Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1882 — NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Pacific bank, Of Boston, has resumed business. Eighteen persons were killed at Genoa, Nevada, by a snow slide. The Russians will send an expedition to explore northern Siberia in the summer. In event of a war Greece proposes to remain neutral, especially with regard to Turkey. General Grant and family will pay a visit to the president at the white house this week. Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., was among the guests at Minister Morton's last formal reception in Paris. Pond’s extract company’s works, at Williamsburg, N. Y., burned. Loss on stock and building, $150,000. “The Tomb” and “The Morgue” are the enlivening pet names of boarding houses in a suburb of New York. The bill recently before the Wisconsin assembly to prohibit the sale of tobacco to minors has been rejected. In the event of an Austro-Russian war it is hinted that German/would take an active part on behalf of Austria. At Washington, D. C., JohnS. Heywood was sentenced to nine years impfisonment for the murder of Thos. Foragth. Paul Hayne, the Georgia poet, is dangerously ill at his home near Augusta. He recently suffered another severe hemorrhage.

It is propo ed to erect in the central hall of the new cotton exchange, in New Orleans, astatue of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. Crow Dog, the Sioux chief, is being tried at Deadwood, D. T.,far the murder of Spotted Tail last August. He entered a plea of not guilty. At Marseilles, France, the crystal nalace theatre burned. Loss, 1,000,000 francs. The actors had great difficulty in escaping from the burning building. While Emperor William was leaving the Academy, yesterday, his foot slipped on the stairway and he fell. His right elbow aud knee are slightly contused. Fifty-one members of the opposition in Servian Skuptschina have resigned, and the assembly has been prorogued until the election of new members. A brace of French Canadian swindlers, by false representations, fleeced Montreal merchants of over $150,000 worth of goods, with which they fled to Chicago. Judge Harrington, a prominent attorney of Indianapolis, dropped dead in his office. He was the defendant in a suit for $50,000 damages brought .by his divorced wife. Near Reading, Pa., an aged couple, who lived alone in a farm-house, were attacked by two masked burglars, who bound their victims and plundered the house of $1,5u0. Frederick A. Palmer, late auditor of the city of Newark, N. J., was sentenced to state prison for twenty , years for obtaining money from the treasurer on forged warrants.

Fred Newberg, late clerk of the Ohio board of public works, who forged checks on the state treasury to the amount of $20,000, was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. At Cherry field, Me., as Mrs. Hetty Sprague, a widow, was leaving church, Chester Cunningham stepped up, drew a knife and cut her throat She died almost instantly. Jealousy. Lieutenant-Colonel Forsythe, commanding at Fort Cummings, telegraphs that he has investigated the report of an outbreak of the Indian scouts at Gill river, and finds it untrue. Bartholomew Desmond, of Cincinnati, was found dead on the street. He bad been drinking, and while intoxicated carried an open knife in his pocket, and by some means stabbed himself fatally. Albert H. Thomas, jr., son of Rev. Albert H. Thomas, of Memphis, was found dead on the front porch of a grocery store in the northeastern portion or the suburbs of the city. His death is a mystery. Mr. James Gordon Bennett is said to have purchased a new drag in Paris which he will send to Newport for service during the coming season. It is said to be one of the handsomest vehicles of the kind ever made. Henry G. Rogers, United States minister to Sardinia under President Van Buren, and one of three surviving members of the Pennsylvania constitutional convention of 1837, died in the county alms house at Lancaster, Pa. A Paris correspondent believes Bismarck thinks seriously of letting the tense relations between Germany and Russia take their course. No confi deuce, he says, is felt in Berlin of the alleged wish of the czar to remain friendly with Germany. Navin, the ex-mayor of Adrian, Mich., is much deeper in the mire ol embezzlement than at first supposed. As agent for a number of private citizens he is alleged tohaveeucumbered their property and appropriated to his own use the funds thus raised.