Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1881 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Dliring a violent thunder storm at St. Louis, lightning struck the Atlantic mills, at the corner of Main and Plum streets, which were quickly destroyed by fire, five employes beiDg killed and several others burned. The flames then spread over two blocks of wooden buildings. The loss aggregates $200,000, on which there is SIIO,OOO insurance. The Supreme Court of Nebraska has rendered a decision to the effect that the highlicenso liquor law by the last State Legislature is constitutional in every particular. It compels saloon-keepers to pay SI,OOO license and give bonds in the sum of $5,000 in* cities o* over 10,000 people, and in cities of under 10,' 000 the license is SSOO. A terrible horse disease has broken out at Camden, Ohio. It comes on suddenly and proves fatal in nearly every case, Great lumps raise on the bodies of the animals after death. The wheat crop of Nebraska is pronounced a failure. Barley, oats, rye and flax will prove a fair crop. Owing to the excessively hot weather and the total absence of rain recently the corn crop will not be near an average. The fall-wheat crop of Illinois, according to the State Agricultural Department, shows a falling off of about 59 per cent, from the crop of last year, and is probably the worst in quality and quantity grown in the State for twenty years. The crop of this year will not dishearten the farmers of thq. State, however, and it is probable that a larger area will be sown this fall than ever before. George Griffin was executed at Birmingham, Ala. As his neck was not broken by the fall, his sufferings were terrible. Benjamin Bird, a negro, was hanged at Jacksonville, Fla., for the murder of Policeman Nelson. The noose at first slipped off his neck, and he fell to] the ground, bat the hangman’s second attempt proved successful, The drought has become so intense in the region tributary to Nashville, Tenn., that fire-screens have been placed on the locomotive smokestacks to prevent a wholesale conflagration. The Perry county (Ark.) troubles are at an end, and the militia have returned to Little Bock. , Washington telegrams of the 12th inst import the President’s condition, at that date, as fairly satisfactory. The pulse ruled rather high, but the attending surgeons seemed l o view this lightly, and asserted that the patient was steadily improving. Dr. Bliss was slightly poisoned by a cut from one of the knives used in removing the pus from the President’s wound. Dr. Blackburn, the Governor of Kentucky, expresses the opinion that Gnitean’s bullet was deflected to the spinal column, and that the President will undoubtedly die from his wound. The Treasury Department are making an effort to put a stop to the custom of punching holes in coins. They will invite-the public to refuse any clipped money. The deaths are announced of ex-Con-gressman Origen 8. Seymour, formerly Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut; of John Hanna, a railroad oootraotor of Indiana, and brother of KaJ, Hanna, of the United

States army; of Eben Elliot Aldrich, Superintendent of the Troy and Boston railroad, and Steuben Bntler, the oldest inhabitant of Wilkes bar re, Pa. Mr. Gladstone is suffering from overwork and worry in his efforts to secure the passage of the Land bill. Dutch is to be the official language of the Republic of Transvaal. This will place native and British residents at a great disadvantage.