Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

is -Mo me items. ■ Monday, September sth, was Chicago’s hottest day of the season. A remarkable mirage was seen at Long Branch just as the President arrived. A St Louis dispatch says all the Eastern railroads there are now selling tickets to New York for sl6. Guiteau was hung in effigy at Buffalo, Saturday night, in Niagara square, in the presence of 3,000 people. A baby weighing thirty-two pounds was born at Washington, the other day. Its fkther is an undertaker. During the month of August 33,840 immigrants landed in New York, making the arrivals since Jan. 1, 310,475. The amount of grain in store in Chicago i 511,348,152 bushels.. At the same time last season it was 5,074,064 bushels. At Jamaica, L. 1., a tavern keeper named Kemmel killed his wife, set fire to the .tavern, and then hanged himself.-, J There was' a heavy snow storm in the Black Hills on Monday and Tuesday. Six inches of snow fell at Deadwood City. . Active recruiting to fill vacancies in the United States army is going on in Washington, and recruits and officers are being ordered to Arizona. The notorious Josie Mansfield, whose association with James Fisk, Jr., is so well remembered, is keeping a gambling house in Paris. At Paterson, N. J., a man named Shorroqh, was killed by being struck in the stomach by a base ball. He lingered but a few minutes. Maud 8. will be turned into pasture to rest. ‘She has trotted over 4,000 miles and won $20,000, and her season was only half finished when she retired.

A terrific explosion occurred Tuesday morning at the Grant Powder Works, two miles from Marquette, Mich. Ten men and boys were blown to atoms. The Industrial league of America has addressed to manufacturers and others a circular suggesting the necessity o'a tariff convention in Chicago next November. Thousands of acres of forest inWayne and Pike counties, Pa., are burping. Fires are re;»orted from several townships in Pike county aud in Sussex county, New Jersey. General Lew Wallace, the. new United States Minister to Turkey, presented his ■ credentials to the Sultan, who expressed bis sympathy with President Garfield. « In dispensing with the services of Dr. Heyburn and Surgeons Barnes and Woodward, the President and Mrs. Garfield tender them a graceful tribute of appreciative thanks. The new St. Mary’s Falls canal was opened by the passage through the new lock of the steamer City of Cleveland, Captain Albert Stewart, which arrived at Marquette on Friday last. Mormons to the number of 550 sailed from London Monday for Utah. Switzerland aud Germany contribute the greater number. Two thousand Mormons have left Liverpool this summer. In the Jennie Cramer case at New Haven, Conn., Tuesday, Professor Crittenden, the expert chemist, stateh that while he did not think she was drowned, he would not swear she had died from arsenic.

| (The Most Rev. John Martin Hennl, Archbishop of Milwaukee, died Wednesday, aged 76 yeare. He was noted for his piety and learning, and built up the Chtholic Church in the Northwest. Shinkel, who has been accused of “giving away” the Cornell crew, has arrived at New York from Europe. He denies the allegations of his late comrades, and threatens to commence legal proceedings against them. Wesson F. Davis, late tax collector at Houston, Texas, has been found to be a defaulter for over >IOO,OOO, and suit will be brought against his bondsmen, one of whom is William R. Baker, mayor of Houston. The Chicago and Alton railroad authorities do not believe that the James brothers had anything to do with the Glendale robbery. They believe the offenders to be the residents ot the neighborhood, who are a desperate and lawless gang.

