Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1880 — DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Xlast. The Rev. Dr. William Adams, President of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, is dead. One man was killed and six others severely injured by on explosion in a colliery at Shenandoah, Pa. Troy, N. Y., is afflicted with a smallpox epidemic. Thirteen buildings have been do strayed by lire at Bchaghticoko, N. Y., cansing a loss of SIOO,OOO. A tire at Salamanca, N. Y., burned a hotel and several other buildings. Loss estimated ut $155,000. West. The new bridge of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, spanning the Missouri river at Fluttamouth, Nob., has boon completed, tested and pronounced safe and satisfactory. It cost $400,000. J. 8. Morgan, proprietor of a jobprinting establishment in Cincinnati, wont to see a lady at Cleveland, who held his noto for $2,000, had an unsatisfactory interview with her, and finally seized a revolver, and shot himself dead in hor ■orosonce. Gen. Grant lias declined the Presidency of the Las Vegas Mining Company. Hon. Robert McClelland, ex-Govemor of Michigan, and Secretary of the Interior during President Pierce’s administration, has just died at his home in Detroit, Aged 68 years. Wyoming Territory’s population is shown by tho census returns to be 21,900. A man at Blanchester, Ohio, killed bis wife and child by putting poison in their coffee, and then made an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself. His neighbors completed tho job by hanging the scoundrel to a tree. The news from the Indian country is encouraging. It has been supposed that Ouray’s death would destroy all prospect of a satisfactory settlement of the question, as his influence with that refractory nation was unbounded ; but it seems that the new chief who has been chosen to succeed him has inherited his desire to secure the completion of tho treaty. Kapovonari is tho euphonious name of Chief Ouray’s successor. Victoria, tho hostile Apache chieftain, recently sent a message to tho Mexican Government, requesting a meeting for treaty purposes. The Mexicans refused to consider his proposition until they had ascertained the views of the United States authorities on the sub ject. * Thomas McDonald, a farmer of Pickaway county, Ohio, was taken from his house by a mob and hung to a tree. McDonald had for a long time been regarded as a desperado—quarrelsome and vindictive. A feud had existed betwcon him and his neighbors for some time, and they adopted this summary mothod of set tung the matter. Bishop Gliatard, of Indianapolis, has suspended for two months most of the members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians for dii obeying the older prohibiting dancing at tho picnic recently given by the society. During a heavy storm at Grand Rapids, Mich., the reservoir on the hill broko, liberating several million gallons of water, which damaged adjacent property to the amount of $50,000. Fifteen or twenty dwelling houses . were wrecked, and many streets and gardens were either scooped out or obstructed by gravel and bowlders. President Hayes and party, including Gen. and Mrs. Sherman, and about a dozen other distinguished people, passed through Chicago last week, ea route to the Pacific coast * . i The organ factory of A. B. Chase, at

Norwalk, Ohio, has been burned. Loss, *70,000. A warehouse at Washington Comers, Alameda county, Cal., containing 150,000 sacks of wheat and barley, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is *200,000. A race to test the comparative speed and endurance of horses and men came off in Chicago last week. The contest grew out of a wager that a horse could cover thirty miles in less time than three men coaid go the same distance, each man going ten miles. The horse came in ahead, making the distance in 3 hours, 7 minutes and 36 seconds. The three men made tho total distance in 3 hoars, 25 minutes and 5 seconds.