Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY.

Five cues of small-pox were discovered in a single bouse in Chicago recently. x Lord Coleii Campbell, brother of the Marquis of Lome, b expected to arrive at Rideau ball, OUawaj, unt, shortly. ' John Bargees and Godfrey Hams were drowned la the river opposite New Orleans recently by the upsetting ot their skiff. The New York assembly voted in favor of biennial sessions of the legislature, and rejected a bill n establish a state board ot health. A jury has given a verdict of <3.000 damages against the Halifax, N. &, Herald. for libel on a late employe of the local govern menu At Astor City. Col, • fox days ago, Chris Stitt) Mff William Spittstozer fatally shot each other while quarreling over a .Mllning claim. A Houston (Texas) special reports the failure of A. Harris A Brother, wholesale dry goods. Liabilities <168,000; stock veined al <70,000. y ‘ The strike at the Smith Granite works, W ester Ir, R. 1., is over. The cutters returned to work yesterday, a compromise having been made. The steamer Thingvalla, from Shields for New York, was towed in at Boston recently in a disabled condition. She had over 500 passengers on board. - Governor Wilts, of Louisiana, has issued a proclamation establishing a rigid quarantine against all vessels from, or touching at Havana, Vera Crus or Rio de Janeiro. The supreme court at Atlanta, Ga., has refused smew trial to Cox, the murderer of Alston. He will go to the penitentiary for life. There is no hope of his being pardoned.

• Canadian schooners from Esquimaux Point, report seal-fishing unumafly good. One schooner in four days loaded 4,430 young seals, which will give 17,000 gallons of oil. Most ot the rolling stock of the Levis, Quebec and Kennebec railway was seized by a bailiff of the superior court, on an execution sued for by Mr. Wyatt, representing the English .bondholders. - Captain P.-J. Stultz, of the Inspection bateau ot the war department, has been in Baltimore several days looking after government property at Pikesville arsenal, which has mysteriously disappeared. The parties who bid off the Savannah and Memphis railroad on the 3d for $834,500 failed to comply with the conditions of the sale, and the road will be again advertised and sold in thirty days at Opelika, Ala , At Chatham, Ont., Monday night the house of, -James Gage, near Corners, was destroyed by fire. Four ot Mr; Gage’s children and tbs daughter of a neighbor named Wade perished in the flames. The jury in the case of B. F. Allen, of Chicago, ex-president of the defunct Cook county national bank, who was charged with embezzlement, returned a verdict of not guilty. Allen will be tried on another indictment. Wm. Elliott England's ex-champion oarsman, has sent his formal entry for the boat race at Swekonk on June 17. He writes that Boyd will probably enter, but that he is not officially notified that he will do so. Elliott will leave England this month.

Nine large ice-houses at Cleveland, 0., owned by Welts Brothers, were destroyed by fire a few days ago. It « supposed the fire originated from sparks from candles used by men in getting out ice late at night. Loes estimated at $10,000; insurance $2,500. William P. Daingerfield, presiding judge of the Ban Francisco supreme court, dropped dead on the bench. lie had been in infirm health for some months past. His death was attributed to heart disease. Deceased was a native ot Virginia, and was 56 years of age. t The committee of the Pennsylvania railroad to whom was referred the resignation of President Scott met and adopted a minute expressive of their esteem for Mr. Scott The resignation will be officially acted upon by the board of directors today. The state court of Augusta, Ga., has refused to grant an injunction against the American Union telegraph company asked by the Western Union company to prevent the American Union from constructing lines on railroads where the Western Union has exclusive contracts. The case will be appealed. The Long Branch Hotel at Blamed a, (Jal., was burned recently. The fire originated from the use of coal oil in kindling a fire. Mary'Spalding,-an employe of the house, was burned to death. The building was a three story frame. Loss about $80,000; no insurance. . About forty Indians attacked Cooney’s on Mineral creek, in the Magillan mountains of New Mexico on the 22d ult. They fought all day. Cooney and Chick were killed, and Taylor, Peters and Murray wounded, ana twenty-five horses taken. Two Indians are known to have been killed. The phylloxera has appeared in the vineyards In Mount Vessuvius and on the opposite part of the Gulf, at Buszuloi and Planura. There is much alarm, and precautions are being taken. In Sicily the pbylcxsra has hitherto been confined to Caltanlsetta. It is now reported near Messina. €- A fire at Woburn, Mass., destroyed Henry Young’s machine shop and E. B. Parkhurst's pattern shop. Loss on this building and the machinery, about $lB,4X)0; insured for $9,400; a dwelling owned by the Five Cent savings bank, loss $800; the house of the hook and ladder company, loss $1,000; not insured.

The superior court at San Francisco has ordered the distribution of the estate of the late W. 8. O’Brien, to which objection had been made by John H- Burke. With the exception of the bequests to Maria Coleman and Kate McDonough, aggregating $1,600,000, the value of the estate undistributed is about $7,000,000. Collector Shannon, at San Francisco, has received orders to fit out the revenue cutter Thomas Corwin for the relief of the exploring yacht, Jeannette and the icebound wnaiers in the Arctic ocean. She >rijl be ready for sea m about two weeks. The United States steamer Lackawanna ieA that port to look after American interest* in Callao.

The condition of the ruins at the Dayinn, O_, SoldLvs* Home since the burning of Memorial hall, Indicates that the walls oi the building will have tn be torn down and the structure entirely rebuilt. A petition will be sent to congress, signed by over 4,000 veterans of the home, reC sting an appropriation of $30,000 for immediate rebuilding of the hall. In Philadelphia a verdict was entered in favor of the defendants in the case of M- T. Sprague, of Mobile, endeavoring to make R. G. Dunn 00. responsible for a tees which he incurred by a party favorably reported by the mercantile agency, but who subsequently failed. The costs incurred much exceed the amount claimed, but the principle of noo-liabtflty for favorable reports by The agency Is sustained.