Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

John Caswell & Co., tea merchants, New York, hate failed. John Kimpel, carriage manufacturer, St. Louis, has made an assignment, placing his assets at $45,556, but not stating the amount of liabilities. Wall & Johnson, Milwaukee, druggists, were closed by the Sheriff; and P. M. Hargrave, private banker, at Lampasas, Tex., failed for $40,000. Richball and Johnston, the pacing horses, have been matched for a race for $5,000. Mb. Theodore H. Gbowney, a civil engineer of San Francisco, who has been employed on the Panama Cana), in an interview published in the San Francisco Chronicle, gives it as his opinion that the work will not be completed under the present management. The expense will exceed the estimates eight times. Extravagance and fraud have Characterized the conduct of the work so far, the contractors have been ruined, and the mortality among the workingmen has been great.... The executions of the week included three young white men at Scottsboro. Ala., for arson; Frank Williams, at Pine Bluff. Ark., for the murder of his wife; Wilson Stevens, at Edgefield, S. C., for killing a peddler; Frederick Cephas, at Cambridge, Md., for murdering Mrs. Murphy; Alexander Jefferson. in Brooklyn, for lives and terribly wounding a third person; and a negro named Charles Phillips, at Huntingdon, Tenn., for the murder of another negro.

Heavy rains have damaged hay seriously and caused the potato rot to put in an appearance in Quebec... .The customs authorities at Montreal raided four wholesale jewelry establishments and seized good:# worth $60,000 for undervaluation. At a picnic near Glasgow, Mo., two persons from Moberly got into a quarrel. Two policemen endeavored to restore peace when one of them, Tom Suphey, was shot dead by Harrison Mickey, one of the parties to the quirrel. A mob lynched the murderer A small party of mounted men took from the jail at Grange Court House, Va., a negro named John Fitzhugh, who had made a criminal assault upon a white lady, and hanged to a tree in the woods near by. At Raton, New Mexico, a greaser who had assaulted a young girl was given a horse-whipping by the American citizens and then hanged to a cottonwood tree by thirty men of his own race.