Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

According to • Berlin dispatch of the 18 th the Government had been defeated on that, day in the Reichstag upon a proposed bank bill by 127 to 158. The President of that body at once tendered his resignation. Thirty-two of the Turks charged with the murder of the Montenegrin Christians have been found guilty and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment each. " , According to a New York dispatch of the 18th the New York Central & Hudson River* Railroad Company had discharged 1,500 men, nearly one-sixth pf the whole number employed, and largely reduced the wages of those that remained. Serious labor difficulties are reported in the Pennsylvania mining region. The suit of Theodore Tilton against Henry Ward Beecher has been definitely set for trial on the Bth of December. The Metjtodist Board of Missions, recently in session to New York, appropriated $821,000. A late Madison (Wis.) dispatch says that after throwing out the votes of the towtf of Lincoln and the First Ward of the city of Grand Rapids, Cate (Ref.) had a majority of two votes in the Eighth District. The last of the three men concerned in the express robbery at Cincinnati was arrested on the 18th. They subsequently confessed their connection with the affair. A)1 but $9,000 of the money had been recovered on the morning of the 19 th. The Arkansas Legislature on the 18th passed a bill authorizing Gov. Garland to offer a reward of SI,OOO each for the arrest of Smith and Wheeler. According to a London telegram of the 19th an American boat in the Clyde had been run down and seventeen sailors on board drowned. A Hendaye dispatch of the 19th says the vigorous cannonading from one of the outlying forts of Irun had again compelled the-Carlists to abandon their position in front of that city. King Coffee, of the Ashantees, has been compelled to abdicate, and his nephew has been installed King in his stead. Three workinen were killed and fifteen seriously injured, in Paris, on the 19th, in' consequence of an explosion in a chemical manufactory. The building and a railroad station hard by were destroyed. A Constantinople dispatch of the 19th says an Egyptian army had captured Darfour and killed the reigning Sultan. The Anti-Secret Association of Illinois, recently in session at Chicago, adjourned on the eyening of the 19th. Resolutions were adopted severely condemning all secret organizations. The Nevada Legislature stands politic cally as follows: Senate —Republicans, 18; Democrats, 7. Assembly—Democrats, 16; Republicans, 31; Independents, 3. Charlie Ross has turned up again, this time in the possession of F. W. Peyton, of Huntington, W. Va., who offers to hand him over for $5,000. A Little Rock special of the 19th says that all the State offioers of Arkansas elected on the ticket with Lieut.-Gov. Smith v except the Secretary of State and Attorney-General, had indorsed Smith’s application for recognition as Governor. Chamberlain’s majority for Governor of >?outh Carolina is 10,667. An explosion occurred in the Warrenvale coal mine in Yorkshire, England, on the 20th, which caused the loss of twenty-four lives. A Washington dispatch of the 20th says the Cabinet had unanimously decided that no present recognition of Smith’s claim to be Governor of Arkansas should be made. ; • The libel suit of Henry C. Bowen against the Brooklyn Argn* resulted ip the acquittal of the defendant on the 20th, the jurors holding, however, that, while the defendant was legally exempt from conviction, the printed matter in the Argus relating to the deceased Mrs. Bowen was atrocious and cruel. The Kansas'State Central Relief Committee have issued an address appealing for aid for-the sufferers in their cautioning the public against placing their benefactions in the hands of unauthorized and irresponsible parties. Parties solicMng aid by authority will have the indorsement of the Governor of the State,,and such indorsement will be a guaranty &f their responsibility. The appeal closes as follows:

Individuals or local committees desiring more specific information concerning matters connected with the relief of our people should address directly the Secretary of the committee, and all remittances of ftmds should be made to the Treasurer at Topeka, With emphasis we assert that our suffering people are net wasting in enterprise, nor courage, nor any of the elements of true manhood. The uncomplaining patience with which even women and children are enduring the misfortunes that have fallen upon them is.,uothing short of heroic. Our people have not lost fakh in themselves nor in the resources of the in which they live. In their behalf we confidently appeal to the liberality of those who consider it a privilege to minister to the wants of the suffering. (Signed) E. S. Stovkb, Lieutenant-Governor, and President of the Kansas Central Belief Commission. A motion to release certain Democratic Deputies was made by an Ultramontane member in the German Reichstag on the 21st, and defeated aJter a speech by Bismarck m opposition. The Argentine gunboat Panama has been, surrendered totbe Brazilian authorities. Correspondence with Europe from Buenos Ayres has been forbidden. According to a London telegram of the 21st Germany has secured a port on the Mediterranean from the Emperor of Morocco.

