Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1888 — 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. CBEMATED. A Boarding House Swept Away in the Night Like Tinder—A Dozen of the Occupants Consumed with the Burning Structure. A fire occurred at Tower, Minn., and a dozen persona perished. A dispatch from the scene of the horror gives the following meager particulars: Fire broke out in the Barnaby boarding house and saloon, onithemain street of the town, and before the inmates could be awakened the structure was a sheet of flames. Twelve men are known to have been burned to death. The bodies taken out were burned to a crisp and entirely unrecognizable. When the danger was fully understood the scene in the house was terrible. Men fought with each other in the narrow passageways like wild beasts in their endeavor to roach an exit first, the consequence being that most of those engaged in the struggle perished. Ono escaped, and tells the story of the panic. A friend and room-mate of one of the boarders, who was laid up with rheumatism, tried to get his partner out. He got him as far as the front door, aud finding that locked kicked it open. Turning around he could not face the flames, and was compelled to let his companion perish, and barely escaped with his own life. The mercury was 56 below zero, and absolutely nothing could be done to extinguish the flames. Of the men taken from the ruins two were found lying together in one corner of the building, in a way that indicated that they had suffocated in bed. The others are thought to have been caught on the stairs leading from the third floor in their efforts toescape. Some of the men who eicaped from the third story BScV there were eight or ten men behind them In the hallway. Most of the dead were woodmen.

CHICAGO HAS THE CALL. It Is Said the Lake City Is Ahead in the Contest for the Democratic Convention. A Washington spacial to tho Chicago Herald wakes t jo direct statement that— The Democratic Convention will bo held in New York City in deference to the expressed wishes of the President that the same courtesy be extended him as was shown Abrahum Lincoln by the .Republicans, when he requested that he be permitted to indicate his preference as to where tho Republican National Convention of 1864 should meet. Western Democrats absolutely deny that any such preference has been expressed by the President, and it is Known that ho pointedly repealed all offers to commit himself to afiy bn6 of tho Contesting cities. It may bo asserted with reasonable positiveness that, while the President is not indifferent in tho matter, ho will be content with whatever may be decided by tho National Committee at its meeting in this city. So far as can be ascertained, the members of tho committee have had no opportunity for exchanging, views on tho matter, but well-in-formed persons express the opinion that a Western city will be selected, preferably Chicago, and that Chicago is already fur ahead in the race, if for no other reason that the Republicans have thrown down the gauntlet to the Democrats to try the conclusion of 1881 over again. While a certain coterie of New York Democrats want the convention held in that city the movement is not in tho special interest of Mr. Cleveland. Echoes of the IMizzarcl. A St. Paul paper states that 235 persons perished in the recent blizzard. An unknown man was found frozen to death three feet from the door of John Ward’s dwelling, near Fulda, Minn. The thermometer at Chippewa Falls, Wis., registered 68 below, and at other points it stood at 40 and SJ. On the Missouri Pacific tho coal trains were stopped at Shelton and unloaded by the people. Fort Keogh can probably claim the honor of the widest range of temperature of any place on earth. On the occasion of the recent blizzard tho thermometer marked G 5 below. During the hot weather of last summer it ranged from 123 to 130. This makes a range of 195 degrees within the year. The recant storm was one of the severest, if not the most severe, ever known fa that region. Edward Dunn, a prominent cattl»-buyer, was found frozen to death dear Adrian, Mich.

Heath of Grandma Garfield. Grandma Gabfield died at Mentor, Ohio, at the ripe age of 80. She will be remembered with affection and interest as the mother of the President whoso administrative career was cut short by Guiteau’s bullet. Her health had been failing for a long time. Telegrams in Brief. A gas well near Dunkirk, N. Y., is yielding' 1,000,000 feet per day. A kibe at Montreal, Canada, destroyed property to the value of $300,000. The felt roofing manufacturers met in Now York, formed a “trust,” and advanced the price of felt 25 cents a roll. The firm of Kurtz, Blanchard & Co., New York, dealers in bags, made an assignment, with preferred debts to the amount of $112,000. Beeweb Arensdorf, who was twice tried for the Haddock murder, spent a fortune. His defense cost him over $175,000, and he is ■ now reduced to traveling for a Milwaukee concern. Congressman Hayes of lowa, who as Judge decided the prohibitory law to be invalid, returned a petition to Washington ladies in favor of prohibition in the District of Columbia, declining to lay it before Congress. William Murdock, an old resident of Pittsburgh, was victimized by a bunko man out of $10,003. Ho was met by a man who had just drawn $20,001 in a lottery and got a certificate cashed. Mb. Crisp, of Georgia, called up the Thoebe case in the House of Representative on the 21st of January, the pending question being on the resolution of the majority of the Committee on Elections confirming Mr. Carlisle's title to his seat. The vote resulted, yeas 140, nays b; no quorum. Mr. Crisp, stating that the vote had disclosed the fact that there was no quorum present, moved that the House.adjourn, which was agreed to; yeas 139, nays 123-a strict party vote, . _