Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Gen. Hatch telegraphed to the War Department at Washington announcing that Couch, with 600 or 800 followers, still threatened to defy the President’s proclamation and invade Oklahoma. There was a conference at the White House, the result of which was that orders were issue! to arrest Col.Couch and the other leaders of his band. A New York dispatch of the 30th ult. states that *‘Gen. Grant is rapidly losing strength, but he was reparted at midn'ght as resting easily. Minister Romero expresses fear that the General will choke to death within a few hours by his disease reaching an artery. The General has expressed himself as being entirely in bis physicians’ hands, and said he would do whatever was suggested by them. Nothing whatever is kept from him in regard to his condition, and he was informed ‘of its seriousness and probable termination. He received the statement that there were indications of a speedy end without change of expression, but he did not say anything about his feelings. He has known for some time that his disease was sure to kill, and has been ready at any time to go.” Holders of $21,000,000 Reading Railway securities have given assent to the reorganization plan. Destitution is reported to be increasing in West Virginia. A correspondent says: “The sound of children crying for bread is heard in many quarters.” The Mayor, three clergymen, and a dozen physicians of Worcester, Mass., have started a movement for the building of a crematorium. Teams are still crossing on the ice at Mackinaw City, and the indications are that the Straits will not be open until July 1. The ice, which is thirty to forty inches thick, is covered with three feet of snow. Chicago elevators contain 15,904,217 bushels of wheat, 1,914,428 bushels of corn, 540,931 bushels of oats, 134,525 bushels of rye, and 77,939 bushels of barley; total, 18,572,010 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 22,116,639 bushels a year ago. A fire in Chicago destroyed the building alongside and in the rear of the Montauk Block, in Monroe street, occupied by the National Printing Company ana Bradner, Smith & Co. The loss is $350,000. The same building was burned fllteen months ago. The insurance aggregates $112,5(10. The I resident sent the following nominations to the Senate on the 30th ult.: To be Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States: Thomas J. Jarvis, of North Carolina, to Brazil; Alexander R. Lawton, of Georgia, to Russia, and Anthony JI. Kelley, of ■Virginia, to Italy. To be Ministers Resident of the United States: Isaac Bell, Jr., Rhode Island, to the Netherlands: Rufus Magee, of Indiana, to bweden and Norway, and George W. Merrill, of Nevada, to the Hawaiian Islands. To be Ministers Resident- and Consuls General of the United States: Edward larke Custis Lewis, New Je-sey, to Portugal; and Rasmus B. Anderson, of Wisconsin, to Denmark. To be Consuls General of the United Stares: Thomas M. Waller, of Connecticut, at London; Frederick Raine, 'of Maryland, at Benin; and Edmund Jussan, of Illinois, at Vienna. To be Consuls of the United States: A. Haller Gross, of Pennsylvania, at Athens, Greece; and Ev..n P. Howell, of Georgia, at Manchester, England. Brown, Shipley Co., of London, England, to be special fiscal agents of the Navy Department. To be Coll ctors of Internal Revenue: Nathan Gregg, of Tennessee, tor the Second District of Tennessee, and Isham G. Searcy, of Texas, for the Third District of Texas; Alex. McCune, of New York, to be Solicitor or ths Treasury; David Settle, of North Carolina, to be Marshal of the United States for the Western Dis'rict of North Carolina: Jos. E. Johnston, of Virginia, to be Commissioner of Railroads; Lewis Mullen, of New York, to ba Appraiser of the District of New York City; Wm. Caldwell, of Ohio, to be Surveyor of Customs at Cincinnati, Ohio; Clement Dowd, of North Carolina, to be Collectorof Internal Revenue lor the Sixth District of North Carolina; J.O.Henderson.of Indiana,Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eleventh District of Indiana; Capt. William J. Volkmar, of the Fifth Cavalry, to be Major and Assistant Adhltant General; Capt. George H. Burton, of the Twen-ty-first Infantry, to be Major and Inspector General. To be Postmasters: Michael J. Dougherty, at Galesburg, 111.; Wilbur F. Horn, at Idaho Springs, Colo.; Palemon Wiley, at Central City, Colo.; and Ansel Watrous, at Cort Collins, Colo. The Senate confirmed the following: Postmasters—Frederick G. Kendrick, at Mount Clemens, Mich.; Aquila Jones, Sr., at Intjianapo’ls, Ind.: Mrs. Lizzie H. Ficklin, at Charleston, 111.; Claiborne Bowman, at Yazoo City;Miss.; and N. C. Ridenour, at Clarinda, lowa.