Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THU EAST. A Uniontown (Pa.) dispatch says: "The ■worst fear touching the fate of the men fcho were imprisoned in the coal mine at Youngstown, four miles from this place, by the explosion of fire-damp which took place there at 4 o’clock last evening has been fnlly confirmed. Six of the miners were taken out last evening soon after the disaster; two of them were dead and two of the other four are so seriously injured that there is no hope of their recovery. This left from fourteen to eighteen men supposed to be still imprisoned iu the mine. The exact number is not certainly known. The work of reaching these men was continued industriously throughout the whole night, and by this morning the dead bodies of twelve' of them had been brought out and delivered to their friends and relatives at the mouth of the pit. This makes fourteen dead in all, and, together with the four injured, accounts for eighteen, or the whole number supto be in the mine. The “scenes at the mouth of the pit as the disfigured bodies of the dead were brought to the surface and given into the hands of the wives and relatives was distressing in the extreme, and vividly recalled to mind the piteous wails' of the bereaved families who waited at the opening of the Leisenring mine last February for the bodies which they knew were coming lifeless to them from the uncompassionate bowels of the earth. It was a sad spectacle, indeed, and moVed to tears many of hundreds who had been drawn to the place by the news cf the disaster. ” The Armstrong oil well, near Butler, Pa., gushes at the rate of 190 barrels an hour, and in twenty-four hours put 8,000 barrels in tank —beating all previous records. Half a dozen stores and several dwellings at Fayette City, Pa., a mining town, were destroyed ~by fire, causing a loss of $50,000 ; insurance, $13.500 Horace Deland, of Brookfield, N. H., aged 18 years, chained himself to a brush-heap, near his father’s house, then set the brush on fire, and deliberately burned himself to death. A gash was found on one side of his throat, made by a razor, which was found near by. A note was found directed to his parents, saying he was tired of living. He gave no reason : for the act, but it is thought to have been caused by unrequited love. In a political fight at Klein's tavern. Columbia County, Pennsylvania, two men were fatally stabbed by James D. Keller, who was lodged in jail.... A fall of rock in a mine near Centralia, Pa., killed three Hungarians.

THE WEST. Mb. A. Jeffry, of Hallville, Hl.,* has a heg which he claims weighs 1,400 pounds —the largest ever raised.... The Supreme Court of Ohio has declared the Scott liquor lax law unconstitutional, the majority holding thqt the lien clause is-a license 1aw.... The capsizing of fishing boats in the Straits of Mackinaw and round there resulted in the drowning of seven persons within forty-eight hours.... The Sheriff is in possession of Harwood Bros. <fc Co.’s wholesale hardware establishment at Bloomington, 111. The liabilities reach SIOO,OOO The Governor of Idaho reports that the funded debt of the Territory has been practioally wiped out; that the population is 88,000. and that the people are entitled to the advantages of a State Government. Detroit dispatch: “Ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, who is under arrest, charged with swindling the Rev. Dr. Rexford, the Rev. Mr. Atterbury, and others, .attempted suicide by hanging himself in his cell. He was cut down. Moses was subsequently brought into the Police Court charged with swindling. He pleaded guilty’, and was sentenced to three months in the House of Correction. His lawyer hopes to effect his transfer to the insane asylum.” a

