Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1875 — NSEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NSEWS OF THE WEEK.

roßKinit. A dreadful •ccidqnt baa occurred on the River Mar, «l the toWnefJuacnburg, In the province of the Tyrol. A ferry-boat sunk in he oiMdireftte stream and w**enty-«lx pi*, aengera were drowned. The upper house of the Pruaaioa Diet on the SSth phased bills for the suppression of convents and relative <U» the administration of church property. In view efthe failure of the Dodhesne prosecution the Belgian Ministry hte Riven notice that a bHI will be -introduced tanking threats to commit murder a punishable offense. It was thought this vvonld satisfy Germany. The Owartbf Common Pleas, to which the appeaTtn the case of the Tipperary elddtion was referred, 'baa unanimously decided 'that the late John Mltchel war. disqualified and that his opponent, Mr. Moore, is entified to the seat. Ho*-.Horaet Maynard, ‘United States Minister to itariwr;, has reached Constantinople.

The Levant HertM -of a late date says a series of terrible earthquake shocks occurred at the begtnring of May In thw province of Broussa, hi Asia Minor. 3cveral villages were destreyed and 2,000 persons tort their lives. A Carlik battery at Mount Rico on the 27th fired'on a Spanish squadron, and the Admiral vommandirg was killed and several of his difiicers wounded. The Cortes of the Kingdom t>i Portugal have passed an act granting unconditional freedom to remaining Portuguese slaves, know®** apprentices or freed men. A London dispatch of the 2»Ui ult. says that Paul Boyton, who started the day before to cross the British Channel from Cape Grisnea,’Trance, in lf.s life-saving suit, landed between Dover and South Foreland on the morning of that day, having been in the water continuously for twenty-three hours andAhirty-eight minutes. A judicial instigation concluded at Berlin on the 29th ult had shown that the offer of Wiessinger to assassinate Bismarck was merely an atteript to extort money, and that the man had no accomplice. The ships Alert and Discovery, of the British Aretic expedition, sailed from Portsmouth, England, on the afternoon of the 29th Ult. •

DOMESTIC. Gen. SherW an sent a dispatch from Chicago to Sioux City on the 23d to the effect that Gen. Terry had directed that the Gordon mining party be released if the capture was made ©uteid-3 of the Sioux Reservation, but in .ease it was made ißside to require a promise from each individual composing it not to H'ioh. te the conditions of the treaty of 1569 with the Sioux Indians, which forbids any trespass on the part of the whites until the Government gives permission. The dispatch says the parties have no more right, under the treaty of 1569, to go to the Big Horn than they have to go to the Black Hills, and it might just as well be under, stood at once that no party will be permitted logo to these place* until the instructions which now govern the military are revoked. TheTostaaster-Generhl has ruled that a regular subscriber to a newspaper or periodical is a person who has actually paid, or undertaken to pay, a subscription price for a newspaper, magazine or other periodical, or for whom such payment has been made, or undertaken to be made, by some other person, witty the consent or at tkq previous request of the person to whom suclj publication is sent A person to whom such publication is sent without his consent or request is not a “ regular subscriber” within the meaning of the law, and double transient rates as postage must he charged and collected>dtefore delivery. . This decision applies to aH subscribers without regard to the length*! time of their subscriptions. ( Seward colliers resumed work in the coal mines at Mahanoy City, Pa., on the 25th, at 20 per cent, reduction on the basis of 1574. Early resumption of work in the entire anthracite regions was expected. A heavy rain on the 25th pet an end to the extensive forest fires raging in the lumber region of Pennsylvania in the vicinity of Maueh Chunk and surrounding country. It is stated that as soon as Congress convenes, next December, the ' Postmaster General intends to use his efforts to have the present la*, .governing postage on third-class matter or transient newspapers so modified" as to be more just and equitable.

In an address to the Sioux 'lndian delegation, on the(26th, President Grant said he had always been a Mend of the Indians and was anxious to4o what he thought was best for their good. He said they mast be aware that the country where they now live is not capable of supporting them, shculd the Government supplies be withdrawn, which supplies are a gratuity and might be withdrawn at any moment without any violation of the treaty. The whites are increasing so rapidly in the territory that It will soon be impossible to prevent them going where they will. The President did not propose to ask the Indians to deave their present location without their consent, but said there is a territory sooth of where they now live in which they can much better support themselves—the game being more abundant, grazing much batter, etc. He wished the delegation to think over what he had said. In Boston <m the -evening of the £6th a terrific explosion ooaurred in a drug store on the corner of Washington and Lagrange streets, completely wrecking the buildup, in which were about twenty-two people at the time; nearly all of whom were more or less injured, six being killed. The cause of the explosion was unknown at the time. -The building was a four-story brick. Adjoining buildings were considerably injured by the shock, which resembled that of an earthquake. A fire in Lexington, Ky., on the 24th destroyed about thirty buildings in the most valuable portion of the city, indicting a loss of from $500,000 to sl^oo^oo.

