Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

New York special to Chicago Times: “ Yonr correspondent called at Greystone for the purpose of verifying a sensational report printed in a morning paper regarding the health of Mr. Tilden. After waiting u few minutes in a reception-room, Mr. Tilden himself came in unannounced. He said that the report of his failing health was a pure fabrication, and utterly without foundation; that his health at present was better than it had been at any time during the past year, and that he had merely run down to Greystone for a few days to personally oversee some improvements that he is making On the place. Mr. Tilden shook hands warmly with the correspondent, excusing himself with the remark that he was just about to take a walk through his grounds and make a visit to some pet . animals.”.===— Strong’s Bank at Green Bay,Wis., with a capital of $50,000, has failed. Henry Strong is President. Heavy withdrawals on account of recent failures led to the crash. It is stated that depositors will get 75 cents on the dollars.... Jacob Seramom, of Chicago, has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for a vain attempt to reduce to criminal habits a German girl of 16 years, named Teresa Bosine. Flames swept away the large seed warehouse of Hiram Sibley & Co., on North Clark street, Chicago. The loss is estimated at $250,000, with an insurance of 70 per cent., largely in foreign companies. Mr. Sibley is credited with a fortune of $16,000,000. He is at present engaged in erecting two mammoth ten-story warehouses adjoining the structure which was burned, and will doubtless proceed to build a third. . ...Lightning fired a tank of crude oil at tlio Atlantic Befinery, in the southwestern quarter of the city of Philadelphia. The names spread to other tanks and caused several explosions. Cannon were taken from the arsenal to the sce&e, and used in piercing a large tank threatened by the fire. The loss is about $600,000.... One-half of the Mail Building at Toronto, Ontario, was burned, and the telephone service of the city was destroyed. The loss is about $100,000... .Other fire losses of the week were as follows: Losses. Chicago, hide and tallow warehouse $40,000 Manhattan, Kan..hotel.. 15,000 Cannon Falls. Minn., 5t0re5 .......... t... 85,000 Sioux Falls, Dakota, hotel 7... 15,000 Brockton, Mass., plow works..... ..£..... 25,000 Cleveland, Ohio, oil tank 15,000 Decatur, 111., tile works 10,000 Hollldaysburg, Pa., nail works 10,000 Stone Bridge, N. Y., hotel 25,0 0 Long Island, N. Y., canning works—... 100,000 Avena, 111.. business h0u5e5.............. 15,000 Waupaca, Wis, basket fact0ry........... 10,000 Henry, 111., live stores 15,000 Menasha, Wis., bedstead factory. 15,000 New Orleans, warehouse and contents... 150,000 Caro, Mich., business b10ck............ .. 35,0Q0 Chattanooga, Tenn., business property.. 75,000 Fort Yates, Dakota, store., 10,000 Lancaster. Pa., tobacco factory 15,000 I ronton, Ohio, nail inill 25,000 Buffalo, N. Y., paper mill 40,000 Oshkosh, Wis., shingle-mill 10,000 Sheboygan, Wls., tannery 10,000 Carroll, lowa, seven buildings 15,000 Reading Mass., rubber factory 200,000

Mb. Ingalls reported to the Sefiate from the Committee on Judiciary, on May 26, a substitute for the joint resolution introduced by Senator Jackson, proposing an amendment to the Constitution relative to terms of office of the President and Vice President. Favorable reports were made on bills for two additional Associate Justices for the Supreme Court of Dakota; for a commission to run and mark the boundary lino between Indian Territory and Texas, and to forfeit the unearned land grants of the Atlantic and Pacific Road. A bill was introduced to authorize the enlargement of the barracks at Newport, Ky. In the House of Representatives, bills were introduced to appropriate $50,0(W for a home fot* disabled soldiers of the Confederate army at Fredericksburg, Va.; to abolish license taxes on dealers in tobacco; to open overland communication with Alaska and develop her commercial resources; to ltension all honorably discharged soldiers of the rebellion at the age of 46 years, and for the fining and imprisonment of any national bank official who shall bring loss on the institution by loans made for his own benefit. The contested c.notion case of Wallace vs. McKinley, from the Eighteenth Ohio District, was taken up. The majority report unseats McKinley and declares Wallace entitled to the scat. The minority resolution confirms the right of the sitting member. Speeches were delivered by Messrs. Turner. of Georgia, and Adaihs, of New York, in support of the contestant's case, and by Messrs. Hepburn and Robertson, of Kentucky, and E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, in support of the eontestee. Mr. Robertson is the only Democratic member of the Committee on Elections who signed the minority report, and he appealed to his side of the House not to vote to unseat McKinley.