Fire destroyed the six-Story bunding owned by C. E. Culver, at the comer of La Salle avenue and Michigan street, Chicago. The fire was caused by the explosion of benzine on the first floor, and spread so rapidly that the occupants about one hundred in number, had barely time to escape with their lives. Twenty-one girls and eighteen men escaped from the fifth story through the coolness and courage of James Carr, who subsequently received fatal injuries by falling from the fifth story. A dozen girls and an equal number of men escaped from the third story by means of a fire-escape on the LaSalle avenue side of the building. Some of them fell from the escape into a sub-base-ment, a distance of twenty feet, and were injured. The loss is about $115,000 F. W. Duvemois, an insuiance agent and private banker at Detroit, disappeared two we€ks ago. His wife has recently placed on record deeds transferring to her all his property. It now appears that he owes $4,000 to insurance companies and $31,000 or more to depositors... .Near Long Creek, Oregon, a party of whites stole upon a band of Indians and shot and killed two braves. The feeling against the aborigines is intense among the whites, and an Indian outbreak is threatened... .At Millersburg, Ohio, Mehler & McDowell, dry goods dealers, failed for $20,000, with equal assets. Denver dispatch: "Humors have reached here of the lynching by vigilantes of a gang of seventeen cattle thieves captured while in camp on Hock Creek, in the Gore range of mountains, about twenty or thirty miles west of Georgetown. No particulars are at present obtainable and the report is thought to be exaggerated".... During the progress of a Democratic parade at Peoria, HI., Edward Hammond was instantly killed and one Clark seriously and Erohably fatally injured by the ursting of a bomb. Hammond had the top of his head blown 0ff.... George E. Hutchinson, owner of gold and silver mines in the West, made an assignment Rt Columbus, 0hi0... .The Ohio State Dental Society, after a session of two days at Columbus, fell to pieces from dissen-. eions... .Near Escondida, N. M., a band of masked men fired into a train, a woman being shot... .The public school building at Central City, Neb., was entirely destroyed by fire. In the case against Connelly at Salt Lake City for bigamy, the Judge instructed the jury to find a verdict of not guilty. Prosecuting counsel stated it as his firm belief that some of the witnesses had perjured themselves, in which the Judge concurred, the testimony being entirely different from what was riven before the Grand Jury.... Detective Palmer, of Chicago, secured from a burglar a letter of introduction to his ac-

Steele. On the person of the latter were found 100 skeleton key?, and in his, house stolen property worth SBOO was secured.... Near Westminster, Ohio, Ben Heffner, a farmer, shot his wife dead and attempted to kill liis son, daughter, and daughter-in-dawr— His sanity is being tested By physicians at Cincinnati... .Two police lieutenants and two patrolmen have been, indicted by the United States Grand Jury at Cincinnati for preventing qualified persons from voting... .A clerk iu the office of the Cleveland Herald was called out by a man in a carriage, while his confederate took SSOO in currency from the aasli-drawer.

THE SOUTH. A sickening tragedy is reported from Rabun County, Georgia. Eugene 1 Beck, a leading citizen, who has for years been addicted to strong drink, returned home and began quarreling with his wifo. He drew a revolver and emptied five charges into her heart and head, the woman sinking dead at his feet. Miss Addie Bailey, his sister-in-law, who was iu an adjoining room, rushed out, when the remaining charge of the fiend’s revolver was emptied into her heart. The drunken wretch then laid down .in stupor and fell asleep, from which he was awakened by officers who arrested him.... The dedication of a church for white people at Parkerville, S. C., was disturbed by pistol shots by colored roughs. An officer named James Blackwell, who attempted to arrest the offenders, was shot dead from behind a barricade ..* . George T. Jackson, President of the Enterprise Cotton Factory, at Augusta. Ga., is a defaulter to the extent of SIOO,OOO. He has confessed, and assumes all the responsibility. ... .-AtßoeustaPoiht, Md., a Baltimore and Ohio freight locomotive .exploded, killing the engineer and fireman. Chattanooga dispatch; “Joseph, son of Gen. G. Dibrell, Congressman from this (the Third) district, was shot twice by Gus “Gear. One shot entered the breast, inflicting a fatal wound. The shooting occurred at Sparta, Tenn. Dibrell attempted to separate Gear and a man named Hickey, who were fighting. ”... . The Maryland Episcopal Convention at Baltimore elected as Bishop Dr. Pnret, of Washington. Wh. Mitchell, of Chicago, struck a vein of gas north of Wheeling, W. Va., which will net him between $500,000 and $1,000,000.

