Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Richard S. Dement, of Illinois, lias been appointed Surveyor General of the Territory of Utah; John B. Webb Register of the Land Office at La Crosse, Wis.; and Lloyd T. Boyd, Receiver ot' Public Moneys at Bayfield, Wis. The President has appointed the following Postmasters, the commissions of their predecessprs having expired: Daniel Stewart at Walla Walla, W. T. ; Lucius M. Thomas at Watertown, D. T.; Charles A. Burke at Malone, N. Y.; Othneil Beeson at Caldwell. Kas.; Charles Hardc stle at Marion. Kas.; Hattie P. Blair at Great Bend, Kas.; G. W. Jarres, San Diego. CaL; William H. Newcomb, Pana, IIL ; Elijah T. Fades at Knoxville. III.; George E. Blackstone, Pa ;ton. Ill.; Samuel W. Peacock at Lancaster, Ky.; W. W. Wathen at Lebanon, Ky.; William McFarlan at Dowlngton, Pa.; James E. Crossland at Aiken, S. C.; Charles J. Struck at Shakersee, Minn.; F. B. Bardon at Madison, N. J.; Christian Biievernicht at Elmhurst, Ill.; P. C. Rude at Perry, Iowa; F. E. Wilson at David City, Neb.; John T. Wrenkle at Plattsburgh, Mo.; David M. Bossert at Jefferson, Iowa; T. M. Shellton at Windsor, Mo.; H. F. Tall man at Lanark, Ill.; C. C. Gniltoux at New Iberia, La.; Thomas H. Lantry at Algona, Iowa; Andrew J. Shakespeare at Kalamazoo, Mich.; Michael D. Baker at Uniontown, Pa.; Miss Caradera Clark at Blair, Neb. The i olio wing Postmasters have also been appointed by the President: John Snoddy at Big Springs, Texas, office become Presidential; John Ryan, at Anaconda, Montana, office became Presidential; J. F. Rayen at Sandy Lake, Pa., office become Presidential; R. W. Hill at Jewell, Kan., office become Presidential; R. 8. Wagner at Bangor, Pa., office become Presidential; Jas. G. Hanson at Edensburg. Pa, vice Samuel Jame*. suspended; Patrick J. Rogers at Piedmont, W. Va„ v.ce George T. Goshorn, suspended; Henry F. Taylor at Fulton, Ky., vice John F. Hall, suspended. A special session of the Oregon Legislature has been ea led to meet Nov. 0. The principal business will be tho election of a United States Senator, the regular session having adjourned without performing that duty. At the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor, held at Hamilton, Out., the following officers were elected: Grand Master Workman, T. V. Powderly, of Scranton, Pa.; Grand Worthy Foreman, Richard Griffiths, of Chicago, 111.; General Secretary and Treasurer, Fred Turner, of Philadelphia, Pa.; General Auditor, J. G. Carllle, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Secretary of Insurance, 11. G. McGaw, of Pittsburgh, Pa. A boat containing W. S. Neale,Beckie and Annie Neale (sisters), and Mary Neale, their cousin, sank near Millirons Dam, Pa., tho three girls, who were on their way to church, being drowned. The young man escaped, after a terrible struggle- with his sinking relatives. The Madrid newspapers pronounce the negotiations between Spain and Germany regarding tho Caroline Islands a complete failure. The outcome of Sir Henry Drummond Wolff’s mission to Constantinople is the appointment of a joint commission of twelve members, six English and six Turkish, to administer the affairs of Egypt until they are in a satisfactory condition, when the British occupation will cease. As Egyptian affairs could not possibly be any worse than they are now, it is evident that the joint commission will have a long lease of power. Several of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s letters to Carlyle have been stolen from tho late residence of tho former at Concord, Mass. The Knights of Honor have brought suit at Louisville, Ky., against Col. Robert S. Breckenridge, late Supreme Treasurer, for $33,000. The plaintiff charges that Breckenridge, as Supremo Treasurer, has failed and refused to account for $33,000 sineo tho expiration of his term of office. Last March a press association sent out an item to the effect that Dixon, tax collector of Blount County, Alabama, in attempting to rob his own house at night, had been shot and killed by his wife. The Chattanooga Times copied the paragraph from another paper, and Dixon sued for libel, the jury at Chattanooga last week returning a verdict of $5 damages, the small amount being owing to Judge Key’s favorable ruling on the Times’ construction of the law of libel. Dixon intends to prosecute every paper that published the item.