Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. A mass-meeting to protest against the policy of the Government toward Ireland wan held in Hyde Park, London, on Sunday. Speakers held forth from three platforms. Resolutions were adopted urging the suspension of evictions, the liberation of those arrested, and the resignation of Forster as Secretary for Ire land. Parnell announced that serious responsibility will rest on the Government should evictions continue. Another conspiracy to assassinate the Cfcar has been discovered, attd twehty-one arrests made in St. Petersburg. A French telegraph-Construclion corps numbering iwenty-five persons were massacred by Arabs in Algeria. Rowell, the pedestrian, intends to surprise the world with a record of 600 miles in six days at London, and will wager something to that effect. Turkey has yielded the ceded territory to Greece, and that Government has sent a force of 7,000 men to take possession. The Russian autocrat is said to be almost as much a prisoner as if he were a Siberian exile. Soldiery guard his every movement, and his days t-re spent in efforts to frustrate the designs of would-be assassins. Another American victory in England. At Sheffield, Yorkshire, the Whit-Tuesday fair foot-race was won by an American—a Mr. Hmitlu of Pittsburgh, Pa. There wore sixty-two cotttpetitots. The prize was £10(1. Another priest, the Rev. Father Murphy, has been arrested in Ireland under the Coercion act; Much excitement and the committal of outrages was the immediate result. Advices from Russia chronicle the arrest of thirty officers of the army, including the Colonel of the Imperial Guard, during the past month. The last hatch of Communists have returned to Paris from Caledonia. The Right Hon. Sir W. Milbourne James, Lord-Justice of the English Court of Appeal, is dead. A mob at SkibbereenUreland, wrecked the branch Bank of Munster, and tore up the railway track. A party of fifty marines was stoned away from Ballydehob by a crowd of several thousand. At Dromoro a process-serv-er was beaten nearly to death. The village of Bradley, in Hampshire, England, has been almost totally destroyed by fire. The steamer Faraday, after various unsuccessful attempts, finally succeeded in landing the end of the new Atlantic cable on the Land’s End, Cornwall, Eng. Conservative members of the British Parliament and ex-Cabinet officers are very severe in their criticism of the Gladstone policyin Ireland. The centennial anniversary of the birth of George Stephenson, the originator of steam railways, was recently celebrated at Newcastle, England, by 100,000 persons. The King of Belgium tenders £SOO as a contribution toward a inemoriajl college. Nearly every railway in the United Kingdom sent a locomotive for the procession. An attempt was made by two Irishmen from the United States, named McKevett and Roberts, to blow up the Town Hall in Liverpool, but the only damage inflicted was upon the windows. It is alleged that Fenian documents, plenty of money, loaded revolvers and a quantity of dynamite were found on their persons. The Gladstone Government continues the arrest of potty officers of local Land Leagues in Ireland, but lacks the nerve to tackle the big guns like Archbishop Croke and the influential leaders of the league. Forty-three persons were arrested for participation’ in the riot in the city of Cork, Ireland. Sentences of imprisonment of from two to four months were passed on twenty-three of them, and the rest liberated on their recognizances.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. JEDaut. William Murphy, at Edgewood, near Pittsburgh, Pa., shot his divorced wife, and then fired a bullet into his own head. A check for $14,949,052.20 has just been given by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to a committee representing 2,700 shareholders of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore road, who reside mainly in New England. Nearly $2,000,000 more will be disbursed among the stockholders in Philadelphia. The Wilmington road will pass into the hands of the Pennsylvania on July 1. A reign of terror exists in the western part of Massachusetts, and in Little Compton and Tiverton, R. L, by reason of the ;prevalonce ofja series of outrages, such as poisoning and incendiarism. Twelve men were more or less injured by the explosion of a boiler in ah iron works at Pottsville, Pa. Four of the number cannot possibly recover. West. Evidence of the adaptability of the waters of Lake Michigan to the successful culture of the California salmon has been furnished by the capture of one of these noble firh weighing twelve pounds in the lake off Cedar Grove, Wis. Six years ago the experiment of salmon planting in Lake Michigan was made by the Wisconsin Fish Commissioners, and this is the first proof of the success of that experiment. A serious accident occurred on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad fair? miles west of Cedar Rapids, la. Owing to the neglect of the telegraph operator, two trains came into collision at full speed, and two brakemen were killed and several persons badly injured. A freight train on the Denver and South Park road jumped the track near Buena Vista, Col. The engineer, fireman and a brakeman were instantly killed, while the conductor’ had an ankle dislocated. A whirlwind in Deadwood, Dakota, killed one lady and severely injured three other persons. Four houses were destroyed, and trees and telegraph poles torn dp. Hailstones fell for two hours, one measuring- twenty-two inches in circumference. An important Indian conference was held at Lob Pinos Agency a few days ago, where nearly 2,000 armed Utes assembled to meet the Commissioners. Chief Sanavanaro was informed that the Government would enforce the treaty placing his people on a new reservation. Chief Shavano, in a towering passion, demanded to know who signed such a treaty, and declared that he and Ouray’s widow owned the Uncompahgre valley. Agent Berry notified five chiefs to accompany the commission to select a new home, the Utea having refused to name a committee. The Wisconsin Grand Lodge of Odd mellows was in session at Milwaukee last week. Secretary Hills reported a membership of 44.476. »gain U the th* 9t 1.800. . . .

