Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TH>: BUT. The assignee’s report of the condition of the Penn Bank of Pittsburgh shows that $1,466,205 is due depositors, and that the overdrafts aggregate $1,250,954. Most of the directors withdrew their accounts on the day that the bank closed for the last time. Henry C. Work, the noted song-writer, died last week in Hartford..... At Chappaqua, N. Y., Miss Gabrielle Greeley was thrown from her carriage by a runaway, breaking her right shoulder. — —- Gen. James Watson Webb, the aged American journalist, died at his home in New York.... The schooner Fanny Fern was run down off Gloucester, Mass., by an outward-bound coal-carrying steamer, and four of the crew were drowned.. . .Over two hundred depositors of the Penn Bank, of Pittsburgh, have brought suit against the Director's of that defunct institution.... Courtney, the oarsman, failed to meet Ross for the match at Oak Point, N. Y.

THE WEST. Neal McKeague, who was recently acquitted of murder in a Chicago court, reappeared in Winnetka, and received hearty greetings from his acquaintances.... At Bethlehem, lowa, a ” man named Williams visited Nick Bright, who was iIL Bright jumped upon his visitor, felled him with a hatchet, and chopped his head to pieces. Then he procured a revolver and shot himself through the heart. Both men had been on a spree together recently, and the whisky had unsettled Bright’s reason. In Detroit, Mrs. Laura Schulz was found in her night-dress on the sidewalk with her throat cut, but still living. Her husband was detained for two hours, and released for lack of evidence against him. She recovered consciousness and held a long private interview with her husband, showing that the case was one of attempted suicide on account of family troubles. Another corpse of a young girl has been found near the scene of the butchery a Pleasanton, Kan. The murdered victims have been identified as the family of John Anderson, and Lewis Wampler, nephew of Anderson, is wanted for the crime. It is alleged that the woman and her four children ksew of some offense that Wampler had committed, and that he lured them from home and murdered them for self-protection.... The milling-room of Frederic Steams & Co.’s pharmaceutical laboratory, at Detroit, was destroyed by fire. It was with difficulty that the fire was prevented from extending to the entire establishment. Two employes were seriously but not fatally injured by the flames.... .Sadie Hays, a negress, who killed Police Sergeant Jenks, was sentenced at St. Louis to be hanged July 18. In the litigation concerning the interest of James Couch in the Tremont House, Chicago, Judge Tuley appointed Samuel Powell receiver of the half interest held by Dupee and Chumasero, in bond of SIOO,OOO, with power to take the receipts of the hotel A fire at Cleveland inflicted damage of $30,000 on the planing of McAllister <t C 0.... Near Mexico, Mo., Lieut. Rice, Quartermaster, U. S. A., walked off a train in his sleep and was killed. Agent McGillicuddy has issued, notice that the Indian sun dance will no longer be permitted at the Pine Ridge Agency. The torturing “amusement’’ has for years been growing into disfavor with the Indians themselves.... Mrs. Ellen Long pleaded guilty at Dartford, Wis., of the murder of the boy Harvey Whittemore, and was sentenced to life imprisonment... .At Farley, lowa, Jack Parish was found dead with a bottle containing strychnine in his hand and a note stating that he had died for love. Capitalists on the Pacific coast are endeavoring to form a company to construct a railway to the extremity of Alaska, where cars could be ferried forty-five miles across Behring Strait to the Russian Railway.... A reward of SI,OOO is offered by the people of Richland Township, Kansas, for the conviction of a miscreant who has killed two shepherd dogs and attempted to poison 125 cattle belonging to James Caton, besides throwing strychnine into his well The body of Capt Forrest, deeper of the Colchester Reef light, Lake Michigan, lost in the storm of Nov. 11 last, was found in the lake a day or two since many miles off the reef in a good state of preservation.

THE SOITTH. Mr. A. Carriere, head of the firm of Carriere & Co., New Orleans, left that city on the steanier Knickerbocker, for New York, but fell overboard before the quarantine station was reached, and was drowned. Gen. O. E. Babcock, Col. Levi P, Luckey, and Benjamin P. Sutter, of Washington, were drowned while making a trip along the Atlantic coast in connection with the work of the light-house board. Only the body of Gen. Babcock was recovered. He was private secretary to President Grant, and his wife is the eldest daughter of Hon. Benjamin H. Campbell, of Chicago. It has been ascertained that Gen. Babcock and his companions came to their death by the capsizing of a boat after the steering oar had been broken. Gen. Babcock clung to the boat until she reached the shore breakers, when he was torn off and drowned. His life was insured for $30,000, and the amount will immediately be paid to his widow.,.. Col. Buford, who killed Judge Elliot, and was sent to the Kentucky Central Lunatic Asylum and escaped, was returned to the institution in a poverty-stricken and dying condition. . Ep Eli and William Freesrant, both negroes, were hanged for murder at 'Clinton, La., and Orangeburg, S. C., respectively. The Supreme Court of Tennessee has declared constitutional the recent act of the Legislature making it a felony to keep a gambling house. Garvin, a Memphis sport, wau sent to the Penitentiary for one year. WASHINGTON. ' The Director of the Mint, in his annual report on the production of precious metals, places the total production during the calendar year of 1883: Gold, $30,000,000; silver, at its coining rate, $46,200,000. Arizonia produced $950,000 in gold and $5,200,000 in silver; California, $14,120,000

