Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Congressman Anderson,’ of Kansas, introduced a bill in the House for the establishment of a Government postal telegraph. His proposition calls for the issuance of $8,000,000 worth of bonds, bearing 3 per cent, interest, the avails of which are to be devoted to the establishment of a main line from Portland, Me., to Topeka. Kan., with brahehes to various points. Offices are to be first established in carrier offices only, and to be extended in the judgment of the Postmaster General to smaller offices The tariff is fixed at a uniform rate of 25 cents for ten worda Detroit dispatches chronicle the suieide of J. Edward Monck and wife, belonging at Chatham, Ont, having left their infant child with a lady friend. The wife took morphine, after being locked in her room by her husband, and he went to a strange hotel and killed himself in the same manner. Relatives took their bodies to Canada for burial. Eighty citizens of Cheney, W^rng:. ton Territory, lynched a Chinaman, accused of murdering and robbing a woman of his own race. Engineer Melville and all the members of his family appeared in a Pennsylvania court last Week, he having applied for a writ of habeas corpus to recover his children. He testified that for three years his wife received #9O per month and a residence; that for thirteen months she had drawn #l4O per month, jand run in debt #1,500. Two servants of the family and three neighbors testified that Mrs. Melville drank a great deal of whisky.*.. .At the annual meeting of the New York Tribune Association it was ascertained that Whitelaw Reid and his relatives own 143 of the 200 shares. A dividend of 25 per cent, was declared. The City of Brussels was wrecked about three miles from the lightship at the mouth of the Mersey. Her masts and funnel obstruct navigation and will be removed Divers expect to save a good portion of the cargo, which was valued at #350,000. The shipwrecked passengers passed resolutions expressing gratitude and admiration for the conduct of the offloers.