Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1873 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. A Vienna dispatch of tljje 3d states that the Emperor had given his sanction to the Election Reform bill. The announeement was made in the Rciehrath and received with prolonged cheers. ——- The French Assembly on the 4th elected M. Louis Joseph Buffet President, M. Grevy, resigned. The Parliament of New South Wales has voted $200,000 to aid immigration. The official report of tlie surrender of Berga, Spain, charges the commandant of the town witli treason, and attributes the disaster to that cause alone. It also confirms the statement that tlie Carlists bayoneted fi7 prisoners. The Federal Republican committee at Barcelona has sent a circular to Catalonian towns, ordering the inhabitants to plnee them in a state of defence and force the Oar lists, to encamp in the fields, where the volunteers and regulars can exterminate them. Each local committee, is directed to send to headquarters at Barcelona for what arms they may require. Tlie Madrid correspondent of the Imlepcndence Ilelqc says the reports published in the French and English papers of popular disturbances aud military insubordination in Spain are greatly exaggerated. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, 6tli, states that tlie Russian forces, in three detachments, had taken the field against the Khivans. The French Assembly, on the 7tli, passed the bill reimbursing the city of Paris its war contribution of 28,000,000 francs, and granting indemnity on the same account to the departments to tlie amount of 24,000,000 franes.-THe Chamber adjourned until May 19. Paris advices state that tlie Republicans had carried the municipal elections in Nantes and Marseilles. *' It is stated that the exhibitors at Vienna will be divided into groups according to thevharacter of the contributions. Each group will have a president and two vice-presidents. Minister Jay has been advised that the presidencies of the groups of education and of the trade and commerce of thp world, and the vieepresidencies of the groups of civil engineering and public works, and architecture, aud farm houses have been assigned to the United States. In the department of art a flue display is promised. England sends paintings valued in the aggregate at $2,000,000. France will contribute 500 paintings and Italy 800 statues. —lt is stated in a Loudon dispatch that Rev. Charles Spurgeon has been offered $50,000 to deliver fifty lectures in the United States. A dispatch from Bnyoune, Franoe, states ■that' ten officers and sixty privates belonging to a huzzar regiment In Gen. Pavias’ command had gone over to the Carlists. Several artillery officers had also left their regiments and joined the Carlists. It was also reported that Mcnotti Garibaldi had arrived at 'Barcelona, and offered the Republicans ills services against the Carlists. Tlie latter had received batteries of artillery aud resumed active operations in Navarre. They destroyed with gunpowder an arch of the railway bridge at Puebla, interrupting communication between Miranda and Vittoria. In a conflict at Kiusale, Ireland, on the 9th, between some fishermen, who were on a strike and tlie police, two of tlie former were killed and several injured. The inhabitants of Salamanca, Spain, have expelled the Jesuits from that city. • A Berlin dispatch of the 9th states that the Emperor William, Prince Bismarck, and Gen. Von Moltkc, accompanied by a brilliant retinue, will leave for St. Petersburg on a visit- to the Czar on the 25th inst. The Crown Prince Frederick William and wife will take their departure for Vienna on the following day. In a conflict at Kinsalc, Ireland, on the 9tli, between some fishermen who were on a strike and tlie police, two of the former were killed and several injured. ’ . r The inhabitants of Salamanca, Spain, have expelled the'Jcsuits from that city. A Berlin dispateli of tlie 9th states that the Emperor William, Prince Bismarck and Gen. Von Moltkc, accompanied by a brilliant retinue, will leave for St. Petersburg on a visit to tlie Czar on the 25th iust. The Crown Prince Frederick William and wife will take their departure for Vienna on the following day. THE NEW WORLD. Gold closed In New York on the 9tli at ns@iiß%. While the passenger train on the St. Louis & Southeastern Railway was standing at French Village, seven miles from East St. Louis, on the 3d, a construction train ran Into the rear coach, killing Mrs John B. Lusk and John H. Watts, terribly scalding a young daughter of Mr. Watts’, aud more or less Injuring five or six other persons. Miss Patty Wright, .daughter of Colonel Samuel Wright, of Brown County, 111., was horribly burned by tlie explosion of a coal-ofi lamp, a few nights ago. Her recovery was doubtful. Three post-offices have been established by the Government in the territory awarded to the {Juried States by the Sau Juan boundary arbiration. The attendance upon the Illinois Farmers’ Convention on the 3d was not so large as tlie day before. A resolution’was offered and adopted recommending to tlie farmers of Illinois the keeping of a farm expense account during the present and succeeding seasons, in order that the actual cost of production may be estimated and made public for the purpose Of reaching a fair aud equitable remuneration therefor to the farmers of the State. The votes adoptiug the resolution favoring a repeal of eertain tariff duties, and the resolution condemning the President for signing the increased salary bill, were reconsidered, nnd a motion was carried that both these resolutions be laid upon the. table until the 4th day of July next. The Convention adr joumed sine die on the Bd. Michael Nixon has been sentenced £6 be liung on the 16th of May, for the murderer. New York, in January last, of Charles Pfeif in Full returns of tlie recent election in Rhode Island give Howard, Republican, for Governor, 9,637; Chaee, Democrat, 3,799. Van Znndt, Republican, for Lieutenant-Governor, 6,482; Ballou, Temperance and Republican, '8,933; Wales, Democrat, 2,920; scattering, 133. Van Zandt lacks 400 votes of an election. A Washington dispatch of the 3d says General Grant has no intention of abandoning the Civil-Service Commission’. li, A, ... A Madison (Wis.) dispateli of the -3d says the election returns fr6m various parts of the State show that the Republicans have atmnt their usual majorities. ; •• The advance sheets of" the new directory of Bt. Louis give the population of twelve of the thirteen wards of that city at 428,126 —an advance of 117,362 over the census of 1870. Parker’s Landing, Pa., has been visited by a

very destructive fire, the business part of the town being almost entirely destroyed. Loss over $200,000. x The officers of the Treasury Department and members of the Examining Board of that department left Wusnlngton on the 4th for St. Louis and the Southwest, .to apply the civilservice rules and regulations to such offiees of. customs and the independent Treasury service" ns fall within their operation. - ; . Tlie Lower House of the Kentucky Legislature has passed a law allowing juries to award either imprispmnent for life or hanging as the punishment for those whom they convict of murder. Three hundred and five of the steerage passengers saved from the wrecked steamer At-, lantic arrived in New York on the 6th, nnd were transferred to Castle Garden for registration and shelter pending their departure to other points. There were two men of the same name on tliq Atlantic. Oho was saved and the other was lost. The relatives of both assembled, tlie'greater number being on the lookout for the dead man. The scene which followed, it is said, cannot be imagined. Burlington, lowa, was visited, on the sth, by the most' terrible rain, hail and wind storm ever known there. The storm struck the city on West Hill, tearing the roof from one of the school-houses, arid descending thence through tlie business of the city. Buildings were unroofed, and a great deal of damage done. The butter and egg depot of T. N. Pond was blown down and twenty-five persons were buried beneath the ruins. Mr. Pond aud three others were taken out dead, aud nineteen others were rescued, more or less injured. The wife and two children of Mr. Steiger, a German school-teacher, who lived in a house adjoining, were killed by the falling of the cast wall of Pond’s house. The persons killed were T. N. Pond and three of his employes, named Pendergast, Trninor, and Neff, Mrs. Steiger,' and her two children. One of the men rescued from the ruins wo.uld probably die. A few mornings ago the dead body of Mrs., Elizabeth Hedges was found in Eureka, 111., in a badly mutilated condition, the face and neck having been torn by hogs. Mrs. Hedges was about thirty-six years of age, and was an aetive member of the M. E. Church. Au investigation showed that she had been murdered. A letter was found on her person, without date or signature, Hie purport of which was that Abraham of old had more than one wife, and Solomon had numerous concubines. This letter was traced to the Rev. T. C. Workman, pastor of the church of whieh the-deceased was a member. Belief was entertained that Mrs. Workman had. In a fit of jealous rage, assailed and murdered Mrs. Hedges, and the coroner’s jury rendered a verdict to that effect. Much excitement was caused by this terrible tragedy, as all Jho parlies concerned . stood high in the community. Mr. Workman, while admitting the authorship of the letter found on the corpse, and also of two or three others of a similar import afterwards brought to light, denies that any criminal intimacy had existeg between himself and the murdered woman. Mrs. Workman, after her arrest, exhibited signs of being insane. An Omaha dispatch of the stli says the tide of immigration through Omaha to tlie West continued unabated, and has never been equaled since tlie completion of the Union nnd Central Pacific Railroads. A law lias been passed by tho Massachusetts Legislature, providing that eggs must be sold by weight, and that tlie standard weight of a dozen of eggs shall be one pound and eight ounces. 1 " In tlie Supreme Court at Philadelphia a few days ago, to the case of Miss Burnham, pleading for the right to vote on the ground that the word “freemen" in the Constitution meant men and women, ourt decided against licr. A few weeks ago, Hon. Joseph MedtH, Mayor of Chicago, bailed the attention of tlie President to the order against the holding of Federal offices or appointments by Stale or municipal officers, unless they resigned the latter, and notified the President of his resignation of membership of the Civil-Service Board. Tig; following is a copy of George William Curtis, letter of resignation: West New Biugiiton. N. Y., March 18. Mr Dear Sir: As the circumstances under which several important appointment* have been recently made seem to me to show an abandonment both of the spirit and the letter of the CivilService regulations, I respectfully resign my position as a member of the Advisory Board of the Civil-Service. In so doing I beg to assure you of my warmest wishes, and of the contlnance of my most earnest efforts for the sncccsiTof your administration. Very respectfully and truly yonrs, George William CYrtisi His Excellency, the President, The Cubans have reccutly gaiued an important victory in the capture of the fortified city And seaport of Manzanillo, together with an immense amount of booty In money and munitions Of war which fell into their hands. They afterward sacked the town. An Associated Press dispateli of tlie sfli says it is the intention of the Government at Washington to continue .competitive examinations In the Departments as fixed in the Civil-Sctvioc regulations, but appointments will not rigidly depend on these.

