Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY.

* Strikes la England off Fmce coo* tinae. The authority of the Porte Albania Is disregarded. Egyptians an making renewed efforts lo break op the slave trade. *** Tiro Mormons are holding meetings to •ecnre converts in the Palatinate ▲ proriaional government has been established by the revolutionists in Cobe. The Alabama republicans instructed the state delegates to vote at the Chicago €on vest km as a unit for Great. ~ The Sen Francisco greenback wing of tke workingmen have nominated delegatee to the Chicago convention. The workingmen of the San Francisco a^rooyreaakmtfdtoirttosgnonilnntwl German Ultramontane* have detergovernment The reported massacre by White rim Uteaof Bradbury’s party of prospectors from Del Norte it generally disbelieved in Colorado. ««• r ' The Methodist Conference voted to allow Mlae F. E. Willard to address that body, and then adjourned without giving her an opportunity. 1 In reply to the note of the powers relating to the Albaao-Montenegrin affair, the Pprte suggests an international commission of inquiry. George Trust, accused of the murder of the colored man Robinson, Was arraigned for trial in the criminal court, bat only, ten Jurors were obtained before the panel was exhausted. There is great uneasiness in Afghanistan over the unsettled state of affairs. It is probable that an beir of Shere Ali will be placed on the throne. The Archbishop of Quebec will excommunicate any Catholic who is found interfering with aov man who wants to work, whether at “Union” prices or not

Judge Thayer, in St Louis, bolds that an exclusive contract of a telephone company with any one telegrsgh company is not binding; all must have equal privileges. A "band of five pirates boarded a schooner in New York harbor, bat were driven off. Theft boat capsized and four of them were captured, the other drownedI The correct vote on Presidential prafer•'ences In the California democratic state convention was as follows: Thurman, *lB3 ; Tilden, M; Seymour, 96; the balance scattering. Theflunnison country is twm ming with prospector*. Ouray is waiting patiently, though anxiously, for the passage of the Ute bill, as the delay of Congress la endangering the lives of settlers. , It has been found that nnder the Beacons field administration the India office .let mail and other contracts to favorites at rates lar above what private parties hare been paying for similar services. Official despatches from Real Admiral 'Wyman, at Panama, riate that there u no excitement on the Isthmus over the presence of the United States vessels Keararge and Adams in that vicinity. No /-urveys have been made.

The Supreme Court of Harrisburg, Pa., has denied a new trial to Mrs. Coonley, the woman who laat November enticed a young girl into a marriage with the notorious Dr. De Leon, when the knew the latter had a wife living in Harrisburg. Z Philadelphia has contributed $90,000 to the sufferer* by the Milton fire, and other cities and towns in the state in proportion. At Milton the debris is being cleared away, and some of the business houses have already commenced rebuilding. Stoll' Fredencamp, aged twenty-one years, shot himself with a pistol recentre, at Brenehnlle, N. J n where he lived. He died immediately. The unfortunate man had been long out of work, was afflicted with dyspepsia and was very derpoodent. The Cincinnati Southern Railroad Oo tops® y hare made a general redaction of Mitesger rates to run until July 6th. Fares throughout the line are to De two cents per mile. This may be the beginning of a war of rates between the Cincinnati Southern and its competitors. The recent fire at Louisville, Ky., originating in the tobacco factory of JIR Jones, damaged the building to the exteat of $4,000, and Jones'stock to the amount of SBOO. The building of Haokett A Go , manufacturers of metallic burial caskets, was damaged to the amount of SIO,OOO. .

The store of Borchert, Dsggart & Co., of Bradford, Pa., the most extensive dealers in furniture in Northwestern Pennsylvania, was dosed recently. The entire stock and contents will be sold at sheriff’s sale at the salt of F. B. F&rahsui, cashier of the Chataana National Bank, of Jamestown, tins ToA At Davenport, lowa, a few days ago an aflray occurred in Frank BohPs saloon. Frank McLaughlin palled a pistol on Bahl, but the latter was too quick far him, and, with a revolver, shot McLaughlin through the body. McLaughlin died in twenty minutes’ time. Bahl is in Jail, charged with murder. John F. Walton, an English gentleman, who, with his wife, has been on a tour through Canada and the United States, went to McNab’s Island, at the entrance of Halifax haroor, on a shooting excursion. On entering his boat one of the barrels of hlntowling-piece went off, the charge entering his right side. The wound will prove fatal. „ ' ' **’ In the Circuit Court of the United States at Ctadhnati, Justice 8 way tie dismissed the somewhat noted esse of Hurd and others vs. Gen. Tho*. Ewing and others, Cowing out of some coal land transactions Petty county, Ohio, in 18T2,bn the ground that the evidence failed to show that the complaints had any cause for nethw.

A high official of Japan, Hideharu Kawae, arrived in Naw York recently. He is the chief secretary of the Empire and direotor of the Bureau of Commerce. He travels incognito. He cannot speak English, but he is accompanied by two English-speaking companions. His mission specially relates to Japanese commerce. , Jacob and Albert J. Huntlingrr, for merly president and cashier, respectfully, of the defunct Miners Trust Bank of Potts nlle, who served taro yean in the Berke county jail, made application in Beading for their discharge m insolvent. Their petition waa dismissed, and they wen remanded back to priao#tor three months (usual in such cases). The Alabama republicans passed the following resolutions: Resolved, That thn choice of the republicansetf Alabama fv pm ideotfia the iHuatrinu* anWler, p*tr, ot and statesman, U- S. Grant; that the delegates from this state to ths Chicago eon ▼endow an hereby instructed and solemnly pledged to east the whole vole at the state ut that convention Cor p. a Grant, so long as a majority of the delega.‘fon shall decide that them is a reason. iWe probability of hi. nomination. Resolved. That- all tfcassV wbe may, therefore, be declared elected as delegates tooths Chicago convention,hhall jrnrcTa Ao*a* ttom of the defecates so pledged shall east the whole vote of the