Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The scaffold on which John Brown suffered death has been found at Charlestown, Va. It had been converted Into the back porch of a house. Robert McFarland and James Harcherode were murdered by the Guilland family near Humboldt, Kan., the difficulty growing out of a land dispute. A dynamite explosion occurred in the cloak-room of the Victoria railway station in London, blowing off a large portion of the roof and destroying nearly all the glasswork. Seven men were severely injured. Following is the text of the McPherson National Bank measure, which passed the United States Senate by a vote of forty-three to twelve, and now goes to the House for action: Be it enacted, etc., That upon any deposit already or hereafter made of any United States bonds bearing interest in the manner required by law,, any national-banking association making it shall be entitled to receive from the Controller of the Currency circulating notes of different denominations, in blank, registered and countersigned as provided by law, not exceeding in the whole amount the par value of the bonds deposited, provided that at no time shall the total amount of such notes Issued to any such association exceed the amount at such time actually paid in of its capital stock, and that all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Sec. 2. That an association organized for the purpose of issuing notes payable in gold under the provisions of Bee. 5185, Revised Statutes of the United States, upon the deposit of any United States bonds bearing interest, with the Treasurer of the United States, shall be entitled to receive circulating notes to the amount and in the manner prescribed in the act for other National Banking associations. Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of laws of the United States .inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Recent deaths: Ex-Gov. Samuel Price, of West Virginia; J. A. Warneck, of Dixon, HI., who fought at Waterloo under Napoleon; Col. L. A. Hardee, of Jacksonville, Fla., proprietor of the largest orange grove and nursery In the world; Judge A. M. Chadwick, a leading citizen of Omaha, Neb.; Col. George Bowers, of Nashua, N. H., an officer in the last two wars; George A. Ingalls, a prominent lawyer and pioneer citizen of Chicago; Gen. W. T. Spicely, of New Albany Indiana., a veteran,, of the Mexicah War; Col. Henry S. Pratt, of De. troit, a veteran of three wars; Pierre Michel La Pice de Bergondy, of New Orleans, a soldier of the War of 1812, and an immensely wealthy cotton and sugar planter; Dr. Richard G. Radway, of New York, the well-known patent medicine manufacturer and advertiser; Prof. S. W. Williams, of Yale College, a famous Oriental scholar; Samuel Donaghy, once a prominent politician in Pennsylvania. After two weeks’ debate, the Senate, on Feb. 25, passed the McPherson banking bill by a vote of 43 to 12. The text of the bill is printed elsewhere. Mr. Ransom offered a joint resolution to appropriate SIOO,OOO to relieve suffering In the track of the recent cyclone in the Southern States. Mr. Voorhees handed in a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to report how much moyey has been paid into the Treasury for leases of lands In the Indian Territory for grazing purposes. Mr. Harrison introduced a bill to pension all disabled soldiers who served honorably for six months in the war of the rebellion, and to increase the pensions of their widows. A bill to authorize the construction of additional steel vessels for the navy was laid before the Senate by the presiding officer. In the li ouse of Representatives Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, entered a solemn denial of the charge that he received a fee from star-route contractors. Resolutions were adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury to state the reason of delay In paying tobacco rebates, and asking the Judiciary Committee to report whether the taxation of railroads in Dakota does not conflict with the organic law. A joint resolution was introduced appropriating $30,000 for the distribution of seed along the inundated Ohio valley. Bills were introduced to prohibit aliens from owning land; to authorize coinage under the metric system; to aid the common schools; to provide civil government for Alaska; to appropriate $500,000 for sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi; to establish an interstate railway transportation bureau; and to simplify procedure in pension <slaims. Some debate ensued on the pleuro-pneumonia bill.