Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The forty-ninth anniversary of tne inpendence of Texas was observed at Austin by the laying of the corner-stone of the new Capitol. The building is to be of granite. Geokoe Babnhabt, a prominent farmer of the Logansport (Ind.) section, who secured the indictment of two persons for horse-stealing, confessed at the trial that he had perjured himself for the purpose of revenge, and tint the men were innocent. Barnhart was immediately placed under arrest Chicago elevators contain 15,226,788 bushels of wheat, 1,894,535 bushels of com, 566,016 bushels of oats, 120.285 bushels of rye, and 119,357 bushels of barley. Total, 17,926,981 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 22,495,860 bushels a year ago. Two alleged private detectives, Thomas Craig and Theodore Walden, were, arrested at Albany on the morning of the 2dinst., on suspicion that they entertained sinister designs on President Cleveland. They were sopn released, however, it transpiring that they were simply shadowing a defaulter, who had taken up his residence in the vicinity of Mr. Cleveland’s house.

It is rumored that war is imminent between England and Russia. Negotiations between the two powers regarding the Afghan frontier have reached a delicate stage. Russia has made such sweeping demands that England cannot accept anything ~ approching them. It is said that the British will occupy Kabool as soon as possible, and the Ameer of Afghanistan has been ordered to have the road cleared from Herat to Peshawur to facilitate the march of the troops. A nv dical inspection of every regiment in the British army is how in progress, and the Devonshire Regiment and Seaforth Highlanders nave been ordered to India. Queen Victoria has taken a hand in the Anglo-Russian complication, and has conveyed an intimation to her Cabinet that any Minister who opposes a vigorous maintenance of her imperial rights will soon And himself without a portfolio. The Cabinet is fully aroused to the gravity of the situation and recognizes the fact that England’s protectorate in Afghanistan is seriously ‘menaced. Some sharp messages are said to have been exchanged between London and St. Petersburg. ... A recent sortie by the British garrison at Kassala, which has been defending the town- for a yeir against the Mahdi, resulted disastrously, twenty-eight officers of the girrisoa and 630 privates being killed.

Albert D. Gihon, son of Medical Director Gihon, of the navy, was severely cowhided on the street in,Washington by a young clerk in the War Department named Gresham, a son of Judge' Gresham. The trouble is said to have sprung from the misbehavior of young Gihon at a theater party at which both he and Gresham were guests. The latter was arrested for assault, together with two friends who were present—as witnesses of the affray.

The Senate, in considering tho sundry civil appropriation bill, on the 2d ins?., inserted an item of $2,790 to reimburse R. B. F ayes for the expenses of a political commission sent to Louisiana in 1877 to pave the way for the recognition of Nicholls as Governor. The committee amendment reducing fr6m 8160,000 to s7s,oouthe amount to be paid for the Fo t Brown Reservation was non-concurred in, and th' larger amount was retained. Mr. Aldrich offered a joint resolution requesting tne President to open negotiations with foreign Powers with a view to securing an a? 1 cement to the free coinage of silver with full legal-tender power. In the House of Representatives the naval bill was reported with the Senate amendments, some of which were agreed to and otheis nonconcurred in. New conferrees were accordingly appointed. Mr. Mills moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution to the effect that inasmuch as the Inaugural Committee had declined to give Representatives in Congress their proper place the House would refuse to take any part in the ceremony March 4. The motion was defeated by a vote of 55 yeas to 188 nays. At a meeting of the House Expenditures Committee Representative Springer’s report of the result of the Investigation of the conduct of United States Marshal Lot Wright at the Ohio October election was agreed to by a party vote sto 4. The report was to the effect that Democratic voters had been intimidated at the polls. A minority report w as rendered condemning the action of the committee and declaring that no evidence had lreen presented during the investigation which in any manner warranted the conclusions embodied in the report.