Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

While four children were alone in a faim-hbqsejat §t. Jacobin, Quebec, one of them placed a flask of powder on the stove, also threw some in the fire. The explosion shattered the dwelling, and fatally injured - three of the children.... A fire in West Carthage. N. Y., destroyed hotels, churches, and residences valued at i.OOO. The drug 'house—of Gantz, Jones & Co., in New York, was damaged tp the extent of $70,000. A hotel and a block of stores at Arnprior, Ontario, valued at $60,(X)0, were swept away. Ai;tjh i: Orton, better known as the ‘ Tichborne claimant,” was released three days before his term of imprisonment expired. The premature release was hardly pleasing to the “claimant” and his friends, who were planning a demonstration. Elijah Kirk, of Shelbyville, Ky., accused Robert Clark of circulating evil reports of his daughter, and got a shotgun and rode out to Clark’s house, after having threatened to kill him. He was riding up and down the road watching for Clark's appearance, when the latter opened his front door and fired two shots with a gun, riddling . Kirk with buckshoU and shooting his head almost off. Congressman John H. Evins died at Spartanburg, S. C. Chicago is the only American city which foi-twelve-veai’s Tias made affinancidl success of its Industrial Exposition. The '’average paying attendance was this season in excess of 8,000 per day, realizing nearly $1,400 daily. The company would be glad to expend $1,000,000 in improvements upon all adjacent tract if the city gave its pey r mission. Samuel Boone, of Elmira, N. Y., has for some time been demanding of Gov. Cleveland a pardon for Byron B. Fairbanks, who was sent to State Prison for firing into a crowd of boys on Hallowe'en. Last week Boone and his wife went to the executive chamber, in Albany, where the lady became so violent that the Governor seized her by the arm and requested her to be calm. She fell in .a hysterical fit and was removed by I orderlies. A few mornings ago Boone assaulted the Governor bii the street, but was -seized by Dr, G. 11.1 i onn iiton. Boone claims that his wife is in a dying condition. The Fall River mills have closed, rendering 10,000 persons idle. H. H. Fisher’s pipe mill at Allentown, Pa., has suspended Qj>elanonwing 8110 persons—out. of-. employment. H. B. Scott & Co., barbed wire'manufacturers at Pittsburgh, have notified their 800 employes that wages will be reduced 10 per cent. . . . At Slieiiandoah, Pa., the drought has made, water so scarce that families are allowed but a couple of quarts per day. The boiler of a threshing engine, run by a carpenter, exploded at Beltrami, Minn., killing five men instantly, and mangling and scalding three others.