Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In the star-route trial at Washington, Rerdell testified that he recently went to the room of Dorsey at a hotel, and was threatened with a term in the penitentiary for forgery unless he made an affidavit to suit the ex-Senator. The Missouri State prison, at Jeffersofa City, was the scene, the other day, of a formidable revolt Just after dinner, the convicts at work in the harness-shop seized the foreman and fired a pile of loose straw. When guards went in with hose, it was promptly cut. While the flames were raging, the ringleader and seven accomplices Were placed in dark cells. The loss is $300,000, mainly suffered by contractors. A mercantile agency in New York reports 230 failures for the week. Baughman Brothers, stationers, of Richmond, made an assignment to cover liabilities of $90,000. Hatch & Peters, of the New York Stock Exchange, have suspended payment on account of the defalcation of their cashier, George W. Tompkins, for $75,000 or more. Warehouses, stores, dwellings and cotton, valued at $70,000, were consumed at Georgetown, S. C. Craft, one of the murderers of the Gibbons girls at Ashland, Ky., has been connoted and sentenced to death The western counties of Texas report great loss of stock by tne late blizzard, but warm weather is now bringing out the grass. The cattle-drive this season is estimated at 325,000. Milwaukee dispatches announce the death of Mrs. Fanny DriscoU White, who won fame for her poetical productions. At Rosemont, Minn., Mrs. Patrick Casey, while insane, cut the throat of her 4-year-old child and then her own, both dying almost instantly. Manuel Lenhart, who lay in jail at Newaygo, Mich, to answer the charge of ~ murder, mistook the noise of a ball for the voices of lynchers, and died from fright Two freight trains on, the Pittsburgh and- Fort Wayne line collided at Spring Mills, Ohio, both being completely wrecked, and Engineer L, Graham and Fireman Quinlan lost their lives Seventy-five head oi cattie were also killed. Within the past five years the city of Philadelphia has lost $167,696 by the mismanagement of the gas trustees. Ben Butl,er in appointing the annua] Fast day In Massachusetts exhorts ministers of the gospel not to discourse upon political topics but preach the divine word. Mrs. Macrae died in Montreal of drunkenness, and her husband tendered hex corpse to a medical college. The Senate passed the Naval Appropriation bill,Feb. 28,with clauses providing $1,000,000 ■to continue work on the Robeson monitors, sl,300,000 to begin the building of three steel cruisers 'and a dispatch-boat. The Utah bill was discussed without action, and the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was reported from the committee by Mr. Allison. In the House, the Senate amendments to the Army Appropriation and the Fortification Appropriation bills were non-con-curred th, and conference committees were appointed. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was completed in committee of the whole, and reported to the House. Amendments were adopted l prohibiting any lease of the Yellowstone National Park, ana authorizing the Secretary of War to detail troops to prevent trespassing.