Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Horne items. Losses by the fire In South .afreet, New York bonded, warehouse, are estimated at $2,00^,000'. The village of Durand, Pepin county, Wis., was entirely destroyed by fire on Christmas Day. Friends of the Presidentsent two detectives to escort him from Washington to New York. He was;; not aware of the fact. / At Decatur, 111., an, old man named Murphy, while intoxicated, fell Into a coal shaft 620 feet deep, and was instantly killed. Cincinnati's health officer owns to Slight increase of small-pox, but says the deaths are diminishing And vac- ■ cination is in*oread!ng.' <?~W }. A San Antonio, Texas, dispatch states that the result of the Flipper court-martial recently held there/ #ill be dismissal from the army. The Industrial School buildings of the Kiowa, and Wichita Agency, have been destroyed'fcjy fire by an incendiary. Loss, SIO,OOO. A woman in New York who lived solitary and alone in her house for twenty years without ever going out, died of “melancholia” on Christmas Day- i. ' , j 1 Mayor of Port B urofi Michigan, makes an appeal for ft rther help for the sufferers by the Michigan fires. The sum of $200,000 is absolutely needed# . j A syndicate of some members of the Manhattan Club, York, have purchased Booth’s Opera House, New York, for $550,000. It cost Booth sl,000,000. - T ] Contractors who are bound to furnish Government supplies at border posts, are proving negligent, and supples in many cases frozen up iu Western rivers. /V. ■' m ', A dispatch from Rome announces the appointment of the Very Rev. Nicholas A. Gallagher, Vicar General of Col umbs, Ohio, to the Bishopric of. Galveston Texas. .> -Mr. K. Gray, of* Chicago, who was bitten by a rabid dog about three months ago, was seized with hydrophobia on Saturday, and after much suffering died Tuesday. ft is expected that the Directors of the Pacific Bank, of Boston, will succeed m starting the bank again on a business basis, whh new officers and renewed securities and capital. The assistant bookkeeper and the paying-te&erof the National Bank of Poughkeepsie, N. Y/ are jailed in New York City for misappropriation of the I funds of the-bank. • . •, *

7 Mrs. Seoville, the sister of Guiteau, the assassin, went to Marshal Henry apd protection for her husband and brother* having received letters threatening their lives! jf' A terrible story comes from Jersey City of & man Who was seized with a malignant type of small-pox, and, being/ refused admitance to the police stations, died on the sidewalk. ~ F. W. Newburgh, Assistant JSeere; tary of the State Board of Public Works, qf Columbus, Ohio, was arrested Thursday for forgings4,ooo in vouchers. Fast women and gambling led to his ruin. . * x •/—' Judge Edmonds, for twelve years a criminal justice in Westchester county, N. Y., is charged with uttering a worthless check for $l3O. Other swindles of the same kind are alleged against him. , A dispatch from Paris to the New York Herald, J says that the locality ot the wreck of the Jeannette is 500 miles from the delta of the river Lena, and that from the delta to Yakoutsk is 1,000 miles of desolate country. Scarlet fever of a very malignant type is rapidly increasing in New York. During the week ending Dec. 17,244 cases were Reported, and 64 proved fatal. Last week there probably 300 cases, and there were 82 deaths. Mqnday 17 persons died of the disease.

Two years’ imprisonment, a fine of SI,OOO, and the costs ol the court was the penalty inflicted on Minot, the Philadelphian who pleaded guilty to a ballots box fraud. The prisoner had been a member ofthe City Council and a veteran of the war. With regard to the Chilian-Peru difficulty, it is noted that the President’s message referring to that subject was not in accordance wi’h Mr. Blaine’s notes, but the President took and independent view of the matter, and wrote accordingly. The Bartholdi Statue Committee met in New York and resolved to circulate subscription lists throughout the cities and townp of the United States to secure $250,060 needed for the erection and pedestal of the munificent French gift of Liberty Enlighteniug the World. Foreign> Japan will remodel her commercial relations with Europe and America. The corrected list of victims by the Ring theater disaster is now said to number 449. An earthquake was felt on Sunday at Bex, Glarus, Vevay, and Sausaune, Switzerland. The sum of £4,500 has been subscribed in London for the defense of Irish property holders. Austria and Roumania have amicably settled the little dispute relative to Danubian navigation. The Irish Industrial Exhibition will be held at Belfast, probably as a demonstration of loyalty. Persons were arrested at St. Petersburg last week for having dynamite concealed in oranges. The report that Kronstadt, the port of St. Petersburg, lias been entirely destroyed by fire is false. Russia proposes to guard her ChineseSiberian frontier by forming colonies of armed peasants, who will be free from taxation.

German newspapers are viewing with suspicion the measures recently taken by Russia for the reorganization of her army. Phillips, one of the League priscners, has been released from Dundalk jail on his promise to do no more w T ork for the Land League. At Gratz, Austria, a nun who was detained against her will, leaped irom thereon vent wall into a stream, from whibh she was rescued. The Emperor Franz Josef, of Austria, will, says a Vienna dispatch, er/et a charitable institution on the of the Ring theater. / president Blanco, of the Republic of Venezuela, wants the Legislature to authorize him to raise a force of 25,000 men to repress a threatened revolution. The London Times states that the accumulation of appeals to the Land Court will render the appointment of more assistant commissioners necessary. | / ■ The Lord' Mayor’s fund for the defense Of property in Ireland amounts to £7,000, while that for the relief of Irisb ladies in distress has reached £IO.OOO. —_ France is having a boom of financia

prosperity. Taxes for the first two wegks of this month are 600,000 francs in excess of those for the same period last year. The Irish political’ prisoners will be furnished with one substantial meal a dky from the Sustentation Fund raised by the patriots, which now amounts to <£9,000. The people of San Domingo are greatly exercised over the news that a United States man-of-war will survey Samana Bay. A revolution has broken out at Santiago. j> So as Jo prevent the interference of foreign nations on behalf of the Holy Father, the Italian government is -considering the question of giving him more independence. Miss Reynolds, charged at Castleton with aiding the “no rent” conspirators, was sentenced to'find bail for her good behavior for six months or to jail for a month. She went to jail. The Italian “Seriate, by a vote of 142 to 55, adopted a clause of the reform bill giving the voting franchise to ail who can read and write. It afteward adopted the bill as a whole. A revolution was raging' in -Hayti on the 13th inst. The President, General Salomon, met the rebels at St. Marc, defeated them with a loss of 150 killed on both sides, and then left for reinforcements. V. - Petitions with 44,000 signatures have bean presented to the British Home Secretary, asking the Queen to pardon the persons undergoing sentence for

election bribery in Sandwich, Kent and.Macclesfield, Cheshire. A Kingston, Jamaica, dispatch states that an expedition has.: sailed for the «wt of Panama under, the convoy of a; British iW-of-iiaar to recover treasttres sunk there by Morgan, the bold buccaneer. The troops dispatched by the Emperor of Morocco to capture Bou Am*. ha, the fanatic and rebel chiefiii&ve joined the latter in proclamunjT a “holy war" against the French.. Hie revolt is spreading, and the Emperor is unable to repress it. - A Russian semi-official newpaper says, of Mr* Blaine’s Panama Canal dispatch that no guarantee ofthe preservation of the neutrality ol: the canal will be of any value unless agreed to by the European powers don jointly with the government of United States.