Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Four deaths from diphtheria occurred on Sunday at Kingston, Mass., and the public schools have been closed. The plague at Plymouth, Pa., is abating. Private advices received at Tucson, Arizona, from Hermosillo, Mexico, say the Mexican troops attacked the Yaquis near Misa. Three hundred Yaquis are reported killed, the Mexican loss being eighty killed and wounded. Grandin, the Catholic Bishop of the Northwest, has forwaided to Montreal an appeal for $250,600 to provide the Indians and half-breeds with supplies and implements, and to establish missions' and schools. The red men have done no seeding, and have slaughtered their domestic animals. Great destruction has been wrought by forest fires in sections of Wisconsin. Jn Brown County the villages at Duck Creek, Mill Center, Flintville, and Little Suamico all suffered severely. All through the three counties of Brown, Oconto, and Shawano the damage to growing timber, both pine and hardwood, and to the fencing of farms, has been great. Much property has been destroyed in the shape of piles of wood, posts, ties, and poles, and many farms are left unprotected against roaming cattle, just as the busy planting season is at hand. Forest fires destroyed the town of Graffville, Mich., with a large amount of lumber, leaving twenty-five families homeless. Fawcett’s mill, at Cedar Lake, and SIO,OOO worth of lumber, belonging to W. S. Nelson, were burned. A loss of SIOO,OOO was the result of a conflagration at Paoli, Ind., which nearly destroyed the town. The extensive flouringmill of Gordon, Barker & Co., at Sparta, 111., valued at $30,000, was burned.

The President has appointed the following Postmasters. Except in the two cases named the present incumbents have either resigned or their commissions have expired: Albert B. Page, at Houlton, Mo.; Paul B. Laiine, at Palatka, Fla.; Jacob B. Odell, at Tarrytown, N. Y.; Michael W. Corbett, at Aurora, 111.; Miss Sue Debole, at Marion Courthouse, S. C., vice A H. Dupont, suspended on the report of the inspector showing that he was incompetent; James D. Watson, at Mayfield. Ky.; Thomas R. Cocke, at Victoria, Tex.; Willis H. Bates, at Belton, Tex.; James E. Pennell, at Lebanon, Ind.; George W. Cooper, at Columbus, Ind.: A. B. Crampton, at Delphi, Ind.; Charles A, Bowles, at Otsego, Mich.; Marshall P. Maxon, at Union City, Mich.: Willard Stearns, at Adrian, Mich.; Curtis Reed, at Me-na-ha, Wis.; Robert E. Austin, at Tama City, lowa, vice F. J. M. Wonser, suspended on the report of an inspector, showing the Postmaster was short in his money-order accounts, and had habitually used postal funds to make up the deficit in his money-order fund: Norman E. Ives, at Ma:ion,lowa; George S. Winters, at Ida Grove, Iowa; Cyrus A. Rieder, at Anthony. Kas.; J. P. De Jarnette, at Chetopa, Kas.; Gottlieb Christ, at Sabetha, Kas.; George H. Titcomb, at Waterville, Kan.; Eugene Bancroft-, at Mankato, Kas., vice J. D. Vance, office becoming Presidential; J. C. Morgan, at Kearney, Neb.: Matthew D. Crew, at Pueblo, Col.; Milton H. Huntress, at Breckenridge, Cel. The President has also made the following appointments; To be Collectors of Internal Revenue: Jas. F. Robinson, for the Seventh District of Kentucky; Charles H. Henshaw, for the District of Rhode Island; John Graw, for the District of West Virginia; George M. Helms, for the Fourth District of Virginia; Andrew L. Ellert, for the Second District of Virginia; Samuel Klotz, for the Fifth District of New Jersey. To be Collectors of Customs: Jeptha V. Harris, for the District of Key 'West, Fla.; W. P. R. Mayo, for the District of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va.; Richard K. Coupley, for the District of Georgetown, D. C.