Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home Items. Tin re weiv ninety-line deaths from ; sin illiM x in < Tueago last month. A drunken young »ruffiin named Martin struck down an old man in IVfoit S mduy night, and killed hint by s amping oh bia head. - Danfoid, the Kansas banker, whose neck was in jeopardy, has pacified his captors and would-be lynchers, aud is going to do the square thing. , At Fall River, Mass., a young barber entered the room where his young wife was sleeping, kissed her three times, and then shot her dead, . It is expected that the Directors of the Pacific Bank, of Boston, will succeed in starting the bank again on a business basis, with new officers and renewed securities and capital. A mass meeting of Chicago Israelites was held Sunday to organize a system of relief for the Russian Jewish refugees. Officers were elected, and $2,252 contributed in the meeting. The American Board of Foreign Missions has secured permission from a powerful chief of a South African-na-tion, whose country hes north of Delagoa Bay, to establish missions among his people. Very crooked doings have been discovered on the part of the officers ol -the State Ganitsl Mulu&l Insurance .Company of Pennsylvania, and criminal proceedings will be instituted aurainst tiiem. %

In the United States District Court of Philadelphia, in the case of the Star Route extractors*, verdicts were rendered against Benjemiu B. Wilev. Jo« Funk, principals, and agaiust ‘Black and Arbuckle, sureties of the latter. Secretary Folger, in the annual report of the Treasury Daparcment, indorses the recemmendati >n of the National Tariff Convention in New York that a commission be appointed for the equalization of the tariff. The tire at Minneapolis destroyed 20,000 bushels of wheat only, and reduced the milling capacity of the “City of Mills" only one-tenth. No more bodies have been found, and it is believed now that only four lives were lost. e lt Is alleged that the United States Government has been placed in an embarrassing position with regard to the Chili-Peruvian difficulty by either General Hurlburt or the Secretary of State. J Folger has asked the resignation of H. F. French, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and of Supervising Special Agent A. It. Tingle. Mr. Wyman, Assistant Treasurer, is also to resigD, and Messrs. Upton and Lamphere have been removed. A German tailor named Banke, residing with his family on* North Wells

street, Chicago, Monday forenoon slaughtered his lufant child by cutting its throat, and then made an unsuc cessful effort to commit suicide. Poverty and insanity is supposed to have caused the crime. $ General Sherman and the Executive Committee of the Garfield Memorial Hospital, at Washington, feel greatly encouraged over the success which is attending their appeal to Americans in foreign lands. Assistant Postmaster General Hatton has asked the cooperation of postmasters in this worthy object With regard to the Chiliau-Peru difficulty, it is noted that the President’s message referring to that subject was not in accordance with Mr. Blaine’s notes, but the President took a different and independent view of the matter, and wrote accordingly. A London Times correspondent writes from Dublin that in spite of the claim by Treasurer Egan, that the refusals to j>ay rent amount to £lO,000 000, there is reason to believe that if the landlords show a bold face they can compel dishonest tenants to pay. It is stated on good authority that Mrs. Scoville, the sister of the assassin, received a letter from him some days before the 2d of July, in which he informed her of his intention to murder the President, and that she telegraphed her husband to return to Chicago,which he did. and heard of the assassination on his arrival. Had she telegraphed to Washington instead, the deed of blood would have been averted. Early yesterday morning fire broke out in the milling district of Minneapolis, Minn., and consumed four flouring mills and one cotton mill. An explosion in the Minneappolis Mill, probably caused by Hour dust, killed four men and severely wounded several others. It is feared that other fatalities occurred which will not be known until the debris is removed. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss is estimated at $558,000. the insurance upon which is about $207,175. A petition is now being circulated, and has received the signatures of some of those accustomed to travel on|the New York and New Haven Railroad, requesting the Directors of that road to set apart the rear car on each of the morning trains to New York for the use of those who desire to hold religious services on the train. The services are to be held between Mount Vernon and New York, and will consist of Scripture-reading, singing and prayer. One hundred signatures to the petition are required by the Supei intendent before granting the request.

