Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

fobbign vzwa. The village of Remus, in France, has been binned. Ninety-eight houses were destroyed. The Russian Government has given an order for the construction in England of four torpedo boats. The Basutos, a South African tribe, are in open rebellion against the British. It appears that the killing of tho mother of the Russian Gen. Skobeloff, in Turkey, was neither an act of war nor of private vengeance, but of mere brigandage. Tho murderers have boon arrested. Gen. Bazaine is reported hopelessly ill in Madrid. Tiie committee for the erection of a memorial to Prince Louis Napoleon, in deference to the wishes of many Englishmen, has withdrawn tho proposal to place it in Westminster Abbey, and tho Queen has offered a site in Bt. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where the monument will be erected. Tho explosion of powder in the artillery works at Ivooisk, South Russia, killed eighteen and wounded twelve persons. A report is telegraphed from St. Petersburg that the Russian Gen. Skolxileff lias been captured and beheaded by tho Turcomans. The sequel to the marriage of the Marquis of Anglesey and Mrs. Wodehouse, of Georgia, is the suicide of Mrs. Wetmore, also a celebrate I beauty of tho American colony in Paris, who, it is reported, was jilted by the Marquis* Turkey lias practically rejected the recommendations of tho supplemental conference at Berlin, and asks that tho Greek frontier question be reopened. Earthquakes have ruined every public building in Manila, and the inhabitants are encamped outside the city, where there are no houses to full on thorn. The consummation of the victorious British campaign in Afghanistan begun with the formal recognition oT Abdurrahman Khan as Ameer, instead of Yukoob Khan. The event, which, it is announced, will bo shortly followed by the withdrawal of tho British forces, signalizes what is practically equivalent to tho reduction of Afghanistan to tho condition of an English dependency. Tho Dowager Countess Cowper, mother of the present Earl Cowper, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, is dead, aged 75. Tho betrothal of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria and Princess Zorka of Montenegro announced. Mr. Redputh repeats emphatically that there is no further need of American contributions in Ireland. Tho recent earthquake at Manila, on the Island of Luzon, proved to be a terribly destructive visitation' Throe hundred and twenty persons, including 200 Chinamen, were killed, and nearly every family on the island was rendered homeless.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Mrs. Nesmith, wife ol a iheu tenant in the navy, and two children were drowned while bathing at Atlantic City, N. J. Rich oil deposits have been discovered in the neighborhood of Wellsville, Allegany county, N. Y. Several test wells have been yielding largo quantities of the liquid. The large brewery of Herman Koehler, In New York, has been partially burned, involving a loss of $300,000. The census returns show a slight decrease in tho population of Vermont since 1870. Maine has also decreased considerably in population. Dr. Tanner entered upon his twentythird day without food weighing 135 pounds, twenty-two pounds less than at the beginning. He expressed himself as feeling no pangs of hunger. At 0 o’clock a. m, of that day he took a two-hours’ drive, had his demijohn filled with well-water, returned to tho hall, wrote half a dozen letters, read his voluminous correspondence, looked over the morning papers, and talked and acted not different from other men in tho apartments. His condition was entirely normal—pulse 78, and temperature 98. Tho physicians pronounce him a phenomenon. Now Hampshire has hod a sharp earthquake shock. Dishes and pioturos were shaken down in many placou Dr. Tanner entered upon the twentyfifth day of his long fast looking, and apparently feeling, as well as at tho end of the first w. ok. a measurement disclosed the curious fact that the faster had decreased in height two lichee since the beginning of his self-impo-ed task. His pulse was recorded s t 72 ; temperature, 99 ; respiration, 1G ;• weight, 131 The physicians expressed the opinion that he could not last many days longer. A wealthy farmer named Easterly, Using in Wayne county, N. Y., mnrdcrod his wife and mother-in-law, and then committed suicide. The official census returns give Boston a population of 363,565, an increase of 71,066 in ten years. Dr. Tanner’s condition was reported as good at the close of tho twenty-eighth day of his fast. His weight was 129 X, a loss of ono pound in the preceding twenty-four hours. Nine boys have died in Philadelphia from injuries received by the explosion of toy pistols on the Fourth of July.

