Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1882 — NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN BRIEF

Very her.vy rains have fallen in the northwest. Five men are reported lost in a Leadville mine fire. Hon. M. T. Forrest died suddenly of paralysis in Cincinnati. A shingle mill, valued at $126,000, was burned at Grand Haven. Shotover, winner of the Derby, captured the Ascot Derby stakes. The patent office at Washington has been doing a big business lately. Henry Rodee’s large flouring mills at Ogdensburg, N. Y., burned; loss, $76,000. Several warehouses were destroyed at St. Petersburg by a naphtha conflagration. Ex-Secretary Blaine does not intend going to Europe this summer, as reported. The Spanish chamber of deputies a greed to the bill for gradual reduction of the customs tariff. The national conference of the Methodist church of Canada, unanimously voted in favor of Methodist union. Fifteen families were burned out on Browne street, Cincinnati, and several children narrowly escaped suffocation. Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, has been sent to the New York penitentiary for six months for petit larceny. Charles J. Gummer, receiving teller of a San Francisco bank, killed himself, the act being attributed to losses in stocks. • W. J. Hutchins has been expelled from the New York Stock Exchange. It is charged that he swindled John E. Duff, of Boston, whose broker and attorney he was, out of $2,000,000.

In Brooks county, Ga., a colored man killed bis wife and her boy brother and placed his infant child on a railroad bridge over deep water, where it was rescued. The fiend is in iail. The Ohio board of publie works has employed Judge Haynes, of Dayton, to prosecute the C., C., C. A I. railroad company for trespass on the bed of the Miami A Erie canal, near Franklin, Warren county. Charles Gregory, a school teacher, employed near Morristown, Ind., who shot and slightly wounded a big, rebellious boy named Anderson, has been acquitted by the jury before whom he was tried. The trains of the New York, Pennsylvania A Ohio railway, late transferred between Springfield and Cincinnati, Ohio, to the tracks of the P,, C. A Bt., L., will shortly be returned to those of the C., H. A D. Michael Davitt, in a speech at Liverpool, said the soil of Ireland could be purchased for tenants for £140,000,OCO in government bonds, payable in fifty years. Dublin Castle rule he denounced as a monstrous failure. Leonard Tracy, a peddler, and Alex. Brown, a bar-tender, fought a prizefight with bare fists at Coney Island, N. Y., the other day. The fight lasted an honr and a half. Brown’s friends claimed foul play, and Tracey, who was severely punished, claimed a victory. A recent opinion rendered by the attorney general of Ohio is that those having charge of the construction of buildings or other work for the state, must keep within the appropriation, which opinion will, if observed, save many thousands of dollars to the taxpayers of the state. The Cincinnati & Ohio Biver railway was re-organized at Cincinnati by the re-election of the five old a the election of six new directors. Among the latter are James G. Blaine, who, it is reported, is to be president of the company, and Marshall Jewell. The organization of the board will take place next week. A terrific rain storm worked serious damage in the viqinity of Gibson, 111. Over 300 feet of the Illinois Central track was washed out, and the Wabash railway suffered in a similar way. A bridge over the Sangamon river was carried off, and two engines plunged into the stream, killing the roadmaster and injuring several others.

An (xodus from Egypt hag get in among the resident Europeans, amounting almost to a panic. Many persons are leaving valuable property behind, and all classes are begging for passage. The soldiery openly demand the deposition of the khedive, and even declare, if it becomes necessary, thev will oppose the sultan himself. It Is stated the French consul general informed his countrymen that e could not guarantee them security. Several significant pieces of news concerning the colonisation of Palestine by Jews have be€n recently made public abroad. OneUs that early in April a body of settlers numbering 600 left Russia en route for the Holy Land, among them being a number of students and a chemist. Land had already been purchased for them by agents. The Central Emigration Committee has recently held a meeting at Jassy, in Rumania, and appointed a commission of three Israelites to go to Palestine and purchase land. At Jassy alone has been raised the sum of 760,000 f. to aid the work.