Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Among the commercial failures of the week are the following: A. J. McCain & Co., Muscoda, Wis., liabilities, *25,000; Merchant & Co., flour shippers, Baltimore, liabilities, *30,000; Van Grafuland & Co., soap manufacturers, St Louis; Nickerson & Co., boot and shoe manufacturers, Lynn, Mass.; John Pitroff, coal merchant, Madison, Ind.; C. J. Hauck, dry goods, Peru, 111., liabilities, ’ *20,000; D. K. Mason, tobacco, Louisville, Ky., liabilities *30,000; Jules Famechou. merchant and miller, Prairie du Chien, Wis., liabilities *50,000; Shropshire & Co., wholesale liquors, New Orleans, liabilities *50,000; Wolff & Siligsbury, coffee, New York, liabilities *200,000; L. 8. Risley, coffee, New York, liabilities *100,000; Charles W. Hasler, broken New York, liabilities *100,000: Slmonine & Co., tobaceo, Louisville, Ky., liabilities *75,000; Ringler & Co., general store, Pine Bluff, Ark., liabilities *25,000; J. E. Cook, & Co., Morris, N. Y., liabilities *75,000; George W. Gifford, stoves, Chicago, liabilities *20,000. The number of men killed in the Pocahontas (Va.) mine is officially reported to be 112. Recent deaths: Helen King Spangler, of Coshocton, Ohio, an authoress of some celebrity; Wendell Bollman, a famous bridge builder, of Baltimore, Md.; Dr. L. P. Yandell, of Louisville, Ky., who had a national reputation as a physician and medical writer; Otis P. Lord, ex-Judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court: George Ball, a public-spirited banker, of Galveston, Tex.; Henry A. Tilden, brother of Hon. Samuel J. Tilden; Baroness Lionel .de Rothschild, at London, England; ex-Congressman John Taffe, North Platte, Neb.; Richard H. Home, English poet and essayist; Dr. J. M. Mills, of Shelbyville, Hl., a prominent Mason; Henry Brown, of Niagara Fails, formerly a slave of Virginia, aged 121; Emil Boling, of Hustisford, Wis.,. a lieutenant in the German revolutionary army in 1848; Mrs. Annie Key Turner, of California, daughter of the author of the “Star Spangled Banner.” The act giving the Mayor of New York the power of appointment, without subsequent confirmation by the Aidermen, has been signed by the Governor. A son of the'late John C. Breckinridge has just been elected a member of the California Legislature, to fill a vacancy. Mercedes, the famous Holstein cow, which had the greatest milk-and-butter record in the world, and her calf died at lowa City, lowa, Monday of milk fever. The pair were valued at *IO,OOO. From the annual report of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, it ap pears that the earnings for the last year show an increase of *1,300,000, and that the road is in an exceedingly prosperous condition. A large number of street-car drivers in Cincinnati struck because of an order to remove the canvas weather screens from the platforms. A joint resolution appropriating *50,006 for the suppression of the foot-and-mouth disease passed the Senate March 17. Petition! from several commercial bodies were presented asking the repeal of the law for the coinage of the silver dollar, as also from mercantile organizations in St. Louis for the extension of the bonded period for whisky. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to report what pension applications have been pending for more than two years, and the reason for the delay. A resolution was agreed to that the Committee or Public Lands inquire in what manqpr large tracts have been transferred to foreign corporations, and what legislation is advisable to prevent such possession. In the House, Mr. Henlej offered a resolution for an investigation of the circumstances of the Alaska Commerciri Company’s lease. Bills were introduced to require al subsidized railroads to furnish a quarterly statement of their earnings and indebtedness; permitting the five civilized tribes of Indian Territory to have organized governments and National Bank?;; to suspend for two years the coinage oi the silver dollar, and to authorize the payment of $50,000 to the grandchildren of Thomas Jefferson. The rules were suspended to pass th< special deficiency appropriation of $1,619,000. J resolution was adopted to appropriate SSO,(XX from the contingent fund to prosecute the investigation into the loss of the Jeannette.