Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN KEWS. Excellent accounts are received of the crops in the French of the central prbvin<fe/i t the.gjsat wheatgrowing region'"of the beautiful country, count on good average crops, and ft is believed that the vintage for this year will be the best for fifteen years. Favorable reports of the Spanish crops have also been received. - ’ ’ In England cold weather has had a very unfavorable effect on the crops just now maturing. There was a white frost on the 9th of July. It is asserted in Turkish official circles that Midhat Pasha attempted to cut his own throat recently, but was prevented by the Warders. Father Sheehy, who has been several weeks in jail, declines to allow bis friends to intercede to secure his liberation or any other privileges not allowed to other “ Coercion-act" prinoners. , *

Edmund O’Brien and John Hyde, members of the Middleton (Cork) Land League, have been arrested under the Coercion act. It is understood that an agricultural laborer will be put forward as the candidate of the Land League for the county of Cork. A band of swindlers operating at Geneva, Switzerland, has, within twenty years, shipped to Egypt and other Eastern countries from 10,000,000 to 40,000,000 francs of false coin. Seven prominent personages have Wen arrested in connection with the swindles. Experiments with suspended electric lamps were made in Paris the ‘kther night. Four lamps covered with shades and burning naked electric lights, were strung across the streets at intervals of about 100 yards by means of light, wires connected by poles forty feet high. The light was fairly diffused, but so intense as to be unbeaEabl«’stJ the >&. The experiment ffara failure. * The anniversary of ; the. taking of the Bastite, the national holiday of France, wap celebrated July 14, in Jparis and other French cities, and by French' citizens ip various qwta of the werld, by ilhitnihitfons, decoration®, pyrotechnic displays, patriotic musfe • and oratory, free theatrical entertainments, etc., and in such a manner as only Frenchmen can celebrate. < — —-

Bismarck demands Turkish Government refund tne ransom money recently paid to Boumeluwi brigands for theyeleaftt of two captive Germans. The complications between France,and Turkey are on the increase. The former power accuses Turkey of fomenting the rising -in Tripoli. - - A terrible disease, known as the Siberian plague, has appeared m St. Pete&bUrg, ■Where it is spreading, with Marmih'g“r.ipiaity» Horses are dying by .scored and many persons are affected. A want of efficient’ medical attendance and the fact that the peasants sell the hide < of the diseased animals render the local ’ authorities helpless. It is stated that the Ozar has determined to commute the sentence of Hessy Helfmann, the female Nihilist concerned in the murder of the late Czar. In the race for the Thames CJlmMe?ge Cup at London, the CotudUcteW Was defeated, coming in third. Th® • Thames- etew Wot-e the winners. The London crew came in secondThe Americans made a gallant effort, but to.no purpose. , f : . i' J 1 A steward in the province of Koorsk, , Russia, shut up nineteen men and girts in a barn because they'refused to work for- him. A ; Village mob then set fire t 0... the .barn, and the ‘ unfortunate occupants were burned alive.-, •' ’ DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eaat The wife of Col. Frank Bridgman, of Gen. Sheridan’s staff, fell dead of heart disease in New York. John A. Appleton, of the famous New York publishing house, is dead. Judge Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, underwent amputation of the foot for gangrene. Ralph E. Richards and Edward F. Gross, two young ruffians, the one 14 years of age and the other 11, drowned a companion, Willie Carr, a boy of 10 years, near Portland. Me., because he refused to give them 25 cents which he had. A fire at Bradford, Pa., destroyed SIOO,OOO worth of business property. Pittsburgh reports a great boom in the iron trade. Mills are sold from three to i ix months ahead Gen. Pemberton, who commanded the rebel forces at Vicksburg, died recently. at Pean Yan, Pa., aged 64. IV A brewer’s clerk and an office boy in New York drove down from Ninety-erdnd itreet to deposit 49,300 in currency and a bag of silver dollars. At Forty-seventh street their wagon was run into by a peddler’s cart, containing three men. TnC latter' soon seized the package of bills and drove off ingtou avenue, lettirig flic bag of silver fall into the street. • '* . At tlts fonclusßii of Ilia hUtt of a race at Pittsburgh, the well-known trotting stallion Bonesetter, owned by H. V. Bern’s, of Chicago; dropped dead. He was valued at 415,000. ' ' * As a passenger train fair speed through 1 the streets of Madison, Wis., the engineer saw two little children spring out of the. grass upon the-'track, a fewv-ods ahead. The air-brakes were applied and the locomotive reversed,' but the children went under the tender. It was found'that'one had lost two teeth and the other received only a few scars.

