Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

'4*' Home Items. Pennsylvania will send 700 troops to the Yorktown centennial celebration. President Hinsdale, of Hiram Collegoi Ohio, will write the biography of, the late President Garfield. Ex-Congressman Voorhis, of New Jersey, has been acquitted on all indictments against him. There ore 21,390 pensioners in Illinois. During th 6 post year $5,000,000 has been paid out to them. At Eldora, lowa, the hurricane on Thursday damaged the State Reform School to theamount of $6,000.

It is now claimed that the sum embezzled from-the Government by Capon i Howgate o amunts to $200,000. In a drunken brawl in a Philadelphia bar-rcom, John Kistel, age 23, whs pounded to death, .by William Johnson.- ’ 1 The alleged threatened assassination of Mr. Copkllng seems to have originated in the fertile minds of certain New York journalists. At Aurora, 111., a young German was stabbed by a Swede, whose singing he oriticised, and died soon after. The murderer was intoxicated. There appears to be new trouble with the Indians at the San Carlos Agency, A. T, for which Agent Tiffany alleges the military are responsible. L. Ferry YouDg, a son of the Mormon prophet, Brigham Young, died on board a steamship the day after leaving Havana, He was buried at sea. Three ex-convics entered, a squalid cottage on West Twenty-eighth street. New York, and brutally assaulted a sick woman, killing her infant In the struggle. In the case of Sergeant John A. Mason, who shot at Guiteau September 11th, and who is to be tried by court martial, his counsel will plead insanity. A storm passed ‘over Madison county, Mo., on Thursday, which did great damage. At the town of Sfadison the depot building was blown down, and two men were killed and a third badly injured. A sensational rumor was started In Washington, Saturday, stating that Guiteau had taken poison and was dead. The only foundation for it was in his being dosed with quinine for malaria.

There Is a glut of grain in Chicago, and as a consequence the railroads rcfuso to take any more grain for that city. This week there are 12,532,612 bushels in Btore, against 7,627,451 bushels the same time last year. The National Temperance Society’s Board of Managers have appealed to President Arthur to use his influence to discourage the national drinking customs, and to lessen the great and threatening evil of intemperance. The Coroner’s Inquest at Louisvillo in the case of the accident on the Short Line Railroad near there,causing the death of seven persons, decided that the accident was caused by carelessness of the Railroad Company and its employes. Dispatches from Marion, 0., tell,of the deliberate assassination thero of Frank Foster, a prominent young business man, by Orrin Depugh. "Foster was shot, without warning, while standing in the store. of Timothy Kelly. Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, notifies the Insurance Commissioner that he will not issue any more letters patent to mutual assessment insurance companies. As the Governor construes the law, the business is not conducted legally.

/ Foreign. i There fifive been shocks of earthquake at Gallipoli and Adrianople. H. R. H. Princess Louise ■will leave England on the 29th inst., for Canada. The London Post publishes a con. gratulatory letter on the Yorktown Centennial. 1 The Imperial Bank of Germany has raised its rates of discount to 5$ and its interest on advances of 6*. Thje British Government is urging the Porte to execute a treaty for the suppression of the slave trade. The Extreme Radicals in Paris propose to hold a monster meeting for the purpose of impeaching the Cabinet. A eevere shock of earthquake is reported from Kamobraska, P* Q. There was a slight frost in Quebec Sunday. Seventy-seven per cent, of the cues of the diphtheria epidemic raging in the province of Orle, Central Russia, are fatal. The Right Hon. Lionel Sackville West, British Minister to the United States, will leave England for America on the 22d inst. The Fair Trade League seems to be flourishing in England. Wednesday, 3,000 people attended its meetiug at Sheffield. Yorkshire. The visit of the Princess Louise Marchioness of Lome, will he brief, as she will return?to England with her husband in January. Sir Evelyn Wood, in command of the British troops in the Transvaal, has given orders to stop the departure of troops to England. Fifty pounds of blasting powder were stolen from the limestone quarries between Queenstown and Cork, County Cork, Ireland. Incendiary fires in the villages of Southern Russia are reported. They are s«id to be tbe outcome of the discontent of the peasantry, owing to bad pay and poverty. A religious mania has become epidemic in Nioaragua. The victims believe that the Almighty communicates His will to them personally. In Ihelr misguided efforts to protect their own business, the silk manufacturers of Japan have imposed conditions which are injuring their export trade. *

