Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Ex-Gov. Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia, died in New York, at the age of 52. Before the Languages Club, at New York, David Dudley Field made an argum nt against the prevailing verbosity in legal documents. The Congo State has been reorganized with Henry M. Stanley as Governor. The foreign dispatches bring the into ligence of the death of Ferdinand Hiller, one of the oldest and most esteemed of the German musicians, teachers, and composers. Official statements were made in the British Par.iament, on the 11th inst., to the effect'that representatives of England, Bussia, and India had reached a satisfactory agreement as to the Afghan boundary, and that Great Britain had decided to abandon the advance on Khartoum and make WadyHalla the seat of permanent defense in the Soudan as soon as the Nile rise 3. In the German Keichstag, the other day, it wa3 voted to impose a duty of three marks on wheat imports, and Bismarck announced that Spain had formally renounced the fixed duty on wheat adopted by Germany. The duty of three marks per 100 kilogrammes is equal to about 19*4 cents per bushel. It is worthy of note in this connection that the total shipments by this country to Germany in 1884 included only 886,000 bushels of wheat and 34,000 barrels of flour. Our annual exports to that country for eleven years past have averaged 930,000 bushels of wheat and 16,000 barrels of flour. Dwight Bros. & Co., Chicago paper dealers, have made an assignment. Their liabilities are about $85,000; assets, $50,000. St. Louis and Pittsburgh capitalists have decided upon the erection at Belleville, 111., of a SIOO,OOO mill for the manufacture of Bessemer steel. The Kansas Prohibitionists have received a set-back by a decision of the State Supreme Court that the law granting unusual powers to the County Attorney is unconstitutional. A dispatch from Terre Haute, Ind., announces the insolvency of the United Order of Foresters, whose liabilities are $40,000, chiefly in unpaid death lo3ses. The Vigo County Court appointed J. E. Somes receiver. Loss of membership alone caused the collapse. The steamer Helvetia, from Antwerp for Montreal, was sunk in deep water off Cape Breton. Her passengers and crew were rescued by the Arcadian. The cargo was valued at $400,030. A sealing steamer reports an unprecedented quantity of ice off the coast. Prestan, the Colombian rebel, is besieginr Cart ’.agena. A batalion of Government troops has arrived at Panama with 100 prisoners taken at Colon, who were falsely reported as having been cast into the sea. Ex-Gov. Thos. C. Reynolds, of Missouri, says he has been promised the Spanish Mission. Henry B. James, Chief of the Customs Division of the Treasury Department, has resigned, to take effect the Ist of June. President Cleveland has appointed Charles M. Shelley, of Alabama, Fourth Auditor of the Treasury. B. W. Beebe, Postmaster at Broadnead, Wis., wa3 suspended for negligence in his accounts and failure to make reports. An affray between a party of negroes over a game of draw poker, at Walthamville, Ga., resulted in the killing of five of the dusky sports and the wounding of four Others. Armed with pistols and razors, they fought with the ferocity of tigers.