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

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

E. S. Clark, of Vicksburg, Miss., recen ly appointed Assistant Secretary of the Interior, died in Washington of pneumonia, with which he was attacked on the day of his confirmat on by the Senate. Gen. Edward E. Bryant, of Madison, Wis., has been tendered and has accepted the position of Assi tant Attorney of the Postoffice Department at Washington. It is said that President Cleveland has not yet considered the pos toffices or other po* sitions the terms of whose present occupants areabout to expire. ltha< not even been det -rmined who is to fill Postmaster Pearson’s place at New York. A cartman in Detroit, named Thomas Burke, persisted in shoveling iron ore from the base of a huge pile, and was instantly killed by its collapse. The Green Bay, Winona and St. Paul Road has been handed over to the representatives of the first-mortgage bondholders, in consequence of a default on >1,000,000 of bonds. Joel Anderson and Laurel Baugh, on trial at Carrollton, Mo., for killing John Rea on the Bth of April, 1884, were found guilty, and their punishment assessed at ninety-n.’ne years each in the penitentiary. A disease identical with that affecting Gen. Grant, carried off a pioneer of Montague, Mich., named James Dalton, after several operations had been performed. Ex-Mayor Thomas J. Navin, of Adrian, Mich., was sentenced, at Detroit, to ten years in the State Prison for forging signatures to city bonds. Weller & Merz’s ultramarine blue works at Newark, N. J., were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,000; fully Insured. The Hale House and other property at •Charleston, W. Va., were consumed. The loss is estimated at SBO,OOO. One man was burned to death. Fourteen business houses at Henderson, N. C., went up in smoke, causing a loss of $75,000. Reports are published of the destitution in Braxten, Gilmer, and Calhoun Counties, West Virginia. People and stock are dying of hunger. A great number are sick but cannot secure medical aid, and grain for seeding purposes cannot be secured. The explosion of a boiler in a wholesale house at Charleston, W. Va., caused the death of a porter and the destruction of buildings valued at SBO,OOO. Frank Cottrill, the actor, who was placed in jaM at Harrisville, W. Va., violently insane, hanged himself with a handkerchief to the grating above the door of his call. Eight negroes recently took from a store at Oceana, S. C., a package of $6,000 in currency. They were followed to an outhouse in Swain County, North Carolina, and refused to surrender. In the fight with the officers two robbers were shot dead, four were captured, and two escaped. A negro killed the Sheriff with an ax. When Vice President Hendricks took his seat in the Senate, on the 23d inst., there was an absence of many faces. The Vice PresidenUsignaled the Chaplain to proceed with prayer, but the onlv iv ads present to bow were those of Miller of California, Miller of New Yorx, Sawyer of Wisconsin, and Vest of Missouri. After ihe amen and before the reading of the journal was completed a motion was ma *e to adjourn, but just then several other Senators entered and the motion was withdrawn. Secretary 1 ruden then entered the chamber and laid upon the desk of Mr. Hendricks a document from the Executive Mansion, containing the following to be Envoys Extra rdinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States; Edward J. Plielps, of Vermont, to Great Britain; Robert M. McLane, of Maryland, to France; George H. Penaleton, of Ohio, to Germany; Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia, to Mexico. Mac nas E. Benton, of Missouri, was named for United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, and Assistant Engineer John W. Saville, of Maryland, now on the retired list, to be a Passed Assistant Engineer on the retired list. These were confirmed, the name of Mr. Pendleton being passed upon without reference to nominations. The following were also confirmed : Benjamin H. Hill, of Georgia, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and David S. Baker, Jr., to be United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island.