Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1882 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hot sun has knocked the army worm. A murderer was hung at Kingston, Canada. Michael Davitt spoke in Chicago to a large crowd. Manistee, Mich., has lost by fire a $70,000 school house. Five railroad laborers were drowned at Bismarck, D. T. A brig has arrived at Lewes, Del. from Havana with yellow fever on board. Major W. L. Lanier, formerly president of the Alabama Central railroad, L dead. The Indianapolis board of trade and commercial exchange are to be consolidated. At Montreal a fire gutted the Herald building The printers nly had time to escape in their slippers. Half the population of Patrick county, Virginia, are starving, but the harvest will soon bring relief. Thomas O’Connor, a Leadville veterinary surgon, was shot and killed by an officer while resisting arrest. M. Victor Cherbuliez has "been received at the French academy to fill the seat held by the late M. Dufaure. Ames T. Hall, a prominent citizen of Chicago, and secretary of the Chicago, Burlington &Quincy road, died. The Kentucky Central railroad £ asses into Huntington’s control, he aving secured fifty-three per cent of thfe. stock. Edward J. Courtney, said to be a notorious counterfeiter, under several aliases, has been convicted in New York of forgery. Six prisoners escaped from Franklin county, Ohio, jail by digging a hole through the ceiling. All were captured within an hour. Sam. Patch was “outjumped” last Frida ••y a Pennsylvanian, who fell 2'o fe.- 1 irom a precipice, into a river, vMiUout personal injury. Beu.xi->r Brown, of Georgia, gave one-fourth of the SIO,OOO recently raised for building a parsonage for the Second Baptist church, Atlanta. Fox, the stakeholder, failed to put in an appearance at a meeting of Campbell and Walling, at Pittsburg, to arrange for the proposed fight. William Roberta, a well-known lumber dealer, doing business in Indianapolis and Vincennes, was killed in the latter city by a fall from a hotel window. Postmaster General Howe opposes the reduction of letter pottage from three to two cents, but is of opinion that postage en newspapers should be abolished.

Two hundred and fifty ejectment decrees have been obtained against small tenants in Connemara. If the decrees are carried out 2,000 persons will be homeless. The state of Texas is to hold eleven normal institutes in July and August, one io each congressional district, the legislature having appropriated $4,000 to pay the expenses. Grandmother Platt, the oldest inhabitant of Niles, Mich., has been a reader of a Pittsfield, Mass., weekly paper for eighty-two years and never has missed a number. It is said that under the recent decision of the supreme court, nearly or quite all the mutual insurance comEanies doing business in Ohio will ave to reorganize. The failure to extend th* bond on whisky will not seriously affect Kentucky distillers. All their product of last season was sold to rrid, is now held by eastern speculators. The shoe manufacturers of Cincinnati and their employes have agreed to the establishment of a board of arbitration, through which threatened strikes in the future will be avoided. .' At the Dartmouth college dinner it was announced that the Daniel Webster professorship endowment had been paid in. General E. F. Noyes responded to the Daniel Webster toast. Two men, named Graham and Nolan, quarreled at Havanna, Illinois Graham threw a hatchet, cutting NoJan’s neck and cheek. Nolan simultaneously struck Graham on the head with an axe. Both will die. At Atlanta, Georgia, W. L. Clark, editor of the Republican, was cowhided by Ed McCann less. Clark published that in the Shields trial the evidence of McCannless was not genuine, but strained and improbable. In the storm on Thursday last, lightning struck the water of Mead’s pond at Norwich, N. Y., throwing a big column of water to a great height, and hundreds of bass and other fish were soon floating dead upon the surface. The position of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Workers at Pitts* burg is thought to be weakening. It appears that the scale signed is precisely the same as last year, with but one exception—fifty cents per ton advance for puddling. This is looked upon by manufacturers as a square back-down on the part of the association.