Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Senator Tillman is suffering from a severe attack of catarrhal jaundice. Commissioner of Immigration Powderly will try to bar out Louise Michel, the French anarchist, when she comes. It is believed the representatives of United States and Russia will be raised to the rank of ambassador this winter. First Lieutenant George L. Anderson, Fourth Artillery, has beeu appointed military attache to the legation at St. Petersburg. Maud G. Badgley, a clerk in the general land office at Washington, committed suicide by jumping from Cabin John’s bridge, about six miles west of the city. The drop to the ravine below the bridge is about 125 feet. The comptroller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent national banks as follows: Twenty-five per cent., the Merchants’ National Bank of Helena, Mont.; 12% per cent., the First National Bank of Mount Pleasant, Mich.; 12 per cent., the First National Bank of Port Angeles, Wash.; 10.167 per cent., the First National Bank of Dayton, Tenn. Chief Justice Fuller, when the Supreme Court met at Washington, announced that the Joint Traffic Railroad Association case from New York and the Laclede Gas Light case from St. Louis had been assigned by the court for argument on the first Monday in next January. The arguments had been set for this month, but Justice Field's retirement leaves the bench with only eight members, and, in view of the important constitutional questions presented by these two cases, it was desired that they should be heard by a full bench.