Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1887 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The issue of standard silver dollars | last week was 313,714. The license tax imposed in Tennessee ou salesmen from other States has been declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court, as interfering with interstate commerce. The State Department has forwarded to the American Minister at Berlin instructions to investigate the arrest by the German Government of Richard Reabecker, a citizen of Shelby County, IIL Surveyors for the Wisconsin Central Road have laid out a routr Irum j. ortage to Madison. A strong vein of natural gas has been developed at Alexandria, Ini, at a depth of 940 feet • The Kansas quarantine against Canadian cattle has been raised. Gattie kept curing the last twelve months in Cook County, Illinois, are absolutely prohibited from entering lowa. The Congregational clergymen of Chicago, at their regular monthly meeting, declined to send resolutions of condolence to the family of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, for fear they would be considered as an indorsement of his views on future salvation and punishment The case of David S. Fotheringham, charged with being “Jim Cummings’ ” accomplice in the noted Adams Express roubery, was continued at St Lou.s until the July term of court, on account of the illness of one of defendant’s counsel and the inability of the other to be present in the city. The new Cottou-seed Oil Company, which is to compote m the manufacture of cotton-seed oil with tho (standard Oil Company, has been chartered in Camden, N. J., with these officers: President, Henry C. Butcher ; Secretary and Treasurer, John Oliver. Two thousand cases of measles are reported in leading, Pa. A vagrant lying in jail at Augusta, Ky., was soul to Uie mghest bidder for seven-ty-five days. He was knocked down for $1 to the jailer, who turned him loose. Alexander Crawford, colored,charged with murdering V.u Loggiiis, a merchant of Wiuona, Miss., was ta?icn from tho jail at Winona by a mob, and hanged to a trestle. The wroteh made a desperate fight for liis life in his celt. The German Consul General at Sofia has demanded the release o. six iiulgar.au rebels, at the instance of Russia. Tne German Consul at Rustchuk declines to surrender to tiie Bulgarian authorities a leader in the recent revolt named Bqllman, who claimed protection as a Russ an subject. The President has appointed John B. Sackett postmaster at Buffalo, N. Y Presidential, postmasters have been appointed as follows: John McGonigle, San Buenaventura, Cal., vice Mrs. Jenuio Goodwin, resigned; James L. Scott, Mattuon, Id., vie ) John Cunningham, resigned; George Procraskey, Rockport, Ind, vice Lymau S. Gilitey, commission expired; Susan K. . Burch, Georgetown, Ky., vice Milton Burch, deceased; Charles E. Kinder, Miamisburg, 0., vice Henry Boltin, commission expired; Edward J. Wood, McMinuville, Tenu , vice Richard Kennedy, removed. The followiug reappointments as Presidential Postmasters have been made, the Senate having failed to act on the original nominations: William T. Kirk, Atlanta. IIL ; William F. White, Barry, 111.; Samuel P. Tufts, Centralia, Ill.; Agnes Ross, Ravenswood, IIL ; Joel H. Johnson, Woodstock, UL ; John F. Baker, Ellsworth, Kan.; A. M. McPher on, Galena, Kan.; Robert A. A. Pilcher, Olathe, Kan.; James P. Carleton, lowa Falls, Iowa; Richard Burke, What Cheer, Iowa; Maria S. Howlett, Jonesvillo, Mich.; Fred Punier, Ada, Mina ; Gustav Daugeleisen, Bellevue, Ohio; George Perritte, Cannonsburg, Pa.; George W. Dickey, Houtsdale, Pa.; Cyrus A- Eaton, Miffliuburg, Pa.; George W. Lewis, Black River Falls, Wis.