Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Mr. Gladstone made one of his characteristically eloquent speeches in the British Parliament, the other day, opposing Sir Michael Hicks-Beach’s proposition for a vote of censure on the Government on account of its Soudan policy. He denied that the Gqvemment had abandoned Gordon; every step taken had for one of its objects the safety of that gallant soldier. But Mr. Gladstone said the Opposition could not drive the Liberals to sanction a war of conquest in the Soudan. “The war which the Mahdi is waging,” said Mr. Gladstone, “is a Jwar for freedom.” This statement was greeted with loud Liberal cheers.... George Anderson, a Seotch Liberal, gave notice in the British House of Commons of a motion condemning the-existence of the House of Lords. Jacob Schaefer and George F. Slosson played a game of billiards at Central Music HaJJ, Chicago, for the championship of the world at the balk-line ganQipj Schaefer won the (ffiampionship, which he already held, defeating Slosson by a score of 800 to 384, with the remarkable average of 38 2-21. The statement is made that Vanderbilt, on the eve of his departure for Europe, placed $10,000,000 of his Government bonds in the hands of friends to protect his stocks during his absence. This, is a notice to the bears that Vanderbilt has not left his rear exposed while he is perambulating the European art galleries and his wife is being fitted by Worth for some new dresses. A week’s death reeord: Hon. Truman Smith, of Connecticut, who served in Congress from 1839 to 1847, and in the Senate from 1849 to 1854; Prof. Samuel D. Gross, an eminent surgeon of Philadelphia; Col. Thomas H. Hunt, Treasurer of the World’s Exposition organization at New Orleans; William F. Clogg, a celebrated naturalist, of, Boston; Judah P. Benjamin, formerly United States Senator from Louisiana and Confederte Secretary of War, at Paris, France; John F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., who gave $1,000,000 to the cause of education in the Southern States; Lemuel Shaw, President of the Great Boott Mills, in Massachusetts; Midhat Pasha, the exiled Turkish statesman; Giovanni Prati, Italian poet and statesman; Paris C. Dunning, of Bloomington, Ind., who was Governor of Indiana in 1846; Charles Adolph Wartz, distinguished French chemist.. - The fire losses of the week were as recorded below: Losses. Shelburne, Ont., Royal Block.. ..$ 30,000 St, John, Quebec, chinaware factory 15,000 Houester. Mass., hotel 10,000 Detroit, M ch., 5awmi11...... 60,000, Cleveland, Ohio, flourmill. 25,000 Pittsburg, Pa., glass factory 20,000 Oswego, N. Y., steam tug 20,000 Florence, Wis., mine machinery 15,000 Metamora, Ind., business block 15,000 Boston, business block 50,000 Cloquette, Wis., planing mill 20,000 Columbiana, Ohio, flouring mill 30,000 Norwalk, Conn., fur fact0ry........ 70,000 Duluth, Minn., machine shop 20,000 Vincennes, Ind, hotel 15,000 Big Rapids, Mich., 8,000,000 shingles 10,000 Oswego, N. Y., Arcade Block. 100,000 Cleveland, oil and paint works 80,000 Canton, Mass., suspender works 100,003 Moberly, Mo., hay-rake factory 30,000 Sharon, Wis., business property 20,000 Baltimore, tin-can factory 15,000 Epving, N. H., Stearns 810 ck... 20,000 Wallingford, Conn., manufacturing property 40,000 Breedsville, Mich., business houses 15,000 Ooonomowoc, Wis., grange 5t0re........ 10,000. Saginaw City, Mich., grain barns 10,000 Dallas, Tex., block of stores ;. 75,000 Wilßamsburg, Ky., saw-mills 00,000 Harlem, N. Y., brewery 100,000 A debate on the proposition to educate the Indians of Alaska constituted the* day’s ■work of the Senate on the 12th inst. In the House of Representatives bills were introduced to place Gen. Grant on the retired list, and to restrict to American citizens the ownership of real estate in the Territories. Mr. Hewitt presented a new tariff measure. A Senate bill was passed to punish the counterfeiting of seenriities of foreign governments. A report was made that the petition of William Webster, claiming to have been unlawfully deprived of a tract of land in New Zealand, be transferred to President Arthur for investigation. Bills were passed to increase the water supply of Washington and to complete the sewerage system of the District of Columbia. Mr. O’Neill introduced a bill to exempt from duty raw sugar, rice, and various other articles of food.