Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Jefferson Bassett, junior member of the banking 1 firm of Bassett & Bassett, at Brenham, Tex., committed suicide.... The ‘packing-house of Seesel, Armstead & Co., at Memphis, valued at $25,000, was burned. ... .The wife of John A.. Haldsman. of the Louisville Courier-Journal, died of pneumonia. In the Presbyterian General Assembly, at Cincinnati, Dr. R. H. Allen, Secretary of the Freedman’s Aid Society, read his report, in which he states that at the close of the war there were in the Southern states 3,047,000 colored people and now there are more than 7,000,000. ... The Mexican Government has permitted the garrison at Vera Cruz to be vaccinated with yellow fever virus. Experiments were first made upon prisoners who volunteered for the purpose. Persons inoculated with the virus have all the premonitory symptoms of the fever. ■ In a fight with 3-ounce soft gloves at St. Paul Billy Wilson (colored) knocked out Mervine Thompson in 1 minute and 30 seconds. Wilson challenges any man in the world for SI,OOO a side... .Harry Ratcliff, the pulpit exhortcr who was arrested at Rockford, 111., the other day, charged with till-tapping, has published a card in which he attributes his downfall to progressive encher.. ..Because of alleged improper liberties taken with his wife, Henry F. Prindle, member of Joe Hooker Post, G. A. R., shot JDiv.—N<_ L Buck deadlat. his doorstep in San /Francisco. The Simpson 4 Gault Company, of Cincinnati, manufacturers of flour-mill machinery, have failed for $125,000. The assets are estimated at $75,000... .The saloon licenses issued in Chicago number , 2,684, and there are at least 500 delin- | quents, who are liable to prosecution.... i The vacant city hall of Chicago has been I sold to J. C. Mignault & Co. for $5,275, to be removed within forty days. Vice President Hendricks is at Ini dianapolis, and expects to remain there the most of the summer. Speaking of affairs at Washington, he said there was a feeling that the administration had not been decided enough m various ways, and possibly a little too conservative in certain respects ... .President Clevelfltirl appointed Zachariah Montgomery, of California, Assistant Attorney General for the Interior Department. The President has also made the following appointments: Michael M. Phelan, of Missouri, to be Consul General of the United States at Halifax; exSenator Edward G. Rose, of New Mex-ico, to be Governor of the Territory of New Mexico; Maris Taylor, of Dakota, to* be Surveyor General of Dakota; Mark W. fcheafe. Register of the Land Office at Watertown, Dakota; Downer T. Brandler, Receiver of . Public Moneys at Watertown, Dakota; ex-Senator Thomas Tipton, of Nebraska, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Bloomington, Neb.: Henry C. J.ransteler, of Idaho, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Boise City, Idaho; A. C. •' ones, ot Oregon, Receiver of Public Moneys at Itosebu: g. Orel; William L. Townsend, of Oregon, Receiver of Public Moneys' at' -Lakeview, Ute.; Matthew H. Maynard, of Michigan, Receiver of Public Moneys at Marquette, Mi.h.; William C. Russell, of Louisiana, Receiver of Public Moneys at Natchitoches, La.; H. M. Biekdy-of Kansas, R eeiver of Public Moneys at Larned, Kan.; D» W. Ware, ,of Missouri, Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, vice E. Carpenter, removed! To be a Board ot Visitors to tne Naval Academy at Annapolis: Rear Admiral Rodgers, Lieut. Col. Poe, Prof. William G. Sumner, New Haven; John N. A. I Griswold, Newport and New York; Willi m I Read, Baltimore: James 8. Grinnell, Greenfield, ; Mass.; and AM, Craig, Alton, 111. Io be Cbl- ’ lectors of Internal Revenue: William C, ThoihpI son for the Second District of lowa, andfllyron I W. Webster for the Third District of Iowa; Wm. I T. Bishop for the hirst District of Ohio; Asa Ellis for the First District ot California. To Be Collector of Customs—Robert M. T. Hunter, for the District of Tappahannock, Ya. To Be Surveyor of Customs—Daniel O. Barr, in the i District of Pittsburgh, Pa. To Be Attorneys of the United States—Henry C. Alien, for the Western District ot Virginia; Cyrenius P. Black, for the Eastern District of Michigan; Henry W. McCorry, for the Western District Of Tennes- ; see; John E. Carland, for the Territory of Dakota; James H. Hawley, for the Territory of Idaho: and John Cripps Wickliff, fee the District of , Kentucky, To Be Marshals of the United States--ATbert-U. Gibson, for the .Western D strict of Louisiana; Walter R. Bunn, for the Northern District ot New York.