Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A negro named Nelson Howard was taken from the jail at Mound City, HL, by a mob and hanged to a tree, for the murder of a railroad contractor on the Fourth of July. He fought desperately when the mob attsnpted to remove him, and was shot several times by the lynchers before he was strung up Two men were boiled to death in the North Side Bolling-Mills ajj South Chicago. They were inside a boiler mak'ng repairs. The valve which held the steam away from them broke, and they perished at once. Bradstreet’s Agency estimates the total wheat crop of 1883 at 443,360,000 bushels, nearly 61,000,100 less than the yield of 1882 as figured by the Washington authorties. A steamer with yellow fever on board arrived at Galveston from Vega Cruz, and was iso’a ted from the rest of the shipping. A rigid quarantine has been established. The bark Vega, from Vera Cruz, arrived off Mobile bar with alfher crew saye four down with the pestilence. The Board of Health of Pensacola has issued an order that yellowfever infected vessels arriving shall remain at quarantine until frost comes. Joseph Brewster, a soldier, who had been convicted of rape, was executed at ysleta, Texas. With the aid of a bottle of whisky, he made a long speech from the gallows. John Cone, colored, convicted of a similar crime, was hanged according to the forms of law at Houston, Texas. Striking coal miners at Ely, Vt., have been causing such serious trouble that the Governor called out the militia. Attorney-General Brewster’s opinion that whisky cannot be exported for purposes of reimportation has canted great excitement among the dealers in New York city. Ex-Commissioner Baum advises the Exporters’ Association that the opinion is good law. Thirty assisted emigrants, mainly from the workhouse at Ballanisloe, arrived in New Yoijk by the steamship City of Bome. It is positively asserted that Carey, the informer; left Ireland in disguise. The Irish Catholic hierarchy, at a meeting in Dublin, has declared against the State deportation of Ireland’s poor. Floods in the Surah district, Hindostan,have effected great damage. Whole villages have been destroyed. Holders of Confederate bonds in London have subscribed £IO,OOO to be used in endeavoring to have some of the Southern States recognize their debts, and trustees of the fund have been appointed. Mr. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for .Ireland, stated in the House of Commons that of I,OCO emigrants who had gone to the United States two families had beenjnmates of the workhonse at Balmullet, and they had received money on landing. 'He said he understood emigrants were being sent 'back because they were undesirable settlers.