Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A New York druggist who carelessly substituted morphine for quinine in filling a prescription, causing tne death of two young ladles, has disappeared. The statue of Daniel Webster, presented to the State of New Hampshire by the Hon. P. B. Cheney, will be dedicated at Concord June 17, 1886. By an explosion of natural gas in a bakery at Pittsburgh, flvo persons were terribly burned, two of them fatally. The proprietors had recently introduced the natural gas into their ovens. Tom Davis, a well known sporting character, was shot and killed in his dingy office at New York by a Texan who gives his name as James T. Holland, who asserts that he was justified in killing Davis. A terrific thunder-storm visited Pisa, Italy, causing great destruction. Several church towers were shattered, but the famous leaning tower escaped uninjured. The Independence Beige, the Russian organ In Brussels, states that the Afghan question has been settled, Zulflcar Pass going to Afghanistan, while Russia retains Merucbak. Spain has forwarded to Germany a document showing that the native chiefs of the Caroline Islands acknowledge the sovereignty of the former power. Cummings, a professional, was defeated by George, heretofore the champion amateur sprinter of the world, in a one-mile race at London. Tho winner’s time was 4:17!4. There were 238 deaths in Chicago last week, against 270 for the corresponding week of last year. Dakota’s population, according to the census just taken, is 416,000. The cattlemen are evacuating Indian Territory pursuant to the President’s order. Tho forty days’ limit expired Sept. 1. The Coroner’s jury which has been investigating the facts in connection with tho death of ex-Mayor Walkup at Emporia, Kan., returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased was poisoned with arsenic by his wife. As the result of an unhappy marriage. W. E. Booth attempted to kill his mother-in-law and his wi.'e's half-sister at Texas Hollow, Ohio, but only wounded the latter woman slightly. After running a short distance in the direction of his father’s house, Booth stopped and blew out his own brains. The American schooner Gustio Wilson foundered off Cape Hatteras in the recent gale. All on board were lost except Captain Crapo and two seamen, who were rescued from a capsized life boat by a passing vessel, and landed at Savannah, Ga. Captain Crapo is the man who crossed the Atlantic with his wife in a dory of thirteenfeet keel in 1877. Eau Claire (Wis. ) dispatch: “Postmaster General Vilas reached here th s evening, and will remain a day or two, a guest of L. M. Vims, his brother. He is much improved in health and in excellent spirits since his trip to the Superior regions.” Little Rock (Ark.) dispatch: “Attorney General Garland arrived here rather unexpectedly Sunday morning. Hq will return to Washington, September 15 or thereabout. He leaves for Horning Hill, his country manor, eighteen or twenty miles from town, to-morrow. The place is almost inaccessible, t he surrounding country being thinly settled and hunting and fishing excellent. Mr. Garland has no opinion to express concerning politics.” The Curreiit Publishing Company, of Chicago, has made an assignment. The periodical will bo continued without interruption. Newspapers are getting te be nearly as plentiful as beans in Boston; but the men who fish in the stream of credulity for human suckers continue to pad their ribs with plenty, and flourish like luck in London.