Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Hog cholera has made its appearance in Hamburg, Pa., and large numbers of swine have died. At Oxford, N. Y., Jenny Tracy refused to marry William Roberts, and as she was leaving the academy 'Roberts fatally shot her. Odo William Leopold Bussell, the British Embassador to Berlin, is dead. Zorilla, the chief of the Spanish Radicals, is said to be fomenting a rebellion. Altons i’s Government is taking precautions to suppress it. German naval officers took formal possession of the district at the Cameroons River, on the west coast of Africa, the 21st of July. Two days after the British Consul of the district called a meeting of the British traders and the local Kings and Chiefs to protest against the aggressions of the Germans. At the meeting the native representatives resolved to place themselves under the control of the British. The end is not yet. David Preston, of Detroit, in a letter to the people of Michigan, avows his willingness to accept a nomination for Governor by the Prohibition party. Prof. Dickey, of Michigan, and the committee appointed by the Prohibition National Convention at Pittsburgh, waited on ex-Gov. St. John, of Kansas, and Mr. Maryland, at a temperance camp meeting near Cuba, N. Y., and formally notified them of their nominations for the offices of President and . Vice President. Both gentlemen made speeches of acceptance, which were listened to by 3,000 persons. China has formally declared war on France. Gen. Millot, the commander of the French in Tonquin, says he is fully able to resent Chinese aggression. The bombardment of the Foo Chow forts was continued on the 25th of August. The French were temporarily repulsed in their attack on the forts at the mouth of the river. W. R. Penick, wholesale druggist at St. Joseph, Mo., has closed his store. His liabilities are estimated at 875,000.

William Corbett, living near Vinton, lowa, and one of the leading stock dealers of the State, committed suicide by taking poison. William Norris, head teacher of the Markdale, Ontario, school, fired five times at the second teacher, Miss Ford, three shots taking effect. He then shot himself, dying instantly. • » Reports from the twenty-six leading clearing-houses of the United States for the week show a decrease of 24.7 percent in the aggregate clearances. In New York the decrease was 31.6 per cent; in Chicago there was an increase of 2.1 per cent. Outside of New York the decrease was but 5 per cent. The Cunard steamship Oregon, which left Queenstown at 3:21 p. m. the 17th of August, arrived at New York at 8:30 on the evening of Aug. 23. This is the fastest transatlantic time on record. The steamer Shields and the wharfboat Maria Louise were burned at Shreveport, La., the loss being $35,000. George J ones, a colored youth of 18, was hanged at Dawson, Ga., for a brutal assault committed on a lady at that place a month ago. A portion of the colored population threatened to prevent the execution, but wiser counsels prevailed among them. There was no disturbance at the scene of the execution. Frosts have seriously damaged the corn and buckwheat crops in Northeastern New York and in portions of Vermont, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. A schedule of the Burrows estate at Albion, N. Y., as it existed at the date of Burrows’ death in 1879. shows that the property was valued at $1,750,000, which was swept away by the failure of the .Albion Bank.