Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Flames nearly extinguished the town of Ephatah, Pa The loss is estimated at about *300,000. Hangman’s day was commemorated at Canton, Ohio, by the execution of George McMillan for killing his wife; at Lexington, Ky., by the hanging of David Timberlake, 1 (colored) for a criminal assault on Maggie Lawson, (colored) and at Memphis, Tenn., !by the swinging off of Robert Wilson, 1 (colored) for shooting Frank B. Russell | At a German Methodist picnic near Newport, Ky., Ot o Hager killed George Neir with a knife and escaped. Twenty-five small wooden buildings in Virginia City, Nevada, were burned. Loss, *25,000; partly insured. Encouraging crop reports come from all parts of Nebraska The yield of rye and barley is said to be very large. The wheat harvest has commenced and the crop ia found to be excellent. | Gunn, Curtis & Co., mercantile and , label printers, of Boston, Mass,, have failed. Liabilities, *120,000: assets, *75,00ft Thirty suits, covering damages of *500,000, have been begun against the Trustees of the Brooklyn bridge, for the series of accidents on Decoration day. E. W. Holbrook & Co., dry-goods manufacturers, New York, have made an assignment. Their liabilities are about *725,000, with preferences of *67,00ft Dispatches from Portland, Me., state that William H. Phinney, the head of a bankrupt firm of merchants in the Cuban trade, lost over *IOO,OOO of joint money and securities in speculation. The liabilities of the insolvents are *347,000. A Pittsburgh dispatch chronicles the failure of the Manchester Iron and Steel Company for nearly *l,ooo,ooft The Louisiana State Board of Health has passed a resolution denouncing Dr. J. H. Rauch, of the Illinois Board, as a meddler, and inviting him to stay at home and attend to his own affairs I The majority report on public charities made to the Legislature of Massachusetts pronounces the charges made by Gov. Butler against the management at Tewksbury Almshouse groundless and cruel | Nine persons were killed and two severely injured by an explosion in a St Petersburg powder-mill | Four’ batteries of British field artillery are being fitted out at Aidershot for some destination unknown. The English newspapers assert that the misunderstanding with France, arising , out of the Tamative affair, will be amicably settled. | Parnell presided at a meeting of the organizing committee of the Irish Land League in Dublin. Michael Davitt was present A resolution amalgamating the evicted tenants’ fund was unanimously adopted. The South Dublin Union consented to the emigration to Canada of eighty workhouse inmates. Cholera claimed 140 victims at Cairo, Egypt, on the 20th of July, and the death roll was growing day by day. There were , twenty-nine deaths from the disease at Mansurah, twenty-four at Samanoud, twenty-eight at Ghizeh, forty-four at Chierbin, and three at Damietta. Cairo dispatches give an alarming picture of Egyptian cus- , toms The clothing of persons dying in the ' hospitals from cholera is often taken for use by relatives, and cospses in their coffins are borne on men’s shoulders through the , streets. A driver conveying a patient to the hospital gave him a drink from a water-bot-i tie used by customers at a case. English correspondents urge their Government to take control of sanitary measures at once A I London cablegram says the European powers are increasing their quarantine regulations against persons, goods, and vessels from Egypt, owing to the prevalence of cholera there.