Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1882 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

So great is the distress in the Egyptian delta from the failure of the rice crop that many deaths from starvation are probable unless aid is extended by the Government.... A prairie fire on the Mongolian frontier of Russia has covered a space ,of seventy square miles, consuming many Cossack villages... .Wheat-sowing in England is retarded by fl jods and storms of hail and snow £ 1 ' The United States Marshal in Indian Territory s ized a quantity of liquor belonging to army officers, as the Federal statutes permit the entry of spirits only for medicinal purposes. A protost has been entered by the commander of the department, in which Gens. Sherman and Sneridan join. Secretary Teller will be forced to decide the fioint... .Mrs. Scoville is delivering lectures n Canada She avers that her husband is the worst crank in the Guiteau family. Geo. B. Armstrong, a Chicago journalist, was sent to Huron, Dak., to establish a land office. By 3 o'clock on the morning of opening, 500 attorneys had assembled in front of the building to tile applications, and the doors and windows were broken by the crowd. The receipts for the first day were S9,(MX), the total transactions being the largest on record.... .CoL F. Loury, formerly I’ostmaster at Dayton, Ohio, who stood $5,500 behind in his accounts with the defiartment, thrust a tiny knife blade into his and died instantly. The fast train on the New York Central road ran into a locomotive uear Peekskill. The engine and draw, ng-room car were hurled from t' e track. Four persons received serious injuries, aniong them being Warren G. Derby, of Brooklyn. Secretary Folger was on the train but was not hurt. „,M re t han $14,000,000 has been expended on the Brooklyn bridge tnus far. By the burning of the Court House and jail at Texas, two male prisoners perished. All the records were destroyed. Archibald Forbes will get; $5,000 for writing a book about America.