Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1880 — NEWS SUMMARU! [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARU!

The number of immigrants arrived during September, waa 54,890. C. Risley & Co., a thirty-rear old coffee hence of New York, bes taiiel The »learner Ameriqae, from Europe, yesterday bronchi $289,500 in gold. «. It U reported in London that the Ameer of Afghani* tan has been murdered. The steamboat Trader burned to the « water's edge while lying at Memphis. All the coal oil at Qaebec has been seized, being under government teat. John I* Yillalonga, one oi the oldest cotton merchants of Savannah, is dead. Secretary Sherman waa sdreeuglqd and made a speechui New York last night The Cincinnati races were postponed yesterday until today, on account ot rain. Bishop Simpson’s health ia mending. He will aqon return to Philadelphia, ms home., , Wm. Cawthraw. an old resident ot Toronto, ia dead. He wt» said to be worth fBOO,OOO. The Paris Gaulois will be prosecuted for reporting a speech delivered by General Charade. Registration closed in Chicago last night. The number of voters registered ia nearly 80,000. Mrs.’Gould, cashier of the deiunct Boston woman's, bank, or ladies* deposit, has been bailed in SIO,OOO.

The weekly statement of the Imperial bank of Germany shows an increase in specie of 8.840,000 marks. The steamer Potomac, from Norfolk, tor Great Britain, has'arrived at H4l--az with her machinery disabled. All the competing reads, except Chicsfo, Burlington & Quincy, are now selling ve dollar straight tickets from St. Louis to Chicago. The steamer Illyrian baa arrived at Boston from Liverpool wiui the officers and crewed the ship Isaac Webb, abandoned in a sinking condition. The mnniclpst election in Baltimore resulted in The election of eighteen Democrats and one Republican. Aggregate Democratic majority, 8,187. Franciscans have been expelled from their in Renees and Augnon, France, At the latter place the police were obliged to force the doors. Fire in a lodging hoase at 188 Washington street, New York, suffocated Joseph Connally, a porter, aged 23, and fatally burned Jonathan White.a farmer. A man supposed to be it- P. Bull, a private detective, aftd formerly editor of the Democratic Press,at Gainesville, Ark., < was murdered while asleep, at Ft. Worth, Texas. There is great excitement in Dublin, owing to the arrest of land leaguers. It is stated on good authority that warrants have been issued for further arrest of members. Magistrate Hope and two clerks were murdered at Quobo, in South Africa, while witneßiing a war dance. The government has called out 3,000 more colonial troops. The property »*. t e Chicago jockey and and trotting club h as been sold at auction. It was knocked down for $29,500 to A. W, Richmond, of New York, o.vnerof Young Hopeful. John Duff, builder of Hannibal A St. Joe and Union Pacific railroads, died at Jamie is Plains, October 26, of pneumonia. He leaves property estimated at $400,000. >

The rotary bleacher acd boiler of G and G. A. Roller tson’s paper mill, at Hillsdale, N. H , burst. Ooe man was killed and several injured. Loss about $20,000; no insurance. Deputy Sheriff Geo. Heber was shof and instant]y killed by Sylvester Merritt, at Sturgis City, Wyoming. Heber was .the aggressive party, and the killing was in seif-defen*?. The Midvalle steel works, at Nice town, Pa , were sold st public sale Octo‘ber 26. The only bidder was Wm. Sellers, who purchased the works for $450,000 lor himself and others. John T. Jones, a former employe of the dally Witness and a traveling preacher and tract distributer, shot himself in New fork three times. Religious mania la the cause attributed for the act. Tom Betts (colored) killed H. T. Moore (white) near Jonesboro, Georgia. Moore was an old citizen of Clayton county. The dispute was about the proceeds oi sales of cotton. Betts was arrested. Robert Lowe, of West Albany, Wabasha county, Wisconsin, shot and instantly killed his wile and infant child, and afterwards blew bis own brains out Domestic trouble wss the cause of the edyGeneral Count Van Moltke, chief mar- - shal of the German empire, refuses the title of prince offered him by the emperor on the occasion of the 84th anniversary of the count’s birth, which occurred October 26. A nolle prosequi has been entered and entertained by the court in the case of 'Alexander W.\ _Leisenring, of Mauch Chunk, Penn., charged with corrupt solicitation of members oi the legislature in the matter of the riot losses bill. J. B. Killin, speaking at a banquet in Galway, Ireland, declared that every letter that can e across the Atlantic brought Ireland more closely to America. They were, in fact, no longer Ireland, but one of the states of the United States.

' Acting Postmaster General Tyner has issued an order forbidding the payment of postal money orders and the delivery of registered letters to R. C. Wintcrsmith, Louisville. Kentucky, or W. A- Harris & Co, New York, agents or representatives of the Frankfort school school fund lottery. The London Times says it is considered unnecessary to strengthen the powers of the Irish executive For the repression of oturagea. Parliament, therefore, is not likely to be summoned before the usual time- In the meantime the cabinet will frame the promised measure of land reform. Two house painters of Cincinnati, named Charles Throop and Henry Munn were ou a scaffold at the cornice, eighty feet above the sidewalk, when a boon brake and the two men were thrown to the ground. Both men were instantly killed. Throop leaves a family. Munn was unmarried. Hub. X- D. Mansfield died at his residence near Morrow. Ohio, October 87, at an advancedfago, 11c has been widely known as a political and general writer f or the Cincinnati Gazette, and New York papers. His signature in thoGagcUs wss “K D. M.,” and in New York papers “Veteran Observer.” The inspector general of the constabulary of Ireland has iaaned a circular requiring aB constables to furnish weekly mate munis showing the number of arms and quantity es ammunition in their district* names to whom consigned, by -whom received, class of persons who brought them, and for what purpose par-