Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. ' , Senator Henry B. Anthony died rather suddenly at Providence, R. J., at the age of 69. The deceased was born of Quaker parents at Coventry, R, I:, April 1, 1815. He received his early education in the place of his birth, and received a collegiate course at Brown University, where he graduated B. A. in 1833. Five years later he became editor and proprietor of the Providence Journal. His , success as an editor and journalist was at once assured. Underhis charge the paper increased rapidly i» circulation, and finally became one of the leading provincial newspapers in the United States. Mr. Anthony’s political career was not less brilliant. After holding various unimportant offices, he was, in 1849, elected Governor of Rhode Island. He was again elected to this office in 1850, —and would have been elected to a third term had lie accepted the nomination. Eight years later he was chosen United States Senator. As each of his sextennial periods expired he was re-elected, which is substantially the history of his career upto 1883, when his last term expired. In 1869 and 1871 he was chosen by thd’Hepnblicans President pro tem of the Senate. He was always a stanch supporter of the Republican party. Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury, died on the 4th inst. at Geneva, N. Y., in his 66th year. His demise is directly attributable to overwork. For two weeks he had been unable to lie down, and he died while sitting in a chair. Up to within twenty-four hours of his death he insisted upon answering telegrams. The deceased was born in Nantucket, Mass., Aprill6,lßlß. In 1830 his father removed to Geneva, N. Y„ where Mr. Folger lived the rest of his life. After leaving college Mr. Folger studied law, and was- admitted to the bar when 21 years old. His first office was that of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, to which he was appointed in 1844, and he was soon after made a Master and Examiner in Chancery. In 1851 he was elected County Judge, and in 1861 he was elected to the New York State Senate as a Republican, which party he had entered on its formation. He remained in the State Senate until, 1869, when President Grant appointed him Assistant’United States Treasurer for New York City. He was elected Judge of the Court of Appeals (the highest court in the State of New -York) in 1870, and on the death of Chief Justice Church, in May, 1880, he was appointed to fill the vacancy, and in the following November was elected to the place for the full term of fourteen years. In November, 1881. he resigned the position to accept that of Secretory of the Treasury in President Arthur’s Cabinet. He ran against Grover Cleveland for Governor in 1882, and was defeated by nearly 200,000 majority The Treasury Department at Washington was closed on the sth inst. out of respect to the late Secretary Folger. Assistant-Secretary—Coon-will be Acting Secretory until the President nominates Secretary Folger’s successor. THE funeral of Senator Anthony was solemnized at the First Congregational Church in Providence, R. 1., and was the occasion of a gathering of the representative men of the nation and State such a% was probably never equaled in that eity. President Arthur, Senator Edmunds, and other distinguished persons were present

Till: WEST, On reports of the State Veterinarian, the Governor of Illinois has decided pleuropneumonia epidemic among cattle in nine herds, and enjoined their owners from transporting them without a certificate of good health. An incendiary fire at Missoula, Montana, swept away twenty-two buildings, valued at $30,000. The shoe factory of Rice & Hutchins, at Marlboro, Mass, worth $60,000, was also burned. The Indianapolis Sentinel made formal answer to Mr. Blaine's libel suit, maintaining that the facts it published concerning Blaine’s domestic troubles were true, and, being so, were justly made public. Certain questions are propounded to the plaintiff touching his marriage, the birth of his first child, its death, and place of interment, and the mutilation of the monument over its grave... .During a sham battle at a soldiers’ reunion at Fremont, Neb., forty spectators were injured by the collapse of a platform, but none of them fatally The Northwestern Base-Ball League has sunk $50,000 this season. Gbetchen Zeiling, a beautiful German girl employed as a domestic in the house of Col. Charles Parrot, of Columbus, Ohio, was shot dead by her jealous lover, James Greiner. i —’

