Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1887 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Mexican Commission now examining into the recent seismic disturbance in the Sierra Madre Mountains, have sent the following dispatch to Gov. Torres, of Sonora: In the puebla of Babispe City seven persons were kil.ed and nineteen injured; in Oputo nine w ere killed, and both pueblaa were destroyed. The inhabitants of Babispe, Baceraca, Oputo, and Guaaabas are living in the fields under trees and in dug-outs. There have been repeated successions of shocks. A panic existed everywhere,and a number of women died from Iriglit. A wide extent of territory is seamed with crevices and immense chasms. The earth has sunk in many places and is flooded with water, making swamps where water never existed before. In many mountains are to be seen what appear to be eruptions, and continuous smoke indicates volcanic action. This region has not yet been explored, owing to continuous tremors and great chasms, making the approach thereto at present most difficult and dangerous. “Mr. Blaine, Gov. Bodwell, and others of his lieuteuante,” says an Augusta (Me.) dispatch, “are preparing for the summer at Bar Harbor. It is not believed that Blaine will go to Europe June 6as announced, since in that event he will lose his grip of the labor vote and will be unable to watch Sherman. A conference of Repub.ican leaders will be held at Bar Harbor this summer, when the pulse of the party will be felt By the time Mr. Blaine closes his cottage he expects to know whether it will be possible for him to get the nomination in 1888. In case his strength in the Presidential line fails him it is fully believe 1 he will conclude to go back to the Senate.”

George E. Reed, City Treasurer of Bismarck, D. T., has d sappeared, and his accounts are $9,000 short Reed, who is supposed to have gone to Canada, took his bond with him, thus relieving his sureties of obligation to pay the deficit A plan is on foot at Lima, Ohio, to organize a producers’ oil exchange to oppose the Standard Oil Company. The leaders claim that under the interstate commerce law they could obta n equal rates with the Standard and thus be able to enter into competition with the great monopoly. Some time ago New York paper published a sensational story of alleged hardships and indignities inflicted upon the Apache captives at Fort Pickens, Florida. A report just submitted to General Sheridan by the Inspector General of the Division of the Atlantic says the captives occupy clean and wholesome quarters, and are docile and obedient As to their treatment the report is silent Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, in a public address in that city, denounced Henry George’s land theory as “a fallacy against both philosophy and common sense, and as against the teachings of the Catholic Church.” He also stigmatized as “error” the idea that the Pope has the right to command and be obeyed only m matters of faith and morals. Henry George will, doubtless, fire another nine-column paragraph at the Archbishop. Gen. Boulanger’s plan for the mobilization of the French army causes uneasiness at Berlin. If France mobilizes Germany will mobilize also. , The boycott is still in vogue in Ireland. The latest victim is the agent of Lord Clanricardc’s estates in County Galwav. Extensive preparations are now being made for the great International Sunday School Convention which meets in Chicago on the night of May 31st, and continues June Ist, 2d, 3d, and 4th. Battery D has been engaged, and will have chairs to accommodate 4,000 persons soon in place, and extensive decorations are in progress. Nearly all of the railroads in the United .States have made arrangements to return at one-tinrd fare all who pay full fare to the convention. Persons wishing to avail themselves of reduced rates must receive from Mr. B. F. Jacobs, Chairman of the Executive Committee, No. 99 Washington street, certificates, which will be furnished ou application. The prospects are that the attendanco will be very large. In order to accommodate those desiring to attend outside of Chicago, reserved seats will bo sold to others than regular delegates for $1.53, good for the entire convention.