Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Capt. S. H. Buck, recently appointed Postmaster at New Orleans, has resigned the Director Generalship of the new exposition, but will remain at the head of affairs of the old company in liquidation. Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge, who was recently married to Miss Lawford, says in a letter to the papers that he cannot see why the details of his private life should interest the public. The father of Lord Coleridge's bride was formerly a Judge in Bengal. The woman is 32 years old.

The aggregate assessment in New York City for the current fiscal year is $1,371,117,003, and the tax rate has been fixed at 2.40 per cent., as against 2.25 per cent, last year. Francis Jordan was buried at Philadelphia, and the remarkable incident of the affair was the fact that his six sons acted as pall-bearers.

Agents of the secret service who are investigating frauds upon the revenue in New York City claim to have discovered a conspiracy in which brewers in all the leading cities are involved. About $14,000 worth of counterfeit beer stamps have already been seized.

Sixteen persons were injured at Philadelphia by an explosion of dynamite in the steamerS. M. Feltdn, which had just left her dock with over two hundred passengers. A frightful panic followed the report, which was with difficulty allayed. It is believed that the explosive was placed under the head of the boiler maliciously.

In the regimental shooting contest at Fort Snelling, Minn., Lieut. J. T. Kerr, of the Seventeenth Infantry, made the remarkable total of 179 out of a possible 200. A mill was fought near Braidwood. HL, between George Mulvey and Adam Patterson, heavy-weights, the latter being knocked out in the 126th round. Both men were badly punished. D. M. Sullivan, of East Saginaw, Mich., in the games at St. Catherines covered the hop-step-and-jump of 31 feet 7% inches, beating the best American record by two feet and five inches. A Federal Judge in Oregon has decided that pre-emption entries can only be canceled by proceedings in the courts. The General Land Office will not change its practice of canceling such entries for cause until the Supreme Court passes upon the question.

Chief Clerk John Tweedale, of the War Department, is acting as Secretary during the absence of Mr. Endicott on his vacation.

The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ending Aug. 15 was 360,461. The issue during the corresponding period of last year was 293,998. Commissioner Thoman gives it as his opinion that the messengers to be selected for the immediate delivery of letters will be appointed under the civil-service law. The Mexican Government has taken measures to suppress smuggling along the Rio Grande frontier. The outlook for the iron trade is more favorable than for several years past. At Pittsburgh orders are increasing rapidly, and many mills are running double time. A large amount of well-executed counterfeit Dominion currency has recently been put into circulation in Canada. The train carrying the first installment of tea over the Northern Pacific Road, made the run of 3,378 miles from Tacoma, Ore., to New York in eight days and four hours, the fastest time ever made by a freight train from ocean to ocean. Winnipeg (Manitoba) telegram : "Eleven of the half-breed rebel prisoners at Regina have been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, three have been sentenced for three years, four for one year, and six have been discharged,' to appear for sentence when called.” >