Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1877 — DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

East. The striking cigar-makers in New York city are successfully establishing a co-operative factory there. Tho workmen are to be selected from all the different shops in which strikes occurred, in order to secure the most skillful workmen for tho experimental effort. At the late municipal election in Boston tho Republican ticket was elected by a majority of 2,151. The dye-house and boiler-room of tho York Manufacturing Company wore damaged $25,000 by a recent fire. Hundreds of operatives are temporarily thrown out of employment. James Leahy, of New York, importer of white goods, has failed. Liabilities placed at $150,000, one-half due abroad. Outstanding assets reported weak. Trouble with Government officers and a very extensive business are ascribed as causes of the failure. Jacob Gran, a noted opera manager, died recently in New York, aged 60. A New York dispatch reports the death, at Brooklyn, N. X., of tho Rev. David Inglis, D. D., who had just been called to the assistant pastorship of Knox Presbyterian Church in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Inglis was a man of great ability and learning. West. The commission appointed to decide where the front of the Chicago Custom House should be has submitted a compromise report, which contemplates not only that Clark street shall be fitted with an ingress, but that Dearborn street Bhall retain what it had, that still another publio entrance shall be provided for Adams street, and that the opening for maii wagons shall be on Jackson street. The commission represent that no structural changes in the plan of the building are involved in their recommendations. E. H. Harrison, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Keokuk, lowa, died recently, aged 68 years. The German-Amerioan Bank of Chicago has decided to go out of business. The trial of the desperado best known by his alias “Frank Rande” has been postponed to February, at Galesburg, HI. The Rev. Dr. Harris, rector of St. James Episcopal Church, Chicago, has been elected Bishop of the new Diocese-of Quincy, HI. Miss Allie McKee has been committed for murder without bail, for the shooting of Constable MqJSlligott, at Chicago. Tb# rw*W *t Chicago for five

days recently reached the enormous number of 283,500, having a value of over $1,500,000. Mrs. Kate Tyrrell, confined in the penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb., for forgery, burned'a hole through the floor of the female department into the guard-room, made rope of a blanket torn into strips, and escaped to the hall of the warden’s house. While trying to unlock the only door between her and liberty she was discovered and taken back. An immense meeting was held in the Tabernacle at Chicago on the 13th inst., at which resolutions were passed insisting upon the restoration of the silver coinage to the position it held before the passage of the act of 1873. The Wisconsin Unitarian Conference at Janesville has adopted a preamble and resolutions expressive of the sense of the conference that church property should not be exempt from taxation, and providing for a memorial on the subject for presentation to the Wisconsin Legislature. A fire originating in the cupola of the University at Lake Forest, 111., totally destroyed the building. Most of its contents were saved. A plot to take the St. Elmo murderer, Frank Bande, from jail at Galesborg, HL, and hang him, was revealed to the authorities, and, the prison being strongly guarded, the attempt was not made. In the United States District Court at Madison, Wis., a verdict of not guilty was rendered by the jury in the case of W. T. Smith, charged with forging a postoffice money-order on the Baraboo postoffice. South. Near Liberty, Ky., last week, Thomas Mooro and United States Special Bailiff George D. Ellis killed one another. Moore has been wanted ■by the authorities for a year past on an indictment charging him with illicit distilling. Ellis met him by chance Sunday night while riding towards Liberty, with a man named Dwyer. Ellis called “ surrender !” and Moore answered by firing a bullet through his body. Ellis returned the shot, Moore disappearing in the bushes. Next morning his body was found frozen stiff in death. It is reported from Louisville, Ky., that Edward Wyatt and Frank Webster, United States special bailiffs, have been wounded by moonshiners. The eye of the former was shot out, and the latter was shot through the head. Capt. F. B. Webster, United States Deputy Marshal, with a posse, was attacked by triple his number of moonshiners in ambuscade. Officer Wyatt received sixteen shots in his face. On the 15th inst., Gov. Hubbard, of Texas, telegraphed to President Hayes, as follews: “I am officially informed that citizens of Mexico, in connection with citizens of El Paso county, Texas, of Mexican birth, were fighting all day yesterday, in Texas, with a detachment of State troops who were aiding our civil authorities. The Mexican force being too strong to be repelled by the Texas troops, and it beffig impossible to raise a civil posse from the citizens, who are nearly all of Mexican blood and sympathy, and having no reinforcements within several miles, I ask for the aid of such United States troops as may be nearest to tho scene of action to repel this invasion of our ‘ —” Other dispatches of the same date a,l ' > A- lltol tlfi-rro ronffspp °Tjd ° morchant named Ellis were killed by the Mexicans yesterday. State troops are intrenched on San Elizaiio surrounded by a mob of several hundred Mexicans from both sides of the river. The Governor has telegraphed orders to recruit men from the nearest points in Texas and New Mexico to aid the State troops.”