Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Governor of Missouri has requested Senator Vest to secure at Washington a suspension of the Federal capias in the case of Frank James, as the State prosecutions will be continued with vigor. Gov. Crittenden holds that the Federal writs actually deny the right of bail to citizens of a State. The noted bandit gave bail in $3,000 at Kansas City last week, and was released from prison. the actress, was hissed and guyed unmercifully upon her first appear ance before a London audience. The Observer, the leading Sunday paper of the English capital, harshly criticises her, ungallantly observing that she is old, vulgar, and ungraceful; that her voice is harsh, and that she is a dead failure. The other Sunday journals are equally severe on the American actress. A family of six persons, framed Gray, believed to have been from Illinois, were drowned in attempting to ford a stream in Logan county, Ark. Bill Younger, one of the band which operated with the James brothers in Minnesota, was arrested at a coal mine in Alabama and lodged in jail at Loudon, Tenn He will be taken to Missouri, on a requisition from Gov. Crittenden, to stand trial for four murders. A school and synagogue in the suburbs of Constantinople was burned, fifteen students perishing in the flames. The t upper house of the Prussian diet has passed a resolution forbidding hunting on Sunday, under heavy penalties. As a step toward conciliating the Vatican, Gen. Von Thiel, commanding the Eighth German army corps, has been retired, and is succeeded by the Catholic Gen. Von Loe. France lias again prohibited the introduction of American salt meats. Thiswas the result of a defeat in the Chambers of Minister Herisson, under whose liberal policy the French had been temporarily restrained from cutting off their own food supplies. Despite the efforts of the London police to discredit the recent rumors of the discovery of certaiirplots to blow up Newgate and London Bridge, it has been learned that threatening letters have been received at the Mansion house. Survivors report that on the steamer St. Augustine, which burned in the Bay of Biscay, terrible scenes were witnessed. Sailors stabbed and drowned themselves in frenzy, and the second mate shot himself. One of the captain's legs was cut off by accident, when at his request a weight was tied to his body and he was cast into the sea. Michael Davitt makes a violent attack on the British Government for its continued suppression of Nationalist meetings, which, he says, is accomplished by a contemptible subterfuge and not by open measures of repression. Mr. Davitt makes a strong showing of the ridiculous position of the London police, who attribute every plot or pretended conspiracy .to American or Irish agitators. The President of Mexico has ordered a strict enforcement of the law in regard to nickel money. There have been no further outbreaks. The American Iron and Steel Association reports that the prices of those staples rule steady, that the consumption equals the output, and that a further depression in the trade is not anticipated. Charles H. Loring has been appointChief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering in the Navy department. Judge Wylie disposed of the Spencer contempt?case in Washington, finding the defendant not guilty. In the course of his decision he was very severe on District Attorney Bliss. The effect in the star-route cases, it is thought, will be felt in the future hearings, and it is already predicted that one oi the results will be an investigation of the Department of Justice. %