The Blackfeet and Crees had a battle near Fort Walsh, in which sixteen Crees war® killed.

A dastardly outrage was committed a few nights ago in the village of Chesaning, Saginaw county, Mich. A gang of men con nected with Hilliard &De Mott’s show, armed with clubs and revolvers, made a descent upon a crowd of citizens attending a Bowery dance, and commenced a wholesale attack, using weapons indiscriminately. Augustus Emery, a policeman, was pounded to death. Fred Wenzel was fatally injured. J. B. Griswold, Village President, was severely bruised. Charles Homer received a pistol ball in the side of the face, and a dozen others were cut and bruised. Five of the gang were arrested; ahd with difficulty the pedple were restrained from lynching thepiJay Gould and others have filed articles of incorporation for the Missouri Pacific railway in Nebraska. It is believed that they will build a river line from Omaha to Atchison or St. Joseph. Robbers took a bunch of keys from the pocket of the County Treasurer at Pawnee City, Neb., and obtained from his safe currency to the amount of $5,380. Clovernook, the former home of Alice and Phoebe Cary, near Cincinnati, has been purchased by Alexander Swift, who will preserve the homestead and dedicate a memorial to the dead poets. A most destructive hurricane swept over Dickinson county, Kan., in the vicinity of Salomon City. It swept over a tract six miles long and five miles wide, demolishing nearly everything in its path. The hail beat the corn and other crops into the ground. Some of the stones were ten inches in circumference. Six houses were torn into fragments, and, so far, seven persons have been killed. It is thought that other persons have perished also. Billy the Kid, the rising young bandit of New Mexico, has filled three more graves on his way to Mexican soil. Patrick Garritt, the Sheriff of Lincoln county, has been on the trail of this fiend since April 27, but has failed to come up with him. - According to the report of the Illinois Board of Agriculture, 50 per cent, of the fall wheat in the northern grand division of Illinois has been plowed up, 44 per cent, in the central division, and 16 in the southern, and the portion remaining gives indications of only about half an average yield. Houthi. 'The Supreme Court of Tennessee has rendered a decision which makes the taxing distaiet of Memphis liable for $5,000,000 of indebtedness of the defunct city, the process of collection being through the Federal courts by mandamus. Hon. D. M. Key, Col. J. B. Cooke and other Confederate officers of Tennessee have effected an organization to receive the Union Army of the Cumberland in September at Chattanooga. It is intended to have every seceding State represented In the welcome by distinguished soldiers. Nearly all the money needed by the forktown Association has been obtained, and the work of constructing the building for the accommodation of visitors to the celebration will soon be commenced. John B. Gordon has been elected President of the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company, which has a capital stock of $10,500,000. The line will be built from Atlanta to the Mississippi river as fast as men and money will avail. Three negroes wore lynched in Sevier county, Ark., for murdering an old man named Hall. A solitary robber stopped a stage near San Antonio, Tex., in which were four passengers, and forced one of them to bring the mailpouch near him, cut it open, and pour out the contents. Two of the passengers had cocked revolvers in their hands, and on the person of one was secreted $17,000, which fact was not ascertained by the robber. WhHo raoing with a rival packet near New Orleans, the steamer Hanna exploded a boiler, killing five men, and seriously scalding several others. Hays White, who killed Sheriff Beattie, was hanged at Warsaw, Ark., in presence of 2,000 persons. William Ryan, who was arrested at Nashville for robbing the Government Paymaster at Mussel shoals, on the Tennessee river, lias been fully identified as one of the party who took $30,000 in gold from a train at Glendale, Mo., two years ago.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Brady, of star-route notoriety, has retained Gen. Butler, Col. Bob Ingersoll, Hon. Samuel Shellabarger and Hon. James F. Wilson to defend him. It is expected that the deficit this year, on account of the payment of arrears of pensions, will reach $50,000,000. The surplus of unused silver in the treasury is now $21,733,733, an increase of 80 per cent, in five months. Not a single dollar of the coinage for the last two months has gone into circulation. Secretary Kirkwood has given permission to the clerks and other employes of the Census Bureau to work for the nation for nothing if they wish, and trust to the generosity of the next Congress for remuneration. Those who have means of their own or complaisant boarding-house keepers will accept. Commodore Jeffers, Chief of the Ordnance Bureau of the Navy Department, has tendered his resignation. Secretary Blaine has taken out a permit to erect a mansion on one of the finest sites in Washington, at a cost of $48,000. Assistant Attorney General Freeman has decided that express companies can carry such written matter as deeds, transcripts of deeds, etc., and any other matter not in the nature of personal correspondence. Secretary Windom issued a circular yesterday to masters and owners of vessels engaged in the foreign trade and to the masters and owners of steamers engaged in the coasting trade, informing them that, on application to the medical officers of the marine service, an examination of persons desirous of becoming seamen and a certificate in accordance with the facts will be issued. The purpose is to improve the character of men in the service of American steamship owners.

