Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The people of Hillsboro, 111., have already subscribed S4OO for Miss Bond, and propose to doable the sum. Mr. Bond is confined to his bed by nervous prostration; his farm was heavily mortgaged to meet medical and legal expenses, and be will be compelled to leave it unless aided by tbe public. The inauguration of George Hoadly as Governor of Ohio was a quiet affair, only three political clubs being in attendance. The inaugural address recommends the establishment of a Board of Pardons and a graded license system. Count Herbert von Bismarck, the German Chancellor’s son, has been transferred from the London to the St. Petersburg embassy. Bismarck's organ says this is a new evidence of the friendly relations between Russia and Germany. Nearly 1,000 workmen in the three largest tobaoco factories at Petersburg, Va., have struck against a reduction of wages. The Produce exchange of Boston has passed resolutions urging upon the Massachusetts Congressional delegation the enactment of a retaliatory measure restricting or prohibiting the importation of French and German wine#. Highway robberies in Boston have recently grown so frequent that it is said to be unsafe to walk the public highways after dark. The weekly record of fires, where the loss was SIO,OOO and upward, Is as follows: Cincinnati, Ohio, Procter A Gamble's Soap works $250,000 Frankfort, Ind., Coulter’s block 75,000 Monticello, 111., grain elevator 16,000 Lucas, Ohio, Lemon’s store 40,000 Phelpston, Canada, music store 50,000 Selma, Ala., cotton warehouse....: 33,000 Montreal, Canada, Davis' cigar factory.. 140,000 Paducah, Ky., two grocery stores 10,000 Columbus, Ohio, county jail 15,000 Bay City, Mich., six small stores 22,000 Steubenville, Ohio, paper mill 50,000 Natchitoches, La., three general stores.. 75,000 Evansburg, Pa., hotel 15,000 Waupun, Wis., residence 10,000 Elgin, 111., barns and cattle 10.000 Butler, Ky., saw mill 13,000 Pittsburg, Kan., five stores 21,000 Stillwater, Minn., State prison shops.... 200,000 Chicago, 111., Fisk's millinery store 30,000 Monticello, Ind.. live stores 21,0C0 Ipswich, Mass., cloth mills 50,000 Boston, Mass., telephone offices 40,000 Trenton, Ga., four stores 15,000 Beloit, Wls., machinery warehouse 12,000 Nashville, Tenn., State prison shops.... 10,000 Newcastle, Del., woolen mi 115.... 30,000 Auburn. N. Y., railroad repair shops 25,000 Peoria, HI., confectionery store 16,000 Selma, Ala., ope a house 15,000 Toledo, Ohio, orphan asylum 12.000 Blunt, Dakota, three stores 15,000 Onalaska ,Wis., brewery 20,000 Ashtabula, Ohio, h0te1.... 20,000 Jonesboro, Ga., cotton warehouse 35,000 Maysvllle, Ind., stores and shops 20,000 Pueblo. CoL, Tivoli theater 15,000 Batesville, Ind., flonring-mIU 15,000 Milwaukee, Wls., grain elevator 20,000 New Martinsville, W. Va., flonring mill.. ls.coi Brazil, Ind., dwelling house 10,000 Tunnel Hill. Ga., stores and shops 15,060 New York city, coffin factory. 200,000 Meadville, Pa., Opera-house blocks.: 500,000 Joliet, 111., tile factory 15,000 Indianapolis, Ind., hominy mill ~. 18,000 Elmira, N. Y., tannery 26,000 Janesville, Wis., Baptist chnroh 40,000 New York city, three warehouses 35,000 Naples, HI., ten stores 35,000 Port Norris, N. J., Baptist cburch 25,000 Middleport, N. Y., Episcopal church.... 30,000 Chicago, HI., warehouse 20,000 Seligman, Mo., stores 30,000 Sheffield, Pa., hotel 15,000 Galesville, Wls., University building 25,000 Pittston, Pa., hotel 15,000 Columbus, Ga., female college 60,000 Akron, Ohio, flouring-mill 60,000 Baird, Texas, twelve stores 80,000 Mr. Anthony, having declined the honor of the Presidency pro tem. of the Senate, Mr. Edmunds was eleoted and sworn in Dec. I4 t Mr. Vest presented a petition from St. Louis pork-packers, asking for retaliatory du ies. A resolution was passed that the Secretary of the Treasury report the amounts of gold coin or bullion deposited in exchange for silver certificates, and whether there has been any refusal to receive gold for silver certificates. Mr. Hill spoke at length on his postal telegraph bill. In the House of Representatives, two bills to repeal the civil-service act were introduced. Mr. Belford offered a measure to reduce freight rates on the Union and Central Pacific roads 50 percent, from the tariff of last year. Mr. Elwood introduced a bill for a bank currency secured by gold and silver. and Mr. Dunham one for a Department of Commerce. Bills were also handed in to authorize bridges at St. Paul and Council Bluffs, to abolish postage on newspapers, to retire the trade dollar, to permit Confederate officers to serve in the army, and for a delegate in the House from Indian Territory.