Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Telegrams from Constantinople state that some Circassians tried to assassinate the Sultan The Albanian body guard, having been informed of the plot, fought the intruders in the vicinity of the Sultan’s apartments, killing several of them.... PatSlick Higgins, one of the murderers of the Hdddys, was executed at Galway by Marwood. Flames swept away the Chicago smelting works and the nail department of the 7 Calumet Iron and Steel Company, at Chicago, the loss in each case being SIOO,OOO. ... .Nelson Ludington, a venerable citizen of Chicago, has passed away. He was a native of New York, but in 1844 went to Milwaukee and founded a mercantile house and a lumber company. For the past thirty years he has resided in Chicago, having of late been President of the Fifth National Bank, and ranked among the millionaires. ~. .Bishop Talbott, of the Episcopal Diocese of Indiana, died at Indianapolis of paralysis. Gov. -Elect Pattison, upon arrivingat Harrisburg, Pa, to be inaugurated, declined an escort, and walked to the residence of a private citizen who had asked him to be his guest... .Samuel C. Lewis’ fine residence at Tarrytown, N. Y., containing some valuable paintings, was reduced to ashes, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. It is reported from Panama that $50,000 in gold coin, the property of the United States, and designed for the fleet in the Pacific, has been stolen in transit The money was shipped from the sub-treasury in New York through Wells, Fargo A Co., and was stored in the Panama Railroad Company’s vault..?. The Supreme Court of the United Spates has decided that bottles in which ale and beer are imported are subject to a duty of 35 per cent aa valorem in addition to the duty of 35 cents per gallon on the ale and beer contained in the bottles.