Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The corporation of Dublin has, rejected a motion to present an address to the Prince of Wales on his visit next month. Ex-Pbesident abthuk, e*- Senator McDonald, and the Bev. H. W. Beecher called upon President Cleveland at the White House. Two hundred representatives of the Women’s Temperance Union, also paid their respects to the President.... An annular eclipse of the sun excited the interest of astronomers all over the United States on the 16th. The cloudy weather interfered seriously with the observations.... A party of 250 revolutionists, headed by Gen. Vizpura, made an attack on the city of Panama, and firing was kept up for hours. The president of the Central American Cable Company telegraphed to Secretary Bayard, yesterday, that a Guatemalan vessel had gone out to cut the wires. Secretary Whitney has ordered the Yantic to sail from New Orleans for Guatemala and protect American interests. Pkesident Cleveland has nominated Joseph S. Miller, of West Virginia, to be Commissioner of Internal Kevenue. The Kentucky Senators and Congressmen have been urging the appointment of Phil Thompson, of that State..... Senator Conger, on being made Chairman of the Committee on Postoffices, dismissed a clerk of long experience and appointed his own son to the position Gen. Hazeo, in his testimony before the court-martial, admitted writing the articles of which he was accused, and explained that in he sought to state that the entire Greely party could have been rescued, and that he did all in his power toward saying their lives.

Moke than 100 persons have been indicted at St. Mary’s, W. Va., for playing dominos in public. There are several women in the list, two physicians, a minister, and an attorney.... Emigration from the southwest counties of Virginia to the Western States has be&n progressing all'winter in sufficient force to be called an exodus. The cause is drought and a lack of railway facilities. Two officers at Springer, New Mexico, had a fight with three desperadoes, and the latter were killed. Friends of the roughs threaten to attack the town, and troops have been ordered out from Fort Union... .An open switch at Monroe, Wis., on the St. Paul Hoad, wrecked nineteen cars, their oontents being scattered in all directions. One man lost his life. Sakabada, the Japanese charge d’affaires to Holland, went to an hotel in Botterdam with a mysterious Belgian lady. During the night she shot him dead and wounded herself with a dagger... .A fire in a seedcrushing mill at Hull, England, caused a deep stream of burning oil to flow through the streets, carrying the fhmes to the corn- 1 ' exchange and the Town Hall. The loss is estimated at $400,000. A policeman lost his life. The Prohibitionists of Chicago have nominated William H. Bush for Mayor, W. W. Waite for City Treasurer, George C. Christian for City Attorney, and Charles M. Catlin for Clerk. The campaign fund of the party is $94.70... .George Gray, the candidate of Secretary Bayard, received the Democratic caucus nomination for Senator from Delaware, and was elected by the Legislature of that Slate. The resolution offered by Mr. Van Wyck callin* upon the Secretary ot the Interior for Information respecting the issuance of land patents to the ‘‘Backbone" Railroad, and inquiring whether there was undue haste used in executing said patents, was taken up in the Senate on Monday, 16th inst., - and debated at some length, speeches being made by Senators Eustis, Teller, and Van Wyck. On motion ot Mr. Morrill the Senate went into executive session, confirmed the nominations of John C. Black, of Illinois, to be Commissioner of Pensions, and Lieutenant D. L. Wilson, of the District of Colombia, and Ensign Henry T. Mayo, of Vermont, to be Lieutenants in the navy, and when the doors were reopened, adjourned. It seems a little singular that people who try to assassinate other people never make use of the deadly toy pistol for that purpose. They always pay a fancy price, and get something with a white handle; very pretty, but not dangerous.