Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Forty-sour —Indletmente- for - election frauds have been reurned at St. Louie. The lowa Supreme Court rendered whist is said to be a final decision i® the “Jones county calf case,” which has been in the courts over sixt en years. The friends of Lord Randolph ChnrchlH have received grave news concerning the condition of his health. He and his wife 4 arrived at Marseilles. Rector Ahlwardt, the noted anti-Semite, has been discharged from Ploetzensee prison, where he had been serving a term of three months’ imprisonment for insulting Prussian officials in a speech. The Portuguese Government has decided to build a navy, and with this object in view the sum of £l2O yearly will be provided for twenty years. Tenders will be invited from ship builders in the United States and other countries. The reclamation of 1,750.000 acres of swamp land in the interior of California has proved a failure, the project having cost the State $1,700,000. W.R. Jeffries, a farmer near Brookville, owns a shorthorn milch cow which dropped three well developed male calves 2. at one birth. Bovine triplets are rare, Wholesale dealers in oleomargarine are closing up as a result of Justice Harlan’s decision sustaining the Massachusetts law pertaining to the sale of butterine. Messrs. Wish hart and Miller, of the Muncie butter dish factory, entered a gas pump house to hunt a teak with a torch. They found it. The pump-house “agreed to a separation.” Both men were badly' injured. The South Carolina Senate has killed the “Jim Crow” car bill, which passed the House after a hard fight. The Senate was almost unanimous in its opposition to the measure. Mrs. Anna Prettyman, assistant superintendent of the Woman’s Reformatory, died at Indianapolis, Dec. 21, age sixty-ty-four. Mrs, Prettyman was a missionary in Turkey for seven years and haa been identified with various benevolent enterprises.

1 Model of the proposed statue of Robert Dale Owen, to be erected in the grounds of lhe Smithsonian Institution, submitted by Jas. P. Voorhees, son of Senator Voorhees. Several other models have been prepared In anticipation of the passage of the bill sow pending in Congress. Near North Vernon, Dec. 19, an at temptsras made to wreck the B. <fc O. southwestern express train. On a straight piece >f track where the train makes fifty miles in hour, two cross-ties had been solidly Imbedded by the side of the rails, with ihelr ends projecting over the track. The last train was about due when a farmer law the obstruction. He hastily divested himself of his shirt, ran up the track, and lust as the train was hearing down to certain destruction the farmer struck a match, lighted tho shirt, and the engineer, seeing the blaze ahead of him, re-; versed his machine a d came to a stop.: The railroad people have a suspicion as to who planted the tics by the track side. They say six masked men were the ones who made the attempt, and that a robbery was contemplated. The currency bill was the topic of discussion in the House. Dec. 21. Messrs. Pendleton and Sickles spoke In support of the measure. Russell. McLaurens and Rawlins against it, Mr. Springer, chairman of the banking and currency committee, presented the amendments agreed upon by the I>-mocratic members of the committee and indorsed, it is said, by the Secretary of the Treasury. The bill, as altered by these amendments, will be offered at the proper time as a substitute for the original bill, and upon this substitute the fate of the measure will depend. 1 The resolution for the holiday adjournment. to begin Dec. 22, was agreed ta early In the afternoon Chairman Wilson,' of the ways and means committee, introduced a bill repealing that portion of the new tariff act which imposes a differential duty of one-tenth of one eent per poundon sugars imported from countries paying a bounty on sugar exported. The Senate and House were in session but a short time, Dec. 22. No business of importance was transacted. In the Senate a parliamentary tangle resulted over the motion to adjourn over till after the holidays, end the resolution came near being lost. It was finally carritNl, and the Senate adjourned till Jan. 2, 1895. The House adjourned till the same date.