Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1871 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. Advices from Bt. Thomas to June 17 states that on June 4 troops of Baez, numbering from 1,200 to 1,500, had attacked about an equal number of Cabral’s forces, at San Juan. The latter were defeated with heavy loss, including two cannon captured. General Saint Clair killed, and eighteen prisoners and their camp equipage taken. When Cabral saw it was necessary for him to retreat, he ordered a powder magazine to bo fired, which was done. Nearly the whole town of San Juan, according to the report, was destroyed. The resignation of the whole Spanish Ministry was announced on the 21th, and Marshal Serrano had been entrusted with the formation of a new cabinet. A special dispatch to the New York Herald , from Berlin, on the 23d, says serious complication had arisen between Germany and England, and severe dispatches were passing between Bismark and Granville, relative to the acquisition by Germany of Heligoland. In reply to a proposition on the part of Germany to purchase the i.-laud, Earl Granville said that England would not part with it. Bismark claims that the possession of Heligoland is necessary for the protection of the German coast, and to this Earl Granville re plies that England is only bound to con sider her own interest —that the wish of the German Government to acquire Heligoland does not constitute her right to it, as the island had never been under German rule. A Paris dispatch of the 24th says there was great distress in that city, and large numbers of people were constantly applying to the authorities for relief. It was calculated that there' were 240,000 creatures of charity in the city. Labor was scarce and there was uneasiness relative to the payment of overdue rents. According to dispatches from Lima, Peru, on the 14th, the efforts to suppress the revolution in Bolivia had proved unsuccessful. The insurrection im Guatemala was spreading, and the indications were that the revolutionists had possession of the whole country. A thousand workmen have been turned out of employment by the recent burning. of a Manchester cotton mill. The ship Primas, from Havana, bound for Greenock, lias been wrecked. Evety person on board perished. A Berlin telegram of the 27th says the Emperor William had decreed the dissolution of the existing army combinations in France, and the formation of all the German troops in that country into one combination called the Army of Occupation in France, of which General Manteuffel has been appointed commander. Miners to the number of 9,000 were on a strike in Soutli Wales on the 27th, and there seemed little prospect of a settlement of their difficulty with the companies. A dispatch from Florence, Italy, on the 27th, says the promised transfer of the capital to Rome would not occur on the first of July, but that October 1 was the earliest date then named for the change. In diplomatic circles it was believed the transfer would never be made. Dispatches have been received at ’Washington from Commodore Rodgers, dated Corea, June 23, announcing victory over the Corcans on Kiug-kilao Island. The Coreans had refused an apology for their former treacherous attack on the Shenandoah, and Admiral Rodgers, commanding the American expedition in those waters, immediately landed on the above island, and after desperate hand-to-hand fighting, captured five forts, destroyed 481 pieces of ordnance, and took many small arms and fifty Hags. Two hundred and forty-three Coreans were left dead around the citadel. The American loss was three killed—-Lieutenant McKee, marino Dennis Haufiahan, and landsman Seth Ailen—and nine wounded, the latter all doing well. A Paris dispatch of the 28th says the new loan had been covered, and the sub.scription fiats were closed. The amount desired had been subscribed for several times over. Even peasants and servants invested their savings in the loan. The London Gazette of the 28th announced that the ratifications of the Trenty of Washington were exchanged on the 17th, aud that the Commissioners would shortly be named to carry the stipulations into effect. All British subjects having clajims against the United States are requested to prefer them within six months from the first meeting of the Commission.

THE NEW WOULD. Gold closed in New York on the 28th at 113. Joseph Wagner, a wife murderer, of Rochester, N. Y., has been sentenced to be hanged August 11. According to a New York dispatch of the 22d the bottom was dropping out of the State of New Jersey. In Warren County a number of deep holes had been suddenly made by the earth sinking down into some fearful, unknown, subterranean depths. The first noticed was in the bottom of the Morris and Essex canal on the seven mile level between Broadway and New Village. All the water in the canal went down the hole, then half a dozen more holes opened in tho corn fields and woods, taking down into tho bowels of the earth great patches of corn and even sinking trees out of sight. In additon to this there were scores of great long and deep fissures. Then another big hole opened in the canal. jThe wildest excitement prevailed umong the people. In New York, on the 28d, the Olympics, of Washington, defeated the Eckfords, of Brooklyn, i» a game of base-ball—ll to 3. The Brooklyn Atlantics beat the Kekiongas, of Fort Wayne—22 to 14.

