Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The Western Union Telegraph Company has increased its capital stock $1,200,000, making the total capital $81,200,000.... Lieutenant John Danenhower. of Arctic fame, was discovered dead in his quarters at the naval academy at Annapolis, with a bullet hole in his right temple. He was found lying in front of his fire place with a tag tied to his button-hole saying: “Send to my brother at Washington.” Although he has had mental troubles since his return from the Arctic regions, what immediately led to the suicide is thought to be the recent grounding of the' Constellation on its wayto Norfolk, which he had charge of, and for which it is supposed he had a fear of being court-martialed. A letter from Rudolph Schnaubelt, the much-looked-for anarchist and alleged thrower of the Haymarket bomb, has been received in Chicago. Schnaubelt, about whom hundreds of most contradictory stories made the round' through the daily press; whose corpse was upon one occasion located in Lake Erie and shortlv afterward found in a Connecticut village; who was seen in New York, New Orleans, Mexico and California, but never was. captured, is heard from at last. He turned-up in Christiania. Norway, and it is from these that his letter is dated. Schnaubelt denies throwing the Haymarket bomb, but says be is sorry he didn t do it. and only left because he knew it wasn't safe for him in Chicago. The Mexican House of Deputies has passed, by an overwhelming majority, a constitutional amendment which would give to President Diaz a second consecutive term of office.... A sensational newspaper of New York prints a letter from Havana stating lhat a band of Cuban outlaws laid their plans to capture Senator John man on his recent visit, and only failed by being five minutes late. It js said that English detectives are in this country investigating the Clan-na-Gael and other Irish organizations ;;. Mexican advices (dated Nogales, Arizona, April 24) say that cholera is raging at Mazatlan, and has also broken out at Guaymas. People are leaving the infected district in Jarga ... .There is a-flood-tide of immigration just now at Castle Garden. It is estimated that tbe total immigration this year will reach 400,000. The class of immigrants landed is much better than in former years.... A City of Mexico dispatch says that Lieut. Col. Lunoz. of the Eighth Battalion, and M. M. Savalla, Musical Director attached to the command, quarreled in a saloon in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where they were stationed, and a challenge was accepted at once. Tbe two officers, accompanied by a Captain of the regiment, were driven to a retired spot, and at the word both shot at pnee, and both fell dead.