Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A dispatch from B>lt Lake, Utah, nays: Tbe general election in this Territory, being the first under the Edmunds law, was one the quietest ever had in the Territory. The Mormons and Gentiles bad tickets for Members of the legislature. Territorial county, and precinct officers, but there had teen no campaigning or canva<sing on the stump or in the press. The Gentiles accepted, as a foregone conclusion, that their defeat would be overwhelming and the Mormons realized that victory was certain. The Gentiles practically abstained from voting. Their ticket was not seen at many preejnets until late in the day. The returns all show unexpectedly large Mormon majorities. It is probable the Gentile * carried Summit conn y. All o her counties have certainly gone for the Mormon,-. This city gives about'four Mormon votes to one Gentile No polygamist voted, and no polygamisttran for office, though the many wived ruled in the nominating conventions and made up the Mormon ticket An Alexandria dispatch says: “One hundred and ten British soldiers have died from cholera in Egypt since the outbreak of the disease. The general spread of the disease is now no longer doubtful and great anxiety prevails Business is suspended. Agriculture is neglected. Judgment aga nab the fellaheen are not to be executed for two months. The railway service is reduced to a minimum. The postal service is greatly unret The custom receipts are failing. The Egyptian officials in the different branches of the administration are disorganized. Persons arriving from the interior report that the cattle-plague is worse than ever, and that the dGeased meat is consumed by the natives as heretofore.” Nearly 1,000 children under 5 years of age died in Chicago during July. There were 200 more deaths of all ages than in July, 1883, and 400 less than occurred during July, 1881. The total of July, 1883, was 1,470.... The Texas fever has broken out among the native cattle at Dodge City,Ran., resulting in the death of great numbers of stock.... At a logging camp in Roscommon county, Mich., three men were killed by the explosion of a portable engine. An outbreak in the Spanish city of Badajos was participated in by 700 soldiers of the garrison and 400 civilians, who pronounced for the republic, disarmed the gendarmerie, and closed the gates of the fortress. Gen Blanco was dispatched from Madrid with a strong force, and a state of siege was declared....A mass meeting of 30,000 persons protested, in Trafalgar Square, London, against the exclusion of Bradlaugh from the House of Commons. The great business boom started in the spring of 18S0. The bank clearings then began to pile higher and higher, until one week early in the year 1881 they reached nearly >4,800,000,000. Last week’s returns showed the smallest business of any week, as gaged by the clearings in three years One year ago the exchanges at New York city alone were larger than the total for the whole country last week. Two years and a half ago New York city exceeded the total for all the cities last week by >500,003,100. Twentv eight clearing houses last week exhibited exchanges amounting to only >796,51)8,288. The Hon. Bradley Barlow, President of the Vermont National Bank, of St Albans, has failed, and the bank has also closed its doors. The failure was caused by Barlow’s efforts to sell his Southeastern railwaytothe Canada Pacific proving ineffectual The St Albans Trust Company, whose President was a heavy indorser of Barlow’s paper, was forced to make an assignment.... In presence of 10,000 New Yorkers, JohnL Sullivan had a boxing-match with Herbert A. Slade, whom he knocked out in the third round. The receipts at the door were nearly >16,000. The services of 100 policemen were deemed necessary inside the garden and twice that number outside... .For the year ended June 30. last the New York Central railroad had gross earnings of > -8,919,444.72, upon which New York State levies >143,647.22 as taxes. J. Proctor Knott was elbcted Governor of Kentucky by an apparent majority of 45,000. Henry Clay, a grandson of the statesman, was defeated for the Legislature in the Louisville district... .An election riot occurred at Bryantsville, resulting in two negroes being shot dead, two fatally wounded, and three other persons (two white) seriously W. McNair, nominated for Governor by the late Minnesota Democratic State Convention, declines to accept the nomination.