Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1873 — General News Nummary. [ARTICLE]

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OLD WORLD. Th® Shah of Persia sailed from Brindisi, Italy, on the 13th, for Constantinople. A Madrid dispatch of the 13th says a British The Carlists have captured the town of Vergara, and claim this to be the most important success they have met with since the beginning of the campaign: A London dispatch of the 14th says it was stated upon the highest authority that the Count De Chambord had announced his resolution to accept the constitution for France prepared by members of the Right of the Assembly And himself, and will rule both “by the will of God and the will of the people.” A proclamation of a monarchy would be made in about six weeks. On the 14th the Carlists began their long threatened attack on Berga. Six hours after their batteries opened fire the city was burning in several places. The North German Gazette (Berlin) of the 15th emphatically denies a late report In American papers of an interview with Prince Bismarck, in which he is made to say that lit would extirpate the idea of God and substitute that of the State. It declares that Bismarck never used such language or advocated such a sentiment. A Vienna telegram of the 15th states that grand diplomas of honor had been awarded to Americam, as follows: To the United States Government for display of cotton and products; to the National Bureau of Education; to the State of Massachusetts; to the city of Boston, and to the Smithsonian Institute, Washington. The latter four are for excellence in methods and progress of education and schools. Dispatches of the 15th from various places in Germany state that the cholera was increasing in virulence. The Spanish Cortes has approved of the bill calling for 50,000 of the reserves, so that the Carlists and Republican insurgents may be put down. A Madrid telegram of the 15th says Cartagena was preparing for a long struggle. All ingles above sixteen years of age had been enrolled. The streets were almost deserted, and shops were closed. The insurgents were issuing paper money. Six hundred French Imperialists met at Chiselhurst, England, on the 15th, and celebrated the fete day of the late Emperor. Prince Louis Napoleon made a speech, in the course of which he said: “Planting myself as an exile near the tomb of the Emperor, I represent his teachings, which may be summarized in the motto, 1 Govern for the people, by the people.’” The prince was loudly cheered. The health of the Emperor William is reported to be precarious. A Berlin correspondent says his death is one of the events for which it is well to be prepared. A Madrid dispatch of the 17th says the Insurgents of Cartagena had released and armed 1,800 convicts. The Madrid Epoca of the 18th alleges that the French Government was secretly favoring the operations of the Carlists in order to . strcngthcn tlie cause ot the Count de Chambord. A dispatch from Carlist sources on the 18th states that the French Government had taken tlie initiatory steps towards recognizing the Carlists as belligerents, having issued orders permitting the transit of arms and munitions of war between the two Custom-House lines in the south of France. Charles Frederick August of Brunswick, Germany, died recently; of apoplexy, aged 69 years. By his will he leaves the whole of his landed and personal estate to the city of Geneva. A Vienna special of the 19th says; “The distribution of the prizes was a very tame affair. There were only about 3,000 persons present.. Archduke Charles Louis made a congratulatory address on the successful termination of the Exposition, after which the list of successful competitors was read.” A battle was fought, on the 18th, between a force of Carlists and three columns of Spanish Republicans, in which the former were victorious. The engagement occurred in the open country between the towns of Berga and Caseras. A cable telegram of the 18th says that so far this mouth twenty newspapers in the French provinces had been suppressed by the Government Resolutions have been adopted by the International Patent Rights Congress, recently in session at Vienna, to the effect that only the inventor himself or his legal successors shall obtain a patent; the granting of a patent cannot be refused to foreigners ; the duration of a patent for an invention to be for fifteen years, or for a shorter term, with the option, of extending it to that period ; the complete publication of a patent to be obligatory; the expense of granting a patent to be established on a moderate but progressive scale ; a specification of all patents in force must be accessible to the public.

THE NEW WORLD. The fourth annual exhibition of the Northern Ohio Fair will begin at Cleveland, September 29, and continue five days. The Canadian Parliament assembled at Ottawa on the 13th, and was at once prorogued by the Governor-General, who announced that a Royal Commission would inquire into the scandal connected with the Canada Pacific Railway, and that when the Commission is ready to report he will cause the Parliament to be summoned for dispatch of the business, to give an early opportunity of taking such report into consideration. Much excitement grew out of this action of the Governor-General, which met with much opposition. The Republicans of Pennsylvania have nominated R. W. Mackey for State Treasurer, and Judge Isaac Gordon for Supreme Court Judge. In Its platform the State Convention endorse the Administrations of President Grant and Governor Hartranft; pronounce against all further grants of public lands to corporations ; condemn the voting for or receiving increased pay for services rendered, and demand the repeal by Congress of the salary bill; favor the present tariff laws ; declare the Republican party to be the only organization competent to so meet the grave issues that are now constantly arising as to secure the just rights of the whole people ; express sympathy with every movement to secure for agriculture and labor their due influence, interest, and rights, and declare that the Republican party will be their ally in.every jusl effort to attain their ends.' 1 ~ ; •’’ .." Reccnt storms in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland have done great damage. On the Erie, the New Jersey Southfern, the Pennsylvania Central, the Philadelphia, Wilmington Baltimore, and Other railroads, many mile* ot track were washed away,

