Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Officials of the Knights of Labor deny that they took any part in promoting or organizing the strike on the Gould railways. The citizens of Tucson, Arizona, held an indignation meeting over the voting of SI,OOO OJO in subsidies by the Legislature, and attempts to stop payment of the amounts will be mode. Lack of railway facilities and fear of drought are causing heavy emigration from the southwestern counties of Virginia to the Western States. Commander Wildes, of the United States steamer Yantic, at New Orleans, received Instructions from the Navy Department to sail as soon as possible for Livingstone, Guatemala, to protect the interests of American citizens at that port. Edmund Yard, formeciy a millicmaire lace merchant in New York, was brought back to that city from Europe, having embezzled $400,000 from the estate of Chas. G. Shaw last summer. A freight train was derailed near Carpenter s Station, Pa. Five persons were killed and twenty cars wrecked. By a vote of 47 to 17 the corporation of Dublin rejected a motion to present an address to the Prince of Wales on the Occasion of his visit to that city April 8. Mr. Gladstone admits that the sole foundation for his announcement that the Afghan trouble had been settled was a promise telegraphed by the Russian Prime Minister. It is said Gen. Foster is to be retained for the present as Minister to Spain, with a view to conducting negotiations for a more favorable treaty. President Cleveland nominated Joseph S. Miller, of West Virginia, to be Commissioner'of Internal Revenue. Secretary Lamar decided to recommend the appointment oil C. A. Shuw, of Boston, as Commissioner of Patents. Gen. Hazen testified in his own defense before the court-martial at Washington. He admitted writing the articles in controversy, but said that he had intended no disrespect to the Secretary of War. He gave as a reason for making the statements that he had been blamed for not rescuing Greely, that the Secretary of War had confirmed this opinion in his annual report, and that the letters were written merely in selfdefense. The Prohibitionists of Chicago have nominated William H. Bush for Mayor, W. W. Waite for City Treasurer, George C. Christian for City Attorney, and Charles M. Catlin for Clerk. The campaign fund of the party is $94.70. George Gray, the candidate of Secretary Bayard, received the Democratic caucus nomination for Senator from Eelaware, and was elected by the Legislature of that State. Sakarada, the Japanese charge d’affaires to Holland, went to an hotel in Rotterdam with a mysterious Belgian lady. During the night she shot him dead and wounded herself with a dagger. A fire in a seed-crushing mill at Hull, Englahd, caused a deep stream of burning oil to flow through the streets, carrying the flames to the Corn Exchange and the Town Hall. The loss is estimated at SIOJ,OJO. A policeman lost his life. The resolution offered by Mr. Van Wyck calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for information respecting the issuance of land patents to the ‘‘Backbone" Railroad, and inquiring whether there was undue haste used in executing said patents, was taken up in the Senate on Monday, loth inst., and debated at some length, speeches being made by Senators Eustis, Teller, and Van Wyck. On motion of Mr. Morrill the Senate went into executive session, confirmed the nominations of John C. Black, of Illinois, to be Commissioner of Pensions, and Lieutenant D. L. Wilson, of the District of Columbia, and Ensign Henry. T. Mayo, of Vermont, to be Lieutenants in the navy, and when the doors were reopened, adjourned.