Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. KmL W. M. Brown, of Masseville, Ohio, while riding on a train near Erie, Pa., drank from a wine flask handed bitn by two flashy yon ng men. When he was sufficiently drowsy they chloroformed him in a car full of passengers. They then escorted him to the platform for fresh air, and removed from his waist a belt containing, $8,050. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has withdrawn from the editorial management of the Christian Union. Pink-eye and pleuro-pneumonia are all the rage among the cattle and horses ic Philadelphia and vicini.y. The temperature on Mount Washington was 3 degrees below zero. Fire destroyed the large dry-goods ’store of Weschler Abraham, in Brooklyn N. Y., involving a loss of $250,000. WMt. Charles Jefferson, a convicted negrc murderer, obtained a new trial at Independence, Mo., by claiming that willful discrimination was made against the colored race in the seleclioE of grand and petit jurors, in violation of ths Federal constitution and State statutes. A saloon quarrel in St. Louis resulted in the killing of Tim Moran and the wounding of Ed Hardy by a brakeman named Joht Mahoney. Paul Boyton reached Yankton in thirty-five days from the head of the Yellowstone. J. K. Fisher, a stock-broker of Chicago, was married to Miss Annie Forsythe, anc set out for San Francisco on a tour of the globe. James E. Anderson, who became notorious in the Tilden campaign in Loui-dana, and has lately been editing a daily journal in Eureka, Nev., was beaten over the head with a revolver by W. J. Penrose, and badly injured. Senator David Davis told Acting Secretary of the Senate Shobatjthat he might be assured of his support; that'beshould certainly not vote to displace him. Mr. Shobei can therefore retain his place until there is s change in the political complexion of the Senate. Twenty thousand kegs of beer were spoiled at Aurora, Ind., by the burning of thf Crescent Brewery Company’s lager factory. Loss, $175,000 ; insurance, $55,000. Gen. A. B. Nettleton has become sole owner of the Tribune, of Minneapolis, and David Blakely takes charge of the Minneapolis office of the Pioneer-Press. Jacob Kitt died at Wabash, Ind., aged 102 years. He was born in Yorktown, Pa. The Mississippi River Improvement Convention commenced its cession in St. Louis on the 26th ult. Mr. Michael McEnnis, President of the Merchants’ Exchange and of the local Executive Committee, called the meeting to order, and, after the call had been read, delivered the opening address. ■ In it he eloquently stated the need of united action' and of energetic measures to induce the Government to improve the great river, not in parts, but as a whole and at one and the same time. The September fires in Huron ami Banilac counties, Michigan, burned out 2,05£ families, comprising 9,591 individuals, and their loss of property is estimated at $1,583,081. Thp losses on churches, schools, manufacturing establishments, etc., are estimated at $320,000. The aid received in money and it goods aggregates $1,005,632. Four cowboys for several days made themselves obnoxious at Tombstone, Arizona. The City Marshal demanded their arms, whet a street battle commenced, in which three oi the ruffians were killed and the other wounded in the shoulder. The Fire Relief Commission of Michigan had on hand, on the 28th ult., $175,000, with liabilities of $30,000. It was believed that $250,000 would tide the unfortunates over tc May. The Peoria (Hl.) Sugar Refinery has been destroyed by fire. The fire started in the drying-room, a wooden structure at the corner of the main building, which was a seven-story brick, and in one hour the entire pile was a mass of ruins. Loss $500,000. Two hundred And fifty men were thrown out of employment.

Boutn. In Richmond, Va., in the coremonies of the Centennial, the Declaration of Independence was read for tile first time since the days of secession. The Governor and troops of Connecticut, who were present at Yorktown, were entertained at Charleston, where business was suspended and a military review held. While riding together into Baird, Texas, James Ivy killed his cousin, George Wilford, for reflecting on tho character of his wife. The Connecticut regiment which participated in the celebration at Yorktown was escorted through the streets of Columbia, 8. C., by local militia, and given an artillery salute. The officers were banqueted at the City Hall. In a circus riot at Cartersville, Ga., a negro was killed and two circus employes shot. A bear and a lion escaped from their cages. Two highly respectable citizens of Montgomery, Ala., named Thomas J. Cox and J. W. Crawford, mortally wounded each other in an affray. Richmond closed its centennial celebration by a procession of troops and citizens which occupied two hours in passing. The British flag was hoisted owr the Capitol and saluted. The demand for Confederate bonds at Richmond, Va., still continues. A banking house has purchased about $5,000,000 worth, paying $3 to $5 per SI,OOO. Nine Governors attended the International Cotton Exposition at Atlanta. Gov. Colquitt delivered a speech of welcome, and several of the visiting Governors responded. A reception was given to the Gubernatorial visitors in the evening, when Gov. Colquitt and Gov. Bigelow wore cotton suits made from seed rriion picked at 7 o’clock in the morning.

