Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home Items. Guiteau, tboassassin, says he roust have more guards to assist tlie Ixml in taking care of him. The U public l ns of Boston have nouiiiiaUd Hr. Bbmm I A. Greeh, City Physician, for the mayoralty. The eleetiou for a Congressman in Rhode Island, resulted In the return o» llsnry J. Sooner, Republican, by a large majority. At the Fifty-ninth Street Police Station, New York, two persons were poisoned bv sewer-gas. one fatally and the other dangerously. It is said that a scheme is on foot in New York to establish a new Stock Exchange in connection with a bank add trust company of that city.

Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the capital of American banks invested in foreign countries can be taxed by the United States. At Athens Ohio, a mob broke into the jail, overpowered the Sheriff, and lynched a mulatto named Davis, who was accused of outraging an elderly white woman. It fe rumored in Washington that the attempt to shoot Guiteau. the assassin, before the trial ends is the result of concerted action by a number of determined men. ' Tbe New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has offered a reward of SSO for the con viction of persons fighting dogs or cocks, or shooting birds for a Wager. A lady passenger on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, jumped from a train near her house and was Instant, ly killed. She bad asked the conductor to stop tbe train aud he refused. A cowardly und brdtal piece of “hazing" done on a youi g, freshman named Stroat by seven students of Bowdoin College, Me., had. injured his eyes. His father has sued the students for damages. . > , Guiteau, the esft&Ssln, says he has always associated With high-toned geptlemen, ChristianJ And politicians, and that tbfc terms “fellow’’ ana 1 ‘assassin’’ grate <>n his oars. Mr. Blaine stales that he will not be a candidate either for the Governorship of Maiue or the United States Scnatorship, but will devote himself entirely to liis private affairs.

Miss Clara Loidse Kellogg has informed her company that she is engaged to be married to Mr. Y. fe. Whitney, of Philadelphia, the affair to eventuate In April at New York. Tho official vote for Slate Treasurer of Pennsylvania was: Bailey, Re-’ publican, 265,265 (plurality, 6,864); Noble, Democrat, 258,431; Wolfe, Independent RepublL-an, 49,984. An international arctic expedition is being bilked of for next yehr, in which France and England have promised to participate. Germany and the United States will also doubtless take part. Dr. Rice, tbe me lical expert in insanity cases, thiuks that Guiteau is subject to emotional insanity, and that he has a religh us ecstasy without feeling any of the moral truths of religion. The Coroner’s jury in the case of Ed Maxwell, the desperado and murderer, who was lynched by tho people of Durand, Wis., rendered an equivocal verdict, to the effect that the deceased slipi>ed dowu aud broke his neck. Mrs. Abraham * Lincoln is in New York, undergoing medical treatment by Dr. Lewis A. Sayre. An effort will be made to secure a more liberal pension for her from the next Congress, as she is at present in straitened circumstances. The Asylum for Idiotic Children at Columbus, Ohio, ;was burned Fridav. it is believed to have been the work of iuceudiaries. Owing to the excellent discipline of the teachers, the pupils were safely marched out, and no lives were lost. Tbe loss of property is about $2-50,000. A revision of the law governing national banks will, it is said, be urged > in the next Congress, especially In that which relates to examiners. Although these officers are appointed by the government, they are paid by the banks, and this is believed to be the cause of their iuutility, as recent failures of national banks have demonstrated.

Foreign* The exhibition of electrical machines of all kinds at Paris was visited by 80,000 persons on Sunday; <■ Moody and Sankey filled Spurgeon’s Tabernacle in London to overflowing Sunday morning and evening. Germany to increasing her army Military estimates include pay for 300 additional Lieutenants and 2,200 non commissioned officers.

Dr. Schluter, supposed to be insane, has been arrested in Germay for threatening to assassinate the Emperor. He was arrested with a blx- ; shooter. The Austrian Governmentf.bas adopted an ingenious expedient for securing a majority in the legislative body. It consists in the creation of fourteen new j ieers. A Moscow telegram states that the treasurer of the foundling hospital there was robbed of 300,000 roubles, which he was going to deposit in the Commercial Bank. The steamer Alion, plying between Castagena and Linn river, United States of Colombia, was wrecked, and thirty-two persons drowned outof her forty crew and passengers. A dispatch from Rome states that the Pope will consult thehierarchy of England and Ireland relative to the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Court ol Ht. James.

ASt John, N. 8., dispatch states that the river to frozen over and navigation absolutely closed. A private meeting of the Ballyfornan branch of the Ladle*’ Land League was dispersed by the police. ... A Christian family at Luca has been massacred by Turkish soldiers and officer*. Other Christians, men, 1 women and children, were carried off. A mulatto bandit in Havana, who had escaped from hto guard, kilted one of the guards who were seekiug to recapture him, aud mortally wounding twGothers. He was finally killed. Tbe Irish Land Commissioner* have called tbe attention of the laborers to the fact that they can and will redress the evils they suffer from the farmers, such as incommodious dwelling**/ etc Recent arrests under the coercion ac*, include the 9 f the Xjand,

’ erick, wbo had been intimidating rentP ess tbe Pope will make an allocation in Rome the week before IChSetmaa. at whldf be win create Natural Cardinals, including the Archbutton* of Algiers, Cologne, Seville The captain and thirty-eight seamen of tbe Dutch steamer Koening der Nederlanden, which was wrecked about a month ago in the Indian Ocean, were pickedup at the Solomon Islands. There are other boats to be heard from.

Mr. Salt, Conservative, was elected member of Parliament by the preponderance of the Irish vote. They had pledged themselves to the Liberal and Workingmen’s candidate, Mr. Howell, but went back on thell* pledge, doubtless f»r patriotic reasons. A great storm raged in the Brtlsh Islea on Monday, which did much damage on the shores of the Firth of Forth, Sootland, and in the lake country of Northwestern England. At Queenstown, Ireland, l: was considered the severest storm in thirty years. The Marquis of Salisbury, oue of the leaders of the Conservative party in England, asserts that the operation oj the land act will drive capital from Ireland. “In a country from which capital Is repelled,” he says, “there is little hope for labor.” David Grant, who was arrested by order of Mayor Beaudry, of Montreal, while Attempting to organize an-Or-angemen’s procession, brought action against the Mayor for illegal arrest. The court non-suited him on the ground that the Orangemen were an illegal society. , The Rt. Rev. Dr. Fraser, Lord Bishop of Manchester, preaching at Oldham, Lancashire, Sunday, made a reference to the present visit ot Moody and Sankey to England. He deprecated the idea that religious excitement meant conversion, of that because a man shouted “Glory alielulia!” his soul was sflved. A French paper, the Nationals-, giving an account of flu interview between Gambetta and General Chanzy, late minister to St. Petersburg, states that the Premfer declared his foreign policy to be based on peace with all European nations, and for an internal polioy more stringent action against the clergy.