Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1881 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Prof. King and his companion, who made a balloon ascension at Chicago on Thursday, the ,13th inst., made their appearance at Chippewa Falls, Wis., on the 21st They report that the balloon rose at Chicago to an altitude of 4,300 feet, and moved southwestward. At dark they were becalmed for three hours, resting over Peoria. Early Friday morning they passed over Spring Valley, Wis., where a settler fired at the air-ship. At the Platte mounds they were forced to throw out ballast to ascend. Tomah was reached at 0:40 a. m. In passing over Little Falls they came very near to the earth, but the balloon soon went above the clouds. An elevation of 9,600 feet was reached at 12:45 p. m. They descended on the west bank of the Flambeau river, sixty-five miles from Chippewa Falls, Wis., at 2:30 p. m. on Friday, after a voyage of twenty-two hours. They found themselves in a cranberry bog, in which they floundered for four days among the wolves and bears, reaching some woodmen on the Flambqau at 4 o’clock on the following Tuesday afternoon. Parnell is to be removed from Kilmainham to a country prison, and visits to the chief agitators will be prohibited for one week. The Land League organ urges holders of Bank of Ireland notes to demand gold and create a run. An empty powder canister and some burnt paper were found close to the magazine in Castle Athlone. The County Dublin has been proclaimed under the Arms act. The police stopped the weekly League meeting at Monaghan. Notices were posted at Boyle threatening death to tenants who pay rent. Military made some evictions from CoL King Harmon’s estate, and a mob wrecked property belonging to non-leaguers.

Flames swept away the old distillery at Hazleton," Ind.; the new furniture factory of J. J. Smith, at Lima, Ohio; the flouring-mills of Maj. Henderson, at Anderson, Ind., and the saw-mill of L. Quimby, at Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. Garfield proposes that the life of her husband shall be prepared from his manuscripts, diary and literary remains in the most careful manner. In the Washington Criminal Court Judge Cox granted the motion of Guiteau’s counsel for the expenses for witnesses for the defense residing more than 100 miles from Washington. He said he would leave the number of witnesses whose expenses are to be paid to be determined at some future time. The Dutch steamship Koenig der Nederlander broke her shaft and foundered in the Indiap ocean on her voyage from Batavia to Amsterdam. She had. 175 passengers, whe are reported missing. A steamer from Ceylon has gone in rearch of the survivors. A loss of $150,000 was incurred at Lynchburg, Va., by the burning of the Norfolk and Western Depot, a portion of the trestlework of the Richmond road and some mercantile buildings. Combustibles saturated with petroleum were thrown into the residence of Bishop Mullen, at Erie, Pa., and set on fire, but the flames were promptly extinguished.