Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1881 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

(Japt. H. W. Howgate was brought before the United States Commissioner at Washington to answer to the charge made by Gen. Hazen of embezzling $50,000 from the Government Bail was fixed at $40,000. Later investigations into Capt. Howgate’s accounts make the sum total of his alleged defalcation so far about $70,000. Twenty-seven persons were killed and 306 woundod at a bull fight at Marseilles. Messrs. Cowles, Lewis and Allen, ol the Cornell University crew, charge the other members of that ill-starred body with having sold the race with the Austrian crew at Vienna. The Bey of Tunis has his hands full at present, the whole country being in a state of panic arising from the excesses of roving bands of Arabs. Secretary Forster has analyzed the n'"scriplions to the Irish Land-League fund, and reports that, out of .£10,707, all but JE243 was received from the United States. A scheme has been proposed to the German Government to unite Alsace with Baden, and make the Grand Duke of Baden the first King., Lorrainais to be united with the province of Rhineland, and become a part of Prussia. Queen Victoria eagerly reads all the dispatches received in London concerning the President’s condition, and expressed great

pleasure atihe receipt of a personal telegram from Mrs. Garfield. She has repeated her order that everything of importance concerning the President shall be sent to her at Wind sor as soon as possible. The total value of the domestic breadstuffs exported from the United States during the seven months ending July 31, 1881, was $131,962,709, against $153,586,362 worth exported during the corresponding seven months of last year. The Governor of the MexicanTrovince of Sonora will co-operate with the Governor of Arizona to prevent the invasion of Sonora by “cow-boys” and the invasion of Arizona by “ Greasers.” and thus protect tho lives and property of the* nhabitants of both countriesThe United States Marshal at Tucson will also assist. Military and citizens are endeavoring to maintain order at Orange, Texas, where Sheriff Mitchell was dangerously wounded by a party of negroes, of whom two were subsequently shot and a third hanged. News comes that the inhabitants of Rugby, Tenn. —the colony founded by Thomas Hughes—are suffering terribly from typhoid fever, the disease being caused by bad water. Ex-Congressman Martin F. Conway, who, some years ago, shot Senator Pomeroy, has been released from tho lunatic asylum, where he has been confined for several years. The American Bar Association at Saratoga elected Clarkson N. Potter President. The Executive Committee was chosen of the most eminent jdrists in the country. Three-fourths of the town of Yule, British Columbia, is a smoldering ruin, the loss being estimated at $300,000 to $400,000. The flames started in a room in a hotel occupied by an intoxicated man, who evidently paid the penalty by his life. The American Photographers’ Association, at their convention in New York, elected Joslyia A. Smith President, and J. E. Beebe Treasurer (both of Chicago), and John Cadwallader, of Indianapolis, Secretary. The Tilden Club of Pittsburgh have named Tilden as the Democratic candidate for President in 1884. The club represents the sage of Gramercy Park as in excellent health and spirits. Charles Stockley was executed at Batavia, N. Y., for killing John Wilker, who refused him the hand of his daughter in marriage. Stockley feigned insanity in prisom and it took four strong men to shackle him.