Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Gen. Jovellab, the Spanish Minister of War, was lately appointed CaptainGeneral of Cuba. The trial of H. C. Bowen’s libel suit against the Brooklyn (N. Y.) J&agU,M*& begun on the 21st. " - .. .j •• At Milwaukee, on the 21st, Philip Weimer, a rectifier convicted of revenue frauds,- was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment in the County Jail and to pay a fine of $2,000. John 8. Taft, a Gauger, was sentenced to the State Prison for five months sad to pay a fine of s2*ooo. G eo»6e the poljgamons-Mor-mon, was sentenced at Salt Lake on the 21st, by Chief-Justice White, to two years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of SISOO. Reynolds appealed and was released on SIO,OOO bail. At a special eleetion in the Seventh Jn-> dicial District of Illinois, held on the 21st, T. Lyle Dickey, of Chicago, was chosen,Judge erf the Supreme Ccrfirt to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge McAllister. According to a Vienna specj&l .of the 22d eighty insurgent dslegateaiiad rccejt-, ly met at Jamnetza, in Bosnia, and unanimously rejected the Sultan’s firman, proposing -%undry rafprms, as unwoHthy of confidence. They had formed a provisional government. The British training-ship Goliath was burned at Gravesend on*-the morning of the 22d. It was reported that' twenty boys had perished in the flames. A Shanghai (China) dispatch of the 22d say a that Chen Lang Pin and Yung Heng had been appointed Ministers to the United States. A Washington telegram of the 22d says the Granger cases, involving the question of the right of States to regulate the carrying rates of railroads, would be further argued before the Supreme Court on the 11th of January. The report that Secretary Bristow had directed to Ibe paid to the Union P&ciflc Railway Company the sum adjudged due by the Supreme Court is pronounced untrue by a Washington dispatch of the 22d.

A gas-main running under Federal street, in South Boston, Mass., exploded. on the 22d, tearing up the pavement;* for a great distance. Many were buried under the debris. A, grain-house was badly shattered and the foreman killed, Several persons were blown into the water and drowned. The number of vifetims as far as ascertained up to tne morning of the 23d was as follows: Killed, 20; fatally injured, 4; seriously hurt, 9; slightly, 3. Seven persons were missing and were supposed to have been blown into the water, in addition to those already found therein. The Bank of Brandywine, at West Chester, Pa., failed on the 22d. It was thought depositors would be paid in full. President Grant was present as a guest at the seventh annual dinner of the New England Society, in New York, on the22d. Many" other distinguished persons attended and responded to toasts. At Augusta, Ga., two men named Tilley and Ratcliffe recently fought a duel with pistols, in which the former was badly wounded, and died the next day. An earthquake shock was felt in Richmond, Va., on the night ot the 22d. The alarm was general, the shock being felt in all parts of the city. Gov. Hartranft has pardoned Xingo Parks and several others of the miners convicted in Clearfield County, Pa*., of conspiring together for riotous purposes. A suit in the St. Louis (Mo.) Circuit Court against the Missouri State Lottery, managed by Miller & Co., charging them with usurpation of their franchise and.J>jaying for judgment of ousdqr, was decided on the 22d against tile defendants/ An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court. The Commercial Loan Company and Savings Bank of Chicago suspended on the 21st. It was thought that depositors would realfee about eighty cents on the dollar.

An advance in railroad freights over the different routes between the East and West has been lately established. A Vienna special of the 23d says that tliirty-six Turks had recenUy been arrested for conspiracy to murder some of the Christian subjects of Turkey. It was also reported that the Prinoe ot Montenegro had negotiated a loan of $1,000,000 nd would soon interfere in behalf of the Herzegovinians. /• - News had been received at St. Petersburg, Russia, on the 23d of the complete suppression. of the Khokand rebellion. The neighboring tribes had also been defeated with very great loss. <■.>!/ A report prevailed in Havana on 23d that ,Wm. M. Tweed had reached here on a schooner, and had been seen by several New Yorkers. The annual report of the Southcrh Claims pommission, just published, shows that there were considered during the past year L,561 cases, involving nearly $4,000,000. to the date of Hie report the commissioa had considered 22,000 cases in arf, and 12,000, were still waiting to be investigated. The number of claims allowed the last yesr was 775, involving about SSQQ,000. Claims to the amount of $3,300,000 were disallowed. It was believed in Boston on Hie 23d that the number of lives'tori by the late gas explosion would be reduced to fiver, as several persons who were repotted missing hM appeared all safe'. The Executive Committee of the Michigan Agricultural Society, sitting at’ Detroit, decided to hold the State Fair five days, commencing Sept. 18. The location had not been decided upon up to Hie

