Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

JuLl returns of the lowa election (says a Des Moines dispatch to die Chicago Inter Ocean), “have been received from nine-ty-sevqn of the ninety-nine counties in lowa. Of these Sherman has majorities in seventysix amounting to 38,317, and Kinne has majorities in twenty-one amounting to 14,439. Gen. Weaver's vote will reach about 15,000. The counties of Lyon and Shelby are yet to hear from, but they will not materially change the above figures. Sherman’s plurality is a little above 24,000, and his majority over Kinne and Weaver Will be in. the neighborhood of 5,500. In the Legislature the House will have fifty-two Republicans, and possibly fifty-three, which is barely enough for a constitutional majority. The Senate will have forty Republicans out of fifty. There is no doubt that the Legislature will enact prohibitory laws. There are at least thirty-five of the Senators who are pledged to use their influence and votes in that direction, while a Very* large majerity of the Republican members of the- House were elected upon that issue alone, and of course stand pledged to work and vote for prohibition.” In an interview with a Chicago Tribune reporter, “ Gov. Merrill expressed entire confidence in the Legislature’s purpose and ability to pass a prohibitory law; for, while the Republican majority in the House was small, it was sufficient. Besides, there were five out of the seven Greenbackers who would act with them on that question, and prohibition would go upomthe statute books.” The Sub-Committee of the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Education visited the Amoskeag and Manchester companies’ mills, in New Hampshire, where the process Of cloth-making was observed, after which the examination of, witnesses was resumed. Father McDonald, of Manchester, disputed the right of a Congressional committee to come into New Hampshire and inquire into the affairs of its people. Senator Blair replied that citizens of New Hampshire were citizens of the United States, and Congress surely had the power to send its committees anywhere within the United States to gather information needed by either house. The committee had no desire for compulsory testimony, but if ,he knew any of the grievances of the working people they would like him to state them. Father McDonald then complained that the tenement-houses were badly constructed, being too hot in summer and not properly heated in winter, and that no supervision was exercised over food supplies by board-ing-house keepers, which were often very bad.

During services in a Jewish synagogue at Ziwonka, Russia, a false alarm of fire was raised, in the women’s gallery, which caused a panic. The people rushed for the door, where there was a terrible crush. Forty women were killed and thirty others injured.... A menfber of the German commission which went to Egypt to investigate thp sense and nature of cholera, declares that he has found that a person afflicted with the disease is filled with living thread-like “organism,” to be seen only with the microscope... .Irving Bishop, the mind-reader, at an exhibition in Dublin, failed four times to give the number of a bank note, then fainted, and afterwards grew dangerously ill from congestion of the brain --- A train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad struck and killed four children ranging in ages from 5 to 17 years, near Connellsville, Pa. They had been out walking and were returning home along the railroad track. At the point indicated they had stepped off the west to the east track to avoid a passing freight train, when the east-bound passenger train thundered around a curve and caught the party, crushing them to death. The twenty-sixth annual session of National Association of Local Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church was held at Philadelphia laßt week. The Rev. N. U. Walker, of Ohio, presided... .The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the sections of the Civil-Rights act relating to prosecutions for not admitting colored persons to equal privileges in hotels, cars and theaters, are unconstitutional and void so far as the States are concerned, but may apply in the Tei-ritories...,Customs officers at San Francisco have discovered that the Chinese Government is issuing to common laborers certificates that they are professional traders, and thus enabling them to evade the Restriction law. Four members of the commission created by President Arthur to investigate every stage of the manufacture of pork have assembled at Washington to lay their plans. The chemical and microscopical work is in progress under Dr„Dltmar, ip Chicago, where the commission will meet abdut' Nov. 15.