Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Paul Frederick, brother and heir apparent of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg* Schwerin, having become a Roman Catbolis, has renounced his hereditary rights in favor of bis younger brothers. Near Port Richmond, Pa., Hugh McConnell and John McCormick fought thir-ty-nine rounds in two hours and ten minutes, for £2OO a side, McConnell winning the money. Both men were badly punished. The Parliament of Newfoundland has adopted a law imposing a tax of 100 per oent. on all packages containing merchandise going into the province. This is in retaliation, it is said, for the law passed by the Canadian Parliament for the inspection of Newfoundland herrings. The action of the Newfoundlanders has greatly excited tho Montreal merchants. The counterfeit S2O silver certificates now being circulated in Ohio and Kentucky bear either the numbers 81487415 X, or 81407 X. Yellow fever is reported to have broken out on the United States steamer Iroquois, now on its way to Alaska. The Massachusetts House rejected the bill providing that wife-beaters be publicly whipped. To a reporter at St. Louis. Gen. Sherman said that ho was not a candidate for the Presidency. Inquiries made by the Middleton Herald as to the Presidential preferences of Connecticut Republicans indicate that Senator Hawlew Is the favorite, that Edmunds comes next, and that Arthur is a third choice. A compilation of interviews with Texas Democratic County Judges by commissioners of the Houston Plsl shows the following result; For President, Thurman, 68; Tilden, 86; McDonald, 22; undecided, 77. These opinions may be regarded as representing three-fourths of the Democratic voting population. Hebrew settlers in Northern Dakota are reported to bo suffering for clothiDg and the necessaries of life. In consequence of the recent rains many of the lowa and Wisconsin rivers havo overflowed their banks. A woolen mill at Mitchell, lowa, on the Cedar River, valued at $76,000, was swept away. It was owned by Mr. Vanderpool, a member of the State Legislature. William H. Kirk, of Cincinnati, was some months siuce killed in his stable with a hammer. His corpse was robbed of SIOO In money and dumped Into Mill Creek. Joe Palmer and William Burns confessed the crime, and at the trial of the latter he testified that while he did not strike the blow, he looked on and shared the money obtained. The jury convicted him of manslaughter, for which they were hooted by the crowd. The Mississippi River at New Orleans, on the 25th of March, was one inch higher than was ever known before. Mu. Van Wvck offered a resoli*on in the Senate, March 24, directing tho Attorney General to furnish information as to the compensation of special attorneys in the star-route cases. A motion to fix a day for the consideration of the bill ior the admission of Dakota was lost by 33 to 23. The Blair education measure and the bi.l to increase the salaries of district judges was debated. Mr. Vance presented his minority reporc against the recommendation of the majority of the Foreign Affairs Committe in favor of retaliatory legislation against countries which exclude American meats. He contends that hog product may be haired out by foreign nations if deemed unwholesome; and that such course is manly when contrasted with the American method of imposing prohibitory import duties to effect the same purpose. In the House Mr. Ellis introduced a joint resolution reciting the danger of an overflow at New Orleans, and appropriating $300,0i0 so» preventive measures. After considerable debate the resolution was lost by 95 to 115, but by unanimous consent it was reintroduced and referred to the Committee on Appropriates. Bills were handed in to give the Southern Kansas Pacific Road right of way through Indian Territory; providing a uniform grade for invalid pensioners; to secure cheaper correspondence by telegraph; to prevent the re-use of cigar-boxes, and to repeal the restriction on the coinage of the silver dollar.