Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Key City Block at Moorhead, Minn., containing six stores, was burned, with across of #50,000. A fire at Portland, Ore., destroyed the wholesale grocery house of Corbett & McLeary, valued at #170,000, and inflicted •onsiderable damage upon the adjacent buildings The Quincy House, one of the largest hotels in Quincy, 111, took fire at breakfast time the other morning, andVthe upper stories were burned away. Over latLpersons were hurried out of the building. The loss is about #45,00a ’ Ex-Senator Spencer sailed from Halifax for Europe in the Polynesian. Just before embarking he gave an interviewer a breezy story about his connection with the star-route cases, claiming to have been the first to discover the frauds, which information he communicated in confidence to the Postmaster General, on condition that his name should never be made public in connection with the trials. The hangman has rid the world of Arthur Preston, a Maryland negro, who murdered his paramour, and of Charles G. Shaw, a colored man of Washington, who stood on Guiteau’s scaffold. • The National Board of Trade, which held its session at Washington, passe<J resolutions in favor of a postal telegraph and the encouragement of American shipping, and averse to the continuation of the Hawaiian treaty. A terrible explosion occurred in a powder factory in the suburbs of Amsterdam, and forty lives were sacrificed. Paris papers publish supplementary rumors of the impending revolution in Western France, and state that a Legitimist conspiracy, known as “The Catholic Alliance,” is in process of formation by Baron de Charette. Army officers are said to be implicated, and depots for arms have been found. A shocking state of destitution' prevails in the North of Ireland, and in some places the people are barely kept alive by the distribution daily of small quantities of corn meal The Italian Premier said in the Senate that, while emigration to South America was successful, he could not recommend the departure of • his countrymen to the northern portion of the continent. A Milwaukee dispatch of Jan. 20 says: “Evidence accumulates against Scheller, who, it is alleged, fired the- Newhall House. It has been ascertained that he secreted some of his stock of liquors and removed seven sets of billiard balls before the fire occurred. The prisoner was returned to the Milwaukee jail yesterday, and no one Is permitted to see him. Another body has been taken' from the fire ruins, making a total of forty-six The lives lost are now figured at fifty-nine.” Balloting for United States Senator In the Colorado Republican caucus was continued on Jan. 19 without result. The last ballot yielded Pitkin 20 votes, Tabor 17, TTnmUl H, and Bowen 5. The Michigan Legislature balloted for a Senator, Ferry receiving 52 votes and Stout 50, the remainder being scattered among a number of aspirants. In the Nebraska Legislature, Thayer and Millard had 16 votes each, and Morton 13. The fourth ballot for Senator in the Minnesota Legislature gave Windom 50, Wilson 33, and “scattering” the remainder. Friends of temperance in lowa, in view of the Supreme Court decision, will hold a * State Convention at Des Moines, Feb. 7, to determine upon their future policy. The weather throughout the "West and Northwest on the 18th, 19th and 20th of January was Intensely cold, the mercury in some sections ranging between twenty and thirty below. At Omaha some of the public schools were closed. Railway traffic was much Impeded by snow accumulating in the cuts, in some instances trains being abandoned. A great snow-storm prevailed In Ontario during the same time At Richfield Springs, N. Y., Harvey Taylor killed his wife and mother-in-law and then committed suicide He was Insane He had regularly laid out the corpses of his victima