Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A Cleveland lawyer has been convicted ot sheep stealing. Rush Medical College, Chicago, has just graduated 179 new doctors. The face and left hand of General Garfield have been cast in bronze fcr his family. The Obio House of Representatives has passed a bill the suppression of “bucket shops.” A man with horns on.his head, was among the emigrants recently landed at Castle garden. The Treasury will have $33,000,000 to disburse on interest account during the firsthalf of March. Coal oil has been discovered at Litchfield, 111. “Excitement is rife and speculation runs high.” Residents of Northern Louisiana and Eastern Arkansas are again reported to be in a distressed condition. The Readjuster nominees for Supreme Court Judges, in Virginia, have been elected by the Legislature. The State. Board of Health at Spring field, 111., reports a general decrease of small pox throughout the State. At Carlinville, 111., and at Macoupin damage to railroads, bridges, and farm property, by recent stroms, is very great. A Gloucester, Mass., dispatch announces the probable wreck of three schooners from that port, involving a loss of fifty lives. All convicts sentenced by the courts in Wyoming Territory will be herea:ter sent to the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet. At Philadelphia, the five Qivil suits against Wiley’s (the star route contractor sureties) were decided in favor of the government. Sergeant Mason complains that he has been confined in a dingy, rat-in-fected cell, and that he has not been treated as well as Guiteau. Anti-Mormon meetings continue to be held ia various parts of the country, at which resolutions are passed as si'’ Congress to suppress polygamy.

Secretary Lincoln has ordered 100,* 000 rations to be sent from St. Louis for the benefit of the sufferers from the overflow iu Mississippi and Arkansas. A saloonist named Wyatt, was fatally shot in Louisville, Ky., for resisting and firing at United States officers. He a deputy Marshal himself. Troy, New York, has a little girl, aged 11, who is an expert safe-robber. A large quanity of jewelry was found at her home, the result of her thievish skill. At New Orleans, Monday, the first car of through freight from San Francisco without breaking bulk arrived. It was fourteen and a half days en route. At Paducah, Ky., five persons who lived on a flat-boat were drowned during astorm Tuesday, as was also a man named Little, who went out in a boat to their rescue. In Harrisburg, Pa., that monst monopoly, the Standard Oil Company, was sued by the State to recover the sum of $3,145,541 due for taxes on its capital btoek. A proposition pending in Congress to appropriate $10,000,000 for the construction of seven first-class ships of war, of different styles, meets with general favor. Davidge and Porter, who assisted the prosecution iu the trial of the assassin Guiteau, have been allowed $2,500 on account. They are still retained in the case. The steamship Illinois arrived at Philadelphia Thursday, from Liverpool, with 325 Russian Jewish refugees. Duriug the voyage only one death, that of a child, occurred. The House Committee on Indian Affairs, has agreed to recommend the ratification of the agreement for the sale of a portion of the lands of the Crow reservation in Montana. General Rosecrans denies the assertion made by Mr. Blaine that when General Garfield becaihe connected with the Army of the Cumberland he found -‘well developed troubles.” The Utah election case, will, it is said, be decided by the House Committee adversely to both Cannon and Campbell, and the Territory will be instructed to send a nou-polygamous delegate to Congress. The House Naval Affairs Committee will report a bill to appropriate $lO,000,000 for new ships, and $2,000,000 for the completion of the five new monitors now in course of construction. An early opening of lake navigation is predicted this year. During the winter, says a Duluth, Minn., dispatch. there has not been ice in Laka 1 Superior sufficient to interfere with navigation. On Saturday morning, Wm. Leet, aged 12, in Crabb & Co.’s needle factory, at Newark, N. J., was passing a coil of wire through a machine, when the wire broke and coiled around him, cutting him in two. Arkansas City, eight miles southeast of Little Rock, is completely submerged. It is the post, village of Ar kansas county. Between Memphis and Cairo the ivater has done and is doing immense damage. The pastors of Chicago who are op-

