Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

EOREIGN NSWS. Fleming, Ried & Co.’a worsted mills at Greenock, the largest in Scotland, have been destroyed by fire. The British Government has ordered more troops to the West of Ireland. It is annoftnced that the Socialist Congress will be held in Zurich in 1881. Circulars have been sept to the principal Socialist societies of Europe inviting their co-operation. Fifty miners have been suffocated in a mine near Kattovntz, Germany. A Constantinople dispatch says the Sultan has declared that he would rather abdicate than yield to the wishes of the powers. He has had a protracted interview with Hobart Pasha. • The British Government has declared Counties Galway and Mayo to be in state of disturbance, and to need additional police.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

East Tn a billiard match for the championship of America and a purse of SI,OOO, played at Now York by George F. Slosson and Jacob Schaefer, the former won by a score of 600 against 435. A young man at Jersey City, who was bitten by a dog twelve years ago, has just died, of what the doctors pronounce hydrophobia. The Holmes, Booth & Hayden manufacturing works at Waterbury, Ct., have been burned. Ixr.ss estimated at $200,000. The United States Grand Jury at Trenton, N. J., lias indicted Charles 11. Voorhis, member of Congress, for embezzling moneys of the Hackensack Bank. The Chase and the Faulkner mills, at Lowell, Mass., have been destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at $300,000. Prof. Benjamin Pierce, the celebrated mathematician and professor at Harvard College, is dead. James McDowell, a messenger for the Marine Bank, at New York, was robbed in a Wall street stage of a pocket-book containing $21,953. An accident on the Boston and Fitchburg railroad, near Littleton, Mass., resulted in the death of two passengers, and injuries, more or less serious, to fifteen others. ' Several yellow-fever patients have been admitted to the Quarantine Hospital at New York. There has been a serious accident on the New York and New England railroad, near Willimantic, Ct., caused by a collision between a passenger accommodation train and an extra freight train. 'Die wreck was a bad one. Engineers Kenyon and Flood and Firemen Forsyth and Hurley and Conductor Aldrich,of the freight train were killed. French & Ward’s woolen m ills at West Stoughton, Mass., with contents, have been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Exports from New York, exclusive of .specie, since Jan. 1, are $58,000,000 in excess of the exports for the same period of last year.

We«t The Chicago Exposition is now in its perfection. Everything is running smoothly. The show is varied and attractive, and the at tendance constantly increasing. The propeller William J. Livingston, Jr., owned by the Peshtigo Lumber Company, foundered and sank near Cana island, in Lake Michigan. Two men were killed by the explosion of a Democratic cannon at Plymouth, Ohio. The writing-paper mill at Elkhart, Ind., owned by J. R. Beardsley, John Cook and Mrs, B. L. Davenport, has been destroyed by tiro. Loss, $38,000 ; insurance, $1(1,000. A Wabash railway conductor named Whittaker attempted to put tramps off his train near Waverly, Ind., and was shot in the arm anddiead, receiving dangerous wounds. Work has been suspended in several of the Leadville mines in consequence of a fire breaking out in the Vulcan shaft of the Chrysolite mine. A safe in the ollie,e of the Western Hotel at St. Louis was robbed of money, watches, and other articles valued at between $3,000 and <4,000. Joseph Mehrens and wife were riding borne from LaCrosse, Wis., when a spark from the former’s pipe set lire to the straw in the wagon-box, and both were fatally burned. Dr. R. H. Williamson, a well known and respected physician of Milwaukee, has made an unsuccessful attempt at self-murder "by poisoning. Cause, domestic troubles. A fearfid tragedy has been enacted near New Canton, Pike county, 111. It seems that six miles from that town lived a family named Baker, consisting of father, mother, and two daughers. A young man named Sellers had been working for the family. While Mi-. Baker was from home, Sellers insisted that the daughter, aged 15 years, to whom he had become attached, should promise to marry him. This was refused, when Seilers drew a revolver and first shot the dog, and then immediately shot the mother and the daughter aged 15. He then placed the muzzle to his own temple and fired. Every shot was instantly fatal. Two negroes at a political meeting near Wyandotte, Kan., had a terrible fight. One, named Mason, demanded some money from George Harding, which was refused. Mason seized a huge knife and rushed at Harding, but was shot through the breast, not, however, before he cut the shooter four times. Both arc dead. John Mulhern, aged 16, while charivaring a newly-married couple at the home of 8. Burkey, in Monroe, Wis., was shot dead by Burkey. The murderer was arrested.

