Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1889 — NUGGETS OF GOLD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NUGGETS OF GOLD.

IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN EVERT QUARTER OF THE GLOBE. The Latest Intelligence Received by Wire from Distant Lands and at Home—The Cream of the News Gathered from All Quarters of the World. THE MILLS BILL. After Much Discussion It Is Referred to a Committee. The Speaker laid before the House on the 26th inst. the Mills tariff bill, with the Senate’s substitute therefor, together with the request of the Senate for a conference. A lengthy debate resulted. Statements were made in the debate that the bill should be reported back from the committee, but there was no recorded or direct agreement with respect to the disposition of the bill. The decision of Speaker Carlisle was that the bill as a matter of course, under the rules, must be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means unless unanimous consent conld be obtained to dispose of it in some other way ; that the question of high privilege did not attach to the measure until it had been referred to a conference committee and that save by the same unanimous consent the conference asked for by the Senate could not be granted until the bill had been referred to a committee. The unanimous consent conld not, of course, be hod for the proposition to concur, and the bill was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. BOULANGER IS ELECTED. The French Generat Has a Great Victory Over M. Jacques. A Pakis telegram says: The most exciting election that ever took place in the Department of the Seine closed with the elec-

tion of Gen. Boulanger by a plurality of 81.550 over Jacques, and a clear majority over all of 54,432. The complete vote is: Boulanger 244,070 Jacques 162,520 Boule 10,760 Other candidates ; 10,358 The Boulangists predict the immediate fall of the Floquet ministry, the dissolution of Parliament, and a general election in March. They also forecast a rupture in the Radicab party, and express the belief that forty Radical Deputies will join the Boulangist ranks and thus give the General a following of sixty members in the present Chamber. Bets-ire freely offered that the ministry will resign. The members of the government are astounded at the result. A BATTLE IN EAST AFRICA. The Position of Captured Missionaries One of Great Banger. —A Zanzibar special says: An engagement took place at Dar-es-Salam, resulting in the defeat of the Arabs, many of whom were killed. During the fight the First Lieutenant of the German warship Sophie was killed by a sunstroke. The defeat of the Arabs renders the position of the captured missionaries still more dangerous. It is reported that the manager of the German Vitu Company assembled the friendly natives and read an autograph letter from the Emperor thanking each native by name for his good-will and assistance, and promising protection and rewards. The British consul is trying to arrange for the dispatch of a caravan to bring away the missionaries at Upwapwa and Mamboyo, their position being extremely dangerous.

FEARFUL BOILER EXPLOSION. Three Men Killed and Three Fatally Injured Near Poplar Bluffs, Mo. A terrible boiler explosion occurred in Perkins’ mill, five miles east of Poplar. Bluffs, Mo. Just before the explosion Judge Shamont, of that city, and a farmer named Bobins were passing. The expolsion wrecked the mill and 100 feet of shed attached to it. Jud*e Shamont, John Moore and John Chronister were instantly killed: W. H. Perkins, Mr. Bobins and a young man named J alcolm were so badly burned and injured that they died. Two brothers named Spencer, employed in the mill, were badly scalded. DEATH OF A PLAYWRIGHT. A. R. Cazauran Passes Away in New York City from Dropsy. Playwright A. B. Cazauran died in New York City, after a sickness of two years, from dropsy. For the last six months he had been confined to his bed. Mr. Cazauran was born in Bordeaux, France, in October, 1811. He came to America in 1845-6, going to Louisville, Ky. He serve !on the C’our-ier-Journal as reporter and .dramatic critic. He was Supreme Court Reporter in Washington before the war, when he became a corresp adent. He afterward went to New York City. Wi h Bronson Howard he wrote the “Banker’s Daughter ” He is the author of "The Fatal Letter,” and composed and adapted “A Celebrated Case,” “Mother and 8on," “French Flats, ” etc. Died from Blood Poisoning. Dr. Walter Stillman, a prominent physician of Council Bluffs, lowa, died of blood poisoning resulting from treating a case of erysipelas.

GENERAL BOULANGER.