Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home items. The Board of Agriculture of theStute of Ohio estimates the wheat crop this year at 44,000,000 bushels. Saturday evening the Jews In one New York synagogue raised $1,500 for their persecuted 00-religionists in Russia. Mrs. Antony, vise of a clergyman at Shelbyville, Tennessee, fatally shot herself while attempting ter shoot a hawk. In a*quarrel between two lads, aged 13 and 10, respectively, in Boston, the younger one shot the other, inflicting a fatal wound. Buffalo reports the arrival of the largest tyw of lumber from Michigan which ever passed through the great lakes. It consists of 3,250,000 leet. Mrs. Miller and her young son were instantly'killed by lightning on Sunday evening at Sturtevart Station, Ala. The in taut in her arms was uuinjured. John G. Saxe, the wit, is becoming a confirmed hypochondriac, partly from want of exercise, and partly from brooding over the loss of his children. Hostilities have been opened between the Gould and Vanderbilt railroad combinations. May it be a war to the death. “When rogues fall out," etc. The finding of the Whittaker court martial, with a fuff account of the proceedings, comprising 7.500 foolscap pages, has been forwarded to Washington. There are 44,497 postoffices in the United States. During the year 2,894 were established and 1,408 discontinued. The number of postmasters commissioned is 10,441. Commissioner Raum has decided that the sum of $165,445 07 Is due the United States Government on evasions of tax by the three Canadian banks doing business in Chicago. Attorney General MacVeagh Insists that there will be no “letup" in the Star Route prosecution, the President and the Cabinet being determined to go to the root of the busint ss. The sleeping Hungarian, who has been in a camatose condition for 135 days at the Lehigh (Pa.) county poorhouse, has spoken a few words, and may, therefore, be said to be awake.

Parnell has net yet decided as to the date of his visit to this country, the object of which is to discourage the *xertiens of that pestilent blatherskite, O’Donovan Kossaand his skirmishers. The international pigeon race was flown ou Saturday from different'parts of tbt United States and Canada, the distance to their homes being 250 miles; the winners made that distance at the rate of a mile in two minutes.

A youth of seventeen, namtd Frank Fritz, of Columbur, Ohio, having no funds to pay for a meal at a Cleveland restaurant, drew his revolver, and fired twice at the reetauranteur, . George Williams, almost instantly killing him. A game of base bail was played at Albany, N. Y., Wednesdsy, by Stalwart and Democratic members,' of the Legislature, for the benefit of the families of the men who wire killed while working on the new Capitol building. There were seven innings—Democrats, 58; Stalwarts, 26. A contract has been made in St. Louis for an experimental shipment of 30,000 husbela of Spring wheat from St. Paul to Glasgow, Scotland, by bargee to New Orleans, thence by steamer. If the shipment proves successful others will follow. The rate for the first shipment was 28 cents per bushel.

tfcm had a protracted wem on of nomlnating a candidate for the Governahip. On the twelfth ballot ex-State Auditor Sherman received 510 votee, or one vote more than a majority, whereupon his nomination was made EBanlmooo amid gteet enthusiasm. Mi. Brhwn, private secretary to President Garfield, who was entrusted with a private mission to United States Minister Lowell, relative to the Irish land troubles and the part played therein by Irish Americans, is returning with a large and lengthy report gleane 1 by United States Consuls in Ireland. . , Mr. Euler, a fire works dealer, was fined five shillings in. Philadelphia Thursday morning for a breach of the anti-fire works act, passed in 1721 (against the peace of our sovereign Lord, his most gracious Majesty King George the First of England.") The magistrate insisting on the fine being paid in shillings, the defendant bought them of a Third street broker. T. J. Gould, a retired business man, was murdered while traveling on an express train from London to Brighton and bis corpse thrown out at Baloombe Tunnel. A reporter named Lefroy or Mapleton is suspected, and robbery is believed to have been the object. The English railway carriages are divided into sections or compartments of half a dozen seats, ana the doors ol these sections are looted between stations. Several notable murders have occurred in railroad carriages. ' . , On Saturday evening William G. Whllney, a sop of the well-known litigant. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, was murdered by his brother-in-law, James Y. Christmas. The two men and their families, who lived with Mrs. Gaines in the Catacazj mansion,Washington, bad been in business together, ana the quarrel which caused the murder was in regard to the settlement thereof. They left the dinner table together, and as they passed into the hall Chrismas drew a revolver and shot Whitney through the heart. The murderer has been arrested.