Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1874 — LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LATEST NEWS.

Attempted Assassination of Prince Bismarck. Religious Troubles in the Republic of Venezuela. Another Keservolr Gives Way in Massachusetts. A Second Great Fire in the City of Chicago. ■“*. Sixty Acres Burned Over, and 1,000 Houses Destroyed. DeitrncMve Fires at Oslikosb, AVIs, end lowa Falls, lowa. Meeting of the Indiana Btate Democratic Convention, Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. THE OLD WORLD. Tiie Government was again defeated in the Assembly on the 14th, on the proposition to increase the salt tax. A dispatch from Paris, of the 15th, says the Constitutional bill had been submitted by the Committee of Thirty for the consideration of the Assembly. The dispatch adds teat its provisions please nobody, and that its defeat is certain. M. Magne, French Minister of Finance, resigned on the 16th in consequence of the defeat of his financial plans by the Assembly. On the 17th M. de Fourton, Minister of the Interior, resigned because of irreconcilable differences with liis colleagues.

According to a London special from Madrid of the 18th the Carlists had attempted to intimidate the newspaper correspondents by shooting some of them as spies. The Republicans had recently defeated a Carlist column near Bilboa. A Madrid dispatch of the 14th says that a column of Carlists had attacked Cuenca, eighty-four miles southeast of Madrid. Troops had been sent to repel them. A Madrid dispatch of the 15th reports a Ministerial crisis impending. According to dispatches of the 16th, England, Germany and Russia had about concluded to recognize the Spanish Republic. The Carlists had ordered one Republican prisoner to be shot for each shell fired by the Republican fleet at Bilboa at the Carlist army. The Carlists were vigorously besieging Cuenca. According to a Madrid dispatch of the 19th a decree had been issued declaring ail Spain in a state of siege and sequestrating the property of Carlists, whose estates are to be held liable to a heavy penalty to the relatives of Republicans slain, and finally creating a special reserve of 125,000 men. The Government had announced that it would not permit the shooting of prisoners in retaliation for Carlist atrocities. A Bayonne dispatch of the same date announces the surrender of Cuenca to the Carlists. A Madrid dispatch denies the correctness of the report. • . :

While Prince Bismarck was sojourning at the Saline Springs at Kisscngen, on the 13th, a cooper named Huffman fired a revolver at him, the shot grazing his wrist, but inflicting no serious damage. He was arrested. On the 14th an immense crowd of people assembled at Bismarck’s hotel, Kissengen, to congratulate him on his escape from the assassin’s buffet. The Chancellor made a speech to them in which, after thanking them for the demonstration, lie said the attempt on his life was not aimed at himipersonally, but at the cause he represented. A priest named Hunltbaler had been arrested for complicity with the attempted assassination. A Berlin dispatch of the 19th says the stringency of the regulations restricting the Ultramontane clubs had been increased by the Government, and that the clerical press would be closely watched and vigorously dealt with for disloyal manifestations. . ; * ' . •’ Dispatches from Constantinople of the 16th report that an extensive tire had been raging for several hours in Galatea, one of the suburbs of that city. The fire lasted six hours and consumed 200 houses. Loss $2,000,000. A fatal colliery explosion occurred at Wigan, England, on the 19th, by which fifteen persons were killed. At Pisa, Italy, and several towns of the Romanza bread riots had occurred in consequence of the bakers having made no material reduction in the price of bread, notwithstanding the recent considerable sass in flour. According to a Calcutta dispatch of the 18th, the rivers from Assam to Oude had flooded the country, causing much damage-

