Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. XDsuit. A supposed plot to kill ex-Senator Conkling has been discovered in New York. The extensive linaeed-oil works of Grove A Bro., on the Delaware river, below Philadelphia, valued at $130,000, were swept away bv fireThe New York Tribune says that present figures indicate that the total number of deaths in that city this year will reach 38,000, or 8,000 more than in 1880. Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske, who died »t Ithaca, N. Y., left a fortune estimated at $12,000,000. She was building a residence estimated to cost $2,000,000, intending to make it the finest in the United States. While in Euroiie last year she was married to Prof. Fiske, of Cornell University. Franklin J. Moses, formerly Governor of South Carolina, was locked up in the police headquarters at New York for swindling Wm. L. Hall out of $25. Secretary Blaine is now in Washington. A publishing house in Hartford s urging him to write a life of President Garfield, but he deems the six months allowed him a space altogether insufficient for tb« labor. West. Details of the destruction wrought by the recent storm in the Northwest prove it to have been one of the most violent visitants of the kind experienced for a long time. It originated, it seems, in Nebraska, and, taking a northeasterly course, swept over Minnesota and the western portion of Wisconsin. Id Nebraska the town of Madison, a place ol about 1,000 inhabitants, was almost completely demolished, and hundreds of its people were rendered homeless. At Stanton, Neb., t reive buildings were blown down and twenty people injured. The cyclone swept through the southern part of Minnesota, doing great damage at Owatonna and elsewhere, but happily causing no loss of life. A black cloud, the size of an eighty-acre farm, appeared on the sky, thickened, contracted and swooped down upon the earth, in myriad convolutions, the tornado that followed making a track hall a mile wide. Great damage was done in the northern part of Wisconsin, devastating a track of eighty rods in width. About a dozen persons were injured near Wautoma, and the town of Lima suffered great loss. Branches of the same storm swept through lowa, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois. A passenger train on the Fort Dodge and Des Moines road was blown over neai Farmerstown, lowa, and a numner of passengers injured. In Kansas it swept the Cottonwood and Neosho valleys, destroying property, injuring people and killing four persons neai Emporia. Maryville, Mo., felt the storm severely. At Cincinnati three smart thieves grabbed a package containing SIO,OOO m United States bonds from the President’s room of i national bank. Thay have not yet been captured.

The reports heretofore sent East from Arizona that the Indian troubles were about ■over in that Tert itory seem to have been a little premature, as the following telegrant from Tucson, date! the 3d inst., would show; “It seems that Gen. Wilcox did not reach th* Indians yesterday, but Col. Sanford, witt three companies, Capt. Bernard’s, Lieuts. Overton’s and Glass’, arrived on the ground about 11 o’clock. The Indians outnumbered the soldiers and began the fight, which continued after dark. The Indian! then continued their course south, crossing Arivapa valley, evidently trying to mak» through to the Galun mountains, but they were headed off by forces sent out from Wil cox. In the engagement one sergeant wai > killed and six privates wounded. During th< night the Indians proceeded south about sever miles, but failed to make the mountains, anc were overhauled near Hudson’s ranch, on tht open plain, where the soldiers could fight to advantage, and it is believed tbai Nachez and his whole band of Chiricahua Indians will be exterminated 01 taken prisoners. Before reaching the poiir where the battle took place yesterday, Nachez with his entire band, attacked Bartolo Seminas go’s train near Cedar Springs, killing him and Braulto Gomez, Sastenose Estrado, Demetrid Carmelo and Julian Ria j , teamsters. One man is missing. The herder escaped. Since yesterday morning up to this hour twelve citizens are known to have been killed, and six others are reported killed.” Orson Pratt, the ablest theologian in the Mormon church, has just died at Salt Lake, aged 70 years. Mary Powers, the fat woman who formerly traveled with Barnum’s circus, died at Danville, Ind., a few days ago. Central Park, in Chicago, has been reebristened, and will hereafter be called Garfield Park. While Ralph Durbin and wife, and dughter aged 19, and a Miss Buck, sister of Mrs. Durbin, and three small children were returning from church, near Danville, Ohio, they attempted to cross a stream subject to high floods. Mrs. Durbin, Miss Durbin, and Miss Buck were drowned. Mr. Durbin got out by his own effort, and Mr. James Shellenbarger rescued the children.

