Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1887 — CONDENSED NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED NEWS.

Thebe ban been a failure of crops in Asia Minor, and extensive districts are threatened with famine. An effobt will be made to have the next convention of the National Educational Association held in California. Tna Swedish War Minister has resigned because the Rigsdag refused to grant his department an extra military credit It is denied that the Indian Government has been ordered from London to forward troops to the Afghan frontier. Il , is said that during its period of growth. Indian corn draws from the soil thirty-six times its own weight of water. Thebe are 10$ cotton mills in the South, of which thirty-six are in Georgia, twentyseven in Tennessee, and twenty in Alabama. The Mormons of Utah are preparing to holds constitutional convention and seek admission to the Union as a State before a change of administration. In Rhode Island, out of a population of 804,284, there are only 68,419, or less than 23 per cent, whose fathers and mothers are born of Rhode Island birth. A vast amount of damage was inflicted upon property and growing crops in Nottawa, Amelia, and Dinwiddie counties, Virginia, recently, by a cyclone. The Legislature of Missouri has re fused to impeach the State Auditor rereqtdp charged by an investigating committee with the misappropriation of State funds. Tne Spanish Senate has voted $60,000 toward the erection of a statue to the late King Alfonso in front of the royaTpalace at Madrid, the public to contribute the balance. The Queen's jubilee was made ths occasion of disorderly demonstrations at Cork and other Irish towns. A number of the participants had their head sbroken by the police. Reports from the big European wheat fields, taking them all together, do not eeem to be favorable for a large yield this year. The United States crop, however, is likely to be heavy. The cultivation of the bamboo for fencing material has been begun in,California. It is said that an acre will produce pickets enough each year to make six miles of fence. i ArrEoros of the jubilee the entrance of George 111. upon his fiftieth year was made the occasion for a great celebration, not only in England, but in the colonies of the British Empire. The colored people from St. Louis are making extensive preparations to take part in the reception and entertainment of the Grand Army veterans during their encampment in September. A btobt comes from Washington to the effect that owing to the battle-flag episode an attempt will be made to divide the Grand Army of the Republic and start an organization of Democratic ex-soldiers. Congressman Hoeman, of Indiana, has been interviewed on the political outlook and sees trouble ahead in the labor movement, which, he says, is the great political problem of the future, and that nobody can foretell what influence it will have next year. A nusbii of English notabilities, all of whom appear to be tories or “liberal-un-tonists" will be raised to the peerage by the queen as a jubilee favor. Thirteen baronetcies and thirty-three knighthoods will be conferred, and divers European princes will be decorated with orders. Btvbgeon fishermen at Bayside, N. J., recently captured what is called “a strange monster.’’. It was about six feetlong and seven wide, counting its fangs, and weighed about 500 pounds. It was black as ink. had-a head resembling a sea lion's, and was spotted underneath like a leopard. A fjebfect day in London permitted the exercises in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Victoria's ascension to the British throne to be carried out without a single unpleasant feature. The Queen's subjects were wild with enthusiasm, and hundreds of thousands cheered themselves hoarse as the royal procession passed through the streets. Tnv rapid increase in the number of samples of suspected butter, sent to the Internal-Revenue Bureau by its inspectors • analysis it apparent that = step will soon have to be taken to test butter compounds somewhere nearer the centre of oleomargarine manufacture than at Washington, and it is proposed to <.<- ar Chicago a laboratory in which shall be made the tests for the West ami. Northwest. A svccEssrvj. experiment nas been made on the Pennsylvania railroad in the use of crude petroleum as fuel. -The west-ward-bound mail train ran through from Altoona to Pittsburgh on time, the power being'obtained from oil stored in a reservoir on the tender of the locomotive. The process is the invention of a Russian scientist, and will be used by the Pennsylvania company in the moving of all its train a, if its value is demonstrated by further experiments. ~~ ’ j

Latect Intelligence From all Fans of the World. FIRE RECORD. The main building of the Chicago Packing A- Provision Company, at the Stock Y,ard», was visited by a fire Sunday morning. doing damage to the extent of about |1,000,000. Several firemen were injured. Five perrons perished in a tehement house fire in IxindOn Sunday. Laird A Norton's saw mill at Winona, Minn., was burned Friday morning, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Fire broke out in a Virginia City, Nev., mine, Friday, and men were imprisoned. No attempt was made, to extinguish the fire, and it is feared the miners will die. Amasa Thatcher's livery stable with furniture and seventeen horses, was burned in Chicago. Friday morning. Loss about $6,0d0. Otherlosses about SIO,OOO. Fire, at Watertown, Wis., destroyed the Chicago. Milwaukee A St. Paul Rolling Mills, entailing a loss of $150,000. Fire broke out at 1 o'clock Thursday morning, in the upper portion of F. Frederickson's drug store, 13‘>, Canal street. New Orleans, in the Touro buildings, the most important business block in the city. The fire was confined to the drug store, the two upper stories of which were burned. Loss $25,000; believed to be fully covered by insurance. A six story building in New York City caught fire Thursday morning and before it was extinguished $22,000 worth of .propprty was destroyed-—, Green's saw-mill nt Manton. Mich., was destroyed by firo. Loss, $4,500. At Wilmington. 111., Wednesday, fire destroyed the Chicago A Alton Railroad station and freight house, Odell's elevator, Ray's warehouse, and other property, causing a loss of $50,000. The tugboat Charmer, owned by John Tullison and St. Clair Sutherland, and valued nt $2,000, was burned tothe water's edge at 9 o'clock Tuesday night at Magazine slip, Chicago. Fire at Oshkosh destroyed property to theamountof-$4,500 A $3,000 fire occurred at Fort Wayne, Ind. Fire at Lavenworth. Kan., destroyed property valued at $250,000. It started in Helmns <t Parmellee's furniture warehouse. and their loss is estimated at $109,000. The Buffalo Brewing Co-Operative Association's malt house was damaged tothe amount of $30,033 Tuesday; insured. Sparks friim a furnace are said to have caused the fire.