Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1868 — Telegraphic Summary. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Summary.

UewaraJ M* —Morup'i silk factory, in Philadelphia, was bttMd l\w»<lay moruuig. U>b« $50,000. Mfelvin Baugn, a notorioii < Kansas horse thief and murderer, mi hung at Honoca oy Friday. A report in current that the French Minister of War win instantly issue orjWts for the dlrnniißal to their homes of 80,00 ff hien on ftudaeghi —“ ~~ ~ -Mo»ca Wesley failed inHpringfleM, Maae., to walk fifty miles in ten hour*. g'vmg out on thederty-Hrat mile, with two hours to complete the task. -It ia thought that the Government will not lose auvthing by iho defalcation in the Poitoffiee ’Department, as Olmsted 'owns property enough to cover the amount missing. -The Gr 11 d Lodge of Odd Fellows w ieli has been in eaaionin Baltimore has dqtey-. mined to hold the aemi-centennial anniverß»_-. ry of Odd Fellows in Philadelphia on the26tn of April. -Gregory Harbarker, a farmer, residing st Mill CtOrt. 1h the township of Newport, Lake county. 111., wan found drowned intho ejeek near his residence early on Saturday morning. . —Barkervillc, British Columbia, was destroyed by fire e nthe 16th. The loss is estimated at a million dollars. The safes in the banka of British. North America and British Columbia were saved. -Tho match, $16,000 a bctw, ’ , ' n , tbe Ward Bro tiers and the St. John crew, has been completed and. tho first deposit made. Th© race >» to Mpringneld, Mhhh., OctoWVtet, three miles and return. —The Aidermen and Councilors of Dublin have passed a resolution setting forth that uh all danger from the Fenian movements P»a passed away in Ireland, tho time has now come for tho release of imprisoned Fenians. —Deputy United States Marshal, Thomas, of tljc St. Louts district, wliiM aft mpting to arrest some parlies in Dunklin county,chargedwith illicit distilling, some days ago, was resisted by fifteen armed mon and forced to retreat. —About two o’clock, Tuesday afternoon a mass oi bricks and mortar fell from under the eaves of a house at No. 12 Center street,. Now York City, Where workmen Wert! making a new gutter, severely injuring a number of personH who were passing. —At Toledo, Ohio, Monday, a tug capsized a skiff, throwing Lawrence Maguire and his two sons, Michael and John, with a quantity of fruit, into the waters of tho bay. Every effort was made to save the men, but the father and Michael were.jlrowned. —Mr.Patehen, of Troy, N. Y. arrived nt Port Rowan on the 23d. and identified the body found mi the lake shore a few jhiyitAguas that of Miss Palchen, one of the passengers of tho ill-fated steamer Morning Star. The body was taken to BuU'alo for interment. —A fire broke out in the Peoria, 111., pottery works Wednesday morning, and in a short time the whole building was burned to the ground. It was the largest establishment of the kind in the state, and jas yataefcfit 1125,(100. Insurance between $45,000 and $50,000. —The bouse of Duncan Mitchell, of Glencoe, Canada, was entered by throe armed men Tuostthy night, and two shots fin d at the inmates, but no one was injured. Abe robbers carried off a large trank, containing money and other valuables. No arrests were made. —A party of about sixty persons, all armed and many ’of them mounted, made an attack on the house of a Mr. Justice, near Cork, Ireland, Monday night, and stripped it of tlm arms which they carried oft. nift movement was directed by an American. There was no opposition offered. No arrests. \n attempt was made Tuesday night to upset the Grand Trunk train going west from Montreal, in consequence, it is surmised, of Mr O'Reillv, the crown counsel in the Whelan case, being on board-. Ties were placed oti the track, but the down tram struck them first. One or two cars were ven’badly damaged. - . —A Little Bock (Ark.) dispatch to the St. Lonis Democrat, says; “Capt. Thompson Mason, President oi the Board of Registration of Fulton county, Ark., was assassinated on tho 19th by the Ku-Klnx Klan. One negro in Lewisburg and thieo in Columbia County have been killed recently. Several negro churches have also been burned. —A dispatch from Geu Reynolds,from Austin, Texas, -‘A detachment «»;'(|iv 9th cavalry from Fort Davis, under IJoutonsnt Cusick, overtook 2QO Apaches under Chief Arasurta, killed 30, Wounded finite a number, recaptured two captives and 2(X) head of animals. The troops also destroyed their camp and supplies. —As the funoral procession ol Mrs. Carr was crossing the Erie railway, one mile west of Painted Poet, N. Y., the Rochester expi es, train camo along, frightening the horse of Mr. Carr. ‘ Mrs. Drake, a sister of the dej ceased, was thrown on the track and had both of her feet cut off. A child of the deceased was also rnn over and literally torn to pieces. —ln Dver county. Tenn,, on Saturday, a ' nofonotw horsethief and counterfeiter named Hastings was killed by a band of “regulators,” and another desperado named Young was mortally wounded. It is alleged the country around there is infested with a lot of desperadoes, and a number of citizens have banded together for the purpose of extinguishing them. , , —Wanan, Whipple-A Turner’s detective agency, of New York city, have unearthed a stupendous swindle, originating in tho city, under the title of the Brooklyn Steamship and Emigrant Company. The SIO,(XX) bonds StSStetlSTSHT’rarramirir circulation in all parts of the country, many havnigqrohe to California and tho southern and middle states. Many persons in Virginia have been extensively swindled by lard speculations through using these bonds, besides numbers in tho eastern and western states. - —Tho brig John Armstrong arrived in New York on the 22d, from Curacoa, after a passage of twentv days, with a crew of six men. The captain, Joseph Kent, died in the hospital after seven days sickness with the yellow fever, and eight seamen also died from the same disease before the sailing of tho vessel. The first mate, Charles MeLension, who was in command, was taken siek September sth, and died on the Bth, of black vomit. Ninety men of the Dutch man-of-war lying in the harbor had died of yellow fever within the last three months, and other vessels had lost portions of their crews from the vomit. Tho town of Curacoa, and especially the shipping, was in tho most pitiable condition.