Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1873 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD, Keucalcy, the leading counsel for the defense in the trial of the Ticliborne claimant, concluded his address to the jury on the 21st. He commenced to speak on the 22d of July, and occupied the attention of the court every day with the exception of the usual adjournment from Saturday to Monday and an extra adjournment from the 31st of July to ‘the sth of August in consequence of the illness of a juror. The Turkish troops have succeeded in capturing and killing the Carayanny brigands, who were implicated in the brutal massacre at Marathon. The brigands made a desperate but futile resistance, and were finally overpowered. Advices from the north of Spain, received in Madrid on the 22d, and which were deemed trustworthy, report the Carlist troops as being discouraged and insubordinate. The Republican army, under command of General Sanchez Bregna, numbering 12,000 men, had entered Bilboa. The Carlist forces occupying the city withdrew without offering battle. A collision occurred on the Great Northern Railway at Retford, England, on the 23d, between a freight and an excursion train. Both were badly wrecked, and four persons were killed and fifteen badly injured, several of them beyond hope of recovery. George Bidwell, Austin Bidwell, Edwin Noyes and George McDonnell, the Bank of England forgers, have been found guilty and sentenced to penal servitude for life, the highefifpunisKment under theqaws for their offense. Before the verdict was rendered George Bidwell and McDonnell stated that they were the only guilty ones, and exonerated the other two from all complicity in the frauds. Sir Samuel Baker and party have reached Cairo, returning from their expedition into Africa. A Vienna dispatch'of the 26th says that, of 30,000 medals awarded exhibitorsat the Exposition 400 go to America. There was much dissatisfaction with the results of the Exposition. It is charged that a number of articles which were never entered for competition received medals, and that several firms which had none of their goods on exhibition were awarded diplomas through manipulations of the juries. The quantity of goods and specimens which will be returned home from the American department is very small. Carl Wilhelm, composer of the famous war song, “ The Watch on the Rhine,” died at Schwaikeldcn on the 26th. Madrid telegrams of the 26th state that the Carlists, who were in large force and under their favorite leaders, had been completely defeated near Estella, and had retired toward the French frontier. The Carlists had also withdrawn from the neighborhood of Berga, having apparently abandoned the idea of its reduction. A Carlist force had entered the town of Fraga, and the village of Tortella had been entirely destroyed by the Insurgents in that vicinity. Senor Emilio Castelar had been elected President of the Cortes by a vote of 134 in his favor against 73 blanks. William Marsell, Postmaster-General of England, has tendered his resignation, but at the solicitation of Mr. Gladstone, will remain temporarily in charge of the department.

THE NEW WOULD. A Washington special to the New York Times ot the 21st says the Secretary of the Treasury had authorized an explicit denial of all published statements regarding an alleged deficit in the Treasury. It was claimed that there was and had been no deficit of a dollar. Vice-President Wilson has bebu elected President of the New York Cuban League. An examination into the alleged servitude and abuse, in New York city, of Italian boys, has developed the fact that such outrages have existed. In two houses one hundred and fifty children were found, and in each room ten or twelve boys were tied by the wrists with a cord. A man was in charge of every room. In some cases the children were marked by the padrones by branding on the cheek, lip, or ear. A thirtecn-year-old girl in Petersburg, 111., was successful in an attempt to kindle a fire, a few days ago, by the use of kerosene oil. She died soon after. In St. Louis, on the evening of the 20th, Hortense Elder used oil for fuel in the stove. Her funeral took place the following day. On the evening of August 20th a bold attempt was made to capture the pay-car of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, between Cameron and Kansas City. The engineer, when a few miles out from Cameron, saw a gang of men piling ties on the track. Reversing his engine at once, he put back into CamAn attempt was made on the evening of the 19th to capture or damage the train ot the Atlantic and Pacific Road north of Leavenworth. There were several shots fired at the engineer, and nearly every window in his cab was broken by bullets. A reign of terror appears to exist in some portions of Arkansas. Recently, While the Board of Supervisors of Perry County were in session at Perryville,_omp Manes, the former Clerk of the County, backed by four or five friends, entered the Courthouse, and attacked Matthews, an attorney, and broke up the court. Matthews retreated into a store and there