Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Capt. W. P. Clark, Second Cavalry, and attached to Gen. Sheridan's staff, has Just died at Washington. He was distinguished for bis services in fighting Indians, and was regarded as one of the best authorities in the army on the Indian sign language. The report that the siege of Khartoum had been raised is confirmed by official telegrams. Foreign merchants at Shanghai have asked the naval commanders to take action toward keeping the Woo Sung River open to traffic. Russia is about to make large accessions to her fleet in Chinese waters. Thomas Fawcett, a banker of London, Ontario, with liabilities estimated as high as $1,000,000, is in financial difficulty, the Bank of Montreal having thrown out his checks. De Lesseps proposes to visit the Panama Canal next year, when he hopes to inaugurate the section of the canal connecting the two oceans. A rock taken from a well at Denison, Texas, when broken showed traces of gold, and a mining company is being organized. The Newcomb-Buclianan Company of Louisville, the largest whisky house in the South, have made an assignment, after attempting for the past two years to meet liabilities of $1,500,000 on which it then se cured an extension. A new and fatal cattle disease has made its appearance in the vicinity of Leavenworth, Kan. 9ome boys engaged in stealing turnips in North Topeka. Kan., unearthed a handkerchief in which was tied SIOO in silver coin. In a dispute over the payment of drinks at Hessville, Ind., a window was broken, when the saloon proprietor, Joseph Hess, plunged a pitchfork into the breast of one man, whilo Hess’ son fired a doublebarreled gun into the crowd, wounding three persons, two of them mortally. Duckworth & Co.’s King Iron Works at Buffalo were destroyed by fire, the loss being $30,000. The Middlesex dye-works at Somerville, Mass., valued at $250,000, were burned. Twenty-one buildings at Bronson, Mich., and twelve stores at Sand Lake, were also destroyed by fire. The Esmond Hotel and the remainder of an entire square of buildings at Portland, Oregon, were burned, tho loss being $120,000. The Parker House and nine other structures at Eureka, Nev., valued at $30,000, fell a prey to flames. The commissioners appointed by the State of New York to appraise property at Niagara Falls desired for an international park have agreed upon a valuation aggregating $1,103,429, the principal awards being less than half the prices demanded. Goat Island is appraised at $525,000. Sadie Robinson, thirteen years of age, residing at Framingham, Mass., packed up $75,000 worth of bonds, currency, and diamonds belonging to her parents. When going to school in Boston, she left the precious valise in a drug store, where she afterward led the officers and recovered it. She states that she intended to elope with the lad of her choice. 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 Sonth 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. It is better to strew the flowers in the pathway of those we love to-day. The dead cannot enjoy their perfume and color.— Freeman's Journal