Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A dispatch from Saratoga says Colonel Fred Grant has accepted the pfosition of engineer of a railroad company, which is backed by the Baltimore and Ohio and Wisconsin Central, for the purpose of making a new entrance into Chicago. In regard to his mother’s health. Colonel Grant said: “My mother is physically very strong, and I have no doubt that in time she will regain her usual health. She has been confined unremittingly for a long time to my father's sick-room. If she had not been very strong she would have broken down long ago. I think that with a change of surroundings she will recover rapidly. As to the future p ans of the family, I cannot speak very definitely. We shall remain on Mount MaoGregor until fall, when the family must separate. Mrs. Grant will doubtlesss occupy the house on Sixty-sixth street.”

Following is the last batch of appointments made by the President just before his departure from Washington: William H. Taylor, of Bloomfield, lowa, to be Special Indian Agent at $2,000 a year, vice 1 aris H. Folsom, removed. Joseph Colburn, of Denver, Colo., to be a timber agent o; the 1 and Office. Adolf Erdman, of Missouri, and James Dugan, of Mississippi, to be Special Examiners of the Pension Office. To be Secretary of the Territory of New Mexico—George W. Lan’, of Buffalo, N. Y. To be Indian Agents—Joseph Emerv, of Oregon, at the Klamath Agency, Oregon; Charles H. Potter, of Nebraska, at the Omaha and Winnebago Agency, in Nebraska; William H. Spalding, ot Nebraska, at the Satnee Agency, in Nebraska; Robert L. Owen, of Indian Territory, at the Union Agency, in Indian Territory. To be Collectors of Internal Revenue—John Dowlin, for the Twenty-second District of Pennsylvania, and Frank Schlandecker, for the Nineteenth District of Pennsylvania. To be Receivers of Customs—John T. Gathright, for the port of Louisville, Ky., and Leon Trosdale for the port of Nashville, Tenn. To Be Postmasters—J. E. Jones, Portage, Wis., vice V. E. Brewer, declined: Willis B. Isbell, Westville, Conn.; Jacob D. Allen, Butler, Mo.; Chauncey M. Freeman, Broadfield, Mo.; R. P. Hitchcock, Tomah, Wis.; Wm. S. Evans, La Grange, Ga., vice John C. Beall, suspended; Lee Beal, Rich Hill, Mo., vice G, P. Huckeby, suspended; Frederick A. Verborg, North Vernon, Ind., vice W. 8. Prather, suspended; Richard Holmes, Natchez, Mi-s., vice Wm. McCary, susp nded; Michael Boland, De Kalb, Ind., vice Geo. W. Gordon, suspended; Wm. M. Gay, Wilson, N. C., vice Mrs. Virginia Sharp, suspended. Geo. Wise, at Hamburg, lowa, vice U. C. Coolbaugh, suspended; Edward B. Miller, Pierre, Dakota, vice S. M. 1 aird, suspended: Henry C. Hunt, Reedsburg, Wis., vice John Kel ogg, suspended: Washington J. B.rrett, Kinst >n, N. C., vice W. A. Coleman, suspended; John W, Marshall, McLeansborough, 111., vice U. M. Lyon, suspended: Chas. H. Burroughs. La Crosse, Wis., vice B. T. Bryant, suspended; E. D. Fenn, Nevada, lowa, vice Theodore J. Ross, suspended; Jerome W. Pierce, Springfield, Vt., vice L. B. Hurd, suspended; Charles T. Marsh, Oregon, 111., vice B. F. Sheets, suspended; Joseph 11. Allen, Durham, N. C., vice D. C. Mangum, suspended; George W. Morse, Waterbury, Vt., vice J. W. Moody, resigned; Francis G. Horton, Ellendale, Dakota; vice A. G. Tvner, office becoming Presidential April 1, 1885; C rnelius Carr, Woonsocket. Dakota, vice A. IL Tyn?r, office becoming vacant April 1, 188>; J. A. Mantry. Mound City, Kan., vice S. L. Evesat, office becoming Presidential July 1, 1885; Frank W. Frye, Parsons, Kan., vice S. A. Fie cher, resigned; J. M. Gilliland, Nashua, lowa, vice J. F. Grawe, suspended. At Erie, Kan., Mrs. Frankie Morris was convicted of the murder of her mother, and was married the same evening to Harvey Copeland, of Wichita. The editor of a Galesburg, 111., paper, who had published several objectionable editorials regarding Gen. Grant, was hanged in effigy. Maxwell, who is charged with the murder of an Englishman named I reller at St. Louis some time ago, reached San Francisco from New Zealand last week in custody of the officers who were sent half around the world to make his arrest. He appeared cheerful, and declined to say anything about his ease. Returns from three-fourths of - the counties in Kansas to the State Board of Agriculture for July indicate a winter wheat yield of/9,649,000 bushels, being an average of ten ijushels to the acre. The spring wheat produ4t_is 1.250,000 bushels. The estimate of the corn yield is 198,000,000 bushels; condition, 98 per cent.

Two engines attached to a Grand Trunk passenger train ran off an open bridge into the Welland Canal at Merilton, Ontario, one of the engineers being killed, two other train-men dangerously hurt, and a number of persons injured.