The grain warehouses of Chicago are chuck full, and, as they will accept no more from the railroads, the railroads refuse to take grain into Chicago from the interior. Such a condition'of things at this time in the season has never before been known. The quantity of grain in store in Chicago on the sth of October was 12,532,512 bushels, against 7,627,451 bushels in 1880. Gen. Terry has ordered three companies of the Fifth infantry to march from Fort Keogh and endeavor to avert a collision between a band of Yanktonnais and a party of 500 buffalo-hunters, engaged in slaughtering the animals for their hides. The Chicago grain firm of J. B. Lyon & Co. got badly sqzeezed in the recent wheat corner, and suspended. Liabilities, $300,000. The steamer Dell Queen was torn from her mooring at Kilbourne City, on the Wisconsin river, and canied over the dam, and four men were drowned in the stream. A remarkable disease has appeared in Platte county, Mo., which is described by some as black small-pox, and by others as the original black scourge. Its victims rot before deatn, and instances are given of their bodies falling to pieces while being prepared for burial. The Detroit Post and in an approximate computation of the losses by the recent extensive forest and farm conflagrations in Michigan, furnishes the following figures: * In Ottawa county ...g 829,42 t In Allegan county . 116,500' In Manistee county 706,600 In Huron c uuty , 553,818 In Snililac county. 140,067 Total losses..’. *2,346,413 The property destroyed is thus enumerated : Dwellings ..... ~.. 1,147 School-houses 28 Cbniches...: .../..m.v.V.<«».. 8 Hotels 12 stores and offlosf ~,, 1W

Mills:. 34 Docks 20 The insurance on oil this destroyed property is said to be only 4623,632. Representatives of the different local relief committees of Bay City, East Saginaw, Port Huron and Detroit met in the latter city and held a prolonged conference with Gov. Jerome, with the result that the Governor was unanimuously requested to appoint a State Central Belief Committee, tnrough whom, hereafter, all aid for sufferers by (he recent terrible fires should be distributed. This will simplify the work and conduce to the utmost economy in the important work, which must necessarily continue through the winter. Ex-Gov. Henry P. Baldwin heads the committee. A casket of sheet bronze, with gold mountings, was tendered by a New York company for the President’s remains. Mrs. Garfield went to Cleveland to inspect it, and ordered the transfer of the body. It is now thought that a crypt will be erected in Lake View Cemetery, and the casket exposed to view. Boutn. A lad of 9 years, residing at Gray’s Mills, Miss., had a quarrel with a girl of 2 years, and blindfolded her and threw her into a well, where she perished. An attempt to wreck a passenger train was made near Hope, Ark., the scene of the recent robbery. Ti e spikes were drawn ind the fishbars removed at a point only fifteen feet from a long trestlework. The result was :he ditching of a freight train. The Rev. Stuart Robinson, D. D., lied at Louisville, Ky., after a protracted illness. He was a native of Tyrone, Ireland, and was in 67th year at the time of his death. Dr. Robinson was for many years one of the ablest divines in Kentucky, and one of its most prominent citizens. The International Cotton Exposition at Atlanta, Ga., was formally opened on the sth inst., in the presence of 7,000 people. A white frost in the tobacco region of Virginia, on the night of the 6th inst., seriously injured the tobacco crep. The frost extended into a large section of South Carolina, destroying the late growth of cotton. A section railway tunnel in process of construction by convict labor, near Grayson, Ky., caved in and killed ton of the unfortunate workmen. Several others were injured.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Following is the regular monthly public-debt statement, issued at Washington on the Ist inst.: Six per cent, bond?, extendeds 178,055,150 Five ver cents, extended 400,860,950 Five per cent, bonds 10,829,350 l-'or.r and one-half per cent, bonds 250,000,000 Four tier cent, bonds 738,710,850 Refunding certificates 636,950 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin b0nd551,593,102,250 Matured debt 10,039,595 Legal tenderss 346,741,056 Certificates of deposit ... 8,315,000 Gold and silver certificates 69,398,830 Fractional currency 7,098,506 Total without interest. 431,553,392 Total debt’.52,034,695,237 Cash in treasury% 250,686,547 Debt less cash In trea5ury51,798,855,925 Decrease during September 17,4' , 3.641 Decrease since June3o, 1881 41,742,886 Current liabilities— Interest dne and unpaids 2,143,883 Debt on which interest has ceased 10,039,595 Interest thereon 764,590 Gold and silver certificates 69,398,830 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 8,315,000 Cash balance available Oct. 1, 1881.... 169,024,648 Total...'s 250,685,547 Available assets— Cash in treasury.s 250,686,517 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstandings 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 969,352 Interest paid by United States 51,467,272 Interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid by transportation of mails 14,486,125 By cash payments of o per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 36.325,947 Hon. John W. Foster, Minister to Russia, has tendered his resignation. Owing to the red-tape process in the transmission of orders through the War Department, the order to the arsenal commandant, at Washington, to fire daily a salute in honor of the late President Garfield, was - not received until nearly two weeks after his death. Some 200 postmasters will, it is alleged, be implicated in the star-route frauds. It is now claimed that the sum embezzled from the Government by Capt. Howgate amounts to $200,000. Coinage at the various mints for September, $7,847,300, of which $2,400,000 were in standard dollars. Capt. Howgate, arrested in August last for embezzling $40,000 of Government money while chief disbursing officer of the signal service, and who gave bail to appear for trial,-arrived in Washington last week, and was arrested on a charge of embezzling $50,000 additional.

