Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

A Berlin dispatch to the London Morning Pott of the 20th says it had been decided to send Prince Frederick ot Prussia to the Philadelphia Centennial, and that a German fleet would accompany him. Ex-Senator Zacharias Chandler, of Michigan, has been appointed Secretary of the Interior, vice Delano, resigned. Mr. Chandler entered on the duties of the position on the 19th. A Washington special of the 19th says the receipts from internal revenue for the three' months ending Sept. 30 had shown an increase of $1,780,356 over those of the corresponding period last year. The first building in the United States erected for tbeOrder of the Sovereigns of Industry was dedicated at Springfield, Mass., on the 19th. The other day the Sheriff of Portage County, Wis., was killed by two brothers named Apios and Isaac upon whom he was attempting to serve a process. On the morning of the 19th a party of masked men went to the jail at Stevens Point, seized the guard, beat down the doors, took out the Courtwrights and hung them to a pine tree by the roadside. Prof. Watson, of the Michigan State University, has recently discovered a new planet. Isaac McAfee, a colored man, has been recemly sentences’ 18 Wehty years’ imprisonment for having a year ago caused a terrible accident on the Selma (Ala.) & Dalton Railroad by placing obstructions on the track. A London dispatch of the 20th says extensive and disastrous floods had recently occurred throughout Lancashire and Warwickshire. Traffic by rail in that section had been for many miles absolutely stopped. The Supreme Court of Germany on the 20th affirmed the verdict of the Kammergericht in the case of Count von Arnim. Prof. Wheatstone, the English natural philosopher and electrician, died at Paris on the 20th. A late St. Petersburg dispatch reports the burning of 200 dwellings, a synagogue and five schools in Widsy, Russian Poland. Several were burned to death and more than 3,000 persons. were rendered homeless.

A Centennial excursion arrived in Philadelphia on the evening of the 20th, consisting of delegations from Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, St Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. They were hospitably entertained by the Philadelphians. A reunion of Union and Confederate soldiers was lately held at Elizabeth, N. J. Fourteen veteran companies participated. Reuben Benton was accidentally struck in the head with a mallet while playing croquet at Titusville, Pa., on the 20th, and so badly injured that he died in a few hours. A London paper of the 22d gives additional particulars of the flood. The valley of the River Don had formed a lake half a mile wide and fifteen miles long; many collieries and iron-works had been flooded and thousands of operatives thrown out of employment. At Darlington the flood had been particularly severe, the gas-works, among other establishments, being drowned out. At Rotherham, in Yorkshire, over 1,000 people had been thrown out of work. A Paris telegram of the 21st says the work of sinking a shaft 100 meters deep, preliminary to the construction of the English Channel tunnel, would shortly be commenced near Calais. The King of Bavaria on the 21st prorogued the Bavarian Diet. The resignation of his Ministers he has refused to accept The town of Iquique, in Peru, South America, was recently almost entirely wiped out by fire. Frederick Hudson, formerly managing editor of the New York Harald, died at Concord, Mass., on the2lst, from being struck the day before by a locomotive while riding across a railroad track in a buggy. A mass meeting was held in New York city on the 20th to the exclusion of the Bible ®wn the public schools.

The will of the late Isaac M. Singer, the sewing-machine inventor, bequeathing property amounting in value to $14,000,000, was ottered for probate in New York city on the 21st. Gen. Sol Meredith, of Indiana, died at his residence in Cambridge City, on the 21st, of cancer in the stomach. On the 21st, at Denver, Col., a policeman found in the cellar of a small tene-ment-house recently vacated the dead bodies ot an old man and three boys, all Italians, who had been murdered. At the special election in California on the 20th Prof. Carr, the Republican candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction,, was elected. All the Judges in office in San Francisco, both Democratic and Republican, were re-elected with a single exception. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has lately decided that the action of the Wood County canvassers in throwing out the vote of the town of Lincoln at the election last year was illegal. The decision was made on a contest over countyoffices, but the counting of the vote of Lincoln would elect Alexander B. McDill (Rep.) to Congress instead of George W. Cate, who received the certificate of election! A fine of S2OO was imposed on the canvasser who threw out the votes. The watch factory at Freeport, 111., ww destroyed by fire on the night of the