. THE .VKW WORLD. Mr. Theodore ii lton, on the 13th, notified Mr. Beecher’s investigating committee that he should prepare a full and detailed statement “of such facts as are within my knowledge touching matters which compromise the character of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.” According to a Springfield (Mass.) dispatch of the 13th, on the afternoon of that day a paymaster’s train on the & Greenfield Railroad had been overturned at Shelburne Faffs, Mass., and precipitated down an embankment fifteen feet high. Every person on the train was more or less injured. A genuine case of Asiatic cholera has been reported at Louisville, Ky. Gov. Caldwell, of North Carolina, died at Hillsboro on the 12th, of cholora-jnorbus. The young man whom Representative Sloss shot for slandering his daughter is said to be likely to recover, and threatens to bushwhack Sloes on the first opportunity after he gets out. Two reservoir* in Hampden County, Mass., gate way on the 12th, and swept the valley below, carrying away bridges, miffs and dwellings, and causing a loss of $850,00p. No lives were lost, In consequence of timely warnings. Ox the 14th an extensive fire occurred In Oshkosh, Wis., which burned Over territory two miles long and one mile wide. One- | half of the business portion of the city was

destroyed, and one-quarter of the residence portion. The loss is estimated at from SOOO,-' 000 to $1,000,000. An incendiary Are was started on the afternoon of the 14th in Chicago, in a row of wooden buildings on South Clark near Twelfth street, which before it was checked burned over sixty acres of ground, consumed over 1,000 houses and rendered 6,000 persons homeless. A stiff southwestern breeze prevailed, which carried burning brands and cinders several blocks, and rendered the efforts of the Fire Department well-nigh useless. The conflagration was not brought under control until after fen hours’ hard labor. Among the notable structures burned were the Olivet Baptist Church, the First Baptist Church, Adelpbi Theater, Michigan Avenue, St. James, Continental and Wood’s Hotels, the Postofflce, two Jewish synagogues, the Jones School building, InterOceanic. buildings, and a large number of the finest business establishments in the city. The total loss is variously estimated at from $4,000,000 to $7,000,000. One fire engino was burned and several persons were killed. The town of lowa Falls, lowa, was very nearly consumed on the afternoon of the 14th. Forty-five buildings were burned, inflicting a a loss of about $300,000. Official returns of the vote cast for the Arkansas Constitutional convention foot up as follows: For the Convention, 80,259; against the convention, 8,007. Of the ninety-one delegates elected, seventy are Democrats and Conservatives. At the inter-collegiate regatta held oil the 15th at Saratoga the Princeton College crew won the six-oarcd race, and the Yale boat was victorious in the single-scull race. The total losses by the Chicago fire of the 14th of the various insurance companies are said to aggregate $2,381,400. Chicago was visited by another fire on the 15th, which broke out at the corner of Milwaukee avenue and Morgan street, in the West Division. Loss not exceeding $60,000.

The Indiana State Democratic Convention met in Indianapolis on the 15th and organized by the election of Gov. Hendricks as President and J. W. Nlchol with two assistants as Secretaries. The President In taking the chair was received with cheers and spoke at considerable length upon the principles and prospects of the party. Resolutions were adopted—favoring the redemption of the 5-20 bonds in greenbacks; favoring the repeal of the law of March, 1869, which construed the law so as to make such bonds payable in gold; favoring the repeal of the National Banking law; favoring a return to specie payments as soon as the business interests of the country will permit; favoring the adjustment of the volume of currency to the commercial and industrial wants of the country; opposing mixed schools, • but favoring a liberal system of education for all, black and white; condemning what is known as the Civil Rights bill and arraigning Senators Morton and Pratt for their votes in favor of the measure; favoring the repeal of the Baxter law and the enactment of a suitable license law which shall protect society and iuerease the school fund; favoring retrenchment and the reduction of taxes; denouncing the increase of State taxes by the last Republican Legislature; demanding such a change in the laws ns shall prohibit the use of public money for private gain; opposing grants of land or money to railroad or other corporations; favoring the abolition of the office of ■County Superintendent of Schools and the restoration of the former law In relation to the appraisement of real estate for purposes of taxation; demanding that the remaining public lands shall he held for the benefit of actual settlers under the Homestead laws, and demanding the equalization of bounties to soldiers and sailors. The following nominations of candidates for State offices were made: For Secretary of State, J. E. Neff, of Randolph County; Auditor of State, E. Henderson, of Morgan County; Treasurer, B. C. Shaw, of Marion County; Superintendent of Pultlic Instruction, J. H. Smart, of Allen County; At-torney-General, C. A. Buskirk, of Gibson County; Judge of the Supreme Court, Horace P. Biddle, of Cass County. Late Panama advices say that religious troubles had broken out in Venezuela. The President of that-Republic had decreed the expulsion of the Bishop of Merida, because lie opposed the law establishing . civil marriage. According to San Domingo advices of a late date, three Cubans captured on the coast of Camaguay had been recently executed on the gun.boat Neptune while being conveyed from Nuevitas to Havana. The Third National Chess Congress, in session at Chicago, closed its sittings on the 16th. The first, second aiid third prizes were won by Capt. G. H. McKenzie of New York, H. Hosmer of Chicago, and Max Judd of St. Louis, respectively. The Ohio State Republican Convention will be held in Columbus on the 2d of September next. Tns following persons have been elected officers of the Wisconsin State Teachers’ Association: President, J. Q. Emery, Fort Atkinson; Vice-Presidents, W. H. Chandler, Sun Prairie;{ 8. R. Winehcl, Milwaukee; Miss Caroline Adams, Plattcville; Secretary, A. P. Hutton, West Eau Claire; Treasurer, Geo. 8. Kewes, Racine; Executive Committee, B. M. Reynolds, La Crosse; W. D. Parker, Janesville; H. C. Howland, East Eau.Claire; G. S. Albete, Oshkosh; Samuel Shaw, Madison.

