Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A New York telegram says that the pmeh 'se of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis road by a syndicate extremely favorable t > Van lerbilt is the all-absorbing topic in Wa" street. The Hocking Valley road has acquire 1 an outlet to Chicago for its vast s ores of coal, and what might have proved an aggressive factor among the trunk lines has been divided up among several interests. The purchase money is to be paid in instailm mts, and the stock will be delivered when GJ per cent, shall have been handed over. The residence of Gen. Sturgis, at the Soldiers’ Home in Washington, was robbed of diamonds, silks and laces to the amount of $5,009. A search developed the missing property in the trunks of a French governess. Near Alamaos, Mexico, a battle was fought between Indians and the State troops, in which 100 Indians and twenty-three soldiers were killed and several wounded. William Dickson, the foreman of the recent star-route jury, was arrested at Wa- hington on the charge of endeavoring to improperly influence the Jury,and of conspiring to get money from the United States for the purpose of impeding justice. The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury has decided that a frog is not a fish, and can not be imported from Canada free of duty under the treaty of Washington. Judge Alexander Hamilton, of St. Louis, who stood in the front rank of chancery lawyers, died, after an illness of four weeks. In the army rifle contest at Ft. Leavenworth, Sergt. Barrett, of the Engineer Battalion, took the first prize Gen. Shei man decorated the successful marksmen with their well-won trophies. The London Athenaeum states the Typographical Unions in America prevented the successful negotiation between England and the United States of a copyright convention. The Rubber Comb and Jewelry Company of Bloomingdale, N. J., has suspended payments, through the fai urc of a note broker. The liabilities are said to be $500,000. In a dispute at Nicholasville, Ky., about his fee, an attorney named Georsje B. Letcher k 1 ed Edward Evans, a young physician. The French police discovered a dynamite factory in the suburbs of Lyons. The citizens arc panic-stricken at the revelations in regard to the conspiracy, and a mob gathered and threatened the banks and public buildings. A Berlin disp dch says that full returns of the Prussian Parliamentary elections bay e been received, and indicate the return o'. 136 Conservatives, forty-seven Free Conservat ves, 10J of the Centre party, eighteen Poles, sixty-seven National Liberals, twenty-two Secessionists, thirty-eight Progressists, and five Independents. The Center and Conservatives, united, number 236, and as an absolute majority in the House is 217 they consequently have a good working majority, and will be enabled to pass all measures brought before the House. The United Liberty party number 130, and the Middle party 114. A letter from the Sultan has been found among Arabi Pasha's correspondence, urging him to resist invasion by England, France and other powers, and to defend the faith of his country.