Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Heme Items. Hulburt, the Peruvian Minister, has been granted leave of absence, to return home. . ■ Mrs. Garfield lias paid n b attention whatever to the proceedings of the Guiteau trial. A woman living near LaHarpe, 111., Saturated her clothing with kerosene, and suicided by applying a lighted match. = * The bill of exceptions filed by Scoville in the Giiiteau case, recites twelve reasons why a new trial should be »jPTmted. A poor woman, with two sons, living in Greensburg, Pa., has fallen heir to $500,000 by the death of a brother[.teM&Wlh Sweden. wo Chicago saloonists were fined in, justice courts Tuesday for selling liquor to drunkards. The Citizens’ .League were the prosecutors. Heavy snow storms are reported throughout the Eastern States, which began Tuesday morning, and are blocking horse and steam railroads. r Captain Eads belieyes that his ship canal scheme is not receiving fair treatment in Congress, the trans-continen-tal railroads working against it. A bill has been introduced into the .Senate asking that vaccine virus be supplied by the National Board of "Health to all applicants at cost The House Postoffice Committee will shortly introduce a bill for postal savipgs banks It is believed that the . minimum of deposits will be made 50 cents. Congressman Boswell P. Flower, a well known merchant of New York, is mentioned as a probable candidate for the Governorship of New York next election. “At Louisville, Ky., * a man named Owens was beating his wife, when her brother, Oyler, came to the rescue. Owens raised a club to him, but was fatally shot by Oyler. A petition was presented in the Senate by the residents of, and visitors to, Hot Springs, Ark., for its improvement, and asking $500,000 for an appropriation therefor. Dr. Tolman Wheeler, a well known resident of Chicago, has presented the sum of $20,000 to the Bight Rev. Bishop McLaren for the benefit of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral fund. A noted female thief named Mollie Hoey, or Holbrook, who recently escaped in Canada from the custody of Illinois detectives, has been again arrested in New York.J The jurors in the Guiteau case indignantly deny the assertion made by Mr. Scoville in his bill of exceptions, that they had read newspapers duiing the time they were empaneled. The physicians who attended the late Piesident Garfield have decided not to ask a stated sum for their services, but, stating what they did, leave the sum to the generosity of Congress. In 1881 there were 822 deaths from smallpox in Chicago; 1,319 in Philadelphia; 454 in New York, and 444 in Pittsburg, which had the greatest mortality in proportion to population. A lady sued the Continental Passenger Railway Company, Philadelphia, for injuries sustained by falling in a crowded car in which she was obliged to stand, and received a verdict.of $12,000 damages. In the case of the Rev. Mr. Hoffman, of Bloomington, 111., on trial before a church court for immorality, evidence was produced to show that the alleged confession of the parentage of ;the child was a forgery. &An artist named .Gabler, who rendered valuable assistance to the government during the rebellion, committed suicide at the Alexia n Brothers’ Hospital in Chicago Staturday. Despondency, caused by a broken limb and poverty, was the cause. It is believed that at the next trial of the Malley Boys for the murder of Jennie Cramer, their accomplice, Blanche Douglas, will disclose the whole affair, fixing the murder of the unfortunate girl on the Malleys. The Committee on the District of Columbia, has presented a report to the House asking an appropriation of $1,000,000 for the reclamation of the Washington and Georgetown marshes. It is to be considered in committee of the whole.

The Bloomington, 111., church trial ended by the clerical jury returned a verdict of guilty against the Rev. Mr. Hoffman. The aocused solemnly aseeverarted his innooence, but the public generally coincided with the verdict. Mayor Harrison has ordered that gambling-houses in Chicago shall here- . after be closed at 7 p. m. on Saturday evenings, so as to keep employes from the temptation of staking their wages. s He also forbids them supplying refreshments, solid or liquid. The disturbed condition of affairs in Ireland is making itself felt on the Dublin Stock Exchange, were one large failure occurred Saturday and several others are expected this week. Tradesmen and manufactures are experiencing a panic on »ooi unt ofthe difficulty es making collections from landluids.

The question of oonviot labor is before the Connecticut Legislature, and bill to limit the employment es criminals in any institution at one kind of work to fifty, Quds favor. The idea is to make convicts self-supporting without competing injuriously with honest workmen.The Presbyterian Synod, composed • of delegates from presbyteries in the adjoining parts of Tennessee, Ala Laima and Mississippi, admitted a negro for, several years, but jn the present session the question of excluding hiffi Was' raised, and a majority voted to turn him out. This action was based solely on hte color. A Philadelphian who builds refriger-

ator cars has made an offer to the family -of Guiteau, the assasin. to exhibit Guiteau’s body, after death, in this country and Europe, for the benefit of the family. He offers to spend $25,000 in fixiugtbe remains. Scoville thinks favorably of the proposal. The Pennsylvania Revenue Commission at Philadelphia has agreed to a report recommending taxing money at interest and 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. Callaghan, an ex-policeman, who has been running a private nightwatch and detective bureau in Chicago for some time, is alleged to have committed a number of burglaries in order to further his own business. He is also accused of blackmailing and other villainies, for which he will be brought to account.