Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1887 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

John Jamesxa has resigned the general supermtendency of the Railway Mail Service. His successor is Thomas E. Nash, Chief Clerk of the Postoffice Department The President has allowed the act appropriating $400,000 a year to provide arm-* and equipments for the militia to become a law without his signature. Secretary Mannirg called at the White House lfc-.t week aud placed his resignation in the hands of the President The letter of resignation or the name of Mr. Manning’s successor will probably not be made public for some time. The theaters and restaurants were the only public places in New Orleans open last Sunday, for the first time in the history of that city. The saloon men have decided to apply for an injunction against tho gas and electric light companies. Emile Paul, of New York, won several thousand dollars for himself and i ackers by eating eighty-two quails in forty-one days. Ho now offers to bet SSOO that he can dispose of thirteen in one day. It is alleged by the Toronto Standard that au association of iron-workers has been formed in Pittsburgh to assist the Liberal party in the Dominion in defeating Sir John A. Macdonald’s Government, and that a large amount of money was recently sent by Americans to Nova Scotia to secure less stringent fishery regulations. The Czar refuses to disclose his intontioas in case of a Franco-Gennau war. Greeea has given to France permission to excavate Delphi for remains of the temple. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that China is massing troops iu Kashgar and Kuldja, and that 3 >,003 men are already assembled in those districts. The Germans erected at Cummersdorf an exact model of the forts along tl>e French frontier, and destroyed it in forty-eight hours by using a new explosive. A large number of men are engaged in strengthening the fortifications at Cadiz. The Austrian Government has quadrupled the staff of the Steyr rifle factory and given considerablo woik to other shops.

A resolution was adopted by the Senate on the 14th requesting the President to furnish copies of all correspondence relating to tho Cutting affair. Senator Butler introduced a bill for the erection of a national memorial bridge over the Potomac River from Washington to Arlington. Mr. Cullom presented a memorial in tllo Senate from tho Illinois House of Representatives in favor of pensioning soldiers over 60 years of age. The Senate adopted a resolution requesting the President to search the records for information as to the services rendered in the Revolutionary War bv Count Pulaski. A petition was received from colored citizens of Mississippi asking SIOO each to transport them to Liberia, on the ground that “the country can very W3ll dispense with their presence.” The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: Receiver of Public Moneys, Everett B. Sanders, of Elroy, Wis., at Wasau, Wis. Surveyor of Customs, John Vanderlinge, of Missouri for the port of St. Joseph, Mo. Postmasters—At White Haven, Pa , Alvin Arnold; G 1 isgow, Ky., James A. Smith; Bellevue, Ohio, Gustave Dangeleisen; Delphos, Ohio. Charles E Shenk; Kewauee, 111., Andrew F. Bigelow; Pontiac, lU., Mark A. Renoe ; Marshall, 111., Peter Conohy; Princeton, 111., James M. McConiho ; Muskegon, Mich , Frank H. Holbrook ; St. Ignace, Mich., Michael F. Mulcrone; St. Charles, Minn., Hiram W. Hill; Russel, Kan., Roy S. Gildings; Wilson, Kan., C. F. Keyner; Schuyler, Neb., Levi C. Smith. Thomas B. Connery, of New York, was confirmed as Secretary of Legation at the City of Mexico. The House of Representatives tabled a resolution calling for certain informa tion iu regard to employes and materials in the various navy yards. Bills were introduced for a commission to rev.se the pension laws, for full reciprocity between the United States and Canada, and for a constitutional amendment requiring the election of Senators by the people. Mr. Lawler, of Illinois, offered the following rosolu ion: “That the Secretary of State be requested to inform the House whether the treaty of Ghent, by which peace was consummated between the United States and Great Britain in December, 1814, and ratified by the Senate in February, 1815, is construed to inhibit tho United States from maintaining an effective navy on the Northern lakes i ordering the Dominion of Canada; and, also, whether the construction by Great Britain of the Welland canal is notin effect a violation of the treaty of Ghent, and, in case of war with that country, a menace to the safety of our lake-board cities." The resolution was referred.