Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1880 — NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY.

Thre- ice houses at Wheeling, Weat ..Virginia, were destroyed by an lacMMHary fire. * The Colorado greenbacken hare nominated the Her. A. J. Chittenden for goveraor. Three incendiaries who were to hare v been "hanged at Greenville, 8. C-June 18th, • were respited. The French senate and chamber of deputies is still struggling over the amnesty -.flquestion. The census returns show the population of Brooklyn to be 555,000, an increase of 72,000 in five years.

Russian students are- now forbidden to marry, and those who violate this rule are to be expelled from the university. They won’t store any more powder in blacksmith shops in Central City, Col One explosion is as good as a dozen. James Vocns, a fanner living near Rua •fertile, Indiana, was shot, and it is supposed fatally wounded, by his son. Seymoar Shelters, aged ten years, o( •T •using Mich , was fatally shot by Henry Raymond, aged nine. Raymond has been There is no probability that Turkey and Greece can agree on a settlement of their difficulties without resorting to the use of arms. Victor, the oldest son of the prince of Wales, will enter a military academy, and when qualified will be given an active commission. A Vienna correspondent says great astonishment prevails here at representations that Austria is animated by antiGreek sentiment A Berlin correspondent asserts that the plain fact is that Turkey defies Europe to carry out the decisions of the conference by main force. The Siamese foreign minister arrived in Patis Thursday, nisrdission is to conclude commercial treaties with England and other powers. A Madrid dispatch says the Morocco conference may be considered at an end without any beneficial results so far as Spain is concerned. $ Ths prospects of Ceylon’s coffee crop are again unfavorable, and the government yield of Java will probably be 80,000 tons below that of 1870.. An-eight-year-old eon of Edwin Jones, living near Pattenon, Ohio, fell from a wagon and was run over, the wheel crushing his head, killing him Instantly. Dispatches from upwards of 75 towns in Indiana indicate that the nominations made by the republicans for state officers are eminently satisfactory to the party.

'At the Mystic Park races, yesterday, there were five starters in the 2:22 class. The race was won by Noontide, Capt Emmons 3d, Robert B. Thomas 3d. Time, 2:36.3 : The French cabinet council has determined, as a basis for amnesty, a proposition that amnesty will be plenary except as regards crimes against the common law previous to 1871. Gen. Hatch has asked permission to follow Victoria's band of Indians across the Mexican herder, and the United States government will ask the Mexican govern meat for such permission. "It has come to light that communist prisoners in French prisons are treated with the utmost cruely. For a slight disobedience, recently, the cheek of one ot the prisoners was pierced with a red hot iron. • ' • A Pans correspondent learns that the Athens government Is quite alive to the fact that it will have to fight for whatever territory the conference gives it, and it is trying hard to get military assistance from France. t’Uniou, replying to an article in the Pans Figaro, acknowledges that the royalists are collecting funds, but claims that the collections are only such as every political party requires and denies the existence ot any conspiracy. An old lady named Lucinda Russell, aged about 60, and hard of hearing, was struck on the side of the bead by the cars, white walking on the track, about one mile east of Alliance, Ohio. Her recovery is thought doubtful. A fire at East Saginaw destroyed R. Boyd 4 Go’s, warehouse, containing supplies, involvings loss ot SI,BOO. The dryhouap at Jesse Hoyt’s salt works was also destroved. Loss, $2,000; insurance sl, 200. Boyd's property was not insured. A Bombay correspondent reports that Abdul Rahman Khan is advancing with troops and sixteen mounted guns. The tribes are gathering south of Cabul and in other quarters, and it is reported that they look for the proclamation of a holy war.

- A Vienna correspondent says: The Greek minister of war has issued orders summoning all officers and soldiers on a furlough to join their regiments immediately. The Greek man-of-war are being armed, and torpedoes sunk on. various points on the coast. An attempted uprising of troops at Caboras fortress, Havana, was suppressed and «ix of the mutineers were shot. Attempts te capture arms at Maestranza was unsuccessful. The cause of the uprising was the non-payment of the troops for the past six months. The test of the Corliss engine at the Millers’ international exhibition, Cincinnati, has been made and the Brown Corliss engine is now being tested. Eight days will be consumed in making these tests. The attendance is growing larger. Samuel Sampson Howard was hanged ■at Bkstrop, Texas, on the 18th inst.. for the murder of Alexander Farmer, In May, 1879. A large concourse of people witnessed the execution. J. H. Willsams who was to have been executed at the same time was reprieved. . A dispatch from Sydney, Australia, says: The colonial treasurer has submitted a supplementary financial statement showing a deficit of £290,000, which it is proposed to cover by an export duty of.one farthing on greasy wool, one halfpenny on washed and scoured, sixpence on horses and cattle, an increased royalty on coal, and the re-lmpoeition df stamp duties.

Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, In presenting a gift of |loosoo to Wellesley college, says that she has “often observed the pitiable worthlessness both to themselves and others of the lives of women when given up to selfish frivolity or wasted in the pursuit of mere personal enjoyment.” She . desires, she adds, to aid in training Women of learning too generous for skeptical conceit and refinement too thorough for fastidious selfishness. '• James Boyle, who was found in a dycondition in a dive in the rear of Godfrey’s saloon. Pittsburg, has died. When discovered he was lying at the foot of a stairway leading from the second story, occupied try a man and wife named Atkinson ; and whether he had fallen or was knocked down stairs was not known. The aathorities'are inclined td the latter Opinion, owing to the bad reputation of fieplacaf The inm wee, twelve in numcr, bare been arrested and will be held jntil after the scyssmh investigation.'