Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Alfred Long, who was charged with murdering and robbing* A. J. Mcßride and wife and burning their bodies in their house, was lynched neat Lexington, N. C. He made a full confession of his guilt.... A mulatto named Charles Whittle, aged 18, was lynched at Prince Frederick, Md., for brutally assaulting a 5-year-old child. .-.. A Northeastern passenger train fell through a trestle near St. Stephen’s Station, South Carolina. Six persons were instantly killed And many others wounded, some of whom can not survive.... The Davis Block, at Louisville, Ky., valued at SIOO,OOO, was nearly destroyed by fire. The Grand Theater was located in the building and it was there the fire started... .The Supreme Court of Arkansas has affirmed a decision making the conducting of bucket-shops a misdemeanor. —. ’. ; • '■ Maxwell, the St. Lonis murderer, expresses sorrow at his conviction because he had expected to enter a dime museum and acquire sufficient money to repay the heirs of his victim and then return to England to practice law... .The press stand on the ' St. Louis Fair Association fell during the ! progress of a race, severely injuring many persons. Mr. Joseph McCnllagb, managing editor of the Globe-Democrat, was badly hurt... .Frosts are reported from Northern Minnesota and Dakota, doing considerable damage to grain. An incendiary fire destroyed the frame buildings Nos. 731 and 733 South Canal street, Chicago. The corpses of nine peraons were taken from the ruins—among them being Michael Murphy, his wife, and four children. The President, says a Washington special, will not spend the summer at Forest Hill, nor will he remain in the White House or go to the so-called President’s cottage at the Soldiers’ Home. The first reform that the wife accomplishes will be to take him away from his desk. It is determined that soou after the adjournment of Congress he will make a journey through the Adirondacks and the White Mountains, and visit 805t0n.... The Secretary of State has accepted the resignation of F*. H. Wiuston as Minister to Persia, which was forwarded soon after the latter arrived at Teheran. .After being before the British Parliament and the greater tribunal of civilized opinion for two months the Irish home-rule bill of Gladstone has been defeated by the decisive majority of thirty iu the largest vote ever in the House of Commons. Out of a possible C7O members G 52 passed between the tellers in a division upon the most momentous question that has been submitted to a British Parliament in cur generation. The scenes of intense popular interest that attended the introduction of the bill by Mr. Gladstone last April were more than repeated at Westminster during the'closing hours of the struggle. The United Kingdom watched the closing hours of the debate with that absorbed interest which attends a life-and-deat-h operation. In the estimation of the nationalists of Ireland, the fate of their beloved country hung upon the vote. In the view of the conservatives and their liberal allies the integrity of the empire was at stake... .Prince Jerome Napoleon has published a protest against the expulsion bill, predicting that it will lead to civil war. Thf. copsulor and diplomatic appropriation bill passed the Senate on the 7th inst The oleomargarine bill was referred to the Committee on Agriculture. The Committee on Public Lands made a favorable report on Mr. Stanford’s bill to crant the Seal Kocks in" trust to the city of Sun Francisco. The Senate, -in executive session, confirmed the nomination of A. P. Swineford ta be Governor of Alaska. In the House of Representatives bills were introduced to establish a military fort near Denver ; to grant a pension of 8100 a. month to the Widow of General Durbin Ward ; to prohibit the employment of convict or alien labor on public works ; to erect a monument in Brooklyn to the victims of prison-ships, and to prohibit tho obstruction of interstate railroad business. Judge Pavson's bill repealing the pre-emption, desert laud, and timber laws, and amending the commutation provision of the homestead law, was passed by ii vote of 183 to 40. A resolution was presented 1 for an inquiry into the Pension Department, and to report upon the propriety of continuing the excessive expenditures under the present system. Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, apologized for a “warmth of expression" in the House in regard to Mr. Holman, of Indiana. The apology was frccepted.