Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Sixty-fifth Ohio General Assembly has adjourned, after a session of 12 1 days. Among the important features of legislation were tho abolition of the convict-contract system of labor, the execution of all criminals condemned to death wiihin the walls of the ixmitentiary, and the submission of a constitutional amendment doing away with October elections. Dispatches from Shanghai state that the dispute between China and Russia regarding tho frontier, of Manchooria has been r.e actffe, owing to the non-arrival of Russian members of the Delimitation Commission un 1 the constant postponement of the date of their arrival at the place of meeting to settle the boundary question. The Chinese Commissioners have been ready lor months to begin the work of delimitation, and the failure of the Russian Commissioners to meet them has caused the Chinese Government to feat that tho same farce cnucted respecting the Afghan frontier will be performed in this case. Nearly 1,000 striking quarrymen assembled at the depot in Lomont, 111., on the 4th inst., with the attention of capturing any militia that should arrive. Deputy Sheriff Potter ordered them to disperse. Adjutant General Vance soon put in un appearance from Joliet with four companies. As they charged up the main street with iixed bayonets tho mob hooted and throw stono3,‘and one striker was stabbed. Further up the street a shower of rocks caused a detachment to fire a volley, two rioters being killed. Col. Rennett commanded the charge. Ten men and two women are reported to have been wounded, and eighteen officers or privates were hurt by stones thrown by the rioters. With the veterans of the Army of the Potomac, President Cleveland, Vice President Hendricks, Secretaries Endicott and Whitney, Postmaster General Vilas, and others visited the battlefield of Gettysburg on the 4th inst. The President’s curriage, containing the President and Vice President, Gov. Pattison, and ex-Gov. Curtin, led the way through the village to the cemetery, three-quarters of a mile away, where the ceremonies of the day took place. Tho distinguished guests, having assembled upon tho stand, with the main body of the visitors in front and below, were formally welcomed by Gov. Pattison. Maj. Martin Maginnis, ex-Delegate in Congress from replied to the Governor’s speech of welcome. Gen. Black, Commissioner of Pensions, was the next speaker. Gen. Itosecrans, as Chairman of the Congresssional Committee on Invitations, on bohulf of the First Corps was charged with tho duty of welcoming tho national legislators. At Mount Hope, Md., on the return trip of the Presidential party from Gettysburg, an enthusiastic resident fired his pistol two or three fmes into tho air. It was probably intendcsi as a salute for want of ariillery. The story was started and passed through the train that tho man had shot at the President. Nearly five hundred shop-hands employed by the Denver and Rio Grande Road, at Denver ami Salida struck to seeuro the discharge of objectionable foremen. A disease, the symptoms of which are severe coughing, choking, and b>eeding at the nose, is killing off horses rapidly in the southern portion of Shelby County, Illinois. At a Baptist pastors’ meeting at New York one of the ministers, referring to the improvement in Gen. Grant’s condition, believed that it was an example of faith euro, and a result of the prayers of tho people for his restoration.