WASHINGTON’. * Judge Gresham, who was recently appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Arthur, has been appointed to succeed Judge Drummond in the United States Circuit Court for the Chicago district Mr. Hugh McCulloch will succeed Judge Gresham as Secretary of the Treasury. A Washington telegram says: Secretary McCulloch visited the Treasury Department this morning and was qualified in the presence of ex-Secretary Gresham and a few others. The oath of office was—administered by J. N.—Fitzpatrick, of the appointment division. Secretary McCulloch has received a large number of congratulatory letters and telegrams from all parts of the country and several from abroad. He wishes to make public announcement of his gratitude for the kind wishes of his friends, am) to say that, owing to the pressure of business deinaiiding his attention it will be impossible for him to make acknowledgments to his correspondents individually. The heads of business and the chiefs of division were formally presented to the new Secretary at noon.

The Woman’s Home Missionary Society held its fifth annual meeting at Boston, an increase in finances and number of missionaries being reported. The old board was re-elected, and Mrs. C. B. Bliss, of Chicago, was added to the Vice Presidents. .... The Association for the Advancement of Women met at Baltimore, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the President, delivering the opening address. DR ,Cakveb*B vMtrwiflr-his company of cowboys to Hamilton, Ont., set all the small boys lassoing. The result is that a small boy named John Carey was lassoed by his companions and dragged along the ground for some distance, receiving such injuries that ho digd soon after John McCormick, who rail away from the jail yard at Winnipeg, but was recaptured, was ordered by the Attorney General of Manitoba to be flogged. He was stripped to the waist in a snow-stonn before his fellowprisoners, and given twelve lashes. j A letter dated from Nassau, N. P., dated Oct. 24. says: The hurricane which swept the easterly part of the Bahamas, from the 10th to the 16th inst,, caused considerable damage on land and sea. A number of vessels engaged in sponging and inter-insular commerco are known to be lost. The American schooner Jonathan Knight, from Philadelphia for New Orleans, with coal, was driven upon a reef at Palmetta point, Elenthera, at midnight on the 15th and becanje a total wreck. Only two of her crew were saved. Capt. Malloy and son, the steward, and three seamen were drowned. The schooner Sail Bias, a Baltimore trader, was lost,together with the crew. There were 205 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’s during the week, as compared with 234 in the preceding week, and with 195, 154. and 135 respectively in the corresponding weeks of 1883, 1882, and 1881. About 81 percent, were those traders whose capital was loss than $5,000. Canada had thirty-one, an increase of thirty-two... .Attorney General Miller was hanged in effigy at Winnipeg, Manitoba, for ordering the flogging of a prisoner who escaped from jail* Miller would have been publicly scourged had he not ooncealed himself, and Premier Norqnay was made to promise that he would consider the question of dismissing Miller... .The Association: for the Advancement of Women, in session at Baltimore, re-elected Mrs. Julia Ward Howe President for the ensuing year. ... .The haDgmnn on Friday closed the careers of Albert and Charles Goodman, of St Bernard parish, Louisiana, and Isaac Fain, of Kingston, Tenp.

FOREIGN. Bismarck disclaims any dishonest intentions upon the free pities of Germany, and holds that the empire is deeply interested in the continued independence of Hamburg.... By a vote of 27 to 5 the Limerick (Ireland) Aldermen have refused to pay the extra police tax. It is believed that some of the Aldermen will be arrested and sent to prison for contempt of court ....A violent storm did serious damage throughout the British' Isles and neighboring seas. Many wrecks are reported. The result of the recent parliamentary elections in Germany is, decidedly mixed. The result has been the return of thirteen

Conservatives of the Center party, seven Socialists, six German Liberals, six National Liberals, five Imperialists, four straight Conservatives, two People’s-party men, one Guelph, and one Alsatian. In twenty-mile of the seventy-four districts there must be a second ba110t.... .Cornwall and Kirwan, the Dublin Castle officials charged with unnatural crimes, have been acquitted in Dublin. . The Pope has cabled to Trenton, N. J., asking Bishop. Q’Farrell if he made a statement that the Holy Father expressed the hope that Ireland might soon become independent of England.

