Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1882 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home Items. Chicago is being vaccinated ap tile rae of about 2,000 points a day. About 800 horses have been entered for the Soring races of the Louisville Jockey Club. There are 73G miles of sidewalk iu Chicago, of which 36 are stone, 8 of concrete, and 690 wood. The National Board of health has declared the small-pox, epidemic throughout the United States. The Adjutant General has decided that all soldiers enlisted between June 22, 1861, and August 6, 18G1, are entited to a bounty. A hill for the punishment of national bank officers who illegally issue certified checks was introduced into the Senate by Mr. Beck.

The bill admitting free of duty clothing and goods contributed for the relief of the colored people of Kansas was passed in the House, A saloonist in Cleveland, Ohio, has been in the habit of maktng his children drunk. His eldest son has applied for a guardian for the victims.. Judge Geey, the recently appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is six feet, seven inches iu height, and ponderous in proportion. The losses or fire insurance companies in Chicago last year, exceeded receipts $167,000. Nothing w r as made in the business in the entire country. The bill for the relief of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln passed the Senate. It allows her $15,000 for immediate relief, and increases her pension to $5,000 a year. The Catholic clergy of the diocese of Pittsburg, Pa., will hearafter refuse priestly absolution to members of the secret benevolent order of Knights of Labor. Mr. Shallenberger, of Pennsylvania, has a bill which he will push, providing that no polygamist shall hold any office of trustor profit under the government.

A number of citizens of Utah are in to secure a form of Government for that Territory something similar to that of the Dis‘trict of Columbia. Much oppositiou, both from Republicans and Democrats, has been developed against the Sherman funding bill. It is believed that it will be ultimately defeated. In the case of Newburgh, the embezzling Assistant Secretary of the Columbus State Board of Public Works, the Grand Jury found fifty-two separate indictments against him. The Standard Oil Company has just purchased the plant of their only competitor near Buffalo, N. Y. They immediately advanced the rate of pumping oil from the refinery to Buffalo.Mr. E. Pratt, a wealthy citizen of

Baltimore, Md., proposes .to build a public library for $225,000, and spend $833,000 for books, if the city will give $50,000 a year forever for its surport, The Deacon of a Rhode Island Congregational church cut his hand on a recent Sunday while opening a bottle of communion wine. Lock-jaw supervened, and at last accounts his life was despaired of. At a meeting of the trunk railroad magnates Thursday in New York all differences on the subject of freight rates were placed on an amicable footing, and the famous war of the trunk lines is ended at last. Three thieves followed the buggy of a pay clerk who was going to the Chicago Stock Yards to pay the hands in apacking house there, and wheh he stopped at a house for a few minutes they stole the package containing sl,-' 679.

Detective Williams, of Pinkerton’s Agency, Chicago, discovered that the fire at the Columbus, Asylum for Feeble-minded Youth, on Nov. 18 last, was the work of two of the youthful inmates. The fire cost the State about 840,000. At Ironton, Ohio,- one of the murderers of Dr. Joseph Beggs (wfio was killed near the AEtna Iron Works two months ago) was taken from the county jail by a band of men and lynched. Another of the murderers confessed that the money was the incentive of the killing. The Presbyterian Synod, composed of delegates from presbyteries in the adjoining parts ol Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, admitted a negro for several years,but in the present session the question of excluding him was raised, and a majority voted to turn him out. This acticn was based solely on his color.

