Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Secretary Lincoln has ordered Gen. Crook to Washington, to consult as tc the best plan of dealing with the Chiricahua captives. The Indians at San Carlos reservation were summoned by the commanding officer to meet the prisoners and interchange views Speeches were made by Loco, Bonita and Nana, who asked permission to go to the Apache country ana live with their friends, at peace with the whites A contract was let at Montreal for a railway from Cornwall, on the St Lawrence, to Sault Ste. Marie, paralleling the Canadian Pacific for a long distance. The new enterprise will issue bonds to the amount of >12,UJQ,OX)....The annua! convention of the Knights of St John or America was held last week in Rochester, N. Y. The President has issued an executive order promulgating the changes made in the internal-revenue collection districts. The order is to take effect the Ist of July next, or as soon thereafter as practicable The number of the districts is reduced from 126 to eighty-two, a reduction of forty-four. The Planters’ Cotton-Seed Oil Works, in Algiers, La., was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm this evening and entirely destroyed. This was the largest cotton-seed oil mill in existence. The loss is estimated at >1.00.',000, including buildings.... The examination into the shooting of Rev. j. Lane at Borden, Mansfield, La., by a clergyman named Jenkins, resulted in the latter and his brother being held for murder.

Admirers of Henry Ward Beecher filled the Brookljti Academy of Music to its ' utmost capacity on the evening of June 25, ' in honor of his 70th birthday, and rose to their feet as he made his appearance. i Letters of regret from many represent 1 1 ative men were read, and resolutions ! of respect and affection were adopted by the gathering. Mr. Beecher reviewed the progress of the world since his birth, and remarked that whatever faults have marred the symmetry of his life were his alone .... John Stryker, the well-known New York millionaire, was drowned in Saratoga Lake while bathing. He leaves a bride of two months.

In an affray between some Mayo and Dublin militiamen, on the Curragh of Kildare, five men were killed. Stones and firearms were used in the conflict, which lasted an hour... .Lynch, alias Norman, the informer, who testified against the dynamite conspirators, has been released from custody because of his services to the Government.... An epidemic atDamietta, Egypt, of the most virulent type, is said by the Medical Chief to be fever, while the Sanitary Commission pronounce it cholera A cordon has been formed about the city... .Political and other persons at Tomsk. Siberia, numbering thousands, are dying rapidly from typhoid diphtheria, the disease first appearing in vessels which brought convicts to the place.... The cable brings the news of a terrible calamity in the little village of Dervio, on Lake Como. An audience of ninety persons was assembled in a hall over a saloon to witness a “Punch-and-Judy” show. Bengal lights were used and a spark set fire to a mass of rubbish in a room back of the stage. The spectators, on hearing the cry of fire thought an affray had arisen in the street, and barricaded the door with a heavy table. When the flames burst into the hall, thepeoi pie made firantic efforts to escape, but less than half of them succeeded. Forty seven charred corpses were found near the table when the flames were extinguished. Dispatches from St. Louis, of June 26, report that the river rose three inches preceding day, and was slowly coming up The whole of the levee was submerged, and in the lowest places the first floors of the stores were covered with water varying in depth from a few inches to two feet Business on the river front was suspended except in two or three doggeries, where a scaffold has been built and whisky was still dispensed for 5 cents a drink. All the railroads between Alton and St Louis were submerged, and seventy square miles of fertile farms in the vicinity of Alton were under water apd as much more in St. Charles county, Mo. The loss was estimated at not le?s than S2CO,’W. Great suffering was reported among the poorer farmers, and the prominent people of the vicinity had joined in an appeal for aid. The Upper Missouri river was rising slowly, and the danger might be considered over were it not for fears that the present flood Mill be overtaken by the regular June rise, when widespread disaster would f0110w.... Rains overflowed the Big Nemaha river in Nebraska to such a degree that thousands of hogs and cattle were drowned, inflicting a loss of $300,602.