Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A bank ledger which was expected to furnish evidence for the conviction of Marsh T. Polk has been stolen from the office of the State Treasurer at Nashville, and a reward of 9250 is offered for its return. The iron propeller Niagara, which cost 9350,000, took fire off the coast of Florida. Her passengers and mails were sent on board the Ooinmandery, after which the Niagara was run ashore off Indian key. In the Tewksbury Almshouse investigation at Boston, the other day, Gov. Butler made a speech six hours in length, declaiming against his enemies in\ vehement and sensational manner. Ope Bockelman, a private, who was “drummed out” of the New York State militia at Peekskill by CoL Austin, sues the latter for 925,000 damages. * President De Soto, of Honduras, Ramon Rosa, Minister of Honduras to the United States, and several associates were in Chicago last week. From here thdy journeyed to New York, whence they sailed for Europe. It transpires that Bishop Elder, who for three years has been Coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, was made administrator at the request of Archbishop Pur. cell, and by the law of the church succeeded the latter at the momtent of his death. He will be invested with the pallium. A surveying party, acting under the authority of the United States and Mexico, is about to survey the boundary line between the two republics Gov. Butler bulldozed the Massachusetts Legislature into reducing the tax levy to 91,500,000. A wide section of the West was visited by a fierce storm, accompanied by wind, rain, hail and thunder on the 12th and 18th of July. In some' localities the disturbance assumed the proportions of a tornado, and inflicted immense losses. One wing of the storm swept down the Missouri valley, doing much damage at Kansas City, St. Joseph and Moberly, Mo. At MoPaul, lowa, many houses ware blown down and ten persons injured, but fortunately no one was killed. Hail fell As large as hens’ eggs, killing live stock, and cutting the wheat, corn and grass to pieces. At Hamburg, lowa, a brick church and several . frame buildings were wrecked. The front wails of several business houses tell out into the street. At Westboro, Ma, ten houses were demolished and one child killed. At Burlington Junction, Mo., not a house was left uninjured, and several persons were injured. Maryville, Midden and Trenton, Ma, suffered severely, churches, public buildings, storehouses and dwellings being demolished or unroofed. Neat Browning, Ma, the bag-gage-car and coach of a Burlington train were blown completely over by a cyclone. Six passengers injured, two of them fatally. The section about Lincoln, Neb., suffered severely by hail, especially the crops, and some buildings were demolished. Central and Western Illinois lost considerably on damaged buildings and ruined crops, especial havoc being created about Cordova, Paxton, Clinton, Carlinville, Gibson City, and points in Mercer, Loganand DeWitt counties. Scott and Fremont counties, in lowa, suffered great dam, age, the hail in these sections falling as Burge as hens’ eggs, and laying vegetation flat At Alton a Methodist Church was unroofed and the streets blockaded by fallen trees Heavy rain in St Louis flooded cellars, while the wind unroofed structures and released river craft from their moorings. Anarchy prevails in Tonquin, and many marauders who hover about and fire at the French outposts have been captured and hanged. i An American horse, Idea, from the stables of ML H. Sanford, of New York, won the sweepstakes and 1,000 crowns at Copenhagen. The rider was given the King’s prize of honor.