Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

President Arthur, in company with Secretaries Folger and Lincoln and Postmaster General Gresham left Washington for Louisville on the morning of the 30th Inst. After participating in the opening ceremonies of the Louisville Exposition, the party visited Chicago. A frightful railroad disaster happened on the Borne, Watertown and Ogdensburg railroad, near Carlton Station, N. Y. The accident occured west of Rochester, in Orleans county. Twentytwo persons were killed and thirty wounded. The train was carrying a party of excursionists to the Thousand Islands, and was running fast to make up lost time A gale prevailing at the moment had blown a freight-car on the main track. Notwithstanding the passenger train had two locomotives, it failed to hold the track against the obstruction, and a great heap of ruins was made in an instant The crash *waA heard three miles away. Hou Thomas Hoyne, one of the foremost ciiisens of Chicago, was among the vietlnfjs. Rrof. C. W. Stone, of Battle Creek, Mioh., was also killed. The persons killed belonged to classes having a wide circle of business and social acquaintance Fire at Lincoln, Neb., destroyed ten business buildings. Loss, $250,000. Leightop &' Brown, wholesale drugs, were the heaviest losera. The Syndicate block, in Minneapolis, was damaged by fire to the extent of SIOO,000, while merchants doing business in the building suffered to the amount of $178,00(1 The case of ex-State Treasurer Polk, of who is under a twenty years sentence, has been appealed to the State Supreme Court, and the criminal admitted to bail in the sum of $450,C00. James Carey, the Dublin informer, is said to have reached Montreal with two detectives. He travels under the name of Pat O’Neil, and has cut off his flowing beard and mustache.

Upon recommendation of the Superintendent of the Military Academy, the Secretary of War summarily dismissed Cadet Thomas L Hartigan, of the senior class of the United States Military Academy, for hazing two cadet* Ex.-Congressman William E. Lansing, of New York, died suddenly of heart disease at Syracuse The body of .Capt. Webb was found in Niagara river, near Lewiston, N. Y. On the head was a cut of three inches, evidently received by striking a rock, and his limbs were somewhat bruised. Pope Leo XIII. is preparing an encyclical letter against divorce A man named Terry crossed the English channel on a floating tricycle Everything is quiet in Ireland, and the Government has dispensed with special magisterial service Subscriptions for the benefit of the family of Webb, who was drowned while attempting to swim through the Niagara whirlpool, are being taken up in London. Queen Victoria is slowly recovering from the effects of her recent attack of sickness English physicians repudiate the idea that Asiatic cholera has obtained a foothold in London, and declare that there is no reason to anticipate an outbreak of the disease this year. The Catholic Bishops of Germany have begun to use the powers recently granted to them, and have ordered all vicars and candidates for the priesthood to return to Prussia The Ohio Board of Agriculture estimates the wheat crop of that State at 23,873,000 bushels. Judge Okey, of the Ohio Supreme Court, holds that the Scott liquor-tax law is unconstitutional The other four Judges sustained the law.