Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1880 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

- Ftreri ITO to 181 Randolph street, Chicago, caused * 100 of $90,000. Henry Wharton, a welUowwn lawyer and editor, of Philadelphia, to dead. ' William V. Grover, of Bed Bank, M. J, aged #O, shot hto wife, aged It, dead. Minnesota. with five counties to hear from, giver Garfield 38,170 majority. ▲ Dew hospital for women, purely charttable, has been organised at Columbus, O. Tea Man, the murdered Chicago Chinaman, was buried after the Christian Untib The steamer Niagara sailed Saturday from Havana far New York with $500,000 in gold. * Gov. Smith, of Wisconsin, has appointed Onamen Cole to the Chief Justice of the supreme court of that state. • Dr. Gunther, of the British Museum, to engaged on an important work on fishes which will omiain many illuMratoona. Commodore Sheffield, who was eommlsssinnH to negotiate a treaty with Corea, by the Japanese government, has faded. The loss caused by the recent earthquake in Auitra to estimated al 8,000,000 florins, without reckoning the damage to churches. y The indictment against the county recorder at Merced, Cal., has been dismissed; also, all but three against ex Treasurer Turner. Ex-Aiderman Duan, of New York, who assaulted ex Judge Morris, has been indieted by the grand jury for await with intent to kill.

In a sculling match al London, on Monday next, between Hanlon nod Trickett for the championship, betting to five to four oa Hanlon. The schooner Cortez with 19,000 bushels of wheat,’ from Milwaukee to Oswego, went ashore near Sandy Creek. The crew were saved. ’; One of the mills of the Reade paper company in Griswold, known as. the Obenure mill, burned-. Loss, $36,000; insurance, $27,000. The steamer Kingston, from Savannah to Liverpool, put into BL Michaels with her cargo on fire. The cargo was discharged in bad order. • <' • Dr. Hector, of the New Zealand Geolog. cal Survey, expresses bis opinion that ui Westland and Otagcf vast euriferous tracts remain as yet untouched. Midshipman Jas. W- Smythe, and Wai* ter E. Morris, of the navy, have tenpered their resignation to the secretary of the navy, to take effect immediately. John Dutton was shot and killed by Brainard Taft, near Valparaiso, Indiana. Taft raised a crop of corn on Dutton’s land, and they quarreled about a division of the same. The board of trade returns of London for October show an increase, of £488,000 in the value of imports into the United Kingdom, and an increase of £987,000 in value of exports compared with the same month last year . * Burglars completely gutted the store of Meyerowitz Bros, optician?, Fourth avenue and Twenty third street, New York, carrying away opera glasses, spectacles, Stical instruments, glass eyes, etc., to e value of $12,000 or $15,000. Miss Marie Rose appeared in the English version of Aida at the Globe Theatre, Boston, last night, it being the first time this opera has been given in English. The performance was received Wttb much enthusiasm by a critical audience. A large number of persons who had depreciated money with the “Ladies mining and stolen exchange,” 23 Union Square, New York, are said to be aearching anxiously for the manager, Mrs. M. E. Warren. The exeaange to closed.

The remainder of the wreck of the Rhode Island went to pieces daring Sunday night The wreckers hope to save the engine; the shaft is cracked and tent and little hope is entertained • that the engine will be of any«use to its owners. It has been decided by the president, in the case of the Heath murderers, that Bedford and Qucenan shall be hanged «n Friday, the 19th’ Inst, and that the sentence at Stanley Finn shall be commuted to imprisonment for life in the Albany penitentiary. . The president has appointed Charles "W .'Slagle, of Fairfield, lowa, Otis Clark, of Newport, R. 1., and AB. Nichols, of Philadelphia, commiwoaers to examine and report upon fifty miles of railroad constructed by the Northern Pacific rail, road company. . The Postoffice department has iseved an order forbidding the payment of money orders or the del 1 veryi f registered letters addressed to “J.BGaylord” manager (fictitious) school of design, Chicago, Ills, on the ground of his being engaged in in fraudulent enterprises. • . > . Oswald Puckertdge, a retired publican of Minster, England, has been sentenced to six weeks* hard labor for causing the ' death'of a valuable dog. The prisoner painted the dog all over with the Liberal aad Conservative colors, and the anima] vas poisoned through licking the paint ML The prisoner gave notice of appeal. General Chauncy McKeever, assistant adj titant-ganeral, reported yesterday at the adjutant-general's office. Be baa just been relieved from duty at General Hancock’s headquarteai. General McKeever will be the ranking assistant ad-jutant-general on duty in the adjutantgeneral's office, under Adjutant-General The trial before a military tribunal at ■ Bt. Petersburg of all Nihilist prisoners who acknowledged belonging to the revolution party is now going on. One named Bcherauff admitted he participated tn the preparation ot the mines under the railray at Moscow in December, 1879, and <wo others recounted the proceedings in connections with the mjneoa. the Sempperohal railway.