Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

In a quarrel at Saybrook, HL, Dr.,H. L. Hanis shot and killed Dr. Geo. Barton. The latter impugned the professional merit of Harris, who then charged Barton with lying. Barton, it is alleged, knocked Harris down, and the latter shot his opponent through the heart. Harris was giving medical attention to his victim when arrested, 'and was taken to Bloomington for safe keeping. .. . Chicago elevators contain 12,703,059 bushels of wheat, 594,381 bushels of corn, 73,131 bushels of oats, 148,789 bushels of rye, and 13,911 bushels of barley; total, 13,533,271 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 7,347,173 bushels a year ag0.... Christine Lagrange, the young woman who committed suicide at her home in Neenah, Wis., left a letter saying that she had been outraged by John Kerwin while returning from a ball in his company, which drove her to the act. Kerwin, who belongs to a respectable family, is in jail at Oshkosh. President Cleveland, says a Washington special, while not altogether satisfied with the Democratic ticket and platform in New York, is anxious for the success of his party at the approaching election, and will do all that he can with propriety to bring about that result... .A number of leading Dakota Republicans have nominated a full State ticket, with John H. King, of Chamberlain, for Governor. The slate was made up at a secret'meeting at Mitchell, and is the sequel to the Sioux Falls convention. »

Woman suffrage has been* decreed by the municipal authorities of Madras, India.... Mr. O’Donell, Home-Rule member of Parliament for Dungarvan, has retired from the canvass for re-election. Parnellism, he claims, has reduced the popular organization both in Ireland and America by its schemes for obtaining money, sapped the foundation of self-government by abusing, the nominees, and fostered deceptive confidence by claiming triumphs on the adoption by Parliament of every worthless Irish measure. t— — Dr. W. M. White, Independent candidate for State Senator, shot Judge George W. Ward, State’s Attorney, and editor of a local Democratic paper, as he was entering a hotel at Abingdon, Va. Ward fell on his face, but recovering, arose to his knees and fired at a relative of White who was crouching behind a tree on the opposite side of the street. White again came from his concealed position and shot Ward, as did two of White’s relations, probably fatally wounding the Judge. The White trio were arrested and bailed in $7,000 each. Ferdinand Ward, the ex-banker of New York, hag been interviewed.' .He declares that he has been made a scapegoat for the sins of others, and promises to give the public a statement, prepared some time since, showing in detail all the transactions of the firm of Grant & Ward. Gen. Grant, he says, had no knowledge of its affairs. The Presiden t has appointed the follow-ing-named Presidential Postmasters: at Paola, Kan., vice J. L. Perry, resigned; Robert F. Chilton, at Santa Ana, Cal., vice Charles E. French, resigned; Edward Van De Casteele, at Depere, Wis., vice P. R. Proctor, resigned; Harry S. Parker, at Farmington, N. H., vice William H. Hayes, resigned; F. H. Spinney, at Medford, Mass., vice J. H. Eames', resigned; Burritt B. Breed, at Lisbon, D. T., vice R. P. Bigger, deceased; L. R. Davis, at Athens, Ala., vice Thomas J. Lake, suspended; Milton H. Westbrook, at Lyons, lowa, vice J. R. Beers, suspended; Jas. B. Blackwell, at Marietta, Ga., vice A. A. Fletcher, suspended; John Shearman, at Monroe City, Mo., vice B. 11. Tucker, suspended; Thos. A. Garey, at Galveston, Tex.; vice Wm. H. Griffin, suspended; E. E. Waggoner, at Shelbyville, 111., vice 8. H. Webster, suspended; John A. Collins, at Washington, Mo., vice D. Q. Gale, suspended; E. P. Matthews, at Bowling Green, Mo., vice William J. Shepherd, suspended; John Flynn, at Duluth, Minn., vice Jos. E. Knowlton, suspended. The President has appointed the following Indian Agents: W. L. Powell, of Virginia. Neah Bay Agency, Washington Territory; John V. Summers, of Missouri, at Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory; Mark W. Stevens, of Michigan, at Mackinaw Agency, Michigan; Charles Hill, of Nebraska, at Santee' Agency in Nebraska, vice William H. Spaulding, declined: Moses Neal, of Kansas, at Sac and Fox Agency, Indian Territory, vice Isaac A. Taylor, resigned; Henry E. Williamson, of Mississippi, at Crow Agency in Montana, vice Henry J. Armstrong, resigned; Fletcher J. Cowart, of Alabama, at Mescalero Agency in New Mexico, vice W. H. H. Llewellen, resigned.