Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Governor Moody, of Oregon, thinks that he shall appoint a successor to Senator Slater, but will not do so until next December, unless an extra session of Congress is summoned. Gen. Horace E. Capron, ex-Commis-sloner of Agriculture, died at the National Capital from the effects of a cold contracted while attending the dedication ceremonies at the Washington Monument. At Hersher, 111., forty farmers who needed coal helped themselves to about thirty tons from Illinois Central cars. A fierce storm raged in Southern Kans s last week, snow falling to a depth of twelve to fourteen inches. A passenger train on the Hlinois Central which left Bloomington on the 16th reached Kankakee, consuming on account of the blockade 168 hours in running eighty-six mi’es. Near Indianola Junction, lowa, a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train Jumped the track, the passenger coach plunging down a low grade and resting on its roof. Six passengers were slightly wounded. Lionel Levy, a prominent grocer of New Orleans, was killed on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain by stumbling upon his gun. Oil speculations are responsible for a defalcation of $50,000 or more by Edward Vogely, book-keeper of a savings bank at Butler, Pa. The remains of Rev. D. W. Cahill, the Irish patriot, which for twenty years have reposed in a cemetery at Brookline, Mass., were last week escorted to a steamship at New York by the Bixty-ninth Regiment and the Papal Zouaves, for transfer to Ireland. The cases against Frank James, the bandit, at Booneville, Mo., were dismissed on motion of the prosecuting attorney, and there are no other charges pending against him in Missouri. P. P. Lespenasse, of Harverstraw, N. Y., has just paid an election wager by carrying a pig and a rooster to Washington. He expressed himself as beinggreat'y pleased at the manner in which the people treated him along the route. The fowl and porker together weighed ninety pounds. In a debate in the House of Commons Sir Stafford Northcote lashed the British Ministry with stinging invectives, and said that General Gordon’s character towered grandly above that of th? cravens who left him to his fate. Mr. Gladstone sat throug'i this excoriation pale with rage, and writhed under the applause which greeted Sir Stafford Northcoto’s points. His reply was full of vigor, but, as a defense of the Lite-al party, it was thought to be a failure. Resolutions authorizing the Indian Com•mittee to continue its investigation regarding the leases of Indian lands during the recess of Congress and calling upon the Secretary ot the Interior tor information in regard to the progress of Indian education, were agreed to in the Senate on Feb. 23. The bill to quiet the titles ot settlers on the Des Moines River lands -was passed by a vote of 31 t 024. It now goes to tho House. The postotice bill being taken up, the House provision requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to bid in com etltion with private parties for the manufacture of postage stamps, postal c rds, and stamped envelopes was stricken out, as was also the provision for an extra ten-cent postage rate on letters intended for special expedition in delivery. Mr. Frye offered an amendment appropriating s'oo,ooo for the transportation of foreign mails. After a long discussion, in the course ot which bitter attacks werfe made upon the proposed “donation" to the Pacific Railroad kings, the amendment was agreed to by a vote of 20 to 18. A resolution was offered in the House of Representatives instructing the Foreign Affairs Committee to investigate the alleged discriminatipn by Germany against American products, and report whether alike discrimination should not be adopted by the United States against articles imported from Germany. The Senate’s amendments to the Texas Pacific land-grant forfeiture bill and the anti-foreign contract labor bin were concurred in. Mr. Perkins introduced a bill to open the Oklahoma lands to homestead settlement. The naval appropriation bill was amended by an item ot $1,780,000 for th? completion of a steel cruiser, in which shape it passed. Mr. Randall's scheme for the construction of a naw was killed on a point of order, the Chairman ruling that it was new legislation, and that it did not retrench expenditure.