Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Flames swept away every house in Vancouver, B. C., causing a loss of SIOO,OOO, buming*hp five people, and rendering three thousand homeless. President Cleveland will meet all who desire to pay their respects at 1:30 p. m., Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of each week. He requests that the remainder of the time lie allowed him for the performance of official duty and the transaction of public business. Ln a street-car at Kansas City, Mo., W. A. Carlisle, an attorney, shot Dr. Morrison Munford, proprietor of the times, and also fired a second bullet, which inflicted a painful wound upon a young woman. Carlisle then jumped from the car and fired at the Doctor through the window, the bullet .hitting a male passenger in the face, making a dangerous wound. The would-be murderer than ran off, but was speedily captured. Dr. Munford is not seriously hurt. The shooting grew out of charges preferred by the Times against Carlisle. •A prominent Knight of Labor at New York is at St. Louis distributing the unemployed Gould line strikers. He has already disbursed SIO,OOO, and his work in that line is not more than half accomplished. A local assembly of servant girls, under, the banner of the Knights, is being formed at St. Louis. Ludwig, the deposed King of Bavaria, left Munich .on Sunday for Berg Castle, on Lake Starnberg, the peasants along the route kneeling and weeping as he passed. Late in the afternoon he went out to walk in the park with Dr. Gudden. Without a word .of warning he flung himself into the lake. The physician sprang after him, and both were drowned.... A riot occurred at Sligo, Ireland, during which several houses of Protestants were wrecked and many people injured. Beyond discussing the Northern Pacific landforfeiture bill, absolutely nothing was done in the Senate on the 11th inst. The House concurred in the Senate’s amendments to the Atlantic and Pacific land-forfeiture bill, and passed a bill prohibiting pool-selling in the Dis-,, trict of Columbia. Mr. Hewitt offered a resolution in the House providing for a celebration of the centennial anniversary of the foundation of the Constitutional Government, April 30, 1889. Mr. Warner of 'Qhio introduced a resolution calling on tfie. Secretary of the Interior for information showing the number, extellt, and location df foreign holdings of what were formerly public lands, and how the title to such lands had been acquired by aliens.