Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Senate Committee on Public Lands will make a favorable report on the bill providing for the forfeiture of the land giant, of tlie\ Marquette, Houghton, and Ontonagon Road. Thirty deaths from cholera have occurred at Toulon in the South of France. The plague broke out among the soldiers and dock laborers. Quarantine has been already established. The report of the outbreak caused a profound sensation in Paris. Thousands of people fled the city, and the evacuation of the barracks was ordered by the Government .... Several persons were severely injured during a panic in a Methodist church of Anglesea, Wales... .The whaling vessel Chieftain has arrived in the Tay from the Greenland fisheries with the crew of but one of her boats. It is believed the crews of the other boats were lost. The aggregate of clearances in twentythree of the leading clearing-houses of the -United States during the last week, as compared with the aggregate for the corresponding week of last year, shows a decrease of 22.8 per cent. Outside of New York the decrease was 13 per cent. A large natural gas deposit was struck in toe Jefferson Iron Works at Steubenville, Ohio. The roar of the escaping gas could be heard for a quarter of a mi1e..... The striko in the Hocking Valley mines, in Ohio, against a reduction of wages, includes about five thousand men. At an election held at Clinton, N. Y., to determine whether water-works should be established in the place, twenty-two women who are taxpayers voted. Fifteen others offered ballots, but were not allowed to vote, as the Assessor left their names off the taxrolls.... An explosion of gas caused the destruction of the oil refinery of George Allen A; Son, at Franklin, Pa., and ruined the railway track for 100 yards. , In the Senate June 23, a resolution was adopted for an Investigation into the recent defalcations In tlio departments, by the committee on expenditures of public money. After prolonged debate on the Mexican pension bill, the amendment of Mr. Ingalls, to exteud the time in which to fill applications for arrears, was lost by 20 to 27. In the House, a bill was Introduced to authorize the funding of the entire bonded dent in 2 Ser cent, bonds running fifty years. The Sunry Appropriation bill was passed, under a suspension of the rules, amended In several respects. Tho clause which cuts off the power of mentbers to nrint speeches in the Record not actually delivered, was struck out.