Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Charges are made! e gainst the Texas Land Board to the effect that through neglect or mismanagement $2,000,000 has been lost to the school fund of the .State. This sum, it is said, should have been collected from the cattle barons as an occupation tax for the use of grass lands. ' It is slated in a New York dispatch that “the Park Commissioners have adopted the plan for completing the work on the temporary vault in which the body of Gen. Grant lies, and for laying out walks and othqrtrise improving the part of Riverside Park iu the neighborhood of the tomb. A facing of Philadelphia brick will be laid on” the arched roof of the vault, whifeh is now covered with a heavy coat of concrete. These bricks will be .laid in black mortar and two double lines of black-faced brick will be laid longitudinally on each side the' crown of the arch, 'to conform with tjift brickwork of the walls of the vault. A coping of cnt blue-stonc will be placed on the brickwork forming the face of the arch in the roof at the front of the vault, projecting slightly over the brickwork. Several passengers on the steamer Selton were seriously injured by an explosion which occurred soon after the boat had left the dock at Philadelphia.

Winnipeg (Manitoba") telegram: “Eleven of the half-breed rebel prisoners at Regina have been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, three have been sentenced for three years, four for one year, nnd six have been discharged to appear for sentence when called.” The Indiana State Board of Agriculture estimates the corn crop of the State at 4,000,000 acres, averaging forty bushels to the acre, or 160,000,000 bushels. Hogs and cattle have been fed for two years past’on corn from other States, and the difficulty this year will be to find storage for the immense crop.... Chicago elevators contain 14,521,202 bushels of wheat, 779,872 bushels of corn, 199,296 bushels of oats, and 46,955 bushels of rye; total, 15,547,385 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 3,878,007 bushels a year-ago. ...A prizefight of 149 rounds occurred near BraidWood, 111., for a stake of SSO between two miners, named Patterson and in which the latter was the victor.

The commission which recently visited the Central and South American States in the interest of more intimate commercial relations between these countries and the United States has submitted a report of its w’ork iu Uruguay and the Argentine Republic. . The insignificant share of the Unitexl _States in the commerce of the River Plata territory is attributed to the lack of regular steamship communication. In both countries the commission was warmly received, and the Argentine Government is represented as anxious *to join ■with the United States Government in subsidizing steamship lines to ply between the ports of the two nations. The Italian Government desireß to send troops into the Soudan to take possession of the Red Sea coast from Suakim to Assab Bay, and an interview on the subject will shortly take place at Contrexville, in Vosges, between Premiers Salisbury and Depfetis. It is believed that if Sir Henry Drummond Wolff’s mission to Constantinople proves unsuccessful, England will consent to an Italian occupation of the eastern Soudan.

Fort Reno (Ari.) dispatch: “Scout Leslie has just come in and reports that the command of Maj. Davis met a party of Indians, killed Chief Nana and seven others, and captured eighteen squaws and Chief Geronimo and one buck. Gerouimo is badly wounded.” Fort Reno (Ind. Ter.) dispatch: “News has been received of a desperate tight between a number of cowboysj occurring at the ranch of Frank Murray, thirty-five miles southwest, in the Chickasaw Nation. A party of twen-ty-five cowboys rode up to the ranch and fired about 100 shots at the boys inside the ranch cabin, with whom they had a quarrel over stock. The boys inside, being well armed, returned the tire with deadly effect, killing Dick Covartand seriously wounding Dick Jones and Bob Woods, of the attacking party. This makes f our that have been killed over the trouble at this ranch since April. ”