Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. A Btt.i. Increasing the salaries j>t Judges of District Courts to $5,000 passed the Senate March 25, with the proviso that no Judge shall appoint to position tn his court any relative within the degree o. first cousin. A joint resolution was passed that Government laborers ■ shall be paid their regular wages to.: holidays. When the etfuc ition bill came up. Mr. Brown argued that its provisions were demand' d by the < nfranchisement of the negroes, and Mr.] Shennan Showed that the States were left practica’ly without restriction irf expending t’io money appropriated. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate} The Hi n. David J. Brewer,of Kansas, to be United States Judge,,fit.lhfeJiighth Judicial Circuit, to succeed Judge McCrary; Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan. Solicitor of the Treasury, and Col. David S. Stanley, of the - Twenty-second Infantry, to be Brigadier General. Thirteen members of the House of Representatives gave their views on the bonded whisky bill. Mr. Ellis asked leave to report a joint resolution for the distribution of $1’5,000 among snflerers by the overflow of the Mississippi, but an objection by Mr. York caused an adjournment. A bill for the allotment of lands in seven alty to Indians on the various reservations, and extending to the red men the protection of the lawsof their Slates or Territories passed the Senate March 78. Speeches on the education bill were made by Messrs. Vance, Dolph, Hoar, Jones, and Butter. The jointresolution giving a balance of sl2">,’K)o to the Mississippi suiterer.s was passed. The nomination of Aaron A. Sargent, now Minister at Berlin, to be Minister at St. Petersburg was promptly-confirmed.. The House of Representatives passed a joint resolution providing foi' the distribution in the overflowed district of the Mississippi River an d its tributaries of SI2SJ)(M) of the Unexpended appropriation for the relief of the destitute in the Ohio Vallby. A bill was introduced for the erection, of a_pedestal for 6he-statueof thedat.e Pres - ident Garfield at Washington. There was some debate on the. bonded whisky extension bill; President Arthur sent to both houses a special message advising appropriations toward commencing the construction of three steel cruisers and fonr gnnboats, to cost $4,2< i, o<r >. Thei Executive thinks it imprudent to delay work on these vessels for one year. He also urges the appropriation of $2,000,000 for finishing four doublo-turreted monitors. A bill appropriating $1,50) to pay the claims of eleven persons for depredations by the Utes at the time of the massacre at White River agency, passed the Senate March 27. The Committee on Library was directed to inquire into , the expediency of printing the official papers of President Monroe. A memorial was presented from the Legislative Assembly of Utah, protesting against the passage of measures affecting thb Territory without a full investigation by a Congressional committee. A favorable reSort was made on the joint resoluon to pay $25,000 reward for the rescue of the members of the Greely expedition. Mr. Hampton reopened the debate on the education bill with an appeal for aid by the General Government in educating the wards of the nation. In the House the bonded Whisky extension bill was- taken up Mr. Randall de lOuncedTtlie measure as tending to give permanency to the 2. internal revenue system. Mr. Blackburn made the closing appeal for the bill. A morion to strike ont the enacting clause was agreed to, and the House confirmed the action of the committee by 185 to 83. The bi 1 for the retirement of the trade dollar was discussed without action. Mr. Palmar, of Michigan, from the new Committee on Woman Suffrage, reported to the Senate, on the 28tli.ult., an. amendment to the Constitution to extend the right to vote to women. A resolution was agreed to calling on the Sec etary of the Treasury tor information as to what amount of the war tax of 1861 is unpaid, and whether the General Government has withheld money due to any State. Bills were passed authorizing a reward of $25,000 for ascertaining