Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

John Gallagher, formerly hotel-keep-er at Gridley, 111., is reported to have been lynched at Walmsvllle, M. T. He fired on the Sheriff and posse who went to arrest him for counterfeiting, when the mob took and hanged him to a tree. S. Sommerich & Co., wholesale milliners of New York, have made an assignment. The firm has been in business thirty years. It failed in 1861 and compromised for 25 cents on the dollar, and failed again in 1875, when it paid 35 per cent, of liabilities amounting to $89,000. A lad at Bridgeport, Conn., was paralyzed by hooking a wire to the electric light conductor, and in twenty minutes expired. M. G. Norton, of Winona, Minn., has resigned his membership in the National Republican Committee on account of the press of private business. Ex-Gov. Davis, who seconded Blaine’s nomination, will probably take his place on the committee. Ex-Gov. Routt, ex-Senator Chaffee, and Mr. William A. Hamill are candidates for the United States Senatorship from Colorado to succeed Senator N. P. Hill. It is understood that Mr. Hill would not be averse to re-election.

In a horse-race at Pittsburgh the judges awarded the contest to Ascender, when it was claimed that Brunswick finished full head in front. An attempt was made to mob the judges’ stand, but the police curbed the outbreak. The Canadian Department of Customs refused to citizens of Kentucky permission to take whisky into the Dominion and then export it to New York. A resolution has been proposed in the Toronto (Ont.) Board of Trade, urging the Dominion Government to increase the tariff on American flour, so as to protect the Canadian millers. The resolution will be debated at the next meeting of the Board. The tariff now is 50 cents on the barrel. The proposal is to increase it to 75 cents.'

George W. Roosevelt, United States Consul at Bordeaux, while witnessing a balloon ascension near that city, in company with his wife, was fired upon by a French soldier. The bullet passed through Mr. Roosevelt’s hat and scratched him on the head. The soldier, with two companions escaped. It is thought that he mistook Mr. Roosevelt for a superior officer against whom he had a private grudge. An explosion occurred in South London, which was at first attributed to dynamite fiends, but which is said to have been the result of experiments made by an electrician for scientific purposes in his private house. The electrcian nas been arrested, and will be held until the matter is fully investigated. An injunction was issued at Louisville to restrain the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor, from transferring their headquarters from Kentucky to St. Louis.

In the Senate, June 16, Mr. Ingalls created a breeze by charging that Mr. Brown had inserted in the official report of the latter’s speech on the Georgia claim words which were not used in the debate. Bills were reported to increase to $300,000 the appropriation for a public building at Erie, and to forfeit the unearned land grant of the Atlantic and Pacific Road. Mr. Van Wyck offered a resolution directing the Committee on Judiciary to inquire whether the Union and Central Pacific Roads have guaranteed interest on bonds other than those specifically authorized by Congress, or have issued new stock in violation of said act. Interesting debates took place on Mr. Butler’s resolution for an investigation of the banks of New York and on the Utah bill. In the House, bills wete introduced to give to every honorably discharged soldier or sailor 160 acres of land, and for the erection of a home for union and confederate soldiers at Denver. The Committee on Elections reported in favor of admitting Mr. Morey from the Seventh Ohio District. Mr. Deuster presented a measure to punish the prosecution of fraudulent claims against foreign governments by fine and imprisonment. An evening session was held to consider the deficiency appropriation bill. An English journal is a little “tart” when it calls us a nation of pie-eaters.