Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Balloon Ascension at Pari Fatal Results. The Tichborne Case in the 4 British House of Common Report that the Cr MHts Have Turned Bat - Meeting at Indian? of the jndustrial C The Wheeler O jKproniise Accepted by the Lou! jgjang Legislature. Floods Sto Operations-on the U. P. Railroad. The Mir at Harney’s Peak in the Hands es the Military. Ker'Meae AeeWent In Ohio—Other Fatal Casualties. Other Interesting News Items.

FOREIGN. TV Bessemer steamer constructed to overcome the motion of the sea has made a satisfactory trial trip from Gravesend to Calais. The Humane Society of Boulogne has voted Its gold medal to Paul Boyton. South American advices received in New York on the 13th, report that the Jesuit College at Buenos Ayres had been burned by a mob headed by a Spanish priest. Several of the priests had been wounded and three had died. The cholera has appeared in the province of Oude, India. A Vienna dispatch of the 14th says it was there reported that the Turks had murdered 270 Christians in Roumelia and Bulgaria during the last three months. The Carlists have lately surprised Port Aspe, near Santander, and carried off 200 prisoners and four pieces of artillery . In the British House of Commons on the 15th there was a long and excited debate on a petition praying for the dismissal from the bench of those Judges who sat in the Tichborne trials, on the ground of partiality and corruption, and for the impeachment of the Speaker of the House of Commons for similar reasons. On motion of the Premier the petition was rejected. Prussia has addressed another note to Belgium in relation to an anti-Prussian pamphlet recently published at Antwerp. A Madrid dispatch of the 16th says the Carlists had seized a number of women and children in the province of Soria, and threatened to shoot them unless they were ransomed. A party of three persons ascended from Paris in the balloon Zenith, on the 16th, for the purpose of making scientific observations The balloon attained the extraordinary height of over 36,000 feet. Two of the aeronauts were suffocated to death, and when the bal loon reached the ground the third was almost insensible and so severely affected that his recovery was considered doubtful. Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sunderland and several of their attendants were present at the prayer meeting of Messrs. Moody and Sankey at the Haymarket Theater in London on the 17th. A seat-owner in Her Majesty’s Opera-House had filed a bill to prevent the occupation of that place of amusement by these evangelists. A serious riot occurred in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 18th, at the opening of some pleasure-grounds in the suburbs. A stand on which 1,500 people were seated gave way and precipitated the entire mass to the ground. Thirty persons were seriously injured, and the visitors, indignant at the carelessness of the proprietors, destroyed everything on the grounds and burned the .barricades around them. A late Montevideo (Uruguay) letter announces the discovery of a conspiracy for the assassination of the President and his Ministers and the arrest of many of the more influential members of the Conservative party, fifteen of whom had been banished.

DOMESTIC. The United States Supreme Court has decided that money temporarily borrowed by a banker in ,the course of business is not taxable as capital. Several warrants were issued on the 10th for the arrest of clerks in the Postoffice Department implicated in ’the recently-discovered frauds in that department. J. J. Hinds, the contractor implicated, had .given bail. Two clerks who confessed their participation in the frauds were held as witnesses against persons who persisted in denying their guilt. The explosion of a boiler in the gingham mills at South Adams, Mass., on the 12th killed three men and fatally injured two others. AX Clinton, Mass., on the same day, a grocery store was destroyed by fire and a Mrs. Dinsmore and her fatheF.whooccupied rooms over the -store, were burned to death. The residence of P. P. Clifford, at New Haren, Conn., was also burned on the 12th, and Mrs. Clifford, who was sick and unable to leave bar room, perished in the flames. The Unite* States District Court, at Detroit, has sentenced Daniel Pratt, convicted of writing obscene matter on postal cards, to the State Prison for two and a half years. The condition of affairs, in the mining regions of Pennsylvania was reported as improving on the 13th, and it was thought that the strike was about over, 2,000 miners having returned to work, with a prospect that. others would soon follow. The State troops would remain on the ground until their presence became unnecessary to prevent violence. A seventeen-year-ol* girl named Katie Hees, living about eight miles north of Kirby, Ohio, a flew evenings ago hurried up the fire in the eook-stove by pouring kerosene oil upon it, when the inevitable explosion followed, and she was so badly burned that

the di< <bout tW(> hOUJK The ending 80 c Mftente were entirely (Jestroyed. A ftnagumn named Fred Brandenburg!), J** 4 irtwat eighteen years, was feund dying j«n Starvation and exhaustion ender a pile 0 /Htnrfber, In San Francisco, on the morning

