Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1883 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

Four Americans have been arrested at Panama on suspicion of being connected with the robbery of a >50,000 keg of gold coin from the vaults of the Panama Railroad Company. Losses by fire: At Lafayette, Ind., Litzenberger’s flouring-mill and ihe Lafayette paper-mill, loss >50.000, Insured; at Boston, Mass, several stores, causing a loss of >75,000, insured; at Huttar Station, Pa., a drug store and several other establishments, loss, >80,000; at Sheridan, Mich., half a dozen stores, loss >50,000, insurance >20,000; at Dudley, HL, a grain warehouse, loss >30,000; at Philadelphia, Pa., Milne & Sons' cotton mills, loss >60,000, insured; at Mineral Ridge, Ohio, a general store and dwelling house, loss >30,000, insured. The only coin of, the United States that strictly conforms to the law is the >2O gold piece. Other coins either lack something prescribed or bear some device unauthorized by law. The treasurer of the Irish Land League of America has fabled £3,000 for the relief of sufferers by famine in Ireland. • The first contract for the establishment of a mail route in Alaska has been awarded to a representative of the New York Presbyterian Missionary Society. The service will be monthly, the distance being 105 miles, by canoe.