the fate of the Greely explorers, and permitting vessels to unload bulky articles, under the superintendence of customs officers, at placss to be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury. When the education bill camo up, Messrs. Lamar and George earnestly urged its passage, and Mr. (Jullom advocated an amendment mak-, Ing the tola! appropriation $40,000.00 >. In the House of Representatives, a concurrent resolution was introduced for the final adjournment of Congress June 2. The Commit tee on Judiciary made an adverse report on the bill for the relief of William McGarrahan. A measure to permit the citizens of Indian Territory to organize national banks was favorably- reported. An evening session was held for fife consideration of pension bills. Both hotises adjourned to the 31st. THE KANT. A microscopic examination of the } limbs of a young girl who died recently in : Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, of ' trichiniasis showed it to be full of parasitic worms. It is probe tie that eight or ton per- i sons will die on sx-esmst of jianakiug of the same animal of whose meat thy young woman ate. At Thompsc-n’s Point, N. J., the nitro-glycerine bouse of the Repauno Chemi- ■ cal Works exploded, killing and mangling six persons, among them Lamont Dupont, Vice President of tb- company; HIE ’WEST. The special Commissioner sent out ■ West by the Chicago TrCiunc to investigate the gold region of the Creui d’Alene Mountains. reports that there is no doubt of the existence of gold deposits along the banks of Eagle Creek, t>n a bar-claim forty feet above the water be himself washed out 15 hr 20 cents' werjh of dirt, and another worth tn the same way-.- Blithe doe- no* undertake to say f jis that there is gold in anfficont aT out. ttoph y. Claims are not being worked at the present time, owing to the , deep snow, arg; they likely L "QIJWSI. for six weeks to come. Jt believed’. there will be trouble in the dFstrlct on accouut’of opposing claims when the mining season opens. Ail person? are warned against attempting to enter the region for the next six weeks, as during the spring breaking-up travel will be far lucre difficult than it was during even the severest portion of the winter. A hurricane swept over Denver, . CoL, the City Hall and some of the finest blocks in the city being unroofed, whits signs and awnings were scattered in alßdirections. For hours together the wind blew at th? rate of sixty milts an hour. Several poisons were injured, but none fatally... .The first through train from the City of Mexico arrived in Chicago March 28.,..1n defiance of the prohibitory law of Kansas, a man named Herold opened a saloon at Canton. On the third day he was shot by a constable. The next morning the women of the place poured bisjiquor* the streeti lLAte reports from the Coeur d’Alene gold district in Idaho arc to the effect that the snow lies heavy on the ground, and operations have not yet begun, nor are they likely to commence lor weeks. In tho meuntimo the impatient prospectors amuse themselves in the l est way they can. and the gamblers appear to be doing a good business. Already disputes about claims have started. Many apparently rich discoveries have been made, but time alone will shpw whether they will “pan out" according to expectation. The price of everything is going up in conquence of the additional arrivals each day. Some opinion of what it costs to live there may be formed by the statement that a bushel of potatoes costs $27. Directors of the Northern Pacific and experts representing the company and the Drexel, Morgan & Co. syndicate, who have just returned from a tourtif inspection’ are said to have discovered that much valuable rolling-stock is practically useless, and that the road is vastly overstocked with all kinds of machinery. THE SOUTH. The Hon. J. Floyd King, member of Congress from Louisiana, has received 4 the following- telegram at Washington: BOPMXY* Miss., March 24.—Kemp Levee gave

