Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kant. Ex-Secretary Stuart, of the Brooklyn Board of Education, has been put under $lO.000 bonds to answer for embezzlement The amount of the shortage is $107,000. By the burning of a bridge over Spring creek, on the Pennsylvania road, a freight train was precipitated into a ravine. Wiiliam Kepperly, the engineer, and Charles Parks, the fireman, were roasted alive. At Albany, N. Y., the Sessions bribery case has been postponed to the next term of court. The will of the late Lorenzo Delmonlco, of New York, shows an estate of $2,000,000. His wife is given $400,000 and his house and stables, and his nephew Charles is to receive $600,000. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, United Stajtes Senator from Rhode Island, died suddenly at his residence at Bristol, R. L Thfe immediate cause of his death was a spasm of the heart. The deceased Senator was a native of Indiana, and was in his 58th year. He served in the Mexican war and in the War of the Rebellion. No man in the Senate was more highly respected and honored for sincerity and honesty of purpose. Frank, courageous, manly, he won the esteem of all his Senatorial associates. Even in the midst of exciting political contentions not even his political opponents were ever moved to utter a harsh or bitter word against the brave, outspoken, upright Burnside. Forest fires in West and South New Jersey have caused immense destruction to valuable woodlands. The great cypress swamps in Delaware have been swept by flames, and hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of timber destroyed. The coal-miners of the Pittsburgh district demanded, and the operators have conceded, an advance to 4 cents per bushel. A family was robbed by highwaymen while proceeding from the Glen House to the Thorn Mountain House, in New Hampshire. Later the Glen stage coach was fired into, but the driver whipped up his horses and escaped. Bussey & McLeod’s stove foundry at Troy, N. Y., valued at $50,000, was destroyed by fire. A fire at Oswego, N. Y., destroyed $400,000 worth of property, consistjpg principally of lumber. "West.

A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, says that supplies of all kinds are being rapidly pushed forward to the front. A punishment not to be forgotten will be dealt out to the treacherous murderers of the lamented Hentig and the bravo men who fell with him. At no time in the last ten years, in that' Territory, has there been such a quick and rapid placing of troops in different portions threatened by hostilos as has been done on this occasion. Another Indian war, but of small dimensions, is threatened. For some time past the Southern Utes havo been fleeing from their present reservation in order to avoid being transferred to the new reservation s’et apart for them in Utah, and somo of those that remain threaten to resist removal. The women and children are being removed, in order, as it is reported, to give the warriors a better opportunitv to take the war path. Chicago is doing more building this year than in any year since the one which followed the great fire. Two million brick per day aro being laid. Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, told a man who professed to be a friend of the James boys that they could have an impartial trial, should they surrender. Prof. King and seven companions ascended from St. Paul in a balloon on the 12th inst., intending to make an air voyage to the Atlantic coast. The balloon was weighted with 500 pounds of provisions and instruments and two tens of ballast. They crossed the Mississippi at an altitude of 4,200 feet, enjoying a glorious sunset, and obtaining a magnificent view of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Soon afterward the wind died out and they descended six miles from the starting-point. The good work of raising aid for the sufferers by the great fires in Michigan and of distributing supplies throughout the burnt district is going forward vigorously and systematically. The subscriptions in Detroit foot up over $15,000; Bay City raised $2,500; East Saginaw, $3,000; Saginaw City, $1,500; Pontiac, $1,500; Jackson, over $2,000; Borne, $3,000 ; Adrian, $3,000 ; Grand Haven, over SI,OOO. Other Michigan towns and cities have contributed in proportion, and further subscriptions are coming constantly. Everett Donougli, one of the victims of the recent Missouri tram robbery, has begun suit at Kansas City against the Chicago and Alton railroad. He alleges that he lost $155 in money and a ticket to Denver worth S3O, for which he wants a judgment in the sum of $lB5 and costs. A portion of the plunder taken by the rolibors has been recovered. It was found in a cave near Glendale.

