Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Hon. John Fitzgerald, the newly elected President of the Irish National League of America, was welcomed home at Lincoln, Neb., by fully 5,000 citizens and the noise of innumerable steam whistles and bells. At the depot a precession was formed, headed by Gov. Dawes, Chief Justice Cobb, and Mayor Brock, and Mr. Fitzgerald was escorted to the opera house, where a hires-es of welcome were made by Gov. Dawes, Judge Cobb, Mayor Brock, and many other prominent citizans. Amos A. Lawrence, the Boston philanthropist and merchait, is dead. Mr. Lawrence was active as an abolitionist in the settlemenj of Kansas during the border troubles, and the city of Lawrence, Kansas, was named in his honor. He was a Whig candidate for the Governorship of Massachusetts before the war. He held many offices of trust in business, charitable, religious aud educational institutions; was Treasurer of Harvard College from 1857 to 1862, and was also at one time Treasurer of the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge. A new time-table calling for six trips instead of five, and increasing the number of hours, caused a strike on the Broadway street car line in New York. The Pullman Car Company has bought the plant of the Car Manufactux-ing Company of Wilmington (Del.), and will at once proceed to enlarge the works and fit them for the company’s Eastern headquarters for repairs and new works. The company will vacate its Elmira (N. Y.) works in October. General Master Workman T. V. Powderly made at a Knights of Labor picnic, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., an address in which he strongly denounced the rioting and violence carried on in the name cf the Knights of Labor. He emphatically declared that he was not a candidate for any political office, aud would not accept the highest office in the United States if it were offered him. Mr. Powderly also said: “The anarchists will never obtain a foothold in the Knights of Labor. Anarchy is destructive to civil liberty, and no honest workman can afford to identify himself with an organizat on which has for its object the destruction of life and property.” At a soldiers’ reunion at Fort Wavne, Ind., attended by thirty thousand persons, a sham battle with artillery resulted in the loss of a hand by one participant and of a thumb by another. In the case of Dr. S. A. Richmond, who killed Colonel James W. Strong at St. Joseph, Mo., the jury returned a verdict declaring the defendant was insane at the time of the murder, and that he is at present of unsound mind. The visible supply of wheat and corn is, respecively, 39,820,852 and 10,931,916 bushels, being an increase since last report of 1,803,449 bushel? of wheat and 1,195,513 bushelß of corn. The city of Sofia has been declared in a state of siege. The deposition of Prince Alexander has caused the British foreign minister to keep up almost continuous telegraphic communication with the capitals of Europe. Public sentiment in France favors the change because the deposed prince is a German. A cable dispatch says: Prince Alexander wag deposed by conspiracy. He was escorted toWilden to embark thence on Sunday for Severin, in Wallachia, Roumania. A dispatch from Bucharest, capital of Roumania, states that all news from Bulgaria comes at present through official couriers, and that no private jxe son is allowed to enter or leave Bulgaria. Thi telegraph lines, the dispatch adds, have all been stopped from operation. The story of the deposition is told as follows : Karaveloff, the Prime Minister, entered the palace at Sofia and explained to Prince Alexander th it the public opinion of Bulgaria was dissatisfied with his policy, and demanded his deposition. Prince Alexander said: “I see no friends; I can not resist." Prince Alexander was taken completely by surprise. He was astounded at the sudden bursting cf the plot upon him. Penny subscriptions are being tyken in England for tho purpose of presenting a testimonial to Premier Salisbury. The official estimates of the Prussian crops states that the wheat yield will equal 95 percent of the average crop; rye, 87; barley, 97; oats, 101, and potatoes, 98.