Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1881 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Saltan of the Sooloo islands, in the Indian ocean, is dead, and a civil war ha* broken out over the election of bis successor. Parnell maintains that the Land bill, m at present framed, will not provide the ■lightest protection for small tenants, but will rather tend to their destruction. The International Monetary Conference was opened at Paris by St. Hilaire, Minister of Foreign Affairs. On motion of Mr-. Evarts, M. Magnin, the French Finance Minis ter, was chosen President. A Nihilist manifesto, announcing the approaching death of Alexander lIL, has been received by all the Russian Ministers and court officials. The Czar still iives at the diminutive chateau of Gatcliira, guarded by six oordons of soldiery. He is never seen outside of the inner circle. With a force of 10,000 Turks, Derviseh Pasha attacked and defeated the Albanians near Uskup. According to advices from Vienna, the Emperors of Austria, Germany and Russia will meet at Ems in the coming fall. Such a meeting seems to be probable considering the present political situation. Twenty-five thousand emigrants sailed from Hamburg for America during January, February, and March. The importation of American pork has been prohibited by Turkey, and the stock on hand will be destroyed after an appraisal by a committee of Americans. The woolen trade in England is very much depressed, and several manufacturers of Bradford contemplate transporting their machinery to this country. Five servants in the Imperial Palace at Constantinople have confessed that they suffocated Abdul Aziz, the late Sultau, and opened veins in his arms to make it appear that he killed himself. Three officials are said to be implicated. Froliloff, the executioner of the Nihilists, has been-given 100 lashes because in the hanging of Michailoff the rope bioke twice. Bismarck is said to be decidedly favorable to the maintenance of the gold standard. T The police of St Petersburg continue to seize printing presses used for seditious purposes and arrest the workmen. A ferry-boat crossing the Dneistcr river, in Austria, upset, and, according to one version, sixty-three persons drowned. AnotLu r Recount says thirty drowned. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The butter-dealers of Washington market, New York, have resolved not to deal in oleomargarine. The medical profession in the State of New York is making an earnest effort to secure the repeal of the law forbidding vivisection. An aiFray at Troy, N. Y., growing out of a quarrel over last fall’s election, resulted in the instant killing of one man, two others being fatally shot. Two explosions of nitro-glycerine at the Dittman powder-works at Binghamton, N. Y., were followed by the ignition of 10,000 pounds of sporting powder. .No lives were lost. The shock was felt forty miles away, and buildings were shattered and trees uprooted in a wide circle. Four business houses and three dwellings in Shamokin, Pa., wero destroyed by an incendiary fire. The loss was $100,000; It has been discovered that a domestic p.t Middlesex, Pa., named Hattie Mosley, was* recently buried alive. The agony she endured was plainly depicted on her face. West. The Central Pacific road, with 2,644 miles of rail, reports gross earnings for March of $1,643,000. The Federal Court at Indianapolis has ordered the sale of the Fort Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati road within sixty days. The northern wing of the Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insaue, located at Anna, lIL, was destroyed by fire. One patient perished in the flames. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Reports from every section in Kansas indicate that the wheat crop promises exceed, ingly welL Only a very small proportion has been winter killed. E. R. Blakeslee, a postal clerk on the New York and Chicago fast mail, was arrested at Toledo with several packages of opened letters in his possession, and at once confessed his guilt. He was formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the regular army, and owns a large farm near St John’s, Mich. Floods in the rivers of Illinois and Wisconsin have caused great damage to property and some loss of life. A part of the Rock river dam, at Beloit, Wis.,* was carried away, and five men who attempted to cross the river in a row-boat were drowned. A bridge spanning Rock river, at Rock Island, 111., went down, carrying with it seven persons, two of whom were drowned. At Watertown, Wis., one bridge was destroyed and two others injured. The Chicago and Desplaines rivers, at Chicago, were higher than they have been in twenty years. Thirty lodges of Maricopa Sioux Indians lately surrendered at Fort Keogh. They are allies of Sitting Bull’s band. It is said that 8. B. himself will shortly come in and give himself up. He has only 150 braves left with him. The Elkhart paper-mill, at Elkhart, Ind., has been partially destroyed by fire. Cause of the fire, spontaneous combustion. Loss estimated at $15,000; fully insured. The mill was owned by the Hon. Rufus Beardsley aud the Hou. John Cook. The work of repairing the building will begin at once, and the mill will be readv atrain within a few weeks. A shocking accident, resulting in the death of half a dozen people, happened on the Rock Ibland division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway, about a mile below Albany, 111. The Meredosia river is crossed at that point by a trestle bridge, 200 or 300 feet long. This bridge had become so weakened by the strong current that it gave way beneath an express train, and the engine, tender and . the two forward cars went down into the river. The locomotive and tender, with the engineer and fireman, went to the bottom. The express messenger, baggage man, conductor and brakeman happened to be i a the passenger oar, and escaped by ciimbing to the roof, as it was sinking, and leaping thence to the sleeper, which remained on the bridge. The passenger car, with its eleven passengers, floated off until grounded near an island. Five of the passengers es caped. The three passengers in the sleeper got out without injury.

