Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A fire on the corner of Atwater and Griswold streets, Detroit, burned the building of the Steam Supply Company and other structures valued at SIOO,OOO. The steamer B. S. Ford, valued at $175,000, was burned at her wharf at Charlestown, Md. Forest fires in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland wiped out hundreds of thousands of acres of valuable dibber and extinguished several villages, entailing an estimated loss of $4,000.(100. Thirty-one buildings at Gainfcsville, Fla., were reduced to ashes, onusing a loss of $140,000. Other fire losses of the week were as follows; Losses. Remington, Ind., business property $ 25,000 East, Saginaw, Mich., shingle and saw mill ..., 40,000 Hawklnsville, Ga., stores 25,000 Van Wert, Ohio, stave mill ; 20,000 Englewood, 111., hotel. 10,000 New York City, dry goods store 400,000 Peoria, 111., distillery ;iv=vTrrr : 10JW0 Breckinridge, Minn., stores and shops... 10,000 Montreal, warehouse. 30,000 Presque Isle, Me., twenty-four buildings 130,000 Kansas Pity, Mo., livery stable 10,000 Berlin, Ohio, flouring mill 35,000 Baltimore, oyster canning house 40,000 Waco, Texas, warehouse and.contents... 60,000 Cincinnati, nlaning mill 5OJ)O0 Wausau, Wis., machine shop and flour mill 00,000 -Williamsport, Pa., saw mill 20,000 Prairie City. lowa, stores and shops 100,000 Marquette, Mich., hotel 25,000 Morrison, lowa, postoffice and k other buildings 20,000 Shell Rock, lowa, dry goods 5t0re....... .. 16,000 Troy, N. Y., live buildings 34,000 Williamstown, N. Y., business property. 75,000 Wichita. Kansas, church 15,000 Portland, Maine, drugstore 60,000 Edgewood, Pa., private dwelling 30,000 Bradley’s Pond, N. Y., thirty houses 25,000 The losses caused by fires in the United States and Canada during the month of April of this year aggregated $10,300,000, against an average for the last nine years during the same month of $7,500,000. Since the Ist of January the losses have amounted to $37,550,000, being $6,000,000 more than for the same period in 1883. Recent deaths: Ex-Gov. Marcus L. Ward, of New Jersey; Thomas Goff, a millionaire distiller of Cincinnati and Aurora, Ind.; Dr. Willard Parker, an eminent surgeon of New York; Gen. Emerson Oydyke, an eminent New York merchant; Sanford B. Hunt, editor of the Newark (N, $.) Advertiser; Prof. O. M. Connover, Reporter of the Wisconsin Supreme Court; exGov. Henry M. Matthews, of West Virginia; George Cadwallader, a prominent San Francisco lawyer; Sir Michael Arthur Bass, M, P., head of the famous English brewing firmj Asa Ayers, of Michigan City, Ind., a veteran of the war of 1812; Gen. William Poynter, of. Philadelphia; Baron Raglan, of London, son of the famous Crimean General; Catholic Bishop Toebbe, of the Diocese of Covington, Ky. Major Connolly, of Illinois, has formally declined the Solieitorship of the Treasury, although the Senate promptly confirmed the nomination At the meeting of the House Committee on Expenditures of the Department of Justice, the other day, Mr. Springer read a letter from William Pitt Kellogg, in which the latter asked to be allowed to appear before the committee with counsel. Kellogg further said that if the committee did not investigate him he would ask the House to appoint a special committee to conduct the investigation. The committee instructed Mr. Springer to confer with Mr. Kellogg, and suggest that the latter offer a resolution in the House asking for an investigation. It is the intention of the committee to investigate the conduct of the officials of the Government in the prosecution of Kellogg. Mr. Vast Wyck, of Nebraska, introduced a bill in the Senate, bn the sth inst., to restrict aliens and foreign corporations in the ownership of public lands, and Mr. Plumb offered a measure to forbid aliens acquiring title to real estate in any Territory or the District of Columbia, A favorable report was made on the House bill granting a pension to the widow of Gen. Jndson Kilpatrick. There -was an interesting discussion of the shipping bill. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution seating O’FerraU- (Democrat) as a member from Virginia, in place of Paul (Readjnster), and he was sworn in. Bills were introduced to exclude the public lands of Arkansas from the operation of the-laws relating to mineral lands, and to issue patents!cr lands to any Pacific road which shall complete its track within thirty days. Objection was made by Mr. Weller to the consideration of a joint resolution appropriating $10,900 to defray the expenses of the Siamese Embassy.