Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The leaders of the Salvation Army at London presented to the Home Secretary a petition a mile and a half long, bearing 200,000 signatures and weighing 560 pounds. This formidable document asks the release from prison of Editor Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette and Mrs. Rebecca Jarrett, who are in jail for ab 4 ducting Eliza Armstrong. .. .The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, at & meeting held in Dublin, issued a manifesto addressed to the Orangemen of Great Britain, protesting against complying with the demands of the Parnellites. . .The four children bitten by a mad-dog at Newark, N. J., recently, have arrived in Paris, and are under treatment by M. Pasteur, the hydrophobia specialist. On a charge of disorderly conduct in which Chief of Police Connelly was a participant, Col. E. C. Bluffy, assistant city editor of the Constitution, was fined at Atlanta, Ga., $lO and costs, Connelly being let off upon paying costs. The editor had challenged the policeman to fight a duel, but the latter declined. Articles consolidating the Milwaukee and Dubuque and the Bureau and Northwestern Roads have been filed at Madison, Wis. The object is to construct a railway from Milwaukee to St-Louis, to be called the Milwaukee, Peoria and St. Louis Road, with a capital stock of $6,000,000... .A boiler explosion in Trebien’s distillery at Dayton, Ohio, killed two workmen and seriously injured several others, one being blown several hundred feet into the river. The issue of standard silver dollars during the week ended Dec. 19 was 629,211. The issue during the corresponding period of last year was 454,995.

The feature of the Senate proceedings on the 21st of December was the carefully prepared attack of Senator Beck upon the financial policy of the administration. Mr. Beck believes that the word “coin" used in section 3694 of the Revised Statutes means silver as well as gold coin, and he therefore introduced a resolution instructing the Finance Committee to inquire whether the coin paid for customs duties under the section has been set apart 1 for the payment of the interest on United States bonds and to the payment of one per centum of the entire debt of the Unitod States made in each year as a sinking fund, and if this had not heartofore been done to report a hill for the enforcement of . the law. The Kentucky Senator spoke for an hour upon this resolution, and in the course of his remarks charged that the Secretary of the Treasury had deliberately violated this provision; that he was administering the Treasury in the special interest of national banka, and that he was, also, in the same interest discriminating against silver. The Senator declared, with great oavnestncss of manner, that lie would enforco fine and imprisonment upon any officer who would thus violate the law. Beck was so vehement in manner and so blunt in language that upon the conclusion of his remarks the Senators on both sides were too much surprised to make any response, Mt, Morrill said that the speech practically clmrged the Secretary of the Treasury with being a thief, and the President of the United States with being in collusion with him; and that, as no Democratic Senator seemed ready to dofend the administrdtion against the terrible arraignment, he moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business, which motion was adopted. In th(f House of Representatives, under a call of the States, a perfect flood of bills rained upon the Speaker’s desk. More than 1,001 were introduced, aud the call was suspended when Maine was reached. Inclosed in the list are the following: For the relief of Fitz John Porter, to suspeud the coinage of the silver dollar, to pay Government employes wages witheld in violation of the eighthour law, to limit the disposal of the public lands, to establish a ; postal telegraph, for the unrestricted coinage of the silver dollar, for the construction of the Hennepin Canal, to establish a Sub-Treasury at Louisville, to enable the people of Dakota to form a constitution, and to create the Territory of Oklahoma. Ten measures allecting railway land grants wore also introduced. Both houses adioumed until Jan. 5.- The President sent the following new nominations of Postmasters to the Senate on the 21st : At Fairmount, W. Va, Newton S. Barnes ; Jackson, Tenn.,R. R. Dashiel; Peoria, HI., John Warner; Mt. Pleasant, Mich., Fred A. Stebbins ; Evansville,,Wis., James V. N. Sonn f Nevada, Mb., Win. R. Crockett; Oxford, Pa., Samuel 11. Smith; Weatherford. Tex,, N, B. Johnson; Wauseon, Ohio, George Huumesler; Canton, Ohio, William Archival; Delaware, Ohio, David A. Starke; Ottawa, 111., William Osman ; Batavia, 111-., Willis S. Grimes ; Amboy, 111., George E. Young; Mason City, 111., William A. Mehau; Maywood, 111., Samuel S. Kemp; Mount Carroll, HI., William P. Baird _ Mount Morris. 111., Henry Sharer; Effingham, HI., Charles Kelly; Macomb, HI., Thomas Philpot; Hyde Park, HI., EdwinS. Hawley; Vandalia, 111.. Sidney B. Stout; Shelbyville, ICy., Joseph N. B.ell; Howoll, Mich., Isaac W. Bush; Niles, Mich., William J. Edwards; Stautou, Mich., Patrick 11. MeGarry Denison, lowa, O. B. Keith ; Oskaloosa, lowa, William T. Smith; Hampton, lowa, Oscar B. Hamilton; Little Rock, Ark., Thomas W. New. ton.