Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A dispatch from Hartford,. Ct., says: “The decision delivered in New Haven by Chief Justice Park, of the Supreme Court of Errors, that the black ballots polled by the Democrats in that city in the November State election are illegal, has created a sensation in political circles all through the State, The feeling is intensified to-night by the announcement that Mr. Cole, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, intends .to take action calculated to place in office Republican candidates for State offices, although they received the minority vote. The Mack ballots in New Haven counted for the Democratic candidates were about 7,000, and throwing these out as illegal gives the election to the Republicans.” Near Beverly, W. Va., on Christmas night, Adam Currence and four children were burned to death. The chimney of a faetory at Bradford, Eng., fell, demolishing the building. Thirty-six employes were killed and fifty were seriously injured. Five negroes were drowned by the overturning of a ferry-boat at Darien, Ga. Tufa buildings at Prescott, Ark., were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at #IOO,OOO. Jay Gould has come into possession of the Galveston, Houston and Henderson railroad in Texas, thus giving his Southwestern system an outlet to the Gulf of Mexico. Clarence Veight deliberately applied a match to some fireworks in Mrs. lizzie Swim’s cigar store at Fort Worth, Texas, causing an explosion which fired the building, Mrs. Swim perishing in the flames Disastrous floods are again reported In Germany and Austria. In Baden, twenty persons were drowned by the washing away of a bridge. The Russian railroads are said to have ordered the discharge of their Hebrew employes, and the Senate has decided that no court can authorize the transfer of land to Hebrews Great mortality has been caused among sheep in the midland counties of England by heavy rainfall and floods The steamer New England was wrecked in the Clarence river, New South Wales, the passengers and crew all perishing. An yicle falling from a store at Laona, N. Y., instantly killed Charles Banks and seriously wounded Wm. Smith. -A block of land in New York which was bought at auction ten years ago for #6O, OOp has lately been mortgaged for #891,600. Col. E. H. -Wolfe, Auditor of Indiana, while going home in Indianapolis, at an early hour in the morning, was halted by a merchant policeman and fired the indignity being increased by an arrest and imprisonment. He was promptly released by the Police Justice. The proceeds of the recent sale of articles accumulated in the Dead Letter Office amount to #4,497, which Bum has been deposited in the treasury to the credit of the Postoffice Department. New counterfeit quarter dollars of the date of 1878 are in circulation. They are plated with silver, and are not full weight To relieve toothache apply to the troublesome tooth a tiny piece of cotton saturated with ammonia.