Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The University of Virginia last week dedicated an observatory and telescope presented by Leander J. McCormick, of Chicago, at a cost of $75,000. The observatory has an endowment of $50,000, onehalf of which was given by W. H. Vanderbilt. j The Wisconsin Legislature closed its thirty-seventh srssion on|the 13th inst. Nine hundred and sixty-three bills were introduced during the session, and 425 became laws. The Governor sent in vetoes of bills for appointing Fish and Game Wardens, preventing the shipment of game from the State, and for the preservation of trout in Washburn County. Admiral Jouett telegraphs that trains ou the Banama Road are running regularly across the Isthmus, without molestation. .... The Fenians are said to be organizing for a fresh raid on Canada, and the news comes by the way of Detroit that they are now se.cretly drilling in Chicago. Riel, the leader of the half-breed revolt, is said to be 'in communication with the promoters of th'e proposed demonstration. Antoine Boyne, a professor of languages, threw sulphuric acid on Frankie Halligan and Margaret Ryan in the diningroom of a Detroit Hotel, because the former girl, who had promised to go riding with him, procured a young man dressed in woman’s clothes to take his place. The garments of both girls were ruined, and Miss Ryan may be disfigured for life.... The owners of two thousand acres of strawberry plants in the vicinity of Centralia, 111., report excellent crop prospects. The yield is estimated at 200 car-10ad5.... The Grand Jury at Springfield, 111., has .indicted Gen. J. N. Reece for procuring the signature of ex-Marshal Wheeler to false returns and expense accounts... .Apache Indians are reported to be raiding the section about Morenei/ Arizona, and two ranchers are said to have been killed. ■ The Superior Court of New York has reversed the decision in the case of ex-Mayor Franklin Edson, of New York City, by the terms of which he was to suffer fine and imprisonment, and ordered that all proceedings be dismissed with costs. Mr. Edsqn’s offense was the making of appointment? to office in defiance of an injunction restraining him therefrom.... Seven men were buried beneath a mass of fifty tons of bricks in a slab-burner at Oscoda, Mich. It was five hours before the bodies were reached. Only two wepe taken out alive.... A suit brought against tbe executors of J. H. Brown, of Pittsburgh, to recover on a note given for gambling losses at Hot Springs,, called out testimony that the deceased was taken to a faro bank and kept intoxicated while he lost $14,009 in three sittings in a brace game. * While workmen were engaged in bracing up the yielding foundation of eight fivestory tenements on West Sixty-second street, New York, the whole structure fell, not a stick remaining standing in tlie entire row. More than a score of workmen, carpenter?, lathers, plumbers, and others were extricated from the ruins, many seriously iujured, and takeu to the hospital or their homes. Threats of lynching were uttered against the contractor, who immediately after the collapse fled. Gaft. Couch, the lender of the Oklahoma colonists, called on Secretary Lamar last week, and was informed that the cattle syndicates will be compelled to leave the dispnted territory. The question of admitting settlers will lie decided later 0n.... Mr. Sparks, Commissioner of the General Laud Office, has revoked the order of March 20 allowing the Northern Pacific Road to change its limit between Wallnla and Dayton, Washington Territory, so as to include other lands under its grant... . Justice Wylie, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, now 71 years of age, has asked to be p aced on the retired Ist. According to the bulletins sent out by telegraph, Gen. Grant's condition on the morning of the 14th inst. showed no change for the better. During the preceding twenty-four hours he had been troubled by coughing and expectoration. He took his nourishment regularly, and frequently walked about the room. The doctors stated in private that the cancer was steadily and surely doing its deadly work, and that the end might come at any moment.