Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Further details of-the collision of the -steamer Laxham with the Spanish ship Gijon show that 130 persons died. The Laxham was struck amidships, and went ■. down twenty minutes after. The pas-' sengu's and crew made their way tjie" b.-st they could to the Gijon. which began to. sink soon after. The ship’s boats were not able to hold one-half those on board, and those wild were fortunate enough to get in first fought off with knives those who afterward tried to get in. The scenes were sickening iu the extreme—.. ..The notorious Mrs,Weldon has been awarded $5,000 damages by a London jury against the physician ’ Scmpley, who recommended that she be confined in a lunatic asylum as a person of unsound mind. 1 .. . . Henry M. Stanley; the African explorer, has reached England. When he left the Congo country, he was suffering badlv from bronchitis,-but was much benefitml by the sea, voyage. A Topeka (Kan.) dispatch says: “N. A. Adam's, of Manhattan, purchased 200 head of .Colorado steers at Kansas City last week, and thirty head of them have died with Spanish and Texas fever. One car load was stoppecThere, and out of that six have; ,died; the—others were taken .to Manhattan “and ais< <piaranlihFl - ili 'sliipping pens there, Up to 3 o’clock this afternoon .twenty-five ■ had ■ died. People, and especially stockmen, are greatly excitcd. In answer to n telegram, Gov. Glick lias sent State Veterinary Surgeon Holcomb to investigate the trouble... ; Near Greeley, Col., John Shea,-a miner, cut the throat of his wife while she=layMeeping. then stubbed her seven times and himself eight times, and fell dead. ”Jealbiisy”’. . . Forty-one buildings, including banks, hotels, stores, saloons, and public offices, were destroyed at Devil’s Lake, Dak. The flames swept everything before them. Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company announces a reduction of 20 per. cent, in the wages of officers and men. Shiplev & Wells, iron founders and boiler makers .at Binghamton,N. Y., -will - reduce wages 10 per - cent. A Boston dispatch says that nearly all the New England cattoil goods manufacturers will shut down for seven or eight weeks. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Labor party in New York, it was resolved to postpone the proposed convention of the party at Chicago to Sept. 1. This action was taken, it was stated, became ihe left-is of accept ance of Gen. Butler and Gov. Cleveland have not yet appeared, and in their absence.it would be impossible to take intelligent action. A statement of the Treasurer of the United States shows that the net amount of gold now in the Treasury is about $119,000,000. This shows that there has been a falling off of about $15,000,000 since the Ist of the month, which is a rapid approach to the limit of $100,000,000, where the issue of gold certificates must cease, according to law... .The total cost of the Greely relief expedition approximates $700,000. The estimated cost was $500,000. The balance of trade against this country for the first twenty-nine weeks of 1881 amounts to $74,144.47 Reports from twenty-six of the leading clearing-houses of the United States, outside of New York, show that the aggregate of the clearances for last week was 11.4 per cent, less than the aggregate fur the uuifespuiidiifg Week of last year. The New York Clearing-House report shows a decrease of 21 per cent. The Rins of society are the chief barriers between it and a tharvelbus welfare. They compose the malarial wind that sweeps over the land day and night interfering with every office of body and soul. Apart from this there is nothing small in humanity, for men’ are all so interwoven together tliat the rich,are a part of the poor, genius a part of the common intellect, and fame a culm'nation of an age full of virtue. Swing. -