Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The first through train on the Canadian Pacific Koad ran from Montreal to Port Moody, 2,875 miles, in 134 hours. Colonel Gilder, a newspaper representative, has left New York with the intention of raisingjthe American flag at the North Pole. He has participated in three Arctic voyages. He is to sail from New London on a whaler. The Republicans of the Third Congressional District of Illinois (part of the city of Chicago) have nominated William E. Mason for Congress. William L. Scott has been unanimously renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Erie District of Pennsylvania. J. E. Thevold Rogers, the wellknown author and Oxford professor, sent four London newspaper correspondents the following letter in response to a request for his opinion in regard to the present aspect of the home-rule question: The settlement of the question is inevitable, for a deadlock in parliament is unavoidable. The present situation is due partly to an intrigue of some radicals against Mr. Gladstone personally, and partly to the decadence of the aristocratic whigs. The former have made a tool of Mr. Bright. His great and just reputation has discouraged thousands of liberals from voting at all, and it is to their honor that they have hesitated to think him in the wrong. Long and well as I have known him, I can find no reason for his action beyond nis dislike of the tactics of the Irish party. The House of Commons made, I think, a grave error. That the home-rule policy will finally and speedily prevail I have no doubt. Political, like religious, truth has its martyrs and its persecutors, some of the latter acting blindly and honestly. Some of them, from interested motives, earnestly hope that the friends of Irish liberty and Irish progress will not misinterpret or resent this accidental and temporary shift. The loss of life by the earthquakes and eruptious in the Auckland Lake district was 170 persons. Herr Krupp has contracted to supply China with 1,500 tons of rails at a price, including freight, of 25 shillings below the lowest English offer. The Turkish Government has issued orders to have the army placed on a peace footing. The military and naval reserves are being disbanded. A riot followed a speech by Paul de Cassaguac at Armentieres, France, in which a number of people were injured. The French Government, probably on account of the recent action of Germany, has ordered the distribution among the troops, before August, of 63,000 repeating rifles. A bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the St. Louis River, between the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin, was favorably reported in the Senate on the 12th inst. The Senate passed the House bill granting pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the Mexican war. In considering the river and harbor bill the Senate adopted an item of ¥300,000 for the Hennepin Canal. A bill was introduced in the Senate and referred to stop all payments of public money to James B. Eads, his associates, or assigns, for past, present, or future work at the mouth of the Mississippi River until further ordered by Congress. The railroad attorney hill was reported to tho Senate materially amended. No Congressman, according to its provisions, Bhall act as the legal representative of any corporation whose interests are. Or may become the subject of Congressional legislation. A bill to reimburse Jean Louis Legare for services rendered and money expended in bringing to the United States and procuring the surrender of Sitting Bull and a number of his followers was laid before the House. The claim is for ¥13,412, and is indorsed by Maj. Brotherton, the United States officer who received the surrender. A bill appropriating SIO,OOO for the erection of a monument to mark the birth]dace of Abraham Lincoln, near Hodgesville, Ky., was introduced in the House by Mr. Robertson, a Democratic Representative from th it State. The Senate amendment to the legislative appropriation bill, Increasing from ¥4,000 to ¥5,000 the salaries of the Commissioners of Pensions and Patents, was concurred in by the House. Mr. Lovering, of Massachusetts, introduced n bill in the House to abolish the importation of Italian or other slaves or laborers under contract and held to involuntary servitude into the United States. Mr. Voorbees (W. T.) reported to the House from the Committee on Public Lands a bill permitting all persons who have lost homestead rights to make new entries. It was referred to the committee of the whole. The House agreed to the recommendation of the Committee on Appropriations that the evidence in the Fitz John Porter trial and the report thereon by Judge Holt to President Lincoln be printed in the Rebellion Record. Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, introduced in the House a resolution to the effect that Congresß should not adjourn until it had enacted a law appropriating a portion of the Treasury surplus to assist the States in the work of education.