Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

poiusign hews. 'Die Duke of Westminster’s horse, Ben D’Or, won the English Derby. Russia has dispatched another ironclad to Chinese waters. A trial of Nihilists at St. Petersburg has resulted in the conviction of six men and five women. Two of the men were sentenced to death. A serious rebellion has broken out in British Burmah. Reports from the Black sea coast districts of Bulgaria give accounts of an outbreak in the Balkan villages bordering on the abovementioned territory. A dozen villages were destroyed by the. Bulgarians. The depredating forces numbered 2,000 men, composed of police, gymnastic societies, militia, armed villagers and brigands of all nationalities. Count Orloff, the itussian Minister to France, who retired in such disgust to St. Petersburg after the Hartmann affair, returned to Paris yesterday, bringing with him expressions of good will toward Franco on the part of the Czar. 'Die Chilians defeated the Peruvians, recently, in a pitched battle at Locumba. The failure of Martin, Shiels .V Co., general merchants, of London, for .*500,000, is announced. tSir Charles Dilko, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, says all of the secret treaties entered into by the late Beaconsfield Ministry have now been unearthed. An explosion in a powder mill near Ghent, in Belgium, killed ami injured many people. The harvest prospects are good throughout Ireland. An unusual area has been sown in potatoes, which eanie up well, as the new seed has been extensively used. Three Mussulmans who attempted to assassinate and rob a British subject at Constantinople, have been sentenced two to fifteen years' and one to seven years' penal servitude.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blais t. At Troy, N. Y.,Jiluring a fight between roughs, John Wall, an ex-convict recently released from prison, shot and killed Supervisor Casey, who was attempting to quell the disturbance. Wall lied, pursued by an infuriated mob. During the chase a duel took between Wall and the pursuing officers, and a policeman was shot in the head and si<l<-, but not fatally. A man named Trowley was also shot and in jured slightly, and a child was shot in the hand. The wildest excitement prevailed. Wall, when captured, hail a narrow escape from Ivnehing. G/T. Morrow, a dealer in Indies'shoes, at New York, has failed for $’200,000. They have been experiencing some phenomenally warm weather down East. In Massachusetts and New Hampshire the thermometer rose to 102 in the shade. In New York the mercury rose to nearly 100. In the rural districts of New York State there has been no rain for months, and many farmers are plowing up potato fields planted early in the season. In the region around Pittsburgh no rain has fallen for two months. As a consequence the ground is so dry and parched that fanners and gardeners have lost all their early crops, water is becoming quite scarce in the rural districts, and gross, grain, and fruit trees look as if they had been singed by fire. The drought region extends into the adjacent districts of Ohio and West Virginia. There is much sickness on account of the heat and drought. The taking of testimony in the Whittaker case, nt West Point, was brought to a close on May 28. Recorder Sears and Lieut. Knight (lien made the closing arguments and the court adjourned sine die. Henry Hamlin, who shot a watchman connected with the Connecticut State Prison, in September, 1877, was hanged at Hartford last week. A dozen people were seriously injured by a collision on the Wilmington and Northern railroad, near Beading, Pa. Many of the students of Princeton College are sick with malarial fever, and several have died. One of the students cut his throat with a razor while delirious from the effects of the fever. James E. Williams, on trial at New York, for having his aunt, Mrs. Delia Little, of San Francisco, committed to prison upon an affidavit that she was an habitual drunkard, has been convicted of perjury and sentenced to the State prison for four, years. A kerosene-oil explosion on an English vessel at Philadelphia resulted in the killing ol two hoys and a man, and the infliction of fatal injuries on two other men. West. Several deaths have occurred at Moline, 111., from the use of partially cooked pork which contained |riehin:o. The physicians of the town have published a card advising the people to use only thoroughly cooked meat. A cyclone at Mitchell, Dak., killed two persons and injured several others. Numerous small parties of Indians are taking scalps and stealing cattle on the Little Missouri. A barrel of gasoline in the cellar of a residence at Piqua, Ohio, exploded, setting the house on fire and burning two boys to death. The Appellate Court of Chicago has decided that a party who lent money at usury forfeited all claim to any interest whatsoever, and could recover only the principal in an action for debt. The Chicago Distilling Company’s distillery has been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $25,000. T. C. Thurston, who some time ago killed his business partner at Leavenworth, Kan., met Col. Anthony on the street, in that city, the other day, and fired two shots at him. Both bullets missed Anthony, but one hit and fatally wounded an attorney, and the other lodged in an advertising solicitor’s head. Thurston gave himself up at once, and was emoved to Fort Leavenworth for safe-keeping. A recent telegram from Dos Pinos, New Mexico, says : “The latest Indian news is that six herders were killed on the ranch of Patriocino Lunay, eight miles from Tularosa. In Socorro county and in the Magullaus about fifty men were killed, two women and three Americans, names unknown. In the vicinity of Tularosa, Socorro county, every ranch has been cleaned out by Apaches, and the number ol those murdered since May 1 is seventy-eight. Gen. Hatch’s command has marched more than 1,000 miles in pursuit of the Indians.” Col. Hatch telegraphs to Gen. Sheridan that the redskins were attacked by him at the Polomas river, N. M. He reports that fifty- ' Ave of the hostiles were killed. Col. Hatch ho reports that Capt. Kerwin had a skirmish the Indians, killing many of them. ' The

hostiles are in retreat, but are closely pushed by the troops. A dispatch from Laramie City says the Ute Indians in North Park are on the warpath. A band of sixty, it is reported, attacked a settlement fifty miles south of Laramie, and killed two men. The Supreme Court of California has released Dennis Kearney from prison on a writ of habeas corpus. Jacob Smith, a wealthy farmer of Lucas county, Ohio, has been arrested on a charge of having murdered his wife’s uncle fifteen years ago, in order to obtain possession of some $6,000. The Sujierior Court of San Francisco has sustained the general demurrer of Mayor Kalloch against impeachment proceedings by the Board of Supervisors, and dismissed-the case. . Four or five persons were mortally injured by the explosion of a boiler in a saw-mill at Winnipeg. In accordance with a decision of the California Supreme Court, Denis Kearney has been released from the House of Correction. Two farmers were suffocated in a well near El Dorado, Kan. One of the victims was trying to rescue the other. A tornado in the vicinity of Evansville, Ind., blew down several houses, killed one person and injured several others. A cremation society is to be organized in St. Louis. Indians have plundered Beaver Station, Dak., and killed three men, and have committed other depredations in the territory. Safe-blowers made a haul of $5,500 in the railroad depot at Beloit, Kan. At Haverly’s Chicago Theater the Rentz-Santley Novelty Company holds the boards the present week, awl is drawing groat houses. They appear in the laughable burlesque “Penn's Aunts Among the Pirates.” South. The Town Marshal of Hampton, Ga., had a quarrel with Col. McCollum, a prominent citizen, went home after a gun, and, returning, shot the latter dead. A reign of terror prevails in Lawrence county, Ky. Regulators are riding in all directions, cutting telegraph and telephone wires and committing other and more serious depredations. A tremendous rain-storm recently visited a section of Southwestern Texas. The town of Brackett was flooded, several houses swept away, and many people drowned. Near San Saba the family of P. DI. Rountree took refuge in a cave, resulting in the drowning of two of his little boys, aged 3 and 6 years. His wife, little daughter and a young lady with them were taken out in a drowning condition. Thomas Edwards, who killed his reputed wife and child in Washington county, Ark., about a year and a half ago, was banged last week at Ozark, in that State. L. L. Ford, another Arkansas murderer, was also hanged at Marion, Crittenden county, in that State. The town of Savoy, Fannin county, Texas, having a population of about 300, has been demolished by a cyclone. Nine people were killed and some sixty wounded, many of them fatally. Nineteen business houses, the railroad depot and twenty dwellings were destroyed. Only five houses are left in the place. The first new wheat of the season arrived at St. Louis, Mo., last week, from Fort Worth, Texas, and was sold at action on 'Change for SL(;2, I 2 per bushel.