Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Ex-Senator M’ilmam H. Barnum has retired from the position of general manager of . the Iron Cliff Mining Co., and is succeeded by John Abeel, of New York Beports” have reached Canada that six mounted policemen were killed by Indians near Regina, and that the police at Edmonton and Saskatchewan bid defiance to tht-ir officers. The (loveriior of Ohio has appointed as Commissioners of Cincipnati Thomas C. Mfiier and Milo G. Dodds, Democrats, and George R. Topp and Robert J. Morgan. Republicans. ’ At a caucus of Republican Senators held in Washington a majority expresse<r'them« eeTves iii Tavor of open executive sessions. At this caucus, says-a Washington special, ’“more than a dozen’ Senators said frankly, they would vote for every nomination on its merits, regardless of whether it was made in the place of a suspended ex-sol-dier er noL .oir whether .thW Executive .had given his reais.ons for making the suspen--sion or npt. Among these Senators were Morrill. Platt, Plumb, Van Wyek, Hale.. .’lKflph, Mitchell (Oregon), and Don Udm-' eron." ■ .