Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Up to Oct. 1 there had been shipped, in round numbers, 2,700,000 gross tons of ironore from the harbors of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

Mayor Harrison, in his annual message to the Chicago Council, reports the bonded debt of the city at $12,695,500. The Police Department cost $1,079,374 for the year, the Fire Department $717,635, and the schools $2,062,808. With the improvements in progress at the Water-works, a capacity of 154,000,000 gallons per day will be reached. The buildings annually erected average fifteen miles in frontage. The death rate of 18.76 per 1,000 is the, lowest of any large city. There are eighteen patrol-wagons, twenty police stations, five police Courts, and 1,032 members of the force.

Justice Gordon decided in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, at Pittsburgh, that the store-order act of Juno 29, 1881, is unconstitutional and void, inasmuch as by it “persons are prevented from making their own contracts. ” In his opinion Judge Gordon says: “The act is an infringement alike of the rights of the employer and employe, and it is an insulting attempt to put the laborer under legislative tutelage, which is not only degrading to the manhood but subservient to his rights as a citizen of the United States.” The decision caused a great deal of comment in Pittsburgh labor circles. The Labor Tribune advises every labor organization in the State to make a determined fight against the store-order system. John Costello, President of the Pittsburgh Miners’ Association, said: “The decision will be startling nows to the miners. They must necessarily begin a warfare against the pernicious system. ” The President directed the suspension of Berthold Greenebaum, United States Consul at Apia, Samoa. , Professor Wiley, the chemist of the Agricultural Department, who has charge of the sugar-making experiments at Fort Scott, telegraphs that ho has met with complote success in extracting saccharine matter from sorghum. The amount of United States currency outstanding is as follows: Old demand notes $ 57,375 United States notes, all issues (greenbacks).., , 346,631,016 One-year notes of 1863 36,3/5 Two-year notes of 1863 20,200 Compound interest notes 197,010 Fractional currency, all issues 15,329,640 Total $362,331,426 The amount of national bank notes outstanding is $303,082,437, a decrease during the last month of $1,317,308, and a decrease since October 1, 1885, of $13,970,367. This circulation is secured by $65,612,547 in lawful money and $.260,108,400 in bonds, as folloivs: Currency sixes, $3,576,000 ;4% per cents, $56,276,100 ; 4 per cents, $113,740,850; 3 per cents, $86,515,450. The amount of certificates outstanding is: Gold, $84,691,807; silver, $95,387,112, and currency, $7,705,000.

Mrs. T. D. Sullivan, wife of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and a deputation of Irish women presented Mr. Gladstone, at Hawarden, with the mammoth home-rule petition. It bore tho signatures of 500,000 Irish womea After Mrs. Sullivan had read the address of the Irish women, the Mayors of Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and Clonmel presented the freedom of their respective cities to tho exPremier, and thanked him for his chivalrous and splendid efforts to restore Ireland’s Parliament. Mr. Gladstone in reply said: “Whatever may be my condition the Irish people will always largely share my interest and my affection.”

The September fire loss in the United States and Canada was $6,500,000, a slight decrease from the average September loss of previous years. Up to October 1 the aggregate fire waste in 1886 was $83,000,000, against $71,500,000 for tho same period of 1885. At Hartford, Conn., Henry Hotchkiss, a musician, shot and killed his wife on a public street, and then fired a bullet into his own head, inflicting, however, only a slight wound.