Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — THE WORLD IN A WORD. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD IN A WORD.

The Latest Intelligence, Domestic and Foreign, Transmitted Over the Electric Wires. Political, Railroad, and Commercial News, Accidents, Fires, Crimes, Etc., Etc. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. WINTER WEATHER. Snow In the Northwest—Eight Inches In Michigan—Six Degrees Below Zero lu Montana—Red River Frozen Over at Fargo. The thermometer at Billings, M. T., on Monday night, registered fifteen degrees below zero. Four inches of snow had fallen. Fargo (Dak.) dispatch: “The cold wave that struck this section last night sent the thermometer down to six above zero. Bed Biver was frozen so that persons cross on the ice. Oldest settlers do not remember a season when it froze over so early.” Mason City (Iowa) special: “The first heavy enow of the season in this section of the State fell Monday. It snowed almost continuously throughout the entire day. In tho morning it was accompanied by a heavy wind. Tho ground is frozen several inches, and it ends the plowing for this year. Farmers are well prepared and protected for the winter.” A Gaylord (Mich.) dispatch says: “A terrific snowstorm has beou raging here for two days, and the snow is now eight inches deep.” A Waupaca (Wis.) dispatch says snow fell thero to the depth of six inches.

STREWN WITH WRECKS. Take Shipping Has Suffered Terribly by the Recent Severe Storin. The storm that raged on tho lakes on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, says a Chicago spocial, caused some serious and many minor disasters. Word comes from Sand Beaoh, Mich., of the wreck of the barges Dolphin and Morris, and a dispatch from Cleveland states that the schooner Zach Chandler is broken in two on a bar off Noble Station, ten miles east of that city. A large vessel foundered near Port Dalhousie, Ontario, and five persons wore lost The propellor Delaware was driven ashore near Cheboygan, Mich. The schooner George Sherman went to pieces off Marquette, Mich. The schooner James F. Joy sunk in 100 feet of water off Ashtabula, Ohio. Numerous other craft were driven ashore by the tremendous force of the gale, and many of them will prove total wrecks. The losses will reach into tho millions.

WATCHING THE ANARCHISTS. Extra Police Precautions Taken in View of the Approaching Execution. A Chicago special says: “At each of the police stations throughout the city a number of officers are detailed to the sole duty of maintaining surveillance on the movements of auspected anarchists in their respective districts. A knowledge of the German tongue to a greater or less degree is incumbent upon a majority of the men in each detail. As tho critical date approaches and apprehensions increase, tho vigilance of the police is redoubled, and not a verein, bund, gesollschaft, or any society of dubious title or secret motives can hold a session without its quota or polioa agents in attendance. The heads of the department claim to be steadily informed of tho comings and goings, plans and projects, of every group and individual anarchist in the city, but how they do it is a professional secret.” disasters in the business world. Failure ot Rood & Maxwell, Lumbermen, of Washburn, AVls.—Other Assignments. The lumber firm of Hood & Maxwell, of Washburn, Wis., made an assignment after the Third National Bank of St Paul had attached over $35,000 worth of their property to satisfy a claim of $308,000. The liabilities Will reach $450,100. According to Maxwell’s statement he can wipe out every claim and still be worth SIOO,OOO. The schedules of Horace Webster & Co., wholesale liquor dealers in Now York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, Bhow liabilities of $705,730; the probable value of the assets, according to the assignee, about $250,000. Ashwobth & Downey, waste dealers, Philadelphia, have suspended, and their large mill in Chester, Pa., is in the hands of tho Sheriff. Their liabilities have been variously estimated at from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO, with the total nearer the latter figure.

MOB LAW. Two Negroes Lynched in Louisiana. Pebby King and Drew Green (colored) Mere lynched near Winnsborough, La. Two young ladies, daughters of Mrs. Barker, postmistress at Lamar, were awakened by a noise at their window and saw a negro entering their room. They screamed and assistance came, and the negroes made off, but left an ax behind by which they were identified. Perry King and Drew Green were accordingly arrested and were about to be conveyed to the parish jail when a mob of fifty men interfered, took the prisoners from the guard carried them a short distance, and lynched them. Minor Telegrams. Ik a venire of seventeen jurors, all of them Mormons, at Salt Lake, twelve refused to tako the oath required by the Tucker-Edmunds law. * The movement of Russian troops toward Afghanistan continues. The Czar is well prepared for any emergency that may arise in that part of the world.