Iway at 12:16. This makes the disaster complete and the Mississippi Valley one vast inland sea. This will make the loss beyond oalculaculation, to say nothtnituif the loss of life and suffering of the people. Congress must come to our relief mid feed the people at once. The lofts of onr gin-houses and floating, rafts will be the only place of abode. I believe the best mode, of distribution of supplies. is through the Engineer Department in charge of flip river ImprovPriient. They have every appliance ncbrnsnryf und less wtistenndirnrosttio-n .would attend’their efforts. E. L. WitrrNEY. WASHINGTON. Hon. David J. Brewer has been nominated by the President to bo Judge of the Eighth Judicial District, to succeed Judge McCrary. Judge Brewer lias been on the Kansas Supreme Bench for twelve years, is between 40 and 50 years of age. is a nephew of Justice Field, of the United States Supreme Court, is of New Englund stock, and a graduate of Yale, lie has lived in Kansas about twenty-five yours, and is one of the best known men in the .State, He .was born ih Asia Minor, where his father wus missionary, and ho is a nephew of David Dudley l-’ieM.... .Julius C. Burrows, of Mich‘igan, has been nominated by President Arthur for Solicitor of the Treasury. Min i stkbS argent’s i .t.rftnsfarfroni Berlfh to St. Petersburg, for which the pre liminaries have been completed, will take The country by surprise. The views of the adutinist rat ion are clearly stated tiy Secretary Frelingliuyeen, who cabled Mr. Sargent that his course in. the Lasker matter was approved, and that thg change’ was prompted only by regard for the .Minister’s personal feelings. ... .In the second trial at Washington, Hallett Killoiirne was awarded damages of 337,500 for false imprisonment liy John G. Thompson, -ex-Sergeant at-Artns of Hie Hpus<y of Repre--sentat ir es. ‘ ~ The House Committee on Posfoflices has decided to report favorably on the bill, giving letter carriers of the free delivery offices leave of absence for fourteen days in each year without loss of pay. Minister Sap.« ent’s proposed transfer from Berlin toSt; Petersburg is attributed to the peculiar dlplematieudeas of Secretary ErelingluiysenTlie .ti-ansfer w.as-Qppas.ed in., the Cabinet, and iLwas -proposed- that after his resignation of the German Embassadorship the post at Berlin should not be tilled for an indefinite period. The ways of Frelinghuysen pass the understanding of ordinary Americans. .—__x_ —_—. POIATICAJu. A Chicago Tribune correspondent at Missouri Valley, lowa, claims to have carefully interviewed every Republican within reach as to his Presidential Choice, the total number interviewed leingJlO. The result is: Blaine, lt)7; Logan, 62; Arthur, -41; Edmunds, 10. The Democrats almost unani•inously favor Tilden, and seem to think that with him success is unquestionable. McDonald and Payne are second and third choice. Horatio Seymour, after expressing the opinion that the nomination of Mr. Tilden would be a wise one for the Democtrey, claimed that the latter’s feeble condition and inability tohfalk are~positive advantages, as protection against intrusions. Out of sixty prominent Mississippi and Arkansas Democrats interviewed by a Chicago Times traveling correspondent there were twenty-six in favor of McDonald for President, fifteen for Bayard, fifteen for Morrison, the remainder scattered. Hon. James G. Blaine and Senator Logan were the favorites of she liepublicans interviewed, with a majority for Logan. The following is a list of the DemocraticCohgfes'smehwhdvotedagainstthe Morrison resolutions in caucus: Seymour and Eaton, of .Connecticut: McAdoo, of New Jersey; Arnot, Peach, Muller, Robinson, Spriggs, Wemple, Van Alstyno, Hardy, Hutchins, and Campbell, of New York; Elliott, Randall, Ermentrout. Mutchler, Storm, Connolly, Post. DuiU'ail. Cyrtin, Boyle, Hopkins, and Patton, of Pennsylvania: Murray, Warner, Seney, LeFtvre,Wilkins, Foran, Converse, Paige, and Follett, of Ohio; Lamb, of Indiana; RoSecrans, Tully, Glascock, Henley, Budd, and Sumner, of California; Snyder and .Wilson, Of West Virginia; Finlay, Covington, and Talbott, of Maryland; Cabell, Barbour, and Wise, of Virginia; Dibrell, of Tennessee; Hunt, of Louisiana; Scales,' of North Carolina; Clardy and O’Neill, of Missouri; Shelley, of Alabama; Dibble rfnd Tillman, of South