Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The New York Senate has passed the resolution in favor of submitting a constitutional amendment to the people making the canals iree by a vote of 22 to 10. As the same resolution had already passed the House this important measure will now go before the people. Adam M. Dundore, late County Treasurer at Reading, Pa., proves to be a defaulter to the amount of $30,000. Gen. Jack Wharton, United States Marshal at New Orleans, died of apoplexy, the other day, in the office of Surveyor Pinchback. In the jail at Greenville, S. 0., Richard Bates, colored, was married to a woman of his own race. The next morning the bride was transported to the penitentiary, while the groom will be hanged for arson on April 28. Atcer a desperate fight with the Sheriff and turnkey at Arkadelphia, Ark., four prisoners broke jail, three of them securing their liberty. They were followed and fired upon for miles. By the explosion of the boiler of a towing steamer near Brownsville, Minn., several persons were killed or drowned, and a large number of the crew injured. Howard Newland, of Viola, lowa, while being taken to the insane asylum by his wife, sprang out of a car window near Marion, and lost both feet Samuel Gibson, who was County Treasurer at Muncie, Ind., went out of office a defaulter for $14,220, most of which is said to have gone into the hands of Chicago grain, brokers. A corporation has been formed at Leavenworth to build a hotel costing SIOO,OOO. Mr. Teller enters upon his duties in the Interior Department at once.- Secretary Kirkwood goes to lowa, and expects to make * tour of the Southwest for his health. The Mexican Cable Company will make Galveston the terminal point of 5,000 miles of wire. Eleven sailors at Toulon were about to throw a torpedo into the sea, when an oxplosion killed three of them and wounded eight.