Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A cable dispatch from London says that Cetewayo, the Zulu King, has turned np alive and well, though he was severely wounded in his last battle with his insurgent people. He has made a formal request to Queen Victoria asking that she will order a full inquiry into the treatment he has received at the hands of the people who are under her protection.... Official reports say tbe British wheat acreage is 13 per cent below last year's average; and frem reports from 239 districts it is lea: ned that in onlv eighty-nine will there be an average yield, while in thirty-tin ee sections the crop will exceed that usually harvested... /Ihere has bean serious rioting between tire Catholics and Orangemen of Coatbridge, Scotland. Two policemen received dangerous wounds. Mounted officers dispersed the mob with twenty arrests... Denis henaliawe,, an- Orangeman, while being evicted from his house at Banbridge, Ireland, shot three policemen... .In County Silgo, the Parliamentary election resulted in a victory for Nicholas Lynch, the HomeRule candidate, over Kane O’Hara the Conservative candidate.... Francis Carey, brother of the informer, was assaulted by two would-be assassins in Dublin. He drew a revolver and captured both of the men, taking them to the police station. Assistant Postmaster General Hatton says that the surplus revenue of the Postoffice Department will probably exceed #2,500,800 for the last fiscal year, an advance of #1,000,000 over the surplus of the previous year “The saving is largely due," says Gen. Hatton, “to the cutting down of the star-route incident to the exposure bf the star-route ring;” Mortimer Hill went to his father-in-law’B house, near Munoie, Ind, where his wife was, and taking off his boots crept to the window of his wife's room while she was lying in bed with her babe. Taking careful aim he shot her in the breast, and immediately fired a ball into his own head and another into his heart, tbe latter wound causing instant death. The couple had been married only a year, but lived unhappily on account of Hill's drinking habits On a ferryboat plying between Detroit and Windsor, Luke Phipps, a bar-tender in the former city, walked up behind his wife Effle, fired three shots into her body, and die fell dead Jealousy prompted the crime. ... .Ezra Douglass, a printer, was killed by his wife at Nebraska City, Neb., the woman, who was insane, then putting a bullet through her own brain At Cincinnati, Ohio, Burt Scbeibel shot and killed Miss Jessie Stubb, and then took his own life. Jealousy.... .Sijas Merchant manufacturer of ice machines and water pipes, Cleveland, Ohio, has made an assignment His assets are estimated at#lso,ooo, while his liabilities will probably not exceed #IOO, €OO.

By fire in the Eclipse lubricating refinery, at Franklin, Pa., nine tanks, many stills, and some valuable machinery were destroyed. Losb #-00,0t0... .The temporary embarrassment of Joseph F. Paul & Co., Boston lumber dealers, is announced. Gen. C. P. Stone estimates the cost of the Florida ship canal, 187% miles in length, and sufficiently wide to allow of the passage of two sea going steamers of the first class, at #46,000,000. The saving of distance between New York and New Orleans will be 500 miles. T?he official reporter of the Presidential excursion party sends word from Camp Teton, Wyo. Ter., that the party were all enjoying excellent health, but were unlucky as fishermen. The report, describing the march fiom the preceding camp, says: “The course was in a westerly direction, along the north side of the Gros Ventre river. The trail was beset with few of those difficulties which the fortnight’s trails in the wilderness has made so familiar. After having climbed to the summit of a long hill, about five miles from Camp Arthur, there suddenly burst upon the view a scene as grand snd majestic as was ever witnessed. Below, covered with grass and flowers, was a lovely valley, many miles in extent, through which threaded the river on whose banks the last camp was pitched. Along the whole western edge of this valley, with no intervening foot-hills to obstract the view, lowered the magnificent Teton mounta ns, their snowy summits piercing the air 8,000 feet abo\e the spot where the party stood in reverent admiration, and 14,609 feet above the level of the sea It was tbe voice of every member of the party that that sight alone would have fully repaid all the toils and perils of the march. ” The Washington monument now weighs 70,000 tons.