Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Colonel William H. Bolton, for a long time superintendent of second-class mail matter at the Chicago postoffice, and John T. Stuart, weighing clerk, were arrested, charged with defrauding the l-nited Stales. Belton is charged with embezzling $4.5.’4' Of Government money aud with conspiring with Stuart to embezzle the postal revenues. Stuart is charged with conspiracy-alone. The prisoners waived a preliminary examination aud Commissioner Hoyne held Bolton to the Federal grand jury under a $15,800 bond, and Stuart under a bond for $5,000. .... .dicigo elevators contain 8,171,531 bushels of wheat, 2,212,123 bushels of com, 370,240 bushels of oats, 77,4(51 bushels of rye, and 24,855 bushels of barley; total, 10.805,222 Bushels of all kinds of grain, against 1(5,202,487 bushels a year ago. Construction is being rapidly pushed upon two roads which, when completed—■us they will be early this fall—will form another through line 1/etween Chicago and St. Louis, in addition to the three already in existence—the Chicago and Alton, Wabash, and Illinois Central. The Chicago link in this new road is known as the Hinckley line, and in a quiet way the road has been pushed all summer', with the intention of makiug it a through line. It will have its terminus in Chicago at Harrison street, in the Great Western Union Depot, provision having been made for that at the incep.ion of the scheme. Wxi. M. Bruce, of the firm of Niles & Bruce, lawyers of New York City, has; disappeared, and with him over $50,000 which the firm had control of as trustees of'Tittge estates... Hubert G. Thompson, the leader of the County Democracy of New York, was-found dead in bed at the Worth House, in that city. He was a native of Boston, and was nearly thirty-eight years of age. Albert Shaw, a prominent lawyer of New Orleans, a leader iu the Republican party, was assaulted in his bedroom, with a blacksmith’s hammer by some person unknown, receiving wounds in the head which rendered him delirious. Neither his watch Uor pocketbook was taken. His neighbors, ou hearing the alarm, saw some one in a Mother Hubbard dress and a sun-bonnet leap the fence. Four hundred Milwaukee masons and ..bricklayers, who struck three weeks ago -fora continuance of the eight-hour system for three years, causing a suspension of building operations in the city, have returned to work. The boss masons wanted the men to return to ten hours’ work a day. The return of the men to work leaves matters'as before, the eight-hour day continuing, but without any agreement as to when" it shall cease. THe resignation of Public Printer Rounds has been in the President’s hands for several weeks, to take effect Sept. 15, says a Washington special. It is given out at (he White House that Gen. Rogers, of Buffalo, will succeed Mr. Rounds. This action will be in • pursuance of a plan agreed upon two years ago, whereby Gen. Rogers agreed to withdraw from the Congressional race in.the Thirty-second New -YorkDistrict in favor of Dan Lockwood, with the understanding that he should be given the office of Public Printer wheu a vacancy occurred. It is said that the President would now r like to recede from his promise aud appoint Col. J. M. Keating, of Memphis, instead, but Gen. Rogers will not agree to be set aside and his appointment will undoubtedly follow the President’s return from his vacation.— r -- ——-a —— :—__ —The bill directing the Labor Commission to investigate the convict-labor system passed the Senate July 26. Senator Blair reported favorablv from the Kdncatton and Labor Committee a joint- resolution proposing a constitutional am mdment providing that alter the year 1900 the manufacture, sale, and importation of alcoholic liquors as a beverage Btia.ll cease, President Cleveland nominated,Jpksr.lv.. Baird to be Marshal for Idaho, and Charles M. Thomas, of Kentucky, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota. The President referred the oleomargarine hill to AttorneyGeneral Garland for recommendations as to its* constitutionality. Tho Stnate bill forfeiting certain of the lands granted to the Northern Pacific Railway Company was reported back to the House, with the recommendation that in lieu thereof the House measure, forfeiting 33,003,000 acres more than the Senate bill, be substituted. _ •