Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A pearl weighing sixty-three carats, and valued at $17,000, was recently purchased for S9O from an Indian at Guaymas, Mexico, and has been shipped to London. A dispatch from Alexandria says De Lepseps has obtained from tho Egyptian Government concessions for a fresh water canal from Hagazig to Port Said. ...The steamers Alliance and Pochard : foundered off the coast of England, causing the loss of sixty or more lives. A wrestling match for S6OO and the mixed wrestling championship of the world between Duncan C. Ross and Tom Cannon took place in San Francisco. Cannon won the first fall, catch as catch can, in 11| minutes; the second round, side-hold, was won by Ross in 2 minutes; the third, sidehold, by Ross in 3! minutes; the fourth, Graeco-Roman, by Cannon in 9 minutes; the fifth, collar-and-elbow, by Ross in 11 minutes. As Ross won three out of five, the match was decided in his favor... .The J. I. Case Plow Company, of Racine, having been served with foreign attachments, executed an assignment to Charles H. Lee, who gave bond in the sum of $675,000. The liabilities may prove to be SBOO,OOO, Mr. Case being the heaviest creditor. Two thousand cigarmakers have been thrown out of employment by the shutting down of the Straiton & Storm factory in _New York. Work will not recommence until the question of the Spanish treaty in regard to the West India trade is settled.. .. At Frankfort Plains, J., unknown men opened the grave of Zachariah H. Price, broke the casket, and were engaged in removing the corpse when they were frightened away. As Mr. Price was well known throughout the State, it is thought the intended -to hold his body for a reward.... George Opdyke & Co., bankers and brokers, of New York, have failed. In response to the request of Gen. Grant United States Senator Mitchell has withdrawn his bill proposing to confer a pension on the great military leader... .News has been received by President Arthur of the successful negotiation of reciprocity treaties with Guatemala, San Salvador and the United States of Colombia... .Postmaster General Hatton has sent a letter to the Senate recommending that the postoffices shall be supplied with a larger clerical force.

Mr. Blair introduced a bill in the Senate, on the Bth Inst., granting $60,000 to aid the Colored People’s Exposition, to be held at Chicago m 1885. Mr. Dolph called up the bill providing for the incorporation of the Spokane Falls and Coeur d'Alene Railway Company in Idaho and Washington Territories. Mr. Harrison objected to the bill on the ground that the company would probably occupy all the passes through-“the —mountains and secure land enough to monopolize the public domain. Mr. Platt remarked that he did not approve .of the practice in vogue of building railroads on paper. Certain amendments to the bill were agreed to depriving the company of the right to consolidate with other roads. Further consideration of the subject was postponed. A bill to refund to a Detroit firm $473 alleged to have been Illegally exacted on malt Imported from Canada was defeated, for the reason that protest was not made at the time of paying the duties. Mr. Mitchell read a letter from 'Gen. Grant declining to accept a penslou, and requesting the withdrawal of the bill introduced in his behalf. A committee of conference was ordered on the bill forfeiting the unearned land grant of the Atlantic and Pacific Road. In the Honse of Representatives the Speaker read a communication from the Postmaster General asking an appropriation of $100,00) for railroad postal service for the remainder of the cuirent year. This was referred, as well as the following bills: One by Mr. Townshend proposing a constitutional amendment providing that treaties shall be made by and with the consent of the House as well as that of the Senate; by Mr. Ryan, to open portions of Indian Territory to homestead settlement; another bj Mr. Buckner to suspend the coinage of- standard silyer dollars; and another by Mr. Robinson to restore the ceremonies attendant upon Presidential inaugurations to Jeffersonian simplicity. Mr. Cox offered a resolution asking the opinion of the Attorney General as to whether the eight-hour law should be considered as applicable to letter-carriers. A joint resolution was also introduced by Mr. Cox proposing an appropriation of $100,00) for the completion of file Bartholdi Statue of Liberty. Mr. Warner offered a bill to prevent the contraction of the currency, a $500,000 appropriation was proposed by Mr. O'Neill for the improvement of the Philadelphia harbor, and Mr. Ellis introduced a bill to erect a monument to the victims of the Greely expedition at a cost of $26,000. Some discussion of the interstate commerce bill followed, but no action was taken upon it.