aff'the 13th. He Mated before kis death that tee crawled under the lumber nine days be■fore. Other lumber was piled around, stopping his egress. A Wilkesbare (Pa.) dispatch of the 14tli says the miners of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Campany, of whom 10,000 were idle, were felly determined not to resume work unless their demand for an advance of 10 per cent was granted. No outrages had been committed by these men. Business was badly prostrated throughout the valley on account of the long-continued strike. According to Washington dispatches of the 15th the Postoffice Department was in receipt of information that parties who had secured contracts for a large number of mail routes in the Western States were systematically-offer-ing to sublet them, thereby assuming iv effect the position of mail-route brokers. A foot and a half of snow fell throughout New England on the 14th, obstructin'.' the railroads. An Omaha telegram of the 16th states tiiat owing to high water travel had been entirely suspended on the Union Pacific Railroad between Laramie City, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah. The water was six feet deep in manyplaces. It was impossible to predict when travel would be resumed, as the canons were still full of snow. The Union Pacific officials advise travelers for Utah and California not to start until notice of the blockade being broken is given. A fire at Charlotte, N. C., on jthe 16th destroyed about 3,000 bales of cotton, the depots of the North Carolina and Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad Companies, and a number of private residences. Loss <250,000; about two-thirds insured.;— A dam .at the head of Mill River, a little stream emptying into the Charles River at Medway, Mass., gave way on the evening of the 17th, and let loose a large pond of water, flooding the country below and sweeping away mills, bridges, roads and dams in its course, and inflicting a loss of from <IOO,OOO to <260,000. No lives are reported lost. A large number of visitors had assembled at Concord and Lexington, Mass., on the 18th to participate in the centennial celebration, on the 19th, of the first battle of the American Revolution. The’old road from Boston, over which the British marched, Was thronged with teams of every description. At every point of interest there were profuse decorations and inscriptions commemorative of the occurrences at that spot, and the streets were spanned with flags and streamers. The feature of the day at Concord was an historical discourse by the Rev. Grindel Reynolds, which was attended by President Grant and members of the Cabinet. At Lexington there were special services during the day, and in the evening the Rev. Dr. Adams, of New York, delivered an address on the events a hundred years ago. In Boston in the evening there was a centennial celebration at the old North Church in Salem street, from whose belfry the lanterns were hung which gave Paul Revere the signal that the troops were setting out for Concord. Lanterns were, on this occasion, hung in the same position by an aged son of the old sexton.

PERSONAL. Treasurer Spinner on the 12th received an autograph letter from the President accepting his resignation as Treasurer of the United States and expressing for him the warmest sentiments of regard, personally, and a high appreciation of his probity, patriotism and official integrity. In his direct examination on the 12th Mr. Beecher denied in detail each and every statement contained in Mrs. Moulton’s testimony that referred to any admission or confession on his part of the crime with which he is charged. He said he never had any conversation with that witness in which the alleged crime was the subject of discussion; She never advised him to make a confession to the church, and he never made a threat to her of suicide. Mr. W. H. Harper, the Chief Grain Inspector of Chicago, has been suspended from office by the besause of certain alleged discrepancies in his fiscal accounts. He has, by advice of his bondsmen and lawyer, refused to yield up his books and assets. A Salt Lake dispatch of the 12th states that the trial of John I). Lee and W. H. Dame for connection with the Mountain Meadow massacre will not take place the present term of court. They were arraigned and pleaded not guilty, their counsel asking for immediate trial, but the prosecution was not ready. At the annual Mormon Church conference at Salt Lake on the 10th Brigham Young was re-elected prophet, seer, revelator and President, > Mr. Beecher's direct examination was concluded on the 18th, the witness making a broad and emphatic denial of ever having committed, or proposed to commit, the crime charged against him. Mr. Fullerton then, began the cross-examination. The National Industrial Congress met in Indianapolis on the 13th, twenty-eight delegates being in attendance. Commander Leroy Fitch, of the United States navy, died at his residence in Logansport, Ind., on the 13th.

It is stated that all of the clerks in the Postoffice Department implicated in the “recent mail contract frauds have been dismissed by the Postmaster-General. The Industrial Congress in session at Indianapolis adopted a declaration of principles on the 14th and also unanimously passed resolutions condemning the lock-out of thejnen employed in the mining regions of Pennsylvania, “by a combination of six monster coal-mining and carrying corporations, because unwilling to accept a reduction of 30 or 40 per cent, of their wages, for which reduction there is no real justification,” and requesting all organized bodies of workingmen throughout the country to forward to the treasurer of the congress as generous financial assistance as their circumstances will permit, to be applied to the relief of victims of the alleged conspiracy on the part of said companies. The President and Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Sartoris, Gen. Babcock and Secretary Robeson left Washington on the 15th, en rowe to Massachusetts to attend the centennial celebration of the battle of Lexington on the 19th. Owing to the illness of Mr. Fullertou the Beecher trial was, on the morning of the 15th, postponed until the 19th. The 100th annkcraary of the Pennsylvania Society tor the AtoJition of Slavery was held in Philadelphia on the 14th. Among the prominent representatives present were Hon. Henry Wilson, C. C. Bwleigh and Frederick Douglass. A company of cavalry, under command of Capt Mix, arrived at Fort Laramie on the

18th with the Harney’* Peak (Black Hills’) ( miners. They had a hard trip, and report much snow and high water. POLITICAL. Women are now eligible to appointment as Notaries-Public in Illinois, the iate State Legislature having passed an act to that effect, which has been signed by the Governor. The Republican State* Convention of California is to be held at Sacramento the 20th of June. The Louisiana House of Representatives on the 15th, by a vote of 89 to 15, accepted the Congressional award according to the terms of the Wheeler compromise as a basis of settlement, and the members unseated by this aw-ard retired. A resolution was adopted—B9 (45 Democrats and 44 Republicans) to 18 (13 Democrats and 5 Republicans) —declaring that, without approving, the Legislature will not disturb the Kellogg State Government, nor 1 seek to impeach the Governor for any past official acts, but will yield him support in enforcing the laws atd maintaining the peace of the State. The Illinois Legislature adjourned sine, die on the 15th. A second trial was had in Providence, E. 1., on the 16th to elect a Senator and nine Representatives in the General Assembly, and resulted in a choice of the regular Republican ticket, -supported by the liquor interest, by 350 majority. This probably secures the election of Henry Lippitt for Governor and the repeal of the Prohibitionary and State Constabularylaw. The Louisiana House of Representatives reorganized on the 16th by electing Estelle (Compromise Conservative) Speaker. The ballot stood sixty-six for Estelle to thirty-five for Wiltz.