Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

St. Washington’s day was generally observed throughout the country. At Wash-., iugton City the military organizations paraded. The national salute was fired at sunrise. The' Continental Guards, with about a hundred Congressmen as' their guests, went on a pilgrimage to Mount Vernon. President Cleveland sent a basket of flowers. The Washington Monument Society met and re-elected its old officers. Prominent Senators and members of the Supreme Court attended. The Michigan club (Republican) gave a banquet at Detroit. Senators Logan, Evarts, Conger, Manderson, and Govs. Alger and” Eoraker made addresses. The American colony Tit the City of Mexico observed the day by laying the cor-ner-stone of an American hospital. Gen. Jackson, the United States Minister, delivered an address and Joaquin Miller read a poem. .Simon Lassa, of New York, gave the site and a large cash subscription.... The Soldiers' Memorial building at Toledo was dedicated in the presence of 10,000 people. Several regiments of .military participated in the ceremonies. At West Farmington, Ohio, a student and a Saw-mill laborer were held in SI,OOO each for blowing up a saloon with a dynamite cartridge.... The iron bridge built by the Central lowa Road over the Mississippi River at Keithsbnrg, half a mile in length, was last week crossed by trains for the first time Forty-two Chinese were driven out of Oregon City the other day. ; They were escorted by a mob to the steamer Latona, lying at the wharf, placed aboard of her, and taken to Portland, their fares being paid bv money stolen from tlieiii. The Marquis De Mores proposes to start retail shops in the tenement house districts of New York, where his company’s beef will be Sqjd to consumers'at cheap rates, entirely cutting off the profits of the middlemen.... The burning of Pollard’s liquor store at Pittsburgh entails losses aggregating $120,000. The insurance is less than $35,000. The fire at Wilmington, N. G., caused a loss of $500,000....Eight persons were severely injured by the explosion of powder in a grocery, store at Winchester, Kentucky, where a lounger struck a match to light a cigar. The House Committee on Pacific Railroads has decided to report favorably an important amendment to the granting act under which the land-grant roads were constructed. Heretofore the roads have avoided taxation on unsold lands under a decision of the Supreme Court that unsurveyed tracts could not be assessed by either Stale or Territorial officers. The Surveyor General refused to run the lines until the roads advanced the fees, and this they refused to do in order to escape taxation by leaving the lands unsurveyed. The amendment now proposed provides that lands shall not be conveyed to the companies until the cost of surveying and conveyance has been paid to the United States, and the sums advanced are to be used by the Commissioner of the Land Office without further appropriation for the prosecution of the work of the Surveyor General until all the lands along the lines of the roads have been surveyed. In cases where the companies have become entitled to the lands they shall be subject to taxation by the State or Territory. The Attorney General is also authorized to bring suit against any company that neglects for ninety days after notice to pay the costs of survey and conveyance. The effect of these provisions will be that the companies must reduce the price of the lands and sell,them to settlers much cheaper. Justice and policy require the passage “oTthe bill. In the lower house of the Hungarian Parliament; the Prime Minister denied th.at Austria desired the annexation of the AVestern Balkans or that Russia sought to annex the Eastern Balkans... .Colonel Sir Edmund Henderson, the head of the London police force, has (resigned, owing to severe criticism? on 'the conduct of the police force during the recent riots... .ALondon dispatch states that Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has so instructed the police and military authorities as to render it virtually impossible to effect evictions. •