Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1879 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

vobsiom nnwi. The most terrible incendiarism of modern times is that briefly detailed in recent cable dispatches, resulting in the almost total destruction of the city of Kiev, in Russia. During a severe storm the city was fired simultaneously in a number of places, including the powder magazine, and the flames raged unchecked until the second day after breaking out. Beside the vast destruction of property, necessarily impoverishing the mass of the population, a number of lives were sacrificed, adding the crowning horror to one of the most hideous crimes of the- country. The commander of the Cabul mutineers has been executed by order of the Ameer. Bismarck arrived in Vienna Sept. 22, and had a meeting with Andrassy, the Austrian Premier. Late cable dispatches announce the conclusion of the terms of peace by Hir Garnet Wolseley with the Zulu chiefs. One of the most important stipulations of the treaty is aimed at the very efficient military system of the Zulus. This was based upon the requirement that the young warriors should not be permitted to marry until after service in battle, and distinguishing themselves by their courage. The treaty stipulation does away with that requirement. A ghastly story comes from the beautiful vale of Cashmere, to the effect that two boat-loads of famine stricken people wore taken out into the lake and drowned. Orders have been sent by the British Government to the Acting Resident of Mandalay, Burmah, to leave with his party as soon as ho can without betraying undignified haste or the appearance of fear. The Mark Lane Express reports that in England much grain has been stacked in such condition as renders sprouting almost inevitable, and that in Scotland the outlook is most gloomy. The crop is backward, the fields being yet green, and the season is now so far advanced that the prospect of the crop maturing is reduced to a minimum. "When the long-expected general European war commences Germany and Austria will be found side by side. The conference between Bismarck and Andrassy at Vienna has made this as certain as anything within human calculations can be. Stanley, having with characteristic pluek solved the mystery of the Nile, is now announced by a cable dispatch to have proceeded upon his expedition on the Congo. It is more than 1,800 years since Pompeii disappeared-under the deluge of flame and ashes from Vesuvius, yet the first celebration of that not-very- 'hcerful event has just been held The exercises were held on the site of the ancient city, and consisted of add rows, excavations and researches. The quarrel between Germany and Japan is reputed to be growing more, serious The Russian expedition against the Turcomans is meeting with serious opposition, and reinforcements have been called for. There were 2/178 incendiary tires in Russia during the month of August, involving the destruction of >IS ) IXK*,IX>('. There is considerable excitement in Ireland and in some parts of England, growing out of the land-rent agitation. The farmtenants are openly resisting the payment of tlie high rents, anil serious trouble is apprehended. Seventy farmers from Sweden have sailed for Americi, intending to settle in Manitoba. If their undertaking proves successful, they will bo joined by GOO Swedes next soring. The British troops in Afghanistan are advancing on Cabal in throe columns. It is sai l the Ameer’s troops will not oppose the advancing columns. A Constantinople correspondent telegraphs: “It is thought an understanding between Greece and Tn 1 key ii impossible. Warlike preparations are progressing on both sides. It is the opinion here that Austria is obstructing the efforts for an understanding, and that, in the event of hostilities, she would immediately occupy Macedonia. Prince Lobanoff is the bearer of a project for an alliance between Russia and Turkey. It is rumored that Russia is willing to renounce W<0,000,000 francs of war indemnity, and to give back some of the former provinces of Tin key in Asia.”

DOMESTIC INTRLUGHNOJI. IRat-t, A strange tragedy was enacted in Blratlonl, Ct, a few days ago. Rev. Dexter I . Lmnsbery, of Christ Episcopal Church, was shot and instantly killed by his wife. Both was. in bed together, ho sleeping. About 5:3(1 a m. she drew a revolver from finder the pillow and placed the muzzle close to his right ear, and fired; then ran up stairs and told the servant girl, “I’ve killed my husband.” Both came down, and the servant and an 11-year-old daughter, Anna, ran to give the alarm and call the doctor. The latter says death was instantaneous. At the Coroner’s inquest it cimeout that M rs. Lonnsbery was insane, for a cause peculiar to females. She has since recovered er e.ison, and is in great grief. The great six days’ pedestrian contest at Madison Square Gardens, New York, for the Astley belt, emblematic of the world’s champiousbip, was won by Rowell, the Englishman. The official score stood as follows: Rowell, 530 miles; Merritt, 515 miles; Haz-.01, 500% miles; Hart, 482}< miles; Guyon, 471 miles; Weston, 455 miles; Emu's, 450 miles; Krohne, 4 miles; Taylor, 250 J-g miles. A fire at Gloucester, Mass., last week, burned a hotel and several stores. Loss estimated at $75,000. South. Nashville negroes have taken up the exodus where their Louisiana and Mississippi brethren left off, and are traveling Kansasward by tho train-load. One hundred left last week for the promised lan*, and many others will follow. There were eleven deaths from yellow fever and twenty-nine new cases at Memphis for the two days Sept. 32-23. There was no abatement of the fever at Concordia, Miss., five new cases being reported. At Memphis the Injunction asked against the State Board of Health, to prevent interference with the receipt and shipment of cotton in the quarantine district, hae been granted by the local court The decision in the case practically denies the right of the board to interfere with the transportation of cotton. The yellow fever is gradually abating al Memphis. For the two days, Sept 24-25, there wore only seventeen new cases and ten deaths. Marcus Whitley was executed at Pocahontas. Ark., Sept 26, for tho murder of a man named Sumner in 1577. - A fight is reported to have recently taken place in the Panhandle of Northwestern Tixaa between Indians and a party of young sportsmen from Dallas and Fort Worth, Texan, (n which seven of the Utter were killed,

