Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In a dispute at Windsor, 111., Harry Tice, aged 16, fatally stabbed Newton Easey, 15 j ears old. Near Logansport, Ind., the little son of J. A. Michaels poked a stick into a hive and was stung to death by the bees. Fire in a Youngstown (Ohio) suburb destroyed Mrs. Murphy's bouse, her three children, aged 5, 7 and 9, perishing in the tames. The chief of the Cherokee nation proposos to confiscate the wire fences put up by the stockmen on the lands of his people In Indian Territory. The stockmen are badly frightened. A movement for the reduction of the wages of sugar plantation laborers in Louisiana at least 25 per cent has been started, making the average about 65 cents a day, with rations. This causes much excitement among the hands, who aro almost exclusively colored. In a row between Orangemen and Nationalists at Warrenpoint, near Newry, Ireland, one of the Nationalists was stabbed almost to death. Two Orangemen have been arrested. It Las been decided in one of the English courts that Bradlaugh, In administering the Parliamentary oath to himself, acted contrary to law and the usage of Parliament. No fine was imposed, pending Bradlaugh’s appeal to a higher court. A cable dispatch reports that cholera has appeared at Saluzzo, in Northern Italy. The disease was increasing at Marseilles, France. A naval captain in the latter city killed himself when his wife was attackedFrench Government physicians, having examined the epidemic at Toulon, report that it is a mild form of Asiatic cholera. A number of deaths from cholera have occurred at Odessa, Russia. A dispatch irom Teuton says: “It is generally admitted that the worst of the cholera crisis is over. One feature of the disease has been the shortness of time elapsing between seizure and death. This would seem to indicate that the malady is Asiatic cholera.” The Theater Royal, at Edinburgh, took fire In the property-room, and within an hour was totally destroyed, together with several adjacent buildings. The Nationalist candidate for Mayor of Cork was defeated by a coalition of Whigs and Conservatives, a Liberal named Sheehan receiving two majority. During the month of June the coinage at the Philadelphia Mint aggregated sl,771,435. This included 1,140,000 silver dollars and 250,200 dimes. A court-martial for the trial of Judge Advocate General Swaim will meet In Washington on Sept. 10,,under the Presidency of Gen. Schofield. President Arthur has approved the act granting letter-carriers at f ree-delivery offices fifteen days of absence in each year; also the act establishing a bureau of labor. Bills were reported to the Senate on the 30th ult., to forfeit the unearned land grant of the Northern Pacific Road, and for the erection of a public building at Akron, Ohio. An adverse report was made on the bill to grant public lands to the survivors of the Mountain Meadow massacre. Mr. Cameron called up a reso utlon to discharge the Finance Committee from further consideration of the bill for the retirement and recoinage of trade dollars, but it w.is voted down. The river and harbor bill was taken up, and several an. ndments were disposed of. A House joint resolution was passed continuing the present appropriations for live days from June 30. President Arthur sent to the Senate the name of ex-Congressman Henry S. Neal, of Ohio, to be Solicitor of the Treasury. In the House of Representatives, Mr. King introduced a bill a> proprialng $200,000 to prevent the introduction of cholera into the United States. Ihe conference reports on the bills authorizing a bridge at St. Paul and the disposition ol useless military reservations were agreed to. The Committee on Elections made a report that John S. Wise is entitled to retain his seat as Representative-at-large from Virginia. The fortification bill was discussed. Messrs. Horr, Finerty, and Dorsheimer favored the majority report for a large appropriate «. Messrs. Holman and Follett made speeches on the opposite Bide. No action was taken.