Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A national banking institution has been established at Pekin, half the capital and half the Directors being foreigners. The democratic leaders at Washington propose for the Cleveland inaugural procession a batfidion of five hundred veterans of the civil war from every State in the Union, with General Hancock as chief marshal, his staff to be selected in equal numbers from the leaders in the great straggle. Just before the recent election, Gen. W. T. Sherman, in- a public speech at - St_. Louis, accused Jeff Davis of ulterior motives touching the rebellion, having seen a letter from Davis’ pen supporting his charge. To this Davis replies that no such paper was ever written by him, and invites Sherman to make it public, otherwise he must stand convicted of slander and a breach of truth. To reporters at St. Louis Gen. Sherman said that now the matter was a question between gentlemen, and would be settled without the intervention of the press... .Clearing-house exchangeslast week—sßoo,7(sß,soo-—were $42,906,204 greater than for the previous week: but, compared with the corresponding week in 1883. the falling off amounts to $159,959,463. A PROMINENT ex-Union officer in Baltimore has in his possession a remarkable letter in reference to the .assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes -Booth. The letter is from an intimate friend and companion of Booth. It goes on to say. that Booth did not assassinate the President for,any political reasons whatever. But, on the contrary, it was simply to wreak private vengeance. It appears that Booth went. to .Mr. Lincoln and begged him to pardon his friend, Capt. John Yates Beall, who was condemned to be shot .as’a Confederatejspy. Mr. Lincoln was inexorable, but after Booth had gone down on his knees and bathed Mr. Lin - coin’s hand with tears and kissed it, he finally relented and promised Booth to pardon Capt. Be'all. Booth left, well satisfied with the result of when he read, a day or two afterward, that his friend had been shot, he became wild with rage and concocted? his scheme of assassination, which he afterward carried .out.

Near Gambier, Chip, Mrs. Welka, a spiritualist, grew ill, refused to see a physician, .but . submitted to treatment by a "inedhiiii.” named Burro’.vs. ivlio alleged that the Womani whs afflicted by devils, to expel whom he beat her cruelly with a stick, resulting in her death. Burrows then said the demons had. entered his wife, whom he thrashed severely, but not fatally. Burrows’ sanity will be tested, aipl if found to be of sound mind, he will be tried for homicide. ... .At Llo.vdsvill 1 , Ohio, a Demoerattc jollification was held, at which an old anvil was used as a cinnon. While it was being loaded a boy lighted a roman candle, the sparks from which set fire to the powder, which was in a heavy box. trad an explosion resulted, by which Orville Bt.wley, William Barnes, and .Joseph Loper were fataby injured, and two boys named Daniels and Donner dtngertnisiv hurt... A large crowd of the ■anti-liquoT element at Bladenburg, Knox County, Ohio,madean attack on a saloon ir.au named Chapin. The proprietor was struck on the head by stones and his skull fractured. All the liquor was thrown into the streets, and when physicians arrived Chapin was dead.... The directors of the Northwestern Hoad declared the regular dividend of 2 per cent, quarterly on preferred stock end 34 per cent, semi-annual on common David L. Wells, of Milwaukee, Wis., oiieof the most prominent railroad builders of the Northwest, is dead.... .The store of the Chicago Paper Company, ou Monroe street, was destroyed by tire, The loss as estimated at $i00,00(). Official vote of Illinois: Blaine. 337,481 ; Cleveland, 312,355 ; Sh John, 12,074; Butler, 10,910. Blaine’s plurality, 25,126. ... .The vote of West Virginia, as officially canvassed, is as follows: Blaine electors, 63,096; Cleveland electors, 67,317; St. John electors, 939; Butler electors, 810. Cleveland’s plurality, 4,221. A young lady is said to be “of age’ only when she is married.