Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1881 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Mueller’s brewery, at Philadelphia, was swept away by flames, the loss being $60,000. Several firemen were injured by a falling cornice. The failure is announced of Jackman A O’Hara, manufacturers of cloakß and suits’ of New York city. The failure was due to the losses of Jackman, the senior partner, on Wall street. The Union Stock Yards, near Chicago, has been visited by a very destructive conflagration. It was confined to the packing-house of J, C. Hately, which was entirely consumed. The loss will exoeed $750,000, the tusupvAPfl beta* about 39 per cask

The Chicago Times prints exhaustive reports from the chief com centers of the Western States. The crop of Illinois promises to be about three-fifths as large as last year. The yield in lowa, Missouri and Kansas will be cut down from 25 to 50 per cent, by drought. Black ants have appeared at Emerson, Manitoba, in heavy clouds, and they cover Red river to the depth of an inch. Four horse-thieves, belonging to a gang operating along the Rio Grande, were taken from officers near Dolores, Tex., and put to death. A negro named Ben Perkins was hanged at Livingston, Ala., for the murder of Gif Roberts, four years ago. An immense crowd of colored people joined in singing hymns around the scaffold. Andrew Sanders (colored) was executed at Covington, Tenn., for the murder of Michael Miller, and John Mnndy, also colored, was hanged at Edgefield, S. C., for the murder of his wife. The loss to Great Britain from the late rains, says the London Times , is to he reckoned by millions. It is impossible to gather com, and it will soon cease to be worth gathering. A London dispatch says that a Scotch herring-fishing fleet is reported to have been caught in a gale off Peterhead, Scotland, and it was feared that many of the fishermen perished. Advices by way of England indicate that Ayoob Khan is in a perilous position, that his force is gradually diminishing, and that he has failed to recruit cavalry companies in the Duruni country. The Marquis of Ripon, the Viceroy of India, seems to think that Abdurrahman is fully able to cope with his doughty antagonist. But the Marquis of Ripon is hardly unprejudiced authority.