Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1892 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Cardinal Lavigerio is dead at Algiers. Congressman Holman is opposod tp aft extra session of C ingress. Senator Mills is in favor of going slowly with the revision of tho tariff. Tennessee minors are organizing again to resist tho employment of convicts, Tho official vote of lowa givos Harrison a plurality of 22,965 over Cleveland. Thero have been in Berlin this year 19,647 cases of cholera, of which 8,570 were fatal. There is a possibility of marriage between tho Czaiwitz and Princess Maria of Austria. A $209,050,009 beer trust is boing consummated. Tho Rothschilds of Englaud are at the head of it. lThe city o's La Union, Salvador, has been destroyed by an earth make and several people were killed. An unpr icedented 'gaiV Francisco Ray, Sunday night. The wind blow a mi lea shipping was done. Tt Is reported that L o itenant Jopson,

who was willr : lloiirr M“.“ S tunlay's TasT"" African expedition, has been appointed British commissioner to Uganda. Near Lo Saner, Minn., a farmer ‘died suddenly and mystoripusly. and on ti e day following his sister-in-law, former) his sweetheart, aLa died, leaving u join J Indicating that it was a murder r-ud suicide. 1 Four'expert cracksmen dynamited Ih * safe of tho First National Bauk at Liberty, Mo,. Suuday morning. Ono report says they socurod £159. Another that they socured from $12,0)0 to $15,000. 1 Tho Czar has nominated the Czarwich to be president of the Russian state council, and this is hailed as a sign that the Czar desires to infuse a more libra’ spirit into his administration. No immediate change in mothods is possible, h wover* as the president of the Hoiy Synod, wh'> is a roligious fanatic, is vice president o f the council. .But under tiie presidency * the Gz-uwieh the repression of Jews and Catholics will eventually be relaxed. Commando - n-chief YVoissert, of the G A. R., has appointed tho co.nmittco on legislation,tho important committee with. iu his appointive power, as follows: Joseph YV. Kay, Amos J. Cummings. John Raines, all of the Department of Now York; Charles P. Lincoln, Department. of the Potomac; William F. R '*»«. Department of Maryland. Tho chiof duty of tho commiueo is 10 look after the enforcement of statute laws regarding tho employment of veterans of tho war by tho governinont. The complexion of the Kansas Legislature and the election of a United State s Senator, 1t is discovered, is dependent on one vote, and that voto is to bo decided by lot. The House of Representatives at prosont stands 62 Republicans, 58 People’s party, 3 Democrats, 1 Independent and 1 tie. Tbe law says that in case of a tie for a member of tho Legislature tho seat shall bo awarded by lot. If the Republicans b j successful in the drawingof the Coley county seat thoy will have 03 ,mombersl just enough to organize tho House. If thoy lose, tho combined opposition wil, have 63 votes, and the opposition parties would have control of the House. Two years ago there was a tie and the matter was decided by chance. The two candidates came before the Stato canvassing board and drew ballots from a hat, the Republican winning. A*e bull light at Artlga, Mexico, Saturday, there four bulls In tho ring. They became so frenzied that they made a united tush against tha heavy burncude which is for tho proteetlon of spectators* Tha barrlcado gavo way and the bulls rushed in among the spectators, thieving them right and left. Tho rush of the crowd to one side of the ampltheater oiussd the seats to give way, and fully fifty people sustained broken limbs and severe Internal injuries. Tho bu’dj killed one pwwu and wounded ten others. i •