, of Mitchell County. The duel took place in the mouth of a mica mine, the weapons being revolvers, and Borden was instantly killed.

WANiiiiMam Mr. Ker, of the stnr-route counsel, informed Jhe Springer Committee that William Pitt Kellogg had said ho ought to take ft shot-gun and blow out Ker’s brains, and tho latter desired it known that Kellogg can have that kind of satisfaction by giving notice of the time and place. There is good authority for tho statement that the Secretary of War lias informed the President that the evidence against Gen. Swaim is sufficient to require -hip trial hy. court-martial. .. .The banking-house of D. W. Middleton & Co. has made an assignment. The liabilities amount to $500,000. Among the sufferers are newspaper correspondents and army and navy officers.... The Western Union officials offered to run wiroß into the private houses of five of the candidates for tho Presidency—Blaine’s, Logan’s, Sherman's, Lincoln’s, and Edmunds’. The offer, it is understood, wns accepted. Mr. Blaine does not propose to use the line to his house, however, as ho intends to leave Washington for Augusta, Maine, in the vicinity of which ho intends to puss the summer.

POLITICAL. San Francisco telegram: “Theelection of delegates in tho forty-seven city clubs to the State Democratic Convention was continued till past midnight. The double resolution pledging the delegates to Tilden and against Field was unanimously adopted. .... St. Louis dispatch: “The Democratic county conventions so fur held in this State, ■-either for the nomination of county tickets or the selection of delegates to the State convention to choose delegates to the national convention, have expressed decided preference for Samuel J. Tilden for President. There seems to be a strong desire throughout the State for the renominatiou of the ‘old ticket.’ ” Judge Fouaker, of Ohio, is, at his owu request, to nominate Senator Sherman son the Presidency at the Chicago convention. . . .Tho Democratic State Convention of Wisconsin adqptqdj-esohitions denouncingthe present tariff as a masterpiece of injustice and false pretense, and demanding that all custom-house taxation shall bo only for revenue. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, was nominated for President by the National Greenback Convention at Indianapolis. Judge West, of Mississippi, wns nominated for Vice President... .The Minnesota Democratic Convention met at St. Paul and electedslolegates to Chicago. While not instructed, those chosen are in favor of Tilden. Walter 11. Shuuk state data Greenback meeetiug at Indianapolis that Peter Cooper sunk $11)0,000 in an effort to float the Adwcatr. the Greenback organ of which Shape was editor.

GENERAL The Union Deposit Bank at Grcensburg, Fa., lias closed its doors. It is owned by David Tintsman, who is absent, and John Walker, now lying ill at home, and its liabilities arc believed to be in excess of $100,000.:. Capt. W. E. Dove, of the Twelfth United States Infantry, was drowned while attempting to cross to the Canada side from Fort Niagara. William Brown, a colored man, who murdered a peddler named Lavigue at Oahokia, Illinois, and buried his body in the fireplace, was executed at Belleville. He confessed his crime, and scarcely had strength to reach the scaffold. John Tucker was hanged at Paris, Alabama, for the murder of a companion named Aaron Baker. Decoration Day has a more general observance tqan usual. About 12,000 persons gathered on the lake front in Chioagg to hear addresses, and the city militia and the veterans of the rebellion formed an imposing procession. The assemblage at Gettysburg cemetery was the hugest ever known. Four thousand men of the Grand Army went from Washington to the battlefield' of Fredericksburg, where into resting ceremonies took place.... Five seamen of the sealing brig Confederate, now hemmed in by ice in Notre Dame Bay. reached St. John. Newfoundland, praying that aid be sent to the famishing crew on board, numbering seventy-four. They have no fuel, all the provisions except a Little bread have been devoured, and the craft is surrounded by an ocean of ice as far as the eye cAn reach. Death has taken away Harvey D. Parker, who built the Parker House, at Boston ;~ Hon. Wesley O. Hobbs, of the St. Louis bar; Samuel S. Shoemaker, ex-Vice President of the Adams Express Company, and a prominent citisen of Baltimore; Judge Henry H. Coolidge, of Niles, Mich; John D. Gibson, one of the proprietors of the Gibson House, Cincinnati: and Dr. Thomas Griffith, of Louisville, of paralysis, after a long illness.... .John C. Eno, late President of the Second National Bank of New York, was captured at Quebec, on board a steamship about to call for Liverpool. With a companion dressed as a priest, Eno took passage at Montreal, and the suspicious behavior of the pair led to their arrest.

FOREIGN TBK Count de Hansonville. a French politician and a member of the Paris Academy of the ‘immortals,’’is dead. He was born in the French Capital. May 27, 1809. Ptnamitk explosions at London caused widespread alarm and indignation. The police, says a e*bl%rsun, are completely baffled, and. for the first time in the history of great crime* in the metropolis, hare hot even a theory to offer. In fact they find themselves to be a laughing stock,, The public are becoming ’hourly more restive and agitated over the apparent incompetence of the police, and the wildest schemes of nnitah against Irish agitates? are mooted. The appointment of local vigilance committee* on the American Western

plan is senonsiy discussed in some hitherto very conservative quartern. The London Mining Journal has an article severely reflecting on Vanderbilt and Gould and their methods of speculation. Tho former is accused of halving New York recently because he knew a crisis was at hand. The Mining Journal thinks that American railroad securities will not reach old prices, and muy decline even below the prices during tho period of the recent Wall street panic. ;..A Papal encyclical was read in all the Roman Catholic churches in England, warning people against joining secret societies.