POLITICAL POINTS. Forty-eight members of the New York Legislature were absent on CtTO 4th Inst., and the fifth joint ballot for Senators was marked simply by a falling of the vote of the leading candidates. The Democratic candidates lost 20, Conkling and Platt 4. Cornell and Rogers 1, Miller 2, Lapham 3, Wheeler 4, and Dejiew 7. Some of the members of the Ways and Means Committee of the last Congress and some of the New York sugar refiners are conudeubly ejwtcd ths of QoL

Frederick Conkling, of New York, that legislation on the sugar question was prevented last session by the corrupt use of money. In the Senatorial ballot at Albany on the 6th inst., only 100 votes were cast, of which Conkling received twenty-six for the short term and Platt twenty-three for the lonsr termThe Democratic joint committee issued a circular urging no pairing and no absenteeism from the iJoint convention. The Readjuster ticket placed in nomination at Richmond, Va., does not seem to please either the Republicans or the Readjusters. The probability is that the Republicans will nominate a ticket of their own containing some of the nominees of tee Readjuster Convention. A rumor is telegraphed from Washington to the effect that Minister Lowell and Secretary Blaine will sodn change places. The seventh ballot for Senators at Albany, taken on the 7th inst., resulted : For the long term—Kernan, 46; Platt, 28; Depew, 42; Cornell, 14; scattering, 16. For the short term—Jacobs, 45; Conkling, 34; Wheeler, 22; Rogers, 15; Cornell, 15; scattering, 10. Senator Erastus Brooks made a speech in reply to Senator Woodin, in which he said he hoped the Democrats would not heed the appeal of Conklingites, and that Conkling resigned to gratify a whim, and should be rebuked. He favored an adjournment in order that the people might have an opportunity to pronounce on the matter.

The eighth ballot for Senators at Albany resulted : Short term—Jacobs, 50? Conkling, 34; Wheeler, 21; Rogers, 15; Cornell, 19; scattering, 15. Long term--Kernan, 51; Platt, 29; Depew, 51; Cornell, 10; scattering, 14. The Ohio Republican Convention renominated Charles Foster for Governor by acclamation. State Treasurer Turney and Atty. Gen. Nash were also renominated. J. G. Richards, of Jefferson county, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor, and Nicholas ‘Longworth for Supreme Judge, and George Poul for member of the Board of Public Works. A resolution indorsing the administration of President Garfield was unanimously adopted. The ninth ballot for Senators at Albany gave Kernan 50 votes, Platt 29, Depew 53 and Cornell 8. For the short term Conkling received 34 votes, Jacobs 49, Wheoler 23, Cornell 16 and Rogers 14. In the Assembly, Mr. Bradley rose to a question of privilege and stated that he had received $2,500 to pay him if he would vote for Chauncey M. Depew instead of Platt, which sum he had handed over to the Speaker, and he asked for a committee of investigation. The Speaker corroborated the statement, aud said he had the money. The motion for an investigating committee was unanimously adopted. In the evening Assemblyman Bradley appeared before the committee, and, under oath, reiterated his story, saying that the money was paid him by Senator Sessions. The latter admitted having labored hud tn convert Bradley, but pointedly denied the money part of the story. Assemblyman Bisson testified that last January he was offered money to vote for Depew. The Republicans of the Second district of South Carolina refrained from voting at the special Congressional election to fill the vacant seat of Mr. O’Connor, claiming that Mackey was really elected last fall. In consequence, Samuel Dilable, Democrat, was chosen without opposition. It is understood at Washington that Mahone will have the active support of the administration in his attempt to break up the Democratic party in Virginia. The New York Legislature balloted twice for Senators on the 10th inst., with about the same result as the two preceding days. Gen. Spinola rose in the House and proposed that the $2,000 bribe money be devoted to the support of impecunious members kept in involuntary servitude at the capital. The Bribery Investigating Committee examined Speaker Sharpe. He testified to receiving the $2,000 from Bradley, and he handed the sum to the Chairman of the committee. Armstrong, Of Onoidn. county, testified that he had been offered money by Edwards, a lobbyist, to vote against Conkhng. It is denied by prominent Virginia Republicans that the President has indorsed Mahoneism. He is awaiting the Republican Convention before he decides on any indorsement.