Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Berry Johnson, a negro, after chokJnd his wife to death at Shreveport, La., filled her mouth with snuff and Informed the neighbors that she died from going to sleep with snuff in her mouth. Alexander L. Lee took a dose of morphine in the presence of his family, at Jackson, Mich., and ran out of his house, pursued by bis children and his neighbors. The dose took fatal effect before he was c iught. The suicide grows directly out of the Crouch massacre. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has decided that there, is no appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents.to the Secretary of the Interior. Business has been resumed in the Mexican capital, and the trouble Is over. A full understanding between the merchants and the Government has been arrived at, the Government agreeing to make liberal modificaticns of the tax regulations Residents of Quebec Province continue to flock to the United States, but principally to the New England manufacturing centers. A number of French Canadians are also emigrating to the Turtle Mountain districts of Dakota.... The steamship Reliance, plying between New York and Rio de Janeiro, was lost off Bahia, with a cargo of coffee. Her passengers and mails were saved. A free fight between rival factions of Hungarian miners occurred at a place called Ross Hill, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., during the celebration of the Easter/festivities. The ass air grew out of an attempt at robbery by one Hungarian, of another.— .Stones, knives, and clubs were freely used. Several men were injured, some, it is thought, fatally... .An explosion of fire-damp in the coal mine of J. A. Wood & Sons, near Elizabeth, Pa., killed two men and severely Injured two others. Nearly 1,300 citizens of New Jersey expressed their Presidential preferences at the request of a Trenton journal. The Democrats proved to be about equally divided between Ti den and Randall. Twothirds of the Republicans favored Blaine and Lincoln, most of the remainder supporting Edmunds and Lincoln. The naval appropriation bill, with amendments for the construction of crtiisers and for the preparation of plans and estimates for an armored vessel of 8,500 tons displacement, passed the Senate on the 14th inst A petition was received from Mrs. James A. Garfield and five hundred other citizens of Cleveland, praying that the Nez Perces be returned to their home. A favorable, report was made on the resolution granting certain publications to the Cincinnati Law Library. Hills were introduced to place General Fremont on the retired list and to forfeit the unearned lauds of the Northern Pacific Road. Severalisections of the bankruptcy bill were considered. In the House, Mr. Reed offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing the Committee on Agriculture to inquire into the introduction of the foot-and-mouth disease in Maine through the oversight of Federal officials, and to report a bill to reimburse citizens for expenses in suppressing the disease. Mr. Turner introduced a bill for a tax of 3 per cent, on incomes of $5,000 and of 10 per cent, on $100,0'30 or more. Measures were also presented to bridge the Ohio River at Cincinnati; to place on the free list agricultural implements and all machinery used in the manufacture of farm products; to retire John C. Fremont with the rank of Major General, and to establish a signal station at Houston, Texas. A bill to bridge the Potomac near Georgetown was defeated in committee of the whole.