Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1889 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Congressman Moffett of Pennsylvania has been placed in an insane asylum on account of nervous troubles. Captain Oscar Dunlap, of Illinois, has commenced a suit in the courts at Washington against Commissioner of Pensions Black for $100,(hM) damages for not increasing his pension. The collections of internal revenue during the first five months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, amounted to $53,091,736, being an increase of $1,231,186 over the collections during the correspQnding_period of last year. Michael Keating, a messenger in the War Department, aged 50, while drunk, on the 27th, fell from the fourth story of the building to the marble floor below and was instantly killed. He obtained his liquor from the restaurant in the building. « Representative Meek has announced his intention of pressing to passage a memorial to Congress asking the abolition of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. He claims that the disfranchisement of the negro will avert revolution. -. A feather thief was recently arrested in a Southern he