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The bill providing for the extension for Hix yearn of the time for completion of the Northern Pacific railroad, agreed upon by the House commit tee, requires that the proceeds of all sales of land granted, in excess of the cost, of construction of the road, shall be paid into the treasury. R. A. Morris, clerk-to the Librarian of Congress, was robbed of $2,700 in currency at the United States treasury in Washington. He laid the package down for a moment, and some time later noticed that a bogus bundle had been substituted.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Louisiana Republican Convention split in two in less than an hour after coming together, and two sets of delegates were sent to Chicago. One of the conventions, presided over by ex-Gov, Warmoth, chose seven Grant, seven Sherman and one Blaine delegates. The other faction was presided over by Taylor Beattie, and selected all Grant delegates. The Delaware Democrats, in convention at Dover, appointed delegates to Cincinnati, instructed them to vote for Senator Bayard for President, and adopted a resolution in favor of adhering to the two-thirds rule. The Rhode Island Legislature has elected A. 11. Littlefield Governor, and H. H. Fay Lieutenant Governor, there having been no choice at the polls. The Colorado Republican Convention, held at Denver, May 25, sent a solid and instructed Grant delegation to Chicago.

An Associated Press telegram from Washington says: “The Democratic politicians continue to talk about Senator David Da vis’ letter, and the opinion is almost universal that it is a direct bid for the Democratic nomination. The friends of Davis say the leading Nationals have asked him whether he will take their nomination, but he declined to commit himself, saying he would wait and see what the two regular conventions do. It is believed here among his friends that Davis will run as an independent candidate if there is a possibility that he can carry two or three States, and throw the election in the House, and thus defeat the Republican nominee.” The Kansas and Missouri Democrats held their State Conventions May 26. In Missouri, of the delegates elected to the National Convention, eighteen are reported to be antiTilden, nine for Tilden, and three doubtful. The sentiment of the Kansas Convention was in favor of Seymour aud Hendricks, but no instructions were given. The State Convention of the Green-back-Labor party of West Virginia was held at Charleston May 27, all the counties in the State but eight being represented. The State ticket is as follows - Governor, Col. N. B. French ; Auditor, G. W. Hayes; Treasurer, 8. W. Sturm; Superintendent of Free Schools, W. J. King ; Attorney General, Cyras Hall; Judge of the Supreme Court, J. A. Thompson. Delegates to the National Greenback Convention and State electors were airpointed. The Congressional district delegations nominated candidates for Congress as follows: First district, James Bassett; Second, D. D. F. Farnsworth ; Third, Henry S. Walker. The Greenbackers of Wisconsin met in State Convention at Watertown May 27, appointed Presidential electors, and selected delegates to the National Convention, with instructions to support E. P. Allis, of Milwaukee, for President. The Minnesota Greenbackers met on the same day at Minneapolis and performed

