Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The French appear to have encountered a foe in Africa more dangerous and more .deadly than the united force of the Kroutnir. Typhoid fever is playing havoc among the garrisons at the interior posts, and several have ;been abandoned because of its prevalence there. The hospitals are full, and the graves are being filled. A Turkish force of 1,000 men has arrived at Tripoli. Parisian newspapers think this a menace from tho Sultan. One hundred lives were lost and several villages were devastated by an earthquake m the Pashalik of Van, Armenia. * Czar Alexander 111. declined to grant :an audience to the publisher of the Moscow ‘Gazette. Not the first man in office who has ’refused to be interviewed. One hundred and ten persons in all were arrested in Ireland under the (Joercian act up to the 9th inst. Russian peasants are emigrating from the Government of Tomsk to that of Siberia, on account of their poverty. The large majority (250 to 70) in the French Chamber of Deputies against advancing the date of dissolution of tho Chambers ii •said to be a greater rebuff to Gainbotta than the rejection of the scrutiu de liste. The German Reichstag is alarmed at the immigration of Roumanian Jews into Germany, and that of German laborers to this country. The latter was allowed to bo due to the fact that the laborers were badly off in their own country. Iroquois, the American horse, has won another victory on the British turf, the same being the Prince of Wales stake at tho Ascot races. Twelve members of the royal family, including the Prince of Wales, attended in state. A Russian Socialist is said to have escaped from Siberia and reached Switzerland —the second event of the kind in history. Keogh, the first man arrested at Limerick under the Coercion act, has been released. In the Italian Chamber of Deputies a proposition for woman suffrage received one vote. On the question of universal suffrage the vote was 314 nays to 39 ye ■ The French troops are being gradually withdrawn from Tunisian and Algerian territory. The Governmental authorities aisert that tho reports of sickness in the aimy have been greatly exaggerated. England has refused to co-operate with Italy against Franco with regard to the Roustan and Tunisian diplomatic intermediary. The fact is England, with a large force in Ireland and troops in India and South Africa, has all she can attend to at present.

Tho Boy of Tunis has appointed his clown to the post of President of Municipalities and Administrator of Religious Corporations. The authorities of Switzerland, after a full and careful examination into the trichinosis scare, have decided that it is nothing but a scare, and that no prohibition or compulsory inspection of American moats will bo enforced. The steamer Tararua, plying along the coast of New Zealand, was recently wrecked, and 130 lives lost. Iroquois has a third timo been victorious. He beat Leon for the St. James Palace Stakes on the Ascot course. Foxhall, who contested for the gold cup, was beaten, coming in fourth. An insurgent tribe in Algiers has been annihilated by native troops, who captured 1,500 camels and found sixty-six dead men. In Uruguay, South America, a decree has been issued forbidding newspapers, on pain of a heavy flue, to discuss politics or to create obstacles for the present Government. Several Senators and Deputies have resigned on account of this threat, and the foreign legations are crowded with journalists hiding from the wrath of the powers that be. The Government, too, controls the mob which attacks printing-offices supposed to be hostile to its masters. H. M. S. Polyphemus, a torpedo ram of 2,610 tons, was launched at Chatham, England, tho other day. Her deck is only four and one-half feet above water. She is fitted with a twelve-foot ram, and has engines of 5,500 horse-power. , DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. XCa.st. •Over $2,000,000 worth ot property was destroyed in the vicinity of Pittsburgh by che r“cent flood in the Allegheny river The Chinese Government has established a school of telegraphy at Hartford, Ct., where Gorham B. Hubbell will instruct forty young Celestials in the construction and operation of lines. Z. M. Hewitt, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., a manager of Adams Express Company for twenty-five years, is dead. Brooklyn’s big bridge has so far cost $13,000,000. It will be completed within this year, and will be one of the wonders of the age. Robert Martin, an English machinist of Newark, N. J., shot his wife dead and inflicted a mortal wound on his child.

