Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The attempt to bring about a compromise between the iron manufacturers of Pittsburgh and vicinity and a committee of the Amalgamated Association resulted in failure, the manufacturers rejecting a proposition to adjust differences and end the strike by paying puddlers $5.75 per ton, an advance of 25 cents, The manufacturers adhere to $5.50, the rate prevailing when the strike began. ' The mill and stock of the Mitchell & Rowland Lumber Company, at Toledo, valued at $325,000, was destroyed by fire. The Missouri car and foundry works, at St. Louis, were burned, causing a loss of $150,000; covered by insurance. Dwight 8. Lathrop, Assistant Cashier of the Central Railroad of Now Jersey, has absconded, after embezzling $20,000. His plan was to alter deposit tickets on his way . to the bank and pocket the difference. Anton Pelata, of Pittsburgh, awoke the other morning to find his babe dead in bed with a large block cat sitting on its breast. The Coroner held an inquest, and the jury formally declared the cat to be the destroyer of the infant. . The international rifle match at Creedmoor, Long Island, resulted in a victory for the British team at every range, the total score being 1,975 to a 1,805. Nathan Bonnett, - a negrb, who attempted to outrage a white girl in South Carolina, was taken from the jail and hanged and his body riddled with bullets by a mob. Samuel Redding, a negro, was executed at Metropolis, 111., on Friday, Sept. 15, for the murder of Adolphus Zimmerman. James Tracy was hung in Chicago for the murder of Officer Huebner. He spent the forenoon in calm preparations for death. He wrote a large number of cards for distribution to friends, and directed that his body be given to James McCann. After declaring on the gallows that he was innocent of the crime charged, he stood bravely up for execution. The Hillsdale crew lost their first race on the Thames through bad steering and the breaking of a slide. They twice fouled the Thames crew, and had secured a good lead and seemed in a fair way to win when the accident occurred which enabled the Englishmen to take the lead and keep it to the end. Sir James Anderson, physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria, and the author of two medical works, has been called from earth. “ A storm at Montreal caused the burning of La Prairie barracks, which originally cost the Imperial Government $500,000. A minister at Quebec refused to marry a man to his deceased wife’s sister, asserting that, although the alliance would be a valid one, the law did not compel him to perform the ceremony. Miner e and Rerdell, the convicted Star-route conspirators, were granted a new trial, Judge Wylie setting aside the verdict because of its incoherency and the misconduct of the jury. Merrick, for the Government, acquiesced in the motion for the new trial, claiming the recent verdict simply

Beat Him. Datl and Flasher were in the habit of trying their wits on each other. Once they were discussing the relative merits of rifle vs. bow and arrow. ■‘loan beat you even at short range,” said Flasher, boastingly. “Try it,” said Dan. They tried. Dan discharged an arrow in pursuit of a hen that they saw in a yard that they were passing, and .missed the hen. : - Flasherj with a shot of his rifle, killed the hep. “There,” he exclaimed, .-“I told you th at J could beat you.” “But I have beat you,” cooly said Dwn- • ‘ t “Ifow. can that be ? You missed the hen, while I killed her.”' : S-Stili I have beat ye, because you must pay for the hen. ' Yon kilied hci’.” Verdict for Lap from reieree.