Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

A Spanish column was recently defeated by the Caban insurgents near Manacas. The Spaniards lost 160 men. A young man jumped from the dome of. the Capitol in Washington on the 17th. He was instantly killed. Vyse A Co., large straw-goods dealers in New York, have failed for over sl,000,000. Catherine Cary, a witness for Tilton in the Beecher trial, testified on the 10th that she had seen Mr. Beecher go into Mrs. Tilton’s bedroom repeatedly, and that on one occasion she discovered Mrs. Tilton sitting on Beecher’s knee. On the 17th a juror was suddenly taken sick and had to be taken home by two officers of the court. A virulent railroad war has broken out between the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Companies. On the 17lh the former company were selling tickets from Chicago to New York for sls and to Washington for $lO. The Illinois State Fair has been located at Ottawa for the ensuing two years. A young lady living in Indianapolis, named Doyle, was fatally burned, on the 16th, while using coal-oil to hasten a sluggish fire. On the 17th, at West Jefferson, Ohio, a child of William Stratton upset a coal-oil lamp. Mrs. S. picked up the lamp, when it exploded in her hand—causing her almost instant death. The British Parliament, on the 18th voted 4hat John Mitchel, the latelyelected member from Tipperary, is ineligible on the ground that he is a convicted felon. A writ was ordered to issue for a new election. An extraordinary session of the Senate has been ordered by the President, to convene March 5. The Southern and Southwestern Democratic members of Congress have issued an address to the people of the South, which appeals to them “ for continued forbearance and hopeful reliance upon the virtue aud the sense of justice of the American people for the ultimate vindication of our rights, the protection of our liberties and the safety erf our republican form of government” The Legislature of West Virginia, on the 17th, elected A. T. Caperton (Dem.) to the United States Senatorship. On the 19th fifty-one persons lost their lives through the burning of a match factory at Gottenburg, Sweden. Two-thirdsof the city of Port au Prince, Hayti, was burned on the 11th, involving the destruction of from 600 to 700 houses, and the loss of about $2,000,000. The fire originated from the explosion of a barrel of kerosene.

On the 18th the National House of Representatives passed eighty-three individual pension bills. The examination of Mr. Tilton in the Tilton-Beecher trial was concluded on the 18th, and Mr. Bell, ex-Daacon of Plymouth Church; Joseph H. Richards, brother of Mrs. Tilton; Mr. Bratyher and Mr. Robinson, business partner of Mr. Moulton, were examined. Mrs. Moulton was on the Witness-stand on the 19th. The testimony of these witnesses was mainly corroborative of the testimony of Messrs. Moulton and Tilton. W. S. King, of Minnesota, has written a letter to the Legislature of the State in reply to the resolution calling upon him to resign if he could not appear before the Congressional Committee and explain his connection with the Pacific Mail subsidy. Mr. King characterizes the resolutions as “ very extraordinary in so far as they correctly illustrate your lack of knowledge es the common proprieties and decencies of official position, your painful disregard of truth in your official action, and your false and hypocritical pretenses of virtuous regard for the honor of the State of Minnesota.” He pronounces false the charge that he had accepted money as a consideration for his services in behalf of the Subsidy bill, and emphatically asserts, as he says he stated under oath two years ago, that he never accepted nor received a dollar in consideration of such service, and that not one dollar of the money received by him was ever intended or applied to influence a vote on such bill. 8. J. R. McMillan (Rep.), the present Chief-Justice of the State Supreme Court, has been elected United States Senator by the Minnesota Legislature. The wife of Senator-elect McDonald, of Indiana, died suddenly, a few days tw-

A negro was admitted into the senior class of the New Orleans High School on the 18th, and twenty out of the twen-ty-two members immediately left the school. On the 20th, at Washington, the leading Republicans and the Louisiana Congressional delegation agreed to leave out the question of the election of 1872 and to recognize Kellogg as Governor as long as the Government shall continue to sustain him as such; the four Conservatives unseated in the Legislature on the 4th of January to be admitted, and a new organization of the Legislature to be secured. A New York court has recently rendered a verdict of $15,000 in favor of a passenger, and against the New York & New Haven Railroad Company. The plaintiff was robbed of that sum while riding from New Haven to New York, and the court held that the company must protect its patrons, A railroad train was overturned and mostly burned near Mingo Junction, Ohio, on the 19th. No one was killed but several were injured, among them Mr. J. N. McCullough, first Vice-Presi-

dent of the P., FkW. * C. Railroad Company, who had three ribs broken and was otherwise injured. Snow is reported to be three feet deep on* level in the vicinity of Fort Sully. Late arrivals from the Black Hills report that an abundance of gold had been secured. • A broken rail, at Sheffield, 111., on the 20th, threw a passenger car and a sleeper into a culvert. Several persons were im jured, and F. L. Browning, of Annawan, 111., killed. Spain has agreed to pay $84,000 indemnity for the Virginias affair. The,Germania newspaper, printed at Berlin <having published the recent encyclical letter of the Pope to the Prussian Bishops, has been confiscated and the proprietors prosecuted. An explosion occurred in the safetyfuse works at Redraths, Cornwall, England, on the 20th. Five girls were killed. John Mitchel, on the 21st, issued an address to the electors of Tipperary, presenting himself again as a candidate for Parliament. A fleet of British men-of-war has bombarded and captured Fort Mombazique, on the island of Mombaz, off the coast of Africa. Two slave-ships have been captured, with 300 slaves on board. The next consistory, according to a Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 22d, will create four ecclesiastical provinces in North America. Sir Charles Lyell, the eminent English geologist, died on the 22d. Three representatives of the Conservative party in Louisiana had an interview with the President on the 22d. He said his duty was not to enter into any compromise, but he would be rejoiced if the opposing parties in Louisiana could come to some understanding by which the contentions in that State could be settled. He said he would consult with the other parties to the contest in Louisiana. It being suggested to him that some intimation from Washington would be necessary to influence the action of the Republicans in Louisiana, the President referred the committee to Mr. Wheeler. The committee called on Mr. Wheeler, who stated that he would do all in his power to settle the Louisiana question on the basis of his propositions. A proposition was then submitted to him by the committee, which he rejected, still adhering to his original propositions.

in Exeter, N. Y., during the recent cold weather, three children who had been sent by their parents on a basketpeddling expedition froze to death. The glue factory of Wahl Bros., in Chicago, was recently destroyed by fire, involving a loss of over $350,000. At Veedersburg, Ind., lately, Mr. Henry Eister and wife left their three little children—two girls and a boyalone in their house, and during their absence the building was burned down and the little ones perished in the flames. The prosecution in the Tilton-Beecher case on the 23d, at the conclusion of Mrs. Moulton’s cross-examination and the re-examination of Mrs. Kate Carey, announced that their case was closed, and the court adjourned till the following day. Mrs. Moulton testified that Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton admitted to her that they had committed adultery in 1871, and that each claimed to be the one most to blame. Mrs. Moulton admitted that on one occasion, when Mr. Beecher spoke of his great suffering and talked of committing suicide, with tears streaming down his cheeks, she placed her hand on his shoulder and kissed him on the forehead, and said if ever there was a good man she believed he was one. On another occasion, when Mr. Beecher was on his way to prayer-meeting, she had, in the presence of her husband, thrown her arms around Mr. Beecher’s neck and asked Mr. Moulton to save this good man. On the cross-examination on the 23d Mrs. Carey admitted that she had been discharged from one place for intoxication. Ernest Ortwein, the murderer of the Hamnett family, near Pittsburgh, Pa., last April, was hanged in that city on the 23d.