Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphan Asylum near Newport, Ky., was destroyed by fire. The inmates all escaped, and are temporarily quartered in Newport. Gen. Schofield will be President of the court-martial which will meet in New York Sept. 11 for the trial of Judge Advocate General Swaim. * The residence of Mrs. Patrick Murphy at Brier Hill, near Youngstown, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. Three of the children, aged 5,7, and 9 years, perished in the flames. Mrs. Murphy herself escaped, and she succeeded in rescuing her fourth child. The Sheriff of the Cherokee Nation is engaged in taking down fences on all tracts larger than fifty acres, and confiscating the wire. He began work south of Coffeyville, and has removed thousands of miles from inclosures which exceeded the limit fixed by the council; ™'" There is intense feeling against the Jews in Western Russia, and they are greatly alarmed. Some of the Slavic organs encourage the anti-Semitic people, declaring that to give equal rights to Jews and Christians would be a greater misfortune for Russia than the former Mongolian yoke.... In the British House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone moved that the vote on the proposition to censure the Government for its Egyptian policy be given precedence over all other business, but the motion was defeated.... The Theater Royal at Edinburgh, Scotland, has been destroyed by fire. Several buildings adjacent were burned down The German Government will next session submit to the Reichstag a scheme for the material enlargement of the navy.... The Mark Lane Express reports foreign wheat greatly depressed, the heavy receipts causing unusually low' rates. A CABLE dispatch reports that cholera has appeared at Saluzzo, in Northern Italy. The disease was increasing at Marseilles, France. A naval captain in the latter city killed himself when his wife was attacked. French Government physicians, having examined the epidemic at Toulon, report that it is a mild form of Asiatic cholera. A number of deaths from cholera have occurred at Odessa, Russia. A dispatch from Toulon says: “It is generally admitted that the worst of the cholera crisis is over. One feature of the disease has been the shortness of time elapsing between seizure and death. This would seem to indicate that the malady is Asiatic cholera.” : . _ . Orangemen at Twillengate, N. F„ wrecked one of three houses tenanted by Catholics in that place. At Green’s Pond Harbor the Orangemen drove off four vessels which put in for shelter, brutally beat the sailors, and -seriously damaged the crafts Ijy iqissiles. In St. Mary’s Bay the crew of a bark entered the Catholic Church, destroyed the furniture, carried off the chalice and sacred vessels, and desecrated the structure in various ways. The parish priest and merchants prevented the destruction of the ship and cargo by the Catholic population. ... .“Bill” England, a British pugilist, who came over to make a match with John L. Sullivan, was “used up” by George Rooke, at New York, in four rounds. Bills were reported to the Senate on the 30t.h alt., to forfeit the unearned land grant ol the Northern Pacific Boad, and for the erection of a public building at Akron, Ohio. An adverse report was made on the bill to grant public lands to the snrvivors of ? the Mountain Meadow massacre. Mr. Cameron called up a resolution to discharge the Finance Committee from further consideration of the bill for the retirement and recoinage of trade dollars, but it was voted down. The river and harbor bill was taken up, and several amendments were disposed of. A House joint resolution was passed continuing the present appropriations for five days, from June 30. President Arthur sent to the Senate the name ol ex-Congressman Henry S. Neal, of Ohio, to be Solicitor of the Treasury. In the House of Representatives, Mr. King introduced a bill appropriating $200,000 to prevent the introduction of cholera into the United States. The conference reports on the bills authorizing a bridge at St. Paul and the disposition of useless military reservations were agreed to. The Committee on Elections made a report that John S. Wise is entitled to retain his seat as Representative-at-large from Virginia. The fortification bill was discussed. Messrs. Horr, Finerty, and Dorshoimer favored the majority report for a large appropriation. Messrs. Holman and Follett made speeches on the opposite Bide. No action was taken. \