Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1881 — tHE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

tHE NEWS.

i o.V .il-Momto Iksasa. . L Tlic Baltimore aud Ohio railroad hS6. ordered a cash dividend fit 5 per cent).', payable Ist pfox. Commissioner i&ys that the report q* j'rtttttfs l,rthe PSitoion Bureau ere highly ooloieit and sensational. It to believed that the railroad war is near an end, and that Vgmterbilt ban termlna(e Uat abif.Jtlitte. f ’ . Hard an will roWfeosß forthechampiotAhip of the world and over tlie Cfiaye GAsar -t»alre course at St'.- //*.:• 1! ■»!i y<L k The Garfield monument at Lake ATew Cemetery, ft To cost iS'KJ.OtoVto/ which UlcVeland proposes \o nt&elod.m Henry Ward Beecher on the subject of the Thomas trial, said, Suuday, that the conference Is trying to oust an angel anddo take.iu a ueyil. , The jury in the Cftse at i obu Lamb, the prisoner charged with the J all ray btirfclirjy, at which DlH'ier Jtace was allied in Chtoago, brought tU'n verdiot of not guilty.. ( ~r n! j . The Tammany delegates who were refused admittance to the convention at Albany, New York, have issued an address to the 1 electors .-- protesting against that action. Farmer Dickens, a nephew of the great novelist, Charles Dickens, was elected a deacon of the Methodist church, by the Bock River Conference, at Bycamore 111.

A party bf twenty-nine Sioux Indi ans froln the plains, passed • through ■Chicago Thursday, sn route to Hampton College, Virginia, .where they will be civilized and educated. Hurl, eK President and Treasurer of the Woman’s Educational Aid Association, of Evanston; III:, is accused of fraud. ‘ He Is Alleged to be shsrt In his sooounts $3,000. *’ . By the burning of Landenberger’s mill at Philadelphia, Wednesday night, about twenty lives were lost. Criminal carelessness In' providing fire-es-capes Is charged to ,tne owners. * t ". Charges of prejudice and slander ha-p----ing been by the Rev. Thomas against the Rev. Mr. Parkhurst, were referred to a special committee, who, after a brief deliberation, exonerated Mr. Parkhttrshi -n G ri r .. if ., A Boston oommittee has decided that it is feasible to hold tbe. next International Exposition theto,'provided tbe sum of $5,000,000 is subscribed -for the purpose. Beacon Park has been offered free fbr the site, i i i At Wayne township, Du Page county, IHi burglgrs robbed Mr, Fairbanks, a farmer, of about $5,003. Near Glrfirdt 111., thieves secured SB,OOO. K ln both cases the robbers hound the family Securely before they commenced to plunder. • u " ' *

Judge Jameeon made i* a special' charge, to the strand Jury-;iff Cook Sty.llls., relative, to grain gambHe indicated the law - jjjpv* |nh nll ».cornering grain apd provisions and promised that if the l aIMIU • uljT would present the culprits aiy would be prepared.tp do-their duty in Uie matter. m The President has- expressed a desire that tbe Qgnkte should remain in session uptil after, the (Close of. the YeiftX town.' Centennial celebration, lie suggssMda recess to allow the* Senate t > attend the celebration and do hoiidr to the Visitors from abroad. After the reoes? he'proposes to make Cabiiiet ceutebnuS? 1 * iminedifitely ({ after the. . ;1 r. f->,<.rr: .Wilrwr winkiniii. . Foreign. ‘ Tlie British steamer CoMca fcuuderebetsHioff ttto’Bbnfbiifidkff:* *} General Preodegast has '’-been dp poluted Governor General «f(CubaW fbe place of-Geoeral Blanco. .I 1 1 .