HIE SOUTH. The City Marshal of Sharpsburg, Ky., killed Dr. Daniel Henry for resisting arrest A Deputy Sheriff at Hot Springs ■was compelled to shoot a horse-thief whom he was conveying to the State Penitentiary, and the Coroner’s jury indorsed the act. A Louisville policeman fatally wounded a notorious footpad nnmed John Lynch, who was caught in the act of robbing a citizen. Con. E. B. Cash, the South Carolina desperado, indicted for complicity with his son Bogan Cash in the murder of Marshal Richards at Cheraw last winter, will not be prosecuted. The State’s Attorney of Chesterfield County, where Cash lives, entered a nolle prosequi in the case. This action has caused great indignation, especially as Cash threatens vengeance against those who arrested him. An Augusta (Ga.) dispatch announces the death of Bishop George Pierce, of the Methodist Church South. In the Memphis district the cotton plant is affected by drought, rust, and worms, and the outlook is for but an average crop, in case frosts hold off till Oct 24....’.A forest fire.in Talbot County, Md., has burned over I.QOO acres of timber lands. J .. u.. ■■ \ WASHIAGTOA. The Treasury Department has issued orders to Collectors of Customs that hereafter when a” vessel cartying rags arrives at any port it shall be the duty of the importer to produce positive evidence that the cargo is from a non-infected port, and is free from the germ of disease. The difficulty of producing such evidence virtually prevents the introduction of rags... .John B. Dawson, • clerk in the Pension Bureau at Washington. died last week. He 1 weighed 438

pounds, nnd hin body had to be placbd in a grape arbor until a coffin could be made. The Indian Commission has ordered a sufficient amount of extra supplies to be sent to the starving Piegnns at the Blackfeet agency. This was accomplished, with the approval of the President, by applying unexpended funds from appropriations for ot b er tribes. Mr. St. John, an employe of the General Land Office, was sent to Colorado to investigate certain complaints. In Las Animas County he found 100,090 acres of the public domain inclosed with barbed wire.bearing signs threatening death ‘for cutting or leaving gates open. ,

