Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — EATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

An arrangement for the exchange of mail matter of domestic rates of postage has been concluded between the Mexican Minister at Washington and Postmaster General Hatton. Stepen Van Horn, a young man of Toledo, 0., worth $150,000, has been sued for divorce by a young lady known as Miss Sallie St. John, who alleges a secret marriage and abandonment. The Blaine- Sentinel libel suit at Indianapolis, Ind., has been set for trial Dec. S 3. Madame Boulet, of Montreal, the mother of six children, has been sentenced to the gallows for the murder of Mrs. Carbin by poison. An hotel, a block of brick stor*3, and several dwellings at Arnprior, Ont., were burned, the loss reaching SOO,OOO. Fire in Gamby, Jones & Co.’s establishment at New York damaged the build ng and stock $76,100. Gen. De Lisle advises the French Government that an effective force of 20,000 men will be necessary to continue offensive operalions in Tonquin. Orton, the Tichborne claimant, lias been discharged from prison. He received a ticket-of-leave requiring him to report monthly to the authorities. The Sheriff at Senatobia, Miss., with the aid of a single deputy, fought off a mob intent upon lynching two colored prisoners who had been sentenced to long terms in the penitentiary. Near Nolensville, Williamson County, Tenn., two young girls tried to frighten a young man who was hunting by playing ghosts. He lired both barrels of his gun, killing the girls instantly. Through carelessness almost criminal, the gas was left on in the vaults of the Canal Bank, near Elmira, N. Y., the other night. John Arnot, the President, with a lighted candle in his hand, threw open the doors the next morning, and was blown across the room against the counter, receiving painful injuries. Every window in the bank was blown out, even the office door being shattered. The cotton-mills at Fall River,Mass., have shut down. It is reported'that 10,000 people are out of employment there. Gov. Cleveland was assaulted in the streets of Albany by a man named Boone, who, in connection with his wife, had been expelled from the Executive Mansion for creating a disturbance. Fire in Carthage and East Carthage, N. Y., destroyed 200 dwellings, three churches, the hotel, and opera house, an academy and schoolhouse, and some mills and factories, the loss being estimated at $1,000,000. Numbers of people were rendered homeless, and but few houses are left standing. The boiler of a threshing engine, run by a carpenter, exploded at Beltrami, Minn., killing five men instantly, and mangling and scalding three others.