WASHINGTON NOTES. In the Criminal Court at Washington Capt. Howgate pleaded not guilty to the charge of embezzlement, and was committed to jail in default of $30,000 bail. The District Attorney stated that an indictment for forgery had also been found against him. The reductions on the star and steamboat postal routes have nearly reached their limit, the saving effected being $525,000 per quarter. * Judge Cox has assigned Leigh Robinson to duty as associate counsel in the Guiteau case. The committee charged with the work of raising funds for the Garfield Memorial Hospital at Washington appeals to all pastors (o deliver discourses and take collections Noy,

5 and 6, and forward the amounts realized to the Treasurer of the United States. A Washington dispatch of Oct. 24 says that Assistant Postmaster General Tyner does not intend to resign until he has fully explained to the President how much abused he is; how he is the victim of circumstances over which he had no control, and how generally he is misunderstood by the public at large. Mr. Tyner says about his much-talked-of report on star-route frauds that he did not suppress that report; that, on the contrary, he presented it to Postmaster General Key, who told him to lock it up, as its publication might injure the party; that President Hayes was fully aware of its existence, but did not wish it published for the same reasoni which Judge Key put forward. Mr. Tyner alleges, moreover, that he presented the report to Postmaster General James soon after that gentleman’s appointment as head of the Postoffice Department, and that CoL James has based al his proceedings against the star-route ring on the report. The German citizens of Washington gave the Von Steubens a banquet, at which an unpublished letter from Gen. Washington tc Baron von Steuben was read. President Arthur escorted General and Mrs Grant to the Baltimore and Potomac depot when they took the train for New York. Gen. Walker has resigned the superintendency of the census. Guiteau’s attorneys have notified the District Attorney at Washington of their intention to ask a postponement of the trial tc November 21. President Arthur has accepted the resignation of First Assistant Postmaster General Tyner. Scoville, Guiteau’s counsel, stated in the Washington Criminal Court that he would not raise the question of the jurisdiction of the court, and Judge Cox postponed the trial until Nov. 14. It is believed that Scoville waived the point of jurisdiction in order that he maj raise it hereafter, in case of Guiteau’s conviction. He thinks if, after the trial, it is decided that the court had no jurisdiction Guiteau cannot again be tri6d for the offense, and maj thus escane the punishment of his crime. It is definitely decided that the Presii dent will not nominate an Attome yGenera until December. During the last fiscal year there were 461 persons arrested for tampering with the United States mails. Of these 110 persons were in the employ of the Postoflice Department. Frank Hatton, First Assistant Postmaster General, is Postmaster at Burlington, lowa, and proprietor of the Hawk-Eye. Ho was born at Cadiz, Ohio, in 1845, and enlisted at the age of 17.

POLITICAL POINTS. A Washington dispatch of Oct. 25 says: “Edwin D. Morgan has declined the treasury portfolio. Judge Folger is holding a consultation with several of the President’s personal friends in New York. Attorney General MacVeagh has practically vacated fail position by leaving for Philadelphia. The President notified Cabinet members that he was too busy to see them, and informed a Senator that he would not prolong the session beyond Thursday evening.” The Minnesota Legislature balloted for Senator, Windom receiving twenty-nine votes out of thirty-eight in the Senate and eighty-six out of 100 in the House. Ex-Gov. Morgan, it is said, was anxious to accept the Secretaryship of the Treasury, but his wife and his physicians strenuously opposed his accepting, and they succeeded in getting him to decline. The facts in the case of ex-Gov. Morgan’s declination of the position of Secretary of the Treasury are stated to be that, after he had accepted the offer of the President, he consulted physicians and his wife, and they, in view of his advanced years and the responsibilities of the office, persuaded him to decline. Following is the official vote cast for Governor of Ohio at the late election : Foster, Republican, 312,735; Bookwaiter, Democrat, 288,426; Ludlow, Prohibition, 16,597, and Seitz, Greenback, 6,330. President Arthur, in a talk with Gov. Foster, of Ohio, declared that he had no enemies to punish, and intended to take the advice of Senators and members of the House relative to Government appointments, thus making them responsible for the worth of nominees.

FOREIGN NEWS. The steamer Clan Macduff, from Liverpool for Bombay, foundered off the Welsh coast. Two boat-loads managed to make their way to tho shore, but tho others, thirty-six in number, are supposed to have perished. The chief of the Tunisian insurgents has written the Bey of Tunis that the religion of the natives will not allow them to tolerate the cession of the country to the French. A truly patriotic dogma. On conviction of perjury, Miss Mabel Wilberforce, of London, was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for nine months. Several arrests under the Coercion act