in gold, $1,460,000 in silver; Colorado, $4,100,000 in gold, $17,370,000 in silver; Dakota, $3,200,000 in gold, b $150,000 in silver; Idaho, $1,400,000 in gold, $2,100,000 in silver; Montana, $1,800,000 in gold, $6,000,000 in silver; Nevada, $2,520,000 in gold. $5,430,600 in silver; New Mexico, $280,000 in gold. $2,845,000 in silver; Utah, $140,000 in gold, $’>,620,000 in silver. The remainder was produced principally in Alaska, Oregon, Georgia, and North Carolina. This is a reduction of $2,500,060 in gold and $600,000 in silver from the yield of 1882. The foil awing is a recapitulation of the national debt statement issued on the 2d inst.: luterest-besring debt— Four and one-half per cents. .....$ 250,000.000.0 C Four per cents?.; 737.660,55'1.09 Three per 242,894,000:00 Refunding certificates 2M.i00.00 EJavy pension fund 14,000,000.00 Total interest-bearing debt.. .11,244.845,650.06 Matured debt. 12,578,275.26 Debt bearing no interest-* Legal-tender n0te5;.;....... 846,739.48T.W Certificates of deposit 11,050,000.00 Gold and silver certificates. 216,112,531.00 Fractional currency 6,981,379.31 Total without interests 580,883,211.31 Total debt (principa1)51,838,:>07,136.57 Total intere5t..10,328,993.52 Total cash in Treasury.. { 389,368,637.49 Debt, less cash in Treasury.. 1,459,267,492.60 Decrease during May.... 4,762,241.20 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1881 91,823,714.88 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaids 1,489,532.15 Debt on which interest has ceased 12.578,275.26 Interest thereon 320,818.75 Gold and silver certificates... ..... 216,112,351.00 Cash balance available 147,817,600.33 Total. $ 389,368,637.49 Available assets— Cash m Treasurys 380,368,637.49 Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable by United States— Princinal outstandings 64,623.512.00 Interest accrued, not yet paid.... 1,615,587.80 Interest paid by United States.... 61,160,798.82 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service.s 18,120,320.12 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings...: 655,198.87 Balance of interest paid by United States.... 42.385,279.83 In the Criminal Court at Washington, Judge Wylie reduced to $20,000 the bail of Col. Burnside, the defaulting Disbursing Clerk of the Postofflce Department.

POI.ITICAI.. The Democratic Central Committee of Arizona has selected W. K. Meade and G. H. Ouray as delegates to the national convention, and instructed them for Tilden and Hendricks. Paris Haldeman has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Ninth Pennsylvania District. Mr. Tilden has been interviewed as to his intentions in reference to correspondence with the Democratic National Convention. He refused to say anything about his intentions. He had several times denoted his position, he said, and had nothing more to communicate at present. The Fifteenth Ohio District Democrats renominated the Hon. Beriah Wilkins for Congress and instructed the delegates to Chicago for Tilden and Hendrieks.... Oregon was earned by the Republicans in the late election by 5,000 majority. The Legislature is Republican on joint ballot by a majority of fourteen. The Republicans also elect their Congressman... .The Maryland Democratic Convention adopted a platform, the principal plank of which deals with: the tariff question and declares that no duty should be imposed upon any article “above the lowest rate which will yield the Largest amount of revenue; also that maximum revenue duty should be imposed upon luxuries" .... The Connecticut Democratic State Oon.vention chose as delegates-at-large to Chicago A. E. Burr, J. C. Byxbee, and C. M. Ingersoll. They are uninstructed, but are in favor of Tilden.

GENERAL, The News-Journal, of Cincinnati, was sold to Edgar M. Johnson, representing guarantors and creditors. The price is $25,000... .The 1., B. and W. round-house at Columbus, Ohio, suddenly collapsed, -seriously in juring-five-men, - John Evans, who married ne wealthy widow Noble, of Quaker City, Ohio, has been compelled to hastily quit the district. Mrs. Noble’s daughter left home a short time after the marriage, and, returning recently very ill, soon died, but not before intimating that Evans had effected her ruin, and that an abortion, performed by a certain Dr. Struthers, hastened her death. Evans was burned in effigy, and the doctor has been arrested. John C. Eno, the defaulting bank President of New York, has been indicted for forgery in the second and third degrees. There is said to be no question as to his extradition, and several of his friends have gone to Montreal with funds to be used in hjs defense.... During last week there were 199 failures in the United States and sixteen in Canada. - rt Fast time was made by a special train on the Baltimore and Ohio Road conveying a number of newspaper correspondents to Washington from Chicago upon the adjournment of the National Republican Convention. The distance from Chicago to Chicago Junction, Ohio—27l miles—was covered in 5 hours and 33 minutes.... Twenty-four men and women of the Salivation Army arrested at Cleveland, Ohio, for disturbing the peace by parading, singing, shouting, and praying aloud, were fined small sums. Twenty of the accused refused to pay the fine and were released on bail.... Lightning destroyed Alexander Carroll’s house, near Ottawa, Ont., and his four children perished in the flames.

