Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1880 — NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY.

The population of Oolumbaa, Ohio, by * the late census, is 51,644. 4 the has been selected in Central pork, New York., for the obelisk * J. H. Van Brook's furniture Uctory at St. Laois was totally destroyed by Are, Julyffftb, , > The peril ton at Ham brook’s park, Wb elinp W. VsL, was damaged $1,900 by fire, July 97th. s ■’ Hearty the entire upper portion of Empire City, Oregon. was boned, July 27 th. Lons, art r $30,000 General Uraat an i a ife asd Mra. Trad Grant sad child, arrived *t ITanitoa, Col redo, July 17th, end were met by U. 8 Grant, Jr - Martin Kelly, aged 37 y-am, waa fatally shot in Hast Baltimore, Md„ July 37th, by T, H. Kieddeo, during a dispute about an old election matter The old Pin-- street church, at Washingtou and Pine streets, Boston, waa damaged, July 27ih. by Are. to the extent of 999,000 insurance, 917,000. One and une-halt inches of rain fell at Wilmington, N. C., between 3 and 130 u’qlock.July 37th. Plantar* complain of damage to the cotton from rain. The Halifax rowing association has decided to challenge Riley, of Saratoga, to a scull nee with Warren Smith, distance three miles, makes 91*000 a side. The st .aoier Acapulco rarrivsd at New York, July 87th, from A> pin wall, haring in tow the steamer Colon, of the same line, previously reported disabled.

* Gen. Ban jock, in addition to his present duties, baa been assigned to command the department of toe south during the temporary absence of Gen. Augur. The custom house and railroad station, st St. Annonds, Province of Quebec, were burned, July 37tb. also the custom records for many years. Loss, heavy. In the democratic convention at Oast ins, Maine. July 37th, Congressman March, elected two years ago by the greenback labor p rty, was renominated. Boms nt the American boat owner* have struck for >lgher rates for carrying lumber from - Ottawa, Oat, to the States They refuse $8 50 per 1,000 feet, demanding 94. The Commonwealth newspaper, of Richmond, Virginia, a lively democratic paper,- anji- the organ of the debt payers, has suspended publication. Cause—lack of support Mrs. Anna Lynch, of the Kevstooc house, Portland, Oregon, fatally subbed Alex. M -i’heson. July 37th, who ane claims made a dishonorable proposition and attempted an indecent assault Milton Story, 21 year* o‘ ag , died at Thom peon’s station, on the Nashville and Decatur road, 84 miles south of NaahviMe, Teon., July 39th, of hydrophobia from the bite of a dog last March. A terrific thunder, storm passed over Alliance, Ohio, July 2Ttb. The Alliance bagging company’s mill was struck by lightning and totally ‘destroyed. Loss about 919,000. Folly insured

Thomas Delano, proprietor of a livery stable on' Sherman street, Chicago, was fatally subbed about micnight on July 36th, by his wife whom he was endeavoring to persuade to accompany him hme Michael Maddox was arrested .July 27ih, at Baltimore, Md„ for killing John Schaba, a Bohemian, In the northeastern section of the city. Maddox alleges that he sou .’d Brhaba in his (Maddox’s) wife’s chamber A terrific storm passed over Loudonvilie, Ohiw, July 2r7th, doing considerable damage. Phillip Snyder's barn, four miles east of Loadoorille, was struck by lightning and destroyed, with its contec.s, consisting of his entire crops of wheat, oats ajjd hay Loss, 93.500; insured for $1,500. - R D- Moesey, a, brake man on the Wabsth, St. Louis and Pacific railroad, was struck by a train on the nfehi of J uly 26th, at Okolous, Oh*o, and died in two hours after. He was a single mail, about 35 yean of age. and his home was in Blufftou. Indiana. He had been running only a few day*. t •

