Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Guiteau was hanged in effigy in Niagara square, Buffalo, in presence of 3,000 persons. The town of Andover, N. Y., was visited by an electric storm which prostrated several persons and burned eight houses and bams. The loss is estimated at $60,000. In the criminal court at Philadelphia, William B. Dickerson and Joel N. Van Arsdalen, who forged the Whittaker will, were each fined SI,OOO and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Dickerson, who is aged and infirm, remarked ; “You may as well send a coffin with me.” Delmonico, •the famous New York caterer, is dead. The Cornell crew has reached New York, loaving Bhiukel in London. It is alleged that be received 15,000 florins for causing tho defeat at Vienna. At Paterson, N. J., a man named fihorrocli was killed by being struck in the stomach by a base ball. He lingered but a few minutes. By the carelessness, arising from intemperance, of Charles Bust, an employo of the Roberts Torpedo Company, of Sawyer, a village near Bradford. I’a., four men were instantly killed, three fatally injured and several persons seriously injured. Four thousand acres of timber and 5,000 acres of wheat '.on the farm of David Tracy, near Erie, Pa., were destroyed by a forest fire. Shinkel, of the Cornell crew, has arrived from Earope, and will bring suit at Ithaca against his fellow-oarsmen for defamation of character. West. The officers of the Ohio penitentiary have discovered that within its walls tho manufacture of bogus nickels Las been carried on for some time.

Reliable reports from Fort Apache and Fort Thomas leave no doubt that the reports of the Indian massacre in the vicinity of the former placojwere grossly exaggerated. Gen. Carr and the greater portion of his command were still alive at last advices, and were confident of being ablo to hold their own until the arrival of reinforcements. Gen. Carr’s command lost seven men killed and two wounded in the fight with tho redskins. It appears that on the morning of the 29th ult. he, with a force of 105 men, including Indian scouts and six officers, left Fort Apache with the intention of arresting an Apache modicine-man who had been endeavoring to stir lip tho tribe to revolt. The command reached Cibicu, forty-five miles west of Fort Apache, on tho 30th ult., and found 000 Indians there. The medicineman was arrested without resistance, and the command began to retrace its steps. Some Indian scouts who had left their own camp and como into Gen. Carr’s camp were ordered to leave. They refused to do so, but turned and fired, killing Capt. Hontig. The fight then became general. Our troops formed a skirmish liiie, and defended themselves until dark, after which they retreated to Fort Apache, The casualties among our troops were as follows: Killed: Capt. O. G. Hentig, Sixth cavalry ; Private Saurdaggor, Private Sullivan, Private Miller, Private Livingston, Private Bird, Privato Faran, all of Company D, Sixth cavalry. Wounded: Lieut. C. G. Gordon, Sixth cavalry, in tho leg, but not serious. Sergt. T. McDonald, Company E, Sixth cavalry, right leg, badly.

A dispatch from Shenandoah, lowa, gives the following particulars of a terrible accident which occurred near that place. Fassenger train No. bound on the Wabash road was ditched five miles west of that place. Nineteen persons wero more or less injured, and one, named Thomas C. Leacox, was killed outright. Two or three others will probably die. Ail the train except the engine tumbled down an embankment about ten feet high. The giant-powder packing-house of tho Lake Superior Powder Company, two miles northwest of Marquette, Mich., blow up with terrible effect on the morning of v the 6th inst. There wero eleven men in the building at the time, all of whoso bodies were torn into fragments the average size of which were not larger than a man’s hand. The building, which was aframo 26x60 feet‘and one story high, was blown into splinters and scattered over an area of twenty-four acres. The shock of the explosion was felt a distance of eight miles, and buildings in Marquette were terribly shaken. Half an hour after the explosion the place was crowded with people, all of whom assisted in searching the debris for flesh and bones of tho killed. Of the eleven bodies part of one trunk only and alxnit two patent pails full of remains wero found. Following is a list of tho killed, all of whom were unmarried men: John Reiehcls, Joseph Iteichels, Jacob Smith, John Smith, Lewis Collins, Peter Laplant, Oliver Bashaw, Edward Murray, Fred Valrum, Charles Schmidt, John Anus. No plausible theory of the cause of tho explosion has been advanced, and, a 3 the men do not live who saw it, the cause will never be known. All the Indians are reported to have left the western portion of the San Carlos reservation and gone in the direction of the Apaches. Intense alarm prevails among tho whites at stations on the Southern Pacific east of Wilcox, and non-residents intending to leave are prevented from boarding trains. At stations between Demiug and Wilcox temporary fortifications have been thrown up. Seventeen companies of troops are en route from California for Wilcox by special train; ten companies of the Sixth cavalry have been ordered forward, and the Fifth cavalry, Crook’s veteran fighters, will be sent in hot haste from tho Platte. A general uprising of tho Arizona Apaches is expected. The Governor of New Mexicb has organized companies of militia at Las Cruces aud La Mesilla. Two companies are forming at Socorro, one at Rincon, one iu the Black range, and one at Santa Fo. Tho Governor called on the Secretary of War for 1,000 stand of arms now at Fort Union and a fair supply of ammunition. There was a heavy snow-storm in the Black Hills on tho sth and 6th of September. Six inches of snow fell at Deadwood City. Two inches of snow fell at Hastings, Neb., on the 6th inst. Three of the bandits who engaged in the robbery of the Chicago and Alton train near Glendale, Mo., were arrested near the scene of their crime by the Sheriff of Saline county, and have been fully identified. Their names are Creed Chapman, Samuel Chapman and John Burglar, and they reside not twenty miles from Independence. It is believed that nearly SIO,OOO was taken from the passengers and thrown into a pillow-case as the robbers walked through the cars. The slaughter-house es Libby, McNeill & Libby, at th'e Union Stock Yards, near Chicago, has 'been burned. Loss estimated at $104,000. South. ( The Texas and Pacific road has been completed to a point $49 miles west of Pallas,

