Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1881 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A strip of territory in the Cottonwood valley in Kansas, thirty miles long by four miles wide, was devastated by a cyclone. Twelve persons are known to have lost their lives. A tornado, which swept over Nebraska at an early hour on the morning of the 30th ult., nearly demolished the town of Madison, which has a population of 1,000, and two persons are known to have lost their lives. In the village of Stanton twelve buildings were blown down and twenty persons injured. Victoria, the terrible Apache war chief, deed recently at the San Carlos Indian reservation, in Arizona. The Directors of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad have elected Vice President Charles C. Perkins President of the company, vice John M. Forbes, resigned. Presley Cowan, of St. CJairsville, Ohio, attempted a balloon voyage from Washington, in that State, but on his descent struck a tree-top and fell fifty feet to the ground, dying in a few minutes. About forty temperance men of Wisconsin, acknowledged leaders, met in convention at the State capital and nominated a State ticket, as. follows : Governor, Theodore D. Kanouse ; Lieutenant Governor, Harvey 8. Clapp; Secretary of State, Edward Bartlett; Treasurer, John Sutton; Attorney General, E. G. Cornstock; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Robert Graham; Insurance Commissioner, Thomas Bracken; Railroad Commissioner, John Nader. A Washington dispatch says Mrs. Garfield is greatly shocked to learn that so large a part of the remains of her late husband i* now in th® Medical Museum, at Washington. She consented to the injured vertebrae and rib being taken to the capital, because she understood that they might be used in the trial of the assassin, but she never consented to the bringing there of anything else and believed that all else of the body of her husband was in the casket in Ohio. She now knows that all the inward parts, from the neck to the loins, were brought to Washington, and there have been exhibited, no one knows to how many curious surgeons. She is indignant, but finds it difficult to now rectify the matter.

The French threaten to hold the Sultan responsible for any trouble arising from the dispatch of Turkish reinforcements to Tripoli. An earthquake at Changeria, Anatolia, in Asiatic Turkey, killed eleven persons. The Grand Mosque and many buildings were greatly damaged. The London Lancet criticises Gen. Garfield’s medical staff for making the best of his case in their bulletins. It says the bulletins should be the truth and nothing but the truth. The Garfield Monument Committee, consisting of J. H. Wade, H. B. Payne aud Joseph Perkins, all of Cleveland, have addressed a letter to Gen. Longstreet expressing gratification at the expression of sympathy in the South with the project, and suggesting that subscriptions in aid of the proposed monument be taken up during the Cotton Exposition at Atlanta, and that it be made as general as possible through the Southern States. The committee requests that all funds for the purpose set forth should be sent to the Second National Bank of Cleveland. A dispatch from Victoria, B. C., states that the steamer Eliz. J. Irving took fire at Fort Hope, Frazer river, and was entirely destroyed. It is believed that a number of Indians perished in the flames.Rumors are going about that the Marquis of Lome will return to England at the close of the next session of the Canadian Parliament, and will then be called to the House of Lords.

Sergeant Mason will plead insanity. Forty-two national banks, with an aggregate capital of $5,685,000, have been organized during the last six months. Col. Bliss and his associate counsel have filed informations in the Supreme Court for the District of Columbia against Thomas J. Brady, John L. French, William H. Turner, George L. McDonough and Samuel P. Brown, for conspiracy to defraud the Government in carrying mails. They are charged with feloniously obtaining $350,000 on the route between Prescott and Santa Fe. Warrants issued for the arrest of all the persons above named except Gen. Brady. The Postoffice Department, finding the bonds given by Postmasters generally insufficient to protect the Government, has ordered the concentration of deposits at ICO leading offices. There is no truth in the rumor that Senator Ben Hill, of Georgia, has lost a largo part of his tongue. B. W. Hicks, a white man, was hanged at Spartansburg, 8. 0., for the murder of fiis wife last May, under exceptionally brutal circumstances. One of the flying rumors of the day is to the effect that President Arthur has -tendered a Cabinet position to Judge Lapham, of New York, giving Gov. Cornell a chance to call a special session of the Legislature to elect Conkling to the Senate. A fire at Eldred, Pa., in the Bradford oil district, burned sixty buildings in the business center of the town, valued at SIOO,OOO.