POLITICAL. The Democrats of Connecticut renominated Gov. Waller, and put forward George G. Sumner for Lieutenant Governor, -D. Ward, Northrop for Secretary of State, and Alfred G. Goodrich for Treasurer The Republican State Convention of New Hampshire nominated the Hon. Moody Currier for Governor, and, James E. Larkin and George W. Libby for electors-at-large. Resolutions were adopted indorsing President Arthur’s administation, approving the Republican national platform, demanding a free vote and a fair -count, the protection of ■ American citizenw at home and abroad, and eulogizing' Blaine and Logan The Massachusetts Democratic Convention, inisessiori at Worcester, nominated Judge William C. Endicott, for Governor. Hon. George D. Robinson was renominated ; for Governor, by acclamation, by the. Massachusetts Republican State Convention. The Wisconsin Republican Convention nominated Gov. Rusk and all the -present State officers for re-election. The lowa Democratic Convention nominated E. L. Burton for Judge of the Supreme Court, and ratified the Greenback nominations for Secretary of State and for Treasurer. The Texas Republican Conven- ' tion adopfed"aTesQlution that it is’ injudicious tb place a State ticket in the field, and recommending the Republicans to aid in the election of all independent candidates. The Kansas Prohibition Convention nominated a full State ticket, headed by Mr. Jetmore for Governor. Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood has formally accepted a nomination for the Presidency by the Woman’s National Equal Rights Party of California, promising, if elected, to recommend a uniform system of laws in regard to marriage and divorce. Congressional nominations: James G. Blount, Democrat, Sixth Georgia District; F. W. Rockwell, Republican, Twelfth Massachusetts; Samuel J. Randall, Democrat, Third Pennsylvania; T. J. Patchen, Prohiibitionist, Second Wisconsin; D. J. Miner, -Prohibitionist, Fifth Wisconsin; J. J. Sutton, Prohibitionist, Sixth Wisconsin; P. C. Haley, Democrat, Eighth Illinois; W. S. Shirk, Republican, Sixth Wisconsin; G. W. Woodward, Democrat, Seventh Wisconsin; J. J. Thornton, Democrat, Second Minnesota; William Walter Phelps, Republican, Fifth New Jersey; Olin Wellborn, Democrat, Sixth Texas; 11. 11. Renfrow. Republican, Seventh Texas; Thomas Croxton, Democrat. First Virginia; L. M, Sellers, Republican, Third Michigan; C. F. Gibbon, Republican, Tenth Michigan; Charles C. Comstock, Greenback. Fifth" Michigan; Frank Lawler, Democrat, Second Illinois; R. R. Hitt, Republican, Sixth Illinois; T. W. Sadler, Democrat, Fifth Alabama; John M. Glover, Democrat, Ninth Missouri; H. •F. Pennington, fusion, Third Michigan; Wm. E. Mason arid George R. Davis, Republicans, Third Illinois; J. H. Hopkins, Democrat, Twenty-second Pennsylvania; Morrison Foster, Democrat, Twenty-third Pennsylvania; J. S. Woolson, Republican, First Iowa; George Halsey, Republican, Sixth New Jersey: J. B. Weber, Republican, Thirty-third New York. New York telegram to the Chicago Tribune: John Kelly held a secret informal conference with a number of Tammany leaders, and received an expression of their views on the Presidential question. It is stated that many of them believed it would be more consistent in the organization to support Cleveland, although it was evident tLat it would be lukewarm. Mr. Kelly listened attentively to the remarks of his twenty-four lieutenants, and then he summed up the case. He said that there should be harmony of action at this time for the sake of organization and the Democratic party, and, although strictures might be passed by some upon the Presidential nominee, yet, as the great majority of those present, representing the twenty-four Assembly districts throughout the city, had expressed themselves as in favor of indorsing the Democratic nominee, it seemed to be the desire of the Tammany adherents to carry out that plan, and the will Of the people should be obeyed. These remarks were received with the" usual applause, whereupon it was that Grover Cleveland for President and Thomas A. Hendricks for Viee President should be indorsed by Tammany Hall.

GENERAL In a court-room at Montreal, an insane murderer threw a large water-pitcher at Attorney General Blair, stunning him by a' blow on the temple. The maniac cried bitterly when removed in irons....A schooner capsizedin Newfoundland waters, and all hands perished. • Julies B. Fredericks, who was a sergeant in the Greeley polar expedition, denies the story that there were two factions in the Greely party, and says the men of the expedition were united and harmonious. There may have been cannibalism,but of this he has no personal knowledge. He gives the following account of the shooting of Heniy: “Henry had been warned several times about stealing food, but he repeated the offense and finally Greely issued an order for his execution. Three gnus, were loaded—two with ball and one wish cartridge. Fredericks, Long, and Brainard were detailed to carry the order into effect. They took the guns and found Henry 150 yards away in the act of stealing sealskins. The three men approached within twenty yards and the ranking man called out: ‘Henry, we are now compelled to carry out our orders.’ The men fired and Henry dropped dead. ” FOREIGA. The truth about the reception- of the Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Victoria’s second gon, in Ireland is getttng out. It .appears that, far from his reception being enthusiastic, the populace hissed him and his royal mother, and the Mayor of Cork, who invited him to a banquet without the consent of , council, is being roundly denounced on all hands A procession comprising thousands of members of ttm clerical party of Belgium undertook to parade the streets of Brussels lately. At first the populace only hissed and groaned, but they soon grew bold enough to attack the procession and wreck its banners. When several policemen had been injured, the gendarmes and Civil

Guard were called out to restore order.... A German gunboat has taken formal possession in the name of the German Empire of all the west coast of Africa between 18 and 26 degrees south latitude, with the single exception of Walvisch Bay, annexed to the British possessions a few Weeksiago by the authorities of Cape Colony... .A Danish polar expedition under the direction of Messrs. Hooivjaard and Gamel will start from Copenhagen for Franz Josef Land during the next summer. .. .China, in anticipation of a French invasion, has called for 25,000 men to defend Pekin. A grant of 12,000,000 francs has b een made by the Secretaiy of War.

