Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

In the Port Tobacco (Md.‘) district entire fields of com and tobacco were destroyed by hail, some of the stones being as la'ge as pullets’ eggs. Charles County farmers lost §IOO,OOO by the storm.. 4 J. M. Ivy & Co., of Rock Hill, N. C., have failed for about $700,000, New York cotton brokers being the heaviest losers. It is claimed that the Spanish flag had been flying over the island of Yap, and had only been lowered for the night, when the German sailors lauded, hoisted their colors, and took formal possession, despite the protests oi the Spanish officials. Prince Bismarck offers to abandon the island to Spain if this version of the Yap incident can be established and in the meantime to withdraw the German forces pending a settlement of the controversy, providing Spain will not oc -tipy the islands. The excitement in Madri 1 has abated. At Marseilles the Spanish residents threaten an attack upon the German Consulate. A large meeting has been held in Havana, at which the lives and property of the people of Cuba were pledged in support of the Spanish Government in the event of a war. The labor demonstration in Chicago on Monday, the 7th inst., was a very creditable affair. Over six thousand men, representing a large number of trades, were in the procession, which presented a highly creditable appearance. The picnic at Ogden’s Grove was very largely addresses were made by Mayor Harrison, Congressman Foran, of Cleveland, and others. The annual parade of the labor organizations of New York "took place in that city on the'7th inst., about 15,000 men being in the ranks.... The commercial papers are very busy just now, says the Chicago Tribune, in trying to answer the question, of how much wheat the United States will have for export during the present crop year after allowing for homd needs. It -is a conundrum that a good many people can solve to their own satisfaction, and very few to that of the rest. Only one thing is eeriain. and that is that the old world is not anxious to take much of our surplus eyen at the recent reduction in prices. One would think that 30s. 6d. per quarter would ba sufficient inducement to them to take hold if they had r.ot a pretty good prospect of a willingness on the part of other countries to let them have what wheat is wanted on at least as cheap terms as those asked by sellers of the article in the United States.

Judge George W. Clinton, Vice Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, was found dead in a cemetery at Albany. He was 78 years old and a son of De Witt Clinton, who built the Erie Canal and was Governor of New York. His death is attributed to apoplexy.... The yachts Genesta and Puritan started from Sandy Hook on the 7th instant in the first of their series of raoes for the iuternational cnp, But the wind proved unfavorable, and it being impossible to sail the race within the prescribed time—seven hours—-it was postponed... .Edward A. Rollins, President of the Centennial Bank, of Philadelphia, and ex-Commissioner of Internal Revenue, died at Hanover, N. H. Excitement prevails in the whisky trade at Cincinnati, Over-production and cut-throat competition are unrestrained, and a serious break in prices is anticipated at any moment. News from Peoria is to the effect that the pool is hopelessly broken, and th tin some insluachs sales are made at a loss to the distiller of 3 to 5 cents per proof gallon. .. .Hugh McHenry and Howard Pierce, living on a farm 1 ear Topeka, Kan., were arrested for participating in the train robbery at Blue Springs, Mo.. . .The census just taken shows the population of Wisconsin to be 1f503,1)30,l f 503,1)30, an increase since 1880 of 318,450. A pispatch from Washington. Ark., says that “a mob visited Pike County Jail at Murfreesboro, and made an attempt to der, but not being able to get within range the mob hauled a load of wood to the jail, piled it around the iron cell, saturated the wood with coal oil, and roasted both prisoners alive, nothing standing but the brick walls-of the jail. '1 he Polks murdered a peddler last year, and have had several trials. This was the third effort by mobs to kill the men. *.