Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Thomas M. Scroggy, an old stationer at Philadelphia, has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonriient and fined SI,OOO for selling obscene pictures and books .. .At Philadelphia, Adam Forepaugh,.the showman, married Mary G. Tailman, a beautiful girl of 20. The groom is 54. .. . Dominiek McCaffrey and Charles Mitchell, the English pugilist, fought four rounds at New York, the referee deciding McCaffrey the victor. There was great excitement, and Mitchell was badly punished. A Turkish mail caravan from Bagdad Was attacked by brigands near Ispiid. Three of the escort were killed and $300,000 in Government bullion stolenA Conservative demonstration at Birmingham was broken up by an organized force of their opponents..... The conference-at Berlin to discuss. qttes--tions concerning the commerce of the. Bongo will meet Nov. 0 and be presided over by Bismarck.. . On Sept. 15 the cities of Yokohama and Tokio were visited by a terrible typhoon. In the latter place 3,000 houses were d“stroyed iliid the loss of life by sea and land was apjialling. • Near Florence, Kan., an attempt was made to wreck a Santa Fe express train, section men finding a tie firmly bound across the track. The object of the wreckers is believed to be robbery, and a heavy reward for their arrest-ris- offered...; Arrangements have been made by the. Atlantic and. Pacific, St. Louis and San Francisco, and Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railways to run a fast freight train from Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City to San Francisco ... At the Cincinnati Hospital an - attendant was drawing a patient in a truck to ride upstairs on the elevator, but fell into thp elevator well, dragging the truck after him, and both men were killed.... S; S. Davis, a banker of Cincinnati, made an assignment, with liabilities of $60,000, a considerable portion of which is due to benev*olent organizations or secret societies. A reward of $4,500 is now offered for the conviction of the men who caused the explosion in the new Parliament building at Quebec. The corner stones of the structure are so much out of place that the whole wall will probably have tu be taken down... .Clearing house"exchangeshist week—s74o,7s7,3s2 —were $64,243,803 less than the preceding week; and whemcom-. pared with the same time in 1883 the loss equals 33.2 per cent. The Governor of West Virginia has commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence imposed upon "ChariutrSpnTloclu of Lincoln County, one of the gang who killed Alvin Wood. The Hill brothers, his accomplices, were lynched last spring.. .. Having been rebuked by officials of the chtirch for attending a circus performance, the Rev. Dr, A, W. Lightbourne. pastor of the M. E.Church at Easton, Md., has resigned, and goes to New York to become a journalist.