Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Louis Phillips and Jacob Rosenbrook, two young men residing near Vandalia, HL, got into a difficulty and decided to settle the matter with pistols The duel came off shortly after sunrise and resulted in the death of both combatants. Rosenbrook was killed instantly, and Phillips lingered four hours after being shot But one shot was fired by each belligerent A saloonkeeper of St. Louis, Mo., named Lemp, was acquitted of the charge of vio'ating the Downing Sunday law. Judge Noonan holding that the aot of 1857 overrides the Downing staute. Another climber of the Alps has paid the forfeit ot his folly with his life. This time it is a French nobleman. The Mark Lane Express says the wheat yield of England this year will be the smallest ever known. O’Donnell, the slayer of Carey, has dropped the role of Avenger,' and now ’ claims he shot the informer to save his own life. ' Ufijler''fife auspices. of the press of ; Paris, agtandfete was given in the gardens jof the /Tplferies for-'the benefit of the suffererS in Ischia. The’ receipts were 300,000 frap.cs. > Terrible popular persecutions of the Jews are constantly reported from Russia and Hungary. In the recent riots at Ekaterinoslav, Russia, twenty-eight lives were lost and 346 houses torn down. At Egerszeg, Hungary, a riot lasted three days. Twenty soldiers were killed by the rioters, who resisted the troops with muskets and fought sturdily. Henry Jones, colored, was executed for murder at Raleigh. N. 0. ' At Colquitt, Ga., a negro who had attempted to assault a white lady was killed by a mob, his body being riddled with bullets. Groese & Co.’s bank and Hugo & Schmetzer’s wholesale grocery house at San Antonio, Texas, were burned, resulting in a heavy loss. Ex-Gov. Pease, of Texas, is dead. He emigrated from Connecticut in 1835, served two terms as Governor before the war, and was appointed Provisional Governor by Gen. Sheridan. He was Collector at Galveston two years ago. The police of Philadelphia have closed all the turf pool-rooms. The lady members of the Pennsylvania Board of Charities pronounce the jail at Pittsburgh a chamber of horrors Cattle are being poisoned at the Government quarantine in Boston, their drinking-place being in what was formerly a potato field, and the water is strongly impregnated with parts green. The Wameset S+eam Mills, Parker & Cheney’s bobbin shop, Peabody & Sons’ sash and blind factory, and the Howes planing mill at Lowell, Mass.,were partially consumed by fire. Loss heavy. A fire which started in Finley, Young & Co.’s saw-mill at Williamsport, Pa ,quickly spread, and, entering the lumber-yards, destroyed about 30,030,000 feet of lumber, besides several dwellings and barns. The total loss will reach $500,000. A stock speculator in Chicago, who sat watching the declining quotations on the blackboard the other day, turned to his broker and requested him to ask his New York correspondent, by telegraph, what effect a frost in Minnesota would have upon Chicago and Northwestern. When the dispatch reached New York it was construed as a matter of actual occurrence, and soon found circulation sufficiently to drive Northwestern off a couple of points, whereupon the speculator grew alarmed and sold out at a loss he had himself engineered. In the Pennsylvania House the othei evening, a Democrat named Maokin offered a resolution that all the members of the Legislature resign, and the Speaker declared it carried.