Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1877 — DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

TCuwt. A savings bank at Concord, N. H., has failed ; depositors will receive 60 or 70 per cent. John 11. Burleigh, ex-member of Congress from Maino, and President of the South Berwick (Me.) National Bank, was killed last week by his horse shying off the bridge over Salmon Falls river. The National Exchange Bank, of Troy, N. Y., has collapsed. The New York police are arresting the sa-Joou-keepersof the metropolis by the hundreds for violation of the excise law. Destructive lire at Millerstown, Pa.; large number of stores burned ; loss estimated at 1200,000. West. Frank Rande, the outlaw, has at last revealed his name, which is Charles C. Scott. He says his residence is at Fairtield, lowa, where he emigrated with his parents in 1869, when 12 years old, from Washington county, Pa. He says his first crime was that of burglary, committed at Ottumwa, lowa, in 1871. A dispatch from Bismarck states that Deadwood, in the Black Hills, is besieged by hostile Sioux, and that the whites are in imminent danger of massacre. Troops had been ordered to move from Fort Lincoln, Standing Rock, and Fort Snelling on foroed marches. The German National Bank, of Chicago, Henry Greenebaum President, has closed its doorß. The bank has assets enough to pay its creditors dollar for dollar. Miss Alvina C. McKee, of Chicago, refused to pay her rent. She was sued by her landlord, and judgment for 142 obtained. Constable McElligott went to the house for the purpose of seizing Alvina’s furniture. Alvina, Justead of yielding up the goods, drew a revolver and Bhot the officer, inflicting a mortal wound, and now languishes in a cold, cold cell of the Cook County jail. The Rod-Ribbon temperance movement, the chief objeot of which is to persuade everybody to take the pledge of total abstinence, wearing a red ribbon as an indication of good faith, is moving on like a tidal-wave in the interior portions of the West. A new play by a local author is being produced at MoVicker’s Chicago Theater, which is pronounced by the press and public one of the dramatic successes of the day. It .is a dramatization of the intensely-interesting novel named “Sidonie, the Married Flirt,” which is also the title of the play. Mr. McVickor has secured a company fully up to the requirements in the production of the series of new dramas whioh he is presenting in rapid succession. The German Havings Bank, of Chicago, of which Henry Greenebaum was the President and principal stockholder, has yielded to the financial pressure and closed its doors. It is believed the bank has ample assets to proteot depositors against any loss. South. Five colored men were drowned in the Mississippi river at New Orleans, the other day, by the wrecking of a skiff in which they were attempting to cross the river. Oochrane & Fulton’s extensive whisky establishment, one of the largest in Louisville, Ky., as been destroyed by fire. Loss, 1300,000. Pinohba °k renonnoes all claims to the Louisiana Henatorship.