Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

About 200 Consular posts yet remain to be filled, mostly small agencies. It is now intended to complete the reorganization of the service by (January. South American trade will receive special attention, and Consuls at ports on that continent, it is said, Will be expected to make reports of a nature valuable to business men. Before his death, the Mehdi designated four chiefs to continue the war in the Soudan, 'and set aside 20.000,000 piastres toward defraying the expenses. .. .A Biusse’s journal asserts that England has accepted the Russian proposition to submit the Zulficar question to the decision Of the joint boundary commission. A tremendous waterspout passed over Transylvania County, North Carolina, carrying away bridges and wash ng away houses. The water is said to h ive rolled oyer the country in a perp end icu'ar .wall twelve feet high and a quarter of, a fniie wide. The destruction of crops is complete in the section over which the storm passed. A masked burglar entered the yesitlenee of the Hon. W. R. MerriariF, at St. Paul,, and meeting that gentleman, the burglar placed a pistol to his head, compelling him to point out his valuables, took his watch and diamond studs, and then walked out of the front door. , , .The land suit of King vs. Remington, which has been on trial for some time in the District Court at Minneapolis, Minn., and which involved §1,500,000 worth of property, has been decided in favor of the plaintiff... .According to the census recently completed in Wisconsin, the population of some of its important towns is as follows: La Crosse, 21,212; Fond du Lae, 12,681; Madison, 12,063; Appleton, 10,907; Janesville, 9,941. The city of Toronto has been visited by the most destructive conflagration in its history. An hour after it broke out in an eight-story glucose factory the flames extended for half a mile along the south side of the Esplanade. Scores of vessels of all kinds were moored at the docks, and all were destroyed.’ Henry Wort, a private -watchman, is known to have perished in the flames. The most exciting scenes were on the craft at the docks. The crews were cut off by lire from the docks, and as the vessels caught fire they were forced to jump into the water and swim for - their lives. So rapidly did the fire spread that small boats were consumed before they could be launched, and the sailors in the water had to depend upon their own strength until tugs from the outside could pi, k them up. As it was, many of them were badly scorched, and, it is feared, some fatally. The loss is estimated- at over §1,000,000. The following telegraphic correspondence passed between General Fitz Hugh Lee and General Hancock: Governor’s Isi and, N. Y., Aug. 3. General Fitz Hugh Lee, Alexandria, Va.: Would it be agreeable to you to be appointed as aid on_ the occ ‘sion of the ceremonies in connection with the obsejuics of General Grant? If it would, yon will 1e so announced. Id ease repl y by telegraph. —-- W. S. Hancock, Major General, i Al EXAN’DKIA. Va.. Aug. 3.; To Gen. W. 8. Hancock, Mount MacGregor, •N. Y.: Your te’egrain received. I accept the position, because by so doing Lean testify my. respect for the memory ot a great soldier, and thus ieturn, as far as I can. the generous feelings he has expressed toward the soldiers of the South. ‘Fitz Hugh Lee. The storm which swept over the West proved very severe in soma of the Eastern -States. At Camden, New _Jersey._a_number of persons are reported to have been killed -or -Injured and hundreds of buildingswrecked. Along both banks of she Delaware River the elements wrought great I havoc. Off Greenwich Point the excursion | steamer, Major Reybold, carrying many passengers, was struck by the storm, and was towed tojts dock at Philadelphia a dismantled hulk. During the gale the captain and pilot were washed overboard, the latter being lost, and William Grassmore.of Salem, New Jersey, was struck by a flying timber and fatally injured; 'At Baltimore, Philadelphia, Reading, and other Eastern points, the rainfall was heavy and the damage extensive. .. .The population of Albany, N. ¥., according to the census just completed, is about 96,000... .Jewish citizens of New York propose to erect a monument to Sir Moses Moutejfiore in Central Park.