Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Union School building and contents at Manistee, Mick, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $45,0C0. Insurance on building, $21,346, and on the library, furniture, fixtures, etc., $8,450. The fire was the work of an incendiary. At St. Louis last week United States Commissioner Edmund T. Allen sold under foreclosure of mortgage at public auction the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad, the total price paid for the entire property bemg $625,091. The committee appointed by the stock and bond holders to look after their interests were the only bidders, and the whole system, excepting the St Joseph and St Louis Branch, was purchased by them. W. F. Nesbitt, its President, purchased the latter road for sl. The coal operators of the St. Louis district have averted a strike of -several thousand miners by granting an increase in wages to two and one-half cents per bushel. Thirty grinders employed in the Deere plow factory at Moline, 111., walked out because the scale of 1854 was not restored. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ended April 24 was 396,052, The issue during the corresponding period of last year was 162,998. The shipments of fractional silver coin since April 1 amount to $299,738. George E. Graham, the wife murderer, was taken from the jail at Springfield, Mo., by a mob of 300 men, and strung up to a tree. When the mob unlocked Graham’s cell he greeted them with the remark: “You can hang me, but by G—d you can’t scare me.” The whole affair was conducted very quietly. A freight train on the Missouri Pacific Road was wrecked on a curve just outside of Kansas City, on account of the removal of spikes from the rails. The engineer was seriously injured, and the fireman and a brakeman were killed Vice President Hoxie has offered a reward of $2,500 for the arrest of the wreckers. Geronimo’s band recently attacked the ranches at Casita, Mexico, on the Sonora Railroad, and killed fifteen Mexicans. A com- • pany of soldiers pursued the Indians toward the Sierra Madres. Greece has definitely decided to disarm. The combined fleet of the powers has departed from her waters, and her claims against Turkey are to be submitted to arbitration. The cable reports the destruction by fire of three-fourths of the Austrian town of Lisko.

The postoffice appropriation bill was reported to the Senate on the 26th of April. Washington C. Whitthorne (Tenn.), the successor of Judge Jackson, was sworn, and took his seat. Senator Van Wyck (Neb.) addressed the Senate in support of the interstate commerce bill. His speech consisted mainlv of an arraignment ci Jay Gould and C. P. Huntington, who had, he said, according to their own testimony, moved on State Legislatures, the courts and Congress, unblushingly purchasing judges and legislators. Senator Blair (N. H.) addressed the Senate in support of his proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages. In the course of his speech he said that it was less jiossible for the Republican party to remain permanently three-fourths for prohibition and one-fourth against it than it once was for the nation to remain permanently one-half slave and onehalf free. W. T. Dowdall was nominated to the Senate for Postmaster at Peoria, Illinois. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Springer introduced a bill to establish a department of labor, with a commissioner and two assistants, the expense not to exceed SIOO,OOO per annum. The Committee on Pacific Railroads reported to the House the bill formulated by the sub-com-mittee providing for an extension of seventy years of the bonded debt of the Pacific Railroads to the Government, The bill makefe provision for the payments of the indebtedness of the Pacific Railroads to the Government after the following plan: To the present debt is added the interest that would accrue during the lifetime (eleven years) of the existing bonds, assuming that no further payments are made by the companies, aud the total divided into 140 equal payments, which ore represented by a series of bonds falling due semi-annually, the last bond maturing seventy years after issue. The average annual payments by the companies would reach nearly $4,000,000, which, it is estimated, would amount to a sum greater than the principal of the debt before the existing bonds would mature.