Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Governor of Missouri ha 3 signed a bill which places St Louis under the operation of the Downing law. This statute demands the closing of beer gardens and saloons, and prohibits the running of streetcars, the publication of newspapers, and all kinds of traffic on Sunday. - The differences between the old and new Cotton Men’s Councils at New Orleans, resulting in a strike, have paralyzed the trade, and no cotton can be shipped or sold. The old counoil of workers refuses t j disband and join the new organization. Paul Tulane, the philanthropist, died at Princeton, N., J. aged 07. Mrs. Mary Manning, who was born in Ireland in 1782, died last week at Wakefield, Mass. Hon. John H. Reagan met with a severe accident at bis reanonce, near Palestine, Texas. The Senator is in the habit of taking horseback exerc.se every morning before breakfast. One morning, in mounting liis horse for his customary ride, the saddle, being insecurely fastened, turned with his weight, throwing him violently tj tha gro-und, inflicting a severe injury to bis spine. While his injuries are serious, no fatal results are anticipated. The first application ou the files of the interstate commerej commission i 3 from the associated roads of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama, asking exemption from the short-haul clause of tho law, because of river competition. it is stated that the Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad will go before the interstate commission with a d.stinct and definite proposal for the readjustment of the road's financial relations. Emperor William received 1,048 cougratu.atory telegrams on bis recent birthday. Sixty of the number were sent from tha United States. Mr. Parnell, considers the Irish criminal law amendment bill one of the strongest coercive measures ever proposed in Parliament. Father Ryan, of the Herbertstown brauon of the Irish National League, has been arrestad and taken to Dublin for refusing to testify in relation to the plan of campaign. The yacht Dauntless passed the finishing line at Queenstown at (5:45 o’clock Monday evening, March 28, her actual time on passage being 16 days, 1 hour, 45 minutes, 13 seconds. All on board were well, and the yacht was in as good shape as when she left New York. A London dispatch says: “The officers of the Coronet and other yachtsmen are greatly pleased with the result of the race, and say it has served to show admirable qualities in both yaclit3. Considering the difference in the tonnage, tha length of the two yachts, and the extraordinarily heavy weather which prevailed during the voyage, the Dauntless is thought to have done as well as her competitor. ” Sentences of imprisonment for from one 10 twenty years have been impose! upon thirteen anarchists at Vienna who plotted to lire the city and blow up the imperial palac3 with dynamite. Inquiries set on foot by the Navy Department a year ago allow that the railroads can tran-port boats 110 feet in length, and by way of the Erie Canal torpedo boats 100 feet long can be taken from the Atlantic Ocean to ibe upper lakes. Last week there were 432,387 standard s.lver dollars issued.

Experiments tried with a new electrical device for use in feeding sheets of paper to printing presses prove quJe successful. It is automatic, and notice of any trouble is sigualed at once by ringing a bell. Corneille, tlie great French dramatist, was born at lioueu in 1606, and died iu 1084. Tlie tragedy of “The Cid” is his most famous work.