Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1891 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

President Harrison dined the diplomatic 1 corps on the 20th. The State Department at Washington is informed ot the death at Born a. Africa, on Jan. 18, of Lieut. Taunt, United States commercial agent to the Congo Free State. David T. Littler, of Illinois, who has been mentioned as Senator Cameron’s agent in the silver pool business, testifiep before the investigating committee Friday that he had bought one hundred thou* sand dollars’ worth f r the Pennsylvania Secretary Blaine says that the cause of t the recent war excitement in London was a dispatch from Philadelphia to the Lon* don Times misrepresenting the strengt' of our fleet in the Pacific, anfi he sa' • that we now have a smaller naval force ; that ocean than since 1889.