Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1888 — THE WORLD IN A WORD. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD IN A WORD.

The Latest Intelligence, Domestic and Foreign, Transmitted Over the Electric Wires. Political, Bailroad, and Commercial News, Accidents, Fires, Crimes, Etc., Etc. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. JOINED THE G. A. R. Gen. Joe Johnston Received Into the Military Organization. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, the highest in rank of living officers of the Confederate army, has been unanimously elected honorary member of E. D. Baker Post, No. 8, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia. The election was brought about upon the receipt of a letter reading: For the purpose of enabling me to participate in the noble work of charity performed by the comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, I hereby make application for contributing membership in your post. Inclosed please find the sum of $lO for one year’s dues. The petition was unaccompanied by any other communication, and when presented to • the members of the post for consideration it went through with a rush, amid the cheers of the two hundred veterans present Gen. Johnston is the only ex-Confederate soldier who has been received into the ranks of any Grand Army post

IMPATIENT LAND-GRABBERS. Hundreds Awaiting the Opening of the Blackfeet .Reservation. News of the opening of the Blackfeet reservation is awaited impatiently in Dakota and throughout northern Montana The desirable valleys are fairly covered with tents, the greatest rush apparently being to the Big Sandy, the famous hay-grounds. When news comes that the bill is signed there is likely to be a rusk Bullhock Valley, beyond Fort Assinaboine, is staked off, and the tents of the squatter may be seen all along the valley of Milk River. There is a silver-lead lode in the Bear Paw mountains that was located several years ago. A PALACE ON WHEELS. The New Vestibule Train Plying Between the East and West. The first passenger train on the Chicago extension of the great Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe system left Chicago Sunday crowded with passengers and railway officials. The train, composed exclusively of vestibule-cars, is said to be the finest ever put on a track, and will hereafter be a regular feature between Chicago and Kansas City. With the inauguration of this new line of passenger travel Chicago is for the first time connected with the Pacific coast by a continuous railroad system under one control. From Foreign lands. Ths French Chamber of Deputies has passed the Panama lottery loanFbesh revolutionary troubles have arisen . in Roumania, this time near the Russia!) frontier. The ship Smyrna was sunk in a collision with the steamer Moto off the Isle of Wight Thirteen persons were drowned. Annual reports of German banks show that eighty paid large dividends; thirty, dividends equal to those of last year; and only eighteen smaller ones. The election of General Ignatieff as President of the Slavonic Benevolent Society at St Petersburg is regarded in Vienna as boding ill f or the peace of Europe. Ihe German Emperor finds that beer disagrees with him, and has discarded it He has taken to eating beef, which is a sign of improved digestion and increasing strength. London papers make various comments on the Pope’s condemnation of the plan of campaign. The Post says it is the most formidable blow yet struck on the nationalists. Some papers hint that the Pope’s action is the result of a bargain with Lord Salisbury.

Germany’s Sick Emperor. A Berlin dispatch of Monday says of the Emperor’s condition: The beginning of the week sees an unhopedfor change, and a feeling of relief and joy at the good news can be plainly read in the faces of the daily visitors to the schloss. There is every reason to believe that no further complications will set in, at least for some weeks, now that the dangers of the crisis are over. The original disease, however, is insidious in its progress, and the Imai result is onlv postponed. The patient is free from fever, his digestion is unimpaired, his appetite good, ne is allowed to eat anything he likes, and he is in the best of spirits. Serious Hallway Accident. A passenger train on the New York and Pennsylvania Railroad was wrecked neat Olean, N. Y., by the spreading of the rails. The mail and baggage cars and two passenger coaches, containing about forty passengers, rolled down a twenty-foot embankment. About twenty passengers were seriously injured. No one was killed outright, but some of the injured will die. Electric Plashes. Claims amounting to about $300,000, arising out of the Chatsworth railroad horror, have been adjusted by the railroad company. Lack of support has compelled the suspension of the Alarm, the anarchistic sheet formerly edited by A R Parsons. The trouble was that anarchists, as a rule, cannot read. Neab Stanwood, W. T., Tillie Wheeler, Annie Thompson, Ellen Aldridge, and J. B. Vance, were drowned by the capsizing of a boat in which they were crossing the Stiltaquamish river. Thbee disreputable women occupied a house together near Berwick, Pennsylvania. The other morning the house was found to be on fire, and one of the women was burned to death and another fatally injured.