Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Washington telegram: The House Committee on Public Lands have agreed to recommend the passage of a bill declaring the lands granted to the Texas Pacific u-ilroad forfeited for breach of the contract on which they were donated, restoring the lands to the public domain for sale and settlement, and protecting the rights of settlers. The report contains a scathing denunciation of the methods adopted by C. P. Huntington and his associates to secure their ends, and several of the celebrated letters to “Friend Colton ” are quoted by the committee to show how the Southern Pacific labored to prevent the Texas Pacific from securing the aid desired. Following are the week’s record of fires where a loss of SIO,OOO and upward wa3 entailed; Losses. Quarryville, Pa., tobacco warehouse $ 25,000 St. Paul, Minn., hide and fur store 75,000 Memphis, Tenn.,two stores 20,000 Green Bay, Wis., Klaus block 25,000 Savery, Kan., two hotels 30,000 Batavia, N. Y., harvester works ' 50,000 La Crosse, Wis., two stores 10,090 Neosho, Mo., eight business houses 60,000 Kenney, 111., hardware store 20,000 Fond du Lac, Wis., Empire Brewery 35,000 Clinton, Mass., soap factory 20,000 Providence, R. L, woolen mill 29,000 Pittsburgh, Pa., steamboat 20,000 Fayette, Mo., a block of scores 75,000 Eau Claire, Wis., clothing store 45,000 Suwanee, Fla., hotel 125,000 Las Vegas, N. M., h0te1.... 300,000 New York city, an office building 200,000 Canastota, N. Y., stores 75,000 Providence, R. L, bank building 100,000 Washington, Kansas, opera house 20,009 Lockport, N. Y., pap ;r-board mill 60,000 Newark, N. J., steel works 30,000 Junction City, Kansas, two stores 2'\ooo Portersville, Ind., flour mill 10,000 Toledo, 0., cornice works 10,000 Lelpsic, 0., twelve shops and stores 35,000 Lucknow, Ont., grist mill 12,000 Newburg, N. Y. woolen mill 60,000 Paducah, Ky., St. Charles hotel 30,000 Toronto, Canada, Presbyterian church .. 40,000 Chicago, Schneider’s candle factory 150,000 Memphis, Tenn., busimss block 45,000 Hot Springs, Ark., two stores 15,000 Cincinnati, a manufacturing block so,ooo Corfu, N. Y., canning factory..; 10,000 Low 11, Mich., twenty small stores 25,900 Minden, La., 1.150 bales of cotton 53,000 Racine, Wis., drug store 10,000 Minneola, Texas, thirteen stores 41,000 Clio, Mich., several storei 35,000 Elgin, 111., school building 15,000 St. Paul, Minn., Holt & Faar’s store 20,000 Jay Gould is said to contemplate another exhibition of the contents of his huge tin box, to allay public distrust as to his standing. It is believed to hold $30,000,000 in Western Union, $15,000,000 In Missouri Pacific, $20,C00,000 in Texas Pacific, apd a large amount of Wabash and Union Pacific. By a railway accident on the Wabash road near Macon, Mo,, six passengers were seriously injured. Highwaymen robbed the stage between Wickenberg and Prescott, Arizona, rifling the letters in the mail-pouohes. Some orange groves in the vicinity of Mobile were touched by frost, but no one will admit that his trees were killed. Several petitions were presented in the Senate, Jan. 21, asking an investigation of the divorce legislation of the respective States, and others praying for a law to give ex-prisoners of war the benefit of the public lands. In secret session a resolution to discuss the Mexican treaty with open doors was deteated. Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill to amend the act granting lauds to the Union and Central Pacific roads, and to secure to the United States the indebtedness of the companies, Mr. Morgan offert d a resolution, which was agreed to, that the Committee on Foreign Relations inquire into the subject of settlements in the valley of the Congo river, Africa, and report such action as is necessary in turtherance of our commerce. A bill was passed permitting retired army officers to hold civil office in the Territories. There was a lengthy debate on the bill to establish civil government in Alaska. The House suspended the rules and passed Mr. Holman’s resolutions declarln g that all forfeited laud grants should at once be taken by the Government; that all laws tending to dispose of public lands In blocks should be repealed and speculation suppressed; that all agricultural lands should be reserved for actual homesteaders; that the Committee on Public Lands should at once report bills covering the above sentiments and enacting them into laws, such measures to have precedence in debate over all save revenue and appropriation bills. The vote passing these resolutions was 251 to 18. The House also passed, under a suspension of the rules, a bill repealing the law prescribing the iron-clad oath. Mr. Davis introduced a bill to appropriate $50,000 forthe erection of a building in Chicago for the use of appraisers. Bills were introduced to make the fees of attorneys in pension cases $lO, and to authorize the extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio road to Fortress Monroe.