Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home Items. President Arthur will bold his first public reception on New Year’s Day. Wolves are ravaging the flocks', of Waupaca. Wis., farmers. A bounty of sll per head is offered for the- animals deadPostmaster General James will retire‘from that office* on the Ist prox., and will become the President of the Lincoln Bank, New York. At Murfreesboro, Tenn.,, a party df masked men entered the jail and forcibly rescued a man named Odom, who had murdered his wife’s father. The Regents of the State University of Champaign, Illinois, have decided to suppress secret societies. No student will be admitted after January 1 who belongs to any college fraternity. It is expected that the Directors of the Pacific Bank, of Boston, will succeed m starting the bank again on a business basis; with new officers and renewed securities and capital. Of twenty-two deaths in Chicago Monday, six were from smallpox. Twelve new cases were reported. The total deaths for last week were 208, of which thirty-three were from smallpox. Very crooked doings have been discovered on the part of the officers of the State Canital Mutual Insurance Company of Pennsylvania, and criminal proceedings will be ‘instituted against them.

Warden Crocker, of the Washington Jail, has received letters asking him to remove other prisoners from the wing of the jail where Guiteau is confined, as an attempt will be made to blow him up with dynamite. The “State Capital Mutual Aid Association” of Harrisburg, Pa., one of the numerous wild-cat insurance societies of that State, has been required by the State’s Attorney General to show cause why its business should not be closed. Several prominent citizens of West Lafayette have commenced suit against the Trustees cf Purdue University. They allege that the college is not located in accordance with the stipula tions under which the land was donated for college purposes. With regard to the Chilian-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. The ruffians who entered the house of Mrs. Henane at Listojvel and shot one little girl, who, with the other children, was shielding the mother from their threatened attacs, have met their just reward. Six of them were arrested; five received sentences of penal servitude for five years each, and the man who wounded the child got ten years. At Fayette, lowa, John Heywood was shot on Saturday evening, and, being taken to the home of thfe young lady to whom he was engaged, expired in her arms. The murderera man named Bobner. was chased’with a pack of hounds and captured. Jealousy' is said to have prompted the crime. Thc> <» ’sion of Judge Advocate General Swains with regard to the Whittaker case was uhrnitted to Secretary Lincoln Tuesday, it believed to be favorable to Whittaker, and shows from his standing in the class lists that he was not in the least danger of not passing the examination, and that therefore, there was no reason why he should have inflicted the outrage upon himself. '

Foreign. Prince Bismaick is seriously ill. Mr. Parnell is confined to his bed with a feverish cold. His condition is not serious. Tobin, the Fenian Land Leaguer, has been committed for trial on the triple charge of treason, felony and conspiracy. In Silesia a cattle plague, said to resemble that which recently raged in this country, has made its appearance. The theft of important strategical papers from the military staff head quarters has caused much excitement in Berlin. A Wellington, New Zealand, dispatch reports earthquake shocks in the Canterbury district, which caused slight damage" Hanlan has at last agreed to row Boyd on the River Tyne, England, for the championship of the world and £SOO, April 3, 1882. The halcyon prospect of an era Jof peace loetween the Conservative and Clerical parties in the Legislature has been abruptly darkened by the newspaper controversy between Prince Bismarck and Herr Windthorst.

Unable, or unwilling, to correct the evils complained of by the national press, the Russian authorities propose to place further restrictions upon it This policy ot intolerance is a signal proof of the incompetent cowardice of the Tartar General Ignatieff. A London Times correspondent writes from Dublin that in spite of the claim by Treasurer Egan, that the refusals to |»ay rent amount to £lO,000 000, there is reason to believe that if the landlords show a bold face they can compel dishonest tenant? to pay. A Dublin dispatch state? that the Corporation of Cork “almost unanimously” passed a resolution in favor of the release of the “suspects.” A female servant of the Empress is discovered to be the person who placed the threatening letter in the Czar’s prayer book and under his pillow. The irrepressible American lobbyist has caused a sensation in the Mexican

capital by attempting to bribe native Senators to secure certain privileges. Prince Roland Buonaparte has sold out his interest in the political gambling establishment in Monaco, near. Naples, reciving a high price for the same. At Santander, Spain, the publishers cf three liberal newspapers, who had written articles against the clergy,;were excommunicated in three different churches. ( In the County Cork forty farms were offered for sale under exejetion for rent Twenty-one were purchased .for the landlord, and in the other cases the tenants settled the rent. The Nova Scotia authorities are consulting with the Medical Society o the province at Halifax with reference to diphtbe.ia, which last year killed 2,000 es the inhabitants. Earl Dunraven’s Irish tenants have paid their arrears of rent, and have accepted the landlord’s’ofler of a reduction of 33 per cent, conditional pn a revaluation of the land. It is alleged that the theft of the corpse of the late Earl of Crawford and Balcarres from Aberdeen was not prompted by mercenary motives, but that a romantic story is connected with the affair.

The Grand Lodge of Orangemen of Ireland have issued a manifesto condemnatory of the Laud League. They indicate that throughout the United Kingdom and in the colonies are “thousands and thousands of loyal Orangemen ready to fight-for the constitution.” The London Daily New’s says of the Panama Canal that European nations do not desire to meddle with affairs on the American continent, but it is right that there should be an international agreement securing the neutrality of the canal, and forbidding passage to belligerent ships during war times. Tfie Ring Theater, formerly the Comic Opera House, of Vienna, was burned Thursday, just the performance commenced. „ An atfdience of 2,000 persons had assembled, and there was a perfect holocaust. Over 300 persons were crushed and burned to death. It is thought that the disaster at the ” Ring Theater was caused by sparks from electric machinery. The Vienna papers fear that the number of dead will catastrophe was largely due to the cowardice of the firemen, who failed to let down the iron screen which shuts off the stage from the auditorium* At Forest, 111.,’ a boy of 13 was thrown from a freight train and had a piece of his skull about two inches square knocked out, and sustained other severe injuries in the bead. In spite of this he gathered up the articles he had been carrying and walked a mile and a half to a bouse, where two surgeons mended the hole in his skull with a silver plate. They report the lad to be doing'well, and to have a good appetite.