Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Full returns of the lowa election (says a Des Moines dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean) “have been received from nine-ty-seven of the ninety-nine counties in lowa. Of these Sherman has majorities in seventysix amounting to 38,317, and Klnne has majorities in twenty-one amounting to 14,439. Gen. Weaver’s vote will reach about 15,000. The counties of Lyon and Shelby are yet to hear from, but they will not materially change the above figures. Sherman’s plurality is a little above 24,000, and his majority over Kinne and Weaver will be In the neighborhood of 6,500. In the Legislature the House will have fifty-two Republicans, and possibly fifty-three, which is barely enough for a constitutional majority. The Senate will have forty Republicans out of fifty. There is no doubt that the Legislature will enact prohibitory laws. There are at least thirty-five of the Senators who are pledged to use their Influence and votes in that direction, while a very large majority of the Republican members of the House were elected upon that issue alone, and of course stand pledged to work and vote for prohibition.” In an interview with a Chicago Tribune reporter, “Gov. Merrill expressed entire confidence in the Legislature’s purpose and ability to pass a prohibitory law; for, while the Republican majority in the House was small, it was sufficient. Besides, there were five out of the seven Greenbackerß who would act with them on that question, and prohibition would go upon the statute books.” The Sub-Committee of the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Ed ucatlon visited the Amoskeag and Manchester companies’ mills. In New Hampshire, where the process of cloth-making was observed, after which the examination of witnesses was resumed. Father McDonald, of Manchester, disputed the right of a Congressional oommittee to come Into New Hampshire and inquire Into the affairs of its people. Senator Blair replied that oitizens of New Hampshire were citizens of the United States, and Congress surely had the power to send its committees anywhere within the United States to gather Information needed by either house. The committee had no desire for compulsory testimony, but Is he knew any of the grievances of the working people they would like him to state them. Father McDonald then oomplained that the tene-ment-houses wore badly constructed, being too hot in summer and not properly heated In winter, and that no supervision was exercised over food supplies by boarding-house keepers, which were often very bad. Near Connellsville, Pa., four children were walking upon the track of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, when they were run down by a train that suddenly swept around a curve. All four were killed. The Blue laws of Connecticut were enforced at East Haven, last week, where fourteen persons were fined $4 and costs for riding In a public highway Sunday. A millionaire of New York, prominent in social circles, paid $6,000 to secure the release of a French prima donna from an engagement, and fled with her to Europe. Mr. Armstrong, the Federal Commissioner of Railroads, shows that the subsidized Pacific lines owe the Government $102,376,313, which does not become due until 1895. They are credited with money and transportation to the amount of $21,469,292. Under the Civil Service law twenty appointments have been made In the War, Treasury and Postoffico departments at Washington. All the appointment officers freely express their happiness at being freed from the pressure for places. Irving Bishop, the London mindreader, who‘was bitterly attacked (fry Labouchere not long ago, failed four times in succession, at Dublin, to give the number of a bank-note, and afterward fainted. He has since been dangerously ill of congestion of the brain.