Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]
LATER NEWS ITEMS.
Three hundred and ninety-five Mor - mon immigrants arrived at New York one day last week, in charge of twenty-eight missionaries. They left for Salt Lake in the evening. Last week’s business failures in the Un ted States numbered 151, and increase of, st venteen over the week e. ded Oct. 28, and nin teen more than in the corresponding pe. iod in 1881. Ten-dollar treasury note counterfeits, of the series of 1875, letter C, are very plentiful in the East The bogus bills are easily detected upon a little scrut ny. Kansas farmers have completed the sowing of their winter grain, which in some sections lias already sprouted, and is looking healthy. An in leased area has been sown. Mrs. B. Mitchell, daughter-in-law' of Alexand r Mitchell, died suddenly at the Newh 11 House in Milwaukee. Ex-Gov. Willard P. Hall, of St. Joseph, Mo., is dead. There are rumors among the acquaintances of the Seguin family in New York, that the receht tragedy was,the result of religious differences between Dr. and Mrs. Segu n. The doctor was a skeptic, while his wife was a professed Christian; and the theory advanced is that, hav.ng failed in her effort to bring her husband to accept the doctrines of the church, and fearing lest her children should grow up irreligious, she brooded over the subject until her mind became unbalanced. The Rev. Alexander G. Mercer,rector of Trinity Church, Newport, R. 1., died suddenly of apoplexy. The New England mackerel fleet captured during the season 332,675 barrels, an increase of 3,710 barrels over last year. While marrying a couple at police headquarters at New York, Justice Otterbourg had his pockets picked. Ex-Tax Clerk Hand, of Philadelphia, has made statements that $1,000,000 of State taxes was stolen during the term of a recent Philadelphia receiver. Six persons—all on board—were drowned by the foundering of a yacht in the English channel. Chilian journals are greatly opposed to American intervention in the Peruvian imbroglio. The Chilian Government has sold to Gibbs & Co. the nitrate deposits at Alianza for $269,000. Upon the French Premier being urged by a delegation to repeal the decree restricting the importation of American pork, he promised that the matter shou’d be again ex mined. Ex-Empress Eugenie has made her will in favor of Prince Victor Napoleon. The Senate Judiciary Committee has been discussing the question whether the land-grants of the Northern Pacific, Texas Pacific and Atlantic and Pacific railways have been forfeited by failure to comply with the provisions of the granting act, and is understood to be divided eight to seven in favor of the railroads. Rock Radford, aged 70 years, a farmer living near H q kinsv He, Ky., shot dead a tenant named Johnson, in a dispute about partners ip corn. Dick Liddell, who was convicted of -conspiracy in p nnection with a robbery commuted in Alabama by Jesse and Frank James, was not sentenced, and will be reserved as awitness against Frank James and other memlie s of the notorious band of outlaws. A Canada newspaper advertises the names of all the marriageable ladies in the town where it is published.
