Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1881 — THE NEWS IN BRIEE. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEE.

The weekly statewwu. of tb# Bank of France, shows an increase oCI2JSBO,000 franca in sold, and a decreaasTof 3,959,000 franca in silver. The Chicago board of trade has voted by a Urge majority to erect a new bailing on the vacant lota just south of the Grand Paeifle hotel. It is reported frooaDeadwood, D.T., that the HomestabUoTOphny has p«rehased all the Deseret and Gopher mining company's property for $1.000,000. The total losses in the fisheries from Gloucester, Mas*., the past year comprise * nr schooners and three boats, valued at $21,000. Ffty-flve lives were lost.- * The Albanians have decided to demand the evacuation of Dulcigno, and in the event of a refusal by Prince -Nikita, to declare,war against Montenegro. President Hayes has decided to renew the appointment of Secretary Ramsay, as acting secretary of the navy, m>m time to time until the 4th of March. The wife of Edwin Monnett, one of the wealthiest citizens of Crawford eounty, Ohio, has eloped with a young men named Fox, who had been in the employ of Monnett. It is supposed the British steamer Montgomery, for Philadelphia from Cardiff, bound to Signapore via Suez canal, has been lost with her crew of thirty men on the coast of Portugal. Fire at the Mason depot, Tennessee, destroyed the store and dwelling of J. Watkins. Loss, $6,000; insurance, $4,800. The saloon of R. Drury was also burned. Loss, uninsured. A large number of the leading lawyers of Milwaukee have signee a petition to have Judge Coakey, of Michigan, appointed to succeed Justice Wayne on United State supreme bench: . • Mrs. Sophia Frieken, wife of a wealthy tobacconist of Hoboken, waa found strangled in her bath-room. The authorities are unable to determine whether it is a case of murder or suicide. Tne only grist gruill at Deerufock. Lenawee county, Michigan, burned with 600 bushels of grain. It was owned by Posten & Cannon, and had j lust been thoroughly repaired. Lose, j $7,000; insurance $4,000. rThe Spanish government has noti-1 fied General Blanco to abandon hi! ! prosecutions pending Itefore Cuban tribunals for crimes connected with the insurrection of the Autonomists and the negro rebellion. John Breens, German, twenty-five years of age, employed ny the Memphis brewing company, in cooling the ■ side of casks with brewer’s pitch, a cask exploded, killing Breens, and slightly injuring two others. The stdck mill of the Springfield blanket company, at Holyoke, Mass., was partly burned by rags in the milling machinery. Loss, SIB,OOO, mostly in raw stock. The building was just finished. Uuinsured. Mrs. Sarah Young, one of the oldest residents of Paris, 111., met with a fearful death, her clothes catching fire from a stove. Before help could reach hep-the lower part of her body was j churned to a cinder. She was 87 years j old. * , j Twenty six murders and fifty seven j suicides were committed in St. Louis j during the past year. Of the persons j murdered five were women and two • were infants. There now eighteen ! murderers confined in jail awaiting; trial. The port list of St. Louis the past j year snows 2,871 steamboat arrivals aud 4,860 departures. About 2,000 barges also arrived and departed, j Freight received by river outside of lumber 805,860 tons, shipments by i river, 1,037,330 tons. ’•C. S. Lord, for ten oca re connected with the New York Sun, and among j the best known ami most brilliant men oh the New York press, succeeds | Ballard Smith as managing editor of! the Sun. Mr. Smith retires on ac-1 count of his health. The dykes between Nieuwkuek aiul j Vlymen, in the provence of north | Brobant, Holland, were broken, and j eighteen village* flooded. The dam- , age by inundation is immense. A j committee for the relief for. the sufferer* has been formed. < -j Mrs, Earner Foster, an Jnjrtate of) a house of ill fame, at Pttodnirg, was shot and fatally wounded, by M. (*. Hail, an insurance man, who claims to be her husband. . Mrs. Foster was formerly, of Cincinnati; where her mother,’ whose name is Wriglit, is still living. Jealousy. ' Tewfik Pasha, an artillery officer, who was recently appointed ‘minister of finance and financial administrator of Turkey, is now entirely controlled by military men, and all the available* resources of the country are devoted to military preparations. The board of directors of the Ladad AFort Scott railroad have awarded the contract to the Keystone construction company, who will build and equip the road in a first class manner, receiving therefor the first mortgage bonds of the company as the work progresses. West Virginia is cursed with an organization of ruffians known as vlgllents, or red men. They have recently committed many diabolical outrages in Ritchie and Roane counties, aud is probable that another organization will soon be formed for the purpose of exterminating them. A Belleville, HI., dispatch says: A little settlement called Twist Hill, some eighteen miles from here, was much excited on Saturday last by the discovery of the dead body of Mrs. Salter, a widow, lying in bed between her children, little girls six and four years old, and the dead body- of her infant in a basket in the -rear of the house. It appears that Mrs. Suiter was confided some time during Friday night; that she placed the baby in the outhouse, where it was frozen to death, and that she returned to her bed aud died of • hemorrhage. The payments at the New York clearing house for the year, 1880 were not only larger than ever before, but* larger than tho«e of any other city in the world. They exceeded the entire amount received and expended by the United States government from the first establishment down to tho.present time. The aggregate receipts of the United Bt»tes treasury on all amounts have been51R570,348,647, and the payments $18,334,864,202. while the pavments at the New York clearing nouse by exchange* alone since January 1, 1880, have been $38,644,240,578, and the balanee paid during tbj . same time have amounted to $1,561,200,000. v