Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1886 — LATER NEWS IETMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS IETMS.

An incendiary fire destroyed the frame buildings Nos. 731 and 733 South Canal street, Chicago. The corpses of nine persons were taken from the ruins—among them being Michael Murphy, his wife, anu four children Milwaukee, according to the school census, has a population of 171,000. By tlie collapse of the reporters’ stand at the St Louis races, 21 or more persons were injured, half a dozen seriously. Frosts in North Dakota, it is reported, have injured the wheat crop 25 per cent The freeze was so severe that the foliage of trees turned black. Drought in the Cold water (Mich.) section is seriously affecting crops. Citizens of Lexington, North Carolina, lynched Alfred Long, who confessed having murdered A J. Mcßride and wife and burned their bodie i in their residence. Upon being informed that ten hours would constitute a day’s work in future, the 400 employes of the Phcenix Furniture Factory at Grand Rapids, Mich., dropped their tools and marched out of the buildings. A boiler explosion in the Rensselaer nail-m il at Troy, N. Y., killed two men and fatally injured two others. Quinine sells at a lower price than was ever known in the United States, the German product having fallen to 53 cents per ounce. Mr. Fred H. Winston, of Illinois, United States Minister to Persia, has resigned. Hib letter of resignation is very brief, and merely states that his business affairs at Chicago are becoming sadly embarrassed by reason of his absence, and that he could not in justice to himself remain longsr absent.

A decision has been rendered by tho Arkansas Supreme Court that the running of a bucket-shop in that State is a misdemeanor. Fire in the Grand Theater at Louisville, destroyed that structure and the business block in which it was located, resulting in heavy losses; ful y covered by insurance. A passenger, train crashed through a trestle near Charleston, S. C., killing five persons and injuring many more. At Prince Frederick, Md., a mob took from the jail Charles 'Whittle (colored), accused of assaulting the child of a clergyman, and hanged him to a tree. The second reading of Mr. Gladstone’s home rule bill was defeated in the British Commons on the 7th inst, by a vote of 341 to 311. This is a larger majority against tho measure than was anticipated either by the Tories or the Liberal and Whig dissentients. The fate of home rule, for the present at least, will be decided by the British and the Irish people at tho polls. New elections will be ordered W'tliin the next six weeks. In the meantime a political campaign exceeding in intensity and passion any that has ever occurred in the British Islands Bince the reform campaign of 1832 will be entered on. On one side will be arrayed all the power of caste and privilege, all the influence begotten of religious hate and race prejudice; on the other the liberalized democracy of Great Britain and Ireland, led by the most eloquent of living men. It will be a tremendous struggle.

The consular and diplomatic appropriation hill passed the Senate on the 7th inst. The oleomargarine hill was referred to the Committ'e on Agriculture. The Committee on Public Lands made a favorable report on Mr. Stanford's bill t > erant the Seal Rocks in trust to the city of San Francisco. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the nomination of A. P. Swineford to be Governor of Alaska. In the House of Representatives bills were introduced to establish a military fort near Denver ; to grant a pension of SIOO a month to the widow of General Durbin Ward ; to prohibit the employment of convict or alien labor on public works ; to erect a monument in Brooklyn to the victims of pvison-.-hips, and to prohibit the obstruction of interstate railroad business. Judge Payson’s bill repealing the pre-emption, desert land, and timber laws, and amending the commutation provision of the home stead law, was passed by a vote of 183 to 40. A resolution was presented for an inquiry into the Pension Department, and to report upon the propriety of continuing the excessive expenditures under the present system. Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, apologized for a “warmth of expression” in the House in regard to Mr. Holman, of Indiana. The apology was accepted.