Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

From various towns in Dakota come reports of u temperature of from 105 to 115 degrees. Crops in the Northwest are reported seriously damaged by drouthA jury at Milwaukee, after thirty-one hours’ , deliberation, convicted the anarchists, Frank Hirth, Carl Simon, and Anton Palm of conspiring to burn the court house and destroy the records. The maximum penalty is one year’s imprisonment or SSOO fine. Hirth is a cigarmaker, Simon a barber, and Palm a hardware finisher. The two latter cannot speak EngritKh; —Ait of the nrh aw large families.. ~ A “Little Rock dispatch details a huge, scheme for the leasing to cattlemen at a/ nominal figure of nearly all the valuable grazing land belonging to the Osage, Ronca, Pawnee, and Otoe tribes in Indian Territory,.. . Charges are made nt St. Louis that members ’of the Municipal House of Delegates accepted bribes for the passage of certain ordinances. It is stated that one member received SI,OOO in cash and SS,(MMJ in stock to vote against the Electric Railway bill. .. Harry Primrose, the leader of the Salvation Army at New Philadelphia, Ohio, whose arrest for bigamy has been chronicled, was about to marry a girl of 18 years, who would have been his third living and undivorced wife, His matrimonial operations ended the labors of the army in that section. ""Secretary Mannino and family, in passing through Washington for New York, last week, received in their car the congratulations of President Cleveland and several members of the Cabinet. The Secretary has apparently recovered entirely from his recent stroke,. . .The headquarters of the national legislative’Committee of the Knights of Labor in * Washington are being flooded with petitions from local assemblies, to be presented to Congress, urging action upon the measures named in the recent list submittted by the national committee. These petitions are alike in form, having been printed and distributed to the local assemblies for their signatures, but many of them are accompanied by letters of the most vigorous sort. Ralph Beaumont, chairman of the legislative committee, declares it to be the purpose of the Knights to test the sense of Congress on the measures named, and to find out whether the politicians mean to pass measures for relief Of the people, and whether the right of petition is to be respected.

The Committee on Pensions presented a report to tlie Senate on the 3d inst., recommending the passage over the President’s veto of the bilFgranting a pension to Mary A. Nottage. The rejiort condemns the President for his vetoes of private pension bills, asserting that he acts upon lack of information ; that some of his messages are expiessed in unjust and unexampled style; aud that derision of the committee’s labors "can originate only in a wise and noble nature which is misled, or in one that, if informed, sadly needs reconstruction or recreation.’’ The President sent to the Senate his veto of the bill for the relief of Martin L. Bundy. In the veto message the ■ President says: The claimant, who was a Quartermaster, after the settlement of his accounts was found to be indebted to the Government. Thereupon he put in a claim for forage more than sufficient to offset hie indebtedness. There is no suggestion that he had or used any horses, and if he did and failed to make a claim for forage at the time he settled his accounts, then he presents a case of inccedible ignorance of his rights or a wonderful lock of that disposition to gain every possible advantage which is usually found among those who deal with the Government." The claim is not allowed on the ground that it would set a precedent which could hardly be ignored, and which, if followed, would furnish another means of attack upon the Treasury quite as effective as many which are now in operation. Tne SenaXe, in considering the river aud harbor appropriatiDn bill, approved of an item, of $1,000,000 toward a thirty-foot channel at the Sandy Hook entrance to New York. The House of Representatives passed a bill appropriating $76,030 to pay damages on account of the overflow of the Fox-and Wisconsin Rivers. When the general deficiency bill was under consideration' by tho House of Representatives on the sth hist., Mr. Springer stated that tlie decrease in Federal expenditures during the fiscal year just closed was $22,500.000, according to statements by Treasury officials. An amendment to, the general deficiency bill, offered by Mr.. Cannon (III.), appropriating $22,000 to refund taxes illegally collected from railroad companies on account of alien bond and stockholders, was adopted. A resolution was introduced in the House by Mr. Springer calling on the President for copies of all corresixmd- ■ euce between the Government and the Republic of Nicaragua, since 1876, in relation to the construction of an interyjceanic canal by way of Lake Nicaragua. The 'Senate was not in session.