Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

•AN InceudlAlT flfrr at ATahiStei 1 ; Michi., destroyed the Union school and its library, the loss being $45,000 .. .Forty-five boys," employed as helpers by the Great Western Gloss Company at Si. Louis, struck for higher wages, throwingoutof work seventy - five men dependent in performing their duties upon the services of >he boys.... • The Atchison Road has raised the price of limited first-class tickets from the Alissouri River to San Frandsco to SSO, and to Los Angeles to S4O. The Atchison, in carrying freight to California, has to pay to the Southern Pacific full contract rate's for the use of the (rack from Mohave to Sail Francisco. .. . A freight train was ditched east of Wyandotte, Kan., by spikes being yinlled out of the ties and fish-plateß taken off the rails. Fireman Ben Horton aud Bmkenian George Carlysle. were instantly killed, und Engineer J. H. Fowler seriously injured. Air. H. M. Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific, has offered $2,500 reward for the arrest of the parties who caused the wreck. George E. Graham, the wife-mur r derer, was taken from the jail fteld, AIo., by a mob Of 300 men, and strung up to a ■ tree. When the mob unlocked Graham's cell he greet 'd them with the remark: “Y'ou can hang me, but by. G —d you can’t scare me.” The whole affair was conducted very quietly. The House Committee on Labor has agreed to report the Crain educational bill as a substitute for the Willis-Blair bill. • The Crain bill appropriates $7,500,000 a year for ten years from the receipts of the sales of public* lands- for-popular education within the States on the basis of illiteracy. Geronimo’s band has attacked several ranches near Imuris, Mexico. It completely destroyed all the buildings at Casita, a small wav-station near Inmris, on the Sonora Railroad, killing fifteen persons, all Mexicans. A company of soldiers were sent after the Indians. Two soldiers were killed. The Indians w r ere moving in the direction of the Sierra Aladre Mountains. It is officially announced at Paris that Greece, yielding to the advice of France to refrain from war, will at once disarm. The statement is confirmed by London advices. The Greek Chamber of Deputies has been convoked. The combined fleet of the Powers which had assembled to coerce Greece has departed. The postoffice appropriation bill was reporter! to the Senate on the 2«;tli of April. Washington C. Whittfiorne (Tenn.j, the successor of Judge Jackson, was sworn, and took his seat. Senator Van Wyck (Neb.) addressed the Senate in support of the interstate commerce bill. His speech consisted mainly "of an arraignment of Jay Gould and C. P. Huntington, who had, he said, according to their own testimony, moved on State Legislatures, the courts and Congress, unblusbingly purchasing judges and legislators. Senator Blair (N. H.) addressed Sthe Senate.in support of liis proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcoholic liquhrs as beverages. In the coarse of his speech he said that it was less possible for the Republican party to remain permanently three-fourths for prohibition and one-fourth . against it than it once was for the nation to remain permanently one-half slave and onehalf free. W. T. lJowdall was nominated to the Senate for Postmaster at Peoria, Illinois. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Springer introduced aTbill to establish a department of labor, with a commissioner and two assistants, the expense not to exceed §103,000 per annum. The Committee on Pacific Railroads reported to the House the bill formulated by the sub-com-mittee providing for an extension of seventy years of the bonded debt of the Pacific Railroads to the Government, The bill makes provision for the payments' of the indebtedness of the Paeitlc Railroads to the Government after the following plan: To the present debt is added the interest that would accrue during tlie lifetime (eleven years) of the existing bonds, assuming tttot no further payments are made by the companies, and the total divided into 140 equal payments, which are represented by a series of bonds falling due semi-annually, the last bond maturing seventy ■years.after issue. [The average annual pay-ments.-by tlia companies would-reach nearly - ¥4,000,000, which, it Is estimated, Would amount to a sum greater than the principal of the debt before the existing bonds would mature.