Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1887 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

William J. Vickery, of Indiana, has been appointed as fourth assistant examiner in the Patent Office; George W. Morgan, of Arkansas, has been appointed chief of the preemption division in the General Liu# Office; Robert Kenny has baen appointed storekeeper at Chicago in the First Illinois District; Thoa. G. Rsames, Postoffice Inspector on mail depredations at Portland, Oregon, has resigned. The President has appointed these Postmasters: Michigan—Greenville, Charles L. Hocox; Manistee, James Dempsey, Sr.; lowa—West Liberty, Thomas P. Mitchell; Nebraska — Norfolk, Charles B. Durland; Sterling, Chas. C. Ellis; West Point, Mary O. Sullivan; Wahoo, Charles J. Harrison. Col. Dorshe’mer denies that be has seen a letter from the President positively declining to be a candidate for a second term. The Indians in the Winnebago and Crow Creek Reservations are said to have put on war-paint, and mean trouble. For some time they have been holding war dances and singing war songs. Chicago elevators and vessels contain 13,630,184 bushels of wheat, 12,538,415 bushels of corn, 1,245,065 bushels of oats, 141,687 bushels of rye, and 70,614 bash els of barley; total, 27,626,161 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 16,226,620 bushels a year ago. A five-story brick building on Dearborn street, Chicago, occupied by Schniedewend 4 Lee, manufacturers of and dealers in printers’ supplies, was completely gutted by fire. Tho loss on building and stock is estimated at $120,000; insurance, SBO,OOO. The Chicago Daily News, commenting editorially upon the verdict in the SchwartzWatt case, recently tried at Morris, 111., says: Within forty-eight hours after the Sioux City disagreement a fury in Grundy County, Illinois, rendered a verdict which commands the respoct and confidence of every unprejudiced observer of the developments of tho trial. The case was much more complex and obscure than that submitted to the Woodbury County jury. The evidence was purely circumstantial, and involved the examination of over a hundred witnesses, occupying two weeks and a half in testestifying, and the defense was conducted by five able lawyers. A week was consumed in selecting the jury out of upward of two hundred individuals summoned; but the character of the community from which they were selected may be fairly inferred from the fact that the State used less than one-half of its peremptory challenges, while the defense failed to exhaust those to which it was entitled. There was no prejudice or bias for or against the accused of which it was necessary for either side to be wary. When the twelve good men and true were sworn both prosecution and defense were satisfied that an honest verdict on the evidence would be rendered. With unwearied patience these twelve men sat and attentively listened for fifteen days to the testimony of luti witnesses, weighing carefully, impartially, and intelligently the evidence of each, and at the close they had arrived at a positive conviction of the complicity of Schwartz and Watt in the murder of Kellogg Nichols. The mauy casual readers of disconnected scraps of the evidence are not competent judges of the tax made upou these men. Nothing short of an earnest desire to faithfully discharge a sworn duty, operating upon minds alive to tho sacredness of the law and free lrom sickly sentimentality upon the one hand and sympathy with the criminal classes ou tbe other, could command such concentration and fidelity. Their verdict js more than the avenging of Nichols’ murder.” It is a reflex of the moral sentiment which dominates , the community in which they live. A Washington special says the Canadian Pacific is carrying sugar from the Pacific coast to St Paul at lower rates than prevailed on American lines before the order of suspension. The Yosburg Manufacturing Company’s building at Brooklyn, N. Y., was burned, creating a loss of $2(40,0,0. June 22 is officially set apart as tbe day for observing the royal jubilee in Canada. The nephew of a high official in the Russian army has been arrested on suspicion of having informed the nihilists of the movements of the Czar. The Glasgow (Scotland) Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution declaring that the system of trade bounties and protection adoptod by other countries has so injured English trade that there is justification for asking Great Britain to revise her fiscal relations. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions affirming unabated confidence in free traefe as the best national commercial policy.