Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1882 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Moses Taylor, of New York, is dead. A big iron strike at Pittsburg, June 1, is probable. The Mexicans are driving the fugitive Indians back into Arizona. The arrears of rent bill passed second reading in the house of commons. The wholesale trade in New York is said to be unusually dull and unsatisfactory. Dr. Loring, commissioner of agriculture, is a candidate for governor of Massachusetts. Moscow merchants are much opposed to the expulsion of the Jews from that city. Governor Sherman, of lowa, declares himself in favor of the proposed prohibition amendment to the constitution. The $900,000 left by Mr. Lewis, of New York, to reduce the public debt, has been placed at the disposal of the government. No less than thirteen new seaside resorts are to bid for public support and patronage this year, and all have great expectations. The monuments and headstones in the Jewish cemetery at Columbia, S. C., were thrown down or demolished by unknown persons. Governors Cullom, of Illinois, and Rusk, of Wisconsin, have issued proclamations appointing Tuesday, May 30, as decoration day. A meeting will be held at Chicago this week which will advance rates to interior points, particularly to Pittsburg and other Pennsylvania cities. Bill Rivers, one of two negroes who was to be hanged at Memphis June 2, has had his sentence commuted by the governor to imprisonment for life. Robert A. Smith, who killed Charley Yost at Mt. Vernon, 111., was captured by a posse after being shot at several times and seriously wounded. Mr. Jay Gould’s conservatory at Irvington has been rebuilt. It is the largest on the Hudson, and contains the finest collection of plants and flowers. Harcourt stated in the house of commons that Michael Davitt is subject to the conditions of his ticket-of-leave, which will be enforced if he speaks contrary to law and order. Denmark, which has a population about 1,800,000, and a national debt of $28.000,0fc0, is going to spend $18,500,000—a good deal more than her yearly income—in forts and new ships of war. The supreme court of Indiano has rendered a decision that railroad ticket scalpers may sell special tickets, whether they are half fare, or excursion, or special in any other re* spect. At Syracuse, N. Y., the jury in the Holmes murder trial came in with a verdict of not guilty. An affecting scene followed the rendering of the verdict, which accords with the popular view.

Barns’ apportionment bill has passed the Nebraska senate. It divides Nebraska into three congressional districts. It is very pleasing to the southeastern counties, but displeases Lincoln and Omaha. John McGee shot and instantly killed his partner, Hiram Knapp, at St. Joseph, Mo. They quarreled about business matters, ana McGee getting drunk, ended the matter with his pistcl. He is in jail. The New York truckman who brutally assaulted Mr. Henry Bergh because the latter interfered to prevent the abuse of a norse, has been sentenced to pay a fine of $250 and spend a year in the penitentiary. At Mt. Vernon, 111., City Marshal R. A. Smith shot and killed Charles Yost, and then escaped on horseback. They quarreled over a personal matter, when Smith drew a revolver unexpectedly and fired two shots. The boiler of the passenger steamer American Eagle, exploded Thursday afternoon near Kelley’s Island, Lake Erie, wnile she was bound from Ban dusky to Put-in-Bay. Three of the crew were killed, the engineer fatally scalded, and five passengers severely. Chas. W. Fonda, the embezzling cashier, who stole several thousand dollas from the Constantine, Michnational bank, pleaded guilty at Grand Rapids ana was sentenced by the United States judge to five years imprisonment at the Detroit house of correction. An Indianapolis youth and his sweetheart grew tired of life and wished to die. They hired a buggy, drove to a suburb, and imbibed laudanum, but without avail. Then they purchased and ate another poison, with fatal results to the youth. The girl returned to Indianapolis and narrated the events. At Edwardsville, His., during a tightrope peiformance, one end of the rope attached to a chimney gave way and the performer and debris fell on the heads of the crowds below. Six boys were injured, two of them, Eddie Berger and Charles Webber, fatally, their skull* being fractured. The fight rope performs’’ was badly hurt but left town ths same day.