Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Lima (Ohio) dispatch: “The people in the neighborhood of Grover Crossing, a small town west of this city, just across the Van Wert County line, are in a state of great excitement over the advent of a wild man in that locality. He is described as being gigantic in size, and wearing no clothing except an old slouch hat and a pair of boots. His hair is long and matty, his body tanned until it is a mud color, and he is very ferocious, and has a frightful appearance. He is very bold in his adventures, and can run like a race-horse. His eyes flash like fire, and his unintelligible utterances are thrilling and blood-curdling.” Chicago telegram: “The officials of the Lake Shore Road, being determined to resume business at their freight yards in and about Chicago, terrified the strikers by placing along the track one hundred and twenty-eight special policemen, armed with clubs, revolvers, or Winchester rifles. The crowds were driven from the crossings, the new switchmen were protected in discharging their duties, and the yards were cleared of cars soon after midday, without a shot having been fired.” The nailers’ strike at Belleville, 111., has ended, the Pittsburgh arrangement proving satisfactory to both operators and workmen. Seven hundred men employed in the packing-house of John P. Squire, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, have joined the Knights of Labor, and made a demand for an advance of from 10 to 20 per cent, in wages. Randall’s tariff bill reduces the revenue $34,977,005, as follows: On account of duties reduced, *57,044,452; duties removed, $1,526,124; internal-revenue tax removed, $26,407,088. Land Commissioner Sparks has rendered a decision in l'avor of a settler named Waldon, who settled upon uusurveyed land which was afterward selected by tlie Northern Pacific Railroad Company as indemnity. The Commissioner holds that unsurveyed lands were not affected by the indemnity withdrawal The will of the late Col. J. B. Folsom was probated at Warsaw, N. Y., last week. By its provisions Mrs. C.evelaud falls heir to $20,000.

The river and harbor bill, with amendments, was reported to the Senato on the 28th ult. The conference report ou the pension appropriation bill was presented to the Senate and agreed to. The House receded from its disagreements. The Senate, by a vote of 33 to 12, decided to insist upon its amendment to the postoilice appropriation giving a subsidy to- Pacific Mail steamships. The Senate passed a bill granting a pension of snx) a month to the widow of the lato Gen. Staimard of Vermont. A bill authorizing the President to appoint and retire Alfred Pleasonton as Major Geneval was introduced in the Senate. The Senate debated tho veto of the Des Moines River land bill without action, Senator Evarts iN. Y.) opposing and Senator Allison (Iowa) favoring the passage of tho bill over the veto. President Cleveland sent to the Senate the name of William G. Ewing to be United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinc is. Mr. Randall introduced his tariff bill in tho House. Mr. King, of Louisiana, introduced in the House a resolution condemning the proposal of the French Government to assist the Panama Canal Company by means of a lottery loan as opposed to the Monroe doctrine, and calling on the Secretary of State for all correspondence bearing outlie subject. Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, introduced in the House a resolution providing for an inquiry by the Civil-service Reform Committee into the truth of newspaper reports that the Democratic Campaign Committee is soliciting contributions lrom Democratic Congressmen and others in the employ of the Government. While the sundry civil appropriation bill was under consideration in the House Mr. Laird (Neb.) made a severe attack upon Commissioner Sparks in his administration of the General Laud Office. Mr. Cobb (Ind.) defended' the Commissioner, declaring that his action was meeting with t]ie condemnation of every land-grabber and speculator in the public lands. Mr. Pnyson (Ill.) said that he, as a member of tho Committee on Public Lands, had advised and counseled Commissioner Sparks to issue tho order of April 3, 1885, and he stood by that order to-day. It was said that Sparks was an enthusiast. He was an enthusiast; but his enthusiasm in reference to this question was in favor of the poor man who desired to receive a home from his country. Sparks’ order was a notice to land-grabbers that a halt was to he called upon them, and he (Mr. Payson) regretted that owing to the pressure that had been brought by letters written by men steeped in fraud up to their eyes there had not been sufficient backbone on the part of tho Secretary of the Interior to keep that order in existence.