Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A battle with Winchester rifles, in which fifty shots were fired, took place at Llano, Texas, between two squads of citizens. One man was killed, one mortally wounded and three others injured. The District Court made a riq'iisition on the Adjutant General for a comnany of State troops. Egyptian affairs are not attracting the sole attention of Europe. A cable dispatch states that the powers had moved for the immediate assembling of the conference, and had given Turkey forty-eight hours to consider whether she would participate or not. Dervisch Pasha advised the Sultan that the foreign fleets were a hindrance to the restoration of order, while England and France were making preparations to reinforce their war vessels. Foreigners are quitting the country as rapidly as possible. The whole American mission embarked on board the United States steamer Galena. Another railway horror occurred on the Clarksburg and Western railway, near Clarksburg, W. Va. A passenger car containing twenty persons fell through a trestle with disastrous results. Two of the occupants died of their injuries, and many others are fatally weunded. The license tax imposed by New Orleans on commercial travelers has been'declared unconstitutional. An accident occurred on the New York Central road, near Brockport. The engineer and fireman of the New York express were killed, and a number of the passengers were badly shaken up. > Gladstone declined to introduce a bill in the House of Commons for a temporary suspension of evictions in Ireland. Oppressive plans against the Irish secret societies are being perfected by the new criminal investigation department. Investigations pursued in America are made the basis of the projects.

The Director of the Mint reports the gold product for 1881 at $34,700,000, and that of silver at $43,000,000. Colorado leads the list, with California second, while Nevada shows jess than $9,000,000. John L. Hayes, of Massachusetts, will be Chairman of the Tariff Commission. The vacancies have been filled by the appointment William H. McMahon, of New York, and Alexander R. Boteler, of West Virginia. The Utah Commission, agreed upon by the Cabinet, is as follows : Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota ; ex-Senator Paddock, of Nebraska ; G. F. Godfrey, of lowa ; Ambrose B. Carleton, of Indiana, and James R. Pettigrew, of Arkansas. In politics the board stands three Republicans and two Democrats. The crop reports from Minnesota and Dakota continue to show a very promising outlook for spring wheat and other grains. In Kentucky the proipect is excellent for wheat, corn and tobacco. In the northern part of Illinois corn is “doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances,” and there are hopes of a fair yield. The reports of the operations of the army-worm in Ohio continue to show great devastation in ripening fields of wheat and barley. From Michigan the show ing as to wheat is cxtri mely favorable, and the great boom in Kansas crops is unabated. In Wisconsin timely rains have improved the prospects in localities previously suffering from drought. The Democracy of Arkansas have nominated for Governor James H. Berry, now a Circuit Judge, who lost a leg in the Confederate army. Dr. Jules Crevaux and a party of seventeen men, who were engaged in exploring the northern tributaries of the River Plata, were killed by the Obah Indians-in Bolivia. Trinidad Charley and Thomas Wall, two bad characters, had been murdering people promiscuously out West, were hanged by a mob at Rico, Col. The legal hangman swung off James Vaughn, at Pinckneyville, 111., for the murder of William Watts ; also, Milton Yarbery, at Albuquerque, N. M., for shooting Charles Campbell. Lieut. Flipper, the only negro officer in the army, has been dismissed from the service for misappropriation of funds. A distressing accident occurred in Linn county, Kan., resulting in the death of six persons. Mrs. John Seals and her two children, two children named Jankley, and one child named Jackett, attempted to ford a swollen stream in a wagon and were swept away by the swift current and speedily drowned.