or so covered with land-slides or floods as to be nearly impassable, Pittsburgh reports that so violent a rainfall has never before occurred there, and throughout the country bridges, culverts, dams, and roadways had been destroyed, and a great deal of private property devastated. The lowa Anti-Monopoly State Convention was held at Des Moines, lowa, oh thfc 13th. About one-third of the counties in the State were represented. H. W. Lathrop, of Johnson was chosen permanent chairman. The following nominations were made: For Governor, Jacob S. Vale, of Van Buren County; Lieutenant-Governor, Fred. O’Donnell, of Dubuque; Supreme Judge, B. J. Hall, of Des Moines; Superintendent of Public Instruction, D. W. Prindle, of Hamilton. The platform adopted pledges the Convention and its candidates to the independent movemen favors a modification of the banking system, and demands a general revision of the Tariff laws) demands the repeal of the back salary law; opposes all future grants of land to railways or other corporations; favors a strict construction of the Constitution, and opposes the exercise of all doubtful powers by judicial or other officers; declares that in the corruption of legislators, Congressmen and office-hold-ers of existing political parties of the country is found the necessity for the independent movement. A kerosene lamp accident occurred at Indianapolis on the 13th. The victim in this case was Ida Shannon, aged 14. The editor of the Farmer's Union, Minneapolis, Minn., says the yield of wheat in the State is much better than was expected, being estimated to exceed twenty-five bushels per acre. According to a Cairo dispatch of the 13th, the cholera, in its most pestilential foftn, had appeared near Makenda, Illinois. A family named Ramsey, consisting of husband, wife and child, who recently fled from Indiana to escape the scourge, were stricken down with it, and all were dead in twcl ve~hours. Four or five relatives who came to their assistance were in a few hours taken down and soon died. At an Opposition caucus held at Ottawa, Ontario, on the evening of the 14th, at which there was a full attendance of Reformers, resolutions were passed condemning the action taken by the Crown in proroguing the Canadian Parliament. A Washington dispatch of the 14th says the Secretary of the Treasury, late the night before, sent, by a special messenger, to Collector Arthur, of the port of New York, an order for the immediate removal of nearly one hundred customs officers, some of them occupying responsible positions, on charges of fraud and corruption, and that the dismissal of another lot of dishonest officers was expected in a few days. A Harvest Home pic-nic was held at Clinton, 111., on the 14th, and was largely attended by the farmers of De Witt and adjoining counties. Addresses were delivered by Governor Beveridge, Ex-Governor Palmer; General J. C. Black and others. A widow woman, the daughter of George Stephenson, residing near Elkader, lowa, the other day poured oil on a fire she had just -lighted, when an explosion .followed, setting her clothes on fire and burning her so severely that she died the same night in great agony. Intelligence has been received that Paraguay, Brazil, and the Argentine Republic have signed a treaty of peace. In a recent letter Treasurer Spinner says: “The resumption of specie payment has been and I think will continue to be, put off until the time when the balance of trade shall be in our favor. When that tinie arrives resumption will be easy. In truth, it will, from that cause, come of its own accord.” —The returns of the Agricultural Department for the let.of August indicate a general and somewhat marked improvement in the condition and promise of the cotton crop since the Ist of July. The average condition on July 1, was 85.5; On August 1, 91.8. The Government examination into the Wawasset disaster was begun at the Treasury Department in Washington on the 15th. A Washington special of that date says eightytwo bodies had been recovered from and about the wreck, and it was believed that at least 200 persons were on board at the time of the disaster.

