Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Business failures for the week ending Dec. 9 numbered 247, being 61 more than for the preced ng week, and an increase of 78 over the corresponding week m 1881. Bu filings at Bradford, Pa., valued at £50,0C0, were destr, yed by fire. A loss of $60,(1C0 was experienced at Co’umbia, S. 0., by the burning of the Wiley Block. The hangings on Friday, Dec. 8, were: Will Porter, at Perry, Ga.; Gustave Paul, at Donaldsonville, La.; Albert Sanders, at Charleston, Mo.; Ed Congers, at Swainsboro, Ga.; and Hong Ah Duck, at San Rafael, Cal. A railway collision occurred near Hinton, W. Va., by which three ersonswere instantly killed and five injured. Among those who escaped were Senator Williams and Robert Bonner. Gen. Sidney Burbank died at Newport, Ky., at the age of 71. Tom Robinson and Bill Cephas were taken from jail at Bastrop, La., and lynched. Previously, a negro named Wesley, who attempted to kill a white man, expiated his crime at the hands of a mob. Eleven convicts at work in the penitentiary at Little Rock disarmed the guard and escaped. Bloodhounds were put on their track, but the fugitives killed three of them. The Government has brought suit at New York against Harrison Johnston, formerly a treasury agent, for th ■ recovery of nearly $2,060,100 arising from the sale of confiscate d cotton, lor which he has failed to account. H. C. Fero’s vegetable soup works, at Rochester, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. The use of cider as an extingu sher saved many adjoining buddings. The Denver Fire Insurance Company, organized fifteen months ago with an alleged capital of £1,000,000, has collapsed. A loss of nearly $170,000 was incurred at Saginaw city, Mich., by the destruction of the works of the Barrel Company and its stock of lumber. A conflagration raged for ten hours in the heart of London, and swept away buildings covering two acres of gronnd, and occupied by three of the largest wholesale firms in the world’s metropolis, namely, Foster, Porter & Co., hosieiy; Silver & Fleming, bronzes, clo;ks and fancy good®, and Rylands; dry goods. The loss is placed at $15,000,00.). Arabi Pasha and his chief followers are to be exiled to Ceylon. The festival of St. George was held in the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg, where the Czar proposed the her th of the E-nper-or of Germany, which was enthusiast cally received. The Captain and ten of tlje crew of the bark Argonaut, bound from Bremen to New York, were drowned by the vessel being wrecked on Terschelling island, off the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands.