Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The farms in the northern parts of Dakota were badly damaged by a disastrous hail and wind storm. Silas Merchant, manufacturer of ice machines and water-pipe, at Cleveland, Ohio, made an assignment. Assets, $150,0J0; liabilities, SIOO,OOO, Two Chinese lepers have been discovered at Reno, Nevada, and the Chinese Consul at San Francisco will be consulted as to the best means of dealing with them. The saloon-keepers of St. Joseph, Ma, are pleading guilty of Sunday sales and asking mercy from the court They are also taking out high licenses, and have raised the price of whisky at night to 15 cents per drink. The election in County Sligo, Ireland, resulted in the return to Parliament of Nicnolls Lynch, the Home-Rule candidate. In order to check the inflpence, of French Republicanism iq, s Spanish politics, MadriiHournete advise Spain, Austria pnd Germany. A ript between Oyangemen and Catholics bcgurred at Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland- Some police officers were seriously wounded, and numbers of the rioters were arrested. Cetewayo bobs up serenely. Having recovered somewhat from his wounds, he has requested that Queen Victoria have an exhaustive inquiry made as to the treatment he received from the insurgents. As Francis Carey, brother of the late James Carey, the informer, was walking down a Dublin street at night he was attacked by several men. Drawing a revolver he covered his assailants.and marching them before him gave them into the custody of the police The men have been put under heavy bail for threatening him. Three policemen were shot at Banbridge, Ireland, while engaged in evicting an Orangeman from his tenancy. Joseph F. Paul & Co., the large Boston lumber dealers, are financially embarrassed. Capt. William J. Howell, retired Assistant Quartermaster, United States army, was found drowned at Locust Point, Md

A run of horrible crimes seems again begun. At Cincinnati, Ohio, a man killed a woman and himself; at Detroit, Mich., a bartender killed his wife; near Albuquerque, N. M., to officers tried to evict a ranchman and all three were killed; at Nebraska City, Neb., a woman shot and killed her husband and killed herself; at Elmo, Texas, a man shot his wife fatally and fled before a troop of lynchers; at Muncie, Ind., a man shot and killed his wife and immediately killed himself. Five hundred negroes and 200 whites assembled at a colored camp-meeting in the suburbs of Nashville, Tenn. The colored people became excited, and their demonstrations while singing provoked the ridicule of the whites. This angered the darkies and words soon tuwied into blows. A general row began, in which knives and pistols were used. Fifty shots were fired, and when the smoke of battle cleared away fifteen were found to be wounded, three fatally. Fire losses: The Eclipse lubricating oil-works, at Franklin, Pa., loss S-00,-000; the Lincoln house and stables, Richmond, Mo., loss $10,000; the Illinois Iron and Bolt Company’s three-story 1 rick factory, Carpeaterville, Ill.; loss, $8,(00; the Cheshire House block, Keene, N. H., together with the contents of the entire row of wOSden stores, loss $25,000; McDowell & Son's large paper-mill, Lambertsville, Pa., loss $50,000; the Kennedy Oil Company’s large oil-tank at Garfield, Pa, containing 700 barrels of oil, loss $25,000; Williamson, Libbey & Ca’s sash factory, Oshkosh, Wis., loss $35,000.