was firing on both sides, during which Matthews was wounded, though he managed to escape. The friends of Matthews, to the number of 150, entered the village in the evening and killed a man _named Trice. Warrants were issued for the arrest of Manes and his party. Subsequently he and his followers, to the number of thirty, entered Perryville and took possession of the Court House. It was understood that the state militia had been detailed to preserve order. The recent Republican State Convention of Texas renominated E. J. Davis for Governor. ’The balance of the ticket is composed as follows: For Lieutenant Governor, P. H. Taylor; Comptroller, J. W> Thomas; Treasurer, A. T. Moore; Land C'ommlssKuer.Jacob Kuchler; Superintendent of Education, A. B. Morton. A resolution was adopted endorsing the Administration of President Grant. The Bureau of Education at Washington has information that Chicago and Cincinnati each received from the Vienna Exposition the grand medal of progress for a system of education, teaching and instruction, and Cleveland and. Jacksonville, HL, are awarded a diploma of merit in the same department. In this one department of education, teaching And instruction twenty-five prizes were awarded to United States exhibitors. President Grant and "party arrived at Long Branch from their New England trip on the 22d. The Ohio State Convention of colored men met at Chillicothe on the 22d. John Booker,

of Columbus, was chosen President, and C. L. Maxwell, of Xenia, Secretary. Several Vice-Presidents were also elected. About one hundred delegates were present. Resolutions were adopted—protesting against “the unjust discrimination permitted toward us by the representatives of the party whom we aid in securing official positions;” declaring the colored voters of Ohio “do not consider themselves under eternal obligations to a party which favors us as a class only in proportion as it is driven by its own necessities;” and urging the colored men of the State to refrain from unconditionally pledging themselves to the nominees of their local conventions, and Jhat they use their bqpt discrimination in determining for themselves, in each locality, whom to vote for, or whether to vote at all. A Catholic priest, whom Bishop Foley had deposed, has brought suit in the Circuit Court of Chicago against the Bishop to recover $25,000, claiming to have been damaged to that extent by the action of the Bishop, which, he alleges, was a violation of the canons of the church. Judge Emerson has sustained the defendant’s demurrer in the case of Ann Eliza Young vs. Brigham Young, for divorce, against the jurisdiction of the District Court. The Judge held that the Probate, not the District, Court had jurisdiction in divorce cases. A Cincinnati dispatch of the 22d gives the following particulars of the recent collision on the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad: The Hillsboro and Loveland accommodation, to which the accident occurred, left the Montgomery station On time. The freight train, bound from Chillocothe to this city, in charge of Conductor Pcwett, was behind time. It is said thathis watch was fifteen minutes slow, and, in addition, it is reported that the regular engineer, Smith, and he had some words at Loveland, in which the engineer said he would get him into difficulty before he got to Cincinnati. At any rate, the freight started, expecting, it is said, to make the switch at Montgomery Station, but failed, the collision occurring at a sharp curve, while this freight train was running on the passenger train’s time. The two engines grappled each other, reared upward, and stood almost erect, the baggage car following. The passenger coaches remained on the track, but the shock was terrible to the passengers, none of whom were seriously hurt, but some slight injuries were sustained by some persons cn the passenger train. Charles Rother, the fireman, remained on his engine, with his father, Elwood Rother, the engineer, and was crushed between the fire-box and the tender, and the father escaped without apparently serious bodily injury, but he appeared so moved by the excitement of the disaster that he came from the wreck with a disordered mind. Brakeman James Gerriogo had, in response to the signal “down brakes,” wound up bis brake, and was assisting the baggage-master, Samuel W. Harvard, who is also a brakeman, when the shock came. Both were immediately crushed to death. Both resided at Hillsboro, Ohio. Walter Rhodes, the express messenger, of this city, brother of J. H. Rhodes, of Adams’ Express Company, received injuries from which he died after reaching the Cincinnati depot this morning, making four deaths. All the other injuries received were of no consequence. It appears clear that the men who bravely remained at their posts and lost their lives, saved the passengers from a fearful casualty. The officials of the road acted with promptness. Physicians were taken from this city, and determination is apparent on the part of the railway officers to hold the conductor and engineer of the freight train responsible before the