In fixing up the Wliite House and preparing it for occupancy, one of the greatest difficulties experienced is in cleaning out the roaches and other insects. They infest the house in myriads. All kinds of roach and other insect-destroying powders are being used in the house. Commissioner Baum has decided that taxes must be paid on the capital and deposits of every person or firm doing business in stocks, bullion, exchange or promissory notes. Dr. D. G. Lamb, who performed the autopsy upon the late President, appeared before the District of Columbia Grand Jury on the 4th inst, and explained, with the aid of a diagram, the track of the wound in the President’s body. Edward L. Du Barry, a new witness, who was present at the depot and witnessed the shooting, also testified. With this witness the Grand Jury concluded their investigations. Several additional witnesses were examined, and a true bill was voted unanimously. Foreman Churchman proceeded to the office of the District Attorney and placed in Corkhill’s hands the presentment against Charles J. Guiteau for the murder of James A. Garfield, President of the United States, by wounding him with a bullet fired from a pistol in the hands of Charles J. Guiteau, at the Baltimore and Potomac depot, on the 2d of July, A. D. 1881. In the Criminal Court at Washington, on the 4th inst., Brady, French, Turner and Brown, charged with star-route frauds, made their appearance. Their counsel entered motions to quash the informations filed. The District Attorney asked that the accused first enter bail appearance. As they stepped forward to the desk Judge Cox informed them, that he would soon fix the amount of bail, and discharged each On his personal recog uizancJ. prominent men in the audience exhibited much sympathy with the accused. The Treasury tlepartinent has decided that mutilated silver coins are only worth the price of the bullion they contain, and they shall be paid for at the mints at the 'rate prevailing for silver on the day they are presented. e Tuesday 125 mail-pouches filled with from the Internal Revenub'Bureau at Washington,

The shipment was the largest ever known in the history of the bureau. There were in the pouches 13,000,000 stamps, whose face value was $2,894,000. The demand upon the Internal Revenue Bureau for tobacco stamps is unprecedented, and induces the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to think either that large traders are preparing a corner in tobacco, or that dealers generally, in view of the short crop, anticipate a very considerable rise in that article, and wish to purchase it now to hold for the increase in price. President Arthur continues to occupy the residence of Senator Jones. It is.said that, after the extra session adjourns, he will remove to and reside at the Soldiers’ Home until the White House repairs are completed. Cabinet meetings will hereafter be held on Tuesdays and Fridays. The President has- appointed Calvin G. Walker Deputy Commissioner of Pensions.

POLITICAL, POINTS. One of the flying rumors of the day is to the effect that President Arthur has tendered a Cabinet position to Judge Lapham, of New York, giving Gov. Cornell a chance to call a special session of the Legislature to elect Conkling to the Senate. It is stated, with considerable positiveness, that President Arthur has informed Postmaster General James and Secretary Hunt that he wishes them to retain their present positions, and has assured them that they may stay as long as they desire. Both gentlemen have consented to remain. Hon. Nelson W. Aldrich has been elected United States Senator from Rhode Island in place of Gen. Burnside. Ho is a member of the present House of Representatives. It is stated that ex-Senator Conkling has been offered a Cabinet position by the President, but has declined in the interest of peace and harmony.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Captain of the German schooner Phoenix reports the discovery of a new island in the South Pacific ocean a square mile in extent, and war vessels of three nations set out from Callao to investigate the claim. The British commission appointed to inquire into the Afghan campaign has discovered gross corruption in the accounts of quartermasters and commissaries. Several influential bankers have been arrested in India. The Sultan is interfering very actively in Egyptian affairs. He has sent three Commissioners to that country on various missions, and has informed the Khedive that he has done so, though he has not yet informed his Cabinet. The Sultan’s interference may lead to serious European complications. The price of Confederate bonds in the London market advanced last week, it is said, because of a committee asking holders to register the bonds, and this being taken to be a preliminary step to an appeal to some of the Legislatures of the Southern States for the redemption of part of the bonds at least. An Irish farmer, named Leary, living on the estate of Lord Kenmore, near Rathmore, was fatally shot by a band of armed men, who warned him not to pay rent. At Wadzergha, Tunis, Arabs captured the railway station, burned alive the stationmaster, who was an ex-French officer, and massacred ten of the Italian employes. The outrage is supposed to be by way of reprisal far the wholesale destruction, by Gen. Sabatier, of native orange forests* vineyards and villages. ’ j Dipththeria is causing terrible mortality in the Province ’of Orel, Russia, where 77 per cent, of the cases prove fatal. Parnell has advised Irish tenants not to appeal to the Land Commissioners appointed under the new Land bill until the working of the act has been tested. An Irish landlord, named Bingham, was ftred at by a man diSguifedf in female clothing, who escaped. A girl riding on a jauntingcar with the intended victim was wounded, i •