Coni, .luiaaioq has (’colded ,iq, continue -prohibtllon against American, pork. Persia ha* - applied to th« Rupiah GoV«rament to send; army ottoerk tff. remodel the Persian army on the Bus. stop vstonv -Ths British Cabinet will shortly de On fepsfgetid imasnreslwbe adopt- - The Municipal Council qt Re^n, has deckled to.lend-the City Hall tor a fOemnrial service in honor of Hie lkte’ Garfield’. R dro . • * vory large oongsegaiioa-at IhoCongre- ’ ratidual Cbapri in NeweasUe-upon-'Tj ftotmtfH *<tf the arena oflaHToMnew. Lah.l; League tags fuUsway, and hoyco Ugg and inosudiadsm ars.ibe rule. . - - Arohtatohop Crake, in replying t& tkal*

d iiami* at D u f f|A revolt baa broken out Ilf the re-1 cently conquered Kroumir eoantry. the want of organization in the sanitary arrangements of the army of ocw nnM l iii ii„toii will ■ hmjiwrr that if Parnell attempts to obstruct hto heels in Kilmainham Jail.” j ispaieh eUCsslEatEn epidemic fed*k»M»glng at Umritsur w Jn the. provlfifir of the Punjaub (In •NeMtkratsaNKß «bdta).jrhiiflkJi»<tou«ing a mortality of Iron. do 300^ctoily. Parnell threatens thar WaffltOhe’s «\tesftfr ItoMn-tegsCßOiKed as

chaff before th£hHgeildsß4jA|lßfihr Dr. SchU tfmndM has- at CpqstenUypple to secure through the tjermsffi the Porte in eoaltoitoi his excavation at Htosarlik, .thj9 fl ancient Troy. t Ttodttght liitw&n tha French and Antes on 4bo r9sd / teii&fi' , WfcP r *®. virtually a victory for th* native*, M the French, lacking water ana provisionsvlikdto reireat [ There were.6.ooo on each.side. , |

A Paris ecrreaiiomtetir says* It is rumored that England' apd France i hafva agreed oniaJ.fiiUpolicy of for their subject to .ms fcr tMs

j Th* Kinga ol Spain n»(i iWu«il have beep ftateruiiingkau Exchanging at hausUftts KOqtimenls of mutual esteem. The reeult will bb thehloeeV I' hjtidtk the auspices of the Laud League a tearful I ucrease. ,nf! /priwir* has • been reporteii In, Ir«ft.o4. , The agrarian tretnltf&s v*ry'’r-oni -hriiVder and incendiarism , to pdtitog freed lei Into potatoes to be fed to thapajtle of a boycotted farmer.

r~ Y” | , . t . The Land Dengue are reeking to reVDfifee themselves tor the success of the land bill by preventing hunting. A party of Yahotos attacked the Curraghmore hounds' with pitobforks, nufi have caused the oreah-up sis Ibe finest pack ‘lb freiaua. ' '' M 7 !,rr i ®he Mexican has started a Bctysnie to encourage Italian colonitaUon, which to on a very liberal basis. The conlractdr Will receive $Tn fir head rf»r i each emigrant over 18, and •40 for eaeh child bcUVecn 8 and re. The govern then t ffirnlfenbe lknn.nohsre, 1 imnleittente, wore, to\V arid mare for ‘eabn fatoily, -ami twenty-five‘cento a (toy for 4aeh pei [ftjr Ulo year. Tjie colonists are to repay . same In one year. .. ~ . i. -lal The English Cotton Spinners’ Aseo ciatlon iqtepd to for legtotetVoil against oornering Gotten. Their Heo* retar*, mr. Oldham, has written to the United States Consul at Manchester, calling his atteQltou to the fact that the spinners pay for thousands Of tons of sand fraudulently packed with the cotton. He suggests that the names of the planter and packer he placed Inside of each bale. . k ' v The British government has oopamencfd a vigorous line of potion against the Land League, the initial step being the arrest of Parnell and hto. lodgement in Rilmatoham jail, under the coercion act. The. news of his arrest created intense excitement throughout.,,lreland, and the result may be n general uprising of the pSe t riots. A mass meeting of irlsh in London has been oalled for the 23d,.