Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1887 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Repohts from the Northwest are to the effect that the sowing of wheat is progressing actively, the ground being generally in good condition, uud that some people are predicting a crop of spring wheat 25 per cent.-larger than that of lust year. Part of this expected increase will depend on a greater acreage, and the rest is bac d on the possibility of belter yield, that of last year having been poor in some sections owing to'the drouth. The outlook in the winter-wheat areas cannot bo said'to be a good one, bntthe prospect is really n..d only in the Southwest, where the absence of moisture is described to Ve yiry strongly marked in the appearance of vegetation.... *ln a riot b tween Hungarians, Poles, and Swedes, at Denver, Col., ono man was fatally shot and several badly wounded. Two houses were completely wrecked during the melee, the-furniture and other utensils being broken and used us weapons. The police, ' aimed witli M incho.-ters, quelled tho riot, nnd landed thirty of the combatants in jail. .An Atchison (Kan.) dispatch reports that a disastrous prairie lire was raging in Phillips and Norton Counties, in Kansas. It was reported that nine to twelve persons had perished, but the facts could not be definitely learned, owing to injury to telegraph wires.... A special Indian agent is about to remove a band of 700 Jicarillas across New Mexico to their old reservation. The Indians will use their ponies to transport their effects AOO miles Fred Kindle, employed in it tannery at Cincinnati, walked into the hopper of the bark-mill, and before tho machinery could be stopped his legs to the knees were ground to pulp... .In a wrest - .ling match at Chicago, Lewis defeated Acton, winning three out of four fails. A I.AHGE number of arrests have been made at Pittsburg and along the lino of tho Pan Handle Railroad of freight-train employes who have lor two years been stealing from the cars, tho property taken being valued at §500,000. The finest cigars, silks, hosiery, musical instruments, wines, liquors, in fact all kinds of portable merchandise had been purloined, sold to “fences,” or pawned. The affair caused a great sensation at Pittsburg. It is said that over 200 warrants have been issued. Postjiasteb Genekal Vilas* and General Superintendent Nash, of the railway mail service, left Washington on the 12th inst. on a tour of inspection of the fast mail service between New York, Chicago and St. Paul. It is probable that a depot will be established in Chicago lor the distribution of postal cards and stamped envelopes. Tiie Vatican will thoroughly investigate the Irish question. ... A friendly treaty has been arranged between China and Portugal. The anti-coercion meeting in London on the 11th instant was the largest ever held in that city.-, Mrs. Gladstone, watching the procession from a window in Piccadilly, received an ovation from the men in line. A motion protesting against the coercion bill was offered simultaneously from fourteen platforms, and was enthusiastically carried. The greatest throng gaiherd at the platform from which Lord Mayor Sullivan of Dublin and Messrs. Conybeare and William Redmond, members of Parliament, spoke. Lord Mayor Sullivan, in (he course of a most effective speech, asked: “Is it the wish of the workmen of London that the honest, hard-working tenantry of Ireland should be forever crushed down?” A tremendous responsive “No!” resounded throughout the park. The mention of the Queen as about to celebrate her jubilee by' signing away the liberties of the people of Ireland, brought forth a torrent of hisses, and the mention of Mr. Chamberlain’s name aroused a tempest of groans- and hisses, with cries of “Traitor.” Michael Davitt was one of the speakers. He said that on the day on which the crimes act should become a law they would either have to give up tho struggle that had been waged for centuries nnd lie down as slaves, or render the system impossible of duration. They would follow the manlier course. The classes had in-the past built a bridge of hate across the Irish sea; the people would pull it down and erect a bndgo of love between the toiler of Ireland and tho holiest workers of England.