Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In a cross-suit for divorce, John E. Sullivan, the pugilist, charges his wife with abusive treatment and gross habits of intoxication. Miss Nellie Campbell, a pretty girl of 17, grandniece of President Lincoln, shot and killed herself in a seminary at Belleville, N. J. She had been ailing with a nervous trouble, and was demented when she committed the act. The locusts have put in an appearance in the district around Anna, 111. An assignment has been made by the Simpson-Gault Manufacturing Company of Cincinnati. Farmers in the vicinity of Eau Claire, Wis., have found carbolic acid a speedy remedy for hog cholera. Harry Ratcliff, a society young man of Rocks ord, 111., who was caught robbing a till, confessed his guilt, and claims that tobacco and progressive euchre caused his downfall. Three merchants of Norwalk, Ohio, who c’aim that their wives were libeled by a reporter for a Toledo paper, named Ray S. Hathaway, decoyed him to a hotel barn and gave him a coatof.tar and feathers. A disease similar to small-pox has broken out from Maysville to Strahan, lowa, along the Wabash Road, and towns in the vicinity have quarantined against the infected districts. The mysterious disease at Paris, Pa., is spreading, and has also broken out at Hanlin’s Station, on the Pan Handle Road. A physician from Bellevue Hospital, Ntw York, calls the malady black-tongue diphtheria of a virulent character. The garrison at Vera Cruz is being vaccinated with yellow fever virus, to serve as a protection against the disease for four years. Those inoculated have all the premonitory symptoms of the fever. The first experiments were made upon prisoners who volunteered themselves. A report has reached Ottawa, Ontario, that Asiatic cholera has ippeared at Quebec. An effort is being made to ascertain the ownership of several bottles of jewels, nuggets of gold, etc., which have been found in the vaults of the Treasury at Washington. It has been discovered that these valuable articles formed a portion of a collection of presents from foreign powers which dates back almost to the foundation of the Government, and which was twic > stolen and recovered. &

Postmaster General Vilas has awarded to the American Bank Note Company, of New York, the contract for furnishing postage stamps for the next four years at the rate of $103,959 per annum. The price paid for stamps under the new contract will be 6 99-100 cents per thousand, against 9 19-100 cents under the present contract. This difference implies a considerable saving by the new arrangement, since no less than four billion stamps are required annually to meet the demand. The communist demonstration in Paris on the 25th of May was ignored by the Government. The processionists marched into Fere la Chaise cemetery with red flags, applauded Henri Rochefor;, and shouted themselves hoarse. British engineers report that th) armament of Herat is so defective that tl® p'ace is quite indefensible. The place, thesay, could be made absolutely impregnabl by the erection of new forts equipped wit modern artillery. It is considere i doubtft if the Ameer would agree to the necessar outlay. As things are at present the Russias could easily batter the place to pieces wfa long-range siege guns.