Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1874 — THE LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE LATEST NEWS.

Frightful Boiler Explosion Near Glasgow, Scotland. Failure of the Samana Bay Lease Project. Serrano Abandons the Field and Returns to Madrid. ■*» Arrival of Dr. Livingstone’s Bemains in England. Connecticut Election Democratic Victory. Honors to Sumner’s Memory At Port au Prince. Explosion of the Roller of the Tigress Off Newfoundland. Another Capture of the Bender Family in Utah. General, Personal and Political News. THE OLD WORLD. “President Gonzales, of the Dominican Republic, announces, under date of March 35, the failure of the Samana Bay Company to comply with the terms of Its lease requiring prepayment of the rental, $050,000, to the Dominican Government, and the consequent lapse of all privileges and rights granted to the company. The official decree 1b promulgated resuming authority by the Government over the territory granted that company. A London dispatch of the Bth says that an application had been made for anew trial in the ease of the Tichborne claimant. The steamship Europe, owned by the French Transatlantic Company, foundered at sea on her recent voyage from Havre to New York. Her passengers and crew were taken on board the steamer Grace. The loss by the sinking of the steamer is estimated at $3,500,000. No lives were lost. The sovereignt y of the Fiji Islands has been formally tendered to Great Britain. John Macaulay, brother of the historian, is dead. William Kaulbacii, the celebrated German historical painter, died at Munich on the night of the 7th. A London dispatch of the 10th says the ~TSOItET Of a factory in liamitton, ncar Glasgow, exploded on the preceding day witli terrible effect. A large portion of the boiler was driven several hundred feet through the air and crushed into a school-house full of children. Three were instantly killed and thirty more or less injured. . . ‘ Accokding to a Madrid dispatch of the 9th Serrano had surrendered to Concha the command of the forces operating against the Carlists before Bilboa. A London dispatch of the 10th says that Jeau Luic and Capt. Brown, witnesses for the claimant in the Tichborne trial, were found guilty of perjury on that day, and sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. A late special telegram from Calcutta reports that the famine in that country is everywhere under control. A Berlin telegram of the 10th says the German Government and the Reichstag have compromised their differences on the Military bill, the former consenting to 401,000 men as the peace maximum, and limiting the term of service to seven years. , According to a London dispatch of the 13th advices from Abaiito of April 9th report that Marshal Serrano had made proposals for a settlement through Gen. Elio, which the Carlists had definitely rejected. The previous favorable accounts of the famine in India were contradicted by dispatches from Calcutta on the 13th. According to these the distress was increasing In Tirhoot, and according to official estimates 4,573,0001 persons in the districts of Fatra, Cbnzapore and Rajeslihyc were starving. * * The remains of Dr. Livingstone reached Southampton, England, on the morning of the 13th, in a good state of preservation. Bells were tolled and minute-guns fired as the remains passed from the pier to the railway station. THE NEW WORLD. Sanborn appeared before the Ways and ' Means Committee in Washington on the oth, and testified that be talked his contracts over several times with Secretary Richardson, and, that he haa no doubt Mr. Richardson knew ail about them; and that he went to him (Richardson) for information about them. Sanborn vows that none of the SIOO,OOO of which he had to pay out of the $210,000 be received from the Government went to any Internal revenue officer or to any member of Congress, directly or indirectly. He had paid Gen. Butler no counsel fees. He had subscribed to the fund for helping him to the Governorship of Massachusetts. According to Sanborn’s statements, his share of the money he bad received was less than $50,000. He declined to state how he had spent the sums he had to give for information. J3)iow fell to the depth of a foot In Washington on the oth. The death of ex-Judge Edmonds, the wellknown lawyer and Spiritualist, occurred In New York on the oth. The Connecticut State election on the oth resulted in the re-election of Ingersoll (Democrat) for Governor. Both houses of the Legislature are Democratic. A Hartford dispatch of the morning of the returns from all towqj in the State except seven give the following result: Ingersoll, 45,950; Harrison (Republican), 59,293; Smith (Prohibition Ist), 4,564. TitE/ight of colored children to attend the

