Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Stove-molders in Pittsburgh and surrounding towns refused to work on the boycotted patterns sent from St. Louis, and went out on a strike. In Pittsburgh fifteen foundries and over seven hundred men are idle. Nine hundred stove-molders at Cincinnati struck' ugainst the boycotted patterns. At Cleveland 500 went dnt, and at Louisville 500 quit wofk. The Bridge fc Beach Alunufaeturihg Compafiv, of St. Louis, whose pattoms have caused all the trouble, started up their foundry again last vyeek. In Smith County, Virginia, the house of a man named Brewles was destroyed by fire, in which two of his daughters, aged 19 and 21 years, were burned to death and three other persons so badly injured that they cannot survive. The lire was caused by-defective flues.... About fifty New York city dealers in oleomargarine pleaded guilty of violating the law, and were fined from SSO to SIOO each. A company of United States troops has been dispatched from Fort Sully to drive out settlers on the Winnebago and Crow Creek Reservations in Dakota. It is Btated that orders have been issued the military to u-e powder and lead, if necessary. The greatest excitement prevails among the settlerß..Patrick •). Egan, who was Deputy Recorder of Votes last November, has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary by the United Stntes Court at St. Louis. He was convicted of falsely registering names of voters. .. .Alartin Schneider, an Alsatian who fought under Napoleon I. at Leipsie and Waterloo, has just died at Fort Wayne, Ind.. aged 102. Up to a few days ago lie enjoyed good health, and had walked two miles tvi ry week to get shaved. ... .Petroleum has been discovered near Herscher, Kankakee County, 111., and ex- ■ perts irom Pennsylvania have leased all the land obtainable in the district; A decision was rendered in the Supreme Court of the United States in what is known as the Maxwell land-grant case, thus settling finally a matter that has been in dispute before the Interior Department ami the courts for nearly twenty years. The court confirms the decree oi the United States Circuit Court, and estate lishas the validity of the grant for 1,700,0C0 acres of Jand located in Colorado and w WSVt ! ' Mexico.... A statement just prepared by the Treasury Department shows that the number of distilleries running April 1 was 656, with a capacity of 311,936 gallons. Alarch 1 there were 634, with a capacity of 301,736 gallons. Tho number running in Illinois is twenty.... William J. Allen has been appointed to the Southern Illinois Judgeship, made vacant by the death of Judge Treat.. ..Col. AVesley Merritt has been promoted to a brigadier generalship, to succeed Gen. O. B. Wilcox - , retired. As the result of a recent trial at Posen, Germany, nine socialists were sentenced to short terms of imprisonment... .An elegantly dressod Frenchman called on Marshal Bazaine, in Aladrid, and after conversing with him a few' moments suddenly drew a poinard and cut the Alarshal about the head. Shouting “J’ai venge mapatrie” he fled, but was afterward arrested. The prisoner’s name is Nillair, and he claims to be a correspondent of the newspaper Courtier de Rochelle. He says he went with the intention of killing Bazaine, and IBafc 1 "' his dagger was poisoned. Aledical men believe that he is insane. The following cablegram from Rome has been received at New York: “The Pope has decided the question of the Knights of Labor in favor of that organization. This decision will stand so long as the present method pursued in furthering their aims prevails. 1 The document of Cardinal Gibbons has been indorsed. The Pope further decides that in Canada, where a mandament had been issued against the knights, the members of the order shall receive absolution on promise of obedience to luture decisions of the Holy See. If the knights identify themselves with the theories now being disseminated by certain agitators, this decision iu. their favor will be revoked.”