Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Among the deaths reported for the ! week are those of Carwardine, the famous English cattle-breeder; Sam Ward, the famous Washington lobbyist: Col. J. F. H. Claiborne, of Mississippi, ex-M. C. and a historian of some note; William G. Halyburton, a well-known Baltimore journalist; Judge Joshua Tracy, President of the Burlington, Cedar Bapids and Northern Railway; the venerable mother of Bishop Gilbert Haven. The week’s fire losses foot up as recorded below; Losses. New Orleans, four stores $ 30,000 Washington City, Willard’s Hotel 15,000 Leadvil'e, Colo , seventeen buildings.... 30,000 Slater, Mo., flouring mill 40,000 Atlanta, 111., dwelling house 10,000 Worcester, Mass., woolen yarn mill 150,000 Trenton, N. J., pork packing-house 25,000 New York City warehouse 30,000 New Orleans, sugar house 20.000 Cleveland, Ohio, box factory 10,000 P. tersburg, Ind., business block 60,000. Suspension Bridge, N Y., stores 25,000 Stevens Point, Wis., saw mill and lumber 20,0 iK) Buena Vista, 111., flouring mill 10,000 Lima, Ohio, business property. 10,000 Ballston Spa. N. Y., tannery .. 25,000 New York, railway repair sho; s 200,000 Troy, N. Y., knitting mill 40,000 St. Paul, Minn., four buildings 15,000 Cincinnati, lead pipe works 60,000 Secretary Frelinghuysen has transmitted a suggestion to the House in reference to the extradition treaty of 1342 between Great Britain and the United States. Mr. Frelinghuysen favors an addition of the following to the extraditable offenses in case the treaty is to be revised: Manslaughter, counterfeiting, embezzlement of public money, or by persons hired or salaried, larceny, perjury, rape, kidnaping, mutiny, and burglary.I.ewisburg (Ark.) telegram; “The boiler in W. C. Stout’s grist-mill, on Petit Grau Cieek, exploded to-day. Frank Weaver, engineer, and Capt. A. B. Thompson were instantly killed, the body of the latter being thrown one hundred feet, dei uded of every particle of clothing. An 8-year-old son cf Mr. Weaver has since died from his injuries. Ben Howard was also fatally injured, and E. C. Hopkin3 was severely scaldted.” Col. L. E. Edwards, a well-known Texas real estate operator, died at Galveston, as the result of a knife-thrust received in an encounter with J. L. Wrenn. Harrodsburg (Ivy.) dispatch: A case of wholesale poisoning by hemlock took place near this place. E g'ntcen boys after j laying a game of base ball started in search of wild parsnips, but got hold of the deadly hemlock instead. The toys ato freely, and all were taken violently ill. Two died almost immediately; five are in a critical condition, and not expected to live. The others are suffering more or less from the poison. Indignation prevails at Columbus, Ohio, regarding the scenes witnessed there over a Sunday baseball game. Excursionists numbering 2,001) came to the city, drank freely, and drove furiously through the town accompanied by abandoned women. The papers are united in their condemnation of the riotous doings, aid efforts will be made to prevent Sunday games in future.

Bills were introduced in the Senate May 19 to forfeit unearned lands granted to the Atlantic and Pacific Railway Company and to the Northern Pacific Road, and increasing pensions to soldiers who lost an arm or a leg in service. A p;tition was submitted from the Merchants’ Exchange of Nashville, protes ing against the consolidation of that customs office with Memphis. , The resolution recently offered by Mr. Morgan, for an investigation into the recent failures of national banks, led to a prolonged debate, and was referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Van Wvck introduced a resolution directing the Committee oh Public Lands to investigate the charges made against the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad that they had negotiated bonds on their unearned land-gran's. The bonds, it Is charged, were sold in Europe. The resolution went over. In the House of Representatives Mr. Hurd’s motion to “abolish discriminating duties on works of art" was rejected. The consular and diplomatic and the army and District of Columbia appropriation bills were passed. Amotion by Mr. Collins to.suspend the rules and pass a resolution making the Senate bankruptcy bill the special order for June 10 failed lor lack of a two-thirds majority.