Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A dispatch from Wilcox, Arizona, “The Indians reported at Ash canon, m the Arizona and New Mexican line, with the cavalry in pursuit, are th a Chiricahuas, wh:> were to have been on the reservation several days ago, but who were deterred by the knowledge of the fact that they could not enter the reservation there. The hosb les are said to be greatly incensed at what they consider a breach of faith. Another murderous raid is anticipated. ” A family of five persons were drowned in the Ohio river, twenty miles below Madison, Ind., by the upsetting of a skiff. A New York commercial agency has compiled and published a table of the business failures over the entire country for the first half of the present year. They indicate a marked increase in the number and extent of liabilities as compared with corresponding periods of the two previous years. For the first six months in 1881 the failures were 2,862 in number; the first six mo jths of 1882,5,397; the first half of 1833, 4,637. The liabilities show a greater increase in 1883. The liabilities for the firstsix months were $40,000,000; in 1882,550,000,000; the six months of 1883, $66,000,000. The increase in liabilities the last half of the year is attributed to the large speculative failures in the West, but even deducting the indebtedness springing from this cause, the increase in failtires and liabilities is very marked. There were 165 failure during the week ending July 1, thirteen less than the preceding week, twelve more than the corresponding week of 1882, and sixty-two more than the same week of 1881. Dime and nickel counterfeits, of excellent workmanship, are very plentiful in New Orleans. George Lake was privately executed at Cambridge, Md?, for a criminal assault upon a lady. Tualista, an Indian, and Martin Joseph and William H. Finch, whites’ were hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., for different murders, and Tony James was swung off at Darien, Ga. The Emperor of Russia has sent to Pres'dent Arthur, a letter of thanks for tb presence of Minister Hunt and Admira' Baldwin at the coronation ceremonies. When the President arranged his plan for consolidating the internal-revenue districts, the the. number in Kentucky was cut down from six to four. He has been prevailed upon to reconsider the action, and the result is the State is divided into five districts. Distressing reports come from the far-away diamond fields of South Africa Tn parts of the country there has been no rain for three years, and the people ax*, starving. To add to the sorrowful condition of affairs produced by the failure of th crops, the Kimberley diamond mine, which is 380 feet deep, has met with a serious dis aster. The soft debris has fallen back into the mine in such quantities that eighteen months will be required to repair the exca rations. R. H. Kirby, an importer of hardware at Montreal, has made an arsigument to cover liabilities of $150,000. 8. C. Quigley, a coal agent of Cleveland, has failed for $55,000. Europe is thoroughly alarmed over the outbreak of cholera in Egypt The Spanish Sanitary Council advises the enforcement of quarantine regulations on all vessels from. infected ports. The steamer St Bernard, from Bombay, put into Havre with a case of cholera on board, and a Paris journal shows that every country exoent England is taking precautions against nn epidemic. H. C. Quigley, dealer in stoneware at Cleveland,Ohio, has assigned. Liabilities $55,000; assets, $42,000. The Illinois State Agricultural Bureau’s June report of the crops shows a considerable falling off in nearly all the grains.