it is stated by the Peoria Democrat ot tfie 7th, that Mrs. lyorkmaji, the wife of the Eureka Methodist Miuister, had confessed having killed Mrs. fledges, at Eureka, and she did it in self-defense. The general feeling was that Mrs. Workman was driven frantic by her discovery of her husband's too iutimatc relations with the widow Hedges, and in a fit of desperation, killed the supposed cause of her domestic misery. A dispatch from Franklin, Louisiana, 7th, says that Henry Train, Republican Judge Of tlie Third Judicial District, had arrived at that place and opened tlie regular fetm of the District Court, hut the members of tlie Franklin bar positively refused to appear and practice before him. At a fire in San Francisco on the night of tlie 7th, the sou and daughter of John O. Day were burned to death. The children were In an upper story of the dwelling. A Detroit dispatch of the 7th says the election in Michigan had resulted In the re election of Judge Cliristiancy, Republican, without opposition, and of E. C. Walker and Andrew Climic, Republicans, as Regents of the State University, by a very large majority, no practical work being done In opposition to them. At the recent election in Baton Rouge, La., the McEncry ticket was elected without opposition. At Annapolis,- Md,, on the 7th, the entire Republican tieket for Mayor, Recorder, and four Aldermen was elected by majorities ranging from 100 to 8501 A. 11. Peisho, Democrat, has licen eledcd Mayor ot Dubuque, low a. A Washington dispatch of the Sthannonm-es that tbe Treasury Department had commenced paying the cotton claims tiled under, tlie act of May IS, 1872. Over I,‘4£> claims have been

presented, covering over $6,006,000. More tlian one-half of them will be rejected on account of insufficient proof. Tlie claims being paid are for the cotton seized by the Government agents after June, 1865. Complete returns of the recent - election in Connecticut, mostly official, make tlie vote for Governor.as ioliowfit Havens, (Rep.) 39,337; Tngersoll, (Dcra.) 45,177;. Smith, (Temperance) :2,397. Ingersoll’s majority, 3,443. ,The Senate is 11 Republicans to 10 Democrats. House, 109 Rcpuliltcaus, 132 Democrats. Hawley’s majority for Congress in the First District is 1,280; Kellogg’s in the Second, 509; StSFKweathcr’s in the Third, 1,548; nnd Barnum’s (Dem.) in the Fourth, 1,675. Tlte Congressional delegation is the same as In the previous Congress. The newly elected officers of tlie Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce are: President, O. J. Hale; Vice-Presidents, John Nazro tuid John Johnston. Full-returns of the recent election in Cincinnati give Johnson, Democrat, 1,600 majority; Marchnnt, Liberal Republican, for Police Court Judge, 1,875; Remlein, Democrat, for Trustee of the Water Works, 1,859; Campbell, Republican, for Prosecuting- Attorney for Police, 250. The spring freshets have caused considerable damage- throughout nearly all the Northern States, especially in tlie Eastern and Middle States,- where the streams have been swollen to au unusual height. Tlie dam at Ramshom Pond, West Milbury, Mass., 500 feet long, was washed away on the 9th, carrying off two houses for some distance, and causing other damage. At Wilkes-Barre, Pa., tho Susquciianna was twenty-three feet above low witter mark. The Mohawk River reached an unusual helght causlng great’ damage to the tracks ot the New York Central Railroad, and temporarily obstructing tlie running of trains. Tlie high water in the Delaware also caused much trouble along the line of the Eric Railway. The employes of the New York Gas Comptt-, ny were on a strike on tlie 7th, leaving a large part of the city in darkness In the evening. On i the' Bth the strikers made a demonstration on the Manhattan Gas Works, on the Tenth avenue side, but the attacking party was repulsed w ith little damage. A subsequent attack was made, but the police were on tlie alert and the strikers were forced to desist, after several of them had been roughly handled by the police. At Rochester, N. Y., on tlte 7th, tlie foundation wall on the river side, cm Front street, of tlie new city building for police and fire departments went out_wheri about twenty or thirty persons were upon it looking at tlie river; It was estimated - by an eye-witness that ten or fifteen were carried