Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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A large party of stock-breeders called at the White House the other day, and invited President Cleveland to attend the national horse, cattle and hog convention to be held next fail in Chicago. Replying to a communication from the American Fisheries Union of Massachusetts, President Cleveland says: “The retaliation contemplated by the act [of retaliation] of Congress is to bo enforced, not to protect solely any particular interest, however meritorious or valuable, but to maintain the national honor, and thus protect all our people. ” St. Louis telegram: “Advices from Fort Gibson, L T., say 'hat James G. Blaine is sick with a severe cold and is threatened with pneumonia. The latost reports say that ‘Mr. Blaine is doing well; only slight fever; pulse good, 80 per minute; respiration, 15.’ ” At Richmond, Ind., Mrs. Jonas Bennett walked out on the bridge over the Whitowater River, and leaped seventy-five feet into the water, expiring almost instantly. She waß a bride of three days. A Huron (Dakota) special says: “Two immense prairie fires have burned over a laige portion of this county. Six houses and many more barns were destroyed by the flames. Eight milo3 south of Huron, Edward Maloney and a young lady named Annie Maron lost their lives by the fire, and Edward Maloney’s sister Katie is so badly burned by the same fire that her recovery is doubtful. All of them occupied the same house, and the young ladies startod to run to a field that had been plowed last fall They failed to reach it, with the results stated.” “Mr. Blaine is still very sick, but his condition is not considered dangerous by tlie attending physicians—Dr. Mudd, of St Louis, and Dr. Berne, the Post Surgon," says a Fort Gibson dispatch of the 11th inst “Tho official bulletin of the examination this morning says the pulse is TO, soft and easy, temperature normal, bronchitis better, but tlie hoarseness has not yet subsided. Mr. Blaine developed eymptons of pneumonia last' night, but rested well during the night, and was for a space of several hours clear of all fever. Dr. Mudd was asked whether both or only one lung had been attacked, and said he did not care about going into -details. CoL Coppinger said tho phvsicianß have ordered that Mr. Blaine be hot moved.”