Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The census of Nebraska, just completed, shows an increase of 298,243 in population in five years. The value of live stock is $83,000,000, against $33,000,000 in 1880, and the acreage tinder cultivation has doubled. The value of farms has been increased from $105,000,000 to $285,000,000, and manufactured products are valued at $13,000,000, against $12,000,000 at last report... The ice carnival at St. Paul, Minn., was formally inaugurated on the Ist inst. by the opening of the ice palace, the procession of uniformed clubs, comprising 5,000 persons, making a grand display. The city was thronged with visitors, and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. .. .Ritzinger Brothers’ bank at Indianapolis, Ind., failed. The deposits are placed at $500,000, and present estimates are that the bank will be able to pay 85 to 90 cents on the d011ar.... The iron ore mined in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Vermillion district of Minnesota during 1885 aggregated 2,427,437 tons, against 2,518,048 tons the previous year... .At Cincinnati thirty-three actors were fined $1 and costs each for participating in Sunday dramatic entertainments.

A large number of business places at Jackson, Miss., were destroeyd by fire, the estimated loss being $75,000. Several persons saved their lives by leaping from up-per-floor windows, but a man named Gaskins broke an arm and a leg. There were no funeral services in Washington over the remains of Mrs. Bayard, wife of the Secretary of State. The remains were taken to Wilmington, Del., and deposited in the old Swedish Church. A London dispatch says that “Mr. Gladstone went to Osborne on the Ist inst. in obedience to the summons of the Queen, and was intrusted with the task of forming a Cabinet. He was heartily cheered at the station in London and at Portsmouth while on his way to Osborne. At Portsmouth he made a short speech, thanking the people ’for their*cordial reception, and saying" that the remainder of his life was certain to be very short.” Thomas A. Edison, the electrician, and Miss Mina Miller, second daughter of Mr. Lewis Miller of Akron, Ohio, will be married Feb. 24. Miss Miller is 20 years of age. Her father is the inventor of the Buckeye mower and reaper and is President of the Chautauqua Assembly. He is estimated to be worth $2,000,000.

A bill providing for the division of the Sioux Reservation, Dakota, and a relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder passed the Senate on the Ist inst. Bills were introduced to appropriate 5150.003 for buildings and matorial used or destroyed by the Federal army in Nashville, and for a public building at Beatrice, Nebraska. In the House Mr. Hanback, of Kansas, secured the adoption Of a resolution which provides that "the Committee on Expenditures in the Depaititt^:it e# Justice be empowered to make full Inquiry into any expenditure on the part of the Government relative to the rights of the Bell and Pan-Electric Telephone Companies, and, for the purpose of this investigation and to the end that the people may be fully advised, the committee is granted the right to send for persons and papers, all expenses to bo audited and accounted from approved vouchers, and when so' approved to be paid out of any moneys in the ' Treasury not otherwi ;e appropriated, Mr. Matson, of Indiana, moved to suspend the rules and put upon its passage the bill., increasing the pensions of soldiers' widows from §8 to §l2, with an amendment providing that this act shall apply only to widows who were married to the deceased soldiers prior to its passage and. to those who may hereafter marry prior to or during the service of the soldier. Mr. Brown, of Indiana, inquired whether the effect of the passage of the bill under a suspension of the rules would be to put to one side the amendment which was pending to the bill repealing the limitation on the arrears-of-peusion act, and upon receiving an affirmative reply moved that the House adjourn. The motion was lost—yeas, 98; nays, 171.' After a short debate between Messrs. Browne and Matson, the motion to suspeifethe rules and pass the bill war agrged to—yeas, 198’; nays, 66. The London Times is valued at $25,000,000; Standard, $10,000,000; News, Telegraph, $5,000,000. The estimated population of China is 405,213,153, or 263 souls per square mile throughout China proper.