Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Garfield Monument Committee for New York have reported to Gov. Cleveland that the total amount collected in the State amounts to $9,629.22. The Attorney General of New Jersey, having been asked for an opinion, declares national bank officials eligible on an electoral ticket, they not being officials of the United States. Recent frosts have done much injury to the crops in Nova Scotia. L. P. Herbert, cashier of a bank at Hyaclnthe, near Montreal, fled to New York with 550,000, and is being pursued by detee. fives. The cemetery at Conyers, Ga., was invaded at night, the graves desecrated and monuments wrecked. The Methodist Episcopal Church was also set on fire and was destroyed. The perpetrator, Tom Marston, who also tried to burn the town, was followed and shot, but averrel that God commanded him to commit the outrages. The Canadian voyageurs who are to do duty on the Nile in connection with the British expedition to relieve Gordon have sailed from Quebec. At Warsaw the Czar of Russia pardoned forty-two Nihilists who had been sentenced to exile in Siberia, and commuted the sentences of seventy-three others. A gale during a performance leveled Barrett’s circus and menagerie tents at Winona, Minn., a few persons receiving severe injuries. The animals were not excited, and there was no panic. By the explosion of the boilers of the Volcell, Rossie & Zudiker wagon manufactory at Morton, Tazewell County, UL, two persons wore Instantly killed and four others badly injured. Christopher Mann celebrated his 110th birthday Sept. 13, near Independence, Mo. He is the father of twenty-eight children, and* has always used tobacco and whisky, but never wore spectacles. N. C. Thompson, who for twentyfive years has been one of the leaders in business circles at Rockford, 111., has suspended payment at his banking house, but claims that the manufacturing company bearing his name will be in no way involved. His liabilities are said to be fully 5650,030. He holds large amounts of notes given by farmers for agricultural implements, his assets being estimated at 5815,000. The boiler of a cotton compress at Eufaula, Ala., exploded with such force as to shake the town. The building went to fragments, and four employes were killed. The Methodst Episcopal Conference at Lansing, Mich., rejocted the report of the committee pledging members to support Prohibition candidates, and adopted a resolution which permi's voting as conscience may dictate. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of OddFellows was in session at Minneapolis last week. Grand Sire Leech congratulated the order on its prosperity, showing an increase of four grand lodges, 189 subordinate lodges, and 11,815 in lodge membership during the* year. The total relief reached was 52,015,833.52, and th£ revenue is 55,350,041.47. In view of the heavy expense, the Grand Sire lecommends biennial sessions of the Sovereign Lodge, Instead of annual meetings as at present.

The iron horse has penetrated to all parts of the world. His snort has been heard in every State and Territory of the United States, save Alaska; in Mexico, and most of the Central American States; in every country of South America; in all the divisions of Australia ; in Algeria, Cape Colony, Egypt, Natal, and Tunis, in Africa; in all the countries of Asia save Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, and Beloochistan; and throughout all Europe. It is only seventy years since the first locomotive was built.