Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Hostilities have been resumed in Madagascar, efforts at mediation between the French and the Hovas having proved a failure, and the former arc bombarding Marraujura. Details of the battle between Peruvian insurgents and the government forces fought at Canta, sixty miles from Lima, on the loth ultimo are received. The latter were surprised by the revolutionary troops, and after a vigorous resistance, lasting several hours, were driven from the town, leaving from three to four hundred killed and wounded in the hands of the enemy. Marly" inhabitants of Canta were massaered by the Cacarists, whose losses are unknown. Col. Bustnmente, one of the government officers, committed suicide oa the field of action. Vigorous measures have been taken for the defe se of the capital. The Jennings County Bank, located at North Vernon, Ind., owned by C. E. Cook, make an assignment cn account of having made large purchases of fraudu’ent Indiana township bonds. Fears are entertained that other banks ,and private individuals will also be forced to suspend from" the samecause.... A freight tra.n on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad separated on a steep grade near Guilford, Ind., the rear section afterward telescoping that attached to the engine. Nine tramps were imprisoned in a ear of oats, and three of them wefe suffocated At Cincmnati Frank Berte struck William Hazard a powerful blow with his fist, killing him instantly. The men were laborers, and the murder grew out of a quarrel between them a few days before. Capt. A. E. Goodrich. President of the Goodrich Transportation Company, died at his residence in Chicago, aged ->H years. ... .Mary L. Shepherd, 14 years old, was arrested at Dodgeville, Wis., while trying to dispose of a team of horses she had stolen. Her home is in Webster City, lowa. Pbince, the champion bicyclist, was defeated at Blossburg, Pa., by John Brooks in a twenty - mile race... .Fire in a double tenement house in East Eighty-first street, New York, created a. panic among the hundred inmates; but all escaped either by the stairways or fire-ladders, except a woman and her babe, who fell down an air-shaft in the roof, both being instantly killed. The first race between the yachts Puritan and the Genesta, which was sailed on the 14th inst. over what is known ns the inside course of the Ne w York Yacht Club, a length of thirty-eight miles, was won by the former in 0:04:30. The English cutter was beaten by a little more than a mile, and crossed the line in 6:10:30. The event excited great int erest throughout-the country and in England. A recent dispatch from Denison, Texas > says: “The principle of woman’s rights sustained an ignoble defeat here after a heroic- onslaught. Three maiden sisters named Cash, of mature years, reside on a street that is being repaired and graded. They objected to any work being done in front of their premises, as they had no voice in ordering the improvement. This afternoon, while the , street hpss afid his laborers were at work in front of the Cash_ residence, the three maiden sisters came out and assaulted the workmen with rocks, putting over a dozen brawny mem to flight. Tiie City Marshal and two policemen them.; essayed- to protect the . men while they returned to work, but the irate sisters were equal to the emergency, for this time they sallied forth with two old pistols and a garden hoe. The ehivalrie Marshal and his aids haslilyTeireated before the foe, and again the'workmen were severely pelted with roeks.and tied. Calling re-enforce-, ments, the Marshal rallied his men and finally captured the Amazons and landed them in the calaboose, where they are passing to-night singing hymns.” Buen©3 Ayres is one of the most prosperous cities in the world, but we are so far removed from it that we hardly realize its importance. It ha,s a population 0f.4Q0,000 people, and 150,000 emigrants arrive in its harbor each year. There is no other city that can show such rapid growth as this.