Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Mary Clemmer Hudson, better known as Mary Clemmer Ames, the American authoress and journalist, died last week -at Washington, D. C., of hemorrhage of the brain. A short time ago she married Edmund Hudson, editor of the Boston Herald. The Austrian consul at Pittsburgh hoisted the flag of hifl counttj’ over his office, in honor of the Emperor’s birthday; —The Chief of Police ordered it lowered, and the consul refused, on the ground that the treaty gives him the right dlaimed... .J. J. Woodward, United Stites army, one of the physicians who attended President Garfield in his last illness, has just diednear Philadelphia. Mrs. Storey, wife of Wilbur F. Storey, proprietor of the Chicago Times, has filed a petition in the Probate Court of Chicago, to be made conservator of the estate of her husband, who is alleged to be insane, or that some poison.. seleetedxhy-her shall be appointed. Another petition offered on the part of the heirs and creditors has also been filed.... At Tobias, Neb., "Wiley Farris, who had been separated from his wife, went to her boarding place, called her out, and deliberately shot her through the head. He then shot himself in the temple, dying instantly.... H. Ten Eyck, a farmer living near Broadhead, Green County, Wis., having fatally stabbed his wife, committed suicide by hanging.... Eight prisoners escaped from the jail at St. Joseph, Mo.. They made their exit through a sewer pipe. - < The mercury stood at 100 the other day at Dover, N. H., and several citizens were prostrated. It is said thatno rain has fallen at Plymouth, Mass., since May, and that the smaller streams are Vhying up. Complaints of a severe drought also come from Southern Ohio and Indiana... .Assignments have been made by Max Morgenthau, a soap manufacturer of San Francisco, with liabilities of $250,000, and Meyer <t Co., dry goods dealers of Selma, Ala. The Hark Lane Express in its weekly review of the British grain trade says: “A large proportion of the grain has been harvested with the best results. Wheat returns show that 54 per cent, of the yield is over the average, 30 per cent, is the average.and IT per under the average? Foreign wheat at Liverpool is demoralized both for present and prospective trades. ”.... So great have been the ravages of locusts in the cenrtral portion of Spain that the damage to the crops is estimated at $10,000,000.