Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

J. V. Lewis, of Cincinnati, has organized a cotton-seed oil pool or corporation having a > capital of $20,000,000, to be known as the Cotton Oil Trust Company, and controling 60 per 'tent, of the mills of the entire country. It is said the syndicate is besieged by applications for admission of mills not yet in the p 001.... Explorers in Nebraska found within three miles of Chadron an ancient stone wall extending for seven niiles. It is over a foot in thickness, from three to four feet high, and laid in cement with great regularity.... The bursting of a boiler resulted in the explosion off 12,000 pounds of powder in the Miami Powder Company’s works near Xenia, Ohio, killing three men and blowing the dry house and its machinery to pieces. .... The Illinois Central Road, in its report • for 1885, shows an increase of $464,485 in the earnings of the Illinois and Southern lines, and a decrease of $34,054? in the lowa leased tracks. The gross earnings per mile were $6,108.00. .. .A masked mob expelled the Chinese working at East Portland and Albina, Oregon, displaying revolvers to menace the Chinese, who were driven to a ferryboat and then carried to Portland. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints for the week ended Eeb. 27 was 3 305,060. The issue during the corresponding period of last year was 186,497. The shipments of fractional silver Coin during the month of February amounted to $230,089 The United States Supreme Court has sustained the decision of the lower courts in favor of the defendant in of the State of Tennessee against the Pullman Car Company, brought to recover taxes on the cars of the company passing through the State. The Canadian Pacific Railroad depot at Winnipeg, Manitoba, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $200,000, with insurance of but $40,000.

President Cleveland sent to the Senate, on March 1, a special message declining to furnish unofficial documents relating to suspensions from office, and claiming the right to destroy them. When the message had been read Mr. Edmunds said it reminded him of the communication of King Charles I. to the Parliament. He also said that tho President, unintentionally, no doubt, hod entirely misstated the question involved between himself and the Senate, It was ordered printed. - The Senate, in executive session, rejected tho nominations of Messrs. Pillsbury and Chase to be Collectors of Internal Revenue at. Boston, Mass., and Portland, Me., respectively. The nomination of John H. Shaffer to.be Postmaster at Kankakee was confirmed. The nomination of Surveyor General Dement, of Utah, was reported adversely. In the House of Representatives a member from South Carolina introduced a bill for the distribution of the surplus moneys- in —the Treasury, during the next four years, among the respective States in proportion to their representation in the Senate and House. Mr. Brumm asked unanimous consent of the Hopse to have printed-in the Record a memorial signed by J. P. Brigham and others, asking for the impeachment ofDaniel Manning, Secretary of the Treasury, for high crimes and misdemeanors in the execution of the silver law. Mr. Beach objected.

The chaperon system is getting a foothold in the large American cities. In Paris this plan is used to the exclusion of all others; but in America it was almost unknown down to a quite recent date. A lady writer contends that the chaperon is becoming a necessity in the larger cities on account of the exclusion of so many young men from society through inability to meet the necessary expenditure of a society man. The larger the city the greater becomes the necessary expense. This state of affairs puts the society ladies in an uncomfortable majority *over the society men, and recruits the ranks of “wall-flowers” to an alarming extent. So the chaperon becomes a beneficent institution, and young ladies will enjoy a greater independence of movement than ever before. Richard Wjnehall, of South Egremont, Mass., recently sold his wife for three dollars. There appears to be a very gratifying boom in the wife market. Only recently a man sold his wife for five cents, ' and this sudden advance in price to three dollars shows that there is at least one industry that is not languishing.