Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

John Dillon, the Nationalist, has defeated for Parliament by Lord Ernest Hajnilton... .Osman Digna, according to a letter to a Eome newspaper, is not dead, and that he avenged the prisoners hanged in Abyssinia by massacring all the people of Kassala, Europeans included... .King Theebaw attempted to arrange an armistice with Gen. Prendergast, but was compelled to surrender the forts ( at Ava and permit the British to move forward to Mandalay.... A horrible and shocking sight was witnessed at the hanging of Bobert Gbodale, at Norwich, Eng. A fifteen-stone weight was used and the drop was six feet. When the drop was sprung the rope rebounded violently and GooduleV head was severed from his body, the trunk and head falling to the ground, the head lying at the feet, aud blood oozing freely from both the body and head. The spectators were horrorstricken and became sick at the scene. -A«r inquest was held. The hangman said Goodale’s head looked as though it had bean cut off with a knife. He had a thin vertebra. The surgeon said the hangman was sober, cool and collected when he sprung the trap. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts, attaching no blame to the hangman. The New York papers contain the announcement that the Stock Exchange firth of W. E. Connor & Co., in which Jay Gould is a special partner, will be dissolved December 31, and not renewed. Jay Gould himself, in an interview, says: “I have decided to leave Wall street. I have been down there twenty-five years, and now that I am about fifty, I think lam entitled to retire. Let some of the younger men take care of thihgs down . there.” If the countrs,could really believe Mr. Gould’s statement to be true there is nothing it -would hail with more satisfaction .... General Shaler, commander of the militia of New York State, was arrested at New York on a charge of bribery in connection with the purchase of armory sites. Hog-CHOLHRA carried 6ff one-third of all the swine in Central Illinois the present year,.. .John C. Turner, Frank Hurst, Hugh Ryan, Alonzo M. Wells, and James ■Dorman, five of seventeen prominent citizens of Denver who had been indicted at Omaha for land frauds in Nebraska, were taken by a Deputy United States Marshal to Omaha last week. Other arrests will soon be made, A movement has been inaugurated at New Orleans to erect a monument to John James Audubon. The distinguished ornithologist was a native of that city. The movement started among the children of the public schools, who propose to contribute a nickel a month to a fund for the monument. About two weeks ago the w ; ife of the celebrated Mr. John L.' Sullivan, of Boston, got a divorce from him. Mr. Sullivan, being domestically free, went to Washington and entered* into a domestic contract. The bride was Miss Annie Livingston, a young and pretty serio-comic singer.