Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

There were killing frosts over the greater portions of the Northwest Territory, extending southward to the northern part of Minnesota, on the night of August 24. The temperature fell to 25 degrees at some points.. Adjutant General Drum'has re- ff ceived a t ispatch from the officer commanding in New Mexico saying that the Southern Utes in that Territory were starving: that they had .no supplies, and were unable to procure ar#; and that unless food was immediately secured for them they would go ton the war-path. These are the same Indians that a few weeks ago were* reported to be without food and in a starving condition. Temporary relief was afforded them by drawing on the military stores. Superintending Architect Bell, of the Treasury Department, is charged with illegal and extravagant expenditures in the construction of the new Government building at Kansas City. All payments on account of the work have been suspended by the conftnission which is investigating Mr. Bell's office ...The Register of the Treasury has issued the following order: “To avoid the trouble and delays in the transfer of United States bonds by the successor or legal representatives of holders, nominally or really a fiduciary capacity, this office will hereafter require as a condition precedent to the issue to any trustee,. executor, administrator, .guardian, etc,, that the beneficiary or particular trust represented shall be named in the application and in the assignment of the bond for the purposes proposed. ” The fastest ocean passage on record has been made by the Etruria, which ran from Queenstown to Sandy Hook in six days five hours and thirty-one minutes, making full allowance for the difference in time.... Letters from Dublin, Ireland, bearing date of Aug. 16 reached Chicago Aug. 24 at 9 a. m., taking only eight days, the quickest time on record of the transmission of mail between the two countries.... A new steam dredge, the Beaufort, from Savannah to Greenock, Scotland, was wrecked in a hurricane off the Bermudas. The captain and crew of ten or twelve men are believed to have been lost.

Samudu, an alleged prophet of Islam, at the head of 100,000 men, is fighting pqgan potentates in Central Africa and spreading the faith of Mohammed. Already the power of several rulers has been destroyed and thousands of lives sacrificed. It is believed that Samudu’s operations will have the effect of opening interior sections to American negro missionaries, and that American commerce will also be enhanced thereby M. Nelidoft, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, has been instructed to keep a careful watch upon Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, the special British Envoy to the Porte. The Czar’s Ministers fear that the representative of “perfidious Albion” will offer the Sultan England’s assistance in again getting possession of Kars, and also the control of Bulgaria, in return for an AngloTurkish alliance. .. .Repub’ican meetings called to protest against the colonial policy of the existing Government were held at many places in Italy on Sunday. At Milan resolutions were passed demanding the recall of the Italian army from Egypt. l _ Boston papers publish an interview with Dr. Dewey, of that city, in which be says that Maxwell, or Brooks, the supposed murderer of Preller, when in Boston asked him to get him a human body, aud that before he left the city he came to. the Doctor and told him confidentially that he had gotten one. Dr. Dewey says that Maxwell seemed to be possessed with the idea of getting hold of o “stiff,” but gave no hint why he wanted on a. The Doctor told him that it wa; impossible in that city. Maxwell then left town for a few weeks, and on his return surprised the Doctor on the street one day by saying that he had gotten a body and wished him to com: 1 , to his room and inspect it. Dr. Dewey says that he did not accept the invitation, but in view pf the developments in St. Louis he now wishes that he had done so. The invitation to see the body was given only two or three days prior to Maxwell’s departure for the West.