were made in Ireland a few days ago, including that of a woman for keeping a “No-rent” manifesto in her window, and of Dr. Kinny, of the Executive Committee of the Land League, for intimidating tenants. Seven of the political prisoners will be transferred from Kilmainham to other jails, but Sexton and O’Bnen are not robust enough to be removed. Two Arabs caught destroying a French railway in Tunis were shot and their heads ex’ posed to the public. Keene’s Foxhall, ridden by a thirdrate jockey, won the Cambridgeshire stakes at Newmarxet, in which thirty-two horses started. In a fire which destroyed two Italian villages, Claudes and Valletta, three persons were killed, eleven wounded, and forty families rendered homeless. An interesting phase of the Catholic question in Germany arose in Breslau. In that city the Catholic citizens proposed to translate the remains of Bishop Foerster with grand ceremonies and a procession. The police prohibited the procession, and the churchmen appealed to the Emperor, who first approved the prohibition, but ultimately granted Lis permission. This was a question of Liberal vs. Ultramontane, in which the latter won. Baron James Rothschild is dead. The Interoceanic Canal Company have purchased the Grand Hotel ■at Panama, for $206,000, and will convert it into offices of the company. The French newspaper at Alexandria, Egypte, was suppressed for stating that Osman, the founder of the Ottoman empire, was the son of a false prophet. The meeting between the Czar and the Emperor of Austria, which was to have taken place Oct 26, at Krzesnovice, was indefinitely postponed on account of the massing of Nihilists at that place. The English ne vspapers say that the flight of some of Parnell’s lieutenants has convinced Irishmen that these lieutenants were not honest. They also charge that many of the lieutenants sought positions from the Government for their friends, and in some instances for themselves. The St. Gothard tunnel, which pierces the Alpine range at Mont St. Gothard, is to be opened for traffic Jan. 1,1882. The Russian Government, which has failed to protect its Jewish citizens, is now concerned that so many of them are emigrating to America. The Goverment will make another effort to settle them as farmers in the Provinces of Kherson and Ekateririoslav. Mr. Gladstone, speaking at Knowsley in response to a congratulatory address, said that he considered the “no rent” policy sheer rapine, and that the Land bill was not the outcome of the League agitation. The people who had been urged to pay no rent were all paying up, and the Land Court was working well. The elections in Berlin resulted in victories for the Liberals in five districts.

LATER NEWS ITEMS. The steamer Jennie Gilchrist, a sternwheol packet, left for LeClaire, fifteen miles above Davenport, lowa, with twenty-eight persons on board. She had in tow two barges heavily loaded with freight, and was struggling hard against the current. When about sixty rods above the draw of the Government bridge at Davenport, for some reason unknown, her engine refused to work. The boat immediately swung around and drifted helplessly against the bridge, was careened, filled with water, and the lights extinguished. The terrible screams of the passengers attracted the attention of the guard at the draw-bridge, who sounded the distress-signal. Skiffs were immediately sent out, and succeeded in picking up several passengers and the crew. Six or seven persons are known to have found a watery grave. In the Criminal Court at Washington Ch pt. Howgate pleaded not guilty to the indictment for forgery, and was formally surrendered by his bondsmen. In the annual report of Gen. Benet, Chief of Ordnance, U. S. A., lie states that $1,637,893.79 were expended, and wants the appropriation increased this year. He thinks the well being and efficiency of the army requires the retirement of officers at the age of 62. Six firemen at Danville, Hl., have been arrested for over three months, their evident object being the creation of a paid department. S ife-blowers took nearly $2,000 from the store of Brill <t Connelly, at Lockport, Ind., and sot fire to the building to conceal their crime. At Graham, near Dallas, Texas, the hanging of a man drew ah audience of thousands of people, who came from miles around with their lunch baskets, as if for a picnic. Allen Johnson, colored, was hanged at Charlotte, N. C., for the murder of a blind negro, named Crump, for a few cents. The safe in the grocery store of Abra ham Greenwood, at Hulton, Pa., was blown open and robbed of $3,000. Ezra P. Cook and wife, old people of Bellows Falls, Vt., were found dead in their house. The husband was evidently poisoned by his wife, who then killed herself with a kn-fe. She had been partially insane. As the Treasurer of Beaver county, Pa., Mr. William Dawson, was opening his safe, the other morning, he was knocked down by two unknown men, who took from the safe $13,000 of the county funds. The robbers had during the night conceited themselves in the court in which the safe was situated. The Pennsylvania road has put on a lightning train between New York and Chicago,, composed entirely of Pullman coaches, making no stops at meal stations, but furnishing al passengers with dining facilities. Along the route tickets will only be sold at Harrisburg Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne, the extra fare being $8 for the through trip. The train will leave New York at 8 a. m. and reach Chicago at 9:40 a. m. As soon as the, announcement of the death of President G irfield reached the coast cities of South America there were solemn demonstrations of sorrow and sympathy there. There was a funeral procession in Buenos Ayres in which 10,000 people participated. The German elect ions proved that the anti-Semitic parly is not the popular one. Henrici, a notorious Jew baiter, only received 800 votes out of 41,00 ’. nd Prof. Vircnow, a Progressist leader, deb ated the Rev. Chaplain Stoecker by a majiirv of 17,500. 'The British chanel squadron has left Gibraltar for Ireland. O'Sullivan, a leader of the Cork branch league, has been arrested for inciting tenants not to pay rent An armed band visited houses at Carrick-on-Shannon, threatening rent-payers with death. All the Ladies’ Leagues are to be suppressed. A parcel of nine pounds of dynamite was found in a train en route for Drogheda. Hbnri Ward Beecher says that God keeps a list of rich irien who cheat their poor neighbors.