The Wavy iron firm of E. P. Cutler & Co., of Boston, has suspended business, with liabilities of $600,000. Two of the Pierrepont warehouses in Brooklyn were burned, causing damage to the amount of $300,000. One man was burned alive and another fatally injured. Silas M. Waite, ex-President of the First National Bank of Brattleboro, Vt., pleaded gudty to the charge of making false returns, and was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in the House of Correction.

The Adams white-lead works, near Baltimore, w ere destroyed by lire, involving a loss of $75,000. A passenger train on the Schuylkill and Lehigh railroad Was thrown off the track near Beading, Pa., causing the instant death of fireman Charles Matthews and injury to several passengers and the engineer. The accident was caused by a log which was placed across the track. Alexander C. Walker, a liquor-dealer of New York, lost a package of railroad bonds representing a value of SIOO,OOO walking along Broadway. West. As the Chicago express train on the Wabash railroad, going north, passed through Raymond, Montgomery county. 111., on the night of the 13th inst., it ran into a wagon containing seven persons, killing four of them outright, and more or less injuring the others. The wife of a respected farmer named Albert Creswell, her child and two nephews were the yioUmfr

A flock of 160 blooded sheep were killed by lightning on the farm of CoL D. A. Alkert, in Nodaway county, Mo. The villages of King City, Rosendale and Berlin, situated in Northwestern Missouri, were visited on Sunday night, the 12th inst., by a catastrophe of appalling dimensions. Early in the morning a cyclone swept down on the devoted villagers and their rural neighbors with resistless fury, aad marked its pathway with desolation and death. Scarcely had the people begun to comprehend the calamity that had befallen them, when a second cyclone appeared to complete whatever destruction the first had left undone. The resultant loss of property is placed at from $400,000 to $500,000, while the death list is large but not definite. A most destructive hurricane also swept through Central lowa on the afternoon of the 19th, killing and maiming a number of persons, causing immense damage to the crops, killing cattle and poultry, and demolishing many residences and outbuildings. The number of human lives lost has not yet been definitely ascertained, but it will not be much If any less than twenty. The storm at some points was of tremendous force, and there was no withstanding it. The hailstones which fell were of immense size, in some cases as large as goose-eggs, and caused great bavoc among birds, rabbits and game of all kinds throughout the storm area. The vicinity of Wells, in Minnesota, suffered from a cyclonic visitation on the 12th inst. Houses, barns and fences were prostrated, and two or three people killed.

A Breckinridge (Col.) dispatch says that near that town four feet of carbonates have been struck at a depth of 100 feet Tho ore assays 135 ounces of silver and five ounces of gold to the ton. Lee Chin, a Chinaman in Cheyenne, Wy. T., having been arrested for miscegenation, he being married to a white woman, was acquitted on the ground that the marriage was considered legal in Colorado, where he was mar riod. His compatriots, however, declare that Lee Chin has disgraced himself by marrying “ Melican” woman, and have “ cast him out.” Juan Monterea, of Taos, New Mexico, killed Lem Gallager with a hoe for interfering in a fight with his mother. A lynching party swung Monterea from the Court House railing on the same evening. Bob Ingersoll has struck it rich in his investment in New Mexican mines. The particulars of the recent great tornadoes in Northeastern Kansas, Northwestern Missouri, and Central lowa show that wherever the cyclone struck the earth the destruction of buildings, orchards, forests and growing crops was complete. Many persons \vere injured, but only a few killed, as far as can be ascertained. Scores of people lost their homes and all their property. ■ Tho terrific force and destructive effects of these tornadoes were similar to those which desolated the Western and Southern localities of former years. Eight, coal-heavers were drowned at Cincinnati by the overturning of a skiff in the middle of the Ohio river.

