Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

An attempt has been made to assassinate the President of Guatemala. He was slightly wounded. Fronde, the English historian, promises to visit America soon. The Ohio Legislature adjourned last week until next January, after having appointed a committee to investigate alleged election frauds in Cincinnati. The session began Jan. 8 last. A. B. Lee, a farmer, who went insane over the Crouch tragedy, committed suicide with morphine at Jackson, Mich. Gov. Hoadly, of Ohio, has appointed a commission of four to rebuild the Cincinnati Court House. It consists of two Republicans and two Democrats. An explosion of fire-damp in a mine at Elizabeth, Pa.) about eighteen miles.from Pittsburgh, killed two men and severely injured several others. John C. Perry, who had accepted the position of Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming, was stricken with paralysis in the streets of Brooklyn, N. Y. He died in two hours. Business has been fully resumed in the capital and other Mexican cities, and the stamp-tax affair is ended. The steamship Reliance, built last year and valued at 8350,000, was wrecked off Bahia, Brazil, with her cargo, including 7,000 bags of coffee. The passengers, crqw» and mails were sVved. French Canadians continue to leave the province of Quebec in large numbers for the United States. They find nets homes, principally in the New England manufacturing towns, though some form colonization companies, generally headed by Catholics, in Dakota and the Northwest. The Catholic Bishops are alarmed at the exodus, and propose to join in a pastoral advising their people to remain at homo. Majority and minority reports have been prepared by the sub-committee of the House Committee on Pacific Railroads. The former proposes to extend the provisions of the Thurman act to theJKansas Pacific Road, and to withhold from tho subsidized lines all payments for services rendered. The minority report states that at the maturity of the bonds issued there will be due the Government 8102,376,312. The naval appropriation bill, with amendments for the construction of cruisers and for the preparation of plans and estimates for an armored vessel of 8,500 tons displacement, passed the Senate on the 14th inst. A petition was received from Mrs. James A. Garfield and five hundred other citizens of Cleveland, praying that the Nez Perces be returned to their home. A favorable report was made on the resolution granting certain publications to the Cincinnati Law Library. Bills were introduced to place General Fremont on the retired list and to forfeit the unearned lands of the Northern Pacific Road. Several sections of the bankruptcy bill were considered. In the House, Mr. Reed offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing the Committee on Agriculture to Inquire into the introduction of the foot-and-mouth disease in Maine through the oversight of Federal officials, and to report a bill to reimburse citizens for expenses in suppressing the disease. Mr. Turner introduced a bill for a tax of 3 per cent, on incomes of $5,000 and of 10 per cent, on SIOO,OOO or more. Measures were also presented to bridge the Ohio River at Cincinnati; to place on the free list agricultural Implements and all machinery usedin the manufacture of farm products; to retire John C. Fremont with the rank of Major General, and to establish a signal station at Houston, Texas. A bill to bridge the Potomac near Georgetown was defeated in committee ot the whole.