j?liineas W. Hitchcock, ex-Senator frem Nebraska, died in Omaha, the direct cau§e being over-exertion in the* sun. He was boi® in New Lebanon, N. Y„ fi 1881, and: classmate of jPresident Garfield ’iw WMlianfc College. A hail-storm broke thousands of windows at Winona, Minn., and a cyclone swept away the repair-shop bf the Northwestern road. The Williams brothers, fugitives "from jnslicein Illinois, killed Deputy Sheriff man, of St. Croix county, Wjs., aud CharW Coleman, formerly Sheriff of Pepin couml?* The slaughter occurred at Durant, twenty-two l milci south of Menomipee, while the officers were at tempting to arrest the outlaws. Gov. Smith offers SSOO reward for their capture, anfl ha® authorized the use of the»Ludington Guards in running them down. * ‘ il The Illinois and Mississippi River approvement ' Commission are busily eitgaged* in prosecuting their effort for an appeal to Congress at its next session for the needed appropriations for the improvement of the rivers Qt the Wert, *ud also tor th« «owtructiou o f

the Hoiocpta M mission will be held in Chicago some time in August. ——- . The chinch-bug has seriously damaged the wheaj; er°P. of Northern lowa. All other kinds of crops except wheat are good. A recent dispatch from Leavenworth says the Prohibition law continues'to be a dead letter in Leavenworth, Atchison, Topeka and other large Kansas towns. There w«te 363 deaths froth the excessive heat in Cincinnati in one week. . The lowa farmers expect to have an ptcellent corn crop this year, except in those "portions visited by hail-storms recently, where the yield will be scarcely half an average. The . wheat crop is now being harvested, and will yield a fair average. Oats, barley and other crops will be fully up to the average. The wheat crop of Kansas is estimated at fully 20,000,000 bushels. That of Michigan at 17,600,000. A train robbery occurred on the Rock Island road, at Winslow Station, near Cameron Junction, Mo., on the night of July 15. When the train which left Kansas City in charge of Conductor Westwall reached that point, at 9:30 p. m., a gang of desperadoes appeared, and side-tracked the tri - ). Every car was boarded. The conductor was killed and the passengers robbed. Oregon promises a wheat yield of nearly 100,000 tons from the territory east of the Cascade mountains, a gain over last year of at least 30 per cent. In Pemiscot county, Mo., James Atkinson killed his wife and child and then threw their bodies into the Mississippi river. A native of Japan, while traveling through New Mexico with a team, was robbed of his hdrife and money and tied to a tree near Engle’s station, on the Santa Fe railway. A Sheriff’s posse went out from ( Socorro, shot both the robbers dead and restored the stolen ■fWpWWWrtbv owner.

