Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The sixth day of the Emma Bond outrage case at Hillsboro, lit, was largely consumed in establishing the ownership of a toe-nail found in the loft of the school-house the day after the crime was committed. The jarlng from the toe-nail was produced in court. It had a longitudinal ridge exactly corresponding to a ridge in the mafyn part of Montgomery’s toe-nail. The rest of the evidenee had no particu'ar force. The Plankinton House, Milwaukee, caught fire in the midst of a driving snow s iorm,, at an early hour in the evening. Intense excitement was. created, fears of a repetition of the Newhall holocaust being uppermost in the minds of all, and guests who had a short year ago hardly missed being cremated again made their way through corridorsfilled —with —dense smoke, —where a few inhalations of the lungs would have produced insensibility. So unbearable was the air in the hotel that no less than six firemen were carried to drug stores to be resuscitated. Forty female domestics, cooped in the upper part of the extensive structure, made their way to the ground by means of a fire-escape. The Chief of the fire department was badly injured by breathing smoke -and gas. The fire was overcome in an hour without very serious damage to the property, and no guest sustained any loss or injury^... .The Coroner’s jury at San Francisco astonished the city by bringing in a verdict that Jerome B. Cox killed Charles McLaughlin, the millionaire, in self-defense. ■ . Henry Villard has resigned the Presidency of the Oregon Transcontinental and Oregon Railway and Navigation company. w. Endicott, Jr., of Boston, succeeds him as President of the . Oregon Transcontinental company, and T." Jefferson Coolidge, of Boston, as President of the Oregon Railway and Navigation company.... The Supreme court of the United States has decided that the District court of .Dakota had no jurisdiction in the case of Crow Dog, the Indian chief who was sentenced to death for the murder of Spotted Tail, and the prisoner will be released. Patrick O’Donnell smiled while his. arms were being pinioned, and declined assistance in ascending the steps of the scaffold. Binns, the hangman, put the knot under the left ear of the condemned man, who fell eight feet when the lever was pulled. The head was found to be quite loose from the trunk. O’Dohnell's brother stood in a doorway opposite the prison, engaged in prayer, until all was over. The hangman was driven away in a postal van. No business was transacted in either branch of Congress on the 17th inst. In tlje Senate a message was received from the House announcing the death of Mr. Haskell, of Kansas, and was immediately taken up. *After appropriate remarks bv Mr. Ingalls, and ron his motion, the President of the Senate appointed Senatois Pl limb,Cockrell and Dawesa committee to attend the obsequies of the deceased Representative. The Senate out of respect to his memory then adjourned. The death of Mr. Haskell was announced in the House immediately after assembling, and, after-an eloquent uddress by his colleague, .Mr. Anderson, an adjournment was taken. The Republican Senators held a caucus, at which it was decided not to proceed to the election of a President pro tern of the Senate _ until . after the holiday recess. It was urged that the precarious condition of Senator Anthony 's health mitde it advisable not to make the eontemplated change just before the long recess. A resolution was adopted to retain the Union soldiers now upon the rolls of the Senate. The Democratic Senators held a caucus and decided to nominate as its Democratic officers ot the ' Senate those nominated at the caucus two years ago, as iolloxvs: L. Q. Washington, Secretary; R. J. Briuht. Sergeant-at-Arms; Col. Payton, Executive Clerk; F. E. Shober, 'Principal Clerk; Dr. Bullock, Chaplain.