Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1887 — CONDENSED NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED NEWS.

■ The Connecticut Legislature ha* passed «law the object Of which is to obstruct as much as possible travel on Sunday. Pnor. Ge« of Harvard Colloge and Sir Donald Smith; of Montreal, have received honorary degrees from Cambridge University. The unprecedented amount of railroad building now going on is proof that Americans have confidence in the future ■of the country. A""' •’ ' • — v —• . . j The Florida Legislature adjourned leaving over 100 bills for Governor Perry's signature, in addition to the 114 already signed by hum. The Grand Army of the Republic at St Louis has finally decided that it had nothing to do with inviting the President to visit that city. • ■ .

A New Yobk firm has bought 2,000 walnut trees in Lee. Scott, and Wise counties in Virginia, near the Kentucky fine, for sl2 each, paying $25,000. The death of William A. W heeler leaves Lot one man living who ever held the Vice Presidency of the United States. That man is Hannibal Hamlin. The outlook for cotton in the Memphis district, embracing west Tennessee,, north Mississippi, north Arkansas, and north Alabama, is very promising.

The Dhammers' Association efAVestern and Eastern firms has decided to make a test in the courts of Texas against the present law of the State regarding the drummer tax. TSeiko earthquakes, political plots, church fires, and discoveries of lost gold and silver mines all together. Mexico jnsi now is furnishing the world some highly picturesque and exciting news. About $17,000,000 of the called 3 per gent, bps da st ill outstanding are held by roefaoual banks as socurity for circulation. •Comptroller Trenholm believes these will . all be replaced by other bonds by Sept. 1, Ast old nidi chant stys that the money expended in labor to keep a brass sign properly scoured could be much more profitably invested in newspaper advertising. He does not believe in brass ornajtsents of any kind. .. . Uj It is reported that hidden treasure to •the value of £35,000,000 has been discovered in the palace of a deceased Vizir at Rabat, .Moroceo. The Sultan, it is said has<conAscated the treasure and is having it con r wtyed to the imperial coffers. \

The annual of the Pennsylvania company operating the Fort Wayne, Pan Handle, and other lines of the Pennsylvania system west of Pittsburgh shows an increase of revenue for 1886 over the preceding year of $3,863,332.23. Coi_ FBrn Grant has evidently inherited the general’s fondness for the weed, for a cigar is perpetually in his mouth. He! is said to be as inveteratea cigar smoker as : his father, besides having many other traits similar to his.—( Boston HeraldA. pecisios rendered by the Missouri Supreme Court in effect makes the Iron Mountain Railway independent of local legislation at St. Louis, and gives it right of way through all the streets of that city that it may desire to use for extensions. An optics* attributes the increasing demand for eye-glasses in this country to the use of tobacco, especially cigarette smoking- He says the smoke of tobacco is bad enough, but there i 3 something in the cigarette paper which is injurious to the eyesight. The New York Episcopalians have •started a movement for the erection of a magnificent cathedral in that city, to cost about JS.OGO.OQO, which, if built according to the proposed plans, will be the largest and most imposing structure of its class on this continent. m_ _ • Thohas county. Kansas, is named after General Thomas, and all the townships in the county are named after soldiers of the Eighth Kansas Regiment who were killed in the battle of Chickamauga. That part . of Kansas ahonhl b; especially.. attractive to the “boys in blue.”

g “It is proposed to reorganize the New Jersey Centra’. Railroad Company, the main feature of the plan being the issue $50,000,000 general mortgage five per cent bonds, which will be sufficient to -cauoel the present-indebtedness and leave a handsome margin for necessary improvements. .*'/■> :■ Florida has no State Board of Health, and it will require prompt action on the 3>art of the United States authorities to prevent the spread of yellow fever, epi—demieat Key West The Postoffioe Department has ordered the fumigation of the mails at Tampa and other points connecting with the infected port A tocho lady said at the recent meeting of the Woman’s; Christian Temperance Union at Savannah! ‘"Chivalry, which has fled from all other quarters, has taken refuge in the newspaper offices.” It is unnecessary to state that tnis yonng lady prettiest and brightest representative of her sex in Georgia.—fNashvilie Union.

Latest Intelligence From all Parts of the World, ' FIRE RECORD. A fire at MuiiCio, destroyed a.heading factory. Loss, $3,000. i A grain elevator at Meriden. 111., wae • burned. , Loss, $2,000, ThS residence of James Edwards, near! U.nnipeg, was destroyed by fire, throo of his children living burned to death. The Hotel Richelieu. Chicago, was damaged by fire to tile extent of about $5,000 I on Sunday night, -» " Th» Canada , Chemical manufacturing company’s works at London, were burned Sunday night. Loss. $45,000; partially : insured. _ 'Ti

The establishments of the Messrs. Priest, clothing, the New England Organ Company at Belfort, Maine, were burned. Loss. $20,000. The Havomeyer sugar refinery, Long Island, Now York, was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $1.0<K),000. The Ktiue county, Illinois, poor house ' wns destroyed oy fire, involving a Toss of $15,000. A $15,000 fire occurred at Fordyce, Arkansas destroying mills and lumber. The Kowanee's Manufacturing Company's works,, ax Kewauee, 111., wore destroyed by tire. Loss, SIO,OOO. T Two brothers named Malosh say they were hired to flro the Dixon Block at Kokomo. Ind.i whicli was burned to the ground January last They implicate several prominent business men., A lire ns Cincinnati destroyed Fred. J. Meyer s Manufacturing Company. Loss, $40,000.

The First National Bank building, a five-story iron structure, Pittsburgh, Fa., the upper floors of which were occupied by the main office of the Western Union Telegraph company as an operating department and battery-room, was partially ! destroyed by fire Friday morning; An explosion of gasoline tic Chattanooga. Teum, caused a Sfi.dOO fire. • —The stone flouring mill at Shopiere, Wis., ■ was burned. Loss $14,000. ■ _ - ■ I Fire at Louisville. Ky„ caused a loss of i $15,000. The residence of Mrs. De Long at Mar- ; ion, l;»d,. was burned. Loss $2,500. j A firs; oeeuretl in the Revero Honse Chicago on Thursday morning. Not | rur.?h darr.r.go was done. The Quincy Rock House and the Drum House at Houghton. Mich., werestruck by lightning and toiaiiy destroyed. Loss, s6i).ih>o; insurance unknown. 1 On the Island at Buffalo, N. Y„ Wedues- j day night, fire destroyed (A W. Playter’s : planing milk; the iron shops of. tho Union Dry Dock Company. Mills A Co.'s dry dock and l-unidingsc J; W. Austimsosaslri factory , andUver one million feet of lumber owned by various firms." “Tiie total loss is about $L rl t ■<'o, with $75,00.1 insurance.

The dwelling of A. Brown at Bedford* Ontario, wits burned. Four children, all under 10 years of age. perished in the Canies. The parents with a baby barely escaped With their lives. At Hancock. Mich., two largo buildings of the Q,uiucy” ATiiie were burned. The loss is estimated at from $60,001) to SBO,000, with insurance at a quarter of the loss. Nort h&■ Son’s store was damaged by fire and water to the extent of several thousand dollars.