Three masked burglars visited the hut of a hermit at. Collinsville, Ohio, named John McCavarry, bound him to his bed, and compelled him to reveal the hiding-place of $6,000 in currency. The business buildings in Beaver, Utah, were destroyed by fire, but hard work saved the residence quarter, The leading wheat growers of California held a meeting in San Francisco, to organize for higher prices and lower freights to Europe. The amount for export was reported at 950,000 tons. Gov. Sheldon, of New Mexico, says there is reason to fear a general participation on the part of all Indian tribes in that Territory in the warlike demonstrations of the Nana and White Mountain Apaches. While the races were in progress on the fair grounds at Kansas City, the main hall was found to be m flames, and all the exhibits were soon reduced to ashes. The loss is estimated at $60,000. The following appeal for aid in behalf of the sufferers by the late forest fires has been issued by the Citizens’ Relief Committee of Detroit: An Appeal foe the Destitute—To the People of the United Slates: The counties of Huron and Sanilac, and parts of the counties of Tuscola and Lapeer, in Michigan, have been visited by dreadful calamities. Forest-fires driven by high winds swept over more than 1,500 square miles of this region. In a portion of it the destruction was only partial. In the greater part of it the ruin is complete. More than 200 people were burned to death in the flames or suffocated in the smokf. Many others who escaped were severely burned, and yet survive in great suffering. More than 15,000 people were made shelterless. The greater part of these lost all they possessed. Their houses, barns, fences, crop, agricultural implements, furniture and clothing were entirely consumed, and they are absolutely destitute and dependent on the generosity of the humane for the neoessariee of life. Im* ; mediately that the magnitude of the disaster was known, the Mayor of Detroit, by proqlama*

(ion, called a meeting of citizens to aid the sufferers. At this meeting all the prominent commercial, manufacturing and banking houses of the city were represented. They appointed a relief committee, consisting of the Hon. William G. Thompson, Mayor of the city; James McMullan. President of the Michigan Car Company; Edward K. Norton, President of the Detroit Boaid of Trade ; Martin Bntzel, of the firm of Heinoman, Bntzel & Co. ; George McMillan, of the thm of G. & R. McMillan; and R. W. King, of It. W. King A Son. It is needless to say that these gentlemen are among the most honorable and enterprising citizens of Detroit. The committee immediately organized and appointed well-known, reliable business men of the Limit district as agents for the distribution of relief. Tim citizens of Detroit immediately contributed to this committee a large sum of money, and the work of raising contributions goes steadily on. Detroit and Michigan will give liberally, hilt the wants of sufferers are beyond their capacity to relievo. We therefore appeal to the generous throughout the United States to assist us in discharging this duty of humanity to the destitute sufferers. T.iev need food, clothing, bedding, furniture, ohelter. cattle, seed for crops, agricultural implements, table-ware, kitchen utensiis, medicines and a mnl i.ude of other necessaries. All individual societies, corporations, committees and organizations are earnestly invited to send their contributions, whether money or supplies, promptly, directed to the Hon. William G Thompson, Chairman of the committee, Detroit, Mich. All contributions will be acknowledged in the Detroit daily papers (Signed by the committee.) Tlie twenty-mile equestrian race at Chicago Jockey Club track, between Miss Cook, of California, and Miss JeweD, of Minnesota, was won by the former in 45 minutes and 1C seconds. Miss Jewett’s horse, while oh the last mile, jumped tho fence and threw her violently. Her injuries were not serious. The Governor of Michigan lias issued tho following: To the people of the United States: Portions of four counties of this State, lying principally Saginaw bay anrl Lake Huron, havo been devastated by forest fires. A drought almost unp;o(t iented in this lection of country had prepared the way for the calamity, and houses, barns, fences, crops, cattle, agricultural implements! household furniture, clothing and human life have been destroyed by its ravages. In some townships lias destruction is comp'ete, and only a picture of ruin Is left. It is known that more than 200 !i\e.< have been lost by burning and suffocation. Many individuals have become helpless through injuries and exposure, and some are Blind. The number of men, women and children left without shelter is estimated at 15,000. The benevolence of he citizens of the State responded promptly to the lb st necessities of those afflicted people, but ample time has now elapsed, and sufficient details have been received, to make it evident that a wider appeal is needed. The destitution prevailing in the suffering counties is appal ing. Entire neighborhoods are involved in the common calamity, and cannot help each other. '1 he sufferers have no provisions except such as are brought from a distance, and r.o utensils to cook with. The necessaries of life, both large and small, have been destroyed. They need shelter, clothing, cooking-Btoves, kitchen utensils, beds and bedding, wagons, harness, plows, hoes, tools of all kinds, seed for future crops, and whatever helps to make men self-supporting. They have a good soil, are near to markets, and before this dreadful disaster In fell them were a thrifty, prosperous people. Timely help will enable them to go through the hardships of this coming winter and to become again an independent community. At present they are penniless, needy, sick and sufferng, ahd many of them in debt. I appeal Under eircumstauces like these to the people of other States md ask them to co-operate in their abundance with citizens of Michigan in relieving this destitution. Nothing will be wanted heie in duty to the afflicted utterers, but the demands are too great for the people of the State to meet alone. An organization for the relief of the sufferers by these fires exists at Detroit, the commercial metropolis of the State, and systematic plans of relief have been established. The committee having them in W rge is composed of well-known, competent and re: ponsible citizen-. Money and supplies sent to its Chairman, the Hon. IVm. G. Thompson, Mayor of Detroit, will be faithfully applied. David H. Jerome, Governor. Prof. King was compelled to abaudf n liis interrupted balloon voyage to the Atlantic coast. Unfavorable winds kept the airhip anchored for days in a cow-pasture six nrles from St. Paul. Then a storm sprang up, acoomp.iniod with a cold rain, and thrashed the gas bag about until tho ropes and frame were badly strained and nearly all the gas escaped. Then Prof. King gave it up, ripped the balloon and let out the rest of the gas. A fire in tlie picture-frame factory of Hunt, llolzinger A Co., at Cincinnati, caused a loss of $30,000 to that firm and a like amount to the coffin company. Six dwellings were crushed and a fireman kiiled. At Newbury, Ohio, Benjamin Beatty fatally shot Dr. J. F. Abrams for criminal intimacy with his wife. The revolver was fired as the doctor was driving past Beatty’s house, and the victim fell out of his buggy.