public schools of the State has been recently affirmed, by a unanimous vote, by the Indiana Supreme Court. The Mississippi Legislature adjourned sine die on the oth. Among the last bills passed was one requiring the majority of males over twenty-one and females over eighteen, in a city, town or township, to sign a petition for license to sell liquor before such license shall be issued. The Governor signed this bill. A dispatch from the City of Mexico of a recent date states that six of the assassins of the Rev. Mr. Stephens, the American missionary, had been condemned to death. Capt.-Gen. Concha on the 7th issued a proclamation to the Cubans, defining his policy toward the insurgents. He asks the people to trust in him and declares his conviction that peace will be restored. The President lias nominated John W. Allen for Postmaster at Cleveland. South Carolina Senators and Representatives, with delegates from the Republican Btate Central Committee of that State, called on the President on the 7tli to answer to the charges made against them by the delegates from the Tax-Payers’ Convention. The delegation made a long statement, to the effect that the taxation was notsoburdensomeashadbeen represented, and was imposed for the best interests of the people and the State. The President expressed himself satisfied with their explanation of affairs in that State. John D. Sanborn was again before the Committee of Ways and'Means on the 7th and waa cross-examined for several hours, but without anything of importance being elicited. He still declined to give a detailed statement of hia expenditures. All efforts failed to make him admit anything that would connect Gen. Butler or any other member of Congress with his contracts. Gov. Dix has sent a message to the New York Legislature asking that body to contribute ail in its power to prevent the adoption by Congress of a hill expanding the currency of the country. The State Senate, on the 7th, with only three negative votes, and the Assembly unanimously passed resolutions indorsing the message and requesting Senators and Representatives in Congress to resist any expansion of the currency, and to promote, by all proper means, an early return to specie payments. A Hartford (Conn.) dispatch of the 7th says complete returns give the following result of the vote for Governor: Ingersoll, 40,784; Harrison, 40,042; Smith, 4,826; scattering, 19. lugersoll’s plurality, 0,742; lugersoll’s majority over all, 1,807. Two ballots were taken for U. S. Senator by the Massachusetts Legislature on the 7th. The first resul’ed as follows: Whole number of votes cast, 209; necessary to a choice, 135. Dawes, 97; Hoar, 78; Curtis, 72; Adams, 16; Banks, 3; Washburn, Whittier and Phillips received each one vote. The same number of votes was cast on the second ballot, divided as follows: Dawes, 96; Hoar, 81; Curtis, 71; Adams, 16; B. F. Butier, Speaker Sanford, Washburn, Whittier and Phillips received each one vote. Municipal and town elections were held in various portions of the We6t on the 6th and 7tn. In many instances the temperance question was made an issue and the anti-license party was generally defeated in the larger towns and cities, and met with various degrees of success in other localities. Washington Court House, where the temperance crusade originated, was carried by the ahti-crusaders. In the small towns iu Southern Ohio the temperance ticket was generally successful. The Cincinnati election on the 6th was carried by the Democrats by between 4,000 and 5,000 majority. Cleveland and Columbus also went Democratic. Notwithstanding the success of the antitemperance ticket at Dayton, Ohio, the crusaders repaired to the curbstones on the 7th and continued their prayiug efforts. At' Rapp’s saloon they were surrounded by a furious crowd. Knives were brandished and a riot appeared imminent to that degree that the Police Commissioners were obliged to interfere and request the women to retire from the street. The Mayor subsequently issued his proclamation forbidding street crusading. The Indiana Supreme Coilrt, on the 7th, held Section 17 of the Baxter law, which declares places where liquors are aold to be common nuisances, rincoustltutionat and void; also Section 18 of the same law, so far as it attempts to dispense with a statement of tlie name of the party to Whom liquor is sold. Solicitor Ban field was examined in the San- ( born investigation off the Bth, and testified that he had never drawn any contract, signed any paper, written any letter or ddne uuy act in connection with the Sanborn business except by the direct order of the Secretary of the Treasury. He said that he had never been consulted about any of the contracts under this law except the first, to Kelsey, on which nothing was