Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1882 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Foster has returned to Dublin from liondon. - The wife of Justice Harlan is very ill at Washington. Ex-Senator Sharon has lost his eldest daughter by death. The Austrians have captured Vlox after a desperate resistance. Madame Rudersdorg, the wellknown prima donna, is dead. The striking printer’s committee, of Madrid, have been imprisoned. Berthald Averback, the celebrated German novelist, died at Cannes. Judge Porter is going to Florida to recuperate from the Guiteau trial. The deficiency in the winter hog crop is likely to exceed 1,000,000 head. Mrs. Senator Don Cameron has been taken to Florida, being very ill. At Jackson, Tenn., the Odd Fellows’ hall was destroyed by fire. Loss, $30,000. Detroit has a house of correction which last year paid a profit of $36,000. The Imperial Bank of Germany has reduced l.er rate of discount to 4% per cent. John Bedwell has shipped 10,000,000 pounds of fruit Irom California this year. Ruyter & Son’s tannery, at Greenbush. N. Y., and adjoining buildings, were burned. Some dynamite cartridges have been discovered at the custom house at Limerick.

Vertigo is the illness which now afflicts Mr. Longfellow and prevents him from working. Indications are favorable'that Wisconsin will shortly re-enact the hanging penalty for murder. Mrs. Angus Cameron, wife of the senator frond Wisconsin, has been very ill at Washington. At New York the French importing house of Cozade, Crooks & Reynaud failed for about $200,000. By a vote of 63 to 48 the Wisconsin assemby refused to order to engrossment a prohibitive resolution. Coinage executed at the mints during February, $9,049,870, of which 2,300,000 were standard dollars. At Schenectady, Baucus, Democrat, was elected to the senate in place ol Wagner by 500 to 800 majority. At St. Paul, fire destroyed Garland’s trunk factory. Loss $15,000 on stock and $3,000 on building; fully insured.

An Austrian '.force from Foca lost 200 men Saturday in an unsuccessful attempt to force a passage of the Drinai. In New York city, last year, 2,682 building permits were granted. The estimated cost of new buildings was $43,000,000. The one hundredth anniversary of Thomas H. Benton’s -birth is to be celebrated by the Missouri historical society on the 14th of March. The railway track for three miles between Bordentown and Trenton is covered with water and no trains are running that way for New York. Miss Apple, a young Jewish ladv of Chicago, sued Nathan A. Stone, of Milwaukee, for breach of promise, and the jury awarded her $2,000 damages. A Port au Prince, W. 1., dispatch states that small-pox is raging there so severely that schools and churches have been closed. There were 197 deaths in four days. <* A negro woman of Kansas City advertises that if the parents of an infant lately left with her do not immediately claim it and pay charges she will dispose of it at auction. Chicago is to have a new theatre, which is to be built on Twenty-second street and Wabash avenue. The plans comprise the erection of a building which will cost nearly half a million dollars.

Mr. Reese, the San Juan mine owner, who lost $5,000 last December, while a guest of the Brevort house, in Chicago, has brought action against Hoflman, the proprietor, to recover the amount. At Stevens’ Point, Wis., there is a fight over the right of wav between the ‘Wisconsin Central and the Green Bay, Winona & St. Paul railroad 1 , in which the latter is for the present successful. Alter much debate the lowa state senate has agreed to a consttitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. The measure now goes before the people. The lowa state free trade legislature has been in session and decided to hold a number of mass meetings or lectures to disseminate their views. Thomas G. Sheriden, the Brooklyn free trader, will be the speaker. Perry White died at Windfall, lud., from a knife wound inflicted the night before by George Doles. The men had had a quarrel at church, and Doles followed White to his home, 4irhere an altercation followed in which the knife was used. Doles has not been arrested.