Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

It is stated that a conference was held In New York last week between Gen. Butler, Walter H. Shoupe, Henry Nichols* John W. Keogh, and John F. Henry, at which arrangements were made for the nomination of Gen. Butler for President and Congressman Reagan, of Texas, for Vice President by the Anti-Monopoly party, and an understanding was arrived at with the Greenback party by which they were to ratify the nominations at their convention. Walter H. Shoupe is to have chargeof the campaign. A canvass made among Democratic politicians in lowa by a Davenport newspaper indicates beyond a doubt that the old ticket is a favorite with the Hawkeye Democrats. Republican leaders in Pennsylvania feel uneasy owing to the placing of five directors of national banks on the electoral ticket, the argument being made that, as the banks were created by tins Government, the directors might be said to hold offices of trust under the United States, and therefore be ineligible. It is reported from Leadville that the recent alleged gold discoveries near Pike's Peak, Colo., are part of a gigantic swindling scheme originated by a drug clerk who formed a joint-stock company, scattered chloride of g Id in some places in the gravel of the mountain side, and then had reports of immense discoveries circulated so as to boom the shares of his Joint-stock company. The fraud was exposed too soon to deceive moneyed men, but thousands of prospectors had given up work elsewhere to try their luck in the region of the alleged discoveries. The twelfth week of the weavers’ strike at*Fall River. Mass., has passed, with no indications of a settlement. It transpires that the refugees slaughtered near Shendy by tho Arabs numbered over 2,000. Part of the victims were killed on board a stranded steamer, but the greater number were marching along the river bank. The Egyptian soldiers had discarded their arms and uniforms, in the hope of escape. The fire losses of the week have been as fallows: Losses. Leon, lowa., business houses SIO,OOO Chicago, private residence 20,000 Sullivan, 111., hotel snd dwelling 10,000 New Albany,'lnd., pork-packing house.. 15,000 Belleville, 111., pump works in.ooo Alton, 111., clothing store..: 30,000 East Saginaw, Mich., church 10,000 Hinckley, Minn, .warehouse and contents. 10,000 Ada, Miun.. grain elevator 20,000 Baldwin, Wis., business houses 10,000 Whltesboro, Tex., brick block 20.000 St. Paul, Minn., clothing store 10,000 Alpine, Mich., saw mill 15,0C0 Marshall, Mo., nine frame buildings 15,000 Salem, N. J., glass works and oil cloth factory 120,000 Winchester, Ohio, planing mill 15,000 Carlisle, Ind., ice houses 40,000 Pittsburgh, Pa., box factory 75,000 Newark, N. J., celluloid brush factory... 200,000 Ludlow, Ky., business property 30,000 Carlisle, Kv., business block 70,000 Evansville, Wis., pump works 25,000 Wadsworth, Nev., stores 85,000 Princeton, 111., flouring mill 30,000 Litchfield, HL, flouring mill 15,000 Montreal, iron foundry 40,000 Peoria, 111., Peoria plow works 100,000 Philadelphia, business block 30,000 Yakma City, W. T., stores 55,000 Montgomeiy, Ala., cotton-gin factory.. . 15,000 Hot Springs, Ark., two hotels and other property 35,000 Monroe, La., stores 40,000 The bankruptcy bill passed the Senate by a large majority on April 21. The Senate also passed a bill authorizing the cancellation of any indebtedness against the Southern Illinois Normal University by reason of the burning of United States arms. A bill was introduced to prohibit Collectors of Internal Revenue from Issuing liquor licenses in Slates where the local laws forbid the traffic. Mr. Jonas introduced a bill to appropriate $1,000,000 in aid of the World’s Cotton Exposition at New Orleans. In the House, bills were introduced for the creation of a silk-culture bureau, to promote education in the States and Territories, to reduce to 10 cents per gallon the revenue tax on fruit brandy, to grant a pension to the widow of Lieut. De Long, and to tax the manufacture and regulate the exportation of oleomargarine. Under suspension of the rules, bills were passed to create a bureau of navigation in the Treasury Department, and o provide that in pension applications the enlistment and muster shull be evidence teat the soldier was then in good health. By a vote of 9'.) to 146, the House refused to suspend the rules and pass the bill repealing the act restricting tho terms of Presidential appointees to four years.