collected. Everything else done by him was under specific Instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury. Gen. Butler came before the committee and complained that a witness had been examined in reference to his private affairs and that he had not been notified to be present to hear the testimony and, if he deemed it proper, to cross-examine the witnesses. He Lad much experience in committees, and It had been his uniform practice whenever a witness made a statement involving a member of either house to suspend the examination and to send for the member. He simply asked for that measure of courtesy to himself. lie denied any connection witli the Sanborn matter, except what he would be glad to tell. The bankruptcy proceedings against the extensive Sprague Manufacturing Company, of Rhode Island, have been discontinued and the case is dismissed. Four ballots were taken for United States. Benator by the Massachusetts Legislature on the Bth. The last two resulted os follows: Sixteenth—Whole number, 209; necessary for a choice, 135. Dawes, 90; Hoar, 03; Curtis, 72; Adams, 19; Sanford, 13; Washburn, 6; Judge Devens, 2; Judge Colt, 2; Phillips and Whittier, 1 each. Seventeenth—Whole number, 261; necessary for a choice, 181. Dawes, 82; Hoar, 60; Curtis, 72; Adams, 16; Sanford, 11; Banks, 7; Washburn, 5;. Devens, 4; Charles Hale, Amasa Walk4r; Whittier and Phillips, 1 each. Dispatches from Port au Prince Gs a late datestatc that the announcement of the death of the late Senator Sumner was received with great sorrow by the Dominicans. Flags were placed at half-mast from the forts and public buildings, and a solemn and Impressive funeral service was held at the Cathedral, which was attended by the President, Cabinet and the diplomatic corps. The steamer Tigress, of Polaris fame,

while fishing off the coast of Newfoundland, recently, exploded her boiler. Two engineers and twenty of the crew were killed. Tiie resignation of B. do Jayne, Special United States Treasury Agent at New York, has been accepted by the Treasury Department. Sanborn testified before the Ways and Means Committee on the 9th that his collections amounted to $427,036, of which one-half went to the Government. His total expenses were $156,483. The expenses attendant upon his late trial in Brooklyn and in coming to Washington are not included in this amount. Four persons were instantly killed at Pnttenburg, N. J., on the Bth, by the explosion of a steam boiler. A number of persons were injured by the flying debris. The ballot for United States Senator in the Massachusetts Legislature on the 9th resulted asfollows: Whole, number of votes cast, 273; necessary to a choice, 187. Dawes, 91; Hoar, 72; Curtis, 74; Adams, 15; Sanford, 9; Banks, 7; Washburn, 4; Whittier, 1. According to a Salt Lake dispatch of the 9th a man supposed to be John T. Bender, the oldest of the Kansas murderers, had been brought to that city from the Severier Valley, and a young man supposed to be his son was also in custody at Salt Creek. A severe snow-storm visited Cairo, 111., and vicinity on the Bth. During a recent gale, two fishing smacks were capsized off Kenosha, Wis., and eight persons .drowned, A similar accident occurred near the harbor pf South Chicago, which resulted in five persons being drowned. At Davenport, lowa, on the 9th, a meeting of liquor-dealers and brewers was held, and an organization formed to agitate for a stringent license law for lowa, in lieu of the present prohibitory law. Similar organizations are to be formed in other portions of the State. * - The authorities of Richmond, Ind., on the 9th, decreed that no more street crusading should be allowed in that city. All the saloons had closed, and the ladies were paying prayerful attention to the wholesale establishments. Official proclamation has been made by the President of the ratification of the treaty between the United States and San Salvador for the surrender of criminals. An expert testified in the Sanborn inquiry on the 10th that there were millions of withheld taxes which could only be collected by some such instrumentality as the Sanborn law. He, himself, had information of $50,000,000 of withheld whisky taxes. Mr. Mudge, Chief of the special agents in the Treasury Department, stated Sanborn’s connection with she department, and his duties as a special agent. Those duties were in his capacity as an employe of the Adams Express Company to detect and give information of the cases of smuggling that were constantly going on between Canadaand Boston: Mr. Mudge admitted that he bad allowed $2,000 paid to Wallett Martin, a whisky detective, and formerly in the employ of Sanborn, but he was unable to satisfy the committee of the legality of paying out of the customs funds the expenses of a private