Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1882 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The president has approved the anti-polygamy bill. Rear Adniiral Gustavus H. Scott, U. S. N., retired, is dead. An lowa judge declares that Chicago grain speculation is illegal. Health Officer Miles reports smallpox on the increase in Cincinnati. The anthracite coal company will suspend production six days in April. Burned, W. B. Doyle & Co.’s ing mill, Akron, Ohio. Lo plan--o€o. . • ss, $16,Philip Schuyler Van '* Renssellaer shot and killed himself in New York City. The order for Cadet Whittaker’s dismissmal from the army has been issued. Jay Gould intimates that he is tired, and would like to retire from business. The Lawrence strikers are very Arm in their refusal to work at the reduced wages offered. Moody and Sankey have been invited to a year’s engagement in evangelical work in London. The state supreme court, on rehearing, has decided that the probate courts in Illinois are legal. City, Michigan, several stores and the Arcade hotel burned. Loss, $19,000; partially insured. Information from nearly every section of Illinois represents the crop prospects is unusually flattening. Colonel William Tappan Thompson, for twenty years manager of the Savannah Morning News, is dead. The loss by fire in the business portion of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is estimated at from $150,0 )0 to $125,000. Seventy-five thousand bushels of barley were sold at Buffalo at eight to ten cents advance on prices a week ago.

At Exeter, N. H., Geo. E. Lane, a banker and county treasurer,has been found to be a defaulter to the amount of $45,000. The French'senate, by a vote of 179 to 108, has adopted the primary education bill in its form as it passed the deputies. Admiral Spotts, appointed to the navy from Kentucky, died March 9, at Stanley, Falkland Islands, and was there buried. A British aeronaut left Dover, England, alone in a balloon, crossed the strait and landed safely near Boulogne, Fiance. Forster is in Dublin fqr the purpose of consulting with the prison board with regard to the relaxation of the confinement of the suspects. Hauer & Co.’s flour mills and elevator, 20,000 bushels of wheat and and about $12,000 worth of flour, were burned at Leavenworth, Kansas. McCormick & Co., Chicago, have sued the Minnesota harvester company, Minneapolis, for a royalty of ten dollars on each reaper turned out. By the destruction of an elevator at Hawley, Minn., 150,000 bushels ol wheat were consumed. Loss on building and contents about $200,000. The Dublin police have discovered documents showing that a man recently found shot had been condemned as an informer by the Fenians. Governor Foster has accepted an invitation to deliver the welcome address at the national forestry congress which meets in Cincinnati, April 25 to 29. George Ellis, one of the Ashland, Ky., murderers, has made another confession, in which he says Neal and Craft are innocent, and makes an affidavit to it.

Small-pox has appeared in the county jail at Des Moines, lowa. When the court and county officers heard of it they skedaddled, the jail being in the court-house. James A. Andrews a wealthy coal dealer of Sandusky, Ohio, committed suicide by taking chloral at a hotel at Newark, Ohio. He left a letter complaining that he was losing his mind. The most favorable impression has been produced by the telegram of the czar to Emperor William. It is thought the effect of the Skobeleff incident has now almost wholly disappeared. i Prof J.C. Hawkins, a teacher in the Howard school at Fort Smith, Ark., committed suicide by taking morphine. Hawkins was colored, and a graduate of Avery college, Allegheny ity, Pa. At St. Louis, the jury in the , case of Aaron King (colored), charged with the murder of Blunt Robinson, returned a verdict, of murder in the second degree, and assessed punishment at ten years ih the penitentiary. t The syndicate of capitalists known as the Standard Coal and Iron Company has accepted the property and Slant of the Akrpn Iron company, le price to be paid beibg $25,000. The Akron Iron company’s property consists of a furnace, about 1,349 acres of iron and coal lands, and the town site of Buchtel.