pcs 3d to Sunday theatricals and the alleged immorality of the stage are organizing a committee of five ministers from each denomination to take measures to rectify these defects. AL Kenosha, Wis., a young lady teacher in one of the public schools delivered a lecture to the ..hoys of her room on comparative anatomy, and illustratated it* by vivisecting the pet kitten of a reverend citizen. The crew of a wrecked British bark consisting of the captain, hisjwife and two children, and two seamen, were rescued from an open boat off the coast of California by the steamer Newburn. They were starving. Mr. MacVeagh, .ex-Attorney General, appeared before the House Commerce Committee on behalf of the Pennsylvania Railroad, whose attorney he is, and made an argument against interstate commerce legislation. “2. At Etna, Pa., a small town a few miles above Allegheny City, on Saturday night, two men were disputing, when a third interfered and stabbed one of the disputants to the heart, killing him instantly. The murderer was drunk. The Center county,Pennsylvania,woman who, two weeks ago, had a tumor weighing 112 pounds removed from .her body, at Philadelphia, has entirely recovered, and will leave the University Hospital in a few days. A terrible condition of things is re* ported from the overflow in the Mississippi Valley, where many lives have been lost, ana the loss of livestock and farming property has already been incalculable. The outlook for the immediate future is very critical, C eorge Ellis, who confessed that was present when the Ashland girls were outraged and murdered, and declared the diabolical deed was done by Craft and Neal, has made another confession to the effect that he wasn’t present and knows nothing about it* Two Chicago cracksmen, Garrity and McCowan, who had been found guilty of burglary in La Salle county, were sentenced by the court at Ottawa to the Penitentary for four years and six months each. It is stated that the Auditing Com mittee on the Garfield illness, will allow Dr. Bliss $25,000; Drs. Agnewand Hamilton, $15,000 each; Drs. Reyburn and Boynton,-. $10,000; Mrs. Ed son, $5 000; Steward Crump, $3,000, and the employes of the Executive Mansion two months’ extra pay. The Coroner’s jury at Chester. Pa., returned a verdict holding Professor Jackson criminally responsible for the late explosion, by which eighteen lives were lost. Charles Vanhorn will also be held for leading firemen into danger upon the assurance that there was none. Captain Stonmgton, of the steamer Newburn, has picked up a part of the crew of a wrecked British bark off the coast of Lower California. The rescued party consisted of the captain, wife and two children, and they were about to resort to cannibalism. A child and the two seamen died.

Between Memphis, Tenn., and Friar’s Point, Miss., (120 miles), four breaks in the levee have occurred. The largest one, above Austin, Miss., is six miles long, and the plantations contiguous are flooded, entailing much loss to~the planters and great suffering to live stock. A survivor of the steamer Bahama, foundered February 10th, has arrived at New York. He went down with the steamer, came to the surface, and was so fortunate as to come across a big ice chest, into which be got, and floated around for six days before being picked up by a passing vessel. The grand jury of the District of Columbia has finally presented an indictment against A C. Soteldo for murder. The original finding of the jury was for manslaughter, but it was for the reason that the law declares the killing of a person by another—even unintentionally—while committing a felony is murder. There is considerable excitement in railroad circles iu the East over the veto, by the Governor of New Jersey, of the bill to enable the New Jersey Central railroad to increase its capital stock. It is a war between the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Central Companies on the one hand and Garrett and Gowen on the other. The Auditing Committee pn the expenses attending the illness of President Garfield are reported to have ageed to grant Mrs. Garfield the balance of the salary due on the unfinished year. Surgeon Barnes is to be retired on the grade of a Major General, and Dr. Woodward raised to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Mrs. Garfield was visited at her home in Cleveland Wednesday by a committee appointed by the e--Confederate soldiers of Cincinnati to present her with a series of resolutions, engrossed on parchment, handsomely framed in marble. The presentation speech was made by’Colonel C. A. Withers. Mrs. Garfield and the mother of the late President were both deeply affected. Charles Wright, a defaulting clerk, having lost $5,000 In various sums .at the gambling den of A 1 Hankins, the employers of the defaulter, a wellknown insurance firm in Chicago, have commenced action in the United States Circuit Court against Hankins to recover the amount, alleging that the gambler knew that the clerk was robbing his employers. The first proof of the Jnew flve-oent postage stamp, containing a vignette

