Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The President has made the following appointments: Hans 8. Beattie, to be Surveyor of Customs in the district of New York; Silas W. Burt, to be Naval Officer of Customs in the District of New York; James M. Adams Register of the Land Office at Spokane Falls, Wyoming, vice J. M Armstrong, suspended; Benjamin F. Peach Pension Agent at Boston, Mass., vice Daniel W Gooch, suspended; George L. Ho'mes, of Charleston, 8. C., Special Agent of the Bureau of Labor, vice William L. Trenholm, who declined his appointment. Collectors of Customs—Edward L. Hedden for the District of New York; Theophilus Moody Favre, tor the District of Pearl River. Mi-s.; Joseph B. O’Brien for the District of Nat. hez, Miss.; John E. Grady for the District of Apa!achicola, 1- la.—Receivers of Public Moneys—John Oheane, at Vancouver. Washington Territory; Michael J. Cady, at Bodie, CaL: and J. K. Dosi-on. at Humboldt, Cal.; A. J. Quindlev, at Little Reck, Ark. United States Attorneys— Arthur R. Delaney, United States Attorney for the Eastern Dis net of Wisconsin,vice Hazelton, suspended: W. C. Perry, United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, vice Hallo well,resigned Postmasters-Edward Mullen, at Putnam, Conn., James H. Moore, at Monongahela City, Pa., Edward H. Krier, at Plum Creek, Neb., Samuel B. Evans, at Ottumwa,lowa,vice A. H. Hamilton, suspended; M. Glennan, at Norfolk, Va, vice J. W. Long, suspended; V. E. Brewer, at Portage, Wis., vice C. E. Dow, suspended; John F. Wedow, at Marine City, Mich., vice J, J. Spinks, office become Presidential; Edward Duffy, at Ann Arbor, Mich., vice J. C. Knowlton, suspended; William F. Roe, at Vallejo, Cal., viceF. A. Leacn, suspended; J. R. Thorne, at Piqua, Ohio, vics Leroy t-'. Jordan, suspended. All the above suspensions were made for partisanism.

A fire which started ip. a skating rink at Trenton, Ont., destroyed a block of stores, the loss reaching $75,000.

Notwithstanding the arrangements recently effected between the Governments of the Dominion and the United States, Canadian fishermen assert that they will resist any attempt by Americans to fish in the inshore waters. Serious results are apprehended should the fishermen of the two countries meet. Washington telegram: “An annual $500,000 steal has been suppressed by Commissioner Sparks, who has refused to approve the surveying contracts that have been sent up from Surveyors General sine* his term of office began. Finding these con - tracts coming in at the rate of some $50,000 in amount monthly in excess of the annual appropriations by Congress, he instituted an Inquiry, which developed a surprising looseness of administration, facilitating frauds.” It is reported from Kabool that a revolting Afghan Chief has seized funds belonging to the Ameer to the amount of $5,000,000.

Th® English Government contemplates the reoccupation of Dongola. Two million cartridges have been sent to Egypt from Woolwich. M. Rochefort asserts that Olivier Pain was murdered by Bedouins to obtain a reward of £IOO offered for his head by a British Consul.

An enumeration taken by the police of Buffalo, N. Y., shows the population of that city to be 202,818. Scientists declare that the obelisk in Central Park, New York, is crumbling, owing to the action of the elements, and that its destruction Is only a question of time.

James D. Fish, of the Marine Bank of New York, has entered upon his convict life at Auburn. He is described on the prison register as follows: “No. 19651—James D. Fish; offense, misappropriating funds of a national bank; occupation, President of the Marine National Bank: age, 65; weight, 16514 pounds; height, 5 feet 6J£ inches; received June 28, 1885.”

Eighteen horse-thieves have been hanged in Texas in two weeks, and detectives are hunting others with bloodhounds.

Loyal L. Smith, a Chicagoan, who started a dry goods store at Omaha, Neb., and, by his cutting of prices and novel methods of advertising, paralyzed other dealers, has disappeared, his chief clerk, bookkeeper, cashier, and two other employes go ing with him, their destination being assumed to be Mexico. Claims for thousands of dollars have aheadybeen presented, and it Is believed that Smith took something Uiiu SIOO,tOO in cash with him. Two banks have been victimized for $32,000.