Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

During August there were 1,188 deaths in Chicago. The same month last year there were 1,224 deaths. A monument in honor of Gen. Grant and the low a soldiers in the late war is to be erected in the State Capitol grounds at Des Moines. The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad earned nearly $100,009 more during August than in the corresponding month last year. The census of Wisconsin, just completed. shows a total of 1,563,930, the gain over 1880 reaching 248,450. There are 2.1,784 surviving Union soldiers and sailors of the late war. Vice Chancellor George W. Clinton, son of Dewitt Clinton, died suddenly in a cemetery near Albany. He was 78 years old, and a man of marked literary and scientific attainments. The Hon. Edward A. Rollins, President of the Centennial Bank of Philadelphia, and formerly Commissioner of Internal Revenue, died at Hanover, N. H. The National Retail Druggists’ Association convened in annual session at Pittsburgh. with a small attendance. The President reported §low progress the past year, many of the members failing to pay their dues. There were 102 deaths from smallpox in Montreal last week. Lawrence Brainerd, formerly President of the St. Albans (Vermont) Bank, who decamped two years ago with a large amount of its funds, has been abducted from Winnipeg by detectives and carried across the line into the States Comparison of August railroad earnings with those of the corresponding month last year are as follows: Illinois Central, decrease $9,951, Peoria, Decatur and Evansville, increase $249; Oregon Railway and Navigation, increase $122,000; Denver and Rio Grande, increase $98,305; Louisville and Nashville, decrease $46,417. England is said to have secured the promise of aid from Beloochistan in the event of a Russo-Afghan war.

A Cairo dispatch states that Osman Digna was shot by an Arab while trying to coerce four sheikhs to attack Kassala. The cotton crop in the Memphis district has been seriously injured by drought, but will probably exceed that of last year. Great destruction was wrought in the Sea Island cotton section by the recent cyclone op the South Carolina coast. Eifteen thousand persons took part in the parade of the labor organizations at New York. The bakers appeared to the best advantage, but the Typographical Union turned out the largest body of men. The trades-unions of Chicago turned out in force and paraded the principal streets. Afterward there was a picnic at Ogden’s Grove. There were 8,009 men in line. The yachts Puritan and Genesta started in the international race at New York, on the 7th instant, but, no wind blowing, the boats failed to cover the course in the specified seven hours, with the result that “no race” was declared. Throughout the contest, however, the Puritan led the English craft, and opinions were freely expressed that the Puritan would win the series, and keep the America’s cup on this side of the Atlantic. Hanlan easily won the boat race at Sheepshead Bay, Lee defeating Ross ten lengths for second place. Hanlan gets S3OO, Lee S4OO, and Ross S2OO. A dispatch from Washington, Ark., says that “a m>.b visited 1 ike County Jail at Murfreesboro, and made an attempt to shoot the two Polk boys, but not being able to get within range the mob hauled a load of wood to the jail, piled it around the iron cell, saturated the wood with coal oil, and roasted both prisoners alive, nothing standing but th; brick walls of the jail. The Polks murdered a peddler last year, and have had several trials. This was che third effort by mobs to kill the men.”