Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1883 — ADDITIONAL HEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL HEWS.

The appearance of cholera in the city of Alexandria wali followed by a panic, and a great hegira of the inhabitants to escape the dreadful plogne / The soourge has appeared in several places in Cairo, and is spreading in the filthy Arab quarter. At Damietti, Man«oorah, Samonond and Monzaleh the disease still .rages. It had ah p mr de its appearance at the pyramid & Another great storm swept through the Norflhwest on the 16th inst At Fort Alkins, Wi&, 100 hundred buildings were wrecked, six persons injured, and a damage of #'O,OJJ inflicted At Pekin, IIL, the roof of Ihe Peoria depot was unroofed, two stories of the Beemls House swept away, and a brick foundry blown down. The damage n the city is estimated at'950,0».0, while the sutroonding country suffered twice that amount At Des Moines, lowa, the wind attained a velocity of fortyeight miles an hour, and several dwellings were unroof d. At many other points ra Illinois, Wisconsin and lowa the effects of the storm were seriously felt In the French Chamber of Deputies, the Minister of Foreign Affairs declared that .unexplained events could not impair good relation with England, and that if a grave error had been committed at Tamatave the French Government would act in accordance with ju tice... .The police of Dublin thwarted an attempt to fire the house of James Carey, the informer. Frederick M, Ker, who embezzled #58,(09 from Presten, Kean & Co., of Chicago, and fled to South America, has been brought back. Ker states that the stolen money was lost in speculation on the Board of Trade The firm expended nearly #15,(00 to secure the thief. President Huntington, of the Cen-tral-Southern Pacific, is hard at work in Washington, his desire being to secure the Texas Pacific land-grant of 14,000,000 acres before Congress shall meet He is reported in the dispatches as entirely satisfied that he will succeed, notwithstanding the protests of many public men who have been prominent In the lapsed land-grant movement A boiler in a Glen’s Falls (N. Y.) paper-mill exploded with terrible effect. Twelve persons were wounded, some of them probably fatally. The explosion was followed by a fire, almost completely destroying the building, and causing a loss ol *IOO,OJO. Two colored men fought a duel near Helena, Ark., in which one was shot through the mouth with a rifle, and the other received a charge of buckshot in the groin. They mounted mules and rode off In different directions, but both were soon dead.