Foreign. At Montreal another infernal machine has been found near the court house. t At Capetown, South Africa, Mo Ivenzie & Co., contractors, failed for $2,000,000. John Dillon, ihe colleague of Parnell, will, it is stated, be released from Kilmainham. The ex-Emperess Eugenie is confined to her house in London, in consequence of indisposition, occasioned by a fall. An attempt was made Saturday evening to blow up the Court House at Montreal, with an infernal machine. The first of a regular line of Chinese steamers has arrived in the Thames, with a cargo of 3 060 tons of tea for London. Ou the Duke of Devonshire’s estate in Ireland G(JO tenants have refused to pay any more rent unless they are reduced 20 per cent. A SL Petersburg- correspondent states on good authority that a fresh outbreak of the anti-Jewiah agitation isconsidered imminent.

The Spanish Minister of Justice informed the Chamber of Deputies at Madrid, Wednesday, "that slavery no longer exists in the Spanish colonies. Austrian officers have arrested a supposed Russian spy, who was found making a sketch of the Fortress of Camorn. Plaus of the fortress were found upon him. Fifteen men were arrested in St. Petersburg who had provided themselves with uniforms of military officers and imitations of the cross of the order of St. George. By a strike of the nail-makers at Rowley and Cradley Heath, Ireland, ■n the (iron-working district adjacent to Birmingham), 5,000 familes are thrown out of work. At the approaching canonization at Rome.it is thought his Holiness the Pope will pronounce an allocution on the necessity of the temporal power. Prelates are arriving daily in large numbers. It is alleged that the theft of the corpse of the late Earl of Crawford and Balcarres lrem Aberdeen was not prompted by mercenary motives, but that a romantic story is connected with the affair. •

Tobin, the Irish dynamite fiend arrested at Bradford, Yorkshire, will be tried lor treason and felony. The British authorities propose to show that he was in collusion with the Fenian Brotherhood et al. The captain and thirty-eight seamen of the Dutch steamer Koening der Nederlanden, which was wrecked about a month ago in the Indian Ocean, were picked up at the Solomon Islands. There are other boats to be heard from. , A. Roman journal, commenting on Bismarck’s statement that Italy was steadily progressing toward Repnblicanism, says that three-fourths of the party of the Left would not tolerate a Cabinet even slightly tinged with Republicanism. The Marquis of Salisbury, one of the leaders of the Conservative party in England, asserts that the operation o; the land act will drive capital from Ireland. “In a country from which capital is repelled,he says, “there is little hope for labo*.” s Rusel

thinks that the President had no to refer to the persecution of RuseoAmencau Jews in j his message and flings at.him the Panama Canal ’ matter, in wbioh he says lie shows intolerance of European interference. The London Daily News says of the Panama Canal that European nations do not desire to meddle withaffiirs on the American -continent, but it is right that there should be au international agreement securing the neutrality of the canal, and forbiddiug passage to belligerent ships during war limes. The Ring Theater, formerly the Comic Opera House, of Vienna, was burned Thursday, just before the performance commenced. An audience of 2,000 persons had assembled, and there was a perfect holocaust. Over 300 persons were crushed and burned to death. At the sale of the Sunderland Library of the Duke of Marlborough, a book on the Virginia Colonies, dated 1810, was sold for $715, and Heggeson’s“New England Plantations,” dated. 1641, sold for $555, both to English booksellers. An agent for variousAmerican libraries offered £25,000 |for the whole library, butlt was declined. * The Lord Mayor of London ha& become chairman of the association for the relief of the women who are; in distress through the non-payment of rent in Ireland, and has pledged the corporation of London to aid the Property Defense Association. The patriots are increasing the cases of “boycotting” and intimidation. In the Grand Lodge of Ancient and Accepted Free Masons of England* over which, in the unavoidableabsence of the Grand Master, thePrince of Wales. M. Worshipful Sir Francis Burdett, D. D.G.yL, presided, the chair proposed a vote of condolence with the family of the late President Garfield. Lord Tenterden, in seconding the resolution, which was unanimously adopted, spoke of the part the late Bro. Garfield rook in the reception to the Marquis o/ Ripon in 1871.