Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The puddlers of Pittsburgh and vicinity struck on the sth. Over 100,000 workmen were thus thrown out of employment. The King of the Sandwich Islands left Ban Francisco for Washington on the sth. , The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has declined to direct the State Board of Canvassers to give the certificate of election from the Eighth District to MeDill. The New York Court of Appeals has decided that Hr. Beecher is entitled to a bill of particulars in the cause entitled Tilton vs. Beecher, thus overruling the decision of the lower Court In the Cheap Transportation Convention at Richmond, Va., on the 4th, a resolution was unanimously adopted recognizing, in addition to the lines of transportation recommended by the United States Senate Committee on Transportation, the proposed Bock Isl and & Hennepin Canal, in Illinois, connecting the Mississippi with the Illinois River and Canal and the chain of water-ways to the seaboard, 88 a project of great merit, and urging upon Congress the necessity of speedy construction of the work. The name of the association was changed to “The American Board of Transportation and Commerce,” and Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, was elected President for the ensuing year; F. B. Thurber, of New York, Treasurer, and R. H. Ferguson, of Troy, N. Y., Secretary. The next annual meeting is to be held in Chicago. A deputation of English Catholic ladies recently paid a visit of congratulation to the Westphalian Countess who was recently fined for expressing sympathy "yith the Bishop of Padeborn in his ecclesiastical trials. The funeral of the late Mayor Havemeycr, of New York, occurred on the sth. A Vicksburg (Miss.) dispatch of the 7th says an alarm sounded at 9 o’clock in the morning that the negroes were marching on the town. The citizens gathered en masse , armed immediately, and advanced to meet them on the Baldwin Ferry Road. They were encountered on Grove street, just outside of the city, about 200 strong. The commander of the citizens warned the negroes to disperse, but they refused, and immediately firing commenced on both sides. The negroes retreated about a mile, and again made a stand in an old breastwork and house, but were soon routed. The loss in this enagement was one citizen, Oliver Brown, killed, and about twelve or fifteen negroes killed, several wounded, and about twenty prisoners. On the Hall’s Ferry road about 250 negroes were found and routed after a short engagement, with several killed and wounded. The attack was made for the purpose of reinstating the negro Sheriff Crosby.- It was reported that the negroes were burning cotton-gins and dwellings in the neighborhood. According to Paris telegrams of the Bth the Rothschilds had advanced 30,030,000 reals to Spain, and the bankers of Madrid 150,000,000 reals more. On the Bth the tide at St. Petersburg, Russia, raised nine feet above highwater inundating the lower part of the city and driving 1,000 persons from their dwellings. Masked men stopped -a train on the Kansas Pacific Railway at Muncie, Mo., on the Bth and robbed the express car of $30,000. All was reported quiet at Vicksburg on the Bth.