Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1891 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

~~ Francis Murphy is doing temperance s'Marion. Nelson Kellogg, first Mayor of Bluffton, is dead. Wheat is reported in good condition in Hamilton county. The celebrated Hatfield twins, died at the Ft. Wayne museum recently. Fire burned $225, (00 of property at Kan' sas City on the night of the 22nd. Mad dogs are doing considerable damage to the live stock around Columbus. Joseph Trousdale was waylaid and robbed of 51,500 bv negroes at Birmingham, Ala. The People’s Theater at Evansville was destroyed by fire on the 23d inst. Loss wil) reach $200,100. A correspondent at Berlin says that Emperor William decided Sunday to ordei Prince Bismarck to appear before a courtmartial to which he would be amenable as holding rahk in the army, instead of a civil tribunal. The correspondent assert that Bismarck will be summoned to declare on his honor whether he is the author of certain published attacks on th< Government, attributed to him. The following bills have passed both houses and been signed by the Governor Mr. Harrell’s, appropria Ing 1110,000 so. the expenses of the General Assemb y ;Mr Claypool’s, legalizing the sale of oertaii, lands in Fayette county; Mr. Bryants, legalizing the incorporation of the town oi Patoka, Gibson county; Mr. Leyden’s regulating the time of holding court in t e Fifty-second Judical circuit; Mr. Sleeper’s legalizing the acts of the board of trustees of Fowler, Benton county; Mr. Claypool’s legalizing the incorporation of Knightstown, Henry county: Mr. Fippen’s, authorizing the Auditor of State to makes deed of certain lands to Luther H. Mott; Mr. Ebert's legalizing the incorporation ot the town of Hammond, Lake county ; Mr. Oppenhelm’s, amending the act regarding decedents’ estates; Senator Ewing’s legal* izing the incorporation of Westport, Decatur county; Senator Hanley’s, legalizing the incorporation of the town Of Pine Vai* ley, Warren county; Senator Holland's, fixing the time for holding court in the Sixth Judical Circuit: Senator Fulk’s, fixing the time of holding court in the Tenth Judicial Circuit, and Senator Griffith’s, deferring the Fifth and Judical Circuits. The Kaiser of Germany has evidently w reason to stand in dread of public opinion; otherwise he might not have indulged in wine to ttys extent that, according to al l accounts, he did at a dinner in his honor given by the Brandenburg Diet last week The Emperor, it is said, if not drunk, was very near it, and on leaving the banquet hall had to be supported by his chief of staff, Count De Sohlieffen. The Kaiser s Speech was delivered in a maudlin way and was more of a plea than a command, being 1„ this respsot a departure from his usual