The special session of the Illinois Legislature adjourned on the 22d. On the evening of the 10th the tjiwn of Eldorado, Kaiitas, and adjoining country, was visited with one of the most terrific storms ever known in that part of the State. Over one hundred houses were demolished, several fives were lost, and many families were rendered destitute. An appeal made in behalf of the sufferers says: “ These people are greatly in need of relief. The people of the county are not able to afford adequate aid. Being new settlers, they have not as yet produced enough for subsistence, and what money they had has been expended in provisions and improvements.” The Chicago Journal of the 23d says a large number of counterfeit national bank bills of the ten dollar denomination were in circulation in that city, purporting to have been issued by the First National, Bank of Philadelphia. The work on the bills is splendidly executed, so much so, indeed, as almost to defy detection of the fraud. It is estimated that the losses sustained by speculators, brokers and others by the 'sudden collapse in Rock Island Railroad stock, in the New York Stock Exchange, on the 21st, amounted to at least $20,000,000. The New York State Editorial Association adjourned on the 24th. A. 11. Hall, of the Watertown Reunion , was elected President for the ensuing year. A Washington dispatch of the 24th says: “ Since the ratification of the Treaty of Washington, the State Department has been busy preparing a list of the Alabama claims for the United States Board of Arbitration. The whole number of vessels destroyed is given at 234, and their estimated value at the time of destruction Is set down at $12,830,384.” The total number of physicians who paid taxes to the United States Government for the year ending April 30 was 49,798; of these there were allopathic, 39,070; homoeopathic, 2,961; hydropathic, 133 ; eclectic, 2,860; miscellaneous, or not classified, 4,770. General Rosecrans, Chairman of the General Thomas Monument Association, appeals to the American people to contribute to the fund. Remittances are to be sent to General J. S. Fullerton, Treasurer of the Society of the Potomac, St. Louis, Mo. The monument is to be erected in Central Park, New York. Ail A game of base-ball was played in Chicago on the 24th, between the White Stockings, of that city, and the Rockford forest Citys. Score—lß to 8, in favor of< the Whites. A frightftil tragedy occurred near White Pigeon, Mich., on the 22d. It seems that Chauncey Barnes, a young man of Elkhart County, Indiana, and Miss Addie Dwight, a young school teacher, had been formerly engaged, but that she had broken off the engagement. Barnes visited her at her school on the 22d, and, while she was out of doors with her pupils, took her one side and again proposed to marry her. She refused, whereupon he drew a revolver and shot her dead. He then fired four shots into his own head, and would probably die. Barnes was accompanied by an unknown woman, who was arrested and released on bail. At a reception given in New York city on the evening of the 26th, to Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, 1I V £. Grinnell presented him ifrith an American flag which accompanied one of the previous American expeditions to the North Pole. In a game of base ball in New York city on the 26th, the Kekiongas, of Fort Wayne, defeated the Mutuals, of New York—s to 3. At Philadelphia, the Athletics, of that city, beat the Boston Red Stockings—2o to 8. Mr. Bulis, Republican nominee for Lieutenant-Governor of lowa, was thrown from a sulky at Decorah, on the 26th, and had several ribs broken, and was otherwise badly injured—his physician feared fatally. Near Orleans, Ind., on the night of the 2oth, a party of assassins attacked the house cf the Moody family, consisting of four old bachelor brothers, Mrs. Tolliver, their sister, and hired man, named Lee. They threw three jugs of benzine into a room occupied by the family. They then threw in several large torpedoes, loaded with buckshot, nails, screws, and similar missiles. The torpedoes ex ploded, set fl re to the benzine, and aroused the family when the assailants commenced firing with revolvers into the doors and windows. Mr. Thomas Moody was shot in the hip, the ball ranging up through the body, coming out of the upper portion of the breast. Lee received a severe wound in the thigh and back. Mrs. Tplliver was terribly burned with benzine and torpo does. Ten thousand dollars were immediately raised ih the community to prosecute the guilty parties when caught, and detectives were at work ferreting them out. tj A terrific storm of wind and rain in Chicago, on the night of the 23d, did damage to proporly to the amount of $20,000. Basements were flooded, one new church building, nearly completed, was blown down, and several other buildings were damaged by the wind. At Washington, on the 26th, the Olympic Base bull Club, that city, defeated the Cleveland Forest Citys—l6 to 3. The Maine Democratic State Convention met at Augusta on the 27th, and nominated P- Kimball for Governor. In NvW York city on the 27th the Eckford lfose ball Club defeated the Kekiongas—(Ftp 1. The United States Marshal at Cleveland, assisted by government detectives, has broken up an extensive gang of counterfeiters of national currency in Northern Ohio and Indiana. The ringleaders have been arrested. J t According to recently published figures

