Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1886 — THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

THE EAST.

Fob the third successive year the peach crop in the Hudson River Valley has been killed by the c01d... .The Superior Court of New York, in the huge damage case of James H. Goodsell against the Western Telegraph Company, granted the latter a new trial, to give Goodsell an opportunity to show how he had sustained injury to the amount of $220,306. He had claimed $650,000 damages by reason of an unfulfilled press contract made with the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company. The jury in the Shaler bribery case at New York came into court and announced that they were tumble to agree. They were discharged... .Fire at Oneonta, N. Y., destroyed six blocks of buildings, entailing a loss of $50,000. FIBE in the malt-house of the Albany (N. Y.) Brewing Company destroyed property valued at $125,000. Fbuit-gbowebs of New Hampshire report that the recent sleetstorms throughout the State have ruined their orchards. In Nottingham one man lost 1,000 peach trees. .... The two heirs to the estate* of Lorenzo Endy, of Erie, Pa., valued at $10,000,000, have been found. They are a brother and a sister, the former being an idiot and the latter periodically insane. They were inmates of an alms-house. THE WEST. Afteb a two hours’ fight with Indians, on the Uth ult., at East Nocori, in Sonora,

the American force, under Captain Crawford, was fired on by Mexican troops, American scouts returning the fire. Five of the American party were wounded, among them Caption Crawford, who died three days later,while the Mexican loss was four killed and five wounded. Tho Mexicans claim that they mistook the Americans for Indians, but Lieutenant Mans gives it as his opinion,that the Mexicans intended to rout the Americans and appropriate their camp equipage and commissary stores. Gen. David R. Atchison died at his home in Clinton County, Missouri, last week. He served in the National Senate for twelve years, and was Acting President of the United States for one day. Polk retired from office at noon Sundiw, March 4, 1849, and Taylor could not be inaugurated till Monday." Mr. Atchison, therefore, as President of the Senate, held the reins of Government until the inauguration had taken place. The interment of the late Congressman Rankin took place at Manitowoc, Wis., on the 28th ult. Thousands viewed the remains as they lay in state in the Episcopal Church, and the funeral procession was a mile and a half in length. The temperance people of Deg Moines are bringing suit against owners of buildings in which liquors are retailed... .The California Supreme Court has decided in favor of the city of San Francisco against Holladay, the* suit having been pending for several years. Under the decision propertyworth $5,000,000 reverts to the city under the Pueblo grant. - - 1 Hyde Clark Post, G. A. R., of Dubuque, has petitioned the lowa Legislature to establish a soldiers’ home in the State. It is stated that there are over three hundred old soldiers in county poor houses. .... On warrants for publishing lottery advertisements, Murat Halstead and J. J. McDowell. of the Cincinnati CommercialGazette, were arrested and held in bonds of SSOO each. Near Chicago Junction, Ohio, a passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio dashed into a freight train—a caboose, locomotive, baggage, and two passenger cars being piled into a heap of debris. Tour employes were killed and a number of passengers wounded. The financial loss is placed at $25,000. The St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railroad Company filed a mortgage in St. Louis for $20,000,000 in favor of the American Loan and Trust Company, .t’. Six horses of a consignment from Chicago were shot at Kearney, Nebraska, by the State Veterinarian on the allegation that they had hydrophobia... .A snow-slide near Telluride, Col., demolished four cabins at the Sheridan mine, burying twenty-two men under seventeen feet of snow. Four were killed, two fatally hurt, and two badly injured. **■ .