Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1882 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Turkey is preparing to. send 80,000 troops to Egypt. A tornado visited Mound City, Mo., doing considerable damage. Nineteen buildings were destroyed by fire at Lincoln Center, Me. Dayton, 0., is strongly bidding tor the location of Heidelberg college. The Italian deputies has apporved the treaty of commerce with France John H. Vornbrock, a St. Louis wholesale furniture dealer, is embarrassed. D. E. Ardis, an Atlanta, Georgia, invalid, killed himself in a Louisville hotel. The graves at the Confederate cemetery, Chattanooga, were decorated Thursday. - The increased importation of American products is alarming the Italian government. Four hundred and sixty-two agrarian outrages in Ireland during April are reperted. Welles Pettit was executed at Talequah, Chrokee Nation, Indian territory, Friday. Owing to the unusually large amount of ice, the Labrador seal fishery is unsuccessful.^ A sister of the late Jesse James resides in Wichita, and is said to be a most excellent woman. The ex-mayor of Vienna, who was accused of neglect at the burning of the Ring theatre, has been acquitted. Col. Henry Brackenbury, royal artillery, succeeds Col. Hillier as inspector general of the Irish constabulary. Col. D. B. Henderson, of Dubuque, lowa, was elected secretary of the Re publican congressional campaign committee. The receipts of the ladies’ tea party held in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington, last Saturday evening, f jot up over $4,000. Irvin Mann, a well-to-do young farmer of Carmel, Mich., hung himself forty-eight hours after his marriage. No reason known. Quite a number of national banks in the west and northwest are giving up their present charters and reorganizing under the present law. Egypt is in a turmoil. The ministry are on a strike against the khedive and repudiate his authority, but he has the support of the Turkish sultan.

The United States grand jury of Yankton D. T., have found indictments against Cameron, Havrevold, and Russell, the land, scrip criminals. Governor Foster has appointed Judge M. W. Oliver, of Cincinnati, a trustee of Miami University, at Oxford, vice Colonel Ozro J. Dodds, deceased. The residence of widow Smith, at Anoka, Minnesota, was struck by lightning, and a litle boy four years old was killed,and two other children ■eriouslyf shocked. Mrs. Esther A. Cooley, of Bingham, Me., has received a commission from Goverbor Plaisted to solemnize marriages, administer oaths, and take acknowledgements of deeds. The French ambassador to England has been instructed to propose to the English government that an'angloFreuch squadron be immediately dispatched to Alexandria. The Massachusetts senate has before it a bill for the appointment of a metropolitan police force to serve anywhere in the state, with the apparent purpose of enforcing the liquor laws. The state department and the gov ernment of Mexico are in correspondence looking to an arrangement to prevent successful Indian outbreaks £u the border. In obedience to public sentiment, Mr. James Gordon Bennett will abandon his proposed Arctic expedition, which was to have been on a much giander scale than that of the ill-fated Jeannette. In the Hancock county (O.) infirmary is Mrs. Betsy Johnson, a colored woman, one hundred and nine years old, said to have been a slave and cook of General George Washington,father of his country. Michael Davitt, In a letter to the London Standard, acknowledges the failure of the appeal to force on the part of the Irish, and states his willingness to advocate a peaceful solution of the questions at issue between England and Ireland. It is reported the relations between the Egyptian ministry and the EnSlish and French comptroller general as been ruptured. It is said the ministers intend to ask the chamber of notables to petition the porte to remove the kbedive on the ground that he is incapable of governing. At the Baptist convention at Greencattle, South Carolina, a resolution was adopted providing for a committee to confer with other Baptists,with the purpose of co-operating for the production of a new translation of the Bible, and giving to the nations of the earth, in their respective languages, the pure word of God.