Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1877 — DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

William 0. Gilman, a New York broker of hitherto good reputation, has committed forgeries to the extent of over $200,000 and fled to parts unknown. McKeesport, Pa., has been visited by a disastrous conflagration. The Pittsbru’gh car and locomotive works and a large number of stores, shops and dwellings were burned, involving a loss of about $150,000. The battle of Germantown, f*a., was fought on the 4th of October, 1777, Gen. Washington being defeated with the loss of 1,000 men, the British losing 600. The 100th anniversary of the eveut has just been celebrated with great spirit by the people of Germantown and the surrounding country. Tbe Allegheny (Pa.) savings bank, the oldest bank in the city, has gone where the woodbine twiiudh. About„s6oo,ooo are due depositors. A savings bank at Harwich,Mass., has also collapsed. Vanderbilt has ordered an advance of 5 per cent, in the wages of all the men in the employ of tlie Now York Central Railroad Company whose salaries are less than $2,000 per annum.

Four men were drowned in Boston harbor, last week, by the capsizing of their boat. A storm of unusual violence swept over portions of Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware on the night of the 4th in st., causing many serious wash-outs on railroads. An excursion train Was wrecked near Phoenixville, Pa., killinf twelve'persons and wounding fifty. A passenger train was precipitated into the Delaware river, at Frenchtown, N. J., by which live persons lost their lives. Ton schooners wore sunk by the fury of the storm in the harbor of Lowes, Del. The steamer Massachusetts, from Providence for New York, was blown ashore on Long Island and will probably prove a total wreck ; all the passengers fortunately escaped. The loss by the gale in the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., is estimated at SIOO,OOO. The insurance agency of Alliger Bros., of New York, is largely in default to an English company. The amount of the shortage is estimated as high as $160,000. ( arrived in New York from the coast of Newfoundland. It is an enormous devil-fish, measuring forty feet and six inches between extremities, from the point of one of its aims to the end <4, to Ui|, aft havmg a body ten feet in XX » fa fa.™*, far far K<™ tok

The recent disaster on the Pickering Valley railroad, near Phoenixville, Pa., was one of the worst affairs of the kind we have been called upon to for Mime time. . The train, consisting of two passenger coaches and a milk-car, dattied denvft a lOfc feet deep. In aa instant the work of destraction was done. ’ '^e t ftgifte plunged headlong down to the bottt>ta <>i < 0 ditdt. ihstaniy killing the engineer and fireman. A passenger coach came next, shot across the opening, broke the foremost end, and fell upon the wrecked engine. The cars then-piled in gne upon another, and jn the terrible darkness of' 16 KOene followed was more than pen can picture. Eleven persons ; vere ‘ts kmed ’ and * West. A fire on Meridian and Louisiana streets, Indianapolis, last week,destroyed property valued at $75,000. George B. Clark, a prominent real-estate dealer es Chicago, has failed. Liabilities, $800,000; assets, one gold watch worth SIOO, *nd household goods valued at SSO. Bv the explosion in Bollman t O’Hara’s dintfiterv, in Bt. Louis, Frederick W. Bollman, one of the proprietors, and Austin Shay, an employe, were killed. *«« instantly killed, and one by th ° * Ohio. The-. J? “J?®' engine at Studontown, mangled, kUled were horribl y ■ heing picked up at» dis-

tance of over 1,000 yards from the of the explosion. | I <1 Ji /. I J The brigands of the Black Hills continue their pastime of robbing coaches. A coach on the Sydney route and one on the Laramie road were robbed last week. Advices from Silver City, in Lower New Mexico, report a serioua outbreak among tne Apache Indians. They attacked a settlement of whites, killing twentyiflve. 31 The Grand Jury of the United States District Court at St. Paul have indicted a large number of persons for stealing timber from Uncle Sam. A sanguinarv engagement waa fought in the Bear 1’ aw mountains on-the UOthnlt., between GonJ Miles’ fcwce*-and the Neu Fferchweavagcf. under Chief Joseph. Gen. Miles sends the following brief account of this bloody battle to Gen. Terry, commanding the Department of Dakota : “We met and surprised the eamp at 8 o'clock, capturing the larger part of their herd, about 600 horses, mutes and ponies. The engagement was quite severe, and the inclosed is a list of our killed and wounded. The Indians lost seventeen killed, including Looking-Glass and Joseph’s brother, three other chiefs, and forty wounded. Joseph gave me his solemn pledge yesterday that he would surrender, but did not, and they are evidently waiting for aid from other Indians. They say that the Sioux are coming to their- aid. They are closely invested in some deep ravines and kept under fire t To take them by assault would cost many lives. I may wear them out and eventually compel them to give up. They fight with more desperation than any Indians I have ever met. I believe there is communication between his camp and Sitting Bull, and I have used every effort to prevent a junction. I intend to send my wounded to the Missouri and the captured stock to the Yellowstone.” Gen. Miles lost twenty-three killed and forty-four wounded. Among .the killed are Oapt. Owen Hale and Lieut. Joseph W. Biddle, of the Seventh Cavalry, and seven Sergeants. The wounded include Capts. Miles Mayion and E. S. Godfrey, of the Seventh Cavalry, and Lieuts. G. W. Baird and Henry Romeyn, of the Fifth Infantry. “ Laughing Sam ” and “ The Kid,” two notorious bandits that have for some time infested the Black Hills liighways, are in jail at Omaha. Houtli. A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., states that Hon. Cassius M. Clay shot and killed a negro man named Perry White. There was no witness of the shooting. The Coroner’s jury, on Clay’s testimony, rendered a verdict of justifiable homicide. Colored Congressman Small, of South Carolina, has been indicted for bribery by a Columbia Grand Jury. The Mayor of the fever-stricken city of Fernandina, Fla., has addressed a piteous appeal to the people of the Northern cities for aid.