Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The number killed by the railway collision near Jersey City is twelve. It is believed that five of the wounded will die. Thomas P. Pratt, the telegraph operator who it is claime 1 caused the disaster, has been arrested, and is held to await the action of the Coroner’s jury. The graveyard insurance companies of 1 ennsylvania have been succeeded by a new kind of enterprise, in which the policyholders are divided into classes of five hundrel members each. Whenever a birth occurs in tbe family of a member, the other members in the class are assessed twentyfive cents each. This would give a fund of $125, SIOO of which goes to the beneficiary and $25 to the company for collecting, etc. The brick cottage of Wm. S. Bates, in Vernon 1 ark place, Chicago, was 6et on fire by the carelessness of a servant in using a gasoline stove. The frightened girl leaped the fence and was not found for hours. Mrs. Bates took her infant to the house of a neighbor, and returned alone to meet a horrible death. While Mr. Bates endeavored to » extinguish the fames, his wife, two sons, and mother-in-law were suffocated, and their charred bodies were found by the firemen. Mr. .Bates was picked up in the alley, seriously burned and bruised.

Casper Butz, the noted German revolutionist, died at Des Moines, from blood-poisoning, aged sixty years. He was a resident of Chicago beforo tlie war. He took an active part in the agitation against slavery. Later in life he was City Clerk of Chicago, and one of the Commissioners of the Illinois Penitentiary. A difficulty has arisen at Eau Claire, Wis., owing to the closing of the schools by the Mayor and Board of Health, who feared a spread of diphtheria, thirty-four cases of which are reported. The School Board and school officers protest, and intend to prosecute the policemen who prevented pupils and teachers from entering the building. Chicago elevators contain 12,698,364 bushels of wheat, 978,911 bushels of corn, 290,522 bushels of oats, 237.J5.il bushels of rye, and 87,886 bushels of barley—total, 14,292,931 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 9,268,102 bushels a year ago. The people of Cleveland are greatly puzzled over the hermit life led by a Gorman family of eight persons living on Brooker avenue. Not one of them has been outside the house in tho daytime for eight years, and for most of that time they have paid no taxes. Sanitary officers found the place in good order and the children well dressed. President Cleveland has made the following appointments: Ernest P. Baldwin, of Missouri, to be Deputy First Auditor of the Treasury—Henry R. West, of Ohio, to be Indian Agent'at the Fort Peck Agency in Montana -Samuel W. Langhorne, of Montana, to be Register of the Lana > dlice at Helena, M. T.—Horatio S. Howell, of Montana, to be receiver of Public Moneys at Helena, M. T. To lie Consul General of tlie United States— Benjamin F. Bonham, of Oregon, at Calcutta. To Be United States Consuls —Wm. A. Garesche, of Missouri, at Martinique; 1 harles Foster, of Indiana, at Elberfeld: N. J. Arbeliy, of Tennessee, at Jerusalem: James N. Childs, of Mane, at Guelph, Canada; James H. Trumbull, at Talcahuano, Chili. To be Postmasters—Michael P. 8 artery. at Bismarck, Dakota, vice Clement A. Lounsbery, resigned; John W. Milford, N. H., vice John H. Crosby, commission expired; Daniel U. Hopper, Centreville, Md , vice W. J. Hunt, commission expired; Charles W. Roby, Portland, Ore., vice George A. Steele, commission expired; James M. King, Knoxville, Tenn., vice O. P. Temple; com nissioa expired; J. L. Street, Park City, Utah, vice A. B. Emery, commission expired; Julius Field, Fort Worth, Texas, vice Belle M. Burchell, commission expired: Albert Watkins, Lincoln, Nob., vice J. C. Mcßride, commission expired; B. F. Hcaltham, Nashville, Tenn., vice W. P. Jones, commission expired; P. D. Minnick, Villisca, lowa, vice J. M. Nattum, commission expired; J. D. Pratt, Ipswich, Dakota, office become Presidential; Warren Perley, Bradford, Mass., office become Presidential; George Beck, Livermore, Cal., office become Presidential; J. A. Fawley, Stromsburg, Neb., office become Presidential; R. K. Henderson, Murfreesboro, Tenn , vice J. D. Wilson, resigned; W. L. Norton, Tullahomi, Tenn., vice G. W. Davidson,.resigned; William Schermerhorn, Hudson, Mich , vice E. J. Southworth, resigned; W. C. Schulz, R iynoldsville. Pa., vice T. 0. Reynolds, resigned: Abraham Rose, Vinton, lowa, vice J. F. Pyne, resigned: Parlay Sheldon, Ames, lowa, vice John Watts, resigned; John S. Finley, Holly Sp'ings, Miss., vice Mary H. Mahon, suspended; Waiter F. Scott, Modesto, Cal., vice T. W. Perry, resigned.