Criminal Court. - — ———4 The inquest was held at Montgomery, the scene of the accident, in the afternoon to-day, and foe verdict of the jury was that those killed came to their death by the criminal neglect of Conductor Pewett and Engineer Smith, of the freight train, in running out of their time. The jury recommended prosecuting them for manslaughter. From the developments in the Wawaset Investigation it seems that when the fire broke out the engineer was tending bar. He served two or three customers to drink while the sm okewas issuing from the immediate vicinity of the boiler and fire-room. Several frame buildings three miles south of Louisville, Ky., were destroyed by fire on the morning of the 22d, and a negro family, consisting of father, mother, and four children were burned to death. Representatives of the Patrons of Husbandry of the Georgia State Grange met in Athens a few days ago, the number of delegates present being sixty-four. The number of Granges organized in the State was ninety-six. Great enthusiasm in the Order was manifested, and much important business was transacted. The War Department has promulgated, in a general order, the finding and sentence in the case of the Modoc captives, Captain Jack, Schonchin, Black Jim, Boston Charley, Barncho, alias One-Eyed Jim, and Sloluck, alias Cox. The verdict is guilty, and the sentence death by hanging. The President approves of the sentence, and directs that it be carried Into effect, which, by order of the Secretary of War, will be done at Fort Klamath, on the 3d of October. Arfireiu Belfast, Maine, on the 21tli, destroyed over one hundred and twenty-five buildings. Loss nearly $500,000. One hundred and thirty families were rendered homeless. The Rev. John Todd, D. D., long a pastor of the First Congregational Church, in Pittsfield, Mass., and author of “The Student’s Manual,” and numerous other books for the young, died on the 24th, in his seventy-third -year. z : ■ A special telegram from the camp on the Big Bend of Muscle Shell River, of August 20th, says that General Custar’s cavalry expedition had an engagement on August 4th, at the mouth of Tongue River, with 400 Indians. The fight lasted three hours, resulting in a loss of ten Indians killed and wounded. Our loss was four men killed. On the 11th, while in bivouac near the mouth of the Big Horn, the same command was attacked by near 1,000 Indians. They were repulsed with loss of forty killed and wounded. Our loss was one man killed and three wounded. A St. Louis telegram of the 23d says the statement purporting to give an account of an attempt to throw a train' on the Missouri Pacific Railway from the track, four miles east of Holden, Mo., and the boarding of the train by a band of luffians, with the evident intention of robbing the passengers, and the subsequent killing ofL oneand_woundipg of another of the desperadoes at Holden, is pronounced by the officers of the railway company to Ire utterly false, and the entire story made out of whole cloth. A man, calling himself Baker, was arrested at Des Moinesf lowa, on the 23d, for passing a counterfeit SSOO greenback. The paper of the . counterfeit is much heavier and coarser than the. genuine, the vignette of John Q. Adams is a little darker, the upper lip being somewhat blurred. The ink on the back is a shade darker. The lathe work is not so distinct. The numbers, which are generally a pale red on counterfeits, are perfect. It is also a perfect imitation of the silk mixed paper now being used by the Government, and is well calculated to deceive. - '

An Indianapolis dispatch of the 24th says the cholera had entirely disappeared from that city. Mr. T. R. Allen, Master of the State Grange of Missouri, recently reported that there were 500 Granges in the State, with an average membership of seventy-five. Mrs. Sarah Johnson, of Little Rock,-Ark., was bitten by a rabid cat about a year ago, and died recently of hydrophobia. The steamer George C. Wolf was blown up at St. Francis Island, In the Mississippi, on the evening of the 22d. Twelve persons were lost, and many were injured. The lady passengers were all saved. An accident occurred on the Baltimore A Ohio Railroad on the 24th, four miles west of Cameron, W. Va., by which three or four German emigrants were fatally injure<l, and fifteen or twenty wounded. The accident was caused by the spreading of the track, which threw the tender, express car, and one passenger car down an embankment and all the coaches off the track. The coach that went over the bank some fifteen or twenty feet contained some seventy or eighty men, women and children. The car turned, bottom upwards, the trucks with it. Some of the emigrants became enraged, thinking the conductor and engineer were trying to kill them, and set upon the officers of the train with stones, and they had to flee for their lives. A recent Washington dispatch gives the folowing statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Government by warrants for the quarter ending June 30, 1873: Net receipts from cu5t0ni5............. $40,866,443 Internal revenue 29,230,787 Sales of public lands 772,607 Miscellaneous sources 6 6,938,847 T0ta1...577,808,684 Net expenditures for civil and miscellaneous 19,641,032 War Department. 