Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The deaths of the week include the names of Bishop Robert H. Clarkson, of the Episcopal Church, at Omaha, Neb., aged 58 years; Amos P. Morrill, Judge of the Eastern District of Texas; Edward D. Payne, of Dayton, Ohio, a brother of the Senator-elect; and Capt. John Archer, a retired shipmaster, of Salem, Mass., who was a prisoner at Dartmoor; Abraham Breath, of Alton, 111., one of the sixty men who enrolled themselves' to defend Owen Lovejoy in the riots of 1837; Gen. James K. Moorhead, of Pittsburgh, exmember of Congress from Pennsylvania; A. M. Sutherland, Secretary of the Province of Manitoba; Rev. John 8. Inskip, of Asbury Park, N. J„ editor of the Christian Standard; Cardinal Pietro, of Rome, Italy; Rev. Donis Clark, eminent Congregational divine of Boston ; George Cragin, of Utica, N. Y., one of the founders of the Oneida Community in 1848; Joel T. Griffin, an old resident of Omaha, who was Postmaster in 1870. The business failures of the week include John Shamber, dry goods, Wapakoneta, Ohio; liabilities, $30,000; Novelty Iron Works, Cleveland, Ohio, $50,000; Goodwin & Summer, shoes, Lynn, Mass., $60,000; Lyman A Curtis, toys, New York, $150,000; Oshawa Cabinet Company, Toronto, $55,000; Evan Edwards, dry goods, Appleton, Wis., $25,000; H. G. & F. Coburn, hotel-keepers, Howard City, Mich.,'slojooo; J. P. Cooper, hardware, Eau Claire, Wis., $50,000; Fred Treyser, job printer, Milwaukee, $15,000; ZJ. Shalek, hops and barley. New York, $40,000; Consolidated Paper Company, paper, Chicago, $97,000. The Republican State Convention of Texas will beheld at Fort Worth, April 29. The Treasury Department has information that trade dollars are being purchased in the Eastern cities at a heavy discount, to send abroad for sale to emigrants. The district in Kansas where the foot and mouth disease has appeared has been quarantined. A Topeka dispatch reports a movement on foot to purchase and kill the infected stock and burn the carcasses. Wyoming stock-growers were also taking steps to prevent the disease from gaining a foothold in their Territory.

Two resolutions for a constitutional amendment to make only gold and silver a legal tender were offered in the Senate on the 10th inst. A bill was reported for the sale of the Cherokee Indian reservation in Kansas, and a measure was introduced to dispose of the Kickapoo diminished reservation in the same State. Three hours were spent in debate on the Mexican treaty, in secret session. In the House of Representatives, bills were introduced to incorporate the Yellowstone Park and the Spokane Falls and Cceur d'Alene Roads, and to grant the right of wav through Indian Territory to the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf, the St. Louis and Baxter Springs, and the St. Joseph and Rio Grande Roads. Two constitutional amendments were proposed, giving Congress the power to make only gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. A bill was introduced granting copyright to newspapers. A message was received from the President transmitting documents from the Secretary of State relative to the resolution on the death of Herr Lasker. Mr. Guenther asked that it be immediately read, though Mr. Cassidy suggested in an undertone that it might be better to wait until the new steel cruisers were completed. After the documents had been read Mr. Hiscock offered the following preamble and resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs : "Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of the House that a communication from it to the Parliament of the German Empire, entirely friendly in its intent, respectful in its character, and sent through the regular channels of international communication, has been arbitrarily intercepted and returned by a person now holding the position of Chancellor of the German Empire; theretore be it Resolved, That this House cannot but express surprise and regret that it should be even temporarily within the power of a single too powerful subject to ' interfere with such a stipple, natural, and spontaneous expression of kindly feeling between two great nations, and thns to detract from the position and prestige of the crown on one hand and from the rights of the mandatories of the people on the other. Resolved, That this does hereby reiterate the expression of sincere . regret at the death of Eduard Lasker and its sympathy with the Parliament of the German Empire, of which for many years he was a distinguished member. A resolution offered by Mr. Deuster reciting that the United States Minister to Germany has been assailed by semi-official newspapers at Berlin, and calling on the Secretary of State for copies of any communications and official correspondence which he may have on this subject, was also referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee.