Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The destruction of Pollard’s liquor store at Pittsburg, Pa., caused a loss of SIOO,000. F. A. Smith, formerly of St. Louis, is now in prison for debt at New York, with no apparent chance of ever regaining his liberty. He invested his money in a steamboat line, but is now penniless. If he could pay $lO for court costs his case would be advanced on the docket. Washington’s birthday was observed at tle National Capital by the closing of the Executive Departments. Congress hell no session. The American colony in the City of Mexico celebrated the day by laying the cornerstone of a hospital in the suburbs, on which occasion Joaquin Miller read a poem. The Soldiers’ Memorial Hall at Toledo, Ohio, was formally opened, with patriotic speeches. At night a grand military promenade concert and a ball were held in the building. The Michigan Club, a Republican organization, held its first anniversary at Detroit in the shape of a banquet, covers being laid for more than 1,000 persons. Senator Palmer presided, and Senators Logan, Evarts, Conger, Manderson, Gov. Alger, Gov. Foraker, and others were present and made speeches. St. Louis dispatches state that the Chinese community there is “excited over the arrival from Hong Kong, via San Francisco, of a copy of an imperial proclamation stating that on and before the fifteenth day of the fifth moon of the present year (May 15) all the subjects of the Tai Tszing Empire (China) who are now residing in the United States of America are requested to return; and that upon application to tho Consuls free transportation will be provided from any part of the United States to any part of the Chinese Empire, except the citizens of the province of Quong Tung, who, on account of their superior numbers, are required to pay half-fare. By the somewhat disguised language of this proclamation it is strongly intimated that an early retaliation is contemplated by the Chinese Government upon the American export trade and American residents in China lor the continued outrages inflicted upon her citizens here. This, if successfully carried out, will shut off an annual exportation of some $80,000,000 from the American shores. There are in China at least 9,000 Americans who would be exposed to imperial persecution. The Chinese in this country aggregate 80,000. Tho impression prevails here that the major number of them will take advantage of the proclamation. ” The statue of Gen. John A. Rawlins, Gen. Grant’s friend, is so obscurely situated in Washington that it is difficult to find it. Congress has been memoralized by numerous army associations to find a better place for the statue. Resolutions directing the Secretary of War to do this have been favorably acted upon by committees in both branches, and early action will probably be bad. Four of the men who recently broke jail at Carthage, Missouri, have been recaptured near Greenfield. Another of the party was picked up in Kansas, and was shot while attempting to escape at Galena. Dr. J. H. Gleeson, of Cleveland, died in ten minut. s after drinking a graduate of carbolic acid in a drug store on St. Clair street Standing beside the fatal potion was a graduate containing whisky, and his mistake seems to the druggist an unaccountable one. The Greek Ministers of War and Marine threaten to resign unless war against Turkey is declared. The German mint is turning out a large amount of silver coin for Egypt, 6,000,000 piasters having already been forwarded Lord Randolph Churchill was welcomed to Belfast by large bodies of Orangemen in regalia. Precautions were taken against rioting. Colonel Sir Edmund Henderson, the head of the London Metropolitan police force, who has been severely censured for the inefficiency of his men during the recent riots in London, has resigned.