Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1880 — NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY.

* A fire at Roodbooae, Illinois, destroyed <20,000 worth, of property. , ' The steamer Rhein yesterday brought <829.000 in gold from Europe. Brockway, (he forger, was sentenced, to i ight years in the states prison at Providence, R. I. V < The Republicans of toe Seventh Massachusetts district have renominated M. ARussell for congress. Tbejß >ck Island railroad has declared a Quarterly- dividend ot 1% per cent., payable on November 1. Emanuel Ettinger was found g. iitr of the murder of John Ktngseler and bis wife, at Sunbury, Penn. Thomas Bales has been nominated for coogre&i by the Republicans from the Thitd Arkansas district , Col. Thomas 11. Herdon has been nominated for congress by the Democrats of the First Alabama district • Judge Henry Hilton declines the Democratic nomination for qongraM from the twentieth New York district. . - -> Judge Andrew McLain has been nominated lor congress by the republicans of the Sixth Tennessee district. A Rev. Dr. Cleary, of the pariah of Dungawan, county Waterford, has been appointed by the pope bishop of Kingston, Canada. Governor Cobb, of Alabama, has appointed H. W. Somerville a supreme court judge, in place of the late Judge Manning. A dispatch from Candahar says two officers have been arrested in connection with the defeat of General Burrows by Ayoob Khan. A fire al Augusta, Ga., destroyed the engine house of Vigilant fire company, together with the steamer and all the company property. Loes <IO,OOO. No insurance. Incendiaiy.

The coinage executed st the‘United States mint in Philadelphia for the month ending September 30 aggregated 2,700,716 pieces, valued at <2,102,864. Of this amount there were 1,200,000 silver dollars. A Vienna dispatch says Goecher, British ambassador to Turkey, will leave Constantinople In November, and shortly after his arrival in England will be appointed chancellor of the exchecquer. The iron-clad Italia, of 14.Q00 tons, covered throughout with armor three feet thick, was successfully launched in the presence of King Humbert and an immense crowd ot people. The Italia is the most powerful iron-clad ever constructed. The report that there had been a cessation of hnetilitiei between the Wabash and the Chicago, Burlington «& Quincy railroads is hardly credited, because the chief officers of the Wabash arc traveling “out west.” . Cel. Hunt, Indian. agent at Wichita agency, Indian Territory, emphatically denies the report recently telegraphed from Texas, that the Cheyenne Indiana had made an attack on the commissary supplies there and committed other outrages He says the whole story is absolutely false. . ” Weekly statement of associated banks in New York show the following changes: Loans decreas*-. <880,400; specie increase, <106,700; legal tenders decrease, <150,900; deposits increase, <804,500; circulation decrease. <243 325. The bankwnow hold <4.399,800 io excess ot legal tender requirements. All the editors of the chief journals of Bt. Petersburg have been summoned before Gen. Aleltkoff. They were told that their cbnfinual discussing ot a conatitu tion for Russia has highly displeased the Czar; that nothing more on the subject would be allowed to appear, and that during the present reign it would be premature to discuss a constitution.