Hou tlx. All boatajeaching Memphis from the SrifftD Wi'S'j faired th stop at President’s island far inspection. . ■ ■ Thomas K. Pugh, a son of the exSenator frtom Ohio, who was taken by the remMint of Victoria’s band from a stage near Ej Paso, wrote and left on' thc( roadway a note stating jhat he was a prisoner., Ria mutilated corpse was afterward found by a scout of Mex- ' 'cahTroops near OarrezaC ’" ' Frank anil J«sse Myers, two spring,. Wer, figged at Sikeston. About 5,000 persons gathered to witness the execution. Willis l|^vcs ( a npgro, was; hanged at Van Buren, Ark., for the murder of Joseph Drake, ateo 6(rt6jed. Rreyesjmade three de- ' terenined efforti to’cscape from the' platform of the gallows, the Sheriff falling through the ' trap with him. At Marianna, Ark., Isaac Green and John Hardin,. two negro murderers, paid the Slty of flieir grimes 'on gallows, in presof 8,1 O') Hpect itors. WASHINGTON NOTES. trf T) TreetoFEurc-hard has left WashSecretary Kirkwood has decided that when an 'withdraws from a soldiers’ home hgcgn receiyj his pension directly. . - Guiteam'; continues to manifest the-most, cpolness, and now'proposeJ'Uj-xfcrite “The Life of Charles Guiteay, 'written by fi£mssf, with an esposition ofifiis of -Ttieol^ry,” -for which the puljikiOTs' ohght te>>j|iay him 20 per cent. Gen. Haze^te^brfe the issue for the | yearV f. $4,135.519 in pos tags stamps, envelopes, and Windom, eayff - a Washington dispatch, is so much 'annoyed by officeseekers- that he can attend to little other business. He Relieves that) tfe of civil-ldrvice rules Is the only remedy for this “tffaHtilUuJllil places the average of the wheat crop at 83 per cent, of a full yield. Tixe area of corn planted has increased 2 per ceht., blit the crop promises to be only 90 per cent, of that of last year. | F^,it|c aj| p&jOs. j | for shorttejpn thVOtti insfe,-lPoftef' received 50 votes, Lapham 67, Conkling 31 Whoeler-L fTh(ww)|erf(te<ttiii® ilqng- term pave Miller^6ft ’votes,’ RCT-rtarfuCtiina ffrlie'eler 19. ine baUpt ai.AiUauy.-on.the 11th inst. for a Senator for the short term gave Lapham 60 vo.tes, with 7.6 necessary to a choice ; Potter ’ 48, . and Cohkling 1 28. "For the long term Miller an appeal to the joint caucus committee to a jcall for-a caucus, arguing that jthe-efeetiontof tlie pfesbnt Lapham kind Miller. Would Qausa tffo vacancies in committee replied to the effect that the Conkling faction neglected the opportunity to participate Iff just such a gathering as they now asked, for, In the ballot for Senator for the abort term at Albanjf, “n thd 12tb inst,, Lapitaai had 68 votes,.,Potter 52, aud Conkling 32, with 78 •necßssaity to a choice, tor the long term Miller received.: 70, er 21’. -i ■ The Wisconsin Greenback State Convent ioa wfrif Qefd Wktfi^tgwa' on 111® I2th Inst. The following State ticket was nominated by Acclamation; Governor, E. P. Allis, Milwaukee; Lieutenant Governor, David Giddings, Fond du Lac; Secretary of State, Wilson Hopkins, Chippewa; 'treasurer, Gerhart Lammers, Sheboygan; Superintendent of Public Instruction, X A. Gaynor, Wood;’ Attorney General, Joel Foster, Pierce; Railway Commissioner, T. G. Brunson, Crawford; Insurance Commissioner, L. Merrill. Dodge. u j ; In the balloting at Albany, on the 13tH inst., Lapham led for the short term with 69 votes, Potter long term. Miller had 71, with 78 necessary for a choice ; JC&ukn had 51 and Wheeler 23. Conkling told a New York reporter that undei s no circumstances would he withdraw. » The Ohio Democratic State Convention, in session at. Oolumbue, chose Gen. Thos. cEI Powell/ as permanent Chairman. John W,‘ BJokwalter, of was nominated for Goverjicr ; Edgar M. .of Cincinnati, for Lieutenant Governor ;• E. F. Btagtyapa, of, Franklin, for Supreme judge Al F.' of Cleveland, for. State. Treasurer ; Frank C. Doughty, 6f Highland county, for Attorney General, and John Crowe, of Defiance, for Superintendent of. Public Works. The Gubernatorial nominee is a man of vast wealth. Frank H. Hurd’s tariff views are reflected in the platform,

The joint ballot for United State* Senator at Albany, on the 14tb, gave, for the short term, Lapham 70, Potter 54 and Conkling 32. For the long term Miller had 73 and Kerrian 54. The Assembly subsequently adopt- ' ixi a resolution to adjourn on Saturday, July 16, by a vote of 62 to 61. There was little or no change in the political situation at Albany on the 15th, the ballot proving almost a repetition of the one recorded on the previous day. The Senate refused to concur in the House resolution for an adjournment on Saturday, July 16.