C*pt J. M. West, ex-superintendent and contractor of the Black dill* placer min ing company, at Deadwotxf, charged with the embezzlement of 500 shares of tbe company’s stock valued at SBO,OOO, from Josiah Hale, was discharged, alter,a preliminary examination, July 27th. West left the country at once. Goo. Beil and Henry Cleary, old- ofttaden, have been arrested tn New York on the charge of passing five counterfeit checks on the national bank, ot Baltimore and the Merchants bank of the same city, and obtaining SIO,OOO. Charles Farran, who is belkved to hare aided Bell and Cleary, was alao • nested. ' Lightning atiuck, and entirely con snme<l the bam and contents of Adam Blink, four mIW narth of Bucyrua, O, July With. The barn contained twentyfire tons of hay, which was insured in the Crawford countv Orange insurance com pany. Hie building had no insurance. Lose on building, about $250. A western railroad weighing association baa been termed by the managers ot roads leading west, north and south, from Chicago, the object being to charge tor freight by exact weight, and not bj the carload, aa has sometimes been dope, to the detriment of tbe road. J. R Wheeler has bean chosen superintendent. At an early hoar on Tuesday morning, Jojy t7th. one of two burglars was shot and killed while aitemntwg to effect ad entrance to the residence of the Hob. D. H. Solomon, on the latter’s arm, abouf> thirty miles from Council Blurts, on the Wabash road. The fatal shot was fired by B. L. Solomon, sou of D H SdQmon. The name of the dead tmrgiar is not known. ... • Prof. Riley, chief entomological commissioner ot tho United States, addressed tne members of the cotton exchange at Mobile, July 27th, and reports the cotton worm in most of the fields throughout the large extent of territory stalled by him. He says if the planters poison the worm and the weather is good, there may be a very good crop. A Panama dispatch says that Joseph JBreaa. alias Hotfman, an American resident in Aspinwall and claiming to be a merchant, was arrested uu the charge of patting into circulation counterfeit greenbacks of the United States. He wss set at liberty on straw bail, the judge baring, it :s openly said, been bought ore*. The t-uperior codrt telegraphed to hare him ini s*< d. Irena, alias Hoffman, figured prominently in Brooklyln papers in 1877,, when his swlndllugs were stated at some SBO,OOO. ' At 11 o’clock on the night of July 28th, 4 Jonathan Waalr, superintendent, Frank f William an, inside boss, and John Reese, district superintendent of the Philadelnhtn 4k lending ooal and iron company, descended the Kelly Ron colliery, at PffUfriiw to examine the ventilation. They were found at To'Clock the next day dead ‘black damp*. Rescuing parties were seat down at dawn the next day, and many of these were taken from the rater nrertotae. by the iouLslr. The moat tnlen» exeftement prevailed and all wTk in the neighborhood waa suspended. The three men dead had families, r-

|G antes on the Ontario beak are in circulation Hostilities have aotomQy commerced between he Albanians and Montenegrins. Various special dispatches state that Bsrria has ordered the mobilisation of k« r The English house of lord* hare pastel the bill lor the relief es the distressed of Ireland. The body of Madame ttkoUloff has ar rived at Ed ess and has been forward d t Moscow. Roomani* is contracting for 30,000.000 catridges, for 100,000 men abe can put in Ant Una la cash of war. The Wabash Is now running through trains between 8L Louis and Cornell Bluffs every day in the week. A troop of ships at Portsmouth are being prepared with the utmost rigor. Hundreds of men are working over time Hie Tipton county Baaday-«cho»l union will hold a grand celebration at the fair ground at Tipton, August sth Governor Williams and Hon. W Cumbark will be present, and address the sc boob. The Paris Lstemps says: Fraa u and Mexico have agreed to resume diplomatic relations, aad th< y will appoint their respective representatives October sth.

Tbs Premier of Goat at Capetown tele graphs that the Basutas are deserting the rebel chief*. A large number of arms have been surrendered in the Leribedi district. ‘ Forty-eight chiefs aad head men of the Uncampagues Indians have signed the treaty, and l s e commission is issured that the White River and Southern Utes will do likewise. The commissioners of the Lebigh and Schuylkill coal exchanges recommend that no change be made in the present cir cular rates lor line, city and harbor trade during August. The eenaua of Ariioea give* the popu. lation at-41,680 including 1,900 Chinese and -4J145 India**, but excluding the reservation aad the Pueblo India a, not taken in the eenaua It ia officially announced that the emperors of Germany and Austria will- ■ Set at laehel the 10th of August- The Prince of Serrta will pro bally arrive .at Iscbri about the same date. N Various special dispatches from Vienna. Paris aad Berlin state that the journals of those capitals expraaa the opinion that the Afghan disaster is causing less activity in Turkish affairs on the part of England.

