Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The eighth annual Convention of the American Agricultural and Dairy Association was held at New York.... The first annual convention of the iron roof manufacturers of tbe United States assembled at Canton, Ohio, delegates being present from twelve cities... .The American Wheel Manufacturers’ Association convened at Pittsburgh- with forty delegates, representing 85 per cent, of the United States wheel manufacturers, present... .The gv at Council of the Improved Order of Red Men held its annual session at Kalamazoo, Mich., with all the great officers and a number of delegates, representing 14,000 members, present... .The National SugarGrowers’ Association met in St, Louis, and President Norman J. Colman, Commissioner of Agriculture, being detained, A. M. Scoville, director of the agricultural station at Lexington, Ky., presided. A dramatic and sensational episode occurred at the Grand Opera House, San Francisco, where Adelina Patti was giving her farewell concert: While the diva was singing, says a San Fronciß. o dispatch, a crank attempted to throw a dynamite bomb on the stage. The matter exploded, in his hands, injuring him severely. Although the house was crowded there was no panic. The police immediately rushed into the gallery and arrested the dynamiter. It is supposed'lie objected to Patti's high prices. The diva immediately afterward sang “1101116, Sweet Home,” apparently unaware that an attempt had been made on her lire. When, the bomb exploded a panic was narrowly! averted. People ih the gallery were rushing about seeking the quickest means of exit, and it was only by the self-possession of the newspaper men present in the box, coupled with that of the diva, that a stampede of the entire house for out-doors was prevented. The bombthrower said he had stooped to pick up his hat and cane and found a package under the seat, which he picked up, and that as he raisod it to see what it was it exploded. Though he was badly burned about the face and hands, lie received no serious injuries. He gave bis name as Dr. James .Hodges, a dyspepsia specialist. His ago is 71, Great damage was done in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia by th 9 gale last week. A number of buildings at Wheeling were unroofed.* Several build-' iugs were wrecked at Wooster, Ohio. The spire of the Lutheran Church was blown through the roof of the new Methodist. The loss will be heavy. The Lutheran Church and many dwellings at Greensburg, Pa., were wrecked. The Third Presbyterian Church at Wheeling. W. Ya., was unroofed and the Mound City Hotel at Moundsville, W. Va.,‘ was partially destroyed. At Louisville, 0., the cyclone unroofed (he Catholic Church ‘and convent and many houses, and leveled trees and fences. No lives were lost, but the citizens were panic-stricken. Four Hungarians were killed at Tyrone, Pa., by the falling of a tree under which they had taken shelter. Starvation still prevails to a terrible extent in Newfoundland, and the populace is clamoring for aid, which the Government cannot furnish O. Neef, one of the Chicago anarchists who escaped punishment bv turning State’s evidence, has sailedfrom New York for San Domingo, where he says he goes to join a colony of his kind. * He said if Spies got a new trial hundreds of others would be implicated, and that Schnaubelt, whojn the authorities had been nfier, is still living, but not in the United States.