Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Chicago telegram: “The officials of the Luke Shore Road, being determined to resume business nt their freight yards in and about Chicago,. terrified * the strikers by placing along the track one hundred and twenty-eight policemen, armed with clubs, revolvers, or Winchester Titles. The crowds were driven from the crossings, the new switchmen were protected in discharging their dirties, “and the yards were cleared ■of cars soon after midday, without u shot having been, tired.”.... The nailers’ strike at Belleville, 111., has ended, the Pittsburgh arrangement proving satisfactory to both operators and workmen. .... Seven hundred men employed in the packing-house of John P. Squire, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, have joined the Knights of Labor, aud made a demand lor an advance of from 10 to 20 per cent, in wages. From Computations made at the Treasury, based on last year's receipts, it is estimated that the Randall tariff bill, introduced in the House last week, will effect a reduction in the Government revenue of $34,977,655, including $7,044,452 on account of reductions of tariff on dutiable articles, $1,520,124 on account of the additions to the free list, and $20,407,088 on account of tbe ..removal of the internal tax on tobacco, etc. The revenue for duties on steel railway bars is reduceel from $112,955 to $86,409.. . .Land Commissioner Sparks has rendered a decision that unstirveyed lands are not affected by the indemnity withdrawal. One of the most destructive hailstorms that ever occurred in the Northwest is reported from Walsh and Grand Forks Counties, in Dakota. The storm covered a width of two miles and extended for more than twenty miles, and at Inkster, in Grand Forks County, it extended for more than four miles. Crops in the storm-devastated district were almost entirely wiped out. A Norwegian church four miles from Grafton, in Welsh County, was blown to pieces and converted into kindling wood, and hailstones the size of nuts could be gathered up with a shovel thirty hours after the storm. Scores of farmers are left destitute. The damage in the district so far as reported is thought to be not less than $500,000.

The river and harbor bill, with amendments, f | was revolted to the Senato on the 28th ult. The | conference rejort on the pension appropriation ! bill was presented to the Senato and agreed to. I The House receded from its disagreements. ( Till! Semite, liy..a vote ol 33-to 12, decided to iu- - sist upon its amendment to the postoliice ap- ! propriation giving- a subsidy to Pacific I Mail .steamships. The Senate passed ! ! a bill granting a pension ,ot SIOO a ! : moiltli to tUo widow of tiie late Gen. | Stqnnard of Vermont. A bill authorizing the } President to apiioint and retire Alfred ITta.son- : r ton as Major General was introduced in the ! Senate The Semite debated the veto of the ] Des Moines River land bill without action, Sen- ; ator Kvarts (NV Y.j opposing and Senator Allison | (Iowa) favoring the passage of tlio bill over the i | voto. President Cleveland sent to the Senate j . the name of William G. Ewing to be "United j States District Attorney for the Northern j District of Illinois. Mr. Randall intro- i dueed his tariff bill in the House. ; Mr. King, of Louisiana, introduced in the House j ft resolution condemning the proposal of the | t French Government to assist the l’annma Canal j Company by means of a lottery loan as opposed I | to the Monroe doctrine, and calling ou the Sec- j j rotary of State for ail correspondence bearing j | on the subject. Mr. Galliuger, of New Hamp- j shire, introduced in the House a resolution pro- i ; vidiug lor aninquiry by the Civil-service Re- I form Committeo iulirtllß Truth Of newspaper ro- j ports that the Democratic Campaign Committee i is soliciting contributions Irom Democratic Congressmen and -others in the employ of tne Government. While the sundry civil appropriation bill was under consideration in the House ,Mr. Laird (Neb.) made a sovero attack upon Couhniksiouer Sparks in bis administration of the 'Geneva 1 Land Office. Mr.' Cobb (liid.l defended tiie Commissioner, dociariiig.| .that., his action was. meetiug.. with., the condemnation of ; every land-grabber and speculator in the public lands. I Mr. Payson dil l said that he, as a member of i the Committee on Public Lands, bad advised and Counseled Commissioner Sparks to issue j the order of April 3,188-5, and he stood by that I : order to day "It was said that Sparks was : an enthusiast. 110 was an enthusiust; j but his enthusiasm in reference to this : question was in favor of the poor man who desired to rectyvo a home from i liis country. Sparks’ order was .a notice to land-grabbers that a halt was to jbe called upon them, and ho (Mr, Payson) re- • glutted that owing to tho pressuro that hail been brought by letters written by men steeped iu fraud up to their eyes tlicro bail not been sufficient backbone ou the part of the Secretary of the Interior to keep that order in existence.