Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1897 — Told in a Few Linee. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Linee.

The Arkansas Senate passed a bill appropriating $65,000 for the relief of the drouth sufferers in Arkansas. James B. Porter. Secretarv of State from 1861 to 1867, died at Lansing, Mich., of rheumatism of the heart. He was born in 1824. The Court of Appeals of Montreal has maintained the right of trades unionists to strike if the firm they work for refused to discharge non-union men. Gov. Black of New York has declined to interfere in the sentence of death of Arthur Mayhew, who was convicted of mur, dering Stephen Powell at Hempstead March 7,1896. Benjamin R. Bacon, an insurance agent who, a few years ago, was one of ths wealthiest and most prominent business men in Kansas City, Mo., committed suicide. Despondency following business reverses is supposed to be the cause of suicide. The liner Spree reached her pier in Hoboken after a rough voyage. Before reach, ing the Needles she ran into a dense fog and had to anchor. The seas pounded her decks, staving a lifeboat to pieces, tearing out a section of rail and inflicting other damage. Charles Burkman, a Keokuk (la.) bar-, ber, had just finished shaving a customer, when he went volently insane. He still had the razor in bis hands, and attempted to assault several persons, but was at last overpowered and locked up. He has a wife and four children. The California deep water harbor commission has submitted its report to the Secretary of War. The commission de-, cides in favor of San Pedro as the harbor on which the Government appropriation shall be expended. Commissioner Morgan does not sign the report. Paul Robert William Manning, a young Englishman of 24 years, sporting edito* of a Berlin paper, and his fiancee, Ida Margaret Helen Pankratz, a pretty, brown-haired fraulein, who is one year his junior, eloped to America. Miss Pan i kratz’s parents are wealthy. Judge Parlange, of the United State* District Court, pronounced sentence at New Orleans on the Texas Pacific Rail, road officials, E. S. Sargent and L. S. Thorne, who a few days ago pleaded guilty of violating the interstate commerce law. They were fined $4,000 each.