Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The President has appointed the fob lowing Postmasters. The suspensions in one or two cases were for personal misconduct and unfitness, and the others for partisanship: > R- P. Pullman, at Eureka Springs. Ark.; Frank W. Havill, at Mount Carmel, Wabash County, Ill.; Annie Brennock, at Dunlap. Iowa; John W. Pence, at Anderson, Ind.; Charles H Peed, at Corinth, Miss.; Alexander M. Dick, at West.xewton, Pa.; John T. Kilgore, at Longview, Tex.; Leslie E. Brooks, at Mobile. Ala., vice J. E. Slaughter, suspended; Samuel S. Thompson at Birmingham, Ala., vice Thomas M.- Green, suspended; George W. MeMil.an, at Mount Sterling, Brown County, Ill.; vice Jacob Freindlich, suspended; William F. Sharp, at Brooklyn. lowa, vice George Phillips, suspended; Sqniie L. Major, at Shelbyville, Ind., vice A. P. Bone, suspended: William Keough, at Fort Wayne, Ind., vice F. W. Keil, suspended; William P. Hale, at Peru, Ind., vice George D. Bred, suspended; James H. McConnell, at Dodge City, Kan., vice N. B. Klane, suspended; Frank E. Martin, at Larned, Kan., vice Timothy McCarty, suspended: James Bussell, at Marquette, Midi., vice Samuel L. Billings, suspended; Thomas Ryan, at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., vice William Scranton, suspended; Timothy Killian, at Escanaba, Mich., vice E. P. Barnes, suspended; James H. Gee, at Norway, Mich., vice L. J. Kimball, suspended; Joshua S. Palmer, at Portland, Me., vice C. H. Barker, suspended; Timothy bhaw, Jr., at Biddeford, Me., vice H. E. Banks, suspended; C. E. Forbes, at St. Paul, Neb., vice A. A. Kendall, suspended; Samuel C. Hoage, at Napoleon, 0., vice L. W. Bandall,suspended; Jeptha M, Fowlkes, at Memphis, Tenn., vice J. H. Smith, suspended; L. D. Palmer, at Yankton, Dakota, vice W. 8. Bowen, suspended; Charles W. Button, at Lynchburg, Va., vice R. W. P. Morris, suspended; William Herbert, at Alexandria, Va., vice D. A. Windsor, suspended. Fire at Carson, Nev., almost wiped out the lower part of the city, causing a loss of 851,000, with but 812,000 insurance. A brutal murder and suicide are reported from Arcadia, Wis. Fred Bekugler, a laborer, shot and killed Miss Annie Larch, because she refused to marry him. Bekugler then suicided by shooting himself through the head. Department clerks in Washington, as a rule, are not applying for the customary leaves of absence, being fearful that they might put their places in jeopardy should they leave the seat of Government. Commander Gorringe, formerly of the United States Navy, died at his residence in New Xork. Miss Rose Steiner, directress of the New York Standard Opera Company, created a sensation at Erie, Pa., by attempting to cowhide Mr. James Hammersley, manager of a rival troupe, who, it is alleged, attempted to entice away members of Miss Steiner’s company. Incendiary proclamations denouncing the financial decrees of the Mexican Government were placarded in the City of Mexico and caused great excitement. Fears of an outbreak are entertained. Several editors have been arrested and will be sent to Yucatan. An agricultural -ournalof New York estimates the coming wheat crop at 365,010,000 bushels, a falling oit of 147,010,000 bushels as compared with last j ear’s yield. There will be good crops of corn, rye, oats, and barley. Cotton promises well.

Bobbers entered the house of Thomas Fitch, at Moncure, N. C., and after stealing several hundred dollars, cut the throats of the three inmates—the owner, aged 75, his Bister, aged 80, and a colored lad of 15. Up to the present time nearly onehalf of the Tennessee,debt of s2B,ooo,‘>oJ has been funded at 50 cents, with 3 per cent, interest. The July interest is being paid on demand. The syndicate which controls $12,000,0 0 of the bonds will urge upon Congress the appropriation of the surplus Federal revenues to the States, to be applied first in liquidation of such of their unpaid obligations as have been adjudicated and are undisputed. There is more trouble between France and China, growing out of the fighting in Annam. The press of Paris insist that the Annamites should be severely punished, and believe that China has been fomenting the turmoil. Gen. Courcy has been ordered by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to exact from the Government at Hue immediate reparation.