Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home Items. Since last November six deaths, including that of the President, have occurred in the Garfield family. At the Central Music Hall in Chi cago a meeting was held Sunday on behalf of the working women. The meeting was a success in point of attendance aud interest aroused. Ex-Secretary Stuart, of tbe Brooklyn Board |of Education, has abeen put under SIO,OOO bonds to answer for . embezzlement. The amount of the shortage is $107,000. Supervisor Coates, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Cranston, N. J., dropped dead Tuesday ihoruing, on reading the news of the President s death. Guiteau has been removed to anoth er cell the location of which is kept a secret from all except the warders who guard the part of the building iu which tbe new cell is located.

District Attorney Corkhill says the trial of Guiteau will take place in Washington, that there will be no difficulty iu tbe matter, and he believes there will be no attempt at lynching. China and Japan are each claiming the ownership of the Loo Choo Islands. China means to fight for possession, and is having a whole fleet built iu England, some of the Ships being a-[ ready finished. An effort is being made by his attorney to take the case of Sergeant Mason, the man who missed Guiteau, from military jurisdiction. The military officers are persuaded that Mason is deranged somewhat. The case of a midshipman .who died in Washington Saturday morning of chronic pyaemia is believed to be somewhat analogous to that of the President. He suffered six jnont hsand fourteen days, and was kept alive for a long time on stimulants. The campaign against the hostile Apaches has been initiated by the march of Gen. Carr to Ciblcu with 200 United States soldiers and a company of scouts. The Indians are strongly intrenched in one of the naturally fortified portions of Arizona. At Mattoon, 111., a farmer named Hostley was so enraged at being passed on the road by the carriage of the Vallandingbam family, that he ordered his son to fire at them, which the young man obeyed, mortally wounding Mrs. Vallaudingham. The murderer has escaped. The Washington Gazette publishes a statement that the Roman Catholic Church Is making an effort to secure a large tract of land connected with the Puget Sound mission valued at sl,ooo r 000, and that the priests are working to secure the dismissal of Indian Agent Wilbur, who is apeused of favoring the Methodists. ,

The assassin Guiteau, when ed of the death of the President, said: “I am very glad that his suffering isover; I am very sorry that I caused him so much suffering, because it was entlred' outside of my intentions. I was directly by Divine Providence to remove him. and,l meant to do it without causing him pain.” The whole amount so far subscribed for the benfit of Mrs. Garfield amounts to $157,599 38. Of this $125,000 was invested in 4 per cent, government bonds, the interest on which will amount to $5,000 a year. Persons desiring to unite in this fund are directed to remit to the United States Trust Company, 49 Wall street, New York. Cyrus W. Field is the Treasurer. The Coroner of Monmouth county, New Jersey, notified Attorney General MacVeagh soon after the death of the President that he intended to hold an inquest on the body, and demandAl that the assassin Guiteau should be produced. He was shown that an inquest was unnecessary and withdrew the demand. Had it been complied with Guiteau would never have reached New Jersey, and this was supposed to be a plan for getting him into the hands of the Jersey men.

Foreign. It is believed that at their recent meeting the Czar asked the advice of Bismarck m regard to checking Nihilism. At Clonakitty, County Cork, a land meeting, attended by 10,000 men, was held, at which resolutions were passed pledging those present to continue the present movement till landlords are abolished. Throughout the Dominion of Canada, the death of the President has awakened the greatest sympathy. “Had he belonged to the British Empire,’' says a Montreal dispatched, “no greater evidences could be given than ore apparent beie of the respect in which he was held, or of sorrow for hla untimely end,” ,