Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Believing that the Collector at New York had recommended the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the importation of broken rice at 20 per cent, ad valorem, the New Orleans Produce and Sugar Exchanges have entered protests against such invasion of the existing tariff laws. The Canadian Pacific Railroad authorities claim to have discovered that they have been defrauded by their contractors and e vil engineers to the extent pf $500,000, principally by over-measurements. Two contractors, alone, it is, stated, reeeived $150,000 too much. Criminal and civil proceedings will be instituted by the railway company.... There were over 200 deaths from small-pox in Montreal last week. , . Judge Clough, of San Francisco, became insane a few weeks ago and was committed to an asylum. His resignation was accepted and a successor appointed by the Governor, but now there is trouble because Mr. Clough has recovered, and declares his resignation invalid because he was not in liis mind when it yas signed. In this he is sustained by the law of the Slate, and he is still Judge of the Superior C0ur:..... A' Fargo IDak,) dispatch says: “The Argus estimates the loss of wheat in North Dakota from prairie fires in the past ten days at nearly a million dollars. The fires have-eovered a large scope of country and broken out in perhaps a dozen localities in the 350 miles west of Fargo. No accurate reports can be had at once, as much of the country is unsettled and remote from railroads. and in several sections fires are stilj burning. It is the most destructive series of fires ever known in North Dakota." ....Chicago elevators contain 12,834,655 bushels of wheat, 483,713 bushels of corn, 41,431 bushels of oats, 145,418 bushels of rye, and 17,379 bushels of barley; total, 13,522,596 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 5,672,316 bushels a year ag0.... Chinamen have resumed work at the Rock Springs (Wyoming) coal mines, the scene of the recent massacre.

A Pottsvilpe (Pa.) dispatch says: “A horrible tragedy occurred at Silver Creek, a mining village eight miles east of this-cit-y. Patrick O’Neill and his wife, Sarah, lived with an old woman named Betty Keefe. The man and woman had constant quarrels, and Mrs. O’Neill blamed the old woman, who was her husband's aunt, for being the instigator of the domestic troubles. Yesterday was an occasion of general carousal and disturbance at Silver Creek, and in the evening the bulk of its people were drawn to one end of the village by a row. Old Mrs. Keefe was in bed, and Mrs. O’Neill, taking advantage of the opportunity, dragged the old woman to the floor and severed her head from her body with an ax. Mrs. O’Neill was drunk at the , time, and when arrested did not deny the crime. She was lodged in jail.” The union of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia was in the nature of a peaceful coup d’etat. Both provinces are delighted with a change which does away with all the aggravating, troublesome, and superfluous barriers which have hitherto separated two peoples of one blood, church, and language. From the absence of any excitement Among thb treaty Powers, it is evident the uaion has been effected with their consent, Their agents in Bulgaria have telegraphed their approval and their Ambassadors in Constantinople have advised the Turks not to make any opposition, but (o keep quiet and not attempt to take the runaway province back again. When the truth is known it will probably be found that the union was arranged *at the recent meeting of the German and Austrian Emperors and the subsequent meeting of the Austrian and Russian Emperors Business is generally suspended at Palermo, Sicily, on account of the cholera, and thirty thousand persons have fled the city. King Humbert has given SIO,OOO to the victims of the plague, aud placed one of his villas at the disposal of the sufferers. The epidemic is increasing at Gibraltar.... It is now believed that Germany and Spain will effect an amicable settlement of the Carolines controversy Without a resort to arbitral 0n... The Belgian Government proposes' to colonize the Congo country with paupers, who will be assisted for a time out of the national treasury.