Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Ex-Senator William H. Barntm has retired fiom the position of genejgi manager of the Iron Chff Mining Co., and is succeeded bv John Abeel, of New Y0rk..... Reports have reached Canada that Six mounted policemen were killed by Indians near Regina, and that the police at Edmon- ‘ ton and Saskatchewan bid defiance to their officers. following important nominations have been made by the President: William L. Trenholm. of South Carolina, now a Civil-Service Commissioner, to be Control-

ter of the Currency in the place of Henry ; W. Cannon, resigned; John H. Olarly, of i Illinois, tol be Civil-Service Commissioner in the place of William L. Trenholm, nojps mated to be Controller of the Currency; ; Charles Lyman, of Connecticut, now (2ai<‘f ■ Examiner of the Civil-Service Commission, to be| Civil-fiervice t Commissioner in the I place of Dorman B. Eaton, resigned. The House Elections Committee at Washington has rejected, by. a vote of 8 to 6, Frank Hurd's claim to represent in the House the Tenth Ohio District, now represented by Mr. Itomeis. Two Democrats voted witlrthc Republicans agninsf' Hurd. Conorehsmax Herd js to take his contest into tile House, and promises to make a lively fight and win. .. .The Committee on Ways and Means in the lower house of < 'ongresH rejMirted in favor of a bfll establishing export tobacco factories, the object of which is to relieve export tobacco from taxation to enable American manufactured goods to com| site in foreign markets.