Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1881 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

oit, jnaiated hfta takep the oath of offi*J atM> bow governor pf 5 Hon. R. H. gfepbena, collector >1 The ‘ObiQ tuiahqr ,engineers, ifi A new drganjjatlon, OMUpoeed of Cnugusurveyor*. / TbaChevre 4 Brachard cutfery company, ofßt. Louis, has made an saatgoment. The Republicans of Philadelphia have nominated Mayor Stokeley*Tor re-election, • 7 Turkey is making extensive purchases or arms, especial! v Wvythe *' The national association of Mexican veteranawUl ba held in Louisville on the 23d of- February. General Grant has been elected president of the World’s fair exposition and accepts the position. t -« Sarah Bernhardt’s art‘reception at O’Brien’s art gallery in’Chicago was attended by about 500 people. It-is thought that the court-martial will be unable to proceed with the Whittaker case on the 20th test. The combined influence of all the European powers will be employed, to induce Greece to accept arbitration. The weekly statement of the hank of France shows a decrease of 4,496,000 •francs In gold and 2,802.000 francs in silver.

Representative Belford, of Colorado, has been to Mentor to press the claims of Governor Routt to a place in the cabinet. J||l / 5 Turk I*ll troops and military stores are being collected on the Greek frontier, and there is great activity at the arsenals." Darius Allen, of Janesville, Wis., died in a police station in .Chicago, from congestion of the brain, caused by opium eating. Professor Andrew D. White, president of Cornell University andtiiinteter to Berlin, Is mentioned as a probablefoiember of General Garfield’s cabinet, .Fire at Trenton, Tenn., destroyed the Herald office, Roes Co’s hardware house Kelly’s jewelry store, Ebberts confectionary and the Hicks house. It is reported from Spain that a serious split has taken place in the ranks of the Carlist League, a. section of which has abandoned the cause o Don Carlos.

E. M. McGillan A Co., of Cleveland, have sued Leander Mcßride and C. F. Lovejoy for $25,000 damages each, for alleging that the plaintins were in a failing condition. The coroners jury at Allentown, Pa., have returned a* verdict thftt they’ could not determine the cause of the recent terrible explosion owing to insufficient evidence. Greece has issued a circular maintaining that the reccommendations o the Berlin conference constitute a decision of execution which is obligatory upon the powers. The Paris Raphael states that 800,000,000 francs’ Worth bf redeemable three per cent, rentes will lie hmied in July pgxt to complete the Smjlitary material and great public wicks o France, -hU The ograian outrages cconixitted in Ireland, during December, 1886, inimbere<»466, which was nlore than during the whole of 1879, and a little Less than the aggregate of the three preceding y&frsAn explosion of the cellaloid factory’, at Newburyport, Mass., killed Charles B. Schofield, of Patterson, N. J.; fatally burned Charles Hayes, and badly and perhaps fatally burned Walter Van Dusen, of Newark, N. J.

From 40,000 to 50,000 collier* are on a strike In Lancashire, England, owing principally to a desire of the masters to contract themselves out of the law' rendering them liable to, pay compensation in the event of accidents. The dwelling of Timothy Cavan, near Galersburg, M. D., was destroyed by fire, and Mr. Cavan’s sons, Francis and Dennis, aged 11 and 13 years respectively, and ftri employe named John Falby, 45 years of age, were burned to death. The members of the assembly of the state of Panama belonging to the party known as the independant liberal partv,have proclaimed the candidature of Dr. Pablo Aroseniena for Uw presidenay of the state of Panama for the term beginning January 1. Advices from the City of Mexico say that at last awounU there was not a pound of flour in Tampico, the c<ton crop in the state of Durango had been destroyed, gnd the cold weather iu Chihuahua surpassed anything in the ntHUpry of tlte oldest inhabitant.

•The five-members of the house sis commons who are traversers in the Irish trials will remain in parliament until the case for the pr<*«JUtion is closed, but Ifthe debate on coercion is' not concluded by that time they will allow the defense to proceed without i Senator Williaihs, of Kentucky, has prepared a speech.id support of his bill appropriating 11,000,000 to be expended under the direction of the national board of health to Investigate, suppress, and prevent cattle and hog diseases. He will call up the measure as aa possible. Wm. Albright, Who has for years been the agent at Bt. Paul of the United States express company, found in bed. He hhd shot himself through the templte. The officials have found a rivmagk in his accounts, which ateema to hsvebee*. th? motive that kd to the deed.

It iaJrild iM foreign affidra committee Of the hoQMOf representatives will report fawratoy • ieioiw>B palling upon th* secretary of fo* tofo*--mation regarding Profowr Htod’e allegations that fraudulent MfitMlrs were employed to procure the 6anadiftn fisheries award.' ■ , ' gtossou written a letter to his brotjMMfi. wbtefaka inscribes the late biliard watoh- M absolutely true, J4O American WWt ought ever again to play before a Par risi&n audience. StehWtf WD he wifl play Vignaux tn 'Kafr York Of LotfJ don, but on rid account in Paris, The second span of the iron bridge" HaverhiH; rMsreanhnsettfc and Gramfiwd broke through and fell into the river. A team feonsisting of four homes with lumbar was on the bridge f/yij and went down, The driver escaped uninjured, but one of the hones was badly cut.