The Spanish gunboat Prosperidas is missing and supposed to be lost. She had 200 men on board. The Pope has written to Cardinal Cpllen and the Irish Bishops thanking tllfem for their recent condemnation of Prof, Tyndall’s address at Belfast. r**Representatives Wilshire and Lowe, of Arkansas, have notified the AttorneyGeneral that they intend to file an argument in opposition to the claim of Smith to be of Mrs. Fred-. Gfrtmt made Iter debut in Washington society at a party given by the wife of the President. About 300 invited guests were present, and the bride was heartily received. The attempted kindling of a fire with kerosene at Trenton, N. J., on the 21st was the cause of the death of Mrs. Riley and her infant. The editor of the Chicago Times has been held to bail in the sum of $1,500 for libeling N. K. Fairbank, of Chicago. In San Francisco, on the 21st, “Fullerton” trotted three heats in 2:20|, 2:20f and 2:20J —the three fastest consecutive heats on record. The Louisville Presbytery having severely reprimanded Dr. Wilson, pastor of the Louisville First Presbyterian Church, that organization has withdrawn from that body. The Chairman of the Nebraska Relief and Aid Society has cautioned the public against giving to unauthorized persons. Contributions should be forwarded to Alvin Saunders, Treasurer, and E. B. Chandler, Secretary, Omaha, Neb. Wm. Sharon, a San Francisco banker, recently presented his daughter with a check for $1 ,000,000 on the occasion of her marriage. It -was reported in Little Rock on the 21st that the Republican State Central Committee of Arkansas had received several letters from the northwestern part of the State offering five companies of old Union soldiers to Gov. Smith. The late sensational dispatches reciting that the people of Arkansas were being troubled by the White League and that arrests of the friends of Smith were being daily made are authoritatively denied. The usual London fog prevailed on the 23d. Travel on land and water was very dangerous, and numerous accidents were reported. Lady Franklin has renewed her offer of SIO,OOO reward for the recovery of the records of Sir John Franklin’s Polar expedition. Victor Emmanuel opened the Italian Parliament on the 23d by a speech from the throne, devoted mainly to the financial system of Italy and measures of public safety. The Secretary of the Interior has requested the War Department to remove the miners operating in the Black Hills in violence of treaty stipulations. A. B. Mullett, Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, tendered his resignation on the 23d. .Secretary Bristow promptly accepted it. Mr- Beecher’s attorney? have appealed from the order of the court denying the motion for a bill of particulars in the suit brought by Mr. Tilton. Hon. W. B. Wickham was sworn into office as Mayor of New York on the 23d. The Minnesota State canvassers have awarded the certificate in the Second District to H. B. Strait, the Republican candidate. The following is the official vote for Secretary of State cast at the recent election in Indiana: J. E. Neff, 182,154; W. W. Curry, 164,902; J. C. Stout, 16,233. Gov. Garland has offered a rewai'd' of SI,OOO for the apprehension of Smith and SSOO for Wheeler. Smith, according to a Washington dispatch of the 23d, was in the Government Arsenal at Little Rock. Gen. Emory has ordered Lieut. Hodgson to be tried by court-martial upon, charge? preferred by Gen. Morrow, based upon Hodgson’s recent ccßduct in Northern Louisiana. A tornado destroyed large portions oT Tuscumbia and Montevallo, Ala., on the 22d. In the former place twelve persons were killed and many injured. In the latter two persons were killed and twenty iM^ired. According to a Madrid special of the 24th the Spanish Government had expressed a willingness to pay to the United States indemnity in the Virginius case, calculated upon the same basis as that according to which the settlement with Great Britain was effected. An engine on the dummy railroad between Hyde Park and Chicago jumped the track on the 24th, turned over and crushed the engineer to death. A newsboy was fatally scalded by escaping steam. At a meeting of the Indiana State Grange, held in Indianapolis on the 24th, the following officers were elected: Henley James, Worthy Master, Marion; C. W. Davis, Lecturer, Kentland; Russel! Johnson, Steward; F. C. Phillips, Assistant Steward; B. F. Ham, Chaplain; Q. H. Brown, Treasurer, Rensselaer; M. M. Moody, Secretary. Muncie; Alpheus Tyner, State Purchasing Agent, Indianapolis. The Granges in the State number 1,999. An appeal for aid for the sufferers *by the recent tornado it Tuscutobia; Alh'.;* has been made. On the 24th the General Grand Chapter of Masons of the United States met at Nashville, Tenn. The majorities ia the First and Second Louisiana Districts are officially announced as follows: First—Randall

Gibson, Dem., 6,718; Second—E. J. Ellis, Denu, 4,759. ’ 11 An, injunction waft served on the Chicago Board of Trade on the 24th, just as 'they Were voting bn the expulsion of Jack” Sturges for uncommercial conduct hr connection with a recent com corner, forbidding them to take any farther steps in the matter until the court gave them permission. . The following appear to be the facts in relation to thejaielyrreported defalcation of the' Treasurer of the Missouri State Grange: At the recent meeting at Kansas City Mr. Quisenbury was called upon for the whole sum in the treasury —s2o,ooo—it being wanted to invest in a manufactory. 1 It then came out that Quisenbury had invested the funds of the Grange in various ways, and that they could not be realized at once k • He raised $4,000 cash and has since give%to the Executive Board of the Grange deeds of trust on two farms said to be worth SIB,OOO, and executed a bond of personal security, which has been accepted by the Board, and has agreed to pay the w.hole amount by next July. It is not believed that the Grange will lose a dollar. Gov. Houston, of Alabama, was. inaugurated on the 24th. In bis address he said: “The citizens of Alabama (truly desire peace and perfect restoration of fraternal relations between all sections -of our common country. They are loyal to the Government of the United States and will readily yield cheerful obedience to its authorities and laws. They only ask to be permitted, under the Constitution and laws of the country, to exercise, secure from unwarrantable interference, the right of governing themselves at home by just and wisely-exercised laws for local self-government.”