Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1882 — NEWS TN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

NEWS TN BRIEF

Jean Gustave Walter, the French philosopher, is dead. The Evans & Foos implement factory at Springfield, Ohio, burned. Seventy head of blooded horses,sold at Eminence, Ky., brought $15,210. A dispatch from Cairo states the situation is hourly becoming worse. A daughter of Commodore Whiting was married to Mr. Derring Fosdeck, at the church of the Epiphany,Washington. A mandate has been issued to the Russian press to forego reports of Jewish massacres, or even discuss the question. Neal, a horse thief and generally a disreputable character, was hanged by vigilante near Rockford, Washington territory. In a crush of Jewish refugees at Brody, who were clamoring for assistance to emigrate to America, one man was killed. Walter A. Foss, of Lowell, Mass., is to start from Milford, N. H., on the 29 th inst., on a trip to Chicago and return by bicycle. The graduating class of the Illinois institution for the deaf and dumb, at Jacksonville, numbered , fourteen. Four were females. An ovarian tumor weighing tweDtyflve pounds was successfully removed from Miss Pierce, a suburban resident of Lafayette, Ind. Mrs. Eva Humphrey, named in connection with the alleged wife of Navin, the Adrian forger, committed suicide at Toledo, Ohio. James Higgins, of Vincennes, Ind., has been found guilty of killing his wife, and the punishment fixed at three years' imprisonment. Two of tho members of the British Royal Geographical society will undertake a voyage in search of the Leigh Smith Arctic expeditiqn. Mark Twain’s southwestern trip has brought to light the fact that he served three months in the confederate army under General Stirling Price. A black bear in a park at Richmond, Ind., grew lonesome and joined a school picnic, where it frolicked harmlessly with the little ones until shot. Governor Crittenden boasts that since the death of Jesse James travel in Missouri has perceptibly increased, even commercial travelers taking to themselves confidence.

Reliable reports from the Michigan fruit belt state the late severe frosts did not affect peaches or apples, but grapes and strawberries were slightly injured, with enough left for a fair crop. O’Donnell, Home Ruler, in dedouncing the repression bill, said the Irish ought never rest until the administrative affairs of their country were disenthralled from British interference. Judge Gresham, of Indianapolis,has refused to entertain a motion to set aside the appointment of J. H. Devereux, president of the Bee Line, as receiver of the Indianapolis & Bt. Louis railroad. Arabi Bey and the rebellious army officers positively refuse to quit Egypt. He maintains the country is with him, though the French consul tried to disabuse him of his error. Fort Monroe is the largest single fortification in the world. The fortifications at Gibraltar cover more ground, but they constitute seven distinct forts, while Fort Monroe is one and complete. J. H. Weber, night watchman at Tucson, Arizona, while crazed by drink, fired several shots among a crowd, one of which instantly killed a young man named C. M. Hinton. Weber is in custody. A horrible atrocity is"reported from Smorgoue, a Kussian village. The place was destroyed by fire, and Jewish children and property, placed for safety in a cemetery, were burned by the populace. The English and French ambassadors have again assured the porte that England and France have no idea of a*iy radical intervention in Egypt, but are simply considering the best means of insuring order. The mystery attending the burning of buildings last summer at Richmond, Indiana, has been unveiled by a confession of one of the incendiaries after he had been converted in Cincinnati by the boy preacher, Harrison. <

Moses Bilk, a notorious ruffian and murderer, was riddled with bullets by Sheriff Taylor at Fort Spurkey, Indian Territory. Bilk was drunk and quarrelsome and resisted arrest, making a desperate debt. He is credited with killing live men and being an accessory la many murders. James C Hueston, general agent of the New York associated press, has received through the department of state from the German government the “medal for saving from imminent danger.” Mr. Hueston rescued Tberese Erke from death by drowning while he was sojourning at Ems, Germany.* \ _