Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Kansas Democratic State Convention will meet at Topeka Aug. 20, to nominate candidates for State officer... .It is said that Senator Mahone will endeavor to enjoin the Secretary of State in Virginia from issuing poll-books under the new apportionment, claiming that the measure failed to pass the Legislature by a twothirds ■voter- ■ ——— —— The assignment of Tucker, Hammond AjGo., jobbers of small wares, at Boston, is announced. Liabilities, $100,000... .The private bank of G. Hall, at Elmira. N. Y., patronized by business men, laborers and famfers, has failed. deposits are reported at about SIOO,OOO. President Arthur has called for the resignation of Gen. Longstreet, United States Marshal of the District of Georgia. Attorney General Brewster complains of Longstreet’s inefficiency and carelessness, and has recommended his removal. Mr. John E. Bryant, it is thought, will succeed Near Chesterton, Md., two thousand men engaged in a riot at a negro campmeeting, in which one person was killed, ten fatally injured, and a number of others seriously cut. A dispatch from Chesterton gives the follow-” ing particulars of the bloody affair: “Excursions were run to the colored campmeeting in Jarrell’s Woods, near Worton Station, in this county, from several points in Maryland and Delaware. From Millington, in the latter State, came a crowd of men who had a feud with the negroes of this vicinity. The 3,000 negroes on the grounds had been drifiking whisky all day, and were in a good humor for a fight. One of the Millington men commenced to ill-treat the horse of a negro from this town and precipitated a row, in which 2,000 men participated, which lasted nearly three quarters of an hour and during which fully one thousand shots were fired. The mob became thoroughly infuriated and carried on a guerilla warfare from behind -trees until a Sheriff’s posse, two hundred strong, charged through the woods into the center of the camp. The new’-comers had arrived by special train from Charlestown, and promptly scattered the rioters right and left, capturing eighteen of the ring-leaders. William Ashley, of Millington, was found dying with a bullet through his body. Razors had been used freely, and nearly every man captured was bldwding profusely from wounds inflicted by these weapons. Many of the Millington party were also hurt, but escaped. About ten men were fatally wounded,” The Rev. Dr. Henry Cosgrove, VicarGeneral of the Diocese of Davenport, lowa, who became its administrator on the death of Bishop McMullen, has been appointed to succeed that ecclesiastic as Bishop of the diocese.... .The Laflin & Rand Powder Company attached the property of the St. Louis Ore and Steel Company, and Ethan Hitchcock was appointed provisional receiver. It is stated that an extension is all that is needed by the company, as their assets are ample to meetall claims. The capital of the company is $5,000,000, and the bonded debt, $2,600,000.... Judge Blodgett has decided that the Chicago branch of the Bank of Montreal must pay internal-revenue taxes on what money it uses in business at Chicago, which formerly averaged $1,500,000 per month. He gave judgment in favor of the Government for $59,229.68, with interest at 6 per cent, for the past three years... .Frank Calvert, divorced husband of the present wife of ex-Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, died suddenly in a Cincinnati hotel. There are suspicious of suicide, but all his friends agree that he died of a broken heart.. .. Representatives of St. Louis, Omaha, Burlington, Ottumwa and other mills formed a linseed oil pool last week at a meeting at Lake Minnetonka, Minn. Manitoba, with a vastly increased acreage of wheat, estimates the yield at 9,500,000 bushels.... The "Clearing House exchanges last week—5690,735,112 were $12,910,477 less than reported the previous week; and when compared with the returns for the corresponding period in 1883 show a decrease of 32.6 per Cent.