Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

- There are 13,000 licensed doge in the city of Chicago. During the year ending June 30th, 660,000 emigrants landed in this tryGuiteau has given an order for bis mail to be delivered to District Attor ney CorkhillNorthern - Minnesota and the Red River region’ of Dakota report flattering prospects for a fine wheat harvest. In 1842 the United States produced only 2,000,000 ions of coal, while last year about 70,000,000 tons were produced. - - There were 437 iron furnaces in blast in the United States on the 18th Inst. For the same date in 1877, there w’ere bnt 250. Internal revenue receipts for the past fiscal year amonnt to >135,540,339.13, an exeesss over last year or >ll,429,850.58. -. During tbe heated term at Cincinnati, that is from July 10 to July 16, inclusive, 414 jiereons died from sunstroke and heat. F. B. Beckthermer, ex-Consul for Austria at St. Louis, has been arrested at Galveston, Texas, charged with ths embezzlement of $13,000. , Another American victory in England. At tbe rifle tournament the Kolapore cup was won by. the Canadian team by twenty points. At a nominating spree, near Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee Nation, two Indians became fighting drunk and killpd several of their comrades. New Ulm and West Newton, Minn., have been devastated by a tornado. Many lives were lost, and the two towns almost entirely demolished. 'During the last fiscal year over twelve millions of dollars worth of gold and silver were med in the arts aud manufactures in the United States.

Captain Sawyer, a Pensacola, Fla., skipper, saw a school .of whales two miles long. He estimated there were 700 fish, whose oil would be worth $1,000,000 Tl.ere were six cases of sunstroke at Cincinnati Friday. Tbe total number of deaths for six days from heat, as reported to the Board of Health, reached 365. 1 At Montreal 1,500 pilgrims from Vermont visited the Church of Notre Dame de Lourdes. In the evening a number of them were arrested for drunkenness. and Ensign,two Star Roule fraud manipulators, were ai rested in Philadelphia, and* taken before the United States Commissioner, and field in $5,000 bonds till Thursday. . At Paw Paw, Mich., M. R. Noyes and. F. E. Conner, brothers-in-law, .were both killed by a flash of lightning at 12:30 p. in., Wednesday, while walking along a street nf the Village. The blast-furnace men in the Cleveland district have struck against a reduction of 2j per cent, in their wages. The strike has reduced the total make of pig-iron by about 1,700 tons daily. The Agricultural Department at Wellington estimates the wheat crop at 83 percent, of last year’s yield, making the total crop of 1881, 400,000,000 bushels, shortage of 80,000,000 bushels.

Bitting Btrtl, the famous Sioux chief, with five other chiefs and 200 of his tribe in charge of a scout, are coming to surrender to the United States authorities at Fort Buford. Want of supplies seems to be the principal cause of his humility, The Apaches attacked the railroad construction force at Chihuahua, Mexico, killing six of the party, including a vouhg American, .and then multilated hie corpses. Tney then attacked the construction train of cars, killing two .persons. Dr. Hosmer A. Johnson, one of the most prominent surgeons of Chicago, who has interested himself in the President’s case, says that it is folly to say that the President Is out of danger, .and that it-cannot be said for several Weeks yet. - t In spite of the unusually large immigration, tbe demand for laborers from all parts of the country exceeds the supply. The ’Superintendent of -the Labor-Bureau at Castle Garden has orders for 1,000 laborers which he is unable to fill. Another comet, saia to be very brilliant and moving toward the northwest, of the northern hemisphere, has t een simultaneously discovered at the Observatory Of Ann Arbor, Michigan, by an amateur astronomer, and at the Imperial Observatory of Vienna, Austria. j,. The Chicago postoffice had a total revenue for the vear ending June 30 of >1,450,689.51; the expenses amounted to $452,179.28, and the net income to tbe United States Government was >958,510 23. These figures sSbow an increase of 15 per cent on local and 45 per cent on foreign business. * A message from the sea and the dead comes from Frankfort, Michigan. The keeper of a life-saving station near that place found a bottle containing a note written by George A. N. Moore, stat- . ing that the vessel was, at 3 o’clock on the' 16th of October, at the mercy of the seas, and asking that his wife be informed of his death.

Foreign.

French crops are suffering from excessive heat aud drought. 'England has at last consented to give up the Transvaal to the Boers. Egypt is suffering from a destructive worm which has attacked the cottcta crop. The Czar has commuted the death sentence of HOssy Helf man, the Nihilist, to imprisonment for life. . . Ireland will this year have a crop of potatoes large enough to supply the home demand, and a liberal margin also for exportation. A French cavalry officer affected by sunstroke, alarmed some peasants in a village near the camp at Charlous, France, who set upon and murdered him.. ”, On account of the strike of the Cork eounty laborers, Ireland, fears are entertained for the harvest in that locality. , -At the volunteer camp at Wimbledon, England, the excessive heat prostrated several of the riflemen. The thermometer recorded 137 degrees in the sun. German outhoritles have forbid the importation or passage through the province of Schleewlg of Danish cattle.

on account of the prevalence of pie uro pneumonia. Bismarck is anxious to secure the ■support of the clerical party in the Reichstag, and to that end is trying to conciliate QathoMe prelates and arrange differences. £ ‘ g | Egypt going to abolish slavery by allowing the owners to retain the slaves owned by them at present, but allowing no more persons to be enslaved in the future. Don Carlos, the claimant for the Spanish throne, has been ordered to leave France on account of his having been concerned in? manifqrtations against the republic. A red-hot Irishman named Hickey, was arrested and arraigned at Bow Stre et Police Court, London, for threatening to assassinate Secretary Forster. He was remanded. The Algerian insurgents, commanded by the Arab Chief Bon Amena,' have had another repulse, and are split by dissension, the chief having been forced to flee for his life. The Nihilistshave abandoned their meetings at St. Petersburg, and now hold them in the large cities. At Keiff a detective was shot dead when found at a secret meeting. The farm laborers In Cork county, Ireland, dissatisfied at getting no better wages from the land leaguing farmers (who have had their rents lowered), propose to strike during harvest time. Cardinal Manning, Archbisop of Westminster, recently delivered a discourse on the Land League in London which has displeased the Pope, who has all along favored submission to constituted authority. A new trans-atlantic Telegraph Company is t>elng formed at Berlin, which will lay an independent cable from Germany to Valencia, (Ireland), and thence to the United States. The capital is to be $825,000.

England, Austria, and Holland have addressed a note to the Russian government, in which other European powers will unite, objecting to her harsh laws against, the Jews, as illustrated by the case of Lewisohn. A large force of farm laborers in the Macroom district, County Cork, Ireland. have struck for higher wages, and are on a march through the district compelling others to strike. This is an outaome of the Land League agitation. J The progress of the French arms in North Africa is marked by a wholesale sacrifice of life. At the bombardment and capture of Sfax, 400 Arabs were killed and 400 wounded. Sfiutherp Tunis is now reported iu a disturbed condition. A terrible incident illustrative of the latent brutal savageness of the Russian peasant comes from Pou live, in Province of Koorsk, Russia. A farm superintendent imprisoned nineteen persons in a barn, and the village mob tired it, burning the men and women alive.