Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Coup’s circus is in the hands of the Sheriff at Detroit, where attachments amounting to $25,000 have been served. Mules for the British army in Egypt are being purchased at St. Louis by Lieut CoL Swinney, of the Royal artillery, assisted by a veterinary surgeon. Maj. Sumner telegraphs from Fort Robinson that Red Cloud has threatened to drive away Agent McGillicuddy by force unless he be removed within sixty days. Gov. Cameron, of Virginia, refuses to commute the sentence of Mary Booth, aged 14, to hang Nov. 17, for poisoning Mrs. Grau and Mr. Jones. The hangman swung off Robert Parker, at Aiken, S. C., for poisoning his wife last December; William Bryan, at Jacksonville, Fla., for the assassination of Jack Mooro, and James Redden, a negro of Newcastle, DeL, for an outrage on a white girl. Two colored prisoners, Savage and James, convicted of murder in 1881, and who had been granted a new trial, while being taken to the' Court (Jffouse, were riddled with b ullets at Madison, Fla., by a mob, who stopped the train to perform their dreadful work. The recent killing of Col. L. W. R. Blair, at Camden 8. C., by Capt J. L. Haile, has been followed by the suicide of the Colonel’s daughter. Blair’s father took his own life when a member of Congress, and his grandfather was hanged for murder. Outrages upon the Jews have recommenced iu the interior of Poland, and the officials are represented as very apathetic in regard thereto. The business failures in the United States the past week numbered 132, sixteen less than for the week ending Aug. 18, and fiftythree more than in the corresponding week last year. It is announced that the New York, Chicago and St Louis Railroad Company, quite generally known as. the Nickel Plate from its strict adherence to the pay-as-you-go principle in the construction and equipment of its line of road, will establish and operate an express companyof its own between New York, Chicago and St Louis. What with its independent telegraph system, its fast freight line, and express service the new road promises to be a formidable competitor with the existing pools and monopolies. Timothy Bailey, a soldier in the war of 1812, the inventor of the knitting-machine, died at Ballston, N. Y. . The leading importers of dry goods at New York report a steady increase in the demand for silks, cashmeres and velvets.