Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1880 — DOMESTIC "NTELLIGENOR. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC "NTELLIGENOR.

Jiiasct. A Pittsburgh dispatch of the 12th says the deaths by the direful accident upon the Pennsylvania railroad now number twentyseven, argl eight or ten others arc not expected to survive. The whole city is in mourning, for many among the killed wore well known and widely connected. A man named Carson and two boys nqdertool: to go through a railroad tunnel near Huntington, Pa., and were struck by a passenger train and killed. A child 2 years old, of Elmira, N. Y., lias just died of hydrophobia. Thirty-two deaths have, resulted from the Pittsburgh railroad collision. Wright Smith, of Paterson, N. J., manufacturer of silk goods, has failed, with liabilities amounting to $250,006. Two boys, one 12 jmd the other 8 years of age quarreled nt Pembroke, Mo., about a cat, when the < Ider seized a gun ayd shot his little companion to death. He was-discovered by a neighbor in the act of burying the body of his victim. The “Ladies’ Deposit Bank,” of Boston, an institution managed by women, and which has been paying enormous rates of interest, has collapsed, and turns out to have been a swindle of gigantic proportions. The liabilities amount, to about $500,000, and poor women are the principal victims. The officers es the so-called bank, all of them women, have been arrested. Weit. A serious row occurred at Shelbyville, Ind.,, a day or two before the recent election, in which Sheriff McCorkle was killed. Two political meetings were held in the town, Republican and Greenback respectively. During the afternoon a number of altercations occurred between Democrats and Republicans, but without serious result. Subsequently a row took place in a saloon between Democrats and Republicans, and Sheriff McCorkle quelled the disturbance. Ho left the saloon and walked down the street with Ed Kennedy, a Republican who had been in the fracas, in charge. He advised Kennedy to go home, which the latter promised to do. At this time another general fight took place, and a number of shots were fired, ono of which struck the Sheriff in the breast, passed through the upper part of the left lung, resulting in his death. Four persons were killed by an accident on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, near Byron, 111. John Taylor has been elected President of the Mormon church, vice Brigham Young, deceased. The Nez Perces Indians of Oregon are again becoming troublesome. The Academy of Music, on Halsted and Madison streets, Chicago, has been partially destroyed by fire. Loss $45,000. Several firemen were severely hurt by the falling of the roof of the burning structure. A fire at Stanton, Montcalm county, Mich., destroyed the newspaper office of the place, C. D. Allen’s, Webber & Chapin's, W. H. Paine’s, J. H. Piersons’, and D. W. Gardner’s stores. The total loss is placed at $50,000. The insurance will scarcely cover half the loss. The stores destroyed were the principa l ones in the village. Five Detroit firemen were badly injured by an oil explosion inn burning building. Michael Carey, of Gratiot, Wis., died of grief within a few minutes after the death of his wife. Berry, the Indian Agent of Del Norte, Col., has been arrested for complicity in the killing of young Jackson, who was butchered by the Ute Indians. Warrants axe also out for the arrest of Hoyt, Holmes and Cline, of the United States troops. •Two men robbed a stage-coach near Del Norte, CoL, carrying away the mail and treasure-box. The horse distemper has made its appearance in Chicago in a mild form. Seven persons were killed and four seriously wounded, at Chicago, by the bursting of what is termed a “cooker.” in Haas Powell’s distillery. A fierce railroad war has been raging between the main lines running southwest from Chicago. The trouble was inaugurated by a cut in passenger rates between that city and St. Louis, on the part of the Wabash road. The Chicago and Alton at once assumed a belligerent attitude, and the cutting was kept up until fares between Chicago and St. Louis were reduced to nominally nothing, tickets being sold as low as 70 cents. Finally the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy roads became involved in the struggle, and limit.'d tickets between Chicago and Kansas City were sold lor 50 cents over all tour of the comjxjtiug lines. Thousands of un-

limited tickets between Chicago and Kansas City were sold for $6, and between Chicago and St Louis for $5. The effect of the fight will be to permanently reduce rates between these points, and thus the people at least will be benefited by this fight The heaviest wind-storm experienced for many years prevailed throughout the Northwest on the 16th and 17th of October. The gale was particularly disastrous to shipping on the great lakes. Three or four vessels were wrecked in the vicinity of Chicago, and several lives were lost. Near the Manitou islands a barge, with all hands, was lost In the vicinity of Sturgeon bay, on the west shore of Lake Michigan, an immense amount of damage was done to shipping, no less than twenty vessels having been blown ashore. Old sailors say it was the worst storm they ever saw on Lake Michigan. The gale also swept over Lakes Superior and Erie, but the damage was light compared to that done on Lake Michigan. The storm was very violent along the line of the Southern Minnesota railroad, in Minnesota. Trains were blockaded by snowdrifts ten to twelve feet deep, and the passengers were only kept from starving by the arrival of teams with provisions. Cattle, horses, and other farm animals have perished in large numbers. In the Elkhorn valley, Neb., snow’ drifted to the depth of eleven feet, and railroads and stage routes were blockaded. Shipments of grain in bulk from St. Louis for foreign ports, from Jan. 1, 1880, to date, amount to 13,914,600 bushels, double the amount for the same period in 1879. At Centralia, lowa, a man named Kalb accomplished the feat of drinking three glasses of whisky in rapid succession, but died in ten minutes thereafter. Col. George Scroggs, proprietor of the Champaign (111.) Gazette, and fora time United States Consul at Hamburg, died a few days ago at Denver, Col., of comuniption. Mrs. Julia I). Bates, widow of the Hon. Edward Bates, United States Attorney General under President Lincoln, has just died at St. Louis. Bouta. The 150th anniversary of the settlement of Baltimore has just been celebrated with great pomp by the people of that city. The steamboat Joe Bryerly, from Shreveport for New Orleans, with 1,209 bales of cotton on board, burned near the mouth of the Red river. The Southern cotton crop lias suffered seriously, in consequence of the wet weather. Two lions escaped from their cage during a circus performance at Little Rock, Ark., creating the wildest consternation among the spectators, wiio were mostly negroes. The animals were recaged, however, before they did any damage. A fire on. the wharf at Charleston, S. C.. destroyed two or three cotton warehouses and one steamship, besides damaging a good deal of other property. The total loss is about $200,000 ; insured in foreign companies.