Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Edward Malley, whose son and nephew were tried for murdering Jennie Cramer, has brought thirty'insurance companies into court at New Haven for refusing to pay their risks—sl4o,COO in all—on his store at New Haven, burned February, 1882. One of the jurors who tried Dukes at Uniontown, Pa, for the murder of Dr. Nutt, was assaulted in the streets of Belle Vernon by persons who regard the verdict of acquittal as infamous, and so severely beaten that his life is despaired of. The proffered evidence of James Mullett, one of the Dublin conspirators, will not be accepted by the Government The East Indian Government, in order to put the wheat-growers of that country more nearly upon an equality with the agriculturists of the United States in competing for the grain trade of Great Britain, is taking measures to secure a liberal reduction in the charges for transportation by rail ! Bishop Keener, of the Methodist Episcopal church South, gave expression, at the meeting of the Baltimore Conference at Charlestown, W. Va, to the fear that the clergy of his denomination are leaning too much to bookishness, and that wealth is exerting a ruinous influence upon the church. Owing to a lack of money to carry on the work of the signal service as at present arranged, the Chief Signal Officer has ordered the discontinuance of thirty-three “cautionary-display stations” on the lakes and three on the Atlantic coast, beside other work of the bureau. The annual review of pork-packing in Chicago shows a small increase for the winter season (from Nov. 1 to Feb. 28) as compared with the preceding season, and a falling off for the entire year ending Feb. 28, 1883, of 850,000 head in the number of hogs packed.

i The bill giving the remains of executed criminals to the custody of the Sheriff, who shall cause them to be decently interred, has passed the lower house of the Connecticut Legislature. During the past year the Baltimore Conference of the M. E Church South received $153,000 for missionary work—the largest contribution since the war. j Many business houses in the public square at Bloomington, Ind., were consumed, entailing a total loss of $75,000. Forest City, a mining town, in Sierra county, Cal., was totally destroyed by fire, the loss reaching into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. A cotton oompress and BCO bales of cotton at Texarkana, Ark., were hupped, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO,