Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1887 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Acting Secretary of the Treasury Las issued a call for $10,000,000 3 per cent bonds. The call will mature April 1. Miss Catherine Augusta Patten was married at Washington to Congressman John M Glover, of St Louis, by the Rev. Father Chappelle, of St. Aloysios’ Roman Catholic Church. Those present included some of the most distinguished people, socially and politically. Washington special : “ Carlisle’s friends say that they think he will not accept the leadership of the Treasury Department It is generally believed the President is very much incaned to offer him the place, but will probably not formally do so without knowing Carlisle’s sentiments on the subject On the whole, it does not look as though Mr. Carlisle would become Secretary.” The business men of Minneapolis have tendered to the State of Minnesota a Capitol site and building, the latter to cost <2,003,000. The belief that the Union Pacific Road is about to build to Sioux City, lowa, has caused a boom there in real estate. The resignation of Judge Samuel Treat of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has been forwarded to the President. The cause of the resignation is understood to be that the Judge devotes his time to private business. He is 71 years of age, and was appo'nted by President Pierce. The first returns from the elections in Germany show that the Government suffered defeat in the six districts of Ber.in. The Government will probably hive a majority in the Reichstag. Surprise is expressed at the strength shown by the Socialists throughout the empire. A Berlin dispatch says: The elections in this city have resulted unfavorably for all the Government candidates. In four of the six divisions second ballots will be necessary, but in each of these divisions the anti-septenate candidate has at present a majority. The net result of the Berlin voting is as follows: Socialist, 90,107, a gain of 22,000; Septenist, 69,878; new German Liberal, 65,884. The Government “parties have gained 13,000 votes, and the new German Liberals have lost 5,000. An analysis of the polling shows that the contest was unprecedentedly stubborn. As the night advanced the excitement became intense. Thousands of people surrounded tne newspaper offices awaiting special editions giving eturns. It is stated that Singer and Hasenclevcr have each over 12,000 majority in this city. The result in Hamburg is a triumph for the Social Democrats, two of whose candidates are returned by large majorities. The steamer La Bourgogne made New York from Havre in seven days and eighteen hours, or six days and eighteen hours from Queenstown. The St. Paul Road has let the contract for the extension of its tracks this season from Merrill to Fairbank Lake, a distance of fifty-three miles, to reach the lumber region. Harvey E. Light, proprietor of the Eureka Steamboat Company, made an assignment at Rochester, N. Y. The assets are $45,000, wiih liabilities of $60,000. Mr. Beecher, in his Sunday sermon at Brooklyn, expressed his opinion that a m in who believes in hell is a candidate for a lunatic asylum.

A resolution authorizing the Ordnance Committee to sit in Washington during the recess, and to associate with it three naval officers. was adopted by the Senate February 21. The Senate passed the river and harbor appropriation and the bill to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. A bill was introduced to locate at Columbus, Tenn., an arsenal for the manufacture of ordnance and ordnance stores. The President sent to the Senate messages vetoing bills granting pensions to John D. Fincher and Rachael Ann Pierpont. As to the first-named case, the President maintains that the disability for which the pension is asked was not incurred in the service, and as to the latter case the President says that since the bill was introduced a pension has been granted to the claimant by the Pension Office at the same rate authorized in the bill. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Amos M. Thayer, of Missouri, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri. In the House of Representatives Mr. Henderson of North Carolina, from the Committee on Elections, submitted a report on the Indiana contested-election case of Kidd against Steele. The report, which is unanimous, confirms the right of the contestee (Steele) to the seat.