Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The pigeon-shooting match between A. H. Bogardus, of Illinois, and the English champion, Geo. Rimmel, at Hendon, England, on the 7th, was easily won by the former. The contest for the Mayor and citizens’ cup at Belfast, Ireland, on the 7th resulted in the success of Gildersleeve, of the American team. A Ma num dispatch of the 7th says the entire Carlist forces had departed from Valencia and Arragon. The Alphonsists were in close pursuit. An insurrection has broken out against the Turks in Herzegovina. The commission appointed to consider whether Italy shall participate in the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition has recent ly decided in the negative on account o the expense necessary. The United States ■Government has been informed of the decision. A Washington dispatch of the 7th states that under the provisions of the act of July 18, 1874, providing for the resumption of specie payments, the Treasury Department had disposed of about $10,000,000 of bonds known as 5 per cents, and with the proceeds had purchased about $9,000,000 in silver, for the purpose of retiring fractional currency. At a meeting of Plymouth Society of Brooklyn—composed of pew-holders in Plymouth Church—on the evening of the ■7th, a resolution was unanimously adopted fixing Mr. Beecher’s salary for the ensuing year at SIOO,OOO. Mr. Beecher testified before the Grand Jury in the Loeder-Price case on the 7th, and denied all the allegations made by the accused so far as they related to himself. Price plead guilty of peijury and conspiracy, and Loeder not guilty. The Wisconsin Republican State Convention was held at Madison on tb e 7th. Hon. Harrison Ludington, of Milwaukee, was unanimously nominated, by acclamation, for Governor. <Jlie other nominations are: For Lieutenant-Governor, H. L. Eaton; Secretary of State, Hans B. Warner; State Treasurer, Maj. Henry Baetz; Attorney-General, John R. Bennett; Sunerintendent of Public Instruction, Robert Graham. E. W. Keyes was re. elected Chairman of the State Cen tral Committee. The platform approves the letter of President Grant; indorses the present Republican National Administration and the policy of arbitration in setting international difficulties; favors a tariff for revenue only; advocates the gradual resumption of specie payments ; favors legislative control of public corporations, etc. The Opposition State Convention of Minnesota, held at St Paul on the 7th, nominated D. L. Buell for Governor; E. W. Durant, Lieutenant-Governor; Albert Scheffer, Treasurer; J. Sencerbox, Railway Commissioner; Adolphus Bierman, Secretary of State; Lafayette Emmett, Chief-Justice; M. Doran, State Audit or ; A. A. McLeod, Clerk Supreme Court. The name Democratic-Republican was adopted. The resolutions favor a resumption of specie payments and a return to gold and silver as a basis of currency; a tariff for revenue; the State control of public corporations, etc. The rivers Toques and Orbiquet, in France, recently overflowed their banks and inundated the town of Lesieux and its environs. Several lives were lost. A terrific rain and hail storm visited Switzerland lately. The hail-stones were of great size, killing and wounding many persons, destroying crops and damaging much valuable property. A commercial crash is predicted in Norway in consequence of the stagnation in the lumber trade.

According to a Madrid dispatch of the Bth Carlists were continually presenting themselves to the authorities, demanding amnesty. The Executive Committee of the National Grange, in session in Washington on the Bth, voted to remove the headquarters of the National Grange to Louisville, Ky. They also voted to hold the next meeting of the National Grange at Louisville on the third Wednesday in November next. Prof. Steiner, with three companions, made a balloon ascension at Milwaukee on the evening of the 7th, intending to make an eastward voyage to the Atlantic coast. After being up three hours they landed about twenty-eight miles from Mil waukee. The quality of the gas with which the balloon was inflated is said to have been poor. Another attempt was contemplated. In his late report concerning the Black Hills region Prof. .Tenney says that country is admirably adapted for agricultural purposes. Mrs. Stringer, of Cincinnati, found the kindling-wood in her cooking-stove too damp to burn well, so she undertook to hurry up matters by pouring coal-oil from a can into the stove. After five hours of the most acute agony she died from the effects of her bums. A read-estate lawsuit of great magnitude and duration is one of the probabilities in Chicago. A strip of land containing about twenty-five acres and worth several millions of dollars, on which stand the Illinois Central depot and a portion of the tracks, is in dispute, having just been entered by Willis Drummond, late Commissioner of the General Land Office, at the Land Office in Springfield. It has been occupied and presumably owned by the railroad company for the last thirty years. Gen. Francis P. Blair, Jr., died athis residence in St. Louis on the night of the Bth, aged fifty-three. A Madrid dispatch of the 9th says the

Carlists had been defeated at Trevino, with a loss of 400 killed and sixty prisoners. ' The counting of the funds in the Treasury at Washington developed no discrepancy or deficit, with the exception of the $47,000 package stolen some weeks ago. The Comptroller of the Currency on the 9th called upon the National Banks, for a report of their condition at the close of business June 30. The Comptroller has directed the retiring of all the circulating notes of the denomination of five dollars of the following banks, the notes of that denomination having been successfully counterfeited: The First, Third and Traders’ National Banks, Chicago; First National Bank of Paxton, Ill.; First National Bank of Canton, Hl. National banks throughout the country are requested to return all such notes to the Treasury for redemption. No additional bills of this denomination will hereafter be issued to these banks. On the morning of the 9th, as the Vandalia passenger train bound east stopped at Long Point, a water station in Clark County, 111., four men boarded the cars and detached the engine and express, car. Two of them jumped on the engine and ordered the engineer to go nheqd; on his refusing they shot him through the heart, and then ran the engine out two miles and attempted to rob the Adams Express car. The messenger, Mr. Burke, barricaded the car and successfully resisted their efforts until a party came to Burke’s relief. Several shots were fired into the express car, but without effect. One thousand dollars reward has been offered for the murderers. The James brothers are suspected of being the perpetrators of the outrage. The name of the murdered engineer was Milo Ames. The immediate cause of Gen. Blair’s death was an injury received by falling and striking his head against a piece of furniture while walking across the room. He had been out riding and returned feeling much better, but being seized with dizziness he fell and became unconscious. He never rallied. All the Mayors to whom invitations have been sent to attend the international banquet at Guildhall, London, on the 29th, have signified their acceptance, with only two exceptions. The damage caused by the flood in the Rhone Valley is estimated at about 1,000,000 francs. The insurrection at Herzegovina, along the Dalmatian border, according to a Vienna dispatch of the 11th, has assumed threatening proportions. The populace had attacked the Turkish authorities in the frontier towns and raised the Austrian flag. Cortina, Mayor of Matamoras, Mexico, was lately arrested by the Mexican authorities under suspicion of being concerted in the Texas raids and sent to the City of Mexico. Mexican papers say that he was the supporter and defender of criminals and the enemy of justice and order. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided to allow claims of State officers for the refunding of the income tax paid upon the emoluments oi their offices filed in due time. Mrs. Sartoris, daughter of President Grant, has a fine boy, born on the 11th at Long Branch, weighing ten and a half pounds. Mr. Moulton recently addressed a letter to the District Attorney of Brooklyn, asking for a speedy trial under the indictment for libeling Mr. Beecher. Attorney Britton responded that he could not well attend to the matter at the present time, owing to more urgent jail cases, but intimated that later in the season he will have the matter attended to. The daughter of Patrick Boylan, of West Davenport, lowa, was fatally burned the other evening by the explosion of a can of kerosene, while lighting the kitchen its contents. The funeral of Gen. Blair at St. Louis on the J Ith was the most imposing affair of the kind ever witnessed in that city.