Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Severe fronts have occurred ,in the extreme Northwest on the night of Aug. 24. At Minnedosa, Northwest Territory, the temperature fell to twenty-five degrees. The col l weather has hastened the exodus from the Northern laxe resorts. Adjuant General Drum received a dispatch from the officer commanding in New Mexico, saying the Southern Utes were starving, un 1 that unless food was immediately procure! for them they wou'd'go on the warpath. Frank P. Cass and A. P. Goodykountz, wealthy white citizens of the Cherokee Nation, were murdered while asleep in camp near the Sac and Fox agency, in Indian Territory. Plunder was the incentive to the crime. * Architect Bell of the Kansas City PostoJico building, is charged with illegally expending $18,600 of the public funds in placing a marble wainscoting in the Postoffice for which there was no warrant in the appropriation. • The Solicitor of the Treasury has given an opinion that disbursing officers in the payment of interest on United States coupon bonds must accept court records of administration, execution, etc., when verified according to tne law of the State, where the records are filed. There havo been filed at the Interior Department since March 4 9,000 applications for appointments—more than during eleven years preceding. The applications embrace one cranky petition for the position of Secretary and applications for every subordinate grade down to charwoman. The Scotch steam-dredge Beaufort, with a crew of twelve persons, was lost in a recent hurricane off the Bermudas. Officers and men are said to have been drunk. President Cardenas, of Nicaragua, denounces as a calumny the published charge that he has been subsidized by M. de Lesseps’ company to prevent the construction of the NLaraguan Canal, Recent heavy rains have done much damage to the New York hop crop. A naval lieutenant on the flag-ship Tennessee, at Bar Harbor, Maine, who spoke disparagingly of Gen. Grant In tho presence of a New York politician, was challenged by the latter to a duel. The lieutenant accepted the challenge, but tho Admiral refused to permit him to go ashore, and the duel is “off” for tho present. Boston papers publish an interview with Dr. Dewey, of that city, in which he says that Maxwell, or Brooks, the supposed murderer of Preller, when in Boston asked him to get him a human body, and that before he left the city he came to the Doctor and told him confidentially that he had gotten one. Dr. Dewey says that Maxwell seemed lo be possessed with the idea of getting hold of a “stiff,” but gave no hint why he wanted cne. The Doctor told him that it was impossible in that city. Maxwell then left town for a few weeks, and on his return surprised tho Doctor on tho street one day by saying that ho had gotten a body and Wished him to come to his room and inspect it. Dr. Dewey says that he did not accept the invitation, but in view of the developments in St. Louis he now wishes that he had done so. The invitation to see the body was given only two or three days prior to Maxwell’s departure for the West. Details of a remarkable religious movement in Central Africa has been reported to the State Department by tho Uuited States Consul at Sierra Loono. An army composed of over 100,000 Mohammedan youth, and divided ihto three divisions, is operating throughout an extensive territory under the command of a native named Samudu, who claims that he has been called of God to suppress paganism and open the roads to the coast. The achievements of this army have been highly important, and while It is spreading the Mohammedan faith in Africa it is also opening up to commerce a large and populous territory.