Boutb. Jacob Ball, the geologist and naturalist, died recently in his tent in Willeberger county, Texas, where he had gone on a scientific expedition. One death from yellow fever has been reported in New Orleans. The premises were properly disinfected, deceased buried immediately, and all means to prevent the spread of the fever promptly adopted. By the explosion of a gasoline lamp the three children of Wm. Clark, a leading business man of Jacksonville, Fla., were burned to death. Mrs. Clark is not expected to recover. Georgia held an election for State officers on the 6th inst. Gov. Colquitt was reelected Governor by a majority estimated at 45,000. At Charlotte, N. 0., the other night, a young man known as Doc. Jenkins was playing a game of “seven-up” with three other men, and the stakes were quite heavy. Jenkins was six in the game, and, holding a winning card, was in the act of throwing it when he dropped dead, still holding in his death-grasp t ie fatal card. Gus Wilkins, of Washington, N,

accused by his son, 10 years old, of stealing cattle, got even with the lad by killing him. George Lowry and David Thomas have been hanged by the citizens of Nelson county, Va., for having grossly assaulted and robbed a widow named Massie, Luke Weiss, aged 15, of Baltimore, being whipped by his father, hanged himself.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Treasury officials estimate the amount of foreign gold that has arrived in thia country since July 1 at $35,000,000. A Washington dispatch says : “ Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, has made hia report of the investigation in the South Carolina census matter to the Secretary of the Interior. Gen. Walker declines to give any information aa to the nature of the report, and Assistant Secretary Hall will not authorize any statement in the absence of Secretary Schurz. It is confidently stated, however, by persons wiio claim to know, that Gen. Walker, in the report, holds the theory that the census of 1870 was defective, and that the census of 1880 is correct, and that the apparent discrepancies are to be attributed to the assumed imperfections in the former census.” During the year ending June 30 last, postage stamps, stamped envelopes, and postal cards to the value of $32,087,342 were issued by the department at Washington, an increase of 9 per cent, over the previous year. A Washington dispatch says : Secretary Schurz made public the report of Superintendent Walker, of the Census Bureau,- on the alleged census frauds in South Carolina. The General gives his reasons for behoving the census of 1870 incorrect, attributing it mainly to defects of the law under which it was taken, that of 1850, and adds : “ The investigation instituted places it beyond a doubt, first, that the census of 1870 was grossly defective ; and, second, that the census of 1880 was substantially well taken. In no instance did anything appear which bore the semblance of fraud in the returns made to this office by the enumerators of 1880. In some districts nearly every family was identified as a resident in the township, notwithstanding the great extent of South Carolina townships, some of which embrace 100 and even 200 square miles. In all cases identification was carried far enough to put it beyond doubt that the fault of impossi-s ble gains reported over the census of 1870 lay with the preceding enumeration. It appears to me that the report of Special Agent Garrett satisfactorily settles the question as to the fairness of the tenth census in South Carolina.” Gen. Walker in conclusion says of the investigation : “I know’ of no reason why any further charge should be made against the enumeration recently brought to a conclusion by commissioned and sworn officers of the Government in South Carolina. The presumption which existed against their work has been completely overthrown, and a strong counterpresumption has been created by verification upon the ground of schedules of inhabitants, in the case of eighteen enumeration districts succossivoly taken for special investigation on* account of their exceptionably questionable character.”

POLITICAL FOINT3.

There was an election in Delaware on the 6th inst. for Inspectors and Assessors. A dispatch from Wilmington says : “Full returns from the State give the Democrats, for Inspectors, 9,529; Republicans, 8,673. Democratic majority, 856. On the vote for Assessois the Democrats received 9,495; Republicans, 8,806. Democratic majority, 689.”

Frightful Railroad Accident.

A terrible railroad accident occurred on the Pennsylvania railroad, at Pittsburgh, on the 9th inst., by which nearly thirty persons lost their lives and a large number received injuries more or less serious. We glean from the local pipers the following particulars of the disaster: The first section of the Wall’s accommodation going east left the Union depot at 11:31 p. m., having a large crowd of passengers who had been to the city to participate in the closing exercises of the Exposition and to witness the Democratic demonstration. The back platform was so crowded that the headlight on the second section following could not be seen. The first section stopped at the regular station, Twenty-eighth street, where it was delayed on account of another train which was in the next block. The second section came along at good speed, but, owing to the crowds on the back platform of the first section, the signal lights were hidden from view, and consequently the engineer of the second section did not see the train ahead of him until he was so near it that his train could not be checked in time to arrest the collision, and the engine went crashing into the rear coach of the first section, packed as it was with human beings. Among these unfortunates the engine buried itself to the very car windows in among screaming, suffering men, women and children, mangling all who were in its course. The boiler-head of the colliding engine burst off by the shock, and the scalding water and steam poured over the occupants of the car as if bent on completing the horrible work that had gone before. It is impossible to describe the fearful scene that followed. The moans of the dying and wounded and shrieks of those who had lost their friends were frightful. Word was immediately telephoned to the Mayor’s office for assistance, and twenty-five policemen with a full corps of physicians and wagons were dispatched at once to the scene of the disaster, where they were soon busily employed in alleviating the sufferings of the victims and clearing the wreck. The wounded who were unable to care for themselves were carried to the Soldiers’ Hospital. located but a short distance from the accident. Up to the present time (Oct. 11.) twenty-four deaths have occurred. About twenty are dangerously wounded, several of them beyond hope of recovery.