Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1886 — LATER NEWS IETMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS IETMS.

Organizers of the Knights of Labor have formed an assembly among the servant girls of St. Louis numbering 150 members. It is said that their place of meeting is kept a secret A great wind storm swept over Galveston, Tex. Part of the city was flooded and much damagi is reported. Robert Robinson, aged 16, of WadesbOro, S. C., who was bitten two years ago by a mad dog, has just died of hydrophobia. The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, was nearly destroyed by fire. Aid is solicited, as nearly three thousand persons are homeless. President Cleveland found in his reception room, the other morning, an old man and his wife, who stated that they bad walked from Missouri to shake hands with him. Police Officer Hansen, the eighth victim of the anarchist riots in Chicago on the 4th of May, died at the County Hospital in that city, after a vain effort had been made to save his life by the transfusion of healthy blood mto his system. Ludwig, the deposed insane King of Bavaria, committed suicide by drowning himself in Starnberg Lake. The attendant physician lost his life in trying to save the dethroned monarch. His brother has been proclaimed King under the title of Otto 1., but as he has been meitally unsound for ten years, liis uncle, Prince Luitpold, will remain Regent Boiteau, the French author, is dead. Beyond discussing the Northern Pacific landforfeiture bill, absolutely nothing was done in the Senate on the 14th inst The House concurred iu the Senate’s amendments to the Atlantic and Pacific land-forfeiture bill, and passed a bill prohibiting pool-selling in the District of Columbia. Mr. Hewitt offered a resolution in the House providing for a celebration of the centennial anniversary of the foundation of the Constitutional Government, April 30, 1889. Mr. Warner of Ohio introduced a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information showing the number, extent, and location of foreign holdings of what were formerly public lands, and how the title to such lands bad" been acquired by aliens.