Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The business failures of the week include John Shammer, drygoods, Wapakoneta, Ohio, liabilities $30,000; Novelty Iron Works, Cleveland. Ohio, $50,000; Goodwin & Summer, shoes, Lynn, Mass., $60,000; Lyman & Curtis, toys, Now York, $150,000; Oshawa Cabinet Company, Toronto, $55,000; Evan Edwards, dry goods, Appleton, Wis., $25,000; H. G. &F. Coburn, hotel-keepers, Howard City, Mich., $16,000; J. P. Cooper, hardware, Eau Claire, Wis., $50,000; Fred Treyser, job printer, Milwaukee, $15,000; Z. J. Shalek, hops and barley, York, $40,000; Consolidated Paper Company, paper, Chicago, $97,000. The deaths of the week include the names of Bishop Robert H. Clarkson, of the Episcopal Church, at Omaha, Neb., aged 5S years; Amos P. Morrill, Judge of the Eastern District of Texas; Edward D. Payne, of Dayton, Ohio, a brother of the Senator-elect; Capt. John Archer, a retired shipmaster, of Salem, Mass., who was a prisoner at Dartmoor; Abraham Breath, of Alton, 111., one of the sixty men who enrolled themselves to defend Owen Lovejoy in tbe riots of 1837; Gen. James K. Moorhead, of Pittsburgh, exmember of Congress from Pennsylvania; A. M. Sutherland, Secretary of the Province of Manitoba;, Rev. John S. Inskip, of Asbury Park, N. Ji, editor of the Christian Standard; Cardinal Pietro, of Home, Italy; Rev. Dorus Clark, eminent Congregational divine of Boston; George Cragin, of Utica, N. Y., one of the founders of the Oneida Community in 1848; JoelT, Griffin, an old resident of Omaha, who was Postmaster in 1870. The district in Kansas where the foot and mouth disease has appeared has been quarantined. A Topeka dispatch reports a movement on foot to purchase and kill the infected stock and burn the carcasses. Wyoming stock-growers were also taking steps to prevent the disease from gaining a foothold in their Terrritory. Nathan P. Pratt, 73 years old, convicted of embezzling tho funds of the Reading (Mass.) Savings Bank, while Treasurer, in 1879, has been sentenced at Boston to four years at hard labor, and has already been five years in jail. Pratt's son, Sidney P., who disappeared at the time, was the principal culprit. Seventy picked detectives of London have received instructions for the pursuit of dynamiters. The Invincibles of Paris have selected four men to take the life of McDermott, the informer. The police of Vienna and Pesth have discovered an extensive plot. A policeman at the capital of Moravia was murdered by anarchists. Two resolutions for a constitutional amendment to make only gold and silver a legal tender were offered in the Senate on the 10th inst. A bill was reported-for the- sale of- the Cherokee Indian reservation in Kansas, and a measure was in trod ucod to dispose of the Kiekapoo diminished reservation in the same State. Three hours were spent in debate on the Mexican treaty, in secret session. In the House of Representatives, bills were introduced to incorporate the Yellowstone Park and the Spokane Falls and Coeur d’Alene Roads, and to grant the right of wav through Indian Territory tb the Kansas City. Fort Scott and Gulf, the St. Louis and Baxter Springs, and the St. Joseph and Rio Grande Roads. Two constitutional amendments were proposed, giving Congress the power to make only gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. A bill was introduced granting copyright to -newspapers. A message was received " from the President transmitting documents from the Secretary of State relative to the resolution on the death of Herr Lasker. Mr. Guenther asked that it be immediately read, though Mr. Cassidy suggested in an undertone that it might be better to wait until the, new steel cruisers were completed. After the documents had been read Mr. Hiscock offered the following preamble and resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs : “Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of the House that a communication from it to the Parliament of the German Empire, entirely friendly in its intent, respectful in its character, and sent through the regular channels of international communication, has been arbitrarily intercepted and returned by a person now holding the position of Chancellor of the German Empire; theretore be it Resolved, That this House cannot but express surprise and regret that it should be even temporarily within the power of a single too powerful subject to interfere with such a simple, natural, and spontaneous expression of kindly feeling between two great nations, and thus to detract from the position and prestige of the crown on one hand and from the rights of the mandatories of the people on the other. Resolved, That this House doolffcreby reiterate the expression of sincere rcgWtkt the death of Eduard Lasker and its sympathy with the Parliament of tbe Germans Empire, of - which for many years life was a distinguished member. ' A resolution offered by Mr. Deuster reciting that the United States Minister to Germany has been assailed by semi-official newspapers at Berlin, and calling on the Secretary of State for copies of any communications and official correspondence which he may have on this subject, was also referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee.