Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The President has made the following appointments: Charles W. Irish, of ’lowa City, lowa, to be Surveyor General of Nevada; William C. Hull, of Salt Lake City, to be Secretary of Utah Territory; Janies R. Jordan, of Virginia, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Virginia; and these postmasters: Illinois— Allison M, Cavan, Ei Paso; Wisconsin— Francis 11. Reuschlein, Burlington; Dakota—John H, Firey, Aberdeen; Charles W. Hastings, Brookings; H. C. Rasmussen, Devil's Lake; Ezra AY. Foucht, Redtuld. W. J, Bennett arrived in Chicago from England the oilier morning. He got shaved in a shop on Canal street, handed the barber a SIOO bill, and waited vainly for his change until midnight, when he left for Kansae City... .Chicago elevators and vessels contain 12,712,788 bushels of wheat, 9,407,558 bushels of corn, 1,080,497 bushels of oats, 158,419 bushe.sof rve, and 150,157 bushels of barley; total, 23,509,419 bushels o't all kinds, of grain, against 18,270,910 bushels a year ago. Pall Tllane, who made a vast fortune in New Orleans and gave $1,500,000 to the university, bearing his name, died last week in his native city, Princeton, N. J., at the nge of 87. Railway postal clerks on the Union Pacific begiu their runs each alternate week at Council Bluff's, but their homes are scattered from Omaha to Ogden. They have received semi-official nouucaiion that they will hereafter Be required to pay faro wLeu not actually performing duty. They have decided to appeal to the Postoffice Department. The Federal Supreme Court has reversed the judgment of the' Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in .case of William L. lioyali, whoso Tender of State tax coupons in payment of a lawyer's license was wrongfully refused... .A statement prepared at the office of the Commissioner of Internal Reventie shows that there are thirty-seven factories engaged in the manufacture of artificial butter now in operation in the United States, as follows: Eleven in Chicago; two in Denver, Col,; one in Kokomo, Ind.; one in Kansas City; one in Armourdale, Kan.; one in Ashland, Wis.; three in Hurley, Mrs.; one in Ean Ciaire, Wis.; tone in Chippewa, Wis. There are 3,537 retail dealers in oleomargarine in the United States who paid special taxes as such in the months of November, and December, 188(5, and January and February, 1887. The number of wholesale dealers is 2,G0. The quantity of oleomargarine manufactured and removed for eonsuigptkm or sale, at 2 cents )>er jmr.nd, during the past four months is as follows: November, 1880, 4,742,509 pounds; December, 1880, 2,780,278; January; 1887, 2,501,114; February, 1887, 2; 015,7 rJ; total, 12,045,740. The quantity exported from the United States is: November, 1880, 3,247,, pounds: December, 1880, 58,089; January, 1887, 52,701; February, 1887, 38,100; total, 152,797. ' EmpeloL William has sent a friendly message to the Pope... In a panic in a church at Mentone, France, many persons were injured... .Prince Ferdinand of SaxeCoburg desires the nomination lor the Bui, garian ihrone. .. .Tner; will be held in Milan, Italy, in the month of May and June, an international exhibition of Hourmilling machinery and apparatus connected with bread-making, Italian paste-mak-ing, rice-dressing, and similar industries, to which American manufacturers are requested to send exhibits. The yacht Dauntless passed the finishing line at Queenstown- at 0:45 o’clock Monday evening, -March 28, her actual time on passage being 10 days,-! hour, 45 minutes, 13 seconds. All on board were well, and the yacht was in as good shape as when she left New York. A London dispatch says: “The officers of the Coronet and other yachtsmen are greatly pleased with the result of the race, and say it has served to show admirable qualities in both yachts. Considering the difference in the tonnage, the length of the two yachts, and the extraordinarily heavy weather which prevailed during the voyage, the Dauntless is thought to have done as well us her competitor.” “ •