Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

, Home Items. . Cincinnati had a half million dollar fire Thursday. The wheat crop of the State of Ohio will be about 40,000,000 bushels; that Is about 77 per oent of last year’s crop. Seven hundred and fifty Mormon converts from Europe pa mod through Chicago Friday, on their way to Salt Taka city. . cChicago Socialists will hold a meeting to express their abhorance of Guiteau’s crime and their sympathy and respect for hto exalted victim. Ex-Senator Conkling has written to the Attorney General suggesting that the would-be murderer, Guiteau,should be meted a punishment proportionate to the position of hto vietim. Letters and telegrams expressive of horrot at the crime and of sympathy with the sufferer, have been received for the President by Secretary Blaine from all parts of the old and new worlds. At Jacksonville, 111., a fiendish murder of three children was perpetrated by a negro named King. The citizens pursued, captured, and promptly hanged the murderer without finding,out whether he was insane or not. At a special, meeting of the New York Chamber* of Commerce it was decided, as a testimonial of appreciation for the noble character of President Garfield, to raise the sum of $250,000 to be invested in U. S. bonds, foj the benefit of Mrs. Garfield and her children.

A remarkable change has occurred to theoomet. A portion of the nucleus has been thrown off some 1,500 miles from the main body. Professor Stone, of Cincinnati, the discoverer of the change, says the new nucleus, which to located toward the North Btar. can be seen with the naked eye. Auditor' French, Commissioner of Railroads, was summarily dismissed Friday by Secretary Kirkwood. The reason for this action was a violation of the law, whioh required him to report hto action to the Secretary of the Interior, and not to the officers of the Central Pacific Railroad, the debtors of the government. Dr. C. A. Teale, a well-known expert in cases of gun-shot wounds, sees many encouraging features in the President’s case, but says that the danger from peritonitis will not be over until ten days have. elapsed. There was also a danger to be apprehended from suppuration and the formation of an abcess. '1 The Supreme Court of Michigan, has just rendered a decision in a case in Which one man lent another money wherewith to get up a corner on wheat. The" lender sued to recover the money back. The court held that a combination entered into to artificially affect the price of any necessity of life was illegal and the loan in this case could not be recovered. r

Foreign.

King David Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands, has arrived in London. The British government has interceded with the Sultan on behalf of Mid hat Pasha. Tie Khedive of Egypt will shortly decree the total abolitl >n of slavery throughout his dominion. Fires are devastating the forests of Quebec, Lower Canada. In some localities crops have been destroyed. Four battalions of the Lyons g: rrison are preparing to sAil to Sfax to participate in the new African campaign. Prayers are being offered in the churches of Coblentz for the speedy recovery of the Empress Augusta of Germany. The Sultan ot Turkey thanks the American people for their generous contribution for the relief of the sufferers by the Scio earthquake. The Dublin Land League celebrated Fourth of July and the victory achieved by Americans 105 years ago, and expressed longing hopes for their own independence. The electoral platform of the National Liberal party in Germany has a plank calling for a reduction of the term of military service from ten 10 three years. A Russian newspaper sees in the act of Guiteau the existence' of a contagious epidemic passing through the world, and from which neither republics nor monarchies are safe. In the City of Mexico a Spaniard has been arrested, having in his possession $30,000 worth of Havana lottery tickets, which he had stolen from the offloe of the lottery in Havana. Franoe will not be,allowed to usurp dominion in Tripoli ks easily as she did in Tunis. Tripoli is really a Turkish province, and interference there would mean European intervention. .

> Turkey is in a chronic condition of I internecine and foreign troubles. The [ Albanian insurrection continues in tbe , Balkans, and Pasha, the Turkish oramander, is "powerless to ! quell it. No news yet has been received of the missing steamship, Vandalia. Tbe agents find that there were 1350 persona on board. Tbe German Admiralty will dispatch the man-of-war Falcke to assist in the search. t There is trouble brewing between the Turks and Greeks.; Turkey holds on to the frontier, instead of ceding it, and has asked for and been_ refused an extension of time for evacuation thereof. - ; The Coroner’s inquest held over the the body of Mr. Gold, the retired merchant murdered by Lefroy, or Mapleton. in a carriage on tbe Brighton. England, railway, rendered a verdict yesterday, charging Lefroy with the murdek, There is a prospeot of a splendid wheat harvest in Southern Russia. In the Provinces of Charkoff andCherson, however, the corn beetle is so destructive that tbe government will lend the farmers 100,000 rubies toward the cost of

Turee steamers have left tbe Clyde in search of the disabled steamship Vandalia, which is supposed to be drifting around somewhere in midocean with 1.000 passengers on board. Tbe relief boats are supplied with a large quantity of provisions. Charles Bradlaugh, the free-thinking member of Parliament, from Northampton, who has been refused his seat because be would not take the oath, which implies a belief in the existence of God, has notified Mr. {Gladstone that he is determined to take his seat by fgroe if possible, and to that end will ask the assistance of his constituents. The' Dublin Land League held a meeting at wbioh the President said the funds were still flowing in from the United States, but as the amounts were jiable to fluctuate according to the amount of enthusiasm, the Irish farmers should also contribute a percentage of the abatement of rents ob-

tkm. Five Turkish iron dads have been sent to Tripoli to make an armed profiat against Frejflh MvtMoaMad it A feid 50,000 TuriShfcd ApJ"troqJ Have entered Tuffs »m TFi*i. JP& Sultan has decUpM (*> ikoel# Tirat, the French ftnuawansr againp and the latter has responded with a menanoe. Franoe is organizing an army of 120,000 men, and asking its legislative bodies for a war eredß. It to quite possible that other European *35*7 tWrWf • * an?