Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Seven men attempted, to rob a Texas and Pacific train at a water-tank 150 miles this side of El Paso, but a squad of State rangers on board opened fire and drove the robbers to the brush. Eastern manufacturers of all descriptions of iron, at a meeting at Philadelphia, while not approving the changes proposed by the Tariff Commission, expressed the belief that the reductions would not paralyze the industries affected. A negro in Brooklyn, named Alexander Jefferson sent the contents a doublebarreled shot-gun through the window of a residence, killing Henry Hicks and wounding Celestial Jefferson. He then entered the house, cut Mrs. Emma Jefferson’s throat and severely slashed Annie Jackson. A loss of $85,000 was incurred at Oswego, N. Y., by the burning of the Mansard block and the Union Hotel The Commercial Advertiser building at Buffalo and Miller & Greiver’s grocery house aftd, other structures adjoining were destroyed by fire. 'The loss is placed at $300,000. Gen. Stone, late chief of staff of the Egyptian army, has resigned his commission and intends to return to the United States. Twenty persons were killed in the Hardenburg mine in Prussia by the fall of a cage on which they were descending. Prince Kraptokine, the Nihilist, was arrested at Lyons, France, on the cViarge of belonging to a society whose objects were to overthrow social order by mean t of pillage and assassination. ./ A Dayton dispftK'h chronicles the death of Bear Admiral James F. Schenck, retired, who entered the naval service in 18’21 as a Midshipman on the Hornet. The auction-house of W. H. Hagarty & Sops, St. Louis, was ruined by fire, and, as considerable damage was done to adjacent buildings, the loss is placed at SISO,(XX). A murderer who has been in the Michigan State prison for sixteen years piled the contents of his cell against the door, poured over them the oil in his lamp and applied a match. As he was naked it took but a few moments to literally bake him. Senator Logan has prepared a bi 1] for the reorganization of the signal service which provides in effect that .it -h ill be transferred to the control of the Interior Department, and that civilians shrill be employed instead of enlisted men a ; signaling officers. Mr. Logan claims that it is unfair to debit the army with the cost of the signal service.