Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

On the 21st the Berlin Municipal Court sentenced the editor of the Germania to five months’ imprisonment for having published an insulting article on the. Chancellor and inciting its readers to disobedience of the laws. Gen. Kaufman occupied Khokand, in Central Asia, bn the 16th of the present month. The council to treat with the Indians in regard to the .cession to the Government of the Black' Hills met on the White River, near the Red Cloud Agency, on the 21st. Senator Allison opened the council with a speech in which he explained to the Indians the desire of die white people to secure the possession of the Black Hills region by giving a fair equivalent for it A Ragusa telegram of the 22d confirms previous reports of insurgent victories, and says that the entire country between Novowarsch and Vishegrad had been burned over. Trebigne had been again invested.

A Washington dispatch of the 22d says there remained only $28,000,000 of the new 5 per cent, bonds for negotiation. The Massachusetts State Democratic * Convention met. at Worcester on the 22d and renominated Gov. Gaston. Gen. W. F. Bartlett was nominated for LieutenantGovernor. The remainder of the ticket is as follows: Secretary of State, Geo. H. Munroe; Treasurer, Weston Howland; Attorney-General, George T. Perry; Auditor, John E. Fitzerald. The resolutions favor a speedy return to specie payments. Vice-President Wilson sent a note to the Boston Journal on the 22d saying that he would not accept the nomination for Governor of his State. The New York Liberals met in convention at Albany on the 22d and decided not to nominate a State ticket. They resolved in favor of a speedy return to specie payments.

The Minnesota Anti-Monopoly State Convention met at Owatonna on the 22d and inade up a State ticket by selecting the candidates for Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor and Chief-Justice from the Democratic ticket, the Lieuten-ant-Governor and Attorney-General from the Temperance ticket, nominating E. W. . Dike, the present incumbent, for State Treasurer; A. J. Edgerton, the late incumbent, for Railroad Commissioner, and Sherwood Hough, the present incumbent, for Clerk of the Supreme Court. The convention declared in favor of Treasury notes as a legal tender for all public or private obligations; the substitution of such currency in place of the National Bank notes, and that the Government’s bonded debt jhould be bought in with 3.65 convertible bonds,.payable in specie or currency at the Government’s option. The Maryland Republican State Convention met at Baltimore on the 22d and nominated: For Governor, J. M. Harris; Attorney-General, S. T. Wallis; Comptroller, Edward Wilkins. Resolutions were adopted favoring a speedy return to specie payments and opposing further expansion of the currency.

The dispatches received on the 22d from the late disasters on the Texan coast show that the storm had swept over the whole shore line, and, in addition to the damage done at Galveston, that at leastnine towns had been nearly or quite obliterated, namely: Indianola, where but three houses were left standing and from 150 to 200 lives lost; Baluria; Sabine Pass; ' Calcasieu; San Bernardino; Buffalo Bayou; Lynchburg; Matagorda. and Cedar Lake. A large • number of lives were lost, and the destitution and suffering of the survivors were very great A dispatch to- New Orleans from Indianola says: “ Send us help, for God’s sake!” Aid was being forwarded to the sufferers by the people of New Origins and Galveston. t Mayor Davis, of Galveston, telegraphed to the Mayor of ■ St. Louis on the.22d, appealing for aid and saying the survivors in the towns destroyed had lost everything, and that provisions, clothing and every necessary of life were needed. The floods were caused by heavy winds blowing the waters of the gulf in huge waves upon the coast. According to a Belgrade dispatch of the 23d the Servian Minister of War had ordered a large force to the Bosnian frontier as an army of observation. Charles G. Fisher, late Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, has been arrested in Washington on the charge of stealing appeal bonds and papers in District cases. He waived examination, and was held to answer before the Grand Jury. Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont has received telegrams from Mississippi, from persons of both parties, commending his recent letter to Gov. Ames. These telegrams also say that perfect peace reigned in the late disorderly portion of the State. Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, it is said, approves of the Attorney-General’s course in the Mississippi troubles, A report prevailed in Washington oh* the 23d that the Red Cloud Investigation Commission would unanimously acquitSecretary Delano and Commissioner Smith of fraud. A greenback mass-meeting was held at Cooper Institute, New York, on the evening of the 23d. Resolutions were adopted, condemnihg the policy of contraction ; demanding the retirement of the National Bank circulation and the substitution therefor of legal-tenders, and favoring the payment of one-half of the customs dues in greenbacks. Mail accounts received on ths. 23d from Galveston, Tex, represent the loss of property as far exceeding in amount that given by previous telegraphic reports. Three hundred houses were swept away, and the aggregate loss of property would reach

$4,000,000. It was thought that the total number of lives lost along the coast by the storm would reach 400, and several small towns back from the coast are reported to have been swept away. e Elkins’ (Bep.) majority for Delegate to Congress from New Mexico is placed at 1,500. In Wyoming the Legislature is divided politically as fallows: Council, 2 Republicans and 11 Democrats; House, 9 Republicans and 18 Democrats. Announcement was made on the 23d that J. Russell Jones had been appointed Collector of Customs at Chicago, vice N. B. Judd, resigned. The circular addressed by the Papal Nuncio to the Spanish Bishops was published in Madrid on the 24th. The Nuncio says he had been directed to communicate to the Bishops the substance of the protest sent by the Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See to the Spanish. Government upon His Holiness’ attention being called to the toleration clauses in the new Constitution proposed for SpainThe Ministerial papers insist that no concessions will be made to the Pope tending to affect the independence of the magistrates in dealing with the Bishops, and especially the Carlist Bishop of Seo d’Urgel. The Papal Nuncio was recalled on the 24th.

A man ahd woman performing on a trapeze in a hall in New York city, on the evening of the 23d, fell from the ceiling to the floor, and were fatally injured. The National Agricultural Congress was in session at Cincinnati on the 22d, 23d and 24th. W. C. Flagg, of Illinois, was elected President, with one Vice-Pres-ident for each State and Territory. G. E. Morrow, of Chicago, was chosen Secretary, and J. O. Griffith, of Nashville, Treasurer. Resolutions were adopted advising the completion of the four great water routes recommended by the United States Senate Committee, especially the central one, and recommending the reduction of the tax on tobacco to ten cents per pound. The Congress will meet next year in Philadelphia. President Grant and family arrived at St. Louis on the 24th. The Herndon House, in Marshall, Mich., was burned early on the morning of tjhe 24th, and Claude G. Avery, Antoine Gruber, Eliza King and Martha Varsden were either burned to death or fatally iniured while trying to escape. Several other persons received serious injuries. Geo. W. Gage, a prominent citizen of Chicago, former proprietor of the Tremont and Grand Pacific Hotels,’died on the 24th, aged sixty-three years. His disease was cerebro-spinal meningitis. A telegram from Berlin of the 25th says the Sublime Porte had refused to yield to the demands of the insurgents until they have made a full and complete submission.

A Constantinople dispatch of the 25th says the Consular mediation had failed. According to a Paris dispatch of the 25th a Bonapartist council had been recently held at Arenberg, Switzerland, at the chateau of ex-Empress Eugenie, where it was resolved that the Empress should resign the regency and that the Prince Imperial, guided by M. Rouher, should have charge of affairs. The President has accepted the resignation of Secretary Delano, to take effect Oct. 1. The letter of resignation is dated July 5, and the President’s letter of acceptance Sept. 22. Rev. H. C. Tilton has declined the nomination for Governor of Wisconsin on the Temperance ticket. The board appointed to investigate the Chicago Custom-House building made public their report on the 26th. It is to the effect that some of the material used in the structure so far should be rejected and some other modifications made in the plan, and that then the structure may •safely be proceeded with. The Secretary of the Treasury has indorsed the report, and has directed that work on the building be resumed in the spring in accordance with the suggestions made by the commission.

The commissioners to treat with the Indians for the Black Hills were somewhat alarmed on the 24th by the warlike attitude assumed by some of the Indians. A fight seemed inevitable at one time, but they were finally pacified. Little hopes of negotiating a satisfactory treaty were entertained by the commission. A horrible murder was perpetrated near Belle Center, Ohio, on the 22d, the victim being a ybung girl named Allie Laughlin. The perpetrator of the crime was James W. Shell, who, according to the testimony of his wife, enticed the girl away into the woods and after a desperate struggle killed her with a knife. On returning Shell told his wife what he had done, and threatened to kill her should she reveal the story. She also testified that he had made previous threats to her against the person and life of Miss Laughlin. Great excitement prevailed in Bellefontaine when the crime became known, and on the night of the 23d Shell was taken from the jail by an exasperated crowd and hanged. He protested his innocence and charged his wife with the murder of the girl. Mrs. Shell was lodged in jail at Bellefontaine on the 25th, as an accomplice before the fact, she having confessed to a previous knowledge of her husband’s intention to commit the outrage and murder.