11,287.613 Navy Department 4,866,073 Indians and pensions 8,305,687 Interest on public debt 14,777.957 Premium on bonds 540,954 T0ta1559,419,316 ts hree cars of an express train on the South Side Railway, Long Island, jumped the track on the 25th, and about fifty passengers, mostly women and children, were injured—none fatally. A woman eighty years of age, named Rebecca Prentiss, wasJburned to death in the recent fire at Belfast, Maine. A dispatch of the 25th places the pecuniary loss by the fire at about $400,000; insurance, $125,000. Relief was being received by the sufferers. The Mayor telegraphed, in response to inquiries, that the city would accept with gratitude whatever pecuniary aid might be offered. The State authorities of California have asked that the Modocs who are charged with grave offenses committed prior to their capture, other than those sentenced to be hanged, be delivered to them. Mrs. James Cook, wife of a coal miner at Howlett, 111., was fatally burned, a few days ago, by endeavoring to kindle a fire by pouring coal oil on it. An engine on the Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific Railway exploded near Atlantic, lowa, on the 25th, instantly killing J. Dyson, head brakeman, and severely scalding the engineer, George Crane, and the fireman, Henry Morgan. Some pieces of the boiler were thrown a fourth of a mile. ———-*-:■■■ ■ -——- An erroneous statement has been published regarding the forthcoming Michigan State Fair. It is to be held at Grand Rapids on the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th of September. . ——' • - The Secretary of the Senate at Washington has received a letter dated August 14, from Senator Morton, instructing him to return to the United States Treasury the Senator’s increased compensation known as “back pay." Several German beer-sellers of Worcester, who were on trial' for violating the Massachusetts Liquor law, have escaped by the disagreement of the jury. Six stood for conviction and six for acquittal. A special dispatch to the Chicago Tribune of the 27th states that Professor Ballcne, from France, crossed the Niagara River the day before, on a tight rope, 1,500 ft. long, opposite the Clifton House, in sixteen minutes. Returning to the center, he cast his cloak and balancepole into the river, and then jumped off into the water beneath, a distance of 140 feet, disappearing for a few seconds, after which he rose to the surface, and was picked up by men in waiting and went ashore in a small boat. General Butler opened the Gubernatorial campaign by a speech at Worcester, Mass., on the evening of the 26th. His speech was attentively listened to by a large audience. Announcement is made of another general reduction in railroad freights from the East to the West. The new tariff is as follows: From New York to Toledo, reduced from 58 cents to 31 cents; Detroit, from 53 to 28; Cleveland, from 45 to 26; Columbus, from 60 1032; Cincinnati, from 70 t 037, Indianapolis, from 51 to 38; Louisville, fromß6to49; Nashville, from sl.lO to 73; Memphis, from $1.35 to 98; St. Louis, from 97 to 55; Fort Wayne, from 95 to 35; Chicago and Milwaukee, from 53 to 28; Atchison and Leavenworth, ifrom $1.39 to 97; Kansas City and St Joseph, from $1.39 to 97. To Lake Erie ports, which include Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit, steam rates have been reduced to twenty-four cents, and to Lake Michigan ports, which include Chicago, Milwaukee and Green Bay, with steam around the lakes, the tariff for first-class goods is twenty-seven cents. A reduction had also been made in passenger rates by several of the outside ticket offices in New York City. Fare to Cleveland was thus reduced from $14.25 to $12.50; to Chicago, from $22 to $19.50; to Cincinnati, from S2O to $lB. The National Temperance Convention met at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 26th. Judge R. C. Pitman, of Massachusetts, was dftjscn permanent President. George Smith, the freight engineer concerned in the recent collision on the Marietta He says that he and the conductor both made the same mistake in looking at the time-card. A Cincinnati Railway, was under arrest in Cincinnati on the 26th. He admits that he and the conductor had some trouble at Loveland, but denies that he'made any threats. The Supreme Court of Georgia has recently decided that the law forbidding the validity of judgments for notes whose consideration was slaves is unconstitutional, and that, unless bound by the statute of limitation, such judgments can be made operative. The Court was divided, Judge McCoy dissenting. A recent terrible storm of wind and rain drove thirty vessels ashore at Sydney, Nova Scotia. Many buildings were blown down, and the .crops throughout the country were destroyed, and many bHdgcs were washed away. The Treasury Department in Washington recently received from the Syndicate in London $5,000,000 in five-twenty bonds and canceled coupons.

