Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The petrol dUm gamblers of Pittsburgh, Bradford and other specula'ive centers have been going through a terrible ex--1 cricnce recently. Under the pressure of th i bear ii fluei ccs the marker., which had gone up to an unusually -high figure, took a snd en tumble, dropping from $1.(5 to 86 cents in one d y. Tue speen'ators, who had forced ip pi ices, fount themselves overwhelm, din ruin. Ihe excitement throughout, the oil-speculative regie ns was unprecedented. The condition of the money market in New York ins; ired Secretary Folger to order the redemption of $ 10,(X 0,000 in l.onds 1 er week, without rebate of interest. A bloody conflict is in progress in Neva’a between the Washoe and P.ute Indians. A fierce storm swept the lower lake region on he 24th of November, and many vessels were wre ked or beach d. Gilbert W. Patrick, familiarly known as Gilpatri k, a famous jockey of the days before th; war, died the other day in New York. He rode Lexington four miles against time at New Orleans in 7:19%. The remains of Thurlow Weed were taken to Albany for interment. There has just died at Mehama, Ore., Mrs. Capt. John Smith, a daughter of William Morgan, who is alleged to have been murdered by members of the Masonic order in 1826. She steadily refused to give any information in regard to the tragedy. By the fall of a railway bridge at Bromley, near London, seven workmen who were breakfasting beneath were kil ed and several others injured. The business failures in the United States 'and C nala,-for the week ending Nov. 25, numbered 157, and were confin 'd prii ci pally to the snail r c'ass of trad rs. The Eastern States h d eigh een failures; W stem, forty-nine; Southern, twentythree; Middle, twenty- 1 ix; Pacific, eleven; Can: da, sixteen; and New York city, fourteen