Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The stables of ex-Gov. Tilden, at Greystone, N. Y., were burned, with sleighs, bay, gruin, ct?., the loss being $15,000. Mr. Tilden’s valet, and his family, narrowly escaped. It appears from the official statements of the British Government that Col. Stewart and his party came to their death when carrying out orders of Gen. Gordon, ia-ueJ contrary to the instructions of his Co eminent. Miss Emeline Burgner, a teacher in the | übiio schools of Columbus, Ohio, was killed by being thrown from a carriage. Col. Griffin Halstead, father of Murat Ha*steod, the well-known journalist, met his death in Butler County, Ohio, by falling into a ravine while driving ever a new road. He was in his 83d year. A coach containing several Italian immigrants, attached to a freight train on the Wabash Road, was wrecked and hurled down an embankment, near Taylorsville, 111., by a butting collision. Fourteen of the Italians were wounded, some dangerously. A package of $7,500 in currency recently disappeared from the office of the United States Express at Youngstown, Ohio. After a long and heroic struggle for life Wilbur F. Storey, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Times, died at his residence in that j city on the 27th of October. It was not with- I out warning to his family that the end came. 1 For months past he had lain a sufferer, and with mind and body worn by pain he passed away unconsciously, thus closing the career of one of the greatest, most vigorous, active journalists of his time. His illness dated back to a stroke of paralysis received several years since while traveling abroad. Mr. Storey was born in Vermont in 1819, and came West in 1838. Two fire-damp explosions occurred in the sixth flat of the Youngstown Coke Company’s mine, near Uniontown, Pa., Ina section where twenty-five men were at work, j Windows for miles around wore shattered, I and flames burst from all the openings. Six men were taken out—two dead, two fatally injured, and two slightly, but it was impossible to attempt the rescue of the others. The wailing of the wives and children of the unfortunate men is described as heartrending.