Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

A Berlin telegram of the 4th says Turkey was collecting a large force with the view of ending the Herzegovinian insurrection at a single blow. Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish poet and novelist, died at Copenhagen, Denmark, Oft the 4th, aged about seventy. The French National Assembly ad. joumed on the 4th. It .will reassemble Nov. 4. The census of New York city, just completed, shows a total population of 1,064,372—an increase in five years of 91,166. A hail-stobm, accompanied by an earthquake shock, visited Omaha, Neb., •on the morning of the 4th. The hailatones demolished windows and roofs in the city, doing damage estimated at several thousand dollars. The rains which continued in many sections of the West up to the sth caused the heaviest floods known for many years in the Ohio and Mississippi Rivera and several of their tributaries. Immense damage has been done to harvested and growing crops. Railroad travel has been suspended on some of the roads in the flooded districts, and much damage to property other than crops was inflicted. The National Educational Association was recently in session at Minneapolis, Minn. The officers elected for the current year are: W. T. Phelps, of Minnesota, President; W. D. Henkle, of Ohio, Secretary; A. P. Marble, of Massachusetts, Treasurer. Thirty-three Vice-Presi-dents were chosen, the first being D. B. llaxar, of Massachusetts. At the late election in Alabama the call for a constitutional convention was carried by 15,000 majority. A Colored Editorial National Convention was recently held in Cincinnati and was attended by representatives of all the colored newspapers in the country and by some leading men of the colored race not connected with the press. The question of civil rights was discussed. A Louisville (Ky.) telegram of the 4th places McCreery’s (Dem.) majority for Governor at between 30,000 and 40,000. On the sth a water-spout burst over Him, Prussia, inundating the place and doing great damage. A bridge and several houses were swept away and thirteen persons drowned. A Calcutta telegram of the sth reports disastrous floods in the northwestern provinces of India. Fifty dollars ot conscience money, due for income tax, was received at the Treasury Department in Washington on the sth from Pittsburgh, Pa. The committee engaged in counting the funds in the United States Treasury have finished their work and report all correct except the $47,000 deficiency, which robbery they believe was committed by - some one connected with the department. The O’Connell centennial was duly observed in many cities in the East and West on the 6th, the celebration in some places beginning on the sth and ending on the 7th.

Commander Andrew Jackson Drake, United States navy, died at Newark, N. J., on the night of the 4th. An Indianapolis dispatch of the sth says that the loss from the recent floods in the central and southern portion of Indiana aggregate 50 to 60 per cent, of the entire crop. In the low lands along the Wabash River it was thought that 200,000 acres of com had been entirely destroyed, which, at sls per acre, would aggregate $3,000,000. Two bottles were recently found on the lake shore near Chicago containing messages purporting to come from Donaldson and Grim wood, the missing aeronauts, but their genuineness is questioned by parties familiar with their handwriting. One of the documents reads as follows: “July 16—2 a. m.—We cannot stay up more than an hour longer, as the gas is rapidly escaping. N. 8. G.” The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of O’Connell, the Irish Liberator, was celebrated at Dublin, Ireland, on the sth and 6th. On the first day ceremonies were held in the cathedral, at which Cardinal Manning officiated. On the latter there were processions and orations and in the evening illuminations and a banquet. At the latter a disturbance arose, caused by the Lord Mayor calling on Charles Gavan Duffy to respond to the toast—“ The Legislative Independence of Ireland.” Mr. Duffy on rising was greeted with great uproar and calls for the Home-ruler, Dr. Butt. The Mayor made repeated and ineffective attempts to gain a hearing and finally vacated the chair. Dr. Butt then began to speak, when the gas was extinguished and the company dispersed in great confusion, leaving unfinished the series of regular toasts. At Rome on the sth, at the chapel of the Irish College, pontifical high mass was celebrated in honor of O’Connell’s memory. A London dispatch of the 6th says eighteen additional cotton mills had closed at Oldham. The number of idle operatives was about 20,000. A violent tornado passed over a portion of Knox County, 111., on the evening of the sth, doing considerable damage to life and property. Mrs. John Anderson, of Henderson, was killed outright, and many others of the injured were not expected to survive. In Wataga eight houses were blown to pieces and several persons wounded. To the north of Knoxville the new residence of Mr. Burton was totally destroyed and all his family injured. A New York dispatch of the sth says that Drexel, Morgan & Co., of that city, had perfected arrangements with Duncan, Sherman & Co. and Alexander Duncan father of the leading member of the firm

