Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Since Aug. 1 the United States Treasury has lost 82,500,009 in gold, leaving the amount above the reserve point $16,500,000. Conkling positively refuses to have anything to do with Blaine or his canvass, but is inclined to favor the candidacy of Butler. Grant, on his last visit to Washing* ton, spent two hours with the Maine statesman, and it is said he a will yield him a hearty support. The annual convention of the Irish National League will be held In the Council Chamber at Dublin, Sept. 6. Clearing-house exchanges last week reached $724,371,993, which is $19,660,501 less than for the preceding week. When compared with the corresponding period in 1883, the falling ofT amounts to 10.4 per cent. The Wall Street Bank of New York closed its doors on account of the loss of $200,000 or more through loans on Insufficient collaterals, for which Cashier Dickinson Is blamed. It recently stepped out of the national banking system. The teller has for some time been under Indictment for the overcertiflcation of checks. The concern holds $1,250,000 In deposits. Casey, the informer who confessed last week to the Archbishop of Tuam, Dr. McEvilly, that he had sworn falsely against Myles Joyce, convicted of the Maamtrasna butcheries of a few years ago, and hanged on his testimony, has repeated his confession of perjury before a correspondent of the Dublin Freeman ’« Journal aud his pastor, the Rev. Mr. Corbet. Philbin, Casey’s brother-in-law, also confesses to swearing falsely. Both say that they were induced by Crown Prosecutor Bolton to perjure themselves. The miserable wretches said that they swore away the lives of their neighbors both through fear and the hope of reward. The base ball club of Grand Rapids, Mich., standing four games ahead of Its rivals In the Northwestern League, having lost $2,500 this season, has disbanded. Five of its members will join the Detroit club. One portion of the Minnesota State Capitol Building at St. Paul has been pronounced unsafe, and persons pnohibited from entering it. The walls are sinking, the plaster has cracked In many places, and the joists are sagging. Efforts are being made to prevent its falling and to put it in a perfectly safe condition. Solon Chase, the noted Maine Greenbacker, has written a letter indorsing the candidacy of Blaine. The Rev. Mr. Rail, of Buffalo, the Baptist clergyman who was partly instru mental In placing (he story of Gov. Cleveland’s immoralities before the public, has brought suit for libel against the Boston Herald for having published a dispatch which Insinuated that he was not a clergyman in good standing with his denomination and other matters derogatory to his character. Damages are laid at $25,000. A Buffalo dispatch says: “A local committee composed of John M. Cowie and fifteen other Independent Republicans of this city have issued an address to the Inde pendent Republicans of the nation giving the result of their investigation into the Cleveland scandal. They say that they have felt it their duty to examine these stories in detail, not to satisfy themselves, but to satisfy others. They say that the general charges of drunkenness and gross immorality which were made against Gov. Cleveland are absolutely false. His reputation for morality has been good. The charge that he has recently taken part in a drunken and licentious debauch in Buffalo on the occasion of a visit here is entirely false. The facts of the Halpin case show that the woman was not seduced and that the allegations respecting her abduction and ill-treat-ment are entirely false. The circumstances occurred years ago. The woman in question was at that time 30 or 40 years old and had two children.”