Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

At Boston two boys have caught the hydrophobia from a boy who had been bitten by a dog, :• It has been ascertained that Rogers, the missing Treasurer of Lewis county, N. Y., has sl7 to his Credit, instead of being a defaulter. He lost his reason and fled because he could not make his books balance. Four ladies named Martin, daughters of a former member of Congress from Ohio, reside in Baltimore. Flames broke out in their house the other morning. One of the ladies dislocated her spine by leaping from the second story, and another received serious injuries by dropping from the balcony to outstretched mattresses. Albert a negro who outraged a little child, attempted to escape from his dgptors Inear Clinton, Miss., and was riddled with bullets. The steam-barge Enterprise sank near Port Austin, on Lake Huron, with eight persons on board. Seven corpses, supposed to be Capt. Quick and sons, of Pelee Island, drifted ashore in a boat pt New Glasgow, Ontario. Driven ont while fishing, they perished from e x haus tfon-and .bold. < President ‘Arthur, in an interview the other day, sfbke very coldly of arctic expe- - them “cruel, inhuman, arid useless.’* S. T. Bacon & Co.’s jewelry store, in Brattle square, Boston, was robbed of SIO,OOO worth of watches and diamonds. The-boiler in Shipley Brothers’ sawmill at Claypool, Ind., exploded the other morning, killing one- man instantly, wounding two mortally, and injuring others. The building was completely wrecked.

Ma. Voorhees offered a resolution in the Senate, on the 10th inst., expressing disapprobation of the plan of perpetuating the bonded debt in the feterest of the national banks. Mr. Hill called up and had passed a resolution asking the Secretary of the Interior to furnish copies of all papers relating to the .transfer oi the land grant of the New Orleans and Vicksburg road. Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution looking to the purchase for a national park of .the grounds occupied by the Revolutionary army at Valley Forge. A memorial was presented from veterans of the Mexican war asking for pensions. Eight hundred and twentyfour bills and joint resolutions were introduced in the House. There were numerous propositions to forfeit unearned land grants, to amend the homestead and pre-emption laws, to limit the coinage of silver, to amend the tariff, to reduce postage, to dig canals, and to improve navigable rivers. Mr. Sumner introduced a bill to fix passenger rates on the Union and Central Pacific roads at 3 cents per mile for first-class travel. Mr. Rosecrans distinguished himself by presenting fifty-three measures, most of which were old bills printed upon writing paper. Mr. Springer introduced a bill amending the Constitution so as to prohibit special legislation. Mr. Clements brought in a bill to repeal the internal revenue laws; Mr. Henderson one to establish a board of inter-state commerce commissioners; Mr. Townshend, one to abolish second-class postage and reduce transient newspaper postage, and another to authorize the President to prohibit the importation of articles injurious to the public health from countries which, on the same ground, prohibit t' e importation of American goods; Mr. Thomas, one to divide Illinois into three judicial districts; Mr. Finerty, one to provide for the construction of four gunboats and three additional cruisers for the navy; Mr. Holman, one to limit the disposal of public lands adapted to agriculture to actual settlers under the homestead laws. Mr. Calkins proposed a constitutional amendment, providing that no State, pub ic or private corporation, should deprive citizens of the equal protection of the laws or abridge the rights of any persons on account of race or color. Mr. McCoid introduced a bill providing that in case of the removal, death, or resignation of the President and Vice President, the Secretary of State shall act as President until a special election shall be held. Bills to create a postal telegraph system, and to reduce the postage on letters to 1 cent, were presented by Mr. Anderson, of Kansas. Among the bills relating to monetary matters was one by Mr. Morse to repeal the act for the coinage of standard silver dollars, and another by Mr. ■Whiting to remove all taxes on the circulation of national banks and to fix the amount of notes issued upon the deposit of bonds. Mr. Hewitt offered a resolution that the House bring to the notice of the President the case of Patrick O’Donnell, to the end t at he ascertain whether he (O’Donnell) is a citizen of the United States, and if so, whether he was tried and convicted in accordance with the municipal laws of Great Britain and the requirements of international law. Adopted by an overwheming majority. At the caucus of the Republican Senators, a letter was read from Mr. Edmunds resigning the Presidency pro tempore, and it was resolved that the nomination be riven to Mr. Anthony.