Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1887 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

William O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, arrived in New York City last week. He was met by a reception committee and an address of welcome read. Bishop Ireland arrived by the same vessel A demand has been made by the miners in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania for an advance in wages <ff 10 per cent Should a strike be ordered 90.0C0 men, most of them with families, will be involved. Charges are preferred that the Louisville, Evansville and St Louis Bailroad has violated the interstate law by contracting to take corn to the*seaboard from East St Louis, but in reality moving it only to Louisville, the scheme being to cut the Louisville rate under cover of billing, and making a virtual reduction of 33 per cent from the regular tariff between St Louis and Louisville. Two charges, it is reported, will be filed against the offender in the United States Court The four McCoys have been indicted at Portsmouth, Ohio, for the murder of Dr. Northrup. The killing is said to have grown out of a whisky-selling case, in which Northrup was the prosecuting witness. The funeral of the late W. C. De Pauw, at New Albany, Ind., was one of the largest ever seen in Indiana, there being not less than 2,530 meu marching in the procession, while a multitude gathered in the house and through the spacious grounds surrounding. Business in the city was entirely suspended during the hours of the funeral and all the stores were closed. A great number of business houses, banks, etc., were draped in mourning. The city buildings were festooned with crap’s, and theMlags on the public buildings were floating at half-mast

A dispatch from Guaymas, Mexico, says that “earthquake shocks continue at Ures. Many buildings are cracked and rendered unsafe. Nobody has been hurt, but the inhabitants are leaving as frftet as.possible. A large slice of a mountain near the town fell down with a terrible crash and the friction of the rocks ignited the woods, causing a belief that a volcano had broken out At Delicias Santa Elena mine the earthquake caused a great panic. A whole hill fell down, scattering rocks among 150 persons. Fortunately no one was hurt” According to the statistics of the Emigration Commissioners of New York City, showing the destination of the immigrants who arrived at that port last year, Illinois is the third State in the Union, New York being first and Pennsylvania second. The total number was 300,887, of which New York retained 109,554, Pennsylvania received 42,103, and Illinois 25,502. The Attorney General has given an opinion to the effect that the Director of the Mint has no authority to invite and pay for new designs for existing coins, wit£ or without the sanction of the Secretary of the Treasury. W. W. Vrooman, socialist editor of the -Labor Organizer of Kansas City, was arrested at Allegheny City, Pa., to save him from getting mobbed In a speech he declared that “the American flag was a pole with a rag on it” A London cablegram to a New York paper says that Mr. Parnell is really in a critical state of health, and that his absolute withdrawal from public life can not be long delayed. His malady is believed to be cancer of the stomach. The Hungarian Go vernment is about to make a contract with Herr Nordenfe dt to establish a small-arms factory at Pesth with a capital of 4,000,000 florins. Hungary will donate the land, exempt the property from taxation for fifteen years, and will guarantee an order for 400,000 rifles, to be delivered in two yea r.«. Tile movements of the Russians in Asia wear a sinister aspect It is rumored at Calcutta that they are collecting supplies at Chardjui, about two hundred miles from the Afghan frontier, preparatory to an advance bn Khamaib. There is liable to be exciting news from that part of the world in the near future.