Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

P. J. Baltes, Bishop of the Catholic diocese of Alton, Hl, expired last week, after a protracted illness. Nelson Dewey, the first Governor o' the State of Wisconsin, has brought suit for • divorce from his wife in the Grant County Circuit Court, charging desertion. The couple \ have not lived together for fifteen years. Mrs. { Dewey will contest the suit * The Rev. William Warner, a minister j of the United Brethren sect, who is said to be I uncouth and ignorant, is reported to have cured, by faith, the wife of a farmer living near Sweetser, Ind., for whom regular physi- ' cians held out no hope of recovery. The affair | has caused a sensation m the district Over five thousand mill operatives at Manchester, N. H , are on a strike for higher wages, cutting off the disbursement of SS,(XX) per day. Reports from Boston and vicinity are that the waters are subsiding, but at Franklin, Dedham Center. East Dedham, Waltham, Newton, and Haverhill, Mass.; Nashua, N. H., and Augusta, Me., the situation is threatening. A factory was wrecked at Franklin; bridges at Taunton were swept away, and a number of buildings will collapse when the floods recede. Several mills are submerged, and in others work has been suspended. Country roads are impassable, and business is at a standstill. The total loss will probably aggregate $2,000,000. Bismarck is about to introduce a bill in the Prussian Landtag which materially modifies the May laws in dealing ■with the Catholic clergy. Riotous demonstrations were made by the unemployed workingmen of Birmingham and Yarmouth, England. In the former city the police prevented the pillaging of shops. Viscount Edward Cardwell is dead, aged 73. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1859. The Viceroy of India has decided to retain General Prendergast in Burmah with 16,000 men, martial law to continue until November. A message from the President was laid before the Senate, on the 15th, transmitting a letter of the Secretary of the Interior with the draft of a bill providing for the sale of the Sac and Fox Indian Reservations in Nebraska and Kansas.Mr. Van Wyck submitted an amendment to the House bill to increase the pensions of widows and dependent relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors, providing that minor children shall receive $5 per month when one parent is deceased, cud $lO when both parents are deceased; that the pensionable age lie extended to eighteen years, and that fathers and mothers only be required to prove dependence at the time of application for pension. Mr. Van Wyck, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported favorably a bill to establish two additional laud districts in the State of Nebraska, and authorizing the President to appoint registers and receivers therefor. Secretary Lamar of the Interior Depaitinent sent a letter to the Senate in answer to the resolution calling for all papers on file in the department and all papers which have been presented to any officer of that department touching, the official and personal conduct of Henry Ward, late an Indian Inspector, during his continuance in office. With the letter were transmitted 282 documents, chiefly reports made by Mr. Ward to the department. The Secretary savs : “I transmit all the official papers on file in the department which I understand to be embraced by the resolution. * * * I am directed by the President to say that if the object of the r .’solution is to inquire into the reasons for the removal of Mr. Ward, these papers are not to be considered as constituting all the evidence submitted to him in relation thereto. I am also directed by the President to say that he does not consider it consistent with the public interests to transmit copies of unofficial papers from private citzens held in my custody for him, which relate exclusively to the suspension of incumbents.” The latter and accompanying papers were referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Representative Thomas, of Illinois, introduced in the House a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Navy for a complete roster of officers on the retired list,’ and a statement of their rank and pay. The House Committee on Coinage rejected bills to make treaties with foreign countries to open their mints to the free coinage of silver, and to provide for the unlimited coinage of silver. It then divided equally on a measure to suspend the coinage of standard silver dollars, and decided to make an adverse report on Representative Bland’s bill for free coinage. Mr. Pulitzer introduced a bill granting a pension of $5,000 to General Hancock’s widow. A bill for the free coinage of silver was introduced by Mr. Bland of Missouri. J