General Rosser, in charge of the railway survey of the Stanley Yellowstone expedition has reported that he finds the new route of access to Western Dakota, from the Missouri to the Yellowstone River, entirely practical and satisfactory, it being greatly superior to those of former days. The distance, two hundred and five miles, is twenty-one miles shorter than the survey of 1871. The grades are moderate. The Directors of the Company have accepted the new line recommended by General Rosser, from Bismarck,"“ the present end of the track, to the Yellowstone crossing.. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a circular giving notice that the principal and accrued interest of the five-twenty bonds below designated will be paid at the United States Treasury, Washington, on and after the 16th of November next, and that interest will cease from that day. Both numbers specified of bonds called in are inclusive, and are known as the third series, under the act of February 25, 1862, dated May 1, 1862, as follows: Coupon Bonds—sso, Nos. 6,201 to 10,200; SIOO, Nos. 20,000 to 30,750; SSOO, Nos. 10,701 to 50,800; SI,OOO, Nos. 22,601 to 26,000; Total, $13,000,000. Registered Bqnds—sso, Nos. 1,321 to 1,375; SIOO, Nos. 9,501 to 10,300; SSOO, Nos. 5,701 to 6,100; SI,OOO, Nos. 23,301 to 25,000; $5,000, Nos, 7,501 to 7,900; SIO,OOO, Nos. 9,«81 to 10,166. Total, $2,000;000. Grand total, $15,000.000. United States securities forwarded for redemption should be addressed to the loan division of the Secretary’s office, and all registered bonds should be assigned to the Secretary of the Treasury for redemption. A horrible accident occurred on the Chicago, Alton A St. Louis Railroad, a few miles from Chicago, on the night of the 16th. The St. Louis fast express train, which left Chicago at nine o’clock in the evening, was met|by a coal train about two and a half miles north of TCemontj’bofh trains running at full speed, when a fearful collision ensued. Both engines were completely wrecked, and the smoking-car of the express train was thrown atop of the engine of the coal train, and the steam passed in upon the passengers through a seam that was made In the bottom of the ear. Eleven persons, all of whom were in the smok-ing-car, were kilted, and forty others severely Injured, many of them fatally. An Oshkosh (Wte.) special of the 16th saya J. N. Hoaglan, President of the Winnebago County Convention of the Patrons of Husbandry, had published a card denying the truth of the statetnent that nineteen Granges in the county had agreed to hold their wheat Until a rise in the price took place. It Is said the Granges took no action on the subject, and indignantly deny any or attempt to or. a corner on wheat,

The seventh annual 'reunion of the Army of «the Cumberland will be held in Pittsburgh on the 17th and 18th of September. 8. S. Cot has been nominated by the Democrats of the Sixth, New York Congressional District for the vacancy caused by the death of the Hon. James Brooks. A Des Moines dispatch of the 16th says an official statement shows that the number of Granges in lowa was 1,750. The number in the United States on the 19th of July was 5,000; with a total membership of 250,000. Mrs. Ellen McKinney, of Chicago, in order to hurry up the fire, poured kerosene oil from a can into the stove. Both herself and her little girl, aged four years, were fearfully, and probably fatally, burned. The number of killed and wounded by the recent railroad accident near Chicago, as reported on the 19th, was fifty-one. The dead up to that date were: Capt. John W. Smith, Warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary; J. W. Plenty, Purchasing Agent of the Illinois State Penitentiary; Captain William Lettie, Springfield, lII* Roger J. Brass, Thomas Morton, George Trendel, George Reuter and Conrad Webber, Chicago; James O’Neill, Joliet; Theodore Steng, Texas; Jacob Cnndat, Oshkosh, Wis.; N. Divelbliss, Springfield. III.; Jacob Lauser, Joliet, lllj William Davis, fireman of coal train; Joseph B. Michie, Jackson, Tenn.: John Metzler, Joliet, brakeman of coal train; and a man supposed, by papers found on him, to be Thomas E. Pollard. • ■■■' Of the wounded alive on the 19th it was thought all but A. C. Hickman, of Chicago, and Frank Bridges, fireman of the passenger engine, would recover. Leading physicians have informed the Journal that, with the exception of a district of a few blocks in the extreme southwestern portion of the city, there is no cholera in Chicago and that the cases that have occurred in the district referred to were not Asiatic cholera, but of a sporadic character. It is further asserted that the general health of the city shows a better average than the corresponding seasons of the past few years. A portion of a passenger train going East over the Great Western (Canada) Railway, plunged into the Welland Canal on the 19th, the draw-bridge being open. Fortunately no lives were lost. The Attorney-General has recommended to the President that pardons be granted to 8. Hood, of South Carolina, and Adolphus Dupriest and George Holland, of North Carolina, who are serving out terms in the Albany Penitentiary for Ku-Klux outrages. A recent Washington dispatch says a number of letters had been received from Quaker and other friends of the Indian peace policy throughout the country, asking clemency in behalf of the Modoc Indians lately on trial for the murder of General Canby. Many of these letters raise the question that the trial of the offenders was illegal under the decision of the Supreme Court in the Milligan civil case; that courts being in existence, a military tribunal had no jurisdiction. Another question raised is that General Canby was killed while in action as a Peace Commissioner, and not as an officer of the army in war. These questions will come directly before the President for his action. J. €. Abbott, General Deputy of the Patrons of Husbandry, who has been engaged for some time past in organizing Granges throughout New England, addressed a public meeting at Boston, on the evening of the 19th, on the objects of the Order, and then established a Grange in that city. Rev. Gardiner Spring, for sixty-three years the pastor of the Brick Church (Presbyterian) congregation, in New York City, died at his residence in that city on the 18th, aged 89 years.