contractor to engage, for his own benefit, in detecting frauds in the internal revenue. The only explanation of it wag that he did not know until December last that Sanborn had any snob contract, The witness_had appointed, as a special agent to Europe, A. G, Fay, of New York, mentioned in the case as Sanborn’s attorney, or as Sanborn’s friend, and had allowed his expenses to the amount of about $3,000. He stated that some SIIO,OOO had been recovered to the Treasury through information derived from Fay, and that there were suits pending for some SBOO,OOO. This was principally on account of undervaluation of imports. He admitted that Sanborn had an interest in these cases in the shape of moieties. According to the New York Eveening Ibst of the 10th, the train which left Vanderbilt’s Landing on Staten Island at about seven o’clock on the preceding evening was stopped about two miles out. by a band of Italians, who tore up the track. Particulars of the outrage had not been received save that the robbers secured the cash-box on the train, but were themselves arrested and locked up. Lowenstein was executed at Albany, N. Y., OB the 10th, for the murder of a one-armed peddler last fall. He maintained to the last that he was innocent. Two ballots were taken on the 10th for United States Senator from Massachusetts ; 1 Nineteenth—Whole number of votes cast, 268 ; necessary to a choice, 135. Dawes, 87 ; Hoar, 60; Curtis, 72; Adams, 13; Washburn, 4; Whittier, 1; Sanford, 7 ; Banks, 8; Bullock, 7. Twentieth—Whole number of votes, 369; necessary to a choice, 135. Dawes, 83; Hoar, 69; Curtis, 72; Adams, 13; Bullock,' 12; Sanford, 7 , Washburn, 4 ; Banks, 8; Whittier, G. F. Hoar, Reuben Noble and Mrs. Mary A. Livermore received each one vote. Prague Bryant (colored), the murderer of Alex. Steele, was hanged at Pulaski, Tenn , on the 10th. New Orleans dispatches of the 10th say that serious crevasses had occurred in the lower Mississippi and caused considerable damage. The levee in the vicinity of New Orleans had broken in not less than a score of places. The plantations in the Suuflower, Tallahatchie and Yazoo bottoms were also threatened. The President has pardoned Albert Lemon convicted of forgery in November last In the United States Circuit CourL t>f Indiana; also Walker Dawson, of South Carolina, convicted of being a Ku-Klux. A fire occurred at Williamaport, Fa., on the 12th, destroying $500,000 worth of property, including a large amount of lumber, a large planing-mill, a saw-mill and fourteen frame dweUiiig-houses. It waa reported that one man was burned to death. The twenty-first ballot for United Btates Senator in the Massachusetts Legislature was taken on the 11th, as follows: Whole number of votes cast, 236; necessary to a choice, 119. Dawes, 68; Hoar, 54; Curtis, 63; Adams, 14; Sanford, 7; Banks, 6; Washburn, 4; A. H. Bullock, 15; Edward Learned, 3; Judge Pitman and Whittier, ode each. Judge Blodgett, of the United States Court of the Northern District of Illinois, has recently decided that what are known as “ puts," where the intention of the contracting parties is only to “settle the difference” and not deliver and receive the thing specified in the contract, are void as “ wager” or gambling contracts ; in other words; that a.“ put” is a bet against the price of some commodity at a future time, like an ” option,” and therefore void like other contrary to good morals and public policy.

W. H. Jackson, President of the National Agricultural Congress, has issued a circular relative to the third session of that body, to be held at Atlanta, Ga., commencing May 13, 1874. It says: “This is a purely representative body, since, by the amended constitution, agricultural or kindred societies which shall have contributed or may contribute five dollars to defray incidental expenses of the body are entitled to one delegate each, without reference to the number of membership.” It, is requested that notification be made of the appointment of delegates to Charles W. Greene, Secretary, Jacksonville, 111., at as early a date as practicable. A late Cairo (Ill.) special says: “Thefreeze that followed the snow on Thursday probably completed the destruction of the peach buds. It is not known whether the apples and strawberries are destroyed, but yesterday morning was a very cold one. There was ice in abuudance.” The Michigan State Woman’s Suffrage Convention will be held in Lansing on May 6. Murat Halsted, editor of the Cincinnati Commercial , has been arrested and held to bail for publishing an advertisement of a gift concert in violation of the Ohio law. The work of taking the regular State decennial census in Michigan is to be completed this year, as provided by law, between the first Monday of April and the third Monday of May.