Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Mbs. Caroline Benedict, aged sixty years, died at Mottville, N. Y., after living fifty-three consecutive days without food save a part of a cup of weak tea and a few teaspoonfnls of whisky daily.... Rear Admiral Reed Worden died at Newport, R. 1., last Week. He was born in Pennsylvania I in 1818, and was appointed to the navy ' from Ohio in 1834. He commanded a ; party of seamen at the capture of Tuspan, Mexico, and served valiantly in the war of 1861, assisting at the capture of Roanoke Island and Newbern. In 1864 and ’65 he was Fleet Captain of the East Gulf blockading squadron, and blockaded the rebel ram Stonewall Jackson in the port of Havana, West Indies, until she surrendered to the Spanish Government. He was commissioned a Captain July 25, 1866; served in the Mare Island Navy Yard from 1868 to 1871; commissioned a Commodore April 27, 1871; comnrmded the naval station at New London from 1872 to 1874; was commissioned a Rear Admiral in February, 1875, commanding in the South Pacific station until 1876, and retired/from service March 27, 1877. Prof. Dodge, the Statistician of the Agricultural Department at Washington, says, concerning the various estimates made from his last report on the wheat crop that, though the average condition of spring wheat on July 1, 1885, was 96, it fell to 86 at the time of harvest, which

is only three points higher than the present condition, and represents a loss of less than 6,000,(H)ff busnels as compared with the result of last year's harvest- The damage occurred last year in the last two weeks of July and later. There is great risk of further damage during July and August, but that already reported means only a loss of 6,000,000 bushels in spring wheat and 5,000,000 in winter wheat, or a total loss of 11,000,000 in wheat during the month of June. The New York Commercial Bulletin estimates the loss by fire in the United States and Canada, between Jan. 1 and June 30, at $53,900,000, or $3,000,000 in excess of the losses during the same period of last year. There were 999 fires whose reported losses were between SIO,OOO and $1,000,000, and 82 fires whose, aggregate loss exceeded $21,500,000, or 40 per cent, of the entire waste of the half year.... The visible supply of wheat and corn is, respectively, 28,567,844 and 9,180,788 bushels. Since last report wheat increased 372,466 bushels, while corn decreased 8,069 bushels... .Colonel Gilder, a representative of the New Xork Herald, has left on his expedition to the North Pole.

A bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the St. Louis River, between the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin, was favorably reported in the. Senate on the 12th inst. The Senate passed the House bill granting pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the Mexican war. In considering the river and harbor bill the Senate adopted an item Of S300,')00 for the Hennepin Canal. A bill was introduced in the Senate and referred to stop all payments of public money to Janies B. Eads, his associates, or assigns, for past, present, or future work at the mouth of tho Mississippi River until further ordered by Congress. The railroad-attorney bill was reported to the Senate materially amended. No Congressman, according to its provisions, shall act as the legal representative of any corporation whose interests are or may become the subject of Congressional legislation. A bill to reimburse Jean Louis Legare for services rendered and money expended in bringing to the United States and procuring the surrender of Sitting Bull and a number of his followers was laid before the House. The claim is for 813,412, and is indorsed by Maj. Brotherton, the United States officer who received the surrender. A bill appropriating 810,000 for the erection of a monument to mark the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, near Hodgesvillo, Ky., was introduced in the House by Mr. itobertson, a Democratic Representative from that State. The Senate amendment to the legislative appropriation bill, Increasing from $4,000 to $5,000 the salaries of the. Commissioners of Pensions and Patents. was concurred in by the House. Mr. Lovering, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill in the House to abolish the importation of Italian or other slaves or laborer#under contract and held to involuntary servitude into the United States. Mr. Voorhees (W. T.) reported to the House from the Committee on Public Lands a bill permitting all persons who have lost homestead rights to make new entries. It was referred to the committee of the whole. The House agreed to the recommendation of the Committee on Appropriations that the evidence in the Fitz John Porter trial and the report thereon by Judce Holt to President Lincoln be printed in the Rebellion Record. Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, introduced in the House a resolution to the effect that Congress should not adjourn until it had enacted a law appropriating a portion ed the Treasury surplus to assist the States in the work of education.