Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Charles Williams, a storekeeper at White River, Canada, suspected that Richard O'Brien, an employe of the Canadian Pacific, was 100 intimate with his wife, and laid a trap for tfiem. He caught them together, anti proceeded to horsewhip O’Brien, but the latter, seizing a revolver, shot Williams dead. He then killed Williams’ aged father and mother and two little children, after which he stabbed Mrs. Williams, Khe lived long enough to tell the authorities of O'Brien’s crime. The murderer has been arrested. The official vota,of Pennsylvania gives Beaver a majority of 42,851, in a total poll of 819,345. The highest candidate on the Republican ticket is Gen. Osborne, nominee for Congressman-at-large, who has a plurality of 4(,017. The visible supply of wheat and corn is, respectively, 58,119,204 and 10,090,713 bushels. The increase since last report is: Wheat, 504,785; corn, 348,220 bushels.... Dr. Salmon, of the National Department of Agriculture, declares that the cattle in Indiana, supposed to be afflicted with pleuro-pneumonia, are merely suffering from vermicular bronchitis, which disease is not contagious. 4 - The “Rev.” William Smith, a negro, when arrested at Philadelphia for larceny, confessed that he had victimized many church members, his frauds having netted him in two years. He claimed to ... be a missionary in South Africa, alleged that the-natives were in the habit of throwing their supertlous female children into the rivers to feed crocodiles, and took up collections to found a home for these unfortunates in their own country.... The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided that the three-mill tax cannot be levied on mortgages held by corporaiions. This will result in a loss to the State of a vast amount of revenue.... For the first time in several years there is no 6trike of any consequence in Pittsburg or the surlounding countiy. Count Kalnoky’s speech has made a bad impression in semi-official circles at St. Petersburg... .The Strasburg (Germany) tribunal lias fined 239 absentees GOO marks each for emigrating without having _ served iu the army.... The steamship Normantore, laden with tea for New York, foundered off Pnshima, Japan, and sixty persons perished.... Six American citizens - have been arrested, in Southern Russia for preaching in an orthodox assembly of Russians.... Air. Lothrop, the United States Minister at St, Petersburg, has been endeavoring -to induce the authorities to release the prisoner*, but so far has been unsuccessful.... Further particulars lmve been received of the railway accident at Sisteron, in France. It appears that about 300,000 cubic meters of rocky earth fell from Mont Gerves, overwhelming a train which was proceeding at full speed for Marseilles. One first-class carriage was crushed to atoms and the engine overturned. The driver, a guard, a telegraph clerk, and four English passenger* were killed on the spot, and two other passengers have since died from their injuries. Twenty .other persons are suffering -from injuries. A London special says that the British Government, in concert with Austria, Italy, and Turkey, will resist the candidature of the Prince of Mengrelia or of any other Russian subject for tbe Bulgarian throne. The entente with Austria grows daily closer, and now amounts virtually to an offensive alliance against Eus~~slg. Sir A. B~iPirdgetrßritish bassador at, Vienna, anil Count Kalnoky,' in a conference at Vienna, exchanged an agreement that if RfisSiir should occupy Bulgaria, or should seize her ports, Austria' witl send two army corps to join the Servian troops, aud they will advance into Bulgaria, while England will Send her fleet simultaneously to enter the Black Sea ana guard the Danube, and prevent the passage of Russian troops. Turkey at the same time is to concentrate her troops on the Ronmelian frontier. It is hoped that the projects of the allied powers being known in Russia will modify the Czar’s plans in the direction of peace.