Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the number of immigrants arrived in the United States during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885, was 387,821. being 122,013 less than the immigration during the preceding fiscal year, and 401,171 less than during the year ending June 30, 1882—the year of the greatest immigration. The arrangement between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Bail-ways is said, on high authority, to have been practically consummated, and to contemplate an offensive and defensive alliance, with all that the , term implies.... In the, sculliug race v three miles, at Pittsburgh, Gaudaur defeated Teemer by a length in 19:35, beating the best record by 29| seconds. Hosmer, Hamm, McKay, and Ten Eyck also started. s Quo WARRANTO preeeedings have been begun before the Ohio Supreme Cou t against the board of managers of the penitentiary to test the new law empowering the managers to parole first-term prisoners. .... Chicago elevators contain 11,893,435 bushels of wheat, 824,792 bushels of corn, 393:121 bushels of oats, and 8,436 bushels of rye; total, 16.119,784 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 4,564,526 bushels a year ago... .Two families; numbering seven persons, were swept away while attempting to ford the Walnut River near Douglas,'Kan. All were drowned save one... .The Wells & French car and car wheel shops, at the comer of Blue Island and Ashland avenues, Chicago, were destroved by fire, the loss being between $200,000 and $300,000. A deputation which visited the "Earl of Carnarvon, Viceroy of Ireland, to ask his support of a scheme for a Government guarantee of a loan of £500,000 by the Bank of Ireland to the Munster Bank was informed by his Lordship that the Government had no power to take such action, except in an emergency threatening a national calamity.... The Scotch riflemen won by eight points the maten for the challenge trophy at Wimbledon. Joe Vinton, of Montreal, who has saved thirty-two people from drowning, has been presented with a gold watch and chain hv Canadian officials... .The heat last week was a source of discomfort and complaint at nearly every point in the country both North and South. Sunstrokes were numerous and some of them had a fatal ending. Neiv York telegram: “John Roach’s assets are saicl to be about $4,008,600. His liabilities have not been ascertained, but it is thought he will be able to pay them in full, and have a handsome for|uno left. Ilis legal representatives will soon have a conference with Secretary Whitney, after which it is probable that he may resume business. All his employes have been paid in full. Only a sufficient force will be retained at his yards to fulfill existing contracts.”