Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1882 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Henry Smith, a wealthy German citizen of Xeniarbas been arrested for receiving stolen goods. Mrs. Daniel Reardon was seriously and probably fatally wounded by a runaway accident at Fremont. A woman named Laird, in Mansfield, Ohio, .whose jnwfeand .has deserted he*, has started out through the statAo find him.'The Meigs oounty delegation, to the Democratic congressional convention have been instructed to vote fer A. J. Warner for oongress. The Democratic primaries held at Columbus have placed the renomina tion of Representative Converse beyond aperadventure. Fifteen thousand people are reported to have visited the camp of the First Ohio National guards, at Rich mond Indiana. The camp has disbanded. EmanuaTß. ScKheidei‘,”ft' German priest, renounced the Catholic faith at Pittsburg and joined the Methodist Episcopal church. Adana Weaver was seriously and probably fatally Wounded' by a falling tree, in a storm in Upton township, Knox county, O. - - - H. Swope, of Indianapolis, is lying in a dying condition at that place from a "blow in the head inflicted by a man named Ellis. Folger A Co., hardware merchants at New Orleans have failed, and filed suit against their creditors. Assets $80,000; liabilities $91,0Q0. The secretary of the treasury decided to affirm the assessment of duties of 2% cents per pound on axle forgings Imported at Toledo, Ohio. The Republican convention which failed to nominate a successor to Representative Updegrafl, is to meet again at Barnesville, August 18th.

The Cincinnati board of trade and transportation has been informed that freight may fas shipped by the south Atlantic ports to Europe by October 16th. - The Ladies’ Educational and Sanitary Aid Sooiety, of Cincinnati, is rendering timely and well considered assistance to the Hebrews exiled from Russia. -~ A two-year-old child of Nelvin Smith, a wealthy Montreal merchant, hen been abducted, and a ransom of $50,000 demanded on penalty of the child’s life. A young man named Wilbur Bethard, whose home is at Dublin, was run over by the cars at Elmwood, on the C., T. AH. Y. R. R., and terribly crashed. He afterwards died. The body of Ferdinand Winters, of Cincinnati, who was supposed to have committed suicide at Huntington, has been exhumed and submitted to medical tests, foul play being suspected. A Berlin dfepatch says: “The arrival of Baron Von Schloezer, ambassador to the p&pel court, is generally regarded as equivalent to a temporary rupture of negotiations between Germany and tbe Vatican.” H. H. McFadden, editor of the Bteubenville Gazette, was knocked down by an ex-convict named McDonald, because he refused to give his authority for statements made iu his paper concerning certain events..

In the house of commons John Bright, referring to his resignation, stated he had nothing to explain or defend. The sole reason of his retirement was that he could not concur in the government’s Egyptian policy. The body of the Earl Crawford and Balcarres, stolen some time ago from the fondly vault in Abbotshlre, has been found in the grounds of the family estate. A man suspected of complicity in the theft has been arrested. “Tug” Wilson deposited $12,790 in a New York bank as his share of th« winnings of Monday night’s fight. He has challenged Sullivan to fight him for $2,600 a side within four months, for the championship of the world. The national executive committee of the North Amerioan Turners’ union, at St. Louis, has issued a manifesto to all turners’ associations in this country, calling upon them to resist the present prevailing temperance agitation. In Pittsman Valley, New Mexico, Henry Jansen and Charles Boneateint Hwedes, and William Warton, tough, about a blanket. The Swedes cut Warton nearly to pieces, He, ip turn, killed Jansen and mortally wounded Bonestein. General Grant has been giving his opinion upon the eastern question to a Record reporter. He sides with England, and believes an English protectorate would help develop tne resources of the country and improve the Condition of the people. Our Atlanta, Ga., dispatches announce that Senator Hill’s condition is much worse than at any time since bis arrival from Eareka springs. The eaneer is eating his throat away, the fiesta sloughing off in quantity, gnd no hopes are entertained for his recovery.