Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1886 — LATER NEWS IETMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS IETMS.

Advices received ’by the way of London state that Germany has seized the islands of Samoa in the Pacific Ocean. The King and his clue; s were insulted anil- finally fled. A force of marines was landed from the German war ship Albatross. The German Consul then hauled down the Samoan flag and ran np the German colors in its stead. Tho Samoans threaten to make war on the Germans. Th : American and British Consuls protest jd against the action of the Germans. Following is the text of the bill introduced in the lower ho us 3 of-Congress by Mr. Hewitt to secure a uniform standard of value: lie it enacted, etc., That the gold anil silver coins of the United States which are a lull legal tender shall hereafttr be interchangeable a: their lawful value, either for the other, upon the demand of any holder thereof, in the offic ' of the Assistant Treasurer in the City of New York, when presentad in sums of SIOO of any multiple thereof; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for such Interchange, and to cause to be coifted such amount of standard silver dollars as maybe found necessary from time to time in order to meet the demand for such dollars; and that aU provisions of iaw fixing or limiting the amount to be coined of such standard silver dollars be, and the same are, hereby repealed. Chicago elevators contain 14,609,756 bushels of wheat, 2,578,619 bushels of corn, 272,028 bushels of oats, 320,701 bushels of rye, and 213,212 bushels of barley; total, 17,985,916 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 16,267,305 bushels a year ago. The manufacturing firm of Crane Bros., one’ of the largest pipe and general iron manufacturing houses in the West, is about to remove from Chicago to Pittsburgh. A location at Pittsburgh, the Cranes claim, will reduce freights and bsf a benefit to all concerned. Time has solved the mystery connected with the disappearance from Chicago last September of J. T. O'Rourke and Miss Mary Larncd, who were by many believed to have been lost on Lake Michigan from a rowboat. It appears that they went directly to Detroit, whore O’Rourke secured work as a porter in a dry goods house, although he had a good law practice in St. Louis, and had abandoned a wife and children at Kirkwood. It is said that the amour was broken up by an anonymous letter sent by O’Rourke to his wife. The parties involved have returned to their homes. The Hon. Allen G. Thurman received the Democratic caucus nomination for the United States Senatorship at Columbus, Ohio. The Great Powers of Europe, it is said, demand that Greece, Servia, Bulgaria, and Turkey shall demobilize their armies. A spirits-monopoly bill has been signed by Emperor William of Germany. If passed by the Bundesrath it will go into effect in August, 1888. The bill to admit Dakota and organize the Territory of Lincoln was favorably reported to the Senate, by Mr. Harrison, on the 11th inst. In discussing the Beck silver question, Mr. Pugh stated his belief that three-fourths of the Southern people were opposed to the suspension of silver coinage. Mr. Blair urged the passage of his bill fer the erection of monuments to Lincoln and Grant at the National Capital. Bills were introduced to permit the Dakota Central Railway to bridge the Missouri River at Pierre ; to pay from the Geneva award the sum of $20,000 to William H. Whiting for physical in juries sustained by imprisonmefiton the Confederate cruiser Alabama, and to appropriate $420,000 for river improvements in Oregon. In the House of Representatives, bills were introduced for the issue of small silver certificates for circulating medium, for large certificates on deposited silver bullion, for fractional paper currency, and to pay out all except $50,090,001) of the Treasury surplus in redemption of bonds. Also a bill to divide Dakota anrl create the Territory of Lincoln, to prohibit aliens from acquiring title to lauds, to appropriates3,ood,ooo for a steam cruiser, to donate the Creve Coeur lakes to the city of St. Louis, and to enable the people to name their Postmasters. Mr. Weaver, of lowa, flung in a measure to appropriate $300,000,000 to pay veteran soldiers and sailors the difference between gold coin and the depreciated paper they took from the paymasters. The call of States brought forward CSO new measures, making the total nearly 4,0J0. Nearly 500 nominations were reported from committees to the Senate sitting in executive session. When the case of Dorman B. Eaton came up Mr. Logon objected tc his confirmation as Civil Service Commissioner on the ground that he was a “mugwump" and that the law required the appointment of a Republican. Mr. Eaton was, however, confirmed.