Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Db. Casewell, State Veterinarian of Illinois, has discovered pleuro-pneumonia among distillery cattle in and about Chicago. Strict quarantine has been established, and there is every probability that nearly three thousand beeves will be slaughtered... .Martin Irons was arrested at Kansas City and taken to St. Louis to answer to an indictment for complicity in tapping the private wire running into Vice President Hoxie’s residence.... C. S. Hayes, editor of the Traver (Cal.) Tidinatt, while chatting with his betrothed, Miss Lulu Smith, in the house of Dr. Lovelace, of Lemoore, Cal., was shot and instantly killed by some unknown person,, who in the darkness managed to escape. The shot was fired through a street wirescreen door, near which Hayes was sitting. A lover, who was jealous of Hayes’ attention to Miss Smith, has been arrested on suspicion. The case of The United States vs. The Bell Telephone Company was begun Sept. 20 at Cincinnati, Circuit Judge Jackson and District Judges Sage and Walker occupying the bench. Argument was begun against the jurisdiction of the court. ExSenator Thurman and ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald are opposing counsel in the ease. Mr. Thurman was serenaded at Columbus, and in a speech said: “I shall never again hold office—never be able to reward friends or punish foes.” Commissioner Oberly, in a brief card, says a distinguished advocate of civil-serv-ice reform in New York has begged him to end his controversy with Dorman B. Eaton, and therefore he will not expose what he calls Mr. Eaton’s “many misstatements of facts and perversions of the record.”.... The official returns from Maine give Bodwell (Rep.), for Governor, 12,850 majority over the Democratic candidate. E. P. Wilson, at present commissioner of three railway associations, will next month become General Passenger Agent of the Northwestern Road, R. S. Hair having resigned. ’ Seven hundred men employed in the woolen mills of Seville, Scofield, Son & Co., in Philadelphia, struck for an advance of 15 per cent, in wages.

CaPt. Abbey, commanding, the revenue steamer Corwin, reports that he has taken to Nanai Nio, B. C., twenty-two British seamen released from seized sealers, and that the master and mates of the captured craft have been convicted and sentenced to fines or imprisonment, or both. A New York paper reports that a keeper in the Kings County Insane Asylum placed a helpless lunatic in a bath of boiling water, so that when the unfortunate man, who screamed horribly, was taken out, his flesh was parboiled, resulting in death in a short time. .has been arrested. Colonel Debars writes from Havre that the French Government will take no steps toward the repeal of the decree against American pork ... The American Consul at Trieste reports that Russian petroleum is crowding out the Pennsylvania product an account of the lower prices.... A regiment of infantry, with ; a number of men from two cavalry regiments, in all numbering about three hundred, attempted a revolution at Madrid. They deserted their barrracks, after beating their officers and wounding three, and marched in two bodies through the town, being joined en route by many civilians. One body went to the Prado, where 2,000 troops were quartered, whom the revolutionists expected to join them. The other body went hurrahing through the center of Madrid, calling on the people to join in the revolution, crying “Live the republic!” and making all kinds of threats against the monarchy. The insurgents attempted to secure possession of the arsenals, books, and barracks, which they.Jattacked with open fire, but all these places were well and successfully defended, and the rebels were repulsed. Finally, their reverses drawing them together, "the insurgents attacked ana got possession of the Southern Railway. After a short fight at the railway the loyal troops dislodged the revolutionists, who dispersed into the country.