Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Thomas Knott, of Dayton 1 , Ky„ leaped from a railway bridge into the Ohio River, a distance of 105 feet. ,He was unhurt, and swam leisurely to shore. He says he was notat'eriipting suicide... .An insect called the dumb [locust is committing ravages on apple trees in Southwest Virginia, and trees are dying by,hundreds. Dispatches from AVinnipeg state that “Big Rear has served notice on Gen. Middleton, giving him ‘four days to leave the country’ under penalty of death from bulldogs and mosquitoes. An escort has been sent by Middleton to bring the priso'ners who escaped from Big Bear into camp at Fort Pitt. They are nearly naked and half famished. The Gros Ventres Indians, who had crossed from the United States to help Poundmaker and Big Bear, have been driven back over the border. The Dominion Government will station 500 mounted police along the frontier to keep out cattle raiders from Montana.” In an interview at Washington Representative Morrison, of Illinois, said that he purposed to introduce another tariff bill at the first session of the next Congress. “At what time during the session?” was asked. “As soon as I can get ready after Congress convenes,’-’ he replied. “Will the bill provide for an horizontal reduction, as did the measure you introduced during the last Congress?” “They say they do not want a horizontal reduction. The truth is they do not want a reduction of any kind. I will provide in the proposed bill for about such a reduction in amount as I provided for in my last bill. An outbreak is said to be imminent -among the Southern-Ghevennes. located in the 'western part of Inman Territory, and re-enforcements have been sent to the garrison at Fort ReudT* Augur recommends the appointment of a commission.to investigate the causes of the trouble. Gfen. Pope advises the War Department that unless the Piute Indian s are speedily placed oil a reservation there willbe serious troubles in Southern Oregon.... Chicago elevators contain 14,874,727 bushels of wheat, 879,034 bushels of com, 409,988 bushels of oats, and 40,592 bushels of rye; total, 16,204,341 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 8,111,431 bushels a year ag0.... Charles King, a prominent vineyardist of St Helena, Cal., failed for $236,000, with assets of SIBI,OOO. Indorsements for friends caused the disaster.... The fever which scourged Plymouth, Pa., has broken out in the village of Beallsville, Monroe County, 0hi0.... A heavy frost in the western section of Lower Michigan damaged corn and other crops. The Marquis of Salisbury, after numerous conferences with the Queen, finally consented to undertake the task of forming a Government Following is a list of the new Cabinet: Prime Minister and Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the Marquis of Salisbury; First Lord of the Treasury, Sir Stafford Northcote; Chancollor of the Exchequer, Sir Michael E. Hicks-Beach;Lord High Chancellor, Sir Hardinge Gifford; Lord President of the Council, Viscount Cranbrook; Lord of the Privy Seal, the Earl of Harrowby; Secretary for the Home Department, Sir Richard Assheton Cross; Secretary for the Colonial Department, Colonel Frederick Stanley; Secretary for War, the Rt. Hon. William Henry Smith; Secretary of State for India, Lord Randolph Churchill; First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord George Hamilton; President of the Local Government Board, Arthur James Balfour; President of the Board of Trade, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon; Vice President of the Council, the Hon. Edwayd Stanhope; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Carnarvon; Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Right Hon. Edward Gibson. .. .Russian emissaries are actively engaged in establishing friendly relations with the mountain tribes of Afghanistan.... Prince William, a grandson of the German Emperor, will, it is said, succeed the late Baron von Manieuffel as Governor of Al-sace-Lorraine., .. Seven persons were killed and forty wounded by a boiler explosion at Turcoing, neaifl Lille, France... .There is no longer any interruption to traffic on the Suez Canal... .Emperor William, who is now at Ems, is reported in excellent health.