of D., 8. & Co., by which the branch houses of the former firm in London and Paris would cash all orders and letters of credit of the latter firm held by travelers in Europe. A number of local architects who were appointed to investigate the new CustomHouse building in Chicago have unanimously reported in favor of continuing the work on the original plan and with the same materials. Over 40,000 persons united in an amnesty demonstration at Dublin on the 7th, in the cemetery where O’Connell is buried. Resolutions were adopted favoring home rule and amnesty for the imprisoned Fenians. Accounts from Damascus to the 23d of July say that cholera was raging violently there. Four hundred cases were reported daily, but the real number was thought to be somewhat larger. The disease was also reported raging in Antioch and adjacent towns. Capt. Bogabdub, the American pigeonshooter, recently defeated Rimell, the English champion. Serious riots occurred in Glasgow between Orangemen and Home-rulers during the O’Connell celebration. Several were severely injured. A revolution has broken out in Kokhand, in Central Asia. The Khan is reported to have fled and his troops to have gone over to the insurgents. The Government pension rolls contain the names of 228,034 pensioners, a decrease of 4,871 since last year. The amount paid out in 1874 was $1,225,000 less than in the previous year. The journeymen printers of Washington (D. C.)*bave accepted the employers’ terms of fifty cents per 1,000 ems for general composition and forty cents per hour for time work.

Benjamin B. Halleck, a clerk in the cash-room of the Treasury Department in Washington, Wm. H. Otman, a saloonkeeper, and an old gambler named Brown were arrested for the theft of $47,000 from the Treasury Department, on the- 7th. A special of the evening of the Bth says Halleck had made a full confession. It was thought $40,000 of the money would be recovered. A committee of the creditors of J. B. Ford & Co. recommend the acceptance of thirty-five cents on the dollar. An explosion occurred in a Government arsenal near Philadelphia on the morning of the 7th, killing one boy and wounding eighteen others. The business portion of Victory, N. Y., was destroyed by fire on the 6th. Loss estimated at $250,000. An old woman and a boy were burned to death in one of the houses and a fireman fell from a ladder and was killed. In the case of John D. Lee, charged with being the leader in the Mountain Meadows massacre, the jury reported on the 7th that they were unable to agree and were discharged by the Court. Hon. Charles Schaeffer, formerly State Treasurer of Minnesota, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver in Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul, at the grave of his wife, on the morning of the Bth.

The Massachusetts Republican State Convention will be held at Worcester on the 28th of September. The trial of Alexander and William Collie on the charge of obtaining large sums of money from the London and Westminster Bank on false pretenses came to a sudden end on the 9th by the announcement of the fact that Alexander had absconded to the Continent. Fourteen thousand five hundred dollars of the $47,000 stolen from the Treasury Department were recovered on the 9th. The money, consisting of twenty, nine SSOO bills, was deposited in a bank at Alexandria to the credit of Otman. A Washington dispatch of a recent date says the Government income for the last fiscal year is larger than any estimate made. The Chicago Industrial Exposition will be opeq on the Bth Of September and continue one month. Gov. Beveridge has issued a proclamation offering a reward of S4OO each for the arrest of the perpetrators of the murders committed in Williamson County, 111., within the past two years. The county has also offered a reward of SI,OOO. The majority in'Alabama Tor the State Constitutional Convention is 16,500. The delegates stand politically as follows: Democrats 81, Independent Democrats 6, Republicans 12. Ira P. Rankin has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the First California District.