Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A statement made in the Chamber of Deputies by Premier Brisson indicates the Collapse of the French enterprises in Tonquin and Madagascar... The Servians, having turned the Dragoman pass, are now headed for the line of intrenchments at Sofia. Five hundred Bulgarians have been taken prisoners. The Servians had 200 wounded and fifty killed. The government of Servia, has forbidden telegraph officials to receive war dispatches from foreign correspondents. Turkey has ordered 200,000 tons of coal from Newcastle and sent $150,000 to Hungary to purchase artillery horses. The delegates to the Balkan conference seem to deem it possible that the war may be localized through the efforts of Germany. Greece has contracted for sixty mitrailleuse and Nordenfelt guns, and made, S’war loan of $380,000.

Louis Riel was executed at Regina at an early horn on the 17th. None of his associates in rebellion found their way to his cell. His last hours were spent with Fathers Andre and McWilliams. He appeared on the scaffold in moccasins and a loose woolen shirt and,surtout. The guard consisted of twenty mounted policemen. The priests restrained his inclination to voice his grievances in the presence of the hangman. About twenty persons witnessed the execution., Riel died ■without a struggle. His body was interred beneath the scaffold, but will soon be removed to St. Boniface Cemetery. The executioner was a freighter named Jack Henderson, who was once taken prisoner by Riel, and who traveled 100 miles to beg the chance to get even. The rope was destroyed by the Deputy Sheriff, to prevent relichunters from obtaining it. Five hundred French students paraded the streets of Montreal cheering for Riel, and the City Council adjourned as a tribute of respect to his memory... .Between the '27th insL and the 28th of December eleven persons are to be executed in Ontario and the Northwest Provinces.

In making several appointments to Federal offices in the Territories President Cleveland relied upon home talent.... The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that during the month of October $61800,000 worth of beef, perk, and dairy products was exported abroad from the ports of this country, being a decrease of $672,000 as compared with the corresponding month last year. The value of the total exports of beef and pork products for the_twelve months ending Oct. 31 was over $86,000,000, being an increase iff hearty $2,600,000 as compared with the previous year. About two months ago, in Harlan and Knox Counties; Kentucky, twenty-nine moonshiners wtere arrested by H. W. Rogers, a Deputy Marshal, and most of them are now serving sentences. 'Sunday evening Rogers was fatally wounded by a ball fired through his bedroom window in Harlan village. A corrected report shows that 568 residences at Galveston were destroyed bj- the r ecent fire, and that the loss is fully $2,500,000. At a mass meeting it Was resolved to accept proffered aid from other cities, the distress being much 7 greater than at first estimated. Thus far $68,000 has been received, of which $23,500 has been paid out. The Rev. Mr. McLean, pastor of the Ninth Presbyterian Church at St. Paul, Minn., is charged with having criminal relations with a young woman of 17, and the doors of his church have been closed against him... . The decision of Justice Miller in the Brighton ranch case will compel the company to remove its wire fence from 52,000 acres of Government land in Custer County, Nebraska. A AVAR against “scalpers” is being pushed with vigor by railway passenger agents at Buffalo. They now contemplate a series of prosecutions under the State law; and, if convictions foil<>w. the offending “scalpers” may get terms in either the penitentiary or county jail....A shoemaker of Lynn, Massachusetts, claiming to be a sou of the late Thomas W. Pierce, the Texas railway king, appeared in the Probate Court at Salem and petitioned for an equitable division of the estate.