Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A fire at Toledo, Ohio, totally destroyed the Ball block, at the corner of St Clair and Jefferson streets, the finest business structure in that city. The main occupants were Taylor, Rodgers & Co., shoedealers; L. S. Baumgartner, notions; and Wood & Acklin, grocers. The building had fallen into the hands of the Connecticut Mutual Life-Insurance Company, and the total loss is $650,000. The jury in the case of Teresa Sturla, charged with the murder of Charles Stiles, at the Palmer House, Chicago, returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, fixing the penalty at one year in the penitentiary. Three of the men convicted of participation in the butchery of the Joyce family were bunglingly executed at Galway by Marwood. Five hundred Egyptians, charged with incendiarism and massacre at Alexandria, were released on account of insufficient evidence against them. During the week ending Dec. 15, the business failures in the United States numbered 230, being a decrease of seventeen from the previous week, but sixty-five more than in the same period in 1881. A laborer in Brooklyn said to a restaurant waiter that, although a good Catholic, he had a Protestant stomach, and within a few minutes he was strangled by a piece of meat lodging in his throat. Parks Lemaine and his two sisters, all young persons, while returning from a prayer-meeting at Tipton Station, Pa, were killed by a locomotive. Jay Gould appeared before the New York Senate Committee on Grain comers, and testified that he thought uneven transportation the main effect of corners, but they gave producers better prices. He believed that millions of dollars were lost by those who engineered the grain comer in Chicago two years ago. Speculation in grain surely benefited the home dealer. Vanderbilt testified before the - same committee that he thought speculation in futures had a bad effect The steamer Kate Kinney, with a valuable cargo, burned at Ferry Landing, La. Many buildings in the town were consumed, a high wind carrying blazing brands from the Kinney inland. The crew and passengers lost all their baggage. Three murderers were hanged on Friday, Dec. 15. James L Gilmore, whoha e had the day for his taking-off seven times appointed and has been five times respited, met his doom at Deadwood, Dakota. John Redd was hanged at Searle, Ala., and Peter Thomas (colored) at Mansfield, La The cotton report for December shows a large percentage of increase in some States of the cotton belt, and approximates the crop at 6,700, (XX) bales of 460 pounds each. Dan O’Leary failed to organize a pedestrian contest in Paris, and has sailed for Australia Three days’ continuous rain caused great floods in Washington Territory and Oregon, mills, houses and bridges being carried awav.