South. Ice-cream poisoned twelve persons in Atlanta, Ga., but it is believed that all will recover. A colored roustabout appeared before Commissioner Lane. at Monroe, La., and made affidavit that Charles Hancon, mate of th' steamboat D. Stein, lulled throe deck-hands with brass knucklesand buried their bodies under a tree. They have been having some excessively hot weather in the South. Many eases of sunstroke occurred at New Orleans. At Vicksburg the thermometer reached 101 in the shade. Highwaymen robbed the stage between Fayetteville and Alma, in Northern Arkansas. By the explosion of an oil lamp the Swepsoii nulls in Alamance county, N. C., was set fire to and destroyed. The mill gave employment to 207 operatives, and was valued at $200,000. Tho insurance was $70,000.

POLITICAL POINTS. 'There were only 104 members of the Legislature in tho joint convention at Albany on the 11th inst., and tho ballot for Senators showed no changes of candidates worthy of note. Assemblyman Trimble, a Now York lawyer, testified before the Bribery Committee that he had been offered money by a lobbyist named Edwards to change his vote from I’latt to Depew.

The balloting at Albany on the 13th inst. was of about the same monotonous nature as of the preceding days, and gave no indication of an early break of the dead-lock. The Bribery Investigating Committee examined and cross-examined Assemblyman Bradley at great length. He reiterated the story that Senator Sessions had tried to corrupt him, and detailed the circumstances. 'The friends of ex-Senator Thurman say ho will not accept the Democratic nomination for Governor of Ohio. He will remain in Europe a year or more. Associated Press telegram from Washington : “The Secretary of the National Greenback Committee, says that the Greenback members of the next Congress will stand solidly together on all questions. He says nine members of the next House are pledged to meet in Greenback caucus and determine upon and carry out Greenback politics. These nine members counted upon are Ladd and Murch, of Maine ; Bramin and Mosgrove, of Pennsylvania ; Bife, Hazeltine, Burroughs and Fort, of Missouri, and Jones, of Texas.” Judge Allen G. Thurman writes to his son from Paris that he cannot accept a renomination for Governor of Ohio, but will retire to private life on the completion of his duties at the International Monetary Conference.

The fourteenth ballot for Senators at Albany showed 55 votes for Depew, 51 for Kernan, 26 for Platt, and 10 for Cornell. For the short term Jacobs received 50, Conkling 31, Rogers 28, and Wheeler 23. The Bribery Investigation Committee had two more sessions June 14, Bradley occupying the stand in the forenoon, and Sessions in the afternoon. The former denied all knowledge of any conspiracy against Sessions, and corroborated portions of his previous testimony, introducing a few new incidents. He was subjected to a long crossexamination, and maintained the general features of his original story with politeness. President Garfield, says a Washington telegram, is strongly inclined to help Mahone in the Virginia campaign, but has informed Congressman Tucker that the Cabinet will decide the matter. . . _ The Pennsylvania Greenbackers held a State Convention at Pottsville, and nominated R. W. Jackson, of Mercer county, for State Treasurer,