Secretary Delano made a speech to the Indian delegation on the 27th, in which he sought to Impress on the minds of the savages the wish of toe Government to do that which was for the best for both the whites and the Indians, and also tbefaetthaiU. cannot stop the whites from settling in the Black Hills. He spoke at the advantages to the Indians of the territory further south, and -held out to theih ttm inducements which would be tendered them to change their location. Spotted Tail responded. He ssid he was not the man fc break a treaty; he de-

sired |p remain in the Sioux ReservMloh; he knew fto; be a good productive pountry. He earn h* respected the treaty which had been Trade, and if white men invaded the Blaob Hillalt was not the fault of the Indians, who mere In no hurry to dissolve the treaty. , A terrttfle accident occurred at South' Holyoke, Mass., on the evening of the 27th. While tee evening service was being held in the Trench Catholic Church In that place the draperies of the altar caught fire from a candle and the building was soon on fire. The audience numbered about 700 people in the body of the church, who escaped, but on the stairway leading from the gallery' human beings were packed in a dense mass, struggling to reach the floor. As the flames rushed toward them many leaped to the floor beneath, and were trampled to death. The gallery skirted both sides of the building, with only one entrance from the front The scene was fearful while it lasted, for the whole was over in twenty minutes. Sixty-six men, women and children were either burned or trampled to death, and the fatally wounded would make the lose of life fully seventy-five. The priest’s exertions to keep oCder were fruitless. The screams the living and moans of the dying made a-deafen-ing tumult above the orders of the pastor, who worked most heroically and was personally instrumental in saving a great many lives. One family of four were in tlie church and all killed. Many were pulled out by the arms and feet so badly burned that they lived but a few hours, the flesh peeling off on being touched. Some were taken out with scarcely any flesh remaining on their bones. The Secretary of the United States Treasury has directed the retirement of $987,760 from the currency balance of the Treasury, the same being 80 per cent.- of additional circulation issued to banks during the month. Until further directions the amount of United States notes outstanding to be used as a circulating medium shall not exceed $377,064,055.

The latest accounts up to the morning of the 29th place the number of the dead by the Holyoke (Mass.) disaster at seventy-one; fatally burned, twenty-two; otherwise burned and wounded, twenty-seven. Of the dead, fifty-five were females and sixteen males. A Kansas City (Mo.) special of the £Bth says Information had been received there that a large band of Indians were encamped on the forks of the Salmon River in Osborn County, Kan., and that the citizens had been obliged to desert their homes. The Chicago Journal of May 28 says the reports from the grasshopper-inflicted regions of the West indicated that the first reports were greatly exaggerated, even in Western Missouri, where the pests were worse than anywhere else. A well-executed counterfeit flve-dollar bill on the First National Bank of Germantown, Ohio, has made its appearance in. Chicago, and is described as follows: The back of the bill in the counterfeit is defective in fold of the short-clothes of the central figure, Columbuß, the cross on the banners is very indistinct and the furl is almost obliterated. The foliage on the right and the background are noticeably verylight and poorly executed, while to the left, in the background, the ships are badly taken. The face of the bill is pronounced perfect, and the paper is evidently genuine. Four children, one an infant, of S. M. Christian, of Versailles, Ohio, were burned to death a few.days ago by the explosion of a can of coal-oil, with which one of them was endeavoring to kindle a kitchen tire. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the sale of $600)000 in gold each Thursday during the month of June. Saturday, the 291 h ult., was observed as Decoration Day in many parts of the country. Sunday, the 30th, was observed in other localities. Forty buildings, including a number of business blocks, in Springfield, Mass., were destroyed by fire on the 30th ult. Loss estimated at nearly $500,000. The graves of the Confederate dead in toe cemetery at Nashville, Tenu., were decorated on the 28th ult, several Federal and ex-Fed-eral soldiers being present.

PERSONAL. Judge Porter finished his argument for the defense in the Beecher suit on the 2tsth, and on the 27th Mr.> Evarts commenced his summing up, also in behalf of the defendant. The Grand Lodge of the Good Templars of the World, .recently in-session in Bloomington, 111., elected the following officers for the ensuing year: R. W. G. L., Col. J. J. Hickman, of Kentucky; R. W. G. C., Joseph Malins, of England; R. W. G. V. T., Amanda Lane, of Massachusetts; R. W. G. S., W. S. Williams, of Canada; R. W. G. T., R. R. Scott, of Missouri; Superintendent of Cold Water Templars, Mrs. M. B. O’Donnell, of New York. Louisville, Ky., was fixed upon as the plaee for the next session. A change was made in the constitution providing that Grand Lodges may be tharteredtn States where Grand Lodges already exist, upon the petitionof the existing Grand Lodges. Dr. J. H. Eeclestou has been elected Episcopal Bishop of lowa. V POLITICAL. The 25th elected Henry Lippett Governor and Henry T. Sisson Lieutenant-Governor—the regular Republican candidates at the late election in that State. The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention was held at Lancaster on the 26th. Gen. Harry White was elected President and C. D. Elliott Secretary. Gov. Hartranft was renominated bv acclamation, and H. W. Rawle, Mayor of Erie, was nominated for State Treasurer. Among the subjects of the platform adopted were: Equality of all men before the law; the harmony of the Federal and State Governments; the unity of the nation; in favor of civil rights; adherence to the unwritten law of the country limiting the Presidency to two terms; protection to home industries; protection to labor; eheap transportation; fre? banking, and indorsement of Hartranft’s and Grant’s administrations, and favoringa general system of laws regulating municipal governments.

A letter from President Grant to the Chairmm of the recent Pennsylvania Republican State Convention, written under date of May 3s, has been published, in which he disclaims all desire for a renomination; says In the first place he never sought the office for a second, nor even for a first nomination, and as for the third term he does not want it any more than he did the first He *«ys: “I am not nor have I eter been a candidate for a renomination. I would not accept a nomination' If it were tendered, urnless it should come ander such circumstances as to make it an imperative duty—circumstances not likely to arise.”’