The United States Treasury (told sold .in New York on the 16th brought 109.77. An Omaha dispatch of the 16th announces the arrival of immense clouds of grasshoppers at Columbus the day before. A Washington dispatch of the 16th says a quarrel has arisen between Treasurer Spinner and Acting-Secretary of the Treasury Conant in regard to the rules regulating the civil service, the former holding that'they did not apply to his bureau. Mr. Bristow sustained his subordinate and Spinner appealed to the President. The separation of Mr. and Mrs. Tilton was announced on the 16th, in consequence of the latter having espoused the cause-of Mr. Beecher against her husband. Goldsmith Maid, on the 16th, at East Saginaw, Mich., trotted three straight heats in 2:19%, 2*16% and 2:16, being not only the three fastest consecutive heats on record, but two heats* the slower of which was better than the best time ever made by any trotting horse. 4 Late Cuban dispatches report the insurgents in a state of unwonted activity. The towns of Trinidad and Qanyacalcs had been occupied by them - and they were closely upon 'the environs of Puerto Principe. Mr. Lauten, the United

States Consular Agent at Manzanillo had been ordered to leave the Island. According to an Oshkosh (Wls.) dispatch of the 17th, the insurance companies had lost $251,390 by the recent fire In that city. A dispatch from Tlskilwa, 111., of the 17th says that one-third of the town had been burned on the morning of that day. The loss was not stated. A Havana dispatch of the 18th announces the defeat of an Insurgent column In the hills of Rijaru. An old lady of sixty years, Mrs. Jacob Will, living at Dayton, Ohio, was burned to death on the evening of the 18tli, while kindling a fire with kerosene. A dispatch from Rawlins, W. T., received at Omaha on the 18th, states that on the 15th • party erf Sioux had attacked a mining camp ait Seminole. Gov. Campbell had telegraphed Gen. Ord for assistance. Intelligence had been received of an attack on the 17th by Indians near Sherman, Tex. Several of the rangers had been killed. Two trains collided on the Erie Railway on the morning of the 18th near Canaseraga, N Y., while running at the rate of twenty miles an hour. One man was killed and about twenty were more or less injured. Both trains were badly shattered. The forward first-class car of the westward train, which was full of ladies and children, left its trucks, swept everything above the floor of the smok-ing-car, and only stopped at the wreck of the engines, where it remained exactly on the floor of the smoking-car. Among those injured were R. G. Harvey, of Terre Haute, Ind., and O. W. Barrett, of Chicago. A Little Rock (Ark.) special to the St. Louis Democrat says the Congressional committee began its investigationson the 18th by examining Gov. Baxter, who, in reply to questions, said he never had the returns of the election at which lie claimed to bo elected, and does not know where they are. The latter was reported to be angry at the action of the convention in declaring that all officers, from lowest to highest, shall be elected, us his friends had promised that his term of office should by constitutional provision. Persons who had conversed with him say he threatened to disperse the convention with militia if it interferes with his term of office.

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