Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Union City, Ind., forty-seven . miles from Dayton, was visited by a great conflagration the other night, destroying the principal portion of the town. The loss is estimated at the heavy sum of $250,000. The directors of the Vanderbilt railroads—the New York Central, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and Michigan Central—have just elected officers. The position of Chairman of the board was created in each instance, the incumbent to have general supervisory control. Cornelius Vanderbilt was chosen Chairman of the boards of the New Yolk Central and Michigan Central, and William K. Vanderbilt of the Lake Shore, the latter retaining the Presidency of the Nickel-Plate, William EL Vanderbilt retiring from the presidency of the several roads. James EL Rutter was made President of the New York Central, John Newell of the Lake Shore, and EL B. Ledyard of the Michigan Central The senior Vanderbilt thus, relieves himself of the active management of the three railroad companies (although still a member of the Directories), the task devolving upon his two sons. Business failures for the week ending the 4th inst. numbered 132, a decrease of fifty-four from the preceding week, but thirty-six more than in the corresponding week of 1882. The Societies of the Armies of the James and the Potomac will hold a consolidated reunion at Washington May 16. Fare from all points will be reduced. The British Minister, West, has requested the dismissal of Edward O’Meagher Condon from the Treasury Department at Washington for alleged incendiary utterances against England. The bill prohibiting the giving of tree passes to any persons save railroad employes and officials passed the New York Assembly. The Czar’s coronation will be marked by a great reduction of the poll-tax and remission of fines, sentences and penalties.

Charles Bradlaugh, who has been prevented from taking the oath as a member of the British House of Commons for Northampton, because of his atheistic principles, appeared at the bar of the House again to take the oath, demanding, in the name of law, that it be administered, the Affirmation bill having been defeated. A motion by Sir Stafford Northcote, that Bradlaugh be precluded from going through the form, was adopted—27l to 165—Mr. Gladstone voting with the minority. Lawrence Hanlon, convicted at Dublin of the attempted murder of Juror Field, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. Advices from Calcutta state that a terrible earthquake has occurred at Tabreez, the capital of one of the provinces of Northern Persia. An explosion of gas in a coal mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa., killed two men. Many tombstones in an adjacent cemetery were overturned by the force of the explosion, which occurred 600 feet below the surface. It is announced that the large distillery firm of George and Thomas Farthing, of Buffalo, is embarrassed, and it has involved many grain and liquor dealers of Buffalo and New York city. The State Auditor of lowa has revoked the certificates of a number of mutual life insurance companies. The corner stone of the colored Methodist Church, Terre Haute, Ind., was pulled out of the Building the other night, and $5 in coin and scrip and other contents stolen. The bricklayers of Petersburg, Va., struck for $3 per day, and their demand was immediately granted. The discovery at Cronstadt, Russia, of a manufactory caused the arrest of many navarofficers, alleged to be Interested in the illegal work.