A townsman and personal friend of the Vice-President, who was lately in Washington, says that Mr. Wilson fully expects to be present at the opening of the session in December, and to attend to his duties as President of the Senate. The Pennsylvania Democratic State'Convehtion met at Wilkesbarre on the 27th. R. Melton Spear was proposed for permanent President of the Convention, but so much opposition was made to him on the ground of his having, as a member of Congress, taking back pay, that he withdrew his name, and Dr. Andrew Neblnger was chosen chairman. James R. Ludlow, of Philadelphia, was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court, and T. M. Hutchinson, of Alleghany, for State Treasurer. The Ohio Democratic platform was adopted, except that in the first resolution the words insisting “that our tariff laws should be formed with a view to revenue, and not to tax the community for the benefit of any particular industry,” are omitted. An additional resolution was adopted declaring that “wewlll no longer tamely submit to a repetition of the election frauds by which the will of the people, expressed at the ballot-box, has been subverted for some years past, and that the Democratic State Central Committee be directed to use all their efforts to prevent a repetition of these outrages on the franchises of the people,” etc. In the National Temperance Convention at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 27th, resolutions were adopted—congratulating the friends of temperance on the progress made since the meeting in 1868; declaring that total abstinence from all Intoxicating drinks, brewed or distilled, is the true basis of the temperance reform; that venders of liquor and owners of premises be held responsible for damage by inebriates; recommending all temperance societies to advocate the repeal of State . license laws, and to urge the abolition of the manufacture of liquors in the Territories and District of Columbia; declaring that the time had arrived fully to introduce the temperance issues into State and National politics, and recommending all friends of temperance to make it henceforth the paramount issue to cooperate with existing party organizations when they Indorse prohibition and nominate candidates pledged to its support, otherwise to organize separate party action in every State and Congressional and electoral district of the United States. A grand National Mass Meeting was ordered to be held in Philadelphia, in connection with the Centennial celebration. The extensive lager-beer brewery of V. Blatz, at Milwaukee—one of the largest establishments of the kind in the country—was, in great part, destroyed by fire a few nights ago. Loss, about $300,000; insurance, $150,000. At Indianola, lowa, the other day, Ida Barrick, aged sixteen, was using kerosene to start a fire, when the oil in the can exploded, and she was so badly burned that death ensued in a short time. A little daughter of Mr. Bettzer, of Dalton, 111., also recently tried the same experiment, with like result. The Wisconsin Republican State Convention met at Madison on the 27th. Hon. J. Nazro, of Milwaukee, was chosen permanent Chairman. Governor C. C. Washbum was renominated by acclamation. The balance of the ticket is as follows: For Lieutenant-Governor, Robert H. Bacon, of Racine; for Secretary of State, E. W. Young, of Sauk; for State Treasurer, Colonel O. C. Johnson; for AttorneyGeneral, Judge L. 8. Frisbie, of Washington; for State Superintendent, Robert Graham, of Oshkosh; Emigration Commissioner, .George P. Lincoln. The State Central Committee is as follows: E. W. Keyes, Chairman, Dane County; Frank Leland, Walworth; J. T. Moak, Jefferson; L M. Bean, Milwaukee; Elihu Colman, Fond du Lac; Robert McCurdy, Oshkosh; H. B. Cole, Jackson; John T. Kingston, Juneau. The' platform denounces official frauds and corrupt legislation; condemns the additional sal- ' ary law recently passed by Congress, and demands its unconditional repeal; favors an amendment to the National Constitution pro ■ hibiting Congress from increasing its own compensation; advocates the speedy adoption of proper legislative measures to secure relief and protection against the greed and oppression of grasping monopolies; claims the right under the Constitution to regulate, and repeal, if necessary, all railroad charters; disapproves of public officers accepting free passes over railways; sympathizes with every movement to secure for agriculture and labor their due influence, interests and rights, and declares that the Republican party will be their ally in every just effort to attain that end. At the meeting of the Wisconsin State Grange at Watertown on the 27th, an address by the Executive Committee to the subordinate Granges was agreed upon, and resolution* were adopted—in favor of the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers and Mississippi River, and other water courses that will tend to cheapen transportation; providing for the preparation and distribution to the several subordinate Granges suitable petitions to Congress for better and cheaper means of transportation from the West to the Atlantic and Southern seaboard; declaring that, “we will support no man for office who has ever been guilty of receiving retrospective increase of salary for public service or received an' advance in salary by the act of March 3, 1873;” and that railroads are public high-ways, and railroad companies are common carriers, and demanding that the State and National Legislatures shall control them by just and equitable law. William A. Matthias, aged twenty-two, of Westminster, Md., died, as was supposed, at three o’clock on the afternoon of the 24th, of brain-fever, and the body was placed on ice. On the 26th, when the family assembled for the funeral services, .it was noticed that the skin had assumed a natural appearance, and examination showed that life was not extinct Physicians were called in, and Matthias is recovering. A touno gentleman in Detroit fastened several yards of string to an umbrella which he placed- in the door of a public stairway. In the course of half an hour eleven different persons saw the umbrella, knew that the owner had lost it, and wanted them to take charge of it, and carried it the length of the string only to let go of jt, and wondered what the crowd was laughing at. If the' independent is to be credited, a new Eldorado has been discovered In eastern Nevada, and hundreds of people are flocking thither as in the flush times of 1863. The new mines are situated twenty miles north off fa the range of that name, and about sixty miles from Elko. “Float Rock,” very rich in gold, has been brought in by the discoverer of the new district