Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

An incendiary fire at' Duluth, Minn., destroyed two saw-mills, four dwellings, a store, and other buildings, besides 15,000,000 feet of lumber. The total loss is placed at $200,000, with about SIOO,OOO insurance. The first exhibit of the executors of Cha'. G. Stratton (Tom Thumb), after all debts and expenses had been paid, shows a balance of $16,431. Two passenger trains collided between Berlin and Shelbyville, Del., one of the engineer j being killed and the other fa'a’ly hurt. A passenger had a leg broken, and both locomotives were wrecked. The Supreme Court of the United States has sustained the removal of John Foster, Attorney of Saline County, Kansas, lor neglecting to prosecute violators of the prohibitory liqpor law. Col. Burnside, of Illinois, late disbursing officer of the Postoffice Department, is be ieved to be insane. His family has asked for his committal to an insane asylum, as they lear he may injure himself. Gen. Sheridan, in his annual report, asks for arms and oamp equipage for the State militia, and recommends the commencement of a general system of seaeoast fortifications. After a collision Saturday night off North Head, Nova Scotia, the British schooners Northern Light and Elsee sunk, two of the latter’s crew being drowned. St. George’s Society at Toronto, Ontario, has appointed a committee to report on the best means of “preventing immigration and undesirable accessions to the population.” The National Cotton Exchange estimates the cotton crop In the United States this year ut 5,726,000 bales, a slight increase over last year’s yield. There are prospects that the “top orop” may increase this by 75,000 bales. Indianapolis dispatch: “The Secretary of State has received the official returns from seventy-eight of the ninety-two counties in Indiana. They give Gray, the Democratic candidate for Governor, 214,263 votes; Calkins, Republican, 210,041; Leonard, Greonbacker, 7,784; Dwiggins, Prohibitionist, 3,568. Gray's plurality, is 4,222. The unofficial returns from the remaining counties give Gray 26,083 votes, which would increase his plurality to 9,905.” Official returns from all counties in in Florida but two (and these estimated) give Cleveland 4,141 majority. The vote of seventy-eight counties in Missouri is as follows: Cleveland, 166,123; Blaine and Butler, fusion, 143,608; SL John, 1,141. Cleveland's plurality, 22,515. At a consistory held in Borne, the Pope created nine new Cardinals, and expressed his pleasure at the growth of the Catholic Church in the t United States. The Contest Over New York. The excitement in New York over the close political contest in that State has not had a parallel since the close of the war. And this excitement spread, to a more or less extent, all over the country. The situation at this writing (Tuesday morning) may be summed up as follows: While the returns by counties trom the whole State give Cleveland a plurality of from 1,200 to 1,400, the New York 'h'tb'une. and the Republican National Com nittee claim that they have returns which justify them in claiming the State for Blaine. They also charge that Democratic frauds have been committed which will vitiate the returns from several counties. An Albany dispatch says: "The Clerks of every county in the State have sent in their returns, and the total shows Cleveland’s plurality to be 1,234." The National Republican Committee issued an address stating that every effort was being made to ascertain if there were any errors in New York returns, and saying ihat if there is not the election of Mr. Cleveland will be heartily concurred in. The New York Democratic Executive Committee issued an address charging that the Republican managers were engaged in a conspiracy to steal the State from the D mocrats. William H. Vanderbilt sent a disuatch to Cleveland congratulating him upon his election. The Democrats of the entire country, at the suggestion of Chairman Barnuin, held meetings to ratify and rejoice oyer the election of Cleveland on Saturday night. In every city and town of any size noisy jubilations were the order. Cannon boomed fireworks were let off, and there was general rejoicing by the “unterrifled.”