Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1881 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Fenian dynamite plot, according to a Philadelphia dispatch, has been thoroughly unraveled by the Secret Service Bureau of the United States. It is said to be true that the scheme was organized to cheat the British Government out of the rewards to be offered. Peter H. Foye, a saloon-keeper of Philadelphia, caused the manufacture of the infernal machines and turned them over to O’Donovan Rossa. Foye then began negotiations with the British Consul at New York, and received $lO,000 for information leading to the discovery made on the docks at Liverpool. He some weeks ago fled from the United States detectives at Philadelphia, and no one knows his whereabouts. , Cox, Stephens and Delaney, the Iron Mountain train robbers, pleaded guilty in the Hempstead Circuit Court, at Washington.. They were sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of seventy years each. 'The sentences are cumulative, fourteen years being the limit laid for robbery. The robbeiy occurred on the 23d of September. The were captured on the 28th and a special term of court held to try them. They have been placed in the penitentiary at Little Rock. Lieut. Bernard, pursuing the hostile Indians in Arizona, telegraphed to Gen. Wilcox, on the 7th inst., that the savages would cross the Mexican border, and that he would follow with the sole intention of punishing the murderers and robbers. The Mexican Consul at Tucson dispatched couriers to various points on the line, asking tho Mexican troops to cooperate in the pursuit. The corn corner in the Chicago market burst last week, a decline of 14 cents having taken place in seventy-two hours. The freight blockade has been lifted in consequence. * After an investigation covering several weeks, Pension Commissioner Dudley has discovered that about thirty employes of his office have been concerned in frauds which will reach into the millions.

Senator Jones has remarked to intimate friends that Wall street speculators need not look to tb» treasury to relieve the money market. Secretary Windom informed the bankers of Boston that he would not deviate from bis programme in purchasing bonds. Justice Miller has appointed an Executive Committee, with Gen. W. T. Sherman as Chairman, for the establishment in Washington ot a National and International Garfield M< morial Hospital, to the erection of which he asks popular subscriptions in any sums from not only tho people of the United States but from the world at large. A Washington dispatch says that Guiteau’s counsel, George Scoville, carried to the assassin’s cell a sensation. He left with bam some papers, including some Chicago files, which were the first papers that Guiteau has seen since ho assassinated tho President. Some of 'these papers spoke very freely of Guiteau’s crime, and of the necessity of hanging him as speedily as possible. He is reported to have been so excited by reading these papers that he has been thrown into a high fever, which still continues. The pastors of the various Protestant churches at Washington called on President Arthur and presented him with an address. President Arthur suitably responded, and conversed with the individual members of the delegation. Eight students at the Military College of Moscow, and two at St. Petersburg, have been arrested for Nihilism. A Berlin correspondent says he has a communication from St. Petersburg announcing that the headquarters of the Nihilists have been discovered and sixty arrests made. Gladstone, on appearing at Leeds, was presented with eighty-six addresses. He claimed that £100,000,090 had been lost by bad harvests. At a banquet in the evening he expressed the sentiment that, while justice to Ireland is a sacred duty, it must be accompanied by equal justice to England and Scotland. He took occasion to contrast O’Connell’s fidelity to the crown with Parnell’s hostility to everything English. The people of Newton, N. C., took from jail and lynched a man named Church, who murdered Miss Thompson last August. Ham White, a noted lone highwayman, recently arrested in New Mexico, has been sentenced to Qie penitentiary at Austin, Texas, for ninety-nine years. Several public men who called on President Arthur left with the inference that Secretary Lincoln is the ordy member of the Cabinet to be retained. There is no reason to expect that Gen. Grant or Roscoe Conkling will Le among the new ministers. So says a Washington correspondent. Two robbers known as Clark, alias “Butch,” and “Frenchy,” both formerly of the notorious Stockton gang, were lynched at Socorro, N. M. William Nicholson was lynched at Saunders, N. M., for murder.