from the census returns at Washington, the total population of the United States is 38,545,153 l of which 442,500 is in the Territories. The farmers in the vicinity of Indianapolis, Ind., commenced the delivery of new wheat on the 27th. This is the first time new wheat raised in that county was ever delivered in June. The crop is a fair average. At Chicago, on the 27th, the Active Baseball Club, of Clinton, lowa, defeated the White Stockings, of the former city—B to 5. The Seventh Annual Convention of the Illinois Press Association met at Rock Island on the 27th. The following are the names of the officers elected for the ensuing year: President, J. R. Mosser, of the Decatur Republican; Vice-Presidents, J. C. Cooper,Centralla Sentinel; 1 .C. Stoughton, National Prohibitionist, Chicago; E. B. Buck, Charleston Courier; Secretary, Captain J. M. Adair, of the Mt. Carroll Mirror; Corresponding Secretary, John S. Scibirds, Bloomington Leader; Treasurer,‘George Burt, Jr., of the Marshall County Republican; Executive Committee, W. Kellogg, Sentinel and Press, Pontiac; D. L. Davis, Egyptian Bun, Cairo; J. C. Stoughton, Prohibitionist, Chicago. The Book Committee of the Methodist Book concern in New York city, recently reviewed the evidence in the Lanahan investigation case, and rendered a decision —ll to 4—in favor of suspending Mr. Lanahan. The Board of Bishops subsequently virtually reversed the decision of the Book Committee. The veto of a single Bishop, according to discipline, was enough to nullify the proceeding of the committee. This veto came from Bishop Ames. Mr. Lanahan cannot now be again tried until the assembling of the General Conference in May, 1872, in which the supreme authority of the Church rests. The United States District Court of New York on the 27th sustained the validity of the income tax law. It was thought the case in which this decision was given will be appealed to the United States Supreme Court. Colonel James 8. Biddle is the Democratic candidate for Mayor of Philadelpliia. The return game between the Mutuals and Kekiongas was played in New York city on the 28th, resulting in favor of the former club —13 to 0. At Troy, the Athletics, of Philadelphia, defeated the Haymakers—49 to 33. A collision occurred on the Maine Central Railroad, near Hallowell, on the 27th, between a local passenger and a mixe train. The shock was terrific, aud the engines were wholly demolished. Daniel Berry, engineer, was killed, and Wilkes Carvil, fireman, and several passengers were seriously injured. Horace Capron, Commissioner of Agriculture, on the 28 th tendered to the President his resignation, which is to take effect August 1. He is to go on a mission to Japan, and will take with him a geologist, civil engineer, and other members of the corps, for scientific and industrial investigations. The mission is preliminary to possible operations of a still more exten sive character, aud is regarded by the President and Cabinet as one of great importance, both to Japan and this country. Lewis H. Douglass, son of Frederick Douglass, has been appointed by Governor Cooke to succeed his father as member of the Council of the Territory of Columbia. The committee appointed by the President to revise the civil service of the government met in Washington on the 28th. All the members were present. George William Curtis was appointed Chairman, and E. B. Elliott, Secretary. After conversation of 4 general character the board adjourned to meet the next d4y. A German laborer, of East Hamilton, 0., dangerously shot himself on the 28th, with a pistol, while endeavoring to show by standers how Mr. Vallandlgham killed himself. George L. Putnam, the newly appointed Postmaster of Mobile, has been tried upon an indictment of the grand jury charging him with bribery. The evidence adduced failed to substantiate the charge, and the jury rendered a verdict of acquittal without leaving their seats. Lieutenant Hugh McKee, reported in the dispatches as killed in the fight with the Coreans, was from Louisville, Ky., where his family is well-known and highly re. spected.