Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

It is reported that the Empress of 1 China has concluded to make a treaty of | peace with France. It is stated that the English Liberals are not at all pleased at tho prospective appointment of Count Herbert Bismarck as German Minister to England. The Count is a personal friend of Lord Salisbury, the Tory leader. Chicago capitalists are said to be arranging to build a railroad from Monroe, La., to Pine Bluff, Ark., a distance of 120 miles, through the cotton belt. Dr. Ward, the Veterinary Surgeon of Maryland, has been summoned to Hagerstown, where a disease among hogs is killing them by hundreds. The malady is most virulent, and far worse than the cholera. In a mile bicycle race at Boston Wm. M. Woodside was beaten by a foot by R. James, of England. A new gas well has been established in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. The vein was strucK at a distance of 1,200 feet below the surface. In a five-mile rowing race at Point of Pines, for a purse of $2,000, John Teemer beat. Wallace Boss by making his boat leap the last yard. Joseph 3 anker, Chief Fire Marshal at Cincinnati, who had been connected with the department for 28 years, died from injuries received in a collision while driving to a fire. An incendiary fire destroyed fortyfive buildings at Rathdrum, Idaho. * The loss is $-5,000, and twenty families aro destitute. The Bounds Type Company, of Chicago, made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, Liabilities, $45,000; assets, $12,000 A considerable quantity of pine lumber from Georgia has been placed on the market at La Crosse, Wis. The clearing-house statement for last week shows a falling off of 30.1 per cent, in the aggregate clearances of twenty-six leading cities ns compared with the corresponding week of last year. The decrease in New York was 35.7 percent.; in Chicago 7.4 per cent.: outside New York 13.1 per cen. Milwaukee and Kansas City are the only points where there was an increase. For two months there have been but three slight showers in the country around Washington. There will he a reunion of the Second Cavalry Division and Custer’s brigade of tho Third Division Army of the Potomac, at Gettysburg, Oct. 15, for the purpose of dedicating the shaft erected on tho field of the cavalry operations on the right flank July 3, 1863. Chief Inspector Sharp, of the Postoffice Department, has issued a general order to all the Inspectors directing them in all cases where a deficiency is found to exist in the accounts of a postoffice, to arrest the Postmaster, and immediately begin legal proceedings against him through the District Attorney. Tho practice, heretofore, has been to allow the delinquent Postmaster to supply the deficiency if of small amount from his personal means. Tammany Hall met and nominated a local ticket headed by Alderman Hugh J. Grant for Mayor. In opening the convention John Kelly declared that Cleveland and Hendricks will receive full and honorable support. Albany dispatch: Gen. Butler, Thomas F. Grady, and Col. Blanton Duncan, of Kentucky, addressed a labor meeting at the Hudson avenue tent. An organizedmob of employes on tho new capitol took possession and oudeavored to break up the meeting. They procured eggs and hurled them at Grady during his address. The eggs not forcing Grady to retire, he was then allowed to continue.