and track-laying progresses at the rate of two miles per day. Three thousand citizens of Birmingham, Ala., assembled at the park to witness a twenty-minmte fight between two bull-dogs and a wild-cat The latter scratched out the eyes of its adversaries.' Lieut. Flipper, the only negro graduate of West Point, will be arraigned before a court-martial at San Antonio, for the embezzlement of $1,700. Frank J. Guiteau, a cousin of Charles J. Guiteau, was recently married at Dennison, Tex. A serious railroad accident occurred at Thornton Station, W. Va., on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The Chicago express ran into the Cumberland accommodation, telescoping the rear car and crushing the ends of the other cars. The shock detached the boiler from the engine trucks, the escaping steam adding "greatly to tho terrible effect of the accident. None of the passengers on the Chicago express sustained any injury, except a slight shaking up. Nearly, all oa4he accommodation w£re injured, some shockingly mangled and scalded by the steam and more or less bruised. Eyewitnesses describe the scene as heart-rending in the extreme. The bodies of four men, believed to havo been cattle-thieves killed by ranch-men, were found near El PaBO. Fire at Lonaconing, Md., destroyed the business portion of the town, including fifteen dwellings. Loss estimated at SIOO,OOO ; Insurance, $57,000. Notwithstanding the drought, the Tennessee Board of Agriculture expect a half crop of cotton, corn and tobacco. The death is announced of Sidney Lanier, the poet, lie died in North Carolina, whither he went for the benefit of his health. POLITICAL POINTS. The Wisconsin Democracy have called a State Convention on the 28th of September, to consider tho propriety of nominating candidates for State offices. The New York Democracy, through the Stato Committee, haye called a State Convention at Albany on the 11th of October. The Republicans of Pennsylvania held a Sty*» Convention at Harrisburg and nbminatee 'lon. 8. M. Bailey for State Treasurer. WASHINGTON NOTES. President Garfield’s sons, Harry and James, have left Washington for Williams College. A prominent sanitary engineer, who has examined the drainage at the White House, declares it to be defective.

FOREIGN NEWS. Two thousand Mormons left Liverpool for Utah this summer. India has a population, according to the census just completed, of 252,600,000. The result of the recent French elections will constitute tho new Chamber of Deputies as follows : 450) Re publicans, 47 Bonapartists, and 41 Monarchists. Two numbers of the Nihilist journal, the Will of the People., have been issued at St. Petersburg. They contain notices warning spies of the terrible fate which awaits them, a list of donations to the Nihilist fund amounting to 4,000 roqjules, also the names of 400 Nihilists arrested since November. A terrible railroad accident occurred at ChiU-enton, France. The ordinary passenger train (accommodation) had been derailed when the Marseilles express ran into it, telescoping the hindmost cars, killing fifteen and seriously injuring several other passengers. Ayoob Khan declares that ho has abandoned his intention of fighting tho Ameer Abdurrahman, aud that he intends to fight the English. Tho British journals say that thi3 is a clumsy plan to get as many rifles as possible, and intimate that Ayoob does not mean what he says. The interpretation put upon Ayoob’s action shows, however, that the Afghans are not greatly in love with tho British. A recent Liverpool dispatch announces the arrival at that port of Jeff Davis, by stoamer from New Orleans. At Stolp, Pomerania, threats were made to storm the houses of Jewish residents. On being pelted with stones, the troops charged the mob, wounding sixteen persons. The condition of the South of Ireland is represented to be one of utter lawlessness. The people seem determined to treat the authorities with contempt where they do not treat them to worse. The presence of a large force of soldiers and policemen seems tp have little effect in preserving order iu the region. The Ecumenical Council of the Methodist church, which has caused such great interest, met in London on the 7th inst. Great preparation had been made to bring together representatives from the various branches of the denomination, and delegates from all parts of the world were present, aggregating about 400. The council opened with a sqjmon by Bishop Simpson, of America. The council is held with a view of bringing the different branches of the denomination into clos w alliance, warmer fraternity and fuller co-oper-ation. One hundred Jews who escaped from Russia are on their way to the United States. Over 500 Hobrew workmen at the Eieflf tobacco factory have been ordered to quit town. • Some of the Egyptian mummies are encased iu bandages more than one thousand yards long.