ADDITIONAL NEWS, The citizens of Maine voted Sep. 8 for Governor and other State officers, members of the Legislature, and upon a prohibition amendment to* the State constitution. Robie was the Republican and Redman the Democratic candidate for Governor. A dispatch from Portland on the morning after the election says: Two hundred and sixty-seven towns give Robie 61,318; Redman, 45,064; scattering, 2,405, a plurality of 16,245. The same towns in 1882 gave Robie 50,190; Plaisted, 47,500; scattering, 4,467; plurality, 8,675. The towns to hear from gave Robie 16,286. and Plaisted 16,411. Robie will have over -16,000 plurality in a tot al vote of about 140, 000. The vote of 1880 gave a total plurality of 169, so the gain this year is 16,000 on the gubernatorial vote of 1880. The Presidential vote that year gained 9,000 on the gubernatorial vote, and probably will gain in November considerably on this. All. four. Congressmen are elected, and the Legislature wilt be overwhelmingly Republican. The prohibition amendment is adopted by a large majority. Mr. Blaine voted the Republican State ticket at August i. He did not vote on the constitutional amendment prohibiting the sale or manufacture of liquors. Grover Cleweland visited the fair grounds at Elmira, N, Y., where 50,000 persons had gathered, and was received with an artillery salute. He delivered a brief address from his carriage A wager of $30,000 to $237609 "on the"" Republican" national ticket, offered by Angus Smith, of Milwaukee, has been accepted by a Chicagoan. The name of ex-Congressman Crowley, of New York, is being pressed upon the President for the vacant Secretaryship of the Treasury. Assistant Secretary Coon, who rose from a $1,200 clerkship, is a prime favorite at the White House. ExSpeaker .Sharpe, of the New York Assembly, is a candidate. Secretary Chandler urges the promotion of Assistant Secretary" French. The Pall Mall Gazette states that China has declared war against France. The declaration takes the form of a manifesto by the Emperor to his. subjects, calling on ■ them to repel the foreign foe. The same" journal asserts that the Chinese, forts on the Min River were not badly damaged by the tire from the French fleet. It admits, hoi> ever, that the naval loss was serious The English gunboat Zephyr was tired upon from the Kinpoi forts. The Chinese were soon made aware of their error, and satisfactorily explained the matter to the British Admiral.... During August British imports decreased, compared with the same month last year, £6,000,000; exports, compared with August, 1883, decreased £1,600,0(t0. IT has developed at Louisville that the cotton factors, Payne, Viley Co., who failed a few days ago, had been swindling "the banks by hypothecating warehouse receipts for goods which they did not possess. These swindling operations have been carried on for two years, and the stealings are said to amount to $144,000, the United States Bank of New York being victimized, for $67,500 and Louisville banks for the remainder.... The Lincoln Sayings Rank, at Fayetteville, Tenn., has suspended. The assets are said to be $200,000, and deposits about SIOO,OOO. The latter will all be paid, it is said, and the stockholders will receive but 50 per cent... .Oklahoma Payne was released on SI,OOO bail at Fort Smith, Ark., and seven of his followers were set free. The city of Cleveland has been the scene of a destructive conflagration. Flames broke out in the lumber districts in the flats, and consumed every lumber yard in the vicinity, about ten acres in extent. The tire then spread in every direction, burning the Variety Iron Works and other immense buildings. The loss is estimated at $1,500,000.... Official reports of the state of crops in Nebraska are encouraging. The condition of corn-is placed at 106 per cent, wheat 100, rye 100, oats 93. barley 96. J, Irish potatoes 104 J, tobacco 100, apples 1091. This is a splendid showing... .L. B. French, dry goods dealer at Taylorville, HL, failed for $7,000.... A number of cattle and sheep at Clinton, HL, are dying of an unknown disease.