JFOREICUV. MOODY and Sankey have been requested to visit Ireland and India on an evangelical mission... .Herr Anderse, a German land-owner, who recently died, left 700,000 marks to educate poor youth, on condition that they abstain from military careers and do not study theology. Dynamite explosions at London caused widespread alarm and indignation. The police, says a cablegram, are completely baffled, and, for the first time in the history of great crimes in the metropolis, have not 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 reprisals against Irish agitators are mooted. The appointment of local vigilance committees oh the American Western plan is seriously discussed in some hitherto very conservative quarters. A cablegram from Newry, Ireland, states that a conflict between the Orangeman and Nationalists was precipitated by stone-throwing by the latter. Several shots

were fired while the troops and police were endeavoring to suppress disorder.. . .The race for the grand prize of Paris, 100,000 francs, was won Iby the Duke of Castriess’ brown colt, Little Dukv. France continues to insist on joint control with England and Italy over Egypt...; A treaty of peace between France aiid Annam has been perfected and accepted ,by the latter power. It virtually makes Annam a province of France. French officials will administer its affiiirs and Frenchmen will represent it in all foreign courts and in its relations -with all foreign nations. Its commerce Will also be regulated by the French.

AIkniTIOTVAE NEWS. During the month of May British imports decreased, as compared with the same month last year, £3,100,000, while the exports increased for the same period by £358,000. Noah Haynes Swayne, ex T Justice of the Supreme Court of the TTinted States, died in New York City last week, aged 80 years. . ■' , Herron & Spencer, fruit merchants, New York, failed. The preferences amount to $160,000... .The late managers of the Newark Savings Institution have been ordered by Chancellor Runyan to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt in loaning the funds of the bank. The Chinese Embassadorship to France has been abolished and the treaty of peace with France is condemned by the Celestials, who are preparing to resist- further Gallio encroachments .British—troops s urrounded the jail at Birmingham, England, where the Irish dynamiters—Daly, Egan, and McDonnell—are confined;; The minority report of the Senate Committee on the Danville riots charges that the investigation was not conducted with fairness, and that the results were not set forth with impartiality. Sarcastic allusions are made to the killing of negroes in Ohio in order that their carcasses could be sold to medical colleges... President Arthur sent to the Senate a message recommending an appropriation of $588,000 for Government exhibits at the New Orleans Exposition. Vennor, the Canadian weather prophet, died at Montreal in his 44th year... .The trotting horse Scotland beat John S. Prince, the champion bicyclist, in a ten-mile race at Philadelphia. Time 36:33....A Committee of the Cincinnati Bar Association presented to the District Court an information designed to secure the disbarment of T. C. Campbell, whose trial for bribing a juror in a murder case was then in progress. Gen. Abe Buford, of Kentucky, killed himself at the residence of his nephew, in Danville, Ind. He left statements that financial embarrassment, family troubles, and the condition of his brother Tom, who Was returned to the Anchorage Asylum, led to the act Lightning struck four men at Louisville, two of whom are not expected to liveln Dinwiddie County, Virginia, one woman was killed by lightning, another, was stunned, a church was blown down, and other injuries to property were reported. At Florence, Wis., shots were exchanged in the street between Sheriff Readman and District Attorney Mclntosh, the former being twice woundedA negro named Robeson and a white girl of the name of Christman crossed the liver at St. Louis and were married in Illinois Henry Strong, President of the now defunct Strong’s bank at Green Bay, Wis., has written to some friends in that city from Montreal, saying that he lost the* bank’s money in speculations in wheat, pork, and stocks. He borrowed the money from the bank on various securities and bn the notes of his brother, No other person, he says, was concerned with him in the steal.

In. the Senate, June 9, Mr. Plunto reported favorably a bill to give California 5 per cent, of the proceeds of public land sales in that State. Mr. Beck offered a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to make a report on the bill providing for the general removal of political disabilities. The Mexican war pension bill was taken up, and several amendments were tabled, but final aetion on the measure was deferred. In the House, Mr. Goff introduced a bill to repeal all internal revenue taxes on tobacco, and Mr. Din gley presen t ext a measure to am cn < t rthe national banking law. Bills were passed to authorize the construction of bridges across the Willamette River, and to place Newport News on an equal footing with other customs ports as to dutiable goods. In committee of the whole, debate on the river and harbor bill was finished. When we write up a wedding and reel off about ten sticks on the honeymoon business, we feel that there must be some terrible mistake about it when the groom waltzes bv the next day with a wash-tub on his shoulder.—Exchange.