Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

‘"The great strike in the Southwest, contrary to general expectation, is not ended yet,” says a New Y T ork dispatch of the 30th. “Jay Gould read the papers yesterday morning and concluded t|i At Mr. Powderly was laboring uhder a mistake in thinking that he (Gould) had agreed to uny scheme .of arbitration. Gould accordingly addressed a note to Powderly to this effect. Thereupon the latter rescinded his order for the men to return to work. An appointment for a conference between the two men was made, but owing to the sickness of Mr. Powderly he was unable to appear.” Bttler Mahone, the Scapegrace son of, Senator Mahone, Was fined SIOO in a Washington court for assaulting the waiter whom he nearly killed in a fracas many months ag0....1t is stated on authority, says a Washington dispatch, that President Cleveland has had no communication with Mr. Gould or others with reference to the railway strike. It is asserted, however, that he has conversed with Chairman O’Neill, of the House Labor Committee, touching plans for a board of arbitration for the settlement of disputes between employes and employers. , At Oxford, Connecticut, a young and handsome girl named Louisa P. Williams refused to marry John Andrews, whereupon he killed her with an axe and blew out his brains with a revolver... The Attorney General of New York has given an opinion that the savings banks of that State can not invest their funds in the bonds of Alabama, because of a default in the principal and interest of certain legal obligations of that 'State. ,

A company has been organized in Wisconsin, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, to build one hundred miles of railway between Fairchild and some point on the Burlington and Northern, in Buffalo County. A dispatch from Huron, Dakota, states that ■the northern and southern pai-ts of that Territory will this year be linked for 450 miles by completing the gap on the Northwestern Road between Columbia and Lamour.... Reservation Indians at Round Lake, Wisconsin, have begun the erection a church; and at a temperance meeting recently several of the red men signed the pledge A resolution has been passed by the City Council of Chicago providing that the city printing shall not be let to any office employing nonunion printers The extensive retail drygoods house of Miller Brothers at Evansville, Ind., has been forced to the wall, with liabilities of $182,482.

The first week of the past month (March) will long be remembered as l the one in which the price of wheat in England touched the lowest point of the century. Tne average price of home-grown wheat for that week in the-187 towns in England and Wales was only 29 shillings p,er quarter of eight imperial bushels. The average of the corresponding period for the last ten years is 41J shillings, and the highest of the period was 51| shillings, being that for the corresponding week in 1877. On the understanding that the imperial bushel averages sixty-two pounds, 29 shillings per quarter is equal to only 84j cents per bushel of sixty pounds.

When the bill for the increase of the army came- up ,in th<%.Senate, on the 29th ult., Mr. Logan had the clerk read an measure by General Sheridan. Mr. I’Wnib argued that,if the army were to be used-to put down local troubles it was becatise public opinion had not done its perfect work. Mr. Logan aroused enthusiasm in the galleries by defying (he Powers of Europe. Mr. Teller oppos.ed the increase of the army. Violence in the States should be suppressed by the States, he said. In the Hbuse of Representatives, bills or resolutions were introduced directing the Secretary of the Interior to furnish artificial limbs to Confederate soldiers or sailors who lost legs or arms in the war; authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to take a conveyance of the cottage at Mount McGregor, where Gen. Grant died; calling for information as to the money loaned by the Government to the Cotton Centennial atNew Orleans, and whether any of the sum has been repaid. Mr. Reagan objected to the introduction of a resolution for an investigation into the massacre of negroes at Carrolltop, Miss. Mr. Belmont offered a joint resolution appropriating ¥147,748 to the Chinese Government for ’esses sustained by its subjects at Rock Springs, Wyoming. A new pleasure to aid in the establishment of common schools was referred to the Committee on Labor. Four propositions were made for an investigation of, the cause of the labor troubles.