Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Richard S. Dement, of Illinois, has been appointed Surveyor General of the Territory of Utah; John B. Webb, Register of the Land Office at La Crosse, Wis.; and Lloyd T. Boyd. Receiver of Public Moneys at Bayfield, Wis. The President has appointed the following Postmasters, the commissions of their predecessors having expired: Daniel Stewart at Walla Walla, W. T. ; Lucias M. Thomas at Watertown, D. T.; Charles A. Burke at Malone, N. Y.: Othneil Beeson at Caldwell, Kas.; Charles Hardcastle at Marion, Kas.; Hattie P. Blair at Great Bend, Kas.; G. W. Jarres, San Diego. Cal.: William H. Newcomb, Pana, HL; Elijah T. Eades at Knoxville. 111. ; George E, Blackstone, Paxton, Hl.; Samuel W. Peacock at Lancaster, Ky.: W. W. Wathen at Lebanon, Ky.; William McFarlan at Dowlngton, Pa.; James E. Crossland at Aiken,"K C.; Charles J. • Struck at Shakersee, Minn.; F. B. Bardon at Madison, N. J.; Christian Blievernicht at Elmhurst, Ill.; P. C. Rude at Berry, Iowa; F. E. Wilson at David City, Neb.; John T. - Wrenkle at Plattsburgh, Mo.; David M. Bossert at Jefferson, Iowa; T. M. Shellton at Windsor, Mo.; H. F. Tallman at Lanark, Ill.; C. C. Guiltoux at New Iberia, La.; Thomas H. Lantry at Algona, Iowa; Andrew J. Shakespeare at Kalamazoo, Mich.; Michael D. Baker at Uniontown, Pa. ; Miss Caradera Clark ,at Blair, Neb. The 1 oilowing Postmasters have also been appointed by the President: — John Snoddy at Big Springs, Texas, office become Presidential; John Ryan, at Anaconda, Montana, office become Presidential; J. F. Rayen at Sandy Lake, Pa., office become Presidential; R. W. Hill at Jewell, Kan., office become Presidential; R. S. Wagner at Bangor, Pa., office become Presidential; Jas. G. Hanson at Edensburg. Pa, vice Samuel Jame-<, suspended; Patrick J. Rogers at Piedmont, W. Va,, vice George T. Goshorn, suspended; Henry F. Taylor at Fulton, Ky., vice John F. Hall, suspended. A dispatch from Kittanning, Pa., says: “A terrible accident happened on Mahoning Creek at what is known as Milliron’s Dam, in which three young ladies were drowned. A party of young folks were on their way to Milliron’s Church, and, there being no bridge, were obliged to row across. When,they arrived at the creek, Beckie and Annie Neale, daughters of W. C. Neale, and Mary, the daughter of James Neale, got. into a small flat-boat with W. S. Neale as oarsman. When they had reached the middle of the creek the boat sank. The girls grasped hold of the young man, but he, being an expert swimmer, managed after a terrible struggle to free himself and to get to shore. The three girls weredrowned. About two hours after the accident the bodies were found. Their ages ranged from 15 to 18 years. ” In a speech at Victoria, B. C., the Marquis of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, said Great Britain had occupied three positions toward her colonies. The first was one of grasping selfishness, which ended in the loss of the American colonies; next came a period of indifference; and the last was one of strong desire for a closer union—for federation. As for federation, the Governor-General favored a continuance of the present relations rather than federation... The order of the Kuights of Labor of the United States and Canada elected T. V. Powderly of Scranton, Pa., to be Grand Master Workman, and Richard Griffiths, of Chicago, to be Grand Worthy Foreman for the ensuing year... .The family of Ralph Waldo Emerson say that a number of his letters to Carlyle appear to have been stolen. While Andrew Bryant and Miss Samantha Lamb were going to church near Greencastle, Ind., Ezra Shackelford, Bryant’s rival for Miss Lamb’s hand, attacked him, but was worsted. Shackelford followed the pair and attempted to renew the fight, when Bryant shot him dead.... A Presbyterian minister named Heatherly, recently from Nashville, Tenn., committed suicide, near Houston, Mo. ~ " In Greece and Servia the war fever runs high, and all the available troops have been called out... .The commission for the delimitation of the frontier between Turkey and Montenegro has resumed its labors.... The ’ newspapers at Madrid consider the six-weeks’ negotiations between Spain and Germany regarding the Carolines question a complete failure. The postoffice at Holdredge, Neb., was made Presidential Jan. 1, and up to the present tim'e no one has applied or been recommended for the position of Postmaster, a state of affairs which is said to be wholly without precedent.