Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The arrest and incarceration in prison of John Dillon, Dish Member of Parliament, produced unusual excitement throughout lr&Land. Fresh excesses against the Jews have been committed in Argenau, West Prussia. The anti-Jewish riot in Elizabcthgrad, Russia, proves to have been a mere serious affair than was first reported. Two hundred persons were injured. r Vigel, a bootmaker in Vienna, killed his wife and four children and cut them in pieces. Edwin Booth achieved an immense success in his great character of Othello, in London. A committee of*the International Monetary Conference, in session at Paris, adopted two lists of questions to be submitted as a basis for discussion. Great cordiality prevails among the delegates. More than 12,000 convicts are awaiting transportation to Siberia, in Russia. Turkey has unconditionally accepted the solution of the frontier question arranged <by the powers.

The British war sloop Doterel was blown up on the 26th of April in the Straits of Magellan. She had 156 officers and men, of whom only eleven were saved. Maspero, the Egyptian explorer, has opened some more of the Sakkara pyramids, and claims to have discovered texts which completely upset the Masonic theory of the religious belief in tfie days of the Kings of the fifth dynasty. The anti-Jnwish excitement is spreading in Russia. At Smela, Korssum, UmanVßid Lilin the Hebrew inhabitants have been threatened, and the Russian Government has dispatched troops to all these points to-restrain the intolerant and bigoted inhabitants. The committee appointed to arraage a programme for the Monetary Conference at Peris agreed upon that drafted by Vrolik, the Dutch delegate. It consists of five questions relative to the cause and effect of diminution and oscillation in the value of silver; the effect of unlimited coinage of both gold and silver upon their stability ; measures to reduce the minimum of oscillations in the ratio of value between the two metals ; and, finally, as to what that ratio should be. Further information regarding the catastrophe to the British war-sloop, Doterel. is to the effect that eight officers and 135 men were killed, and three officers and fourteonmen saved. A Paris dispatch says that a delegate of the revolutionary committee stated to the Czar the demands of the Nihilists, and was rewarded by arrest. The peasants of the Baltic provinces of Russia demand absolute ownership of the lands now held on lease. Herr Most, the publisher of the Freiheit, hits been indicted at London for incitihg to murder. The Grand Jury added a rider to the bill, stating that such publications are un" English nnd ought to be vigorously dealt with. The- National Land League of Great Britain has issued a manifesto relative to the arrest of Dillon. It is signed by Justin McCarthy. It urges Irishmen to evict their landlords as they have themselves been evicted, and to wreak vengeance at the polls on the apostates from Liberalism whom they helped to raise to power. At the second plenary sitting of the monetary conference in Paris the series of questions reported by the committee was adopted as the programme. The delegates for Germany, Austria, England, India, Canada, Greece, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland explained the views of their respective Governments. The speech of the German delegate was ordered printed and distributed among the members of the conference, as it contained statements of the highest importance. There will be no more public executions in Russ a. Locusts have devoured the rice anti corn crops of Bolivia. A movement is on foot for the confederal ion of the Spanish-American republics. Cork, Kilkenny, and portions of Kings nnd Qu ens counties, Ireland, have 'been proclaimed under the Arms act. A Nihilistic movement by sailors of the Russian fleet is predicted as likely to follow the arrest of the Grand Duke Constantine.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kast. John W. Minturn, one of the famous shippers of New York, killed himself with a revolver in his private office. As he had large means and happy domestic relations, the deed is attributed to temporary insanity. John M. Francis has sold his interest in the Troy Times on the basis of $250,000 for the establishment. Miss Fannie J. Blanchett, of New York, aged 24, died from lead poisoning, caused by the use of cosmetics. Two men were killed and seven injured by the fall of a building in Littleton, N. H. The Chief of Police of Auburn, N. Y., resigned because a negro was placed upon the force. Mischievous boys at Kingston, N. Y., have driven a Chinese laundryman to insanity by the** mischievous tricks. James M. ScoveJ, of New Jersey, who sought a nomination for Vice President on the ticket with Horace Greeley, has been convicted of obtaining $650 on false pretenses. He made an appeal for mercy. . , Five Directors of the First National Bank of Newark, N. J., have been indicted for conspiring and aiding the falsification of books. At the annual meeting of the Civil Service Reform Association in New York George William Curtis was re-elected President. Three contractors for star-route servi e in Texas—Joseph Funlq Joseph Blackman, and Williamß. Cason—have been • arrested in Philadelphia on charge of defrauding the Government.

West. CoL James H. Bowen, in former years one of the leading spirits in the business circles of Chicago, was killed the other day by being thrown from a buggy. A convention of delegates from the Laud Leagues of Illinois was held in Chicago, and organization formed to perpetuate the agitation in Ireland and England. The association pledged itself to raise this year $250,000 or more to aid the cause. Fire destroyed M. Frost & Co.’s wooden ware works and Croule Bros.’ tannery, in Detroit, causing a loss of about $150,000. Sitting Bull is only forty miles from Fort Buford, but declares that he will not sur. rendq|* It is charged that his emissaries are trying to induce the young bucks to leave the agency and join him.