Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — DOMESTIO INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIO INTELLIGENCE.

Kant. Jacob Zechlor, of Berks county, Pa., built a. lunatic asylum of Ins own twenty-seven years ago, and placed his insane brother in it. The building is eight feet square and has only one window. Ry some means Ihe neighbors discovered I lie use to which the place was put, and have just secured the release of the prisoner. A reconciliation lias taken place between the Sprague and Hoyt families at Cnnonchet, Nnrragansett Pier, and rumor has it that Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, the only member of either family al sent from tho lute reunion, will return to her husband’s roof after the sum-mer-resort season is over. One thousand pounds of powder exploded in Gen. Oliver’s mill at Laurel Run, l’a., during a violent, thunder-storm, destroying a portion of tho establishment, and shaking the earth for miles around. Fortunately nobody was killed. A convention of the deaf mutes of America lias just boen held at Cincinnati. Burned : A hollow-ware foundry, a Hour mill and a cigar manufactory, at Philadelphia, loss $200,000 ; 6.000,000 feet of lumber in the northern part of St. Louis, Mo., loss f 00,000 ; a portion of the Evening Telegraph office at Pittsburgh, Pa., loss $5,000. * The colored editors of the United States mot at Louisville, Ky., Inst week, and formed a Press Association, with ,T. Q. Adams, of the Louisville Bulletin, President, Distressing mortality exists among tho babies of New York city, in consequence of the extremely warm weather. A New York dispatch says that a large number of forged passenger tickets over the railroad liues West, have been put out. St. Julien trotted at Hartford, the other day. against tho time, 2:11%, made by him and Maud S. at Rochester. The da"y and track were fine. Hickok took the middle of the track, and reached the quarter in 32; the half in 1:06; the three-quarter in 1:37%, and passed under the wire in the unprecedented time of 2:11%. There was great excitement when the record was announced. Henry Bienhauer, a German merchant, •f New York, committed suicide by throwing himself under the wheels of a rapid-transit train on the elevated railroad. * Five boys who attended a picnic near Andover, Mass.,, climbed on top of a passenger oil- in a train bound for Lowell for the purpose of securing a free ride. When the train passed under a bridge, near their destination, they were all swept off igjd killed. George Harward, a young lawyer of Brooklyn, N. Y., was going home, a few mornings ago, when two women who were being followed asked his protection. He escorted them several blocks until the desperadoes came up with him, and, after a brief altercation, stabbed him to the heart.

West. A brace of New Mexican murderers, Charles Williams anil Louis A. Gaines, have been hanged at Silver City, New Mexico. Williams said that his name wrr assumed, but refused to reveal his true one. Both criminals died game. A horrible tragedy has lieen enacted near Madison, Win. Flames were seen to issue at, night from ihe residence of John Winrick, a farmer living on the line of Dane and Columbia counties. The neighbors rushed to the spot, and wen? not a little puzzled to observe that none of tho occupants were around tho burning dwelling. Entering the house, tho reason for this was made clear. Mrs. Winrick’s dead body was found on the floor riddkxl with shots, and her husband’s body was found in the tied bleeding from ghastly wounds about tho throat and head. From all that can ]»o learned about the. affair, it appears that Winrick, in a moment of rage, shot his wife, then set fire to his house that both might lie consumed in the flames, hut, finding the work too slow, he shot himself. The Winrioks lived unhappily. St. Paul has been visited by a destructive fire. The sufferers are P. H. Kelly A Co., wholesale groeors, and Avorill, Russell A Carpenter, wholesale paper dealers, their losses being estimated at $400,000 and $225,000 respectively. Simon Zimmerman, * machinist living on Clyjbonrno avenue, Chicago, killed his wife and then committed suicide. Cause, jealousy The tlireo great Northwestern railways, the Chicago and Northwestern, Chicago, Milwaukee ajjd St, Paul, and Chicago, 8t Paul]

