Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

TiiE large training stables of the Maples, at the Council Bluffs (loira) tracks, were entirely destroyed by fire, including the saddle, furniture, sleeping, and reading .awiii's, and the inclosed exercise walks. A dozen valuable thoroughbreds perished in tfie flames... .The resignation of Hou. Samuel Treat, Judge of tha Vnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, has been forwarded to the President.... The people of Pecatonica, 111., burned down the only saloon in the town, first saturating it with oil.. John GitirzENHAUEit, a New York painter, shot three times at his wife, inflicting a scalp wound, ami then killed himself by le iping from a tiftli-story window. Hi- charged his wile with intiih-lity. and she charged him with drunkenness and cruelty. Th ■ couple had had fifteen children, of whom eleven are now living. . . . Harvey E. Light, of Roch< ster, proprietor of the Eureka steamboat line, has made an assignment, with liabilities of $60,0^0.... Church A Phalen, dry-eoods dealers at Troy, N. Y-, failed for $250,(100. The contract for what is known as the Merrill extension of the Chic.igo, Milwau-kee-and St. Paul Road has been let. This is taken to mean that the company will build to Ashland, Superior City, or some other point on Lake Superior. The Congressional election iu the Second Rhode? Island District resulted in favor of Charles 11. Page (Dem.) over William A. I’ierco (li”p.) and Alfred Chadsey (I’rohib.) Recently the House decided there had been “no election” in 188-1. The editor of the Berlin 7'<ijbltitt has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment for printing the story that the Czar had shot Herr Villaume, military attache of the - German Legation at St. Petersburg... .The French representative to the Vatican has thanked the Pope tor his endeavors to maintain peace petweenTrance and Germany, and President Grevy has sent tfie Pope a Sevres vase and a gold pen... . Queen Victoria has asked Lord Dufferin, Viceroy of India, to convey to the people her warmest thimks and deep appreciation of their loyalty to herself as manifested by their celebrations in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of her accession to the throne. The first returns from the elections iu Germany show that the Government suffered defeat in the six districts of Berlin. The Government Arifl-probably have a majority in the Reichstag. Surprise is expressed at the strength shown by the Socialists throughout the empire. A Berlin dispatch says: The elections in this city have resulted iinfavoralily for all the Government candidates. Ir.foc.ro: the six divisions., second balkitawill. be necessary, but in each of these divisions’tho ruiti-sejitenutoTsandhlate lias at present a majority. The net result of the Berlin voting is as ..follows-: So_ialist, 90,107,’ . a,' gam of 22,000; Septenist. OO.siS; new German Liberal. 65,85-i. 'J he Government parties hav;e gained 13,000 votes, and the new German Liberals have 5,000. An analysis of the polling shows that the contest wns unprecedentedly stubborn. As the Hight advanced the. e:<eitenient~Lec.ime interne. Thousands of people surroundei tno no a paper offices awaiting special editions giving ,eturns. It is stated that Singer and Hasem . clever have .each over L2..000 majority in this city. The result in Hamburg is a triumph for the Soi-ial Democrats, two of whose candidates axe returned by large majorities. . A nESomrrmN authorizing the Ordnance Committeo~ttKg.it in Washington during the recess, and to associate with it three naval officers, was adopted by tho Senate February 21. The Senate passed the river and harbor appropriation and thcbill to incorporate the Maritime CShSTColupany of Nicaragua. A bill was introduced to. locate at an arsenal ,foi_the manufacture of ordnance and ordnance stores. Tho President sent to -the Senate messages vetoing bills- grautind ?: De Fincher and Kaehael Ann Pierpont. As to the fifst-nauie.l dase. the President maintains that ■the disability for which the pension is asked tint 'incurred in the service, and as to tho latter case the President says that since the bill was introduced a, pension lias .been granted to tto--ehtiniant by the I’ension Office nt the same rate authorized in the bill. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Amos M. Thayer, of Missouri, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri. In the House of.Kepres6ntatives~MT. Mender-son" of North Carolina, from’ the Committee on-Elections, submitted a report on the Indiana contested-election case of Kidd against. Steele. The report, which is - tmaHmibus,/caiitlrms-thoA:ight...o.f the. contestee (Steele) to the seat. , • t