Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — THE WORLD AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

The United States Supreme Court has denied the motion for a rehearing of the Max-well-Preller murder case. Neably 100,000 seals are reported as having been caught the last season off the Newfoundland coast, the largest catch for years. Mb. James W. Dbapeb of Pittsburg, says a telegram from that city, is in receipt of a letter from a personal friend, now in Vienna, a prominent citizen and a wide-awake politician, in which this passage occurs: “I saw Mr. Blaine quite often at Florence, and it is evident that he is very greatly broken in health. He looks every day of 70 years and yet is only 58. Washington excitements and too much hard work have been hie troubles, and any one who sees him will know the reason of his withdrawal from Presidential aspirations, I fear his life will not be spared long.” A vacancy among the Major Generals of the army is created by the placing of General Alfred H. Terry upon the retired list. Bandits are holding high c a-nival in Cuba, where murder and kidnaping flourish unrestricted. The nitro-glyceriue mills of the Fowler Company, situated at Miller’s Station, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, exploded with terrific force while the men were drawing tho mixture into the vats, killing the thyee ipen who were in the building at the time. The shock was felt in Crownpoint and Booneville, twenty miles away, the inhabitants thinking there was an earthquake in the vicinity. Pedestrians staggered and reeled on the streets, and window glasses were broken. Beigadieb Geneeal Geobge Cbookhas been nominated by the President to the Major Generalship vacated by placing General Terry on the retired list, and Colonal John R. Brooks is nominated as Brigadier General. The business failures in the United States and Canada for the week numbered 227, against 223 the previous week