Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1888 — A DAY’S DOINGS. [ARTICLE]

A DAY’S DOINGS.

Eventful Happenings in Every Hemisphere, as Transmitted by Telegraph. Political. Social, Financial, Commercial, Industrial, Criminal and Other News. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. GERMANY. The Condition of the Emperor—Bitter Political Feeling. Advices from Berlin are to the effect that the Emperor Frederick’s condition is such as to cause apprehension and alarm. He is certainly worse, aud there is fear of a sudden fit of suffocation, growing out of his defective breathing apparatus, that will carry him off at night before the surgeons can be summoned to perform an operation. The New York Herald' s Beilin correspondent telegraphs as follows: The intense bitterness of the political strug?le now going on here almost passes belief. 'ne well-known member of the German Parliament, for instance, said to me, solemnly: If this man Bismarck keeps his place he will in a few years be the Emperor in name as well as in power. There will be no rest or safety for the Hohenzollerns till he is arrested for treason and confined to his estates. That sounds ridiculous when repeated. but with due regard for the libel laws it is said daily by hundreds of papers. The Catholic organ, Germania, for example, skims dangerously near the wind in an article on “The German Boulanger.” This article is widely copied, with exclamation marks to assist stupid readers. Another paper, the name of which is poison to Bismarckian ears, protests in big type against the royal puppet. One paper hints at a revolution, saying that in the end the masses will lose patience and assemble to show unmistakably that Prussia and Germany will tie ruled by the Hohenzollerns and by them alone.

AN EXPRESS TRAIN DITCHED. About Twenty People Injured in a Collision on the Pennsylvania Road. While a New York and Washington express was passing over the elevated road of the Pennsylvania Hailroad in Philadelphia, it collided with a heavy passenger locomotive at Thirtieth street The exnross train consisted of a baggage car and ten coaches, including two vestibule cars. Four cars were badly smashed and toppled over on their sides. About twenty passengers were more or less seriously, and two or three probably fatally, injured.

Bismarck and the Women. The conflict between Prince Bismarck and the Empress is only temporarily suspended. The Empress has gone so far as to apply to the Russian and Austrian courts in order to secure support and achieve her purpose. If the Czar could be induced to send an assurance to Bismarck that the Battenberg marriage would not alter the friendly relations existing between Russia and Germany, the Empress might deem the battle won. The Austrian imperial family maintain a neutral attitude in the matter.

Roscoe Conkling. A New York special of Monday morning says: “The hopeful bulletins issued by the physicians in attendance upon Mr. Conkling do not seem to have carried much encouragement to the sick man’s friends. The belief is gaining ground that there is little or no hope, and that the chance of recovery is diminishing daily.”

Telegrams in Brief. Cashier W. A. Cameron, of the Union Bank of Winnipeg, Manitoba, emigrated to the United States with $38,000 of the bank’s money. The twenty-third anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln was observed at Springfield, 111., in the form of exercises at the cemetery which contains the Lincoln monument Sparks from a passing engine ignited a hundred kegs of powder in a freight car at Montgomery, Alabama. The explosion shook the whole city, and killed a negro standing near the car. The contested-election case of Nathan Frank against John M. Glover, involving the seat in Congress for the Ninth Missouri District, has been decided in favor of Mr. Glover, the sitting member, by the House Committee on Elections. The national legislative, judicial, and executive appropriation bill, as agreed upon in the House committee, appropriates $20,472,- * 394, which is $937,600 less than the estimates and $209 240 less than the current appropriations for the same service. Two colored men at a prayer meeting in Berkeley County, South Carolina, got into a quarrel about a,girl. The preacher and deacons tried to make peace, but without success, as one of the parties drew a pistol and blew out the other’s brains in the church. Faith in Baltimore and Ohio securities seems to be on the increase. These properties, so long held as gilt-edged, lost value rapidly as the»result of young Mr. Garrett’s many mistakes, and last week they reached par for the first time since the break occurred.