DwpATCHHswerereceiYedbatSan teamcisco, Cal., on the 23d from SaaDifigd' weFTihrevoif; Tsqm&sis&r xa&mzm. mid had entire possession of the town.. It was also reported that 4 portion oF PeSquiera’s » Under instructions from Judge Knight, of the Circuit Court, Chief of Police McDonough, of St Louis, on the 23d notified the managers of tie Missouri StateLottery that no further seßing of tickets or drawings would be permitted. The lowa State Horticultural Society will meet wt Des Moines on th© lfitft,-'fifth ! and 20th of January. According to a Cairo (Egypt) dispatch of the 24th an expedition consisting of 12,000 men was about to stmt for Abyssinia. It would be accompanied by every American officer in the Khedive’s service, including Gen. Stone. Right Hon. Earl Stanhope, a wellknown historic tod essayi#, dip£ inj iondon?ifUfeStft* J >4104 b £ A Penang (Malacca) telegram of the 24th announces the capture of Kintah by the British troops and the flight of the rebel leaders to Palane..,, a Jttfieu, «** leading American residents of that city had called a meeting to protest against the strictures of th© German press on American character in their comments on the late f gl J J \ $f

Herr Renner, a German newspaper correspondent, I to ste< l malj treated by Turkteh troops to Bosnia, and the German Qoxernnaeut has been asked to interfere. The royal palace at Barcelona was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 20th. '-I ' . A St. Petersburg dispatch of a recent date says the disorders Ip Northern IHiokand would soon be made the occasion by Russia for-the anheSknoncf the remaifi.' der of th©country. The late threatened bread riots in MonV*? Rf between 1,000 and 2,000 laborere on improvements at seven cents hour. President Grant has signed the bill extending the time of duration of the Alabama Cleans Commissioners to the 22d of July next.

A Washington dispatch of. the 26th says the Mexican. Secretary of Foreign Affairs had stated, in reply to a request qf Minister Foster for permission for regular United States troops to follow raiders across the border, that the Mexican Executive was without authority; grant such request except bv consent of Congress. Mr. Foster replied that the acknowledgment by the Mexican Government of its inability to restrain its own citizens would be the strongest possible argument to all advocates of the a&' quisition of territory in Mexico. ter said further that the citizens of idtst. must be protected, and, if, .Mexico did not prevent raiders from crossing die border the United States would. ' There has just been received in Fhltodelphia a formal acceptance j»y-PpiJe Pius. IX. of an invitation by the Cens£nnial authorities to give his recognition ffathe enterprise by contributing to the Exposition works of art from the galleries of the Vatican. The letters of His HolineSs are couched in the warmest terms of frfendsliip for the United Stales. The jury ia the Bowey libel suit against ■the Brooklyn Eagfc have found a verdict for the plaintiff, and fixed the damages at, The Moody and SioKey religious services in Philadelphia,ware on the 26th. Mr. Moody said the morning meeting was the mo| enQQur§giftg one he had held in this country. The hi- ■ quiry-rooms were crowded, afternoon and evening. Patrick Kanen, recently convicted at Cleveland, /©My, of fori starving his idiot son to death; has beStf sentenced to the Penitentiary for ten years. r , . * > W. C. AMomafol JusHce of the Supreme Court of Idaho, died at* Omaha, Neb., on the 25th, of paralysis,, aged thirty-eight. • Eight of recently handed* to MteAtfe, of the Si Mary’s Parish Court, a document requesting him tc* resign because of his alleged manifest incompetency and the interested motives which generally infoienced his decisions. The 'Tepfi&f 1 that he had tried to perform his duty faithtully and impartially, and that, inasmuch as the signers of the paper did net vote -for him,-ho sboakt -continue to adminfater the functions of his office until»|Bß coaetitE*f4s (msmmm the e<%. oral people) called-, upon hmL, Id resign/ mtpibers of the far threaded tq peal to the next Legislature to secure his impeachment. . 1 ' " In the’ trfal at Leavenworth, Kan., of Embry, for the shooting of Col. Anthony, the jury returned & verdict on the 24th of not guilty, after being out about five ininutes. At Cincinnati, thfr other Mi?. Lawrence dropped a coal-oil lamp. The fire caught in the and her and in an instant she was wrapped in flames and fearfully and probably fatally burned. Her husband, and daughter made efforts to save her aud were them-' selves badly burned. > The thermometer indicated eighty degrees above zero at Memphis, Tenn., qn the 25th. Jt was announced from ban Francisco

os the2oth flatHnited States troops ted been ordered: to -the Sonera frontier to protect American soil from invasion by Mexican troops.