Carolina —H Northern Democrats and 16 Southern Democrats. Ex-Senator Dorsey, in n letter to Congressman Springer, gives the names of prominent persons, heretofore not mentioned, as being connected with the Star Route frauds. Springer refuses to give the names now, preferring to let them be made public through Dorsey’s testimony when he appears before his. committee. A prominent Pennsylvania Republican has been saying at Washington that Blaine will not be'a candidate for the Presidential nomination this year, but that beds desirous of securing a largo following in: the National Convention, that he may be able to dictate who shall be the nominee. The Pennsylvanian seems .to think that the Blaine strength will go to Logan. GENERAL. Duncan C. Ross says he will give John L. Sullivan $10,l)(X>- to stand before • Mervine Thompson for four rounds. If Sullivan should accept, Ross asserts that he would hire a farm on the outskirts of Cleveland. fence it, there hold the exhibition, and make a fortune on the gate receipts. -lires of tlie- weolt ■ include tiie burning of an oil warehouse at Kansas City, Mo., loss 315,000; several storesand dwellings ,al TitMiTwaufcee.t2s.oof; a hotel nt fioodhou§e, 111.. $10,000: the Electric Candle Company’s factory. New York, SiOO.tOi; the City Hall, Postottiee. find many other buildings at. Greenville. Texas, $70,000; Chanpello’s acid works and a guano warehouse, Baltimore, StjO.OtO; seven stores at Hillsboro, Texas, $50,b00: an ax-handle - factory at Chattanooga, Tenn.. $15,003; the Holmes Block at Jacksonville, Fla., $40,0.00; a business block at Griyville, 111., $75,000 ; mining property near Wilkesbarre, Pa.. 320,04k);. a furniture store at Cheyenne, W. T., $150,000; a machine shop at Nashua, N. IL, 325.000; a tobacco ward ouse at laincaster. Pa., $30.04,0; a grain elevator at Metamora,' 111., $10,000; a saw mill at Grange, TeXas, 320,000; a saw and grist mill at Waterford, Pa., $25,000; a store at New Berlin. N. Y'., $20,000; Ilra.-.il, Ind., brick block, $10,030; a hotel at Auburn, N., Y., $30,000; a flouring mill near Galena, 111., $10,000; a hotel,at Ga., SIO,OOO. Dan. Dowd, James Howard, O. W. Semple, William Delane, and Dan Kelly, bandits, were hanged at Tombstone, A. T.; William R. McDonald was executed at San Bernardino, Cal.; Francisco Peres, at Placerville, Cal.; and Joe HoWard at Columbia, S. , C.—all for murder. Minister Sargent sent to Secretary Frelinghnysen a cablegram expressing his gratitude, for substantial ’indorsement, but declining to s bee pt a transfer to St- Petersburg. In reply to a second communication from Washington, Mr. Sargent stated that ill health caused him to take a leave of absence, alter which he wou’.d formally announce to the German Government his resignation. foreign. At a private political banquet in London, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Tory leader in the House of Ixjrds, said that the Feers had definitely agrsedto reject Mr. <sladstone’s franchise bill with the avowed intention of forcing a dissolution. The Torie* will then appeal to the coun-ry on a platform embracing a vigorous foreign policy, “which I shall make. British diplomacy and British anas respected abroad." The cable bripgs. th&news of the sudden and unexpected death of Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria’s joungest son. at Cannes, while en route for Darmstadt, to attend

the' wedding of the Princes Victoria of Hesse. Tho Prince was borp in 1853, and although always weakly and delicate, was intellectually stronger than any of his brothers. He was betrothed Nov. 21, 1831, to tho Princess Hclena -of- Waldeck, tout}- r owing to his poor health, tlfiff , wedding did not take place, iifitil April 27. 1882. a union from Which: one? child resulted, Mary Victoria Augusta Paulino..., Igidy Colih'Catnpl'en, formerly Miss Gertrude Blood, the beautiful daughter of an Irish gentleman residing in the County of Clare, has j ust procured a decree of divorce from her husband,/a son of the Duke of Argyll, on tho ground of adultery and other marital sins on his part. Lord Colin Campbell is the brother of Ix>rd Lorne, late Governor General of’ Canada.