Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1893 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS

The War Department has ordered companies C and F of the Third Infantry from Fort Snelling, Minn., to Chicago for guard duty at the government exhibit. The troops are under command of Capts. Cook and Roe. Surgeon-General Wyman, of the Marine Hospital service, has received a dispatch from Surgeon Irwin, who is stationed at Marseilles, announcing that cholera has appeared at Nimes and Cette, in southern France. The Treasury Department is preparing to pay the Choctaw and Chickasaw claim of 12,2'35,450. The Indians have expressed the wish that a large portion of it be paid them in silver half dollars, as the money is to be divided up per capita among the Indians, and they prefer something that has a ring to it rather than paper. Elwood was overrun with burglars Thursday night, and more than a dozen residences were entered. Marion Phillips had fI,‘JOO taken, while the aggregate losses will reach 12,500. A nest of counterfeiters Is there, and the same gang is credited with doing the work. The authorities are in pursuit, and a battle is among the possibilities. The Batesville Herald says that a pendoner in Decatur county, drawing a handtome monthly stipend for total blindness, is the best fifteen-ball poo! player in De:atur county. Secretary Lamont lias received a request 'or the loan of camp tents to the flood snf'erers on the lower Mississippi.