The Greenback-Labor party of Ohio met in convention at Columbus and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, John Sietz, of Seneca ; Lieutenant Governor, Charles Jenkins, of Mahouing ; Supreme Judge, Joseph Watson, of Knox; Attorney General, E. M. Tuttle, of Lake; Treasurer, W. F. Lloyd, of Montgomery; member of Board of I’ublic Works, H. L. Morrison, of Ashtabula. The ballot for Senator at Albany on the 15th inst. showed no change in the situation. The Bribery Investigating Committee finished with Senator Sessions and heard two or three new witnesses Sessions maintained his version of the interviews with Bradley to the end. Assemblyman Young related his experk neo with the lobbyist Edwards, and the latter’s attempt to bribe him. The moot significant fact of the day was given by the President of the National Commercial Bank of Albany, who testified that on June 4 his bank cashed for Edwards a draft on New York, signed A. D. Barber, for $2,000. The sixteenth ballot for Senators from New York gave Depew, for the long term, 54 votes. Kernan 52, aud Platt 27 ; while for the short term Jacobs polled 51 votes, Wheeler 88> and Conkling 32. The Central Committee of the anti-Conkling Republicans met and adopted resolutions declaring that, inasmuch as Depew bad received tho votes of a majority of the Republican members of tho Legislature, it was the duty of all the Republican members who desire that the State shall be properly represented in the United States Senate to concentrate their votes on him, and thus throw the responsibility of defeating an elect ; on on the friends of the Senators who created a vacancy. In the bribery investigation, Orsino 8. Jones was examined, and corroborated Bradley’s evidence. The lowa Democratic State Convention mot at Des Moines June 16, 350 delegates being in attendance. Judge L. D. Kinne was nominated for Governor, Capt. J. M. Walker for Lieutenant Governor, Hon. H. B. Hendershott for Judge of the Supreme Court, and Prof. W. H. Butler for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The ballot in the New York Legislature, Juno 17, for Senator for the short term gave Conkling 27 votes, Wheeler 36, and Jacobs 47. Platt had 23 supporters for the long term, Depew 53, and Kernan 48. In the bribery investigation, Senator Strahan testified that John I. Davenport offered him the New York Marshalship if he would vote against Conkling, which trade was declined with thanks. A Virginia Republican delegation, headed by Gen. Wickham, was told by President G arfield that he was emphatically opposed to a violation of public faith and credit; that no one was authorized to promise appointments or threaten removals, and he would not give the patronage of any State to one man.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Chin Lan Pin, the Chinese Minister at Washington, is to be recalled. His successor, Chiang Tsan Yu', has been for some years a prominent revenue officer.

Miss M. M. Gillett, a Wisconsin woman, has been appointed a notary public for the District of Columbia. She has the honor of being the first .lady notary ever appointed by a President of the United States.

Depositors of the Freedmen’s Bank have $3.40 each due them on unclaimed dividends. As soon as the bank property is sold the final dividend will be paid, making a total of 60 per cent, paid each depositor.

Owing to the fact that the appropriations for gaugers and storekeepers for the present fiscal year are very nearly exhausted, Collectors of Internal Revenue have been directed to inform the gaugers and storekeepers employed under them that they will be only paid to the 20th of June.

Brady and Dorsey, it is said, will be the first batch of star-route operators to be prosecuted by the Government. No indictments against other alleged criminals will be asked when the prosecution is uncertain of procuring conviction. It is reported that Auditor French is satisfied with the condition of the Central Pacific railroad and its capability of daily settling with the Government.

Rear Admiral Rodgers, President of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, has submitted the report of the board to the Secretary of the Navy. It favors the inhibition of tobacco by the cadets, the substitution of tho latest kind of ordnance for the old-fashioned weapons, aud the raising of the standard of admission.

During the month of May of this year 117,482 immigrants arrived in this country, and during the eleven months ending May 31, 534,294 arrived. Of the latter number 175,306 were Germans, 110,611 came from Canada, 61,796 from Ireland, 57,861 were English and Welsh, 12,628 Scotch, 7,443 Chinese, and 138,649 came from all other countries.

The digging of the Panama canal does not progress iu a very satisfactory manner. The stations have been abandoned, brigades of workingmen have been disbanded, engineers have given up the work and returned home, and affairs generally are in a very mixed condition.

W. N. Dudley, United States Marshal of Indiana, has been appointed Commissioner of Pensions, vice J. A Bentley, resigned ; Judge Noah C. McFarland, of Topeka, Kan., was appointed Commissioner of the General Laud Office, vice Gen. Williamson, resigned. . . ' - Secretary Lincoln has issued an order declaring that the whole number of enlisted men allowed for clerical duty shall be thirteen sergeants, twenty-one corporals, 107 privates and sixteen topographical assistants, and the Generalof the Army will regulate their distribution. Secretary Windom has dismissed O. L. Pitney, the “crooked” treasury Custodian, andhas abolished the office.