Parnell has advised Irish tenants not to appeal to the Land Commissioners appointed under the new laud bill unlit the working of the act has been tested. Eugenie, ex-Empress of 1 the Frenob, has made her will, leaving all her property to Prince Victor, and declaring him to be the bead of the Bonapar lists. , i The Staffordshire potteries’ employes have given notice of a demand for an advance in wages in November on a threat of striking. The strike will involve 80,000 men. At Berlin a great Liberal meeting was held, at which Bismarck’s internal" policy was strongly condemned, and Herr Virchow was indorsed lor a seat in the Reichstag.

Failing the conclusion of the treaty of pfeace between the British apd Boers By the oth prox., the English garrisons will be in state of siege, and hostilities will commence. Lord O’Hagan, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, in his inaugural address ot the Social Science Congress, spoke ot the land bill as one of the greatest measures of the century. _ 7 Tannot flriUnlmft Qu> field’s medical staff for making the best of his case in their bulletins. It says the bulletins should be the truth and nothing but the truth. The new Inman steamer, City of Rome, will be one of the fastest as she is one of the largest steamships afloat. On her trial trip she accomplished 153 knots au hour, and, it is believed, will do 18 knots.

O’Donnell, speaking at a Land. League meeting in Dublin, said there were two governments in Ireland, one, Gladstone’s, which nobody minded, and the otheb the League’s, which they would obey. A dispatch from Victoria, B. C. states that the steamer Eliz. J. Irving took fire at Fort Hope, Frazer river, and was entirely destroyed. It is believed that a number of Indians perished in the flames. 1 Russian authorities are taking unusual precautions in examining vessels arriving from foreign ports, and in the protection of the Prussian, Austrian, and Roumanian frontiers, to defeat the machinations nf the Nihilists. Warrants for the arrest of the com mittee of the Typographical Union in Philadelphia were obtained by a firm on a charge of conspiracy, for having ordered their compositors to quit work for an advauco of $2 a week.

The Farmers’ Alliance, of England, have drafted a land bill, which will give to the farmer-tenants of England tho same rights on tenantry and farm improvements which have been given to the Irish. It will be presented in Parliament shortly. , Four prominent Nihilists of the . Blaok Division,” who have been in prison eighteen months, will be tried at St. Petersburg in a few days. The immediate charge against them is for publishing a revolutionary newspaper. Extraordinary precautions are being taken to conceal the movements of the Czar, but It is believed he has already gone to Warsaw or Feu berg to attend the meeting of the Emperors. The place of meeting is not yet cer, tainly known. Rev. Bheehy, the priest recently released from Kilmainham jail, at a banquet in Dublin last evening stated that unless the government released all the subjects within a month, he would advise the Limerick Land Leaguers to stop payiug rent.

A number of Wicklow County farmers have formed au Anti-Boycotting Association. Most of the members have incurred the displeasure of the Laud League. Another association of loyal subjects has been instituted in Queen County, who will aid “Boycotted” persons. On Sunday the Land League made a great demonstration in Dublin. The procession was two At the mass meeting the speakers, Messrs. Parnell, Redpath and fcheehy, made reference to the sympathy and interest which they believed was felt for the cause of Ireland’s independence by Americans. The Clare-Morris Land League have declared against paying any more rent until the Land Commissioners have taken their cases under consideration. In preparation for evictions which are likely to follow the non-payment of rent, the league will erect wooden shanties for the tenants. < At Wadzergha, Tunis, Arabs captured the railway station, burned alive the station master, who was an ex-Freilch officer, and massacred ten of the Italian employes. The outrage is supposed to be by way of reprisal for the wholesale destruction, by General Sabatier, of native olive forests, vineyards and villages.