Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Secretary Teller has decided that Gen. Crook’s captive bucks can not be placed on the San Carlos reservation, but he wil 1 consent to receive tihe children and unmarried squaws. While the War Department has #27,0L0 on handfor the support of Indian prisoners, the appropriations made for the Interior Department will not maintain 500 captives. Gant’s woolen-mills at Boonville, Mo., valued at #50,000, were wrecked by the explosion of the boiler, and several workmen were injured. Henry Yillard already holds the golden spike to be driven near Helena at the time of completing the Northern Pacific road, and is arranging to take 400 guests to the scene. Eight men were badly injured, three of them seriously, by a series of explosions at the South Chicago Rolling-Mill. Some thirty-five tons of molten iron in the interior of a! furnace forced its way into the iron water-tank at the base. A terrific explosion followed, and the molten iron and the debris were hurled in every direction. The eight men were burned and scalded. Two American missionaries were recently almost beaten to death at Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, and Gen. Wallace has demanded of the Turkish Government that the perpetrators of the outrage be punished.

I The Pope, in a recent communication to President Grevy, alluded to the preparation of laws hostile to the Catholic Church, and urged steps to prevent a pain--1 ful conflict, which would prove equally disastrous to church and state, j Marquis Tseng, the Chinese Embassador, is reported as expressing to the French Premier the desire of his Govera- ' ment for a compromise of the questions at issue. In the meantime the French comj mander in Tonquin is fortifying the different ' cities, and is making active preparations for war. President Arthur has appointed Capt. S. L Phelps, of Washington, Minister to Peru, and Richard Gibbs, of New York, Minister to Bolivia. The Treasury Department has decided that the new tariff act abolishes the exemption from duty of beet-sugar machinery, allowed by section 2,510 Revised Statutes, that section not having been reproduced in tfie new tariff. The Vanderbilts have declared dividends of 2 per cent, on Lake Shore, Michigan Central and Canada Southern stock, j Railway tracks in Colchester and other counties of Nova Scotia are covered with caterpillars to a degree which impedes trains

The newest collateral security in use In Ban Francisco Is opium, of which large'* quantities have recently been stored in the vaults of the banka, which loan #OSO per case upon it In the races at Morrisania, N. Y., Eye Bee won a purse of #3,000, making a mile in 2:19%. Five deaths from small-pox have oocusred in one family in Lancaster, Pa, where considerable alarm preVails. A package of $40,000, expressed from a New York bank to a bank at Susquehanna, Pa, when opened was foand to contain nothing but blank papers. The Erie railway officials are exercised over the disappearance of the funds. The hangman was busily employed on Friday, the 2:6. of June. At Clarksville, Ark., the four train robbers, Herndon, McDonald and the two Johnsons, who attacked the train March 12 on the Little Bock and Fort Smith road and killed Conductor Cain, paid the penalty of their crime. Lewis Carter was swung from the gallows at Jerusalem, Va, for murdering his wife last Feoruary. Large crowds witnessed the executions