Minneapolis and Omaha, liavc decided to prevent ocean-steamship agents from selling their tickets to and from Chicago and Milwaukee. Hereafter they will manage this part of the business themselves, and will recognize no tickets bought of outsiders. Laborers excavating for a sewer near Wicker Park, in the northwestern part of Chicago, came upon the petrified remains of a mastodon at the depth of eighteen feet. Mr. Asa Dow. one of the most prominent members of the Chicago Board of Trade, and at one time its President-, has failed. His liabilities amount to $102,000, and his assets to about $48,000. Going too much into pork speculation did it. Dispatches to the Chicago Times from various points in the great corn belt show that the crop has lieen seriously damaged by drought, the dry spell lasting in some localities from four to six weeks. The yield per acre will tie much less than an average ; tint, owiug to the increased acreage, it is probable that tho crop, in tho aggregate, will be as large as that of last year. George Haslet and his son met their deaths in a shocking manner at Terre Haute. They were doing some carpenter work upon a stable ; the boy dropped his rule into a new privy vault, thirty feet deep, just beneath them, and descended into it for the purpose of obtaining the rule. When near the bottom he suddenly fell over and expired, hnv ng been overcome by gas. His father saw him fall, and immediately went down to rescue turn, but ho, toy, was overcome, and expired almost instantly. Minnie Binnie, of Dundee, 111., 16 years of age, is under arrest for marrying two men this summer. A daring attempt was made a few nights ago to murder Judge Sherman Page, of Austin, Minn. He was sitting at a table when some person unknown fired a shot-gun at hi An through Ihe window, a portion of the charge striking him in the head.-y AMhoiigh wounded, it ia lielieved that he will recover. Another son of Gen. Grant hasstring a bonanza. Young Jesse's engagement to Lizzie, daughter of W. H. Chapman, a wealthy California landowner, is announced. ‘ ' A storm in Arizona destroyed the military buildings at Fort Mojave, killed three soldiers, and wounded several others. Three railroad men received fatal injuries by being run over bv the cars at Toledo. The steamer Marine City was burned on Lake Huron, near Alcona, Mich., on the afternoon of the ‘2!)th ult. The vessel was ot». the return trip from Mackinaw to Detroit, with a full load of passengers, and when off Sturgeon point tire was discovered in the hold. Tho flames spread with such rapidity that all effort to save the vessel was quickly abandoned, and officers and crew applied themselves to the work of rescuing those on board. Tho tug Vulcan, which was near, and the crew of the lifesaving station rendered prompt assistance in rescuing passengers and crew. Five of the passengers are reported missing, and are probably lost. A dispatch from the West chronicles (he death of Ouray, the famous Uto chief. He died of Bright’s diseaso of tho kidneys, after a long and painful illness. A four weeks’ engagement will be played at McViekcr’s, in Chicago, commencing next week, by Denman Thompson, in his per 7 sonation of Joshua Whitcomb. Mr. Thompson has won a national reputation in the part—the finest piece of character acting now upon the American stage. About the only acquisition of importance in the company since the last apliearance in Chicago has been the engagement of Miss Alice Stewart, a young lady said to possess an unusually good soprano voice. Last year Mr. Thompson played the most successful four weeks’ engagement ever in Chicago, and ho will no doubt duplicate it now.

Booth. Judge H. M. SpofTord, of Louisiana, the contestant for Kellogg’s seat, in the United States Senate, died at Red Sulphur Springs, W. Va., last week. He was 58 years of ago. Tho recent storm 011 the lower Texas and Mexican coast was much more destructive than appeared from ttie lirst accounts. The Mexican city, Matnmoras, looks as if it had been bombarded. Over 300 houses were demolished and the streets are strewn with debris. At Brazos, Toint Isabel and Brownsville the results were equally disastrous. The losses at the vai ions points are estimated: Brownsville, $250,000; Matamoras, $500,000 ; Point Isabel, $200,000 ; Garrison, $50,000. Several Mexicans aro reported to have been drowned. A cerious light occurred at Coffeeville, Miss., between Democrats and Greenbackers, tho following particulars of which are telegraphed from Memphis: Both parties held ratification meetings at Coffeeville. Each raised a pole. The Democrats had a* brass band from Grenada. After the pole-raising they marched through the streets. While passing a corner a difficulty occurred between a negro named Spearman, who was in tire Democratic procession, and R. V. Pearson, the Greenback candidate for Sheriff, which resulted in Pearson shooting Spearqian, killing him instantly. This was the signal for a general melee, and a volley of shots opened upon Pearson, who was shot three times, from the effects of which he died. Two white men, friends of rearson, were wounded. For a time a perfect pandemonium . reigned. Tho, excitement ran so high that the Walthall. Grays, a military company of Grenada, was telegraphed for, but later the order was countermanded. 1 There were two hangings in Tex us on Friday, Aug. 27. The victims were ARtsn Wright, of Dallas, and Lvnchlicld Burks, of Waco. Roland Rucker was to have beffif hanged at Palestine, but when tho executioners called for him they found him dead in his coll. Near Cochran, Ga., four white men broke down the door of a colored man’s cabin and fired a volley into the hut. The occupant seized a gun and, with one well-directed shot, killed two of his assailants iu their tracks. A Coroner’s jury very appropriately rendered a verdict of justifiable homicide. The trial of James H. Arnold for tho murder of liis brother-in-law, Hon. Henry Little, has just been concluded at Nicholasville, Ky., and resulted in a verdict of acquittal, on the ground of self-defense. An exciting episode occurred near the close of tho trial. Senator Voorlioes, of Indiana, counsel for the prisoner, had a sharp alternation with State’s Attorney Bronston. The spectators grew excited, and Arnold’s brother attempted to kill the public prosecutor with a revolver. After a scene of wild excitement, the would-be assassin was disarmed, and nobody was hurt.. Subsequently, but on the same day, he was indicted by the Grand Jury, tried, convicted, and sentenced to one year in tlio penitentiary, and to pay a fine of SI,OOO.