Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A fire in Panama, which raged for five hours, destroyed the chief market and two blocks of houses. Several buildings were demolished to check the flames. The losses are estimated at $500,000. A gang of armed and intoxicated men plundered the ruins, and were fired upon by citizens. A soldier was shot dead for disobeying orders. A fire at Glens Falls, N. Y., which was fanned by a strong gale, destroyed Little’s Opera House, the Glens Falls Opera House, Presbyterian Church, Union Hall building, and thirty business places. A portion of “murderers’ yow,” occupied entirely by saloons, was demolished to prevent a spread of the flames. The loss is $250,000, with $60,000 insurance. Other fires of the week were as follows: Losses. Trenton Falls, Ont., seventeen buildings.! 30,000 Alton, 111., dry goods store 35,000 Pittsburgh, Pa., planing mill 25,000 Wilson, Kansas, flouring mill 30,000 Cincinnati, tannery 400,000 Greenville; Texas, business houses 16,000 South Coventry, Conn., flannel mill 135,000 Fitchville, Conn., cqtton mill. 100,000 Elkport, lowa, warehouse and contents.. 10,000 Fall River, Mass., cotton mill ..,'600,000 Attica, Ind,, two brick stores 15,0«> Morris, Ifi,, grain elevator 15,000 New York City, business property 150,000 New Orleans, saddlery store 50,000 Le Claire, owa, hotel 10,000 Jackson, Mich , carriage factory 10.000 West Salem, O , twenty business houses 100,000 Devil's Lake, Dak, store 15,000 Lindsay, Ont., convent...... 20,000 Akron, A, clothing store....V 45,000 Williamsport, Pa., sawmill 40,000 Bath,’ N. Y., planing mill 10,000 Pekin; IIL, two grain elevators,...; 60,000 Menominee, Mich., saw mill 100,000 Marysville, Kan., business property..... 10,000 New York City, hotel 20,000 Cedar Springs, Mich., lurpber 45,000 Fillmore City, Mich., saw mill. 70,000 Prairieburg, lowa, four stores 15,000 Desplaines, 111., business property 10,000 Coleman, Wis., saw-mill 10,000 Selins Grove, Pa., stores 15,000 Petersburg, Va., hotel 10,000 Halifax, N. S., tobacco factory 60,000 Kingston, Ont., tannery 40,000 Buchanan, Mich., lurniture factory 25,000 Brooklyn, N. Y., coffee-mill 165,000

The number of bills introduced in the House of Representatives during the present session is 6,858. In the contested election case of Wallace vs. McKinley, of Ohio, the sub-com-mittee of the House Committee on Elections by a vote of 3 to 2 decided to report to the full committee in favor of the sitting member, McKinley. A secret visit of John Kelly, the Tammany leader, to Baltimore last week excites comment among Democratic politicians. It is alleged that his mission was in the interest of Payne, should Tilden decline the nomination. The Steamer Assyrian, with provisions for the French forces in Madagascar, has been wrecked at Providence Island in the Indian Ocean. Congressman Beach, of New York, who was defeated in an attempt the other day to procure the appointment of a committee to investigate the question of food adulterations, has resolved to make an independent investigation. He will give special attention to the adulteration of butter, as he is convinced that the article called by that name to be found in the boarding houses of New York and Washington is but cheap oleomargarine cr butterine. Mr. Beach will be as. sisted by expert chemists, and he will make public the result of hi 3 investigations, possibly through a speech in the House. When the pleuro-pneumonia bill came up in the Senate, April 28, Mr. Coke secured the adoption of an amendment exempting Texas fever from the diseases included in the act, and Mr. Plumb succeeded in having the appropriation cut down to SISOJKH). Mr. Cullom reported an original bill to establish a commission to regulate- interstate commerce. The House of Representatives passed a bill for the sale of a portion of the Fort Hayes Military Reservation in Kansas, and adopted a resolution to attend the unveiling of the statue of Chief Justice Marshall. Bills were introduced for the enlargement of the Court House at Jackson, Tenn. ; to authorize the lighting of navigable rivers by electricity; to prohibit the importation of articles falsly bearing an American biand, and to provide for the World’s Exposition at New Orleans. Mr. Hewitt explained his charge that the Secretary of the Navy had failed to cover into the treasury $200,000 received for condemned vessels, but deposited it subject to his check.