Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — ADDITIONAL NIwS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NIwS.

The number killed by the railway oolli-s ion near Jersey City is twelve. It is believed that five of the wounded will die. Thomas P. Pratt the telegraph operator who it is claimed caused the disaster, has been arrested, and is held to await the action of the Coroner’s jury. Two strikers stopped ,a St. Louis street-car and attacked the driver and conductor. The driver ran off, but the conductor stood his ground and knocked one of his assailants down. One of the attacking party drew a pistol and fired twice at the their intended mark, but one hit a colored woman in the side, inflicting a fatal wound- ... .An officer fired two shots at a thief .in Cedar Rapids, lowa. The first bullet dangerously wounded a citizen who was on the opposite side of the street, but at the second discharge the thief fell dead ... .In the Second Baptist (colored) Church at Kalamazoo, Mich.. Elmer Wood and Alfred Bennett quarreled, the question being which should escort Miss Ella Bradley home. Wood drew his revolver and pointed it at Bennett, upon which Miss Bradley dashed his hand upward. The bullet sped out the door striking and killing Robert Hargo, a young colored man, who stood on the steps.... The Missouri Pacific Road, having been given $50,000 in bonds to extend its tracks to Lincoln, Neb., is already purchasing or condemning riaht of way. The Chicago and Northwestern Company has asked the city for a similar bonus, and the proposition will soon be voted upon. In retaliation, the Burlington interests propose to extend from Grand Island to the line of Wyoming, and from Omaha to the northwest corner of Custer County. The articles of incorporation for the latter company have already been filed at Lincoln; and Manager Holdredge says the scheme only awaits the approval of the Burlington Directors in Boston to be put in execution. ....The family of Mr. Wijliam S. Bates, residing at No. 86 Vernon Park place, Chicago, consisting of his wife, mother-in - law, and two children, were burned to death in their house, which was set on fire by the explosion-of an oil stove..... Casper Butz, formerly a well-known citizen of Chicago, died at Des Moines, lowa. President Cleveland has made the following appointments: Ernest P. Baldwin, of Missouri, to be Deputy First Auditor of the Treasury—Henry 11. West, of Ohio, to be Indian Agent at the Fort Peck Agency in Montana—Samuel W. Langhorne, of Montana, to be Register ot the Land office at Helena, M. T.— Horatio 8. Howell, of Montana, to be receiver of Public Moneys at Helena, M. T. To Be Consul General of the United States — Benjamin F. Bonham, of Oregon, at Calcutta. To Be United States Consuls—Win. A. Garesche, of Missouri, at Martinique; < harles Foster, of Indiana, at Elberfeld: N. J. Arbelly, of Tennessee, at Jerusalem; James N. Childs, of Mane, at Guelph, Canada; James H. Trumbull, at Talcahuano, Chili. To be Postmasters—Michael P. 8 attdry, at Bis-j marck.-Dakota, vice Clement A. Lounsbery, resigned; John W. Milford, N. H., vice John H. Crosby, commission expired: Daniel C. Hopper, Centreville, Md., vice W. J. Hunt, commission expired; Charles W. Roby, Portland, Ore., vice George A. Steele, commission expired; James M. King, Knoxville, Tenn., vice O. P. Temple; com nissionexpired; J. L. Street. Park City, Utah, vice A. B. Emery, commission expired; Julius Field, Fort Worth, Texas, vice Belle M. Burchell, commission expired; Albert Watkins, Lincoln, Neb., vice J. C. Mcßride, commission expired; B. F. Healtham, Nashville, Tenn., vice W. P. Jones, commission exSlred; P. D. Minnick, Villisca, lowa, vice J. M. attum, commission expired; J. D. Pratt, Ipswich, Dakota, office become Presidential; Warren Perley, Bradford, Mass., office become Presidential; George Beck, Livermore, Cal., office irecom? Presidential; J. A. Fawley. Stromsburg, Neb., office become Presidential; R. K. Henderson, Murfreesboro. Tenn , vice J. D. Wilson, resigned; W. L. Norton, Tullahoma, Tenn., vice G. W. Davidson, resigned; William Schermerhorn, Hudson, Mich , vice E. J. Southworth, resigned; W. C. Schulz, Reynoldsville, Pa., vice T. C. Reynolds, resigned: Abraham Rose, Vinton, lowa, vice J. F. Pyne, resigned; Parley Sheldon, Ames, lowa, vice John Watts, resigned; John 8. Finley, Holly Springs, Miss., vice Mary H. Mahon, suspended; Walter F. Scott, Modesto, Cal., vice T. W. Perry, resigned. A terbible boiler Explosion occurred at Greenville, Pa. Andrew Hillig was drilling a natural-gas well, and bad reached a depth of eight hundred feet, when the boiler exploded with terrific force, killing Henry Faust, aged 65 years, and seriously injuring several others. Fragments of boiler-iron crushed through a barn near by, almost wrecking the structure. Windows in the vicinity were shattered by the concussion, and pieces of the iron were picked up five hundred feet from the scene of the explosion.