Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A feature of the business situation equally unsatisfactory and threatening is the constant increase in the nxlmber of failures reported Duri g the week ending Jan. 11, 202 were reported, which is thirtyeight more than during the preceding week, and more than have been noted for any like period since 18?.), when there was a great rush to take advantage of the expiring Bankrupt law. The West and Bouth contributed more than half of the list. The city of St. Lohis has had a sensational case of abduction. Miss Zelda Garrison, belonging to a wealthy and aristocratic family, was the victim. She was kept concealed for a week. The affair is wrapped in mystery. Philip Matthews, who murdered Anna Geyer, his sweetheart, last May, was hanged in the jail-yard at Belleville, HI., on the 12th •inst The culprit said he was going straight to heaven. Mr. Geyer, father of the victim, was indignant because the execution was not made more public. A broken rail-threw a - Wabash train down an embankment near Olmstead, IIL Five passengers were fatally injured arid nine others seriously. Two coaches were consumed by fire. A party of masked white men went to the house of a negro named Lindsay, in Faulkner county, Ark., intent on mischief, but Lindsay and his friends were prepared, and fired on the intruders, killing a man named Hubbard and an unknown individual, and mortally wounding another party. It is believed at Denver that the Burlington road is soon to absorb the Rio Grande lines. S. R. Calloway, general manager of the Grand Trunk road, has been elected President of the Western Indiana Company. “Drunken Jake Sheehan,” a St. Louis character, killed his son James, aged 17, by striking him a heavy blow on the chest as he lay in bed iIL A shin-kicking match for $250 a side was fought at Camden, N. J., by a coal miner and a saloon keeper, the latter giving np on the twenty-third round At Fainnount, W. Va., Mrs. Hettie Cunningham threw her young son from the suspension bridge into the Monongahela river, and leaped off herself. * Both floated over the dam, but were rescued and resuscitated Clark Mills, the sculptor, died at the national capital at the age of 67 yearn The Assistant Secretary of the Interior has prepared a new lease of the Yellowstone Park for the Rufus Hatch syndicate, avoiding the monopoly feature of the old contract, and fixing the compensation at #2 per acre for 2,560 acres Lord Duflhriti has informed the Egyptian Ministry that Great Britain withdraws from the treasury' control, and suggests the appointment of a European financial adviserThe depreciation of Irish crops in 1832, in consequence of bad weather, is placed at £5,118,167. The loss on the potato yield alone is placed at £4,317,687. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, who served a term at the Dry Tortngas, charged with harboring John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, died near Bryans town, Md