It is understood that the cabinet will not let the Spanish question drop until it has been thoroughly investigated, and if blame rests where it is now supposed it does, Spain will be compelled to make reparation for the wrong. It Is reported that the town of Yale, British Ooiombta, headqu&rteis o’ the Oanada Pacific railroad, was burned on the night of July 87. .The Ate was probably incendiary, as several attempts have previously been made to fire the town. A Constantinople dispatch announces that official'notice has been given to the press that the city threatens suppression or suspension if they reproduce articles of European journals hostile to the Turks, l’ht Greek press is particularly referred to. The 1/mdoo times says that Ayoob Kban’a victory will have ths effect of bringing him forward *s an active participator in the guidance of events in eastern Afghanistan, and m the future settle meat of the country his role will necessarily be an important one. Seven persons have been arrested, charged with the brutal treatment of Joe Thompson, at Jonesboro, Ga., and the killing of his daughter. The governor has Vnt troops to keep down the mob, whom, it is feared, will endeavor to lynch the prisoners. It ts believed in official circles that the port<- will come to a direct understanding with M ntenegro and cede to her the Daleigno and Bogano districts. The Greek Sues* ion will b reopened on the ground Turkey was not heard at the Berlin conference. The naval demonstration is to be pus'ponud.

A Bombay dispatch says: The first iram T*m Jacababab to the frontier, oon itisM g of four regiment' of infantry and two <>l cavalry, was oa the point of starting when information was received by the Indian govern uoot showiag that the mil t&ry strength of Ayoob Khan had been t terly under 'ated. in accordance with the convention betweea France and the United States, instituting a commission to adiudiciate toe claims for private losses arising from the secession war and the Franco-German war. France has appointed M. Geoffrey, commi sioner; M. Lamon, agent, nd M. Chambeun, conocellor. The Cardinal Antonelli will case again came be ore the court of first instance July 98th. Oo on tees Lambert me now claims toe right of proving the register of her baptism is false, and urges that the former trial was not on the merits ot the care The court holding that toe case was frilly gone into st the previous trial rejected her pies. It is understood the oounwss will appeal. T%e Anchor Line Steamer City of Vickibcrg, en-route from St. Louis to Vicksburg, ran on a snag and sunk 190 miles above Memphis Her cargo and the boat ia a total loss She was nine years old, and was valued at $50,000: uninsured. Her cargo consisted of 7,000 packages of goods tor Memphis merchants. Three deck hands are supposed to have been drowned. /

A Smyrna dispatch says: The earthquake which occurred here, July 89th, d molisbed four or five hoi sea and damaged many others. Two persons were killed and five or six iniored. Mach damage was done in the adjacent country. At Rumsbad eleven houses and several cases, and twonimarte* were demolished; two persons were killed and ten iniored. Blight tremblings continue to be felt Tne Goto* says that with the access ton of Abdure Ahman Khan, aa Ameer, the phaae of Afghan events terminates. Two powerful neighbors of Afghanistan have stretched «ut to each other hands of recon cili tion ou toe ground t‘ at that which had bee .me a matter of dispute existed only in consequence of the incurable “Rutao-phobUm” at Lord Beaconsflehi. Tne new ameer owes his present position quiV* as much to Russia as to England. Pall Mall Qarette says: In Easrx, Kent and adjacent counties, bordering oo toe Thames the prospects of the wheat crop has been dashed by heavy stonae. H avy, continuous rain for six hours, laid hundreds ot acres of grain aad caused irreparable mischief. The grazing lands between PI &istow and riorn’ng were five or six inches under water. The tributaries, also, in many parts of toe country have overflows their banka destroying toe cot hay. A Ban Francisco dispatch of July 80to says: ‘The Alaska commercial company’s steamer Dan arrived last evening, twelve days from Oundlsska Her commander reports the United States revenue cotter Thomas Corwin returned to Ovadtasks from the Arctic, baton the 18th of J«ly she had been within 140 miles cf ! Wrangle land, aad the schooner 4links sad several other vessels of the whaling float. h* T « been seen, bat Capt. Hooper [was unable to communicate with any of Item owing te the large quint ties or toe. Tbs Corwin coaled aad sailed again for the Arctic on toe llth a| July." .