On Wednesday evening, a Chicago and Alton passenger train was stopped pear Glendale, Missouri, bylteyenteen masked and armed meh, who robbed the > xpress car and all the passengers on the train, securing about >15,000 in money and valuables. An Erie, Pa., dispatch says Mary?J. Leo, aged 19, a daughter of Prof. Leo, bedriddenHbr four yeare, got up Bunday and walked to church. Her cure is believed by her friends to be the result of special prayers by Methodist pastors and others. Two French ladies, sisters, named Christine Marion and Eliza Neitler, were made citizens of the United States. Monday, in the Superior Court of Chicago, by Judge Gary. This is said to be the first recorded case of the admission of women to citizenship. ' Vennor said in Washington on Tuesday, that the indications pointed to very wet weather in the Northwest and generally throughout the Northern States, and that the wet season would set in about the middle of the month and continue to the end. But every one has an opinion of Vennor by this time. J The Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Washington received a dispatch Monday from Tiffany, of the Ban Carlos Agency, Arizona Territory, that the Apache massacre was not nearly as had as at first reported. Captain Hentig and ten men were filled. General Carr, he says, Is not killed. General McDowell has telegraphed the Adjutant General that Captain Hentigand seven men were kilted, and that Lieutenant Gordon was Wounded in the attack on the fort. Boston and the surrounding country bad a natural phenomenon Tuesday in a peculiar condition of the atmosphere, which wm [pf a fog-like

character, and seemed to change the cuioy» u* various objects. The league base ball game was postponed on accent of light Thjs oondittoo oT the atmosphere lasted from morn! nj till evening. At Providence, R*l., the day was dark and sultry, the gar being lighted in offices aud factorlee. The same features as at Boston were observed at Hartford, gas log buraal th rough the day.

Foreign. It to stated that Mrs. Langtry has seldom been seen in London daring the last ss—on. In the vicinity of Ottawa, the capital of Canada, rains have extinguished the forest fires. Dublin merchants have subscribed £B,OOO for an exhibition In that city of Irish manufactures. The Union Mail Steamship Company, estimates the loss of life by the foundering of the Teuton at the Cape of Goodhope, to be 236. Anti-Jewish note broke out aUStolp, Pomerania, on Sunday. The troops charged on the mob, wounding sixteen persons, and were in turn stoned by the mob. Kettle, a “coercion act” prisoner in Kilmainham Jail, has offered himself to the voters of the County Monaghan as the Land League candidate for Parliament. In the chess contest at Berlin, Mason, of New York, is so far the champion, with three games won. Blackburne, of London, and Zuckentort, of Berlin, won two games. The election in the County Tyrone, Ireland, for a member of Parliament in place of Mr. Lytton, resulted in the return of Dickson, Liberal, wi’h a vote of 3,161. Colonel Knox, Conservative, polled 8,070. The Parnell candate, Rylett, only scored 904. It is stated that Miss O'Brien, noted in connection with her letters to the London press concerning the treatment of steerage passengers on transatlantic steamers, is now traveling as steerage passenger in vessels crossing tlie Atiantic. > Mr. Sexton, one of the Home-rule members of Parliament, visited Ridington, Sheridan, and Walshe, coercion act prisoners, at Kilmainham Jail, near Dublin, Ireland. It is claimed that they are all indisposed from their dtirance.

The Will of the People, the Nihilist newspaper which has just appeared again in St. Petersburg, warns spies of their fate, gives a list of 400 Nihilists arrested *lnce November, condemns the Czar’s policy, and threatens to deal the enemy a filial blow. The result of the recent French election will constitute the new Chamber of Deputies as follows: 459 Republicans; 47 Bonapartists, and 41 Monarchists. The Republicans comprise the Left Center, 39; the Left, 168; Republican Union, 206, and Extreme Left, 46. A Geneva correspondent says the conductors of the Free Word, the new Russian newspaper published for circulation in Russia, state that, as open advocacy of their opinion in Russia is prohibited, they have abandoned Russia for the free soil of Switzerland. A Cork dispatch says a party of men engaged in raiding for arms, near Mill street, Thursday night, encountered a polico patrol, and, in the conflict ensuing, a farmer’s sou, named Hide, was shot dead, and three other raiders and a policeman were wounded. A Constantinople correspondent says Germans and Englishmen interested in the welfare of the Jews have set a movement afloat to obtain a grant of laud in Syria from the Porte, for allotment to the Jews desring to emigrate from countries where they are subject to peisecution. A delegate is now here trjiug to secure the Porte’s approval. The Sultan favors the scheme. «