Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1887 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Exprf.sk Messenger A. S. Robbins. who was one of the six peiaoiis on hoard tbo wrecked Vermont Central train, and who had passed over the bridge before the accident occurred, said: “It is probabiy one of thet worst accidents that ever took place in the United States. When we were fairly upon the bridge we felt tne shock and heard a clash belind. When we ipoked behind we saw the four rear cars piled upon each other over the edge of the bridge. They pitched over so fast that it hardly scratched the edge of the bridge, anti in a few minutes they were all on Are, with nil the people in them,. Oh. it was awfnl; the woist thing I ever saw or heard of.” A peculiar cash lias arisen over the matter of the idc-ntifieation of a body claimed by, two parties, one alleging that it is the body of a female, and the other that it is that of a male. Even the doctors are equally divided on the question on account fit the charred condition of the corps *. Clolhing, watches, keys, etc., belonging to each of the victims, were found on the remains in such a manner as to indicate that two persons died together, and that one body was entirely consumed. There is nothing left of the other but a portion of the trunk, minus the head, arms, and legs. A bill has b en introduced in the Nebraska Legislature providing that all railroads doing business in the State, shall, on the Ist of January of each year, issue annual passes to the State officials ana members of the Legislature.. .. A bill to punish strikers who interfere with the lawful employment of other persons by a fine of SSOO aud imprisomueht -for six months passed the Texas Senate with only three dissenting votes... .The Sunday law passed by the last Louisiana Legislature has been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court of that State. The German postoffice authorities aro making extensive experiments with a view to connect the whole of Germany by the telephone... .French communders on the German frontier have been ordered to avoid all exercises of their troops likely to be falsely interijreted by Germany.... Spanisn republican immigrants residing in France ‘have decided to form a volunteer force of 2,1)00 men to assist France in the event of war with Germany. Several members of the Anti-patriotic League in Paris have been arrested for phicardtug the city with an appeal to the soldiers to desert or shoot their officers. A Berlin dispatclqsays that Gen. von Moltke, in receiving a deputation

ot conservative electors, declared that the political situation v. as most serious* and authorized the deputation to give publicity to his statement.

Rf-solution's of the Kansas legislature for the opening of the territory of Oklahoma were presented in the Senate on the 7th. The Senate passed twenty House bills. Among them were the bill to amend the act of Fob. 20, 1885, to prohibit the importation and. immigration of . foreigners and aliens under contract so perforin labor, and the hill to amend section 6 of the act of June 10, LlaU, in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods. The Senate also passed bills to . encourage the manufacture of st el for modern army and navy ordnante and to erect gun factories at Watorvliet Arsenal and the W ashington Navy Yard.'''The sum of 821,000,t00 is appropriated for these purposes. A memorial of the National Board of Trade in favor of a general bankruptcy law was presented. Senator Ingalls’resolution regarding tjie rejection by the Senate of Matthews (colore.li to be Recorder of Heeds of the District of Columbia was udopted by a party vote of 20 to 18. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: E. C. Lore, of Slissouri, to bo Consul General at the City of Mexico. J. M. Needham of Franklin, Inch, to ho agent for the Indians of the Lemhi agency, in Idaho. Mrs. Margaret M. Tyrrell to bo .postmistress of Akin, Franklin County, 111. Tho- House of Representatives passed bills granting a right of way through Indian Territory to tho Chicago, Kansa- and Nebraska Railway, and appropriating ilii.GOO for the completion of the public building at Detroit. Those who expected that Speaker Carlisle would recognize Judge Kelley or some other member to move to suspend the rules and phss a lull abolishing the tax on tobacco were disappointed. The Speaker, in his correspondence with Mr. Randall in reference to getting before the House a revenue measure, plainly intimated, that he would l ot give recognition to any member to pass, -under suspension of the rules, any bill to change tue internal revenue laws that did not include changes' in the customs laws, and to those gentlemen who on the 7th inst. applied for recognition to make such a motion, tho Speaker gave respectful but positive refusal.