Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Prince Bismarck is urging that the Emperor of Austria shall visit the King of Italy to give external confirmation of the triple alliance. If the programme is carried out the Emperor of Austria and the King of Spain will meet in Rome in the spring, and the King of Italy and the Emperor ,of Cernjtiny- at Berlin.... King Humbert ancl <ho Italian officials arc represented as being very much annoyed at the German Crown Prince’s recent visit to the Vatreatt. The Italian monarch is ropbrtod to have said that although the Crown Priuce staid at his paiuce as his guest it was 6olely the Pope that attracted him to 80rne.... The workingmen of Derby presented Glad stone with an address, u n eh was accompanied Ivy a porcelain service. In his reply he expressed the hope that the question of extending the right, of suffrage wbuld soon be presented to Parliament... .The Ulema of Mecca and other Moslem dignitaries'of Arabia have assured the Sultan of Turkey that the Arabians will continue loyal to him, and that they will have nothing to do with.the Falsa Prophet... .In the Fronch Chamber, M. Berk was victorious on the pork question, the result of which will be the withdrawal of the decre?, recently published, permitting too importation of American meats.... Since the visit of the German Crown Prince to the Pope, the Eighth corps of the Gormac army has been placed in .command, of Gen. volt Loe, a Catholic... .Fifteen students were burned to death in a Jewish school at Galata, a suburb of Constantinople-... .Lotta appeared for the first time in Ixmdon last week, and was hissed and guyed unmercifully. The London critics are very severe on the American actress. The ship Minnie M. Watts, which sailed from New York for San Francisco the 12th of last May with a cargo of railroad iron, has not been heard from since she passed Cape Horn, and it is feared that the vessel and cargo hare been lost Because es apathy shown in mission work in the Northwest the Baptists of Manitoba propose to separate from their brethren of Eastern Canada and unite with the American Baptist church, whose earnest work in tills connection is commended. miles of wire fence have been destroyed in Texas by the small herders, Coleman and Brown counties suffering the most. One man owns an inclosed tract thirty miles square, and a corporation has 286 miles of wire fence Bob Younger, one of the Jesse James gang, has been captured In Alabama upon a requisition from the Governor of Missouri A family of emigrants; consisting of six persons, wore drowned while attempting to cross a swollen stream in Logan county, Ark. Frank James gave bail at Kansas City In the sum of 53,000, and was set free. The Governor of Missouri has requested Senator Vest to secure at Washington a suspension of the Federal capias in the case, as the State prosecutions will be continued with vigor. ... Railroad travel and telegraphic communication were seriously impeded by the snow-storm of last week. At the New England society’s banquet in Philadelphia, lifter President Arthur had responded to a toast, and while Secretary Chnndler was Speaking of the American Steamship company as being the only lino of foreign-going oraft bearing the American flag. Mr. Shortrjdge, a Director of that company, arose and said the corporation was negotiating for the sale of their steamors, as they could not be run with profit under tho stars and stripes, but could bo under England’s ensign. Judge Wylie, of the Washington Criminal court, rendered a decision in the case of cx-Senator Spencer, charged with contempt of court in failing to appear in the star-route trial. The Judge held that the subptvna was not a subpuma because there was no penalty to it; that it had been improperly served and returned, and therefore be held the ease was nor one of contempt, aud discharged the prisoner. It has become tho fashion in France for snicidors to enter a restaurant, call for and eat aud drink the best, aud blow their brains out before paving the ; bill. The restaurant-keepers don’t liko the fashion. They say they don’t mind thp loss of the bill,A*ut it gives others the impression that the charges are so outrageous that the deceased preferred to die rather than pay them. —Cows are si ’ll used to drag the plow in Central Germany.