The mortality reports from Memphis indicate that the yellow fever is dying out For the week ending Sept 28 the number of cases was sixty-three, and the number of deaths thirty-one. For the three days ending Sept 28 there were twenty-three new cases and fourteen deaths. Went. Michael Bans, of Macon City, Mo., while temporarily deranged, shot and killed his wife and child, and then committed suicide. San Francisco dispatches announce that Gen. Grant will visit Oregon during the first week of October, and expects to arrive at Virginia City, Nev., on his route East, about the 20th day of the same month. A terrible accident occurred in Lake Michigan,. just off Chicago, a few days ago. The tug-boat Charles W. Parker, while towing a heavily laden barge into port, exploded her boiler and sunk almost immediately afterwards. Robert Leary, Captain of the ill-fated boat; William Burton, steward; John Callaghan, engineer, and John P. Rogers, fireman, were blown into fragments by the terrific force of the explosion, not a vestige of their remains having been found. Henry Maguire, a deck-hand, the only person on board beside those mentioned, was blown a distance of 200 feet, and, falling in the water, was rescued in a shockingly mangled condition. The Parker was a screw propeller of thirty-six tons burden, was built at Buffalo, and was valued at >7,500. It is thought the accident was the result of carelessness. A horrible murder was recently committed on the farm of Alexander White, near Edgerion, Rock county, Wis. Mrs. White missed her little boy, aged 3 years, and after a protracted search he was found in the manger of a cow-stable with his throat cut and a rip from the breast bone clear down, which let the bowels out A rope was hanging from a beam, all bloody, with the noose partially cut, which indicated that the little fellow was hung up and then cut open in the manner described. The horrible deed was committed by George Bumgartner, one of Mr. White’s farm laborers, who was missing, together with one of the best horses on the place. A shocking murder and suicide is reported from Bucyrus, Ohio. George Schwab, a young farmer, fell desperate ly in love with Mary Klinch, and, because she would not marry him, assassinated the poor girl, firing a load of buckshot into her while sleeping in bed. The wretch then walked off and ended his own miserable existence by hanging himself to a tree. There was a sharp reaction in the Chicago grain and provision market on Sept. 24. Wheat, which had been steadily advancing for several days, fell 5 cents and com about 2 cents a bushel; pork tumbled from 20 to 30 cents and lard 15 cents per 100 pounds. Considerable excitement prevailed and several dealers were badly squeezed, but there were no failures. The trip of President Hayes westward from Chicago was marked by hearty greetings at all the points along the line. The party arrived at Neosho Falls, Kansas, on the 25th of September. About 12,000 people had gathered- there to attend the District fair and to welcome the President and Gen. Sherman, whose coming had been very extensively advertised. Hon. John R. Goodin delivered an address of welcome, Gov. St. John followed with a brief speech, after which President Hayes addressed the multitude at some length. His remarks related chiefly to the financial policy of his administration, being a repetition of his Cincinnati and Detroit speeches. Gen. Sherman then made nno of his characteristic talks. George Baumgarten, the young monster who murdered .Mr. White’s little 3-year-old boy near Janesville, Wis., has been arrested. He is only 17 years old. He is unable to give the motive for his crime. He says a strange “ spell ” came over him, and remembers little or nothing of what followed.