A Boston man, who was arrested in Montreal for smuggling jewelry, etc., turned Queen’s evidence, and the Canadian authorities were thereby enabled to seize a large quantity of smuggled watches and jewelry in Toronto, Hamilton, London, and other cities on the Canadian bonier. Judge Drummond has decided, in the Unihd States Circuit Court, at Chicago, (in the case of Rawies vs. The Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railroad, who was injured while alighting from a train), that a passenger has no claim for damages who attempts to alight from a car until it has actually stopped.. _ . Senator Conger, to whom was referred the reorganization of the Lifesaving seivice, has reported a bill which has the full indorsement of Committee|on Commerce. It provides for an increase of life-saving stations and houses of refuge for the ship-wrecked, and increases salaries of superintendents, station-keepers, and surfmen. j

At the conference of the Trunk Road officers it was resolved to submit the auesciou of differential rates to a commission of three prominent men who will decide disputed questions. Meanwhile the tariff of 20 cents per 100 pounds on grain from Chicago to New York, aud 45 cents per 100 pounds from New York to Chicago will obtain. The Pennsylvania Revenue Com. mission at Philadelphia has agreed to a report recommending taxing money at interest aud personal property at 2 mills on the dollar, and that foreign corporations should be taxed upon the ratio of business done in the State, on the same basis as home institutions. The National Board of Trade, at its ession in Washington, passed resolutions favoring the creation of a ministry of commerce, its occupant ’obea member of the Cabinet; for increasing the efficiency of the life-saving service; the passage of the Lowell bankruptcy bili; aud one in favor of making the consular service subserve the interests of commerce.

Foreign. . Anti-German riots have broken out at Riga, a Russian seaport, In the international skating contest at Vienna, Curtis, of New York, was de'eated. A large quantity of dynamite hßg been stolen from the Cleave Company’s magazine near Dublin. Parnell, O’Kelley and O’Brien, Kilmainham prisoners, have been remanded for a further period of three months. Russian peasants in the province of Vitebsk were so much opposed to the census taker that they rioted, and even resisted the soldiers. Jennings, the correspondent in England of the New York World, reports that Ireland is gradually being pacified and order being restored. A Madrid newspaper calls upon the government to protect Spaniards in Uruguay and to punish the assassin of Don Caballero, a Spanish subject. Connell, the leader of a gang of Irish night-raiders, pleaded guilty at the Cork Assizes. He confesses the various crimes laid to the charge of the gang.

The Austrian Government is still sending troops to the scene of the Herzegovinian revolt. The Prince of Montenegro refused assistance to the rebels. The German Government has presented a proposition to the Lantag for the purchase of six railways at present belonging to private companies. They will cost $119,000,000. The Herzegovinian insurrection is assuming formidable propoitions. The Austrian troops were defeated at Biedagora, and at Dobar a detachment of ten soldiers were massacred. English merchants are agitating for cheaper telegraphic facilities. The government controls the telegraphic system in Great Britain in conection with the Post-office Department. A conspiracy to fine and massacre the Biitish residents of Nipaul, East Indies, has been discovered at Katmandu, the capital, and twenty-one officers concerned therein have been executed. In all the Catholic churches in the i diocese of Dublin, Sunday, a pastoral

from the Most Rev. Archbishop McCabe was read, in which he insisted that the faithful should not listen to agitators. ■ - 1 The financial panic in France continues, and Monday business on the Paris Bourse was completely paralysed. Heavy drafts for gold are being made

on the Bank of England to meet the emergency. An expert shipbuilder who was commissioned by the Canadian Government to examine the merchantile vessels of the Dominion has reported that they are, as a rule, little better than floating coffins, and in all respects in • ferior to ships built in American ports. ; Connell, the outlaw leader who turned Queen’s evidence, testified at the Munster Assizes that the outrages committed by his gang were rewarded with money sent from Dublin. James and Jerrt Twohig, who attacked Mrs. Fitzgerafd’s house, were each sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. A terrible conflagration occurred Thursday in a circus at Bucharest, in which many persons were killed. It was almost a repetition of the Ring theater disaster in Vienna. The howling of the wild animals, some of which were burned badly, added to the terrors of the scene. The steamship City of London, with a crew of forty-two men, which sailed from London for New York November 13, is believed to have been wracked, as is also the Henry Edye, which sailed from Antwerp for* Boston November 21, with a crew of thirty-five men. The cargo in each ship was worth two hundred thousand dollars. '