Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Postmaster Lounsberry, of Bismarck, Dakota, has sent his resignation to the department. In a drunken quarrel near Stanford, Ky., William Ball, a well-known distiller, was shot and Instantly killed by his son George. Fire destroyed Aukam & Co.’s shirt factory at Troy, N. T., valued at $75,003, and Jenks & Co.'s flouring mi Is at Sand Beach, Mich.; loss, $50,0.0. Small-pox has broken out in a tenement in Grand street. New York, four cases having already developed. The source of the malady is unknowu. During the week there were 216 deaths from small-pox in Montreal. The issue of standard silver dollars during the week was 664,443. In the case of Paymaster General Smith, defendant's counsel have applied to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for an injunction restraining the Secretary of the Navy from further proceedings against their client, on the ground that the court-martial had no jurisdiction.

China is said to be massing large bodies of troops on the Tonquin frontier. Disastrous rains and consequent floods are prevalent in Southeastern Spain. Eight persons who were arrested at the great Socialist meeting in London Sunday have been fined and sentenced .to brief terms of imprisonment for resisting officers. William Morris, the poet, is under arrest for assaulting the police during tho hearing of these cases. A distemper among hogs in the district of Shirland and Rockton, 111., and Newark, Wis., has resulted in. heavy losses to farmers. Tho disease swept away 2,000 hogs in tho past two weeks.

Several lumber mills in Northern Michigan have been closed owing to the tenhour law, the men refusing to work more than the statutory number of hours unless wages are proportionately increased. At Manistee alone 1.030 men are idle.

A Bismarck (Dak.) dispatch says: “The prairie fires continue in every direction, and unless rain comes soon the whole country will be burned over. Farmers who have escaped now have their grain well protected by plowed flro-breaks, and are busy hauling their hay to places of safety. At this time fires moving toward the woods in Washburn County and this county have run down Burt Creek to the timber on the Missouri bottomsin Emmons County, south. Most of the low meadows have been burned over in this anl Kidder Counties.”

A dispatch from the West says that work has been resumed at the Rock Springs, Wyoming, coal mines, with a force of Chinese miners and a few white mechanics. The white miners refused to work, and were paid off. No violence was attempted, but the situation was threatening, and Gen. McCook advised the President to doolare martial law in Wyoming. It was believed that a teneral strike would be ordered along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad by the Knights of Labor.

Cable dispatches state that the deposed Governor of Roumelia is a prisoner at Sofia.

It is believed in diplomatic circles that the Porte will fight to restore the st atu quo, as possession of the Balkan frontier Is uecessary lor the detense of Constantinople. Representatives at Philippopolis of all the powers signatory to the treaty of Berlin have sent, dispatches to their respective governments approving the revolution. It Is rumorel that an insurrection is imminent in Macedonia, and that Austria contemplates an advance on Salonica simaltanoously with a Russian occupation of the Bosphorus. Anarchy prevails in Albania. A panicky feeling obtained on the continental bourses, and international securities declined sharply in London, on account of the disturbed condition of Eastern Europe.