Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Swiss Federal Council has asked the banks of issue in the Republic to keep on baud specie to as high an amount as possible above the legal miuimum, so as to be constantly prepared against a possible financial panic A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that six studeilts were arrested on the Newski Prospect, near (he Anitchkiu Palace, having in their possession a quantity of explosives. They were awaiting the coming of the Czar, oa his way to the Cathedral, to take part m the anniversary service The Tope announces the creation ot five new Cardinals and the appointment of fourteeu Bishops. The Rock Island Road, through the failure of its negotiations for .the ust V the Kansas Pacific track between Topek .* and Kansas City, is about to construct a line on the north side of the Kaunas River. E. A. Randolph, a talented and energetic colored lawyer of Richmond, is enTTeavoring to organize the negroes of Virginia for the advancement of their industrial interests, with the intention of supporting whichever political party leads in the path of progress. The Congregational ministers of Chicago adopted resolutions highly eulogizing the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher ai an author, iin orator, a patriot, and a philanthropist. The only objector was Rev. Hemy L. Hammond, who is unable to ignore the Tilton scandal.... An Italian miner, living at Diamond, 111., accepted SSO from the man who had eloped with and married his wife, and permitted the pair to depart lor New Mexico. The deserted husband then gave $lO to a Justice to dismiss the charge of bigamy preferred against his flighty spouse... .Dispatches from Mackinaw City report the ice only a foot thick, and predict that the Straits will open by April 10. The editor of the Omaha Bee has made charges that the Judiciary Committee of the lower house of the Nebraska Legislature has accepted bribes to kill a certain clause in the Omaha charter and to suppress the act making gambling a felony. An investi. gating committee has been appointed.