0f General Garfield, and known as the (jaffiel^stamp, and which is intended as a present to Queen Victoria from the American Bank Note Company, reached Washington on Saturday. It is an excellentlikeness, and is enclosed in a maunificeut and costly framebf ebony, with matting of sterling silver and bordering of pure gold. It will be transmitted to Queen Victoria through the State Department. There is a movement on foot to have a duplicate made for Mrs. Garfield. Foreign* Tunisian Arabs have burned the city of Hammah. The military element in Egypt, backed by Steve Pasha, leigns supreme. The specie in the Imperial Bank of Germany "has increased 8,600,000 marks. M. Rouzaud, the husband of Mme. Christine Nilsson, died in a lunatic asylum. Americans in Berlin oelebrated *the Washington Anniversary by a grand banquet. A rumor comes from St. Petersburg that Skebsloff will be ordered to reside on his estate. Parnell is undergoing a week of solitary confinement, for trying to smuggle a letter from his prison. At the forthcoming congress of Dan ish-American antiquities, the King of Denmark will be the patron. Captain Selby, commanding H. M. S. Falcon, has died ot the injuries he received from an Albanian ruffian. A German dispatch states that unless the condition of Russia improves, the Czar will abdicate after his coronation. At Vienna it is reported that one of the rebel leaders of the Herzogovinians has tied, and that another one was captured.

Financial affairs in Egypt are declared by the British and French Comptrollers to be in a very unsatisfactory condition. The axle of a hearse broke at the entrance to the Necropolis, Toronto, on Saturday. The coffin fell to-the ground and broke open, letting the corpse roll out “The severity of the weather has driven thousands of Herzegovinians into the adjoining State of Montenegro, where they are being relieved, from Russian funds. Lieut. Danenhower will not be allowed to leave Irkutsk for St. Petersburg until the weather moderates. Other survivors of the Jeanuette will leave at onoe. The Austrian army encountered the Herzegovinian rebels, 1,000 strong, on Thursday, February 23d, and after a nine hours’ battle, defeated them, with a heavy loss to the latter. The Austrian loss was very small. To show his friendship for Austria, the Sultan will concentrate several battalions of troops where they can prevent the Albanians aiding the Herzgovinian troops. Gladstone will not allow any inquiry into the working of the land act in Ireland to be made, on the. ground of its being prejudicial to the interests of the government. A dispatcn from Engineer Melville was received at Irkutsk, January 31, in which he said: “We are just entering the wilderness in seareh of De Long and bis party.’At the Stettin railroad depot in Berlin, the explosion of and infernal machine shipped in a box of dry goods, caused a conflagration. The shipper of the box has been arrested. Sis Leonard Tilley, the Canadian Minister of Finance, has estimated the cost of running the Dominion Government next year at $53,000 000, which is ten millions more than last year. M. Davitt has been'elected lrom the County Meath to the seat in Parliament rendered vacant by the resignation of A. M. Sullivan. This is considered an iudorcement of tbe no-rent policy. Senor Castelar, says a Madrid dispatch, commenting on the Skobeltff speech* thinks that the Latin races of Europe should unite with the Germans to resist the incoming invasion of the Slav race. Cardinal Manning, the head of the Catholic hierarchy in Great Britain, presided at an “influential meeting” of the Mansion House (London) commute for the relkf of the persecuted Russian Jews.

Bradlaugh, the English free-thinker, member of Parliament for Nottingham, took the Bible oath in the House of Commons Tuesday, but was not allowed to tfike his seat pendiug the decision of the House. Eight persons, including Herr New - aid, ex-Burgomaster of Vienna, Herr Jauner, manager of the Ring Theater, the Chief of Police, and Chief of tbe Municipal Board of Works, have been indicted and held for trial for contributing, by their negligence, to the catastrophe of the Riug Theater, December 8, whereby 650 people lost their lives; Bradlaugh, tbe free-thinking mem-ber-elect from Nottingham, was ex polled from the House of Commons by a vote of 291 to 84. Mr. Gladstone said that, while the House had exceeded its powers in refusing to allow Bra ilaugh to take the oath, he, on the other hand, had been guilty of flagrant disobedience. Bradlaugh has gone to Nottingham to contest the Mection lot a fcudceesWf 'to* tMseir* He Mil dmfleSs. be re-elected.