Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Two men were admitted to a drygoods store in Hot Springs at midnight on the pretense that they wanted 'material for a shroud. The clerk was instantly forced to produce the key to the safe, and the robbers soon left with SIO,OOOA Greenville (Miss.) dispatch says “there was a difficulty at a political meeting between a colored man named Homer and Frank Montgomery. As usual on such occasions, pistols were drawn and shooting commenced. Sam Finlay (white) was seriously injured. Three negroes were shot. One is dead, one is expected to die, and the other was slightly wounded. A Coroner’s jury found that Homer was killed by Montgomery and Finlay. The trouble arose over local politics.” Two children of Charles Peitzel, of Boston, are dying of hydrophobia, one of the children having been, inoculated by being bitten by his brother in his paroxysms. A third child, though not bitten by a dog or his brother, is also afflicted. . . .Owing to difference of opinion with his colleagues touching editorial treatment of public questions, Carl Schurz has severed Iris connection with the New York Evening Post. ...Five men who were out hunting oq Niagara river were drowned by the capsizing of their boat. During the fierce November gale the steam-barge 'Enterprise went ashore near Coekburn island, Lake Huron. A party on a tug went from Detroit the other day to get the vessel off. The cargo was lightered and a canvas drawn under the hull. Then the damaged craft was pulled away and a large number of people got aboard, the vessel seemingly leaking very little. While well out in the lake, the barge dropped to the bottom, and eightof the rash people who had placed so little value on their lives were drowned. The remaining five were rescued through the well-directed efforts of the crew of the tug.. ..A dispatch from Toronto states that a sail-boat containing seven decomposed bodies drifted ashore at Helce island. \ ■ Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution in the Senate, on the 10th inst., expressing disapprobation of the plan of perpetuating the bonded debt in the interest of the national banks. Mr. Hill called np and had passed a resolution asking the Secretaxy of the Interior to furnish conies of all papers relating to the transfer of the land grant of the New Orleans and Vicksburg road. Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution looking to the purchase for a national park .of the grounds occupied by the Revolutionary army at Valley Forge. A memoriarwas presented from veterans of the Mexican war asking for pensions. Eight hundred and twentyfour bills and joint resolutions were introduced in the House. There were numerous propositions to forfeit unearned land grants, to amend the homestead and pre-emption laws, to limit the coinage of silver, to amend the tariff, to reduce postage, to dig canals, and to Improve navigable rivers. Mr. Sumner introduced a bill to fix passenger rates on the Union and Central Pacific roads at 3 cents per mile for first-class travel. Mr. Rosecrans distinguished himself by presenting fifty-three measures, mpst of which were old bills printed upon writing paper. Mr. Springer introduced a bill amending the Constitution so as to prohibit special legislation. Mr. Clements brought in a bill to repeal the internal revenue laws; Mr. Henderson one to establish a board of inter-state commerce commissioners; Mr. Townshend, one to abolish second-class postage and reduce transient newspaper postage, and another to authorize the President to prohibit the importation of articles injurious to the public health from countries which, on the same ground, prohibit tie importation of American goods; Mr. Thomas, one to divide Illinois Into three judicial districts; Mr. -Finerty, one to provide for the construction of four gunboats and three additional cruisers for the navy; Mr. Holman, one to limit the disposal of public lands adapted to agriculture to actual settlers under the homestead laws. Mr. Calkins proposed a constitutional amendment, providing that no State, pub ic or private corporation, should deprive citizens of the equal protection of the laws or abridge the rights of ariy persons on account of race or color. Mfr. McCoid introduced a bill providing that in case of the removal, death, or resignation of the President and Vice President, the Secretary of State shall act as President until a special election shall be . held. Bills to create a postal telegraph system, and to reduce the postage on letters to 1 cent, were presented by Mr. Anderson, of Kansas. Among the bills relating to monetary matters was one by Mr. Morse to repeal the act for the coinage of standard silver dollars, and another by Mr. Whiting to remove all taxes on the circulation of national banks and to fix the amount of notes Issued upon the deposit of bonds. Mr. Hewitt offered a resolution that the House bring to the notice of the President the case of Patrick O’Donnell, to the end t at he ascertain whether he (O’Donnell) is a citizen of the United States, and. if so, whether he was tried and convicted in accordance with the municipal laws of Great Britain and the requirements of international law. Adopted by an overwheming majority. At the caucus of the Republican Senators, a letter was read from Mr. Edmunds resigning the Presidency pro tempore, and it was resolved that the nomination be given to Ijfr. Anthony.