Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Hast. The rivalrieH and bickerings between the two Exposition or World’s Fair Committees of New York have been settlod at last, and tliero is now a good prospect that tho fair will be held in 1883. Tlio obelisk has been successfully drawn out of the hold of tho steamer Dossoug, at New York, and will soon be placed in position in Central Park. A man named Knapp, from Utica, N. Y., stood on tho banks of the river, at Niagara falls, shot himself through the head and then leaped in tho water and was swept over tho falls. An entire block of buildings in New York, known as the Manhattan building, has been burned. Loss estimated at $1,509,000. ’ l)r. Tanner’s first lecture was delivered in Booth’s Theater, New York to about 100 people. The New Jersey coast has been visited by a severe gale. The damage is very great. Marslia ft O. Roberts, the well-known New York merchant, capitalist and steamship owner, is dead.' Isidore Rosenthal, dealer in Avoolens, lias failed, in New York city, to the amount of $200,000 ; assets. $95,000. West. Gen. Grant visited the Wisconsin State Fair at Madison, as tho special guest of ho managers. E. B. Hall, late Treasurer of Lucas county, Ohio, is a defaulter to the amount of about $50,000, and has skipped to Canada. A fire in St. Louis destroyed half a dozen ice-houses and a portion of tho Excelsior manufacturing works. . When the roof of the

latter establishment fell in, seven firemen were carried down, two. receiving injuries which caused death in a few hours, and the others being painfully hurt. Indians recently attacked and captured a stage sixteen miles from Fort Cummings, in New Mexico. The drivor and passengers, two in killed. One of them was Ewing 8. Madden, son of Capt. D. Madden, of the Sixth cavalry. Mr 3. Sarah Doolittle, mother of exSenator James B. Doolittle, has just died at Bacine, Wis., in tho 88th year of her age. A financial statement by the Triennial Committee of Knights Templar shows that the expenses of tho late conclave in Chicago were $98,000, and that the receipts from all sources were $87,000. Tho shortage will be made good by the three local commanderies. Troops from Fort Cummings overtook the savages who recently captured a mail-coach in New Moxico and killed the passengers, and had a short fight with them. Three of the soldiers Wore killed, and several wounded. The savages then fled in the direction of Mexico. An express train on the' Indianapolis and St. Louis railway was thrown from the track on a bridge thirty feet high, at St. Mary’s Station, Ind., a few nights ago. The conductor was killed and soveral passengers were injured. It is thought the disaster was caused by trainwreckers bent on robbery, President Hayes and party arrived in Kan Franflsco Sept. 9, and received a very cordial welcome. The city was handsomely decorated in their honor. A Creek Indian was executed for murder on the 9th inst., at Muscogee, Indian Territory. Dan Camory and Sam Shields descended into a silver mine, near Hannibal, Mo., too soon after a blast, and while a vacuum still existed. They were dead when taken out. A company has been formed at Topeka, Kan., for invading the Indian Territory. The Chicago Inter Ocean prints returns of the spring-wheat crop in 210 counties of Illinois, lowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Dakota. From

these returns it is computed that the crop for the year is about 21,000,000 busheles greater than in 1879 in the States and Territories named. The wheat crop of Illinois this year is the larg*est ever raised in the State. The total yield is 56,508.309 bushels, of which 53,865,505 are winter wheat and 2,642,808 spring wheat. The Chicago Times states that several enormous cracks have appeared in tlic walls of the new City Hall, now in process, of construction, indicating that it is settling very unevenly. Fart of the structure is believed to be in a dangerous condition. A 156-hour race between men and horses was brought to a conclusion at Chicago last week. The first prize was taken by a young man named Byrnes, the score at the finish standing as follows : Men—Byrnes, 578 miles ; Krohne, 535 ; Colston, 529 ; Schoch, 429; Jackson, 203. Horses—Betsy Baker, 568 miles; Bose of Texas, 545; Bathman’s entry, 527 ; Crockett, 525. Thomas Connell and William Doyle, of Chicago, assaulted each other with lighted kerosene lamps. The lamps broke and deluged them with burning oil. Both were honibly burned, and one of them, Doyle, has since died. Two old people named Purdy were burned to death in their house at Austin, Minn. Boutn. The Hon. Gustavus Henry, well known over tile Union as the “eagle orator of Tennessee,” died lately at his home in Clarksville, Tcnu., after a lingering illness, aged 76 years. Active preparations are making at Baltimore for a grand celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the city. The festival will commenco Oct. 11, and continue fiva days.