Bouta. In a fight between the police and striking handlers, at New Orleans, one of the rioters was killed by a policeman, who barely escaped with his life. Another officer was set upou by the mob and nearly beaten to death. The militia had to be called out to suppress the rioting- , « A lynching mob numbering about 100 surrounded the jail at Dardanelle, Ark., and took therefrom two murderers named Taylor and Bruce, put ropes around their necks, dragged thorn into the streets, and hanged them. Samuel Ramsey, a person with a hard reputation, who spent a goodly portion of his time in the penitentiary, murdered a young farmer named John Smith, at Ovingsville, Ky. He was arrested, and subsequently taken from the jail Dy an armed band and lynched. William Mason, a farmer living near Cotton Plant, Woodruff county, Ark., while returning home from market, got into an altercation with three men who were working on the road. They ordered him to turn aside so that they might proceed with their work. He refused. They overturned his wagon, whereupon Mason drew a revolver and killed two of the men and badly wounded the third. New Orleans telegrams, of the 14th, represent the labor troubles as assuming a serious shape. James Wilson, the driver of. a cotton-wagon, was stoned by a mob and retaliated by shooting John Linsky. At the Natchez piers twenty men armed themselves and went to work. Rioters -boarded the ship Callego and fired at screwmen in the hold. Acting Governor McEnery, at the request of tho Mayor, put the city under martial law, placing General Benham in command, and ordered all military organizations to be ready for service. The British Consul demanded [protection for three vessels lying at the levee, and the Spanish Consul sent to the Minister at Washington an account of an outrage on a Spanish steamer. At Weatherford, Tex., in a diffictdty originating in some rentals, J. M. Cox* after being seriously wounded, killed Dr. R. G. Cantrell and his son Bud. •"< At Richmond, Ya., the Association of Fire Engineers of the United States hSM their ninth annual convention. G. Wall Taylor, of Richmond, was eleoted President. The cotton factories in New Orleans

