Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1886 — EATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Fourth of July was celebrated at Vienna, Austria, with a banquet, at which Miniatir Jussen Hasted the United States. Ex-Senator Windom delivered an adiress at Northfield, Minn., on the relations between capital and labor. One of the features of the annual Bowen picnic at Woodstock, Conn.,was an address by Henry Clews on “Railroad Methods. ” Gov. Oglesby, in a speech at Decatur, IIL, alluded to censures for his caution in refusing to use troops to suppress every petty strike, and urged the people to depend upon themselves, and hot surrender the r rights by clamoring for myitia. The day was productive of the usual crop of casualties. At Peabody, Kan., an awning or platform, upon which a number of persons were standing, collapsed, the victims falling upon spectators beneath. Twenty persons were injured, and it is feared that some will not recover. The flouriDg-mill of Elkhart & Swan, in Canal street, Chicago, was damaged to the amount of $40,000 by a fire which originated from a sky-rocket. A boat contiining three young men capsized in Douglss Park, Chicago, and two of them Moses Levi and Michael Collins, were drowned. At Haverhill, Mass., a lad named Baptiste was shot dead by a playmate while celebrating the Fourth. Charles Egbert and John Ward tried to fire off a cannon at Warren, Ohio. It exploded prematurely. Egbert will lose both hands, and Ward will lose his left arm, if not his life. Ed Reece and John Goggins will die from injuries which they received by a premature discharge of a c mnon at New York. Ex-Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, declines a renominatiou to Congress, and is to retire from politics. The Canadian cruiser Terror captured two more American fishing schooners, the G. W. Cushing and C. B. Jlarrington, and took them to Shelburne. They belong to Portland, Me. Congress is being petitioned by Knights of Labor for the passage of measures relative to labor matters. Charles Gayarre, of Lou siana, the historian of the Creoles, is mentioned as a successor to “Sunset” Cox as United States Minister to Turkey. Cholera has made its appearance at Fume, Austria, and is spreading.

The Committee on Pensions presented a report to the Senate on the 3d inst., recommending the jiassago over the President’s veto of the bill granting a pension to Mary A. Nottage. The report condemns the President for his vetoes of private pension bills, asserting that lie acts upon lack of information ; that some of his messages are elpiessed in unjust and unexampled style; and’that derision of the committee's labors “can originate only in a wise and noble nature which is misled, or in one that, if informed, sadly needs reconstruction or recreation.” The President sent to the Senate his veto of the bill for the relief of Martin L. Bundy. In the veto message the President says: "The claimant, who was a Quartermaster, after the settlement of his accounts was found to be indebted to the Government. Thereup >n he put in a claim for forage more than sufficient to offset his indebtedness. There is no suggestion that he had or used auy horses, and if he did and failed to make a claim for forage at the time he settled his accounts, then he presents a case of inccedible ignorance of his rights or a wonderful lack of that disposition to gain every possible advantage which is usually found among those who deal with the Government. ” The claim is not allowed on the ground that it would set a precedent which could hardly be ignored, and which, if followed, would turnish another means of attack upon the Treasury quite as effective as many which are now in operation. Tne Senate, in considering the river and harbor appropriation bill, approved of an item of $1,900,030 toward a thirty-foot channel at the Sandy Hook entrance to New York. The House of liepresentatives passed a bill appropriating $76,030 to pay damages on account of the overflow of the Fox and Wisconsin Kivers. When the general deficiency bill was under consideration by the House of Kepresentativos on the sth inst., Mr. Springer stated that the decrease in Federal expenditures during the fiscal year just closed was $22,500,000, according to statements by Treasury officials. An amendment to the general deficiency bill, offered by Mr. Cannon (Ill.), appropriating $22,000 to refund taxes illegally collected from railroad companies on account of alien bond and stockholders, was adopted. A resolution was introduced in the House by Mr. Springer calling on the President for copies of all correspondence between the Government and the Kepublic of Nicaragua, since 1870, in relation to the construction of an interoceanic canal by way of Lake Nicaragua. The Senate was not in session.