Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A week’s death record: Hon. Truman Smith, of Connecticut, who served in Congress from 1839 to 1847, and in the Senate from 1849 to 1864; Prof. Samuel D. Gross, an eminent surgeon of Philadelphia; Col. Thomas H. Hunt, Treasurer of the World’s Exposition organization at New Orleans; William F. Clogg, a celebrated naturalist, of Boston; Judah P. Benjamin, formerly United Slates Senator from Louisiana and Confederate Secretary of War, at Paris, France; John T. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., who gave $1,000,000 to the cause of education in the Southern States: Lemuel Shaw, President of the Great Eoott Mills, in Massachusetts; Midhat Pasha, the exiled Turkish statesman; Giovanni Prati, Italian poet and statesman; Faris C. Dunning, of Bloomington, Ind., who was Governor of Indiana In 1846; Charles Adolph Wartz, distinguished French chemist. The fire losses of the week were as recorded below: LOBS6B Shelburne, Ont., Royal Block $ ;to,uoo St. John, Quebec, china ware factory 15,000 Houester. Mass., hotel 10,000 Detroit, M ch., sawmill 60,000 Cleveland, Ohio, flourm ll 25,000 Pittsburg, Pa., glass factory 20,000 Oswego, N. Y., steam tug 20,000 Florence, Wls., mine machinery 15,000 Metamora, Ind., business dock 15,000 Boston, business block 50,000 Cloquette, Wis., planing mill 20,090 Columbiana, Ohio, flouring mill 30,000 Norwalk, Conn., fur factory 70,000 Duluth, Minn., machine shop 20,000 Vincennes, Ind., hotel 15,000 Big Rapids, Mich., 8,000,000 shingles 10,000 Oswego, N. Y., Arcade Block. 100,000 Cleveland, oil and paint works 80,000 Canton, Mass., suspender works 100,00 1 Moberly, Mo., hay-rake factory 30,000 Sharon, Wls., business property 20,000 Baltimore, tin-can factory 15,000 Epi lng, N. H., Stearns Block 20,000 Wallingford, Conn., manufacturing property 40,000 Breedsville, Mich., business houses 15,000 Oconomowoc, Wis., grange store 10,000 Saginaw City, Mich., grain barns 10,000 Dallas, Tex., block of stores 75,000 Williamsburg, Ky., saw-mills 60,0u0 Harlem, N. Y., brewery 100,030 In a game of three-ball billiards, balk-line, for the championship of the world and SI,OOO, between Jacob Schaefer and George Slosson, played at Central Music Hall, Chicago, in the presence of an Immense audience, Schaefer won by the jug-handle score of 800 to 384. His average was a little more than 38. Schaefer’s highest run was 211; Slosson’s 200 even. The same players meet again on the 30th of May. The aggregate of the clearances of the twenty-seven leading clearing-houses of the United States last week showed an increase of 8.9 per cent, over the corresponding week of last year. The special Grand Jury to investigate the riot reported at Cincinnati, returning fifty-four indictments, including one against T. C. Campbell, the criminal lawyer, and another against a deputy sheriff for playing cards for money with members of the Berner jury. The Grand Jury highly commends the action of the Fourteenth Regiment. The remaining survivors of the wrecked State of Florida reached Quebec on the bark Theresa. Capt. Hansen, of. the latter craft, avers that the City of Rome, which passed them within'' three ship lengths, refused to answer their signal of distress. Capt. Monroe, of the City of Rome, states that he passed a ship about three miles off; that a signal was hung out to the effect that she carried a shipwrecked crew, but that no ensign of distress was exposed. A debate on the proposition to educate the Indians of Alaska constituted th 3 day’s work of the Senate on the 12th inst. ’ In the House of Representatives bills were Introduced to place Gen. Grant on the retired list, and to restrict to American citizens the ownership of real estate in the Territo les. Mr. Hewitt presented a new tariff measure. A Senate bill was passed to punish the counterfeiting of securlities of foreign governments. A report was made that the petition of William Webster, claiming to have been unlawfully deprived of a tract of land in New Zealand, be transferred to President Arthur for investigation. Bills were passed to increase the water supply of Washington and to complete the sewerage system of the District of Columbia. Mr. O’Neill introduced a bill to exempt from duty raw sugar, rice, and various other articles of food.