Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Zebulon Butler, aged 47 years,a prominent resident of the Wyoming Valiev, and great grandson of Gol. Zebulon Butler who commanded the forces at the Wyoming massacre a century ago, died last week at Wilkesbarre. Pa.... On one avenue in Plymouth, Pa., says a dispatch from that town, are eighteen families prostrate with fever. A new hospital has been opened for those having no hoine. The April earnings of the Illinois Central Railroad show an increase of $1,177 over the corresponding month of 1884.... A contract has been let by the Burlington and Missouri River Road for an extension from Republican City to Oberlin, Han., a distance .of seventy miles.... The Lincoln Monument Association (reorganized) has been incorporated at Springfield,lll..the object being-to preserve and lepair the monument. Gov. Oglesby and Sena'or Cullom are among the incorporators.... In the habeas corpus case of Robert Helier at Leavenworth, Kan., imprisoned because he refused to answer the County Attorney’s questio s in a case against certain brewers, under the prohibitory law, Judge Crosier discharged the -prisoner. The statute empowers county attorneys to subpoena and examine persons whom he may consider to have knowledge of violations of the prohibitory law, but" the court holds that in a criminal proceeding, where they are prosecutors, the Legislature can not confer judicial powers upon, county attorneys. Charles M. Shelley, <Jf Alabama, has been appointed Fourth Auditor of the Treasury,.vice Charles Beardsleyqresigned. The President has appointed the following nomed Presidential postmasters: Maurice Litzsch, at Mahanoy City, Pa., vice J. L. Bricker, commission expired; John Slack, at Bristol, Team, vice William Mallinex, commission expired; Mary H. Edwards, at " Cleveland, Term., vice Wm. S. Tipton, commission expired; Mrs. G. A. Hastings, at Port Gibson, Miss;, vice Thomas Richardson, commission expired; J. L. Meade, at Hazelhtirst, Miss., vice George E. Matthews, commission expired; Carvey C. Moore, at Broadhead, Wis., vice B. W. Beebe, suspended for cause. The cause for Postmaster Beebe’s suspension was that he was found negligent and careless in his accounts, the moneys due the Government not being kept separately, as they should have been, and only restored on demand of the inspectors. He had also failed to make 'reports to the department when required, and it was found necessary to inspect his office five times within a year. Recent deaths: Gilbert Walker, exGovernor of Virginia; Nathan P. Payne, formerly Mayor of Cleveland, a son of the Ohio Senator; John W. Larimore, a prominent member of the Merchants’ Exchange of St. Louis; Dr. Ferdinand Hiller, the celebrated German composer; Col. Louis J. Johnson, of New Orleans, a well-known steamboatman; Maj. E. Q. Lawrence, a prominent Cincinnati turfman The White Cross Line Belgian steamer He vetia, 1,161 tons, with a general cargo, which started from Antwerp April 23 for Montreal, was sunk off Seatterie, Cape Breton. All on board were paved. Mb. Gladstone stated in the British House of Commons, on the 11th inst., that an arrangement had been effected between Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary; the Earl of Kimberley, Secretary for In fa; Baron de Staal, the Russ an Minister to England; and M. Lessar, the special Russian agent in London, in regard to tho Afghan frontier. The arrangement was satisfactory to her Majesty’s Government and to Earl Dufferin, Viceroy of India. He expressed the hope that the arrangement would be made the subject of a convention with Russia Great Britain is preparing for the complete evacuation of the Soudan and the abandonment of the ndvance on Khartoum. .. .A Brussels dispatch says that Mr. Henry M. Stanley has been appointed Governor of the Congo State.