- Frederick Smith was shot and dangerously wounded by John Finnick, near Paleville, Ind., in a quarrel over the possession of a field. Smith’s wife then knocked Fiunick down with a hoe and chopped his head into slivers. An Omaha telegram of April 23 states that the flood on the Missouri had severed railway connections between that city and every point. Several dwelling-houses floated past the city that day, and half a mile of radroad track was washed away. All important industries were drowned out. At Sioux City both rail and telegraph communication with the North and West was cut off. Four hundred houses were either submerged or surrounded by water, and communication with their occupants was had only by rafts. At Rockford the Wdson ice-house, containing about 1,000 tons of ice, sunk into the Bock river. The printers on the Cleveland Leader have been granted an advance in their pay. Manager Haverly, of Chicago, will build in that city the finest theater in the Unitod States. The sigte select© i for this Lew dramatic temple is Monroe street, oppos te Haverly’s present theater. A special train on the Denver and Rio Grande road jumped the track near Ozirr, New Mexico, and rolled down an embankment if 150 feet. Seven men and one woman were killed, and all the other passengers injured. The wounded wero taken to Denver. While the population of Chicago has increased 70 per cent, in the past ten years, the growth of the churches in membership has been only 12 per cent. A fire at Salinas, Cal., burned the residence of Mayor Ball, and his wife and two daughters perished in the flames. A joint agreement has been signed by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul and several other railroad companies for the erection of a union depot at Minneapolis. The structure will cost about $600,000. South. The exodus of colored people from the South to Kansas has begun again. A colored assassin was taken from jail at Quincy, Fla., by disguised men, and banged to a tree. Mrs. Nutt, of Camden, Ark., in an insane fit, threw her five children into a well, where they penshed. Additional particulars respecting the killing of her five children by Mrs. Nutt, near Camden, Ark., mentioned heretofore, are, that the frenzied woman called her eldest child, a boy 12 years old, from a field where he was plowing, knocked him on the head, and threw him into the well, where she had previously thrown her four other children. Finding that one of the children was not drowned, but was clinging to the side of the well, she descended into the well and tore away its grasp and thrust it down into the water, thus compkt ng her diabolical work. At Uvalde, Tex., a shooting affray occurred between Gen. John R. Baylor and son on one side, and Mr. Gillhurst and two sons on the other. Baylor escaped unhurt, but his son was wounded. Gillhurst was killed ; one son was fatally wounded, and another well filled with buckshot. Thomas De Jarnette, the young man who murdered his sister at Danville, Va , be cause she had entered upon a life of shame, has been acquitted upon the ground of insanity. A block of the principal business houses in Sheridan, Miss., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $260,000; insurance $125,000_ The lire was the work of an incendiary. Sheriff W. F. Beattie, of Crittenden county, Ark., was killed and Deputy Sheriff Maddojt was dangerously wounded while attempting the arrest of a negro burglar. Asachel of jewelry valued at $12,000 was stolen from the room of a traveling salesman, in a hotel at Baltimore. Fifteen men rode to the house of Mr. McLauron, of Edwards county, Texas, and took the lives of McLauren, his wife, and a young man named Lease, living with them. Nothing in tbe house was disturbed. The whole affair is shrouded in mystery so far. Lucinda Fowlkes, a Virginia negress who killed her husband, enjoys the honor of beiog the only woman hanged in the Southern States in twenty years. On the platform she trembled violently. The discovery of a deliberate scheme of general escape in the South Carolina penitentiary at Columbia was the means of preventing an extensive uprising among the convictll, who had provided themselves with axes, knives, clubs and pieces of chain, and with these weapons intended to overpower and, if necessary, kill all the prison officials. Two negroes under sentence of forty years for murder were the ringleaders. Louis Whittaker, a negro murderer, was taken from jail at Gadsden, Fla., by thirty masked men, and hanged to a tree. The Missouri Pacific and the Texas and 8L Louis railways have been having a hot fight over the right of way through Waco, Tex. The militia had to be called out.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A physician of Washington asserts that Blaine is a victim of Bright’s disease, the desperation of the attack being shown by bleached ears. The Comptroller of the Currency upon examination of the securities held by national ban£s finds that 475 banks in thirty States and Territories hold 6s of 1881 to secure circulating notes amounting in the aggregate to $45,275,850. Bonds for continuing the outstanding 6s of 1881 at 3% per cent, are similar to the original 6s, except that they have an indorsement of the conditions.. Friends of Attorney General MacVeagh say that if William £. Chandler is confirmed as Solicitor General the former will decline to assign him any court business, as he has authority to do, and will confine Mr. Chandler to office work. It is evident that Mr. MacVeagh is determined to prevent Chandler from becoming Solicitor General. There is no opposition yet expressed to Gen. Longstreet’s confirmation as United States Marshal of Georgia, and it is generally believed that he will be confirmed by a practically unanimous vote. Postmaster General James promises lo make his department self-sustaining within two years. Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the well-known female lawyer; is an applicant for the position of Minister to Brazil. An order has been issued making pos-tal-cards unmailable with anything but the direction on the address side. President - Garfield, who' is an enthusiast on base-ball, received a call from the Princeton nine, two of whom are sons of Justice Harlan. Within two years the annual pay on ninety-three star mail routes was raised from $727,119 to $2,802,214.

