Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The week’s death record includes the names of Helen King Spangler, of Cosh, octon, Ohio, an authoress of some celebrity; Wendell Bollman, a famous bridge birilder, of Baltimore, Md.; Dr. L. P. Yandell, of Louisville, Ky., who had a national reputation as a physician and medical writer; Otis P. Lord, ex-Judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court; George Ball, a public-spirited banker, of Galveston, Tex.; Henry A. Tilden, brother of Hon- Samuel J. Tilden; Baroness Lionel do Rothschild, at London, England: ex-Congressman Jbhn Taffe, North Platte, Neb.; Richard H. Home, English poet and essayist; Dr. J. M. Mills, of Shelbyviile, 111., a prominent Mason: Henry Brown, of Niagara Falls, formerly a slave in Virginia, aged 121; Emil Baling, of Hustisford, Wis., a lieutenant in the German army in 1848; Mrs. Annie Key Turner, of California, daughter of the author of the “Star Spanglea Banner.” Failures: A. J. McCain & Co., bankers, Museoda, Wis., liabilities, $25,000; Merchant & Co., flour shippers, Baltimore, liabilities, $30,003; Van Grafuland & Co., soapmanutacturers, St. Louis; Nickerson* Co., shoe manufacturers, Lynn, Mass.; John Pitroff, coal merchant, Madison, Ind.; C. J. Hauck, dry goods, Peru, 111., liabilities, $20,000; D. K. Mason, tobacco, Louisville, Ky., liabilities $30,000; Jules Famechou, merchant and miller, Prairie du Chien, Wi§., liabilities $50,000; Shropshire & CO., wholesale liquors, New Orleans, liabilities $50,000; Wolff & Siligsbury, coffee, New York,, liabilities $200,000; L. S. Risley, coffee. New York, liabilities $100,000; Charles W. Hasler, broker, New York, liabilities $100,000: Simonine & Co., tobacco, Louisville, Ky., liabilities $75,000; Ringler & Co., general store. Pine Bluff, Ark., liabilities $26,000; J. E. Cook & Co., Morris, N. Y., liabilities $75,000; George W. Gifford, stoves, Chicago, liabilities $20,000. The Board of Trade of Minneapolis has adopted resolutions denouncing the new schedule of freight rates on the Northern Pacific Road, alleging that on many articles the same prices are eharged from St. Paul as from New York. The railway officials explain that the ocean freight tariffs compel them to do this, and plead that their figures to points make it impossible for Portland to compete with St. Paul or Minneapolis.-»w-Capt, B. D. Winegar, last week, with his team, drove from Escanaba,Mich., to Washington Island, a distance of thirty-five miles, on the iGe, which he reports to be 3 feet 3 Inches thick, blue and solid. This l'cat was never accomplishedbefore... .Another Another snowslide is reported, this time at Conundrum Gulch, Col., about seventy miles west of Leadville. A small mining camp was burled and five men killed... .The Secretary of State of Michigan reports that in the southern four tiers of counties 211 correspondents think winter wheat suffered injury in February, while 271 are of the contrary opinion. Forty thousand dollars has keen collected by the liquor interest in Scott County, lowa, to test the prohibition bill after the Legislature adjourns....W. J. Arkell has purchased the Keening Journal, of Albany, and has given the editorial control to John A. Sleicher... .Mr. Breckinridge, a son of the late Vice President, has been elected to the Legislature from Mariposa County, California. A disease prevails among cattle in Erie County, Pa., in which the hind quarters and tail slough off, and the animals have to be killed to put them out of pain. The feet and mouth are not affected. A joint resolution appropriating $50,000 for the suppression of the fopt-and-mouth disease passed the Senate March 17. Petitions from several commercial bodies were presented asking tbe repeal of the law for the coinage of the silver dollar, as also from mercantile organizations in St. Louis for the extension of the bonded period for whisky. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to report what pension applications have been pending for more than two years, and the reason for the delay. A resolution was agreed to that the Committee on Public Lands inquire in what manner large tracts have been transferred to foreign corporations, and what legislation is advisable to prevent such possession. In the House, Mr. Henley offered a resolution for an investigation of the circumstances of the Alaska Commercial Company’s lease. Bills were introduced to require all subsidized railroads to furnish a quarterly statement of their earnings and indebtedness;permitting the five civilized tribes of Indian Territory to have organized governments and National Banks; to suspend for two years the coinage of the silver dollar, and to authorize the payment of $50,000 to the grandchildren of Thomas Jefferson. The rules were suspended to pass the special deficiency appropriation of $1,619,000. A resolution was adopted to appropriate $50,000 •from the contingent fund to prosecute the investigation into the loss of the Jeannette.