Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — CONDENSED NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED NEWS.

To* prospects of t(i» cotton crop nre everywhere reported the most favorable in seven years. EAKTngrARK shock* have visited Rochea-•ur-Rognon and LaverUoy, in the Depart* meat of Haut Marne, France. Shipments of through freight overland for May amounted to 17,000.000 pounds, the total being- the • smallest if several years. Tnk Russian government has prohibited Chinese and C'Orenns from settling in the Russian territory oonliguouj to their countries. Queen \'icroniA, in commeinoratibn of her jubilee, will grant amue.-ty to all military and naval pro-oners convicted of minor offenses. - - An. uirouTANT proposal to annul some of the Texationa regulation* connected with the corn trade will be introduced in the German Reichstag. The charges of-crookedness against the trustees of the Dakota insane asylum at Yankton, Dak., .have been declared unfounded by an investigating committee. William Wood, of the Grand Trunk railroad,. has been elected president of the Master Carbuilders’ association, which recently held its annual convention at Minneapolis. - ]

A utoll'TUN in Turcoman, a province of the Argentine Reput’,ic, was suppressed by the Government with a loss of 400 lives. The Governor of the province and other officials were made prisoners. Seckztabt Lamab has rendered a de cision affirming the title of John C. Robinson to a tract of land in New Mexico embracing 100,OtO acres, which had been held invalid by the general land office. Documents are displayed in the Norse department of the American Exhibition in London to prove that America was discovered in 9*5 by an Icelander named Leif Erikson. thus antedating Columbus 500 years. Tns Louden Times correspondent at Rome claims to know that the Vatican has noayUipathy with the Farnell movement, and that it is only prevented from openly repudiating it by the pressure from the Irish bishops. -The Ancient- and Honorable Artillery company of Boston will be represented by twelve delegates at the threa huitirsd and fiftieth anniversary of the Ancient and Honorably Artillery of London, to be celebrated July 11. - - The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has purchased the Bergen Point and Port Richmond Ferry Company, which is believed to indicate its purpose to establish on Staten Island a great shipping and receiving station. The Pay Department of the army has determined to make the experiment of monthly payments to troops more general than was at first contemplated, and extend the practice to all posts where Pay masters are stationed. The French ministry "wWnpt oppose the motion for urgency for the armv bilk Various measures for increasing the efficiency of the military establishment, both at home and in the colonies, are under consideration by the government. A famine is prevailing on the Cicilis plain, in Asia Minor, caused by the failure of crops several years in succession. About 80.0Q0 people out of a population of 160,000 are destitute. Appeals for relief will be made to the American people.

The new silver vaults in the treasury building at Washington will not be completed for several months. Meantime the department officials find themselves embarrassed by a lack of facilities for the storage of the constantly increasing accumulation of silver dollars. A farmer living near . Panama was. re ■ eently, while-returning from work in the fields, surrounded by an electric flame, which burned off part of his hair and beard, consumed one eyebrow, and played other fantastic tricks with him. He Buffeted intensely, but is recovering under medical treatment. Adjutaxt-Gexkrai. Ghat. of the Grand Army. aLtfae Republic, is bnsilr engaged in issuing to all the posts in the country an important document in the nature of a dependent pension bill whose passage will be urged upon the next Congress. It was drafted by the National Pension Committee of the Grand Ariny of the RepubThe champion hailstone story comes from Roumelia. A Philippopolis dispatch states that hailstones strangely shaped, pointed, and weighing over a pound each recently on the south slope of the Balkan Mountains, which destroyed the harvests, killed many laborers and cattle in the fields, and pierced the roofs of houses like bullets. The Vanderbilts, is is said, are going to build a lot of houses to be sold at cost to purchasers on yearly payments. A sew and exoellent feature of the plan will Jm> a life insurance policy, for the amount remaining unpaid which will cancel the debt, if the purchaser should die, and give bin heirs the property dear. The undertaking is One to bo' commended.

Latest Intelligence From all Parts of the World- ' FIRE RECORD. Fire at Washburn, Ind , distroyed property to the extent of $90,000,' . Tanner, Sherman <* Stark'* Morning '■ Star mill*, at Otter Lake, Mich., burned. Loss. ff.VOOO; partly insured. Turnbull's white lead factory in Newton. L. I„ was burned. Loss, $75,000. juAUSL Louis, Mo., on Monday night, the Lafayette Brewing Company's building was gutted'by firo. Loss, $15,000. Almost simultaneously with that fire, a fire broke out in Mound C’jty street car company's stables, roasting to death about 300 mules. Losses about SOO,OOO to $75,000.