Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Reports from Berlin say that Prince Bismarck is preparing to yield entirely to the Vatican in the religious dispute which has been waged by Prussia against the Papacy for the last fifteen years. A bill has keen •deposited by the Government with the Upper House of the Landtag revoking, with a few trivial exceptions, all the features of the May laws which have been obnox is to; the Catholics of Germany.... The cable chronicles the demise of Viscount Edward Cardwell, a member of several ministries, who was nearly 73 years of age.. .Lord Dufferin, Viceroy of India, has decided to garrison Burmah with 16,000 British troops. At. Pine Bluff, Ark., the wife of a negro named Gray gave Stony Vincent, an old farmer, $1 for telling her fortune, for which Gray beat Vincent to death with a club, While lecturing at Philadelphia, John B. Gough, the temperance advocate, was stricken with apoplexy, and lies in a critical condition.... The damage by the flood at Boston, Mass., will reach $1,000,030. The waters are receding. ' Charles Lulino, of Manitowoc, Wis., lias been nominated by the Republicans to succeed Joseph Rankin in Congress. Members of the Denver Board of Trade loaded a car with provisions and clothing for the sufferers by fire at Flagstaff, Arizona. . ...T. B. Clark, of North Manchester, Ind., declined the advice of friends to sue the Wabash Road for loss by the death of his son, an employe, and without solicitation the company sent him a check for S3OO toward a monument..... .The suicide of Mrs. Sarah Wilkenson at Belleville, 111., confirms the suspicion that it was she who last month murdered William Massey, engineer of the Gartside coal mine, the. cause being jealousy. The Chinese Minister visited Secretary Bayard and informed him of a projected movement to drive the Chinese from California, claiming that the act would be disastrous to the Chinese laboring classes and ruinous to Chinese merchants. It is hinted that in case the Chinese are expelled the Pekin Government will demand a money indemnity, as has been paid for injuries sustained by Americans in China.

A message from the President was laid before tho Senate, on the 15th, transmitting a letter of tho Secretary of tho Interior with tho draft of a bill providing for the salo of the Sac and Fox Indian Reservations in_ Nebraska and KansasMr. Yan Wyck submitted an amendment to the House bill to increase the pensions of widows and dependent relatives of deceased soldiera and sailors, providing that minor children shall receive $5 per ninth when one parent is deceased, .mil $lO when both parents arc deceased; that the pensionable age bo extended to ojghteen years, and that fathers and mothers only be required to prove dependence at tho tune of application fpr pension. Mr. Van Wyck, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported favorably a bill to establish two additional land districts in the State of Nebraska, an,d authorizing the President to appoint registers and receivers therefor. Secretary Lamar of the Interior Department sent a letter to the Senate in answer ,to the resolution calling for all papers on file in the department and ail papers which have been presented to any officer of that department touching tho official aud personal conduct of Henry Ward, late an Indian Inspector, during his continuance in office. With tho letter were transmitted 282 documents, chiefly reports made by Mr. Ward to tho department. Tho Secretary says : “I transmit all tho official papers on file in the department winch I understand to be embraced by the resolution. * * * I am directed by tho President to say that if the object of the resolution is tq, mi quire into the reasons for the removal o! sir. Ward, these papers are not to bo Considered as constituting all the ovidence submitted to him in relation thereto. I am also directed by thq President to say that he does not consider it consistent with the public interests to transmit copies of unofficial papers from private oitzens held in my custody for him, which relate exclusively to the suspension of incumbents." The latter and accompanying papers were referred to the Committee on Indiup Affairs. Representative Thomas, of Illinois, introduced in the House a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Navy for a complete roster of officers on the retired list, and a statement of their rank aud pay. The House Committee on Coinage rejected bills to make treaties with foreign countries to open their mints to the free coinage of silver, ami to provide for the unlimited coinage of silver. It then divided equally on a measure to suspend the coinage of standard silver dollars, and decided to make an adverse report on Representative Bland’s bill for free coinage. Mr. Pulitzer introduced a bill granting a pension of $5,000 to General Hancock’s widow. A bill for the free coinage of silver was introduced by Mr. Bland of Missouri.