ADDITIONAL NEWS. The Khedive of Egypt has received information that Chinese Gordon has been captured by the rebels, and he is now at the Mahdi’s headquarters. Previous jtp bis capture 8,000 of his garrison surrendered to the rebels, while on the way to Dongola... .It is announced as a settled fact that England has been asked by the French and Chinese Governments to act ns mediator in the settlement of the FrancoChinese imbroglio. .. .The feeling in England is that the Liberals in Germany were defeated for want of leaders, and the spread of social-reform tenets.... Sixteen people were killed and twelve seriously injured during a fire panic at the Star Theater, Glasgow. A press dispatch from New Iberia, La., gives the following particulars of a bloody affray at a Republican meeting a day or tw r o before the election: “Judge Fontelieu and eight or ten Others left here for Louisville, to hold a political meeting in the interest of Kellogg. After the crowd had assembled, « disturbance was created by persons hallooing “Hurrah for Gay.” Joseph Guilfax rushed to the scene of the trouble, and waR fired at, the ball passing through his hiit. He returned the fire. At that moment there was a general row, and Capt. Bell, a prominent sugar planter and* a Democrat, and Joseph Gilfaux, a leading Gay man, and Oliver Boutte (colored), a Kellogg supporter, from New Iberia, were killed outright. The wounded, as far as known, are : Jules Mestiyer, Republican candidate for Sheriff last spring, thigh broken; ex- Sheriff T. -Viator, shot twice in the abdomen. About a dozen others were slightly wounded. Six negroes were killed so far as known. The perpetrators were surrounded and kept under guard untill the Sheriff arrived to arrest them. A courier was dispatched to New Iberia, and in a few minutes after he arrived the town was in the wildest excitement. -“All saloons were closed by order of the Mayor, Fifty or seventy-five men left here under order from the Sheriff for the scene of the trouble. All were armed with doublebarreled shotguns and rifles. They arrested Fontelieu and Adolph Bienvenu, and five white men, who are now in the parish—jail under heavy guard. It is said a thousand shots were fired simultaneously.”

A Dresden (Tenn.) dispatch says that Taylor, who poisoned five men with cantliarides near Pillowville, Weakly County, from which two have died, was taken from jail and lynched. Twenty-five or thirty masked men walked into Dresden, and with sledge hammers broke down the doors of Taylor's cell. Taking hi in out, they carried him about half a mile from town and shot him to pieces. The mob was sober and orderly. Taylor was a cousin of Andy Taylor, the notorious East-Tennessee desperado. James B. Parke, prominent in the iron business at Buffalo, who mysteriously disappeared three months ago, returned with a statement that he was rendered half insane by business troubles and took a trip to Europe. Patrick McKeoavn, a saloon-keeper of Cincinnati, brought suit to recover moneys paid under tho provisions of the Scott law. Justice Anthony decided that one year and one day having elapsed since the payment of the tax, recovery was barred bv the statute of limitations. Hamilton County is interested in the decision to the amount of $400,0(10 William Brooks, a colored desperado of Logansport, Ind., was shot dead by Councilman George Haigh. Brooks had robbed a farmer, and, when ordered to surrender, fired twice at the officer... .David S. Chadwick, one of the proprietors of a brick-yard at AVatertown, AYis., tied a metal kiln door to his neck and perished in the pond. The cotton-mills around Baltimore have reduced the wages of operatives from 10 to 15 per cent... .The Danner Lund ami Lumber Company of Mobile, Ala., lias made an assignment. Liabilities. $70,000.... Chalks J. Faulkner, Chief of Staff of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, died at Martinsbnrg, AV. A’a AYheeling, AV. A'a., has defaulted on the interest on the building loan of 1881, and has an empty treasury besides. The bonds upon which interest has been defaulted amount to $150,000 A girl in Baltimore, not yet: 3 years of age, killed herself with a revolver with which she was playing.