Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

- Home Items.’ “Two torpedo boats are being built In this country fbr the British Government. f Maud 8., in rup, her official record made '2:los Thursday, at Buffalo, N. V. Kent McNutt, seoretary to. Secretary Blainet was accidentally drowned at . K«*,L»illo, j P. W. Crowe, of Peoria, ’claims the' glory of having manufactured the infernal machines on behalf of the Irish nation. Tbe internal revenue officials find that sweetened'Whlsky is largely shipped to temperance localities as patent medicine. Guiteau, being a lawyer, wffl defend his own case. He is writing bis autobiography, which he thinks will have a great sale. The amount of tax collected on spirits last year was $67,158,774, an increase of nearly $6,000,000 over that of tbe previous year, i’ cv During the past fiscal year $135,-, 229,902 were collected by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and* paid into the Treasury.. ? , rGeorge Walker, of Boston, who ab ducted a 7-year-old pJbikl from the front, of* house in New York, was sentenced to ten years ia State Prison. - Careless mining and robbing supporting, pillars has so-weakened twenty .to thirty houses in Plymouthboroagb, Pa., that they are liable to cave in at any time; • Sitting Bull wants to go to-Wash-ington, but tbe Indian Commtesion have no use for him there, and he will therefore remain at Standing Rock Agency. '••■.. • Leo Rartman, the Nihilist leader, who has been iu. New York a few.days,, proposes to publicly, relate his Russian experiences for the enligbtenfiient of the American people. * Guiteau has sent in a petition for hte release to the District That official, howeyer, pointed out the risk he would run of violence on the street, and the assatein deckled to hold the petition in abeyance awhile, i .

At Glass Valley, Gal.;!, the 'frirst Artillery Battalion, N.. G. C., encamped near there, had a sham fight, and. in .storming a fort miseioned officers.and between twenty and thirty men wepe more or lees wounded, rut nohb seriously. •’\l; ” In the case of McGrath apd McKewitt, the dynamite fiends, the Liverpool Jury found both persons guilty, and sentenced McGrath to penal Servitude for life and' McKevitt for fifteen years. , .' ■ , .•». A Dead wood' dispatch reports the' discovery of rich, oarbopatos nine miles from the city, a sample! Of which assayed $2,600 to the ton., Miners are flocking thither from all parts of the Black Hill?. A. C-. losing, of Chioago, has filed a bill in the Superior Court charging' the new Board of Trade'League .wibh. bribipg. tea Aldermen, and praymg for an injunction, against the erection of the new building., . ...i ~U It i 3 denied by the Wfashington Health Department that the Potomac Elatsare now causing sickness at the White House. The Engineer Com- 1 missioner rather blaniee the bad drainage of the White House. ; d . On Saturday night a terrible explosion took place at the distillery of the Woqlner Bros,, Peoria, lil., by which eighteen persons were, badly inured, nine of whom have simp* died, ana several more arp not W Dover. In a race between the British steamships Lord of the Isle? and jfte Gfienllrtneyl from Japan with cargoes of tisa, thfe Lord Cfthe Kites came into harbor just six bpura ahead of her strange record for a run of 15,000 Mlft. If. For the year ending June |o>- lifer, I

(he same period for imports was $2,700,707, and with the additions from various Murcea . 52,739.J)3a. making Chicago Me Mtl* port? in ttlfc UhitOd irigtflh, fmci Viewed by Ahe'reprtelntltive of the Inter Ocean, said that if the Nihilist, Leo Hartman, now in New York, is wanted by the Russian Government for assassination, he will be surrendered by the United States authorities, ■ 1 ■ i J'y r’ ' T Withfu the past few days a rem&rkable revival has oommenced in the quarter of Chicago which irlargely occupied by houses of ill-some. Minnie Brooks, for years ithe proprietress of oae of these; bouses, has been converted, and has abandoned a fife of ' vfee. At her boose pntyer meetings are being hold for fallen women, which lire already meeting with good'results.

