Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY.

Tee house of Jac. Rom, in the town of •UvUlc. WU..WM entered by burglar*, Ansust 20. and S4OOO in note* and fifty dollars Id currency rtolen. TBe relations between Roumania and the United Staten, baaed upon proviestotial arrangements mentioned heretofore, are more completely established. The captain and part of the crew of th" achnoner Augustas, from Pt. Dupax, arrived at New York, sick with the yeiiow fever. They were sent to the hospital qtunntine. Michael Farrell, a brakeman co the Olean, Branford 4 Warren railroad, ip stto make a flying switch, at Mean. fell under the locomotive and received fatal ininriM. A Qoeltah dispatch says: “The Al* ghsn force in the attack on the garrison, at Keich is e s'. I mated at 2,000. Their lose is 200 killed, instead of eighty, as previously reported.— Tt» British lorn is fifteen killed and twenty-five wounded, The London board of hade returns for Joly, shew the total* value of asports to be £20,970,579 against £18,611,128 last year. The value of imports for July, were £»,832,595, against £80,188,070 last year. The game of lacroea, for the championship of the world, between the .Shamrocks, ct Montreal, and the Toron toe, was won by the Shamrocks, in 8 straight games. Time, nine hours and two min alec.

A negro was shot and two wounded at a barbecue at Texarkana, Texas, August 18th, Wm. Arnold, shot a week before, died that night, declaring Mon is killed him. Thus the noble work of annihilation goes on in the Lone Star state. The Philadelphia grand Jnry has in dieted iMac Mcßride, Francis P. Goodwin, Aug. Chas A. Schell and foaeph McKinney Thecharge is conspiracy growing out of the issuance oi fraudulent tavern license bonds ' In theUemricks county. Virginia, court, J. W. Henninger related to serve with a negro juror. The judge imposed a fine of S2OO and ten days imprisonment. Henninger subsequently consented to serve . and the penal lies were removed. •The London Timte expresses the view that the evacuation ofCabul will strengtnen the hands of Ameer without loss of British military prestige, and if the British forces will occupy the frontier they can return to Cabal if necessary. • John Kain, a saloon keeper of Buffalo, refused liquor to a boarder named Martin Flannegan. who was already drank. At midnight Flannegan ar.we, fntered the bedroom of Kain, and stabbed him fatally, in the presence of his wife and child. A Caadshar dispatch of the 15th says;. Irregulars occupy neighboring villages. Ayoob Khan has brought a few guns to bear on the city, but they are too far away to do much damage. About 8,000 Afghans have been expected. The city garrison is well provisioned, ex sept with fresh meat. John ftailz, who murdered his wife in . May, 1879, was taken from the Athens, Ala. jail, on the night of August 9th, by ’ a mob ot horsemen and hanged. Four previous attempts had been made to mob him. He had teen twice sentenced to death, end was each tinie granted a new trial. ♦ The Western branch of the National Window Glass Manufacturers Association, decided that in view of the liberal foreign Importation and ample supply of stock onhtnd to maintain the present card rate; they also resolved to continue the present suspension until Sept. 15th, two weeks later than usual. • - Professor Greener, in an interview with the Secretary ot War, made a demand ib behalf of Cadet Whittaker, and asked that pending further proceedings Whittaker be granted a furlough. Secretary Ramsey < granted the request for a furlough, and consented it should take effect at once and he for an indefinite time. Henry Schuller, a representative of Noah Mitchell, of New York, went to Utica, N. Y., od Friday. August fith, with a stock of diamonds. He left the hotel-at 4 o'clock Sunday morning. August Bth, returning at 11 o’clock in the evening. On Monday morning he discovered that he had been robbed of diamonds valued at $15,000.

MinUter o< War. of France, baa suspcn ded for one year the Colonel of the Bixtyfoortb regiment of territorial army, for expressing the hope in an order oi the day, while presenting a new flag to hit regiment, that the flag would soon be eon. ■tituled like that of the United States of America, to represent the only banner of the United States of Europe. 4 St. Petersburg dispatch, of August ■ At 9 o’clock last evening a house porter ws. 1 wounded by a shot from a revolver fired by one of two well-dressed men. Both of them were captured by the police, with the assistance of bystanders, alter a alight resistance, apd an ineffectual shot at the captors. This is a supposed Nihilist attempt to Kill a spy in the person as the hoose-poiter. - The Golos says that with the accession of Abdurr Abman Khan, as Ameer, the phase of Afghan events terminates. Two powerful neighbors of Afghanistan have stretched out to each other hand* of recon, eilistion, on the ground that that which had become A matter of dispute existed only in consequence of the incurable "Russo-phobisiu” ot Lord Beaconsfield. The new ameer owes hte present position quite as much to Russia as o Bo gland. The Liverpool Journal of O mmcrce, of August 10th. has the following: Mr. F. A. rfimpeon, of Pleasant Hill, Cass county, Missouri, has just completed a selection from herds of leading Hereford breeders, consisting of thirty three cows, one bull and nine calves, all pure bred They ate to be shipped in the steamer Dominion, for Quebec from whence they will be forwarded to Missouri. • W. 8. Hapham, the only survivor of the schooner Oneida, reports that the vessel capsized off Padre Island. Capt J. Howard. United States Engineer, lately in chargs of the harbor improvements at fta. line Pass, and Pat Power?, a saildr, were drowned. He also reports that the schooner Laurel wait ashore, and Capt. McCall and four men were lost; also that the Welcome, and another, name unknown, bottom up, on Mustang Island. All hands an supposed lost Bulgaria decided to change the anna meat of two pa “d 40 000 rifles were ordered. Portions having been delivered caused the reports that Russia was sending arms to Bulgaria., There are many students from Bulgar.a attending the Rus. aian military schools and about fitly of them have returned home to spend vaca tion. Their passage through Beni Bucharest and Bustchull in uniform was the cause Of a goodly proportion ot the regrts about Russian officers arriving in There is considerable complaint with shippers, that east-bound freights are so long in reaching destinations. One ot sje matters which needs the immediate attention of the general managers of the eastern lines, is this very thing. Boston and New York freights are brought went, almost invariably, two to three days Snicker than property is moved the same iataace eastward, whUe really there is no •eKcaae for it, as east-bound freights, by ■dropping one or two care from each train, thus lighten iqrifce trains, could be moved just as expeditiously as they are westward, and the road which makes the first move in the matter, will become S favorite with