Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Benjamin Schofield’s yarn mill in West Manayunk near, Philadelphia, was burned, causing a loss of $200,000. Prof. Charles Kendall Adams, of Michigan University, has been elected President of Cornell University to succeed President White. James Pryer was killed by Joseph Holt in a duel in Kaufman County, Texas, growing out of a business disagreement. The World’s Exposition plant, comprising buildings and machinery, was sold at New Orleans for §17 ; 5,lOO, the successful bidder being supposed to represent the new Exposition Company. The Key City Democratic Club, of Davenport, has declared in favor of the repeal of prohibition and in favor of a uniform license of SSOO for lowa. The imports of the United States for the first eleven months of the past fiscal year aggregated in value $570,295,764; exports, $731,551,023; excess of exports, $161,285,259. The National Union of Hebrew Charities was organized at St. Louis, Mo., by delegates from Hebrew relief associations throughout the country. Marcus Bernheimer, of St. Louis, was elected President. Lieutenant Commander W. H. Webb, of the United States navy, has teen found guilty of drunkenness by a court-martial, which recommended his suspension from rank and duty on furlough pay for two years. The reunion of the Tri-State Old Settlers’ Association of Illinois, Missouri, and lowa will be held at Kookuk Sept. 20. A woman living near Lafayette, Ind., gave birth to a child, one-half of which is white and the other sido black as ebony. The excitement in Indian Territory is reported to be increasing, and bands of Cheyennes are constantly on the move, stealing horses and cattle. The Indians appear to be anxious regarding the Government’s intentions, and are desirous of a “big talk.” The recent sham-fight in Bantry Bay was of value chiefly in demonstrating the utter inefficiency of the torpedo boats now used by the British navy. The cholera has spread to the province of Jaen, Spain. Since the epidemic began in Spain there have been 30,000 cases and 13,000 deaths. Gen. de Courcy has been ordered to severely punish the Anainite officials who took part in the recent ambuscade, but not to exceed the limits of his protectorate. It is rumored at Paris that he will shortly bo recalled. The celebration of the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne resulted in a riot in Watcrfoid, Ireland. A number of citizens, who had been drinking, engaged in a dispute with the soldiers of a Welsh regiment quartered in Waterford, and in the fight that ensued a citizen was bayoneted to death. The soldiers were driven into their barracks and the place stoned by the mob. The feeling against tho soldiers is so strong that the regiment has been transferred, and an investigation will be demanded by Parnellite members of Parliament.

A correspondent at Mount MacGregor telegraphs to the Chicago Inter Ocean concerning Gen. Grant's case: The fitfully vicious disease of cancer has seldom developed a change so remarkable as that which marks the closing hour’s of Gen. Grant's first month on the mountain. On Saturday he was sadly depressed in spirits, and to-day he said that he felt bright and anxious to work. This sudden change, apparently for the better, has caused earnest comment, and laymen are jumping to the conclusion that General Grant will recover. The doctors. ■ however, say that this sharp revulsion from shadow to light in so brief a space of time is one of those changes that in themselves are evidences of cancer, and yet the record of the last two days has not been made without some surprise to the physicians in attendance. The medical summary of the situation as the patient closes his first month on Mount MacGregor is not disheartening, though it deals only with cold facts so far as ascertained. All incidental infiltration i-eems to have subsided, and upon the outside of the neck, which was swollen even with the cheek when the patient came here, a casual observer would notice scarcely an enlargement.