Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1877 — DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

lOast. Harvard has achieved another victory, having defeated Yale in the eight-oared boat race at Springfield, Mass. There were thirty-two failures of business firms and individuals in New York city during the month of June. The total liabilities were $2,0112,430, and the assets $699,41)2. Three men, named Floy, Bellinger and Pierce, while sailing on the Niagara river above the falls, the other day, lost control of their little boat, which drifted into the rapids. Pierce and Bellinger leaped into the stream and attempted to save themselves by swimming, but they were swept over the falls. Floy, who remained in the boat, was rescued. Crump’s label manufactory, at Montclair, N. J., employing 200 men, was burned last week. Loss $200,000. The Keesville (N. Y.) National Bank was recently robbed by burglars ol' money and bonds to the amount of $75,000. West. A terrible tornado passed over Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, Rush, Henry and Wayne counties, Ind., on the night of the Ist inst., which was attended with immense loss of life and property. Wc glean the following particulars of the calamity from tho Indianapolis ■Journal: “ Near Brooklyn, Biorgan county, the woods had every tree either torn up by the roots or blown down. Its track was half a mile wide and fifteen miles in length. The wife of J. S. Dressier was fatally injured, and three others, names unknown, killed. Loss, $50,000. The son of James Armstrong was killed by a falling tree. In Johnson county the house of Mr. Boummer, threo miles west of Franklin, was blown down, and the whole family, five in number, instantly killed. Ten miles further w-est the house of George Trcsler was blown down and himself and wife and three children killed, and a remaining child fatally injured. A. M. Armstrong’s residence was destroyed, three children killed, and several members of the family severely injured. A new church at Jolly w-as orn to pieces, twelve killed ahd fifteen wounded. In this county farmers lose heavily. An immense numbor of cattle were killed, fences and barns destroyed aiyl timber uprooted. Immense damage was done to crops and buildings. In Shelby county Michael Mehorlich was instantly killed, and Mrs. Reeker fatally injured. The storm passed over Rush and Henry counties to Wayne, where it left the State. Charles Brown, of Richmond, was instantly killed by a falling tree, and a companion, W. J. Hyatt, fatally injurod. The tornado continued its course through Central Ohio, doing great damage to houses, fences and growing crops, and in some instances causing serious loss. The town of O’Fallon, 111., 17 miles west of St. Louis, was also visited by a fierce hurricane, blowing down many houses and seriously damaging the fields of grain. A similar visitation was experienced the same day, and about the same hour, at Ercildown, Pa. Twenty families were made houseless in a few minutes, their dwellings being razed to the ground. The fine new seminary of Richard Darlington was also destroyed. A woman named Hopkins was instantly killed and five persons injured, two fa-

tally. Tho vicinity of Minneapolis, Minn., was also visited by a tornado of extraordinary violence. Houses were blown down, trees uprooted, fences swept away, and cattle carried through the air like feathers. Several persons were killed. A section of Northern Indiana was devastated by a tornado on the evening of the 2d inst., sweeping away houses, bams, fences, timber, and everything in its track, besides doing immense damage to crops. Near the town of Walkerton, St. Joseph county, six persons were killed and several others badly injured. Near Goshen one man was killed by the blowing down of his bam, and another was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Advices from the scene of the Indian disturbances in Idaho report an engagement between a body of troops and Looking-Glass’ band of savages, numbering about 400. Four Indians wfl-e killed and left on the field, and many others were drowned. Tho squaws and children took to the river, and several were drowned. News comes comes from the seat of the In dian troubles in Idaho to the effect that Capt. Perry, with thirty men, on his way'to the Cottonwood, had been attacked by hostiles, and Lieut. Rains, teu soldiers and two citizens killed. The timely arrival of reinforcements saved the party from being massacred. A terrible tragedy was recently enacted a few miles below LaCrosse, on the Minnesota side of the river. A youth of 19, in the employ of Joseph Ennis, a farmer, murdered Ennis and his wife, and then set fire to the premises, pap Hally consuming the bodies. The deed w€s committed for the purpose of robbery. The murderer was arrested. The Cincinnati Board of Trade, by an almost unanimous vote, has adopted a resolution urging upon Congress such modilicalion of the Resumption act as shall postpone the time of its enforcement. Houtli. A New Orleans grand jury has indicted J. Madison Wells and Thomas C. Anderson, members of the late Louisiana Returning Board, for larceny in having made away with the returns of the election of 1876. Four men confined in the jail at Mount Vernon, Ky., were taken out by a mob and hung to a tree. A horrible lynching affair is reported from Osceola, Ark. Riley Covington, a negro barber, was arrested on a charge of murder. A mob composed of white and colored men took tin; prisoner from tlio Sheriff, and, tying ropes around his neck and feet, hitched nmles to them. The animals were then goaded to madness and driven in opposite directions, tearing tho unfortunate man iintb from limb, llis piteous cries for a more merciful death are said to have been heartrending. In the Superior Criminal Court at New Orleans, tho other Jay, the Attorney General filed an information against J. Madison Wells, T. C. Anderson, Louis M. Kenner, and G. Casanave, members of the late Lousiaua Returning Board. The information is very lengthy, and charges them with having, on the 4th of December, 1876, falsely and feloniously uttered and published as true the altered, forged and counterfeited election returns for Presidential Electors from the parish of Vernon at the election of November last by adding 158 votes to each of the Hayes Electors and deducting 395 from each of the Tilden Electors. The parties were arrested and required to give bail in the sum of $5,000 each. J. Henri Burch, a State Senator and prominent colored politician in Louisiana, has been arrested tit Baton Rouge on a charge of embezzling school funds.