21st. Loes $150,000. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. A number of important failures occurred in London and .Manchester, England, on the 22d. * a# AccOßDnytf to the London Times Of the 23d London merchants had been able to import American calicoes at a profit. A severe gale passed over the Scottish coast on the 21st and 22d. Up to the' morning of the 23d five vessels had been reported lost with all on board within a distance of forty miles. A Madrid dispatch of the 22d says Sharkey, the New York murderer, had arrived at Santander. The Postmaster-General has decided upon railway postal-car service between the cities of Pittsburgh and St. Louis, via the Pan Handle & Vandalia route, the service to be begun as soon as the department can make the necessary arrangements. The District-Attorney of Brooklyn has entered a nolle prosequi in all the criminal libel suits growing out of the BeecherTilton scandal. According to a Cincinnati dispatch of the 22d official returns from seventy-six counties in Ohio, and authentic returns from the remaining twelve, showed Hayes’ majority to be 9,549. A Des Moines (Iowa) telegram of the 22d says Gov. Kirkwood’s majority then stood at 31,356, with Lyon and Palo Alto Counties to hear from. Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont received a letter from Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, on the 22d, wherein the latter stated that all the threatened troubles in his State had subsided.

Fritz Kaizer, a German, jumped from the tower of the Chicago Water Works on the afternoon of the 22d, and fell a distance of nearly 200 feet. He was dashed to pieces on the turrets at the base. He had recently been an inmate of an insane asylum. A New York mercantile agency has lately issued a statement of business failures in the United States during the year up to the Ist of October, showing a total of failures during nine months of 5,334; liabilities, $131,172,503. Henry Brown (colored) was hanged at St. Louis on the 22d for the murder in May last of a farmer named Philip Pfarr. Rumors prevailed in Berlin on the 24th that Bismarck had tendered his resignation of the Chancellorship in consequence of ill-health. According to Madrid dispatches of the 24th the Government had refused permission to the Republicans to hold electoral meetings. Senor Marfori, formerly Minister of the Colonies, had been arrested and would be expatriated. The Director of the Mint estimates the gold and silver production of the country next year at $100,000,000. The Commissioner of Pensions has completed his annual report. The invalid pension roll is 105,478, costing yearly $10,961,218. The roll of army widows is 104,885, at an annual cost of $12,835,579. The survivors of the war of 1812 number 15,875 and.the annual payments are sl,524,000. The widows of the war of 1812 number 5,163, at a total annual rate of $495,648. In a late letter to the New York Herald Dr. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, expresses his belief in the existence of an open Polar sea, and his belief that in the vicinity of the pole there is an open navigable sea in the summer; that it may be reached by ship or boat by way of Smith’s Sound, and that the north pole is within the reach of any nation that will spend money enough to get to it

Messrs. Moody and Bankey began their revival labors in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) rink at 8:30 o’clock on the morning of Sunday, the 24th. An afternoon service was also held, to which at least 5,000 people were Unable to gain admittance. Announcement was made that services would be held every evening during the week except Saturday. The registration in New York city for the coming election aggregates 144,934, against 146,218 last year. Mr. and Mrs. Murray were burned to death during a fire in the house of Susan Bradley, at Cheshire, Conn., a few nights ago. The town of Vermillion, Erie County, Ohio, was almost wholly destroyed by fire on the 22d. Loss estimated at $75,000; insurance light. Mrs. D. L. Murden, of New Orleans, was burned to deathqn the 22d by the explosion of a coal-oiblamp-. Prof. Atchinson, an aeronaut, recently attempted a balloon ascension at Elkhorn, Ky., but when several hundred feet high the balloon took fire, and he was precipitated to the earth and badly, and it was thought fatally, injured. The Charlottesville (Va.) National Bank suspended on the 23d. Several business firms connected with the bank, doing business there and in Baltimore, were also forced to suspend. The trial of Col. John A. Joyce for conspiracy to defraud the revenue, at Jefferson City, Mo., was concluded in the United States District Court on the 23d by a verdict of guilty on all four counts of the indictment.