Wtit Mrs. Calvin and her 17-year-old son were killed by lightning in Sao county, lowa. A census enumerator at Decatur, 111., found a woman who had given birth to five children in one year. Gen. Grant’s apartments at Manitou Springs, Col., were robbed of SSOO in money and jewelry. Hon. Joseph Brinkenlioff, for many years Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court, is dead. He was the author of the original draft of the Wilmot proviso. The Sioux Indians object to the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company laying hacks through their reservation. The savages have driven the engineers and surveyors of the road out of their country. A serious accident occurred on the Wabash railway, near Fort Wayne, Ind. A train of oxcurslonists from Indianapolis and other Indiana towns, returning from Pu -in Bay, was ditched by a broken rail. One pas. senger was killed outright, three or four received fatal injuries, about a dozen were serious ly and some two dozen slightly wounded The train, was completely wrecked, and the wonder is that more people were not killed. George W. Weber, publisher of the Springfield (Ill.) Register, and George Baber, late editor of the paper, indulged in a street fight, the other day, ia whioh Weber was sort*

ously cut with a knife in the hands of Baber, while the latter was knocked down and badly battered about the head and face. Spotted Tail’s Indians are dissatisfied with him, and have asked the President to depose the old chief. A Detroit bank has been made the victim of an unusually bold robbery. The cashier was alone in the bank, when a stranger entered, knocked him down with a slung-shot, helped himself to $>5,000 in bills, and made good his escape. E. B. Chambers, editor and publisher of the Fargo (Dakota) Times, was recently thrown from a lumber wagon and fatally injured. At Kokomo, Col., a desperado named Norton shot and killed I oliceman O’Neil. A mob took Norton out of jail an hour afterward and hung him. He confessed having committed Other murders, and said he ought to have been hung long ago. Cicero Simms was liariged for murder at Fair Play, Col., on the 23d of July. An Industrial Exposition building, to cost $200,000, will bo erected in Milwaukee. Twenty car-loads of Mormon immigrants passed through Chicago last week on their way to Utah. The summer trotting meeting of the Chicago Jockey Club furnished tho most successful week for sport ever known in the annals of the trotting turf, terminating in the hitherto unparalleled performance, for a horse of that age, of a mile in 2:13)4 by William H. Vanderbilt’s 6-year-old filly Maud 8. South. Tho marriage of Miss Bertie Old, daughter of Gen. Ord, and Gen. Trevino, ol tho Mexican army, took place at San Antonio, Texas, last week. At Olinda, Ala., three negroes have been arrested for digging up and mutilating the bodies of buried white people. They did it for the purpose of getting the finger bones, which they believed would mako them lucky at cardrff At Wilmington, N. C., a negro named Richardson killed his mother-in-law, his father-in-law, and his wife.

POLITICAL POINTS. Gen. Neal Dow has written a letter accepting tho nomination for the Presidency by the National Prohibitory party. Gen. Huidekoper, who commanded the “Buck-tail” iegiment at Gettysburg, l as been appointed Postmaster at Philadelphia. The Ohio Democrats have placed in nomination the following candidates for State offices : Secretary of State, William Long ; Judge of the Supreme Court, Martin B. Follctto ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Richard W. Fanning ; School Commissioner, William J. Jackson; member of the Board of Public Works, J. J. Burns. —The Vermont Democratic Convention nominated Edward J. Phelps for Governor, George W. Gates for Lieutenant Governor, and James K. Williams for Treasurer.—The Democracy of Missouri, in convention at Jefferson City, named Thomas T. Crittenden for Governor, It. A. Campbell for Lieutenant Governor, It. D. Ray for Judge of the Supreme Court, M. K. McGrath for Secretary of State, and Philip E. Cliappel for Treasurer. B. Gratz Brown announces himself as a Democratic candidate for United States Senator for Missouri.

WASHINGTON NOTEa Although the Spanish Government has denied that any vessel of tho Spanish navy fired on the two American schooners in Cuban waters a few weeks ago, the State Department at Washington has learned that it was the Canto, a small screw steamer of the Spanish navy, which committed the offense. A shark nine feet in length has been caught in the Potomac, near Washington. It will he stuffed and placed in the Smithsonian Institute.