a similar work. The delegates chosen are said to be favorable to Solon Chase, of Maine. The Mississippi Democratic Convention elected a uon-instructed delegation to Cincinnati. Nine memliers favor Bayard, four Hancock, and the preferences of the three others are unknown. Kansas Democrats, who profess to know, say that Tilden has not a single supporter among the delegates selected at Topeka. Seymour, they say, will probably get the solid vote of the delegation. The Nevada Democratic Convention instructed for Tilden.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The Senate worked for ten hours on Monday, May 24, and in the forty-five minutes of the morning passed pension bills at the rate of one every two minutes. There then followed a long, dreary debate on the Morgan resolution relative to the electoral count, which was participated in Messrs. Toiler, Morgan, Edmunds, Thurman and Ingalls. The heat in the Chamber was very oppressive, and the galleries were emptied long before the debate closed. At 8 o’clock, the joint resolution was passed by 27 yeas to 13 nays. A communication from the President of the Smithsonian Institution was received, recommending the appropriation of SBO,OOO for completing the preparation of the scientific results of Hall’s Arctic exixidition. A resolution providing for a special committee to examine into the management ot the Soldiers’ Home in the District was passed, as was a bill appropriating SIS,(MM) for a statue of Joseph Henry, late Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The Carlisle Revenue bill was amended and passed. The President nominated James!). Putnam, of New York, Minister to Belgium, vice William Cassius Goodloe, resigned... .Mr. Blackburn presided in the House in the absence of Speaker Randall. Bills wore introduced: By Mr. Sherwin, fixing the duty of 40 per cent ad valorem on the importation of 'condensed milk; by Mr. Ellis, calling for information as to what steps have been taken for the acquisition of naval and coaling stations in Central America; by Mr. Cox, appropriating $14,000 lor printing and distributing more frequently Ilaisular and other commercial reports; by Mr. Finley, for the appointment of a special joint committee of three Senators and four Representatives to investigate the condition and status of public property in the Hot Springs Reservation; by Mr. Whittaker, to reduce the price of lands to actual settlers within the railroad limits to $1.20 per acre; by Mr. Hunton,repealing section 3,480 of the Revised Statutes so far as bounty lands are concerned; by Mr. Buckner, relative to the use of distinctive paper fer printing United States bonds and notes; by Mr. Prescott, to pay to soldiers and sailors of the late war who are totally disabled all the moneys expended by them for medical and surgical treatment. Nearly the whole day was passed in committee of the whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, small progress being made.

The President pro torn, laid before the Senate on the morning of Tuesday, May 25, a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury stating that the amount due Kansas as 5 per cent, of the sales of public lands in that State is $190,268. Also, a communication from the Secretary of tho Interior transmitting information concerning the entry of town sites in mineral lands, and inclosing a report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office on the subject, in which the Secretary concurs. A concurrent resolution that the Secretary of the Treasury lie directed to seek co-operation between the General Government and the several State Governments in tho. stabiisluucut of a uniform and efficient system for the registration of deaths, births and marriages, and appropriating a sum therefor, was referred. Tho Senate passed some, thirty pension bills as fast as they could be got ready, and, after the morning hour, took up the bill regulating the appointment of Supervisors, on which a protracted anil at times acrimonious debate arose. A bill passed providing that Sec. 3 of the act increasing the pensions of widows and orphans, approved July 25, 1866, and Sec. 13 of the Pension act of July 27, 1868, and See. 4,712, Revised Statutes, shall not operate to reduce the. rate of pensions which had been allowed to naval officers and their widows, etc., prior to J illy 20, 1866, and that such pensions shall be restored to the rate from which they were reduced, to date from the original date of such pensions’ A pension bill in favor of Commodore William B. Whiting, now on the retired list, disabled, was taken up, and passed... .In the House, the whole day was consumed in committee of the whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill.

