Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

It is settled that the Queen’s speech to Parliament, which will meet the 21st inst., will announce the introduction of the Irish bill resolved on by the British. Cabinet. A cable dispatch from London says: The decision was not arrived at without difficulty, stroll” opposition "being offered. The bill is being drafted, and will be ready lor printing early next week. The. Queen has approved the principles of the measure —Viz: Provincial Chambers, partly elective, retaining the representation of property. The Legislative Chambers are to have exclusive authority over the revenue and expenditures of the country for local purposes, including counties Rul municipalities. All existing local bodies are to be subject to the control of the Chambers. The supervising power of the Imperial Exchequer is maintained. The local government is to have power to '’"raise money for ■all internal purposes, subjoct to the veto of the Imperial Treasury, but never over the high Courts of justice or conflicting vithlth" hind act, laud-purchase act, and general'statutes of the country. The Chambers will have power to undertake public works, such as the construction of harbors. There is no authority over police, militia, tariff, or external relations in any shape. Provision is made against the threatened creation of a national volunteer army through the establishment of rifle clubs by retention of the punitive statutes aud imperial control of all "moneys raised, whether by rates or loons. A dispatch from T.amatave says that the treaty of pence between France and Madagascar' cedes territory to France, surrenders the northwest ports which France originally claimed, and gives the French Government supremacy over the foreign relations of Madagascar... .The Legislative Council of India has been forced to levy an extra income tax of two per cent, in order to cover a deficit of £2,000,000 in the budget. A review of the cattle trade of Montana - shows that during the past year that territory received 100,000 head by trail from the South, and the Northern Pacific brought iu 27,000 calves from the East and 38,000 from the West... .The Governor of Arizona reports that Territory as paying 10 per_ cent. interest upon warrants for $120,948, and the indebtedness of the several counties is $1,101,625. When ail the appropriations of the last Assembly are provided for, the territorial debt will be $700,000... .The Adjutant General of Indiana reports fortyseyen militia companies in that State, with an average membership of fifty men.... The insane people cost $6 per week each at the asylum at Stockton. California.... The Rock Island Road will this year lay no track in the Northwest, but will guard its interests in that quarter while engaged in the construction of over four hundred 1 miles of rail in Kansas... .Four physicians of Detroit caused the release of the Knoch brothers by certifying that their mother died from pneumonia, the fracture of her skull having been caused by the surgeon who removed the top of her head to examine the brain. For the two-year-old Futurity stakes, to be run at Sheepshead Bay, in 1888, there have been already 693 entries, and a number of prominent breeders are yet to be heard from. The winner of the stake will probably get $50,000... .The upsetting of a lamp by a dog resulted in a fire which destroyed Dunlap’s hat works in Brooklyn, entailing a loss of $250,000.. Symptoms of pleuro-Dneumonia liave-been discovered in twenty-five beeves on a farm near Masonville, Pa. By knocking down two guards, five desperate men escaped from jail at Charleston, W, Va The engineer of a passenger train approaching the trestle near Rocky. Monnt, N. C-, discovered that the structure was in flames some fifteen yards ahead of him. He pulled the valve wide open, aud leaped the lire at the rate of a mile a minute, the jar 1 extinguishing all the lights. The register and receiver of public lands at Pueblo, Col., reports to the general land office that he recently had a hearing in twenty-four cases of illegal homestead entries which had been investigated by special agents of the department. None of the claimsuits appearing the entiles were canceled. The Ohio" Legislature organized by electing John C. Entrekin, Republican, Speaker of the House, and John O’Neil, Democrat, President pro tern, of the Senate. *