It is reported that in a small house near La Cygne, Kan., during the night of the 17th, two women and two children were consumed, and all are believed to have been murdered, and the house fired, by the husband of one of the victims, named Kellar. J. Puffcnberger, the engineer of the coal train which caused the recent terrible collision on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, was under arrest in Chicago on the 19th. Edward Beane, the conductor on the coal train, who resides in Joliet, had not yet been arrested, although efforts were being made to discover his whereabouts. Puffcnberger seeks to throw all the blame for the collision on the conductor, alleging that his (Poffenberger's) watch was fifty minutes slow, and that he was not aware Of this fact. By the rules of the Company, when the orders for the running of trains are violated, the engineer is equally responsible with the conductor of the train violating the regulations. Beane was said to have been at his home the day after the accident, in a halfcrazed condition, it is said that after the accident he was observed running up and down the track, begging some one to shoot him. At a meeting held at Beloit, Wfs., on the 19th, the Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois Agricultural Association organized, electing the Hon. 11. N. Davis, President; 8.~ .J. Doodwin, Esq,, Chief Marshal; Henry F. Hobart, Secretary and Treasurer; eleven VicePresidents, and eight Superintendents of Departments. The first fair of the association will be held Friday, September 5, upon the grounds of the Beloit Driving .Park Association. In response to a communication from citizens of Monroe as to the proper course to be pursued regarding Louisiana affairs, John McEncry has written a letter advising a State Convention in December, and the appointment of a committee to appeal to Congress. Mrs. Schmidt, of Long Island City, has pleaded guilty to an indictment which charges her with attempting to strangle to death a child that had been placed In her care, and for whose maintenance she was paid $lO a month. She was sentenced to six months imprisonment and a fine of $125. - —, ■ ■

The New York Republican State Convention will meet at Utica on Wednesday, September 24, to nomlnateseandidates for State officers. Mayor Medill, of Chicago, and family have gone on a trip to Europe. Aiderman L. L. Bond is acting Mayor of the city in the absence of Mr. Medill. The Coroner’s Jury in the ease of the recent collision on the Chicago* St. Louis Railroad, near Chicago, after a patient investigation and the examination of a large number of witnesses, have rendered a decision that the victims of the disaster came to their deaths from extensive scalds and the inhaling of steam on the occasion of the collision; “and we the jury find from the evidence that said collision was caused by the criminal carelessness of Edward Beane, conductor, and Joshua Puffenberger, engineer of said coal train No. 23, in violation of the rules and regulations of said railroad company, governing the movement of trains on said railroad.” The company has offered a reward of SI,OOO for the apprehension of Some of the evidence goes to show that Bcafie was intoxicated on the night of the accident, while.it is claimed by some that he is subject to fits of "insanity. Kellar, the murderer of hiswife and Mrs. Boyd aud hylwp chlldreu, near Twin Springs,

Kansas, was arrested and locked up In jail as La Cygne. On the 19th a party of four hundred to five hundred men assembled at the jail and demanded that the Sheriff should deliver the prisoner to them. The Sheriff refused them admittance to the jail, but was overcome, and tt was discovered that the prisoner was not in the building, as he had been previously removed to escape the mob. The Sheriff was threatened with death unless the place of concealment was told. All authority was put down, and the Sheriff told the place where the prisoner had been taken to. Kellar was then searched for and found eight miles east of La Cygne, and taken back to the town. The crowd was appealed to in behalf of law and order, and a committee of twelve was appointed to decide whether Kellar should' be hung or held for trial. The vote was seven for hanging, and the crowd proceeded deliberately to execute the verdict. Boyd, the husband and father of the murdered family, put the noose on Kellar’s neck, and the wagon on which the prisoner stood was driven Troin under him, and the wretched man was thus executed. No doubt existed as to Kellar’s guilt. All the lynchers were undisguised citizens of the neighborhood and county, some of them the wealthiest and best residents. Fannie Bush (colored), convicted of the murder of an infant child in Harrison County, Kentucky, has been sentenced to be hanged on the 14th of November. It is said the mother and her children were starving, and the mother, half crazed, drowned one that she might provide for the rest. Jefferson Davis addressed the Southern Historical Convention, at White Sulphur Springs, Va., a few days ago. In speaking of the late war, he said: “We have been more cheated than conquered by the declarations of the Federal President, Congress and Generals, for there never could have been a surrender had we anticipated what followed, and we would to-day have been free.” A resolution was adopted that President Grant be requested to permit the Secretary of this Society to examine all papers and archives of the Government captured by the Federal forces from the Confederates during the war, and to make copies of such of them as he may think fit.