Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

While workmen were engaged in bracing up the yielding foundation of eUht five-story tenements on West Sixty-second street. New Y’ork, the whole structure fell, not a stick remaining standing in the entire row. More than a score of workmen, carpenters, lathers, plumbers, and others were extricated from the ruins, many seriously injured, and taken to the hospital or their homes. Threats of lynching were uttered against the contractor, who immediately after the collapse fled. It is now thought that no further trouble need be expected on the Isthmus of Panama. The visible supply of grain in the United States and Canada is 46,851,232 bushels of wheat. 9,058,466 bushels of corn, 2,418,310 bushels of oats, 312,799 bushels of rye, and 755,570 bushels of barley. Chicago elevators contain 15,881,150 bushels of wheat, 2,037,835 bushels of corn, 533,613 bushels of oats, 135,353 bushels of rye, and 50,433 bushels of barley; total, 18,638,389 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 20,976,223 bushels a year ago. The President has announced the following appointments: To be Consuls of the United States—Charles T. Ruesell of Connecticut at Liverpool, England; A. Haller Gross of Pennsylvania at Athene, Greece; William W. Lang of Texas at Hamburg, Germany; Henry Vignaud, of Louisiana, Secretary of the Legation of the United States at Paris; Augustus Jay of New York, Second Secretary of the Legation of the United States at Paris. The British House of Commons, on the Icth inst., by a vote of 148 to 39, rejected an amendment for the immediate evacuation of thq Soudan. Mr. Gladstone stated that the Government was about to secure from Sir Peter Lumsden a report on the battle at Penjdeh. Sir Peter Lumsden has occupied a strong position at Tirpul. He is believed now to be able to prevent the Russians from attempting a coup'de main in the direction of Herat. In an interview at Washington, between Capt. Couch and Secretary Lamar, the latter stated the policy of the administration toward the Oklahoma boomers and cattlemen was that neither had the right to enter the Territory, i.nd the President was resolved to protect the Indians In their rights. A negro tramp assaulted Mrs. Sarah Thompson, of Tisghomlngo County, Mississippi, while her husband was absent from the house. The tramp was captured in Colbert, a neighboring county of Alabama. He resisted arrest from the Sheriff, an 1 was only captured when brought down by shots from the posse. He was taken to luka, Miss., and lodged in jail. A mob of seventy-five men forced their way into the ja 1, took the negro from it, and lynched him in a woed a few miles distant. At Oscoda, Mich., while seven men were cleanin'’' the brick out of John Graw’s mill smoke-stack the bottom tier gave way and the men were buried under 50,000 brick. Five were killed outright and the others seriously injured. Judge Andrew Wylie, of the United States Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, has notiflol the President that he desires to be placed upon the retired list. Justice Wylie is 71 years of age. The New York Presbytery at a stated meeting held last week decided to retire the Rev. Dr. Burchard of “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" fame on a pension of SSOO. The Legislature of Wisconsin has adjourned sine die. Gov. Rusk vetoed the bill creating Fish and Game Wardens, for which positions 124 applications had been made. According to the bulletins sent out by telegraph, Gen. Grant’s condition on the morning of the 14th inst. showed no change for the better. During the preceding twenty-four hours he had been troubled by coughing and expectoration. He took his nourishmenbregularly, and frequently walked about the room. The doctors stated In private that the cancer was steadily and surely doing its deadly work, and that the end might come at any moment.