U ,*.J •« : r.fwreign*' -V Anlhjeaiah riots oon(inue prevail in various plaoesin Pomerania. ,i The O’Donogtue,” member of Parliament from Tralee, tibknd. is bankrupt, : fit. Poster, Chiefc SecrWiry for Ireland, will, it is said; : resign that position after the land bill become* law. . Less than half' the average yield of the crops in KoumeitaWiil, is reported from Bucharest, be the'result of Might. nThe London > Standard says there is an average wheat, -crqp,in Euglaud; the root erop is bad. but tlie potatoes good. Census returns shoV that the ptfp’u ration*of the DornlUkm of Canada fr 4,850,469, an increase in teu years of 680,498. .. , ,i 1 , ,;r. ,A Kirig of Spain, is engaged to be married to an Austrian Archduke. It *w*salove .match.' Mr. C. S. Bead, au Euglish agricultural expert, said at a receqt meeting, that the British harvest this year (Would not bh’a great one. '• r- ' •■ '» •' At Mazatian, Mexico,'.arripwdeE magl«ust blowing up a whole square, hud burying mapy families in the ruins. 1 The Chief of Police Of Rome has beefr dismissed for aUoWlnjg-tlte disgraceful street riot during the r«ntexmenbot the remains of the late Pope Pius IX. It is supposed that McGrath’s memorandum book supplied the British authorities with the iutormitiori relative to the 'shipmehbi <*£ the infernal machines. .v . - '. , r ' Bieven men-of-war are btiug built by the Spanish fßVveriiinent, arid Six 5 more-are Wderfcd indockyard to]form *at fas t and wel i-.ar.med squad ron,, for the coloniea. O’Connor and Bfi tiell Are expecting to shortly conuhet <•« £ l« «dure tour in America for the benefit of the Land; League* The .former wil| leave Bng-» land fen days hence. ' The House of Lords looks tipon the Irish land bill as a very bitter dose, which it is compelled to accept ss An i expediency. It will l>e considerably amended by them, however, before it tecdlves-the royal signature. .

Czar Alexander has entered Moscow, i the anonent capital of -Russia, rialetv, and w r as received with enthusi&t'm by] the iuhpbitapts. Hia first public/aet was to offer prayers at' the Cathedral. Inspite'of a bitter speech.against the Irish laud Vila ny Uord : Kanaoiph ChurofiiU, it passed a third * reading in the House of Commons by a vote of 230 to 14, and was Immediately sent to the*House of Lords, where itfwas read the ttrist time. Another plot to assassinate the Czar has been discovered by the police of Moscow. This time a lady of high rank was to be the agent. Sbe-has escaped, but her accomplices have been arrested] The Czar left Moscow* secretly for Nijni Novgorod. Conservative members,pf the Mouse of Commons claim’ that Parnell’s amendment to the Ifthd bill; providing for a dlepeneiom qf Judicial; action for rent pending the decision of the land, court, Wag nished through without due notice, and they are indignant- aecord 1 - r . s . . Ira* The House of Commons received 1,392 pefitfons Sigifed ' ity 280,595 persons, praying themt to reject any change of the iaw wbjcbbars 'the arf-i mission of athfists; arid it also received 673 petitions, signed bv 115,641 persons, praying for an alteration -of-the law. „ '■] .r, uf>)(; " The leading Home. Rulers in Lpndon and elsewhere decline to *i»sne a‘manifesto to jbefr, ffjende in,, America, who sent tne infernalmachines to England, becftufee they allegethdreiS no evidence that the senders weredlrfeh patriots, 1 or that the consignment was tod benfr fit the Irish cause.

Afghanistan dispatches state that the battle between the Amest and Ayood Khan lasted three hours, and that SOO or 400 men killed on eachside. General Hume, In command of the .Anglo-Indian cpniingelrt * at Quetta, had froqi 5,000 ta.'6,oQo naen with him. His nearest outpost was seventy-eight miles from Cand&h&r.