Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Republican caucus of the Colorado Legislature, on Jan. 26, nominated the Hon. T. M. Bowen for United States Senator for the long term but made no selection for the short period. There was no change in the situation at the capitals of Michigan, Minnesota and Nebraska, Lhe various aspirants maintaining about the same relative strength they bad shown in the preceding ballots. Tudge Thomas Bowen, the New Colorado Senator, is a native of lowa. He is about 40 years of age. When a youth be went to Kansas, and when not over 21 became the flommander of a Kansas regiment in the late War. The close of the war found him in .Arkansas. He became the Supreme Justice of that State. He was afterward appointed Governor of Idaho, but soon resigned. He then went to New York, and in 1870 located Lb Colorado and engaged in mining. Trains on the Connotton Valley road collided near Canton, Ohio, mangling an engineer and fireman and injuring several paseengera ~ , - • ' George W. Traughber was hanged at Paylorville, Christian county, Hi.,, for the murder, a year ago, of Joseph McKinney. The execution is claimed to have been one of the quickeston record; the murderer being dead in nine minutes from the tifia6 he climbed the. scaffold stairs in his velvet slipper?. The culprit dropped eix feet, and the neck broke with a snap like the crack of a whip. The partial destruction of the Caldwell block,in Omaha, entailed a loss of $125,000. A train dispatcher’s error caused a collision between an express and a freight train near Canton, Ohio, resulting in the death of Fireman John Russell, and the probable fatal wounding of Engineer John Stoneman. One passenger had a leg badly crushed. Small-pox has broken out in the lumber camps of the Rainy Lake River district* in Minnesota, and ten deaths from the ease have already been reported ' In Northern New York and the upper portion of the New England .States, on the 86th and 27th of January, the thermometer registered from 14 to 88 degrees below zero. Edward Garrett, colored, was hanged at Texarkana, Ark, for the murder of his wife. An adverse report was fnade in the Senate, Jan. 26, on the bill to increase the pennons of one-armed and one-legged soldiers. Mr. Platt introduced a bill to add $0 per month each to all pensions of $24 or S3O. The Committee on Agriculture reported in favor of holding a world’s centennial cotton exposition in 4884. Consideration of the Tariff bill was,resumed The duty on fiat bar iron was reduced to $lB per ton, and on round or squarp bar iron to S2O per ton. On iron or steel rails the rate was made eight-tenths of a cent p o r pound, and on tin plates 1 cent In the House of Renresefitdtives, three members presented pettti on s’against the transfer of the revenue moriuaj life-saving, marine hospital, and eignal sefyice, A bill was re* ported granting the right of way for a railroad through the Fort Smith military reservation. The Tariff hill was taken up in committee of the whole,and Mr. Kelley declared it the best ever submitted to Congress. It was agreed, that general debate on the measure should (dose at 5 o’clock in the afternoon.