Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Intelligence Gathered In by Wire from Every Quarter of the Nation. Also a Few News Sandwiches from Lands Beyond the Broad Ocean. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. COUNTING THE DEAD. One Hundred and Forty Fatalities Hesult from Sunstroke at Chicago in Three Days. A complete census of the mortality in Chicago caused by the lately existing hot weather will probably never be made, says a dispatch from that city. The full story of the suffering entailed by it can never be told. It is doubtful if the citizens realize yet what a calamity it was, and how dreadful its results. A glance, however, at the books of the Coroner’s office, with their long list of entries, each one telling of a suddoa death, and a look into the morgue, where bodies lie piled like cordwooJ, waiting until official action will permit their burial, bear witness to the of the heat plague. With a few exceptions it has been possible to gather tho list of those whose death is directly attributable to sunstroke, but the number of those attacked, and wh< more or lass narrowly escaped dissolution, cannot ba known. How many there wera who died, and whose death was attributed to other causes than sunstroke, but who would tprobably have recovered from their then existing ailment) had it not been for the prostration caused by the intense heat, will always remain a conundrum. Hut putting aside ail these questious the single list of those whosa death is attributed solely to heat is a sufficiently awful Tecord. Tho following table shows the cases of sunstroke reported up to Monday morning, and occurring on the three previous days: Dead.. 141 Dying 22 Recovered... ‘27 Will recover 9 Total .....199 Never before in the history of Chicago has there been so much work for the Coroner—not excepting the time of the great fire or any of the few epidemics with which the city, has been visited.

ML’KDKBED A MISSIONARY. Archbishop Segliers Killed by a Servant in the Wild* of Alaska. Information' com b from Ouualanka, Alaska, that Archbishop Segliers, a Catho'ic missionary, was murdered at night m November last, on the banks of the Yukon, about five hundred miles from its mouth, and fully sixty miles from any human habitation, by Frank Fuller, a young man from Portland, Oregon, who accompanied the Bishop as a companion and servant Fuller gave himself up. No cause for the deed is given. The murderer is now iu Sitka, where he will be tried. The Bishop was formerly of Baltimore, Md., and prior to being named Bishop of Alaska was Archbishop of Oregon and Washington Territory. Ho left for Alaska last summer to perform missionary work among the Indians, but was allowed by the Papal See to retain his honorary title of Archbishop. THE NATIONAL GAME. A Hot Fight for the Base-Hall Championship—Detroit and St Louis Still Leading. Detroit still leads in the contest for the base-ball championship of the National League, while in the American Association 4 - Von der Abe’s St Louis nine continues to lead the field. The following tables show the standing of tho clubs in the two associations: ''"ZONAL LEAGUE. _ , PercentClubs. Played. Won. Lost. age Detroit 0!i 41 *1 „oi Chicago (VJ 37 23 ioiO Boston 02 37 25 505 New York.... 00 33 31 530 Philadelphia 04 32 32 50' Pittsburg 00 21 30 '4OJ Washington 58 23 35 '305 Indianapolis 02 18 41 />go AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. , _ PercontClubs. Played. Won. Lost age. Bt. Louis 71 52 LI 732 Baltimore 08 41 27 'OOI Cincinnati 76 41 32 '.578 Louisville 72 40 32 553 Brooklyn 64 32 32 ioOO Athletic 71 33 38 .404 Metropolitan 07 19 48 283 Cleveland 68 17 51 '.‘250 Trouble Over Newfoundland Fisheries. A St. John’s (N. F.) telegram says: “There is trouble brewing between the French and Newfoundland fishermen. The commander of the French war ship Drac has driven Newfoundland fishermen away from certain portions of the coast at the point of the bayonet The French are encroaching upon fishinggrounds hitherto exclusively used by English fishermen.” Alinor Telegrams. It is stated that plans for the organization of womon an l girls in trade unions are being quiotly perfected at Boston, which city expects to be pioneer in a movement that, it is hoped, will spread to other cities. A Columbia (S. C.) special says: “Oxey Cherry, an 11-year-old colored girl of Barnwell, has been convicted of the murder of her little white charge, and was sentenced, to be hanged in September. The young criminal -was hired out by her parents to nurse a white baby. Tho work was distasteful to her and she administered a dose of concentrated lye.” At Nelson, Neb., a farmer named Conrad was taken from jail and lynched by a moh, Conrad had been arrested for the murder and robbery of r-othr • farmer named Henry £Ulen.