Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The business failures in the United States and Canada, for the week ending April 6, as reported to the commercial agency of R. G. Dun & Co., New York, numbered 197, as compared with 182 the previous week. The distribution of failures was as follows: New England States, 11; Western, 58; Middle, 26; Southern, 46; Pacific States and Territories, 14; New York city, 18, and Canada, 29. The President and party were received at Jacksonvflle, Fla., by the booming Of artillery and the cheers of the citizens. No President has ever before visited the Floridftna The verdict of the Coroner’s jury in the case of the Braidwood mine disaster exonerates ..the managers of the mine from blame, and asserts that the accident was such as might happen at any mine under similar circumstancea” The “balk-line” billiard tournament at Chicago, for the championship of the world, was won by Jacob Schaefer, of Chicago, the French champion, Vignaux, taking second prize The playingof this tournament is said to have been the most brilliant exhibition of billiards ever witnessed.

Heavy rains, causing the flooding of many low-lying plantations, are reported In the Lower Mississippi valley. William A. Le Sueuer, proprietor of the Baton Rouge Cap'tipUan Advance, the official newspaper of the State of'Louisiana, was shot and killed at Baton Rouge hy W. T. Sanford, a prominent broker of thatcify. Confederate graves were decorated at New Orleans and the corner-stone of the monument to the Army of the Tennessee was laid. The association of the latter army gave a banquet in the evening, Jeff Davis being among the guests. The polygamous Mormon church has been holding its fifty-third annual conference at Salt Lake City, Utah. The Josephite, or monogamuos, Mormons held a jubilee at Kirtland, Ohio, in honor of the restoration of their temple there. Howard Underwood (colored), dressed in a white robe, was hanged at Charleston, Mo., for the brutal murder of a negresa He made an exhortation to the large gathering saying he was going straight to walk the streets of glory in golden slippers and his snowy costume

P. H. Burch, who widely advertised himself as the Union Manufacturing Company, of Galena, HI, has fled that city, taking about SS,OOO in remittances, for which he never sent an equivalent. The members of the Cleveland Base Ball Club recently called on President Aithur at the White House and were received in the Cabinet-room. After a general handshaking, the President complimented the nine upon their fine appearance and that they looked like good base-ball players, and that good base-ball players were good citizens. Lawrenee & Asher, stationers, New York; liabilities, $230,000; assets, slso,ooft Suit has been begun at Boston to restrain the Bell Telephone Company from increasing its stock, as the directors recently decided to do, to nearly $10,000,000. The Methodist population of New York has fallen from 1 in 64 to 1 in 104.