It is understood that the Brazilian mission will j>e given io, James Monroe, of Ohio, and the Italian mission to i. M. Gregory, of Illinois. -«<»“ Rear Admiral Rodgers is to become Superintendent of the Naval Academy in June, and Rear Admiral Baleh will g« to San Francisco and take command of the naval force on the Pacific station.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Hon. Daniel F. Beatty has been le-elected Mayor of Washington, N. J. This will b i his third term.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Beth parties in the Senate appeared determined to continue the dead-lock indefinitely, on reassembling after the recess, on Monday, April 18, tad talk and dilatory motions consumed the entire session. Mr. Beck declared it the purpose of the Democrats to continue the opposition to Riddleberger even after next December. He said Biddleberger was obnoxious to the Democratic Senators, and the latter could never hold proper official relations with him; that next December there would be nominated for Sergeant- at-Arms a gallant Union soldier, who bears the wounds received in ’eading troops on the field of battle, and every Democratic Senator will support him, and he believed the nomination wonld be made by a Republican Senator. Beck declared that Riddleberger would never be elected Sergeant-at-Arms. Senator Blair offered a resolution in the United States Senate on Tuesday, April 19, which declares that ihe public Interests require Congress to be convened immediately. In support of the resolution, Mr. Blair stated that a recent decision ol Ihe United States Supreme Couit meant the ruin of the hosiery and knit-goods industry of New England unless amendatory protective legislation covering that point ts adopted. He also urged in favor of h a resolution the necessity of Congressional action in reference to the De Lesseps canal. The dead-lock continued throughout the day, with no prospect of a break. The President nominated Gen. James Longstreet (now Minister to Turkey) to be United States Marshal of Georgia, and Philip H. Emerson to be Associate Justice of tne Supreme Court of Utah. The time of the Senate was mainly occupied on Wednesday, April 20, by a discussion between Messrs. Dawes and Jonas as to whether Massachusetts or Louisiana was most free from crime; a speech from Senator Frye, in which he arraigned the Democrats for knowingly acting contrary to the constitution > a brief butexcited discussion between Messrs. Butler and Burnside, during which the latter repeatedly, ex' citedly, and emphatically stated that Butler’s assertion that there was a corrupt bargain between Mahone and the Republicans was false; and the usual sparring between Brown and Hoar. The Senate adjourned without doing any business. President Garfield sent the following nominations to the Senate: Richard A. Elmer, of New York, to be Second Assistant Postmaster General, vice Thomas J. Brady, of Indiana, resigned; W. A. M. Giier, of Pennsylvania, Third Assistant Postmaster General, vice A. D. Hnzen, appointed Assistant Attorney General of the Postoffice Department, and George B. Everett, Collector of Internal Revenue of the Fifth district of North Carolina, vice W. H. Wheeler. There was the usual waste of time in the Senate on the 21st Inst., and more than the average number of petty wrangles. Messrs. Dawes and Cameron had a dispute about a question of adjournment ; Dawes had a discussion with Call about the freedom of voters in Massachusetts; Dawes had a dispute with Saulsbury on Borne trivial matter; and Wade Hampton and Jonas glorified their sections. No business of any kind was done. There was another day of heavy debate in the Senate on Friday, April 22, and at its close an adjournment was taken until Tuesday, partly to enable Senators who live near Washington to transact necessary business, partly to permit the Republicans to have a private conference, and nominally to give the Senate an opportunity to be present at the ceremonies which will attend the unveiling of the statue of the late Admiral Farragut on Monday. President Garfield sent for solne Republican Senators to urge cn them to relieve his administration from the embarrassment of having so many of his nominations unconfirmed so long. He advised that the Republicans consent to go into executive session at an early day. Senators Sherman, Hawley and Hale are said to be actively urging the President’s views.