Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1887 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Eben F. Pillsbttry, a well known New England Democratic politician, died last week in Boston. Martin Y. B. Smith, a New York leather merchant, has failed, with preferences amounting to $122,193. Commissioners appointed by the Masonic Grand Lodge of New York have expelled nine objectionable characters from Prudence Lodge, among them being Jere Dunn and Tom Gould. A rich vein of gold-bearing quartz is said to have been discovered near Atlanta, Ga. In the suit brought against the Customs Collector at Chicago by the importers of two hundred bags of potato starch, Judge Blodgett decided that the article could not be classed as farina, but must pay duty. Nathan Falk, a traveling salesman, charged with stealing 3,000 cigars, threw himself over a baluster in the Chamber of Commerce, at Denver, Colo., and falling seventy foet, was fatally injured. The failure of George S. Crawford, a Cincinnati lumberman, for SIIO,OOO, caused the collapse of the Boyd Manufacturing Company, which owes $250,000, and of S. W. & G. Boyd, with large liabilities. Creditors not preferred are likely to fare badly. The effort to procure the withdrawal of the Prohibition ticket in Michigan is a failure. The law extending the free-delivery system will not go into effect practically until July 1, as no appropriation is available until that time. The Missouri Pacific Road reports for 1886 gross earnings of $15,682,711, and a net income of $8,374,124. George J. Gould was chosen acting President. The Beading Boad has granted an iner. aso of 8 to 15 per cent, in the wagos of its employes at Philadelphia. Cable dispatches announce the failure of an attempt to kitl both the Czar aadthe Czarina with dynamite bombs, It is said that a well-organized plot has been discovered in ltu. s a to overthrow the Czar’s government and to 0.-.tabliah a limited constitutional government The plot has no connection with nihilism, its promoters being large laud-own-ers aud traders. News has been received from Emin Bey to the effect that in November last he was making desperate but ineffectual efforts to break away from his savage surroundings. The Prussian Minister to the Vatican suggests that tho Pope convene a European congress to settle the Eastern and Egyptian questions.