conceded the demand pt the laborers for an advance of wages, and the troubles are over. A duel was fought at Terrene, Miss., between Hon. Leland Leatherman, Mayor of Arkansas City, Ark., and James Rucker, a prominent attorney of the same place. Both combatants were wounded at the first fire, Leatherman slightly and Rucker fatally. • Two young planters of Booneville, Ark., named William and Robert Hambery, were shot by parties in ambush along the roadside. The latter was instantly killed and the former mortally wounded. Two negroes have been arrested on suspicion. The Baltimore and Ohio road has 11,000 miles of telegraph wire, and George W. Frick has been chosen General Manager thereof. WASHINGTON NOTES. Guiteau had a narrow escape from death in his cell in the Washington jail. Sergt. Mason, of Battery B, while relieving the guard in the jail, fired through the cell window point blank at the assassin, and only missed him by a hair’s-breadth. Mason was at once incarcerated for this extraordinary breach of discipline. - An effort is being made by his attorney to take the case of Sergeant Mason, the man who missed Guiteau, from military jurisdiction. The military officers are persuaded that Mason is deranged somewhat. Guiteau has been removed to another eell the location of which is kept a secret from all except the warders who guard the part of the building in whicb the new cell is located. The scoundrel is in constant terror that he will be shot. He spends a considerable part of the night praying aloud in preparation for the death which he dreads. Ho has not yet abandoned his propensity for lying. He has told several different stories about Mason’s attempt upon his worthless life. The last story he manufactured for the special purpose of ibowing how near he came to being killed, in the hope, no doubt, of gaining a little sympathy for himself. A Washington correspondent says that “ Sergeant Mason, who made the mistake of missing Guiteau’s head, is treated with the utmost leniency at the arsenal. A charge of conduct prejudicial to good order has been forwarded to Gen. Hancock. Money is being raised in tlie departments at Washington to defray tlie expenses of his defense, and somo citizens of San Antonio telegraphed a pledge for $250.” Before he left for Arizona, Gov. Fremont made a novel proposition to the Secretary of tho Interior, and will urge the plan, it is understood, upon other Government officials. His plan is none other than to acquire by cession, if possible, from Mexico a large tract of country in the northern part of California, on which all tho bad Indians of tho Northwest may be colonized. The Grand Jury of the District of Columbia adjourned until October without taking any action regarding star-route cases.

POLITICAL POINTS. In the special election held in the Second (Lewiston) Congressional district of Maine, to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Mr. Frye to the United States Senate, ex-Gov. Dingley was elected by a large majority. Charles S. Wolfe, a defeated candidate for the nomination for Stato Treasurer before tho recent Republican. Convention in Pennsylvania, has announced himself an independent candidate for the office, on tho patform “Death to Bosses,” and will stump the State in his own behalf.

FOREIGN NEWS. During the month of August of this year 21,321 emigrants left Liverpool Of these 2.967 intended to settle in British North America, while 18,072 intended to settle in the United States. A party of forty disguised men broke into the residence of three brothers named Mahoney, near Knocknagre, Ireland, and shot them in a fatal manner. The Chinese have built a telegraph line between Soochon and Shanghai, and are busily engaged in laying wires. The tenant farmers of Scotland are agitating for, a reform in the Scotch land laws. The disaffected officers of the Egyptian army have signed an act of complete submission to the Khedive. The Porte has definitely decided to send neither troops nor Commissioners to Egypt. Iroquois has won another race in England, tho St. Leger stakes at the Doncaster meeting. The King of Dahomey, in West Africa, at the head of his army of Amazons, raided two villages, and carried off the inhabitants, who are reserved for sacrifice. Three hundred Russian nobles have organized themselves under the name of the “ Sacred Legion,” and will establish a secret service in opposition to Nihilism. Four hundred Jews are on their way to this country, as their ne ,v land of promise. At Bristol, England, a vessel from Constantinople discharged a cargo of human bones for a local fertilizer company. The remains, among which »rc skills with hair still attached and limbs complete, are believed to be those of the fallen defenders of Plevna. Diphtheria is epidemic in Russia, mi some parishes all the children under 15 years have died of the dread disease. The contagion first appeared in Bessarabia in 1872. Since then it has spread over the south of Russia, from whence it has spread towards the cast and northwest. In the Province of Pultowa, which has less than 200,000 people, there have been 45,543 persons stricken by the disease, and of these 18,765 have died. The Methodist Ecumenical Conference at London recommended international arbitration as a means of settling disputes between nations, and condemned any resort to war. The question of the press in relation to the church was discussed. Delegate Marshall, of Vicksburg, Miss., recommended the establishment of a well-endowed Methodist paper which would do for the church what the great universities had done. Bishop McTyere, of Tennessee, said the religious papers were too nar-row-minded. The majority, however, seemed to favor religious newspapers. Gen. Ignatieff has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia. Another series of monster land meetings are being held in Ireland. The Methodist Ecumenical Council in London discussed the use of the newspaper for the advancement of Christianity. Some jadvocated the establishment of a well-: ndowed church paper. Others thought such journals were too narrow-minded.