Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1881 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Mr. O’Donovan, correspondent of the Loudon Daily News, who was recently in prison at Merv, has been thrown into jail at Constantinople on a charge of publicly abusing the Sultan. A Russian semi-official newspaper says of Mr. Blaino’s Panama canal dispatch that no guarantee of the preservation of the neutrality of tho canal will be es any value unless agreed to by the European powers conjointly with the Government of the United States. Gen. Ignatieff has ordered an active search for the second cutter of the Jeannette. James Gordon Bennett sent a cablegram from Paris to Secretary Frelinghuysen stating that he had transferred 6,000 rubles to Gen. Ignatieff to aid Capt. De Long and bis party. The distance by wagon from St. Petersburg to the poiDt where the shipwrecked crew are stopping is 4,000 miles. <; Highwaymen, near Pottsville, Pa., made a daring but unsuccessful attempt to rob the mail coach. A brace of speculating fellows at Reading, Pa., want to insure the life of Guiteau for their own benefit in the sum of SIOO,OOO. The Grand Jury of New York indicted Col. J. Howard Welles for writing and sending annoying and threatening letters to Jay Gould. The’wife of Justice Swayne, United States Supreme Caurt, died last week. The President left for New York Deo. 22 on the limited express, acoompanied by Private Secretary Phillips. Secretary Lincoln left for Chicago the same day. Friends of the Pr< sident sent two detectives to escort him from Washington to New York. He was not aware of the fact. Some Mexican cavalry and customs guards had a fight with twenty smugglers near Mier, Mexico, Lieut Neza and a corporal and private were killed, 'The smugglers escaped in?

to Texas. Three noted bandits were hanged by Mexican vigilante near Renosa. Mr. Scoville, counsel for Guiteau, has received so many threatening letters that Mrs. Scoviile is making urgent appeals to Marshal Henry and the Washington police to protect her husband and her brother. Horses in the Wisconsin lumber region are suffering from pink-eye.