Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

By the fall of a scaffold on the Susquehanna bridge at Havre de Grace, five workmen were precipitated through the ice into the river, and two of them were drowned. With a loss of twenty-one men, Gen. de l’lsle destroyed five Chinese forts and captured vast stores of provisions and ammunition. There is no present prospect of serious complications between England and Germany on account of Germany’s recent colonial aggressions. Matters are thought to have been smoothed over through the influence of the reigning families. It is rumored that Lord Derby will soon make a diplomatic visit to Berlin. The fortifications appropriation bill, as completed by the sub-committee of the House Appropriations Committee, provides for an appropriation of $4,935,030. Of this sum $3,060,000 Is set apart for the improvement of the new works of defense at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Hampton Boads. The President is directed to appoint a board to propose a plan lor the construction of defensive works at New Orleans. For the erection of such fortifications as are deemed necessary by the Secretary of War for the defense of other ports of the United States $300,000 is appro' priated, and $300,000 for the purchase of a pattern of submarine mines for harbor defense. Large appropriations are recommended for the armament of sea-coast fortifications. Five of the largest iron-works in San Francisco ordered a reduction ot 15 per cent, in wages, and fifteen hundred workmen promptly struck. The Kansas Legislature condemns tho Kansas State Commissioner at the World's Fair for joining in the invitation to Jefferson Davis to welcome the liberty bell. The propeller Oneida reached Grand Haven, Mich., after having been in the center of an ice f eld for nearly three weeks. The vessel, crew, and cargo were in good condition. In a quarrel about loading a revolver at Danvers, 111., “Dug” Ennis shot and fatally wounded John Parr and his son Richard. The elder Parr and tho murderer had been drinking together before the shooting took place. John Edmunds, editor of the Lincoln (111.) Daily Journal , was assaulted by William C. Lust'n with a horsewhip. The trouble was brought about by the publication of an article concerning the reopening of a divorce suit between William Dustin, a wealthy banker, and his divorced wife. The young man who assaulted the editor is the son of the parties. He was at once arrested underthe city ordinance and paid his fine.

Consideration of the anti-silver coinage bill was resumed in the Senate on the 9th inst Mr. Beck, in a long argument, advocated the redemption of the trade dollar, bnt opposed the suspension of the coinage of the f-tandard dollar. Th pension appropriation oill was taken up, and a discussion msned regarding the interpretation of the Senate rule forbidding the proposing of general leg elation on appropriation bills. The rule w.,s finally sustained by a vote of 35 to 23. The Senate gave its concurrence to the committee amendments to the House bill to prevent the unlawful inclosure of public lands. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the nomination of William F. Curtis to be Seer tary of the South American Commission. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate; Adam G. Malloy, to be Collector of Customs for the districtof Galveston, Texas; John M. Haverstick, Receiver of Public Moneys at Los Angeles, Cal.; Edward J. Curtis, of Idaho, Secretary of Idaho; Ellis L. Bierbower, Marshal of the United States for the district of Nebraska. The House of Representatives spent an hour in committee of the whole on the river and harbor bill, refusing to appropriate $250,000 for Vicksburg and declining to forbid the repair of private levees at New Orleans at public expense, and then probably killed the measure by dropping it for the postoffice appropriation. Mr. Ryan called attention to the fact that, but nineteen legislative days of the session remained, and that only one of the thirteen general appropriation bills had gone to the President for his approval. Elaborate petitions were introduced in the House signed by many dealors. f eeders.shippers, and breeders of live stock in Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and Philadelphia, protesting against what they call the false and slanderous charges made before the Committee on Commerce by men Ignorant of the business relating to the present method of shipping live stock, and against the passage of the Hopkins resolution,