Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Senator Lamar called upon Presidentelect Cleveland last week, and is said to have been received with marked distinction. Mr. Lamar says that he does not expect to go into the Cabinet, but his friends are confident that in the unexpected event of Senator Bayard’s refusal he will be Secretary of State. It seems to be an accepted fact that Garland is to be Attorney General. Mr. Cleveland is said to be most perplexed about the selection of a Secretary of the Treasury. Orders have been issued by the British War Office for the dispatch of 8,000 men to Egypt. Nine battalions will be sent at once to Gen. Wolseley. They will proceed to Suakin and endeavor to open the route between Sunkin and Berber with a view to effecting a junction between the British forces on the Nile above and below Berber. Great a 'tivily prevails at Chatham, Woolwich, and Aldershot, A naval demonstration in the Red Sea, to eo-operate with the land movement, has been arranged, and several British men-of-war are to be sent thither at once. The British Cabinet is said to have decided that the defeat of El Mahdi is necessary to restore England’s prestige.... The charge of high treason and felony has been brought against J. Cunningham and Harry Burton in the Bow street police court at London. The Crown Solicitor alleges that they carried dynamite from New York to Liverpool, and that they caused the explosion on the underground railway last month. The blizzard which swept through the Northwest on the Bth and 9th inst. was one of the wildest storms experienced for years. The railroads were blockaded everywhere and many trains were abandoned in the snowdrifts. The weather was especially fierce through all the Lower Lake region from Chicago to Buffalo. Business was almost at a standstill William Dustin visited the Journal office at Lincoln, 111., intent upon chastising the editor, John Edmonds, but the latter caused the invader to retire in disorder. Comment affecting Dustin’s father and his divorced wife caused the trouble... .An appeal for medicines and linens, with which to dr.’ss wounds, comes from Savannah, in the Indian Territory, wlu-ru . the- ■ recent mine- explosion occurred. Thirty victims were sufferihg for proper treatment,... The various mills ami factories at Joliet, 111., are in full operation, and manufacturers speak hopefully of the outlook. Prices are unusually low, however, and competition is c105e.... In a prizefight near Milwaukee, lasting two hours, Patsy McCarten, an ironworker, defeated John Ward, a professional pugilist. Both men were severely punished... .William Dwight Chandler, son of Secretary Chandler, and Lily M. Porter were married at the residence of the bride’s father, a prominent broker, at Winona, Minn... .Frank Bonham is under arrest for killing hrs mother, brother, and sister at Radical City, Kan. Consideration of the anti-silver coinage bill was resumed in the Senate on the 9th inst Mr. Beck, in a long argument, advocated the redemption of the trade dollar, but opposed the suspension of the coinage of h? .-tandard dollar. Th; pension api ropriation bill was taken up, and a discussion ensue ! regarding the interpretat.on of the Senate rule forbidding the proposing of general leg station on appropriation bills. The rule was finally sustained by a vote of 35 to 23 The Senate gave its concurrence to the committee amendments to the House bill to prevent the unlawful inclosure of public lands. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the nomination of William )■. Curtis to be Seer tary of the South American Commission. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: Adam G, Malloy, to be Collector of Customs for the dlstrictof Galveston, Texas; John M. Haverstick, Receiver of Public Moneys at Lgs Angles, Cal.; Edward J. Curtis, of Idaho, Secretary of Idaho-; Ellis L. Bierbower. Marshal of the United States for the district of Nebraska. The House of Representatives spent an hour in committee of the whole on the river and harbor bill, refusing to appropriate $250,000 for Vicksburg and declining to forbid the repair of privati levees at New Orleans at public expense, and then probably killed the measure by dropping it for the postoffice appropriation. Mr. Ityan called attention to th? fact that but nineteen legislative days of the session remained, and that only one of the thirteen general appropriation billshad gone to the President for his approval! Elaborate petitions were introduced in the House signed by many dealers, feeders.shippers, and breeders of live stock in Chicago, St Louis, New York, and Philadelphia, pretesting p gainst what thev call the ialse and slanderous charges mads before the Committee on Commerce by men ignorant of the business relating to the present method of shipping live stock, and against the passage of the Hopkins resolution