Ex-Gov. Brown took the modified oath, and then took his seat as Senator from Georgia on the morning of May 26, in place of Gordon, resigned. The President recommended the immediate attention of Congress to the danger that would result from a failure to act upon the agreement with the Ute Indians. The Pensions Deficiency Appropriation bill was taken up. The amount appropriated for pensions is $'.1,240,000. Several amendments were agreed to and the bill passed. Ou motion of Mr. Paddock, the House bill passed for the relief of homestead and pre-emption settlers in Kansas and Nebraska who lost their crops by drought, extending for one year the time in which to complete their payments. Mr. Cockrell introduced a bill regarding pensions of soldiers of the war of 1812, so as to place on the pension rolls the names of the surviving officers and enlisted and drafted men without regard to color, including the militia and volunteers who were in the service for fourteen days or were in any engagement In the House, on motion of Mr. Carlisle, the Senate amendments to the House bill, amending the Internal Revenue law in regard to distilled spirits, were concurred in. On motion of Mr. Thompson, the Senate bill for the loan of tents, flags, camp equipage, etc., for the soldiers’ reunion in Muscatine, lowa, was passed. The Speaker pro tern, laid before the House a message from the President urging on Congress the necessity of action on the Ute agreement The House went into committee of the whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Mr. Forney made a conference reuort on the Military Academy Appropriation bill. Agreed to. Leave of absence was asked for many members, Mr. Frye putting his application on the ground of his desire to attend the Chicago Convention, but Mr. Hutchins objected, except coupled with the condition that those members with whom absentees are paired may vote to make a quorum. So leave was not granted. The Senate spent the most of the day, on May 27, in the routine consideration of the Agricultural Appropriation bill, and passed it The salary of Commissioner LeDuc was increased to $4,000. A bill passed providing for the reapportionment of members of the Legislature in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, by boards composed of the Speakers of the House of Representatives and President of Councils, upon the basis of the census of 1880. On motion of Mr. Thurman, a bill passed authorizing the purchase of ground contiguous to the postoffice at Toledo, and to erect in enlarged grounds a building for United States Courts, Custom House, bonded warehouse, etc., and appropriating $75,000 therefor. Thirty condemned bronze cannon were voted to the Fairmount Park Art Association for the statue of Maj. Gen. Meade. It was stated that 264

such cannon w ere on hand, and the rule of the department is. “Firstcome, first served,” though they are probably all donated by various bills. On motion of Mr. Kirkwood, the bill passed authorizing the Postmaster General to treat the mail service between East St. Louis and St. Louis as other than railroad service, and let it to the lowest bidder. Mr. Voorhees introduced a bill for the erection of a building for United States offices at Terre Haute. The President nominated Albert D. Bibb, of Idaho, Agent for the Indians of Malheur Agency in Oregon ; Benjamin F. Thacker, of Audubon, Supervisor of the Census in the Third District of Colorado, and Assistant Paymaster Frank Plunkett to Past Assistant Paymaster United States Navy. The nomination of J. Newton Pettis to be Associate Justice of New Mexico was rejected. ... In the House, a conference report on the joint resolution to print 11X1,000 extra copies of the report of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries was agreed to. The morning hour was dispensed with, and the House went into committee of the whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. The following gentlemen were appointed members of the Board of Managers of National Soldiers’ Homes: Gen. John M. Palmer, of Illinois; Gen. William B. Franklin, of Connecticut; Gen. Charles W. Roberta, of Maine; Gen. Martin McMahon, of New York; Gen. Love, of Indiana; and Maj. Fulton, of Wisconsin. Mr. Cobb, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the General Deficiency Appropriation bill. Ordered printed and recommitted. It appropriates about S4,(MM),(MM). On the meeting of the Senate on Friday, May 28, Mr. Kirkwood presented the memorial of 330 lowa ex-soldiers, disapproving the Weaver bill to pay soldiers the difference between gold and greenbacks. Mr. Eaton offered a joint resolution that the President be requested to open negotiations with France, Spain, Austria, and Italy with a view to removing restrictions on importations of tobacco and securing to onr citizens an open market. The joint resolution was taken up, amended and adopted, providing for the payment of claims of Florida for expenses of the State volunteers in the Seminole war of 1855, 1856 and 1857. The report of the conference committee on the bill for a supplement to the Revised Statutes was adopted. Mr. Butler submitted a resolution that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report all records in his department relating to the claim of the United States against the New York Central Railroad Company for the 5-pcr-cent. tax on the scrip dividend of 8 per cent, declared in 1869 on its stock capital. The House joint resolution to pay Government employes for Decoration day passed. A bill passed authorizing bonds of the manufacturers of tobacco, snuff and cigars, exporting the same, to be canceled at the port of clearance. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was then taken up, and debated the remainder of the day, without action. Adjourned over Decoration day until Monday In the House, on motion of Mr. Ewing, the Senate bill authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Col. Thomas Worthington, of Ohio, passed. The House, after a stormy session of seven hours, concluded the consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill in committee of the whole, and moved the previous question upon it, so that thu vote will be taken the first thing Monday morning, and then adjourned over Decoration day.