Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A !rom Portland, Ore., says that tremendous forest are raging south of Kolama. Six miles of railroad find two locomotives were destroyed. Jhe Oak? Point logging camp. losses are 2.0.000. The flames extend for miles, and we »6 fierce that it is unsafe to attempt to investigate the losses. It is believed the fires will continue until rain fa 115.... Judge James-A. DAwson, of the Superior Court al Beaver v ‘ based the Hon Willard Teller, brother of the Secretary of the Interior, 8500 for contempt of court as attorney in filing a scandalous answer on behalf of W. H, Bush, in the suit of ex-Senator H. A W. Tabor vs. Bush. ‘ The document in reply to! Tabors complaint was the most remarkable ever seen in any court.... The State Entomologist of Illinois reports that vast numbers of the Heenan fly are now tn a dormant condition (the so-called tlaxt-seea state) so IoW down in the stalk that they are left In the stubble when the wheat- is cut, This is true of the entire wheat region of Illinois' He therefare urgently advises- that the stubble be burned at the earliest day possible, and that, where this is imptactical»e, the infested fields be plowed deeply and rolled. Ex-Speakeil Qolfax writes to the Lockport (N. Y.} that while he has no intention of returning to public life he still believes tfie people have confidence in his integrity, ana avers that, Oakes Ames’ oath to the contrary, he never had a share or a dollar of the dividends of the Credit Mobilier of America.

Two men named Brown and Mayer were arrested for an attempted outrage on the daughter of a wealthy citizen of Sunbright, Tenn They confessed, and were summarily lynched... Henderson Lee, colored, was lynched at Monroe, La., for stealing... Portions of Garland, Yell, and Montgomery counties, Ark., have for some time been under the control of outlaws, who defy the local authorities. The other day Gov. Berry wrote a letter to the Sheriff of each county saying he had been urged to call out the militia, but saw np necessity for, doing so, and urging the Sheriffs to call out large posses to hunt the outlaws down

According to a T report just received at the Navy Department, there would seem to be very earnest need of a prohibitory law in the navy. Drunkenness is alarmingly prevalent among the officers of the Asiatic squadron, and the loss of the steamer Ashuelot is directly traceable to the use of liquor.... A special agent of the Treasury Department calls attention to the large number oi assisted immigrants arriving at Canadian ports with through tickets to points in the Western States. Twenty-eight paupers from one vessel were recently found destitute at Buffalo and sent to the Erie county almshouse. Canadian steamers engaged in the cattle trade with Great Britain bring back these immigrants at the lowest rates. Gladstone having announced in the House of Commons that Charles Bradlaugh has affirmed his intention to take his seat, despite any orders of the House Northcote moved that he be excluded from its precincts until he agreed not to disturb the proceedings, which was carried—232 to 65.... Cholera is raging with violence at Swatow, Chinn A yacht will be held in readiness at Cairo to take the Khedive to Naples. One European died at Alexandria, where the abatoirs are in a filthy condition

Near Plinville, Ct., a passenger train dashed into a gravel train, causing the death of two men, injuring one fatally, and badly shaking up the passengers The bodies of two of the victims were thrown forty feet over the telegraph wires. A telegraph operator caused the disaster bv failing to give the passenger conductor necessary instructions.,.. Four apartment bindings, eleven stories high, are to be erected at Sixth avenue and Fifty-ninth street, New York, at a cost 82,400,000.