A dispatch from Carroll, Carroll county, lowa, reports a disastrous conflagration in that town, resulting in the loss of from $150,000 to $200,000. The greater portion of tho business center of the town is wiped out. The flourishing mining town of Deadwood, in the Black Hills of Dakota Territory, has been almost totally swept out of existence by tire, and nearly 3,000 people rendered homeless thereby. The fire broke out in a bakery at Sherman street at 2:2) o’clock in the morning of Sept. 26, and, following that thoroughfare, swept everything before it on Lee, Main, Gold, Patton and William streets, and several residences on Centennial avenue. Fanned by alight breeze, and nothing to contend with except a very inefficient fire department, everything was at the mercy of the flames. Less than half a score of pronounced fire-proof warehouses withstood the severe test. The ■ buildings being mostly of wood and poorly constructed, they burned like so much chaff. The fire spread with such wonderful rapidity tha any attempt at saving anything would have been useless. All along its course terrific explosions of gunpowder, petroleum, liquor, etc., were of frequent occurrence. Buildings were blown into atoms. The hook-and-ladder apparatus and hose-carriage were the first things to burn, leaving nothing but a few feet of worthless hose with which to battle against the devouring element The wildest excitement prevailed on account of the fearful force of the flames, and the people thought of but little beside saving their own lives, hundreds escaping with only their night-clothes. Every team within miles of the city was called into service to help save what could be got out. About 125 buildings, beside fifty or sixty dwelling-houses were destroyed. The loss is variously estimated at from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000. A Santa Fe dispatch says in regard to the Indian emeute in that Territory: “Gov. Wallace, as soon as he learned that there was an Indian massacre in the southern portion of his Territory, telegraphed to Silver City, Grant county, to learn the particulars, and from 8. M. Ashenfelter received what follows: Seven white men have been killed in a fight with Indians in a corn-field, near '"McEver s ranch, fifteen miles this side of Hillsboro. This occurred on the 11th inst. On the same day ten Mexicans, men, women and children, were murdered in the Jaralosa Cienegea, som# three miles from McEver’s ranch. The women and children were most horribly and disgustingly mutilated, iron bars being used for the purpose. Twenty-five men, women and children were among the wounded in the corn-field.” A sharp battle between a company of United States soldiers and 140 Navajo Indians is reported to have been fought on the Los Animas river, in New Mexico. Two Indians were killed. The casualties on the other side were five soldiers and one citizen killed and several wounded. The soldiers were compelled to retreat. WASHINGTON NOTES The September report of the Department of Agriculture on the condition of the wheat crop indicates an increase over the yield

of 1878. The potato crop average for the whole country is 95, against 73 the same time last year. The condition of the buckwheat is somewhat better than last year. The average is 98 for the whole country. Sorghum averages 95, against 84 last year. The Treasury Department at Washington is surprised at the fact that, notwithstanding the new order for the payment of gold .to those who want it, by the Sub-Treasurers in the leading cities of the country, hardly any call is made for the yellow metal. The people prefer paper money.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists have decided to take separate political action this year. At a convention held at Altoona, last week, they placed William L Richardson in nomination for State Treasurer. The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts, at their convention at Boston last week, nominated a full ticket headed by a clergyman, the Rev. Daniel O. Eddy, for Governor. The Colorado Democrats met in State Convention at Denver last week, and nominated George Q. Richmond, of Pueblo, for Supreme Judge. The Minnesota Democratic State Convention was held at St Paul, on the 25th of September. Resolutions were adopted declaring the United States an indissoluble union of indestructible States; demanding a revision of the tariff; declaring gold an silver the money of the constitution; favoring reform in the civil service; and denouncing the presence of the army at the polls. The financial plank of the platform was the occasion of a long debate, and a resolution demanding the substitution of greenbacks for national-bank notes and the free coinage of silver was finally adopted. The following ticket was nominated: Governor, Edmuud Rice, of St. Paul; Lieutenant Governor, E. P. Barnum, of Stearns, county; Secretary of State, Felix A. Borer, of Le Sueur; State Treasurer Lyman B. Cowdry, of Olmsted; Attorney General, P. M. Babcock, of Hennepin county; Railroad Commissioner, William Colville, of Goodhue county. a New Yorker named Wentworth Rollins has accomplished the champion longdistance bicycling feat of tbis country. Leaving New York city on the 3d of July, he arrived at Chicago on the 27th of September, having traveled the entire distance astride of a bicycle. The distance traversed was 1,313 miles. Counting the delays at various stopping places, he made an average of seventy miles a day. The total import of specie into this country since the resumption of specie payments at the beginning of the year is >39,730,402, of which >31,921,461 was gold and >7,808,941 silver. At a meeting of the Western Iron Association at Pittsburgh, a few days ago, bar iron was advanced to a >3 card, and nails to a >3.40 card.