into tlie river and swept over tlie high falls. At East Liberty, Pa., recently, nearly 1,200 hogs, 200 cattle and a large number of sheep were found smothered to death on a live stock train which had arrived there from Chicago. Thirty-five of tlie survivors from the wreck of the Atlantic, mostly foreigners, readied Chicago ou tlie morning of the 9th. A fund had been raised in that city for their benefit. Valuable coal discoveries are announced as having been made about eighty miles south of Lincoln, Nebraska: A four-foot vein of fine coal had been found. It is announced that the President will visit Richmond May 10, after his trip to Connecticut and tlie West, from which lie will return to Washington early in May. At Middletown, Conn., on tlie 9th, a nearlycompleted brick building, known tis the “Shepard Block” fell in, burying under tlie ruins some fifteen men, several of whom were killed, and others more or less injured. A Salt Lake City special of tlie 9tli says that the Mormon problem in Utali was solved, and tiic war would lie transferred to Arizona. Some prominent' Mormons, with largp business interests, stated that they would remain until they sell out. Brigham Young, publicly, in the Tabernacle, before an immense audience, resigned tlie position of Trustee in trust of the vast Mormon Church property and funds. He said that “he was going so far south tliut the telegraph would not reach him.” The spring freshets caused considerable damage throughout nearly all the Northern States, especially iu tlie Eastern and Middle States, W'liere the streams have been swollen to an. unusual height. The dam at Ramshorn Pond, West Milbury, Mass., 500 feet long, was washed away on tlie 9th, carrying off two houses for some distance, and causing other damage. At Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the Susquehanna was twenty-three feet above low water mark. The Mohawk River readied an unusual height, causing great damage to the tracks of tlie New York Central Railroad, and temporarily obstructing the running of trains. The high water in the Delaware also caused considerable trouble aloug tlie line of tlie Eric Railway. The employes of the New York Gas Company were ou a strike on the 7th, leaving a large part of tlie city in darkuesa in the evening: On die Bth the strikers made a demonstration on the Manhattan' Gas Works, on tlie Tenth averiuc side, but the attacking party was repulsed witli little damage. A subsequent attack was made, but ilie police were on the alert and the strikers were forced to desist, aftef several of them had been roughly handled by the police. ,

At Rocliestcr, N. Y., on the 7th, tlie foundation wall ou the river side, ori'Front streeY, of the new city building for police and fire depart ments went out when about twenty or thirty persons were upon it looking at the river. It was estimated by an eye-witness that teir or fifteen-were carried Into the river and swept over tlie high falls. At East Litwrty, Pa., recently, nearly 1,200 hogs, 200 cattle and a large number of sheep were found smothered to death on a livestock train which had arrived there from Chicago. Thirty-five of tlte survivors from the wreck of tlie Atlantic, mostly foreigners, reached Chicago ou the morning of the 9th. A fund laid been raised In that city for thfdr benefit. Valuable coal discoveries are announced as having been tuade about eighty miles south of Lincoln, Nebraska. A four-foot vein of fine coal had been found. It it announced that the President will visit Richmond May 10, after his trip tp Connecticut and tlie West, from whieh lie will return to Washington early in May. At Middletown, Conn., on the 9th, a nearlycompleted brickbuilding, known- as the ‘‘Shepard Block,” fell In, burying under the ruins some fifteen men, several Of whom were killed, and others more or less injured. A Suit Lake City special of the 9th says that the Mormon problem in Utali Was solved, and tlie war would be transferred to Arizona. Some prominent Mormons, with large business interests, stated that they would remain until they sell out. Brigham Young, publicly, hi the Talieniaele, tieforc an immense audience, resigned the position of Trustee Intrust of the vast Morraen Church property and funds. He said that “he was going so far south that the telegraph would not reach hint,”