Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Ea»L Col. J. Howard Welles, an elderly gentleman of high social standing in New York, has been arrested for writing threatening letters to Jay Gould, the well-known capitalist, in which he stated that God bad commissioned him to assassinate Gould. It is believed that the writer is insane. The Massachusetts Paper Company "has failed, with liabilities of $300,000. A court-martial has been ordered at Trenton, N. J., to investigate tho charge that Gen. Madison Drake, of the State miiitia, said Guiteau did right in killing Garfield. A skiff ferry-boat crossing the Hudson from Troy to Fort Schuyler was swamped by the swell from three propellers. Of nineteen persons on board, seven were drowned and three are missing. C. A. Claflin, a boot manufacturer of Hopkinton, Mass., having liabilities of sllO,000, has called a meeting of his creditors. It is discovered that J. Howard Welles, Jay Gould’s blackmailer, is a commissary who defrauded the Government of about $2,000,000 and then went to Europe during the war. The commission of militia officers of Massachusetts sent to Richmond to investigate the outrageous acts of the Ninth regiment on the, trip to Yorktown find tne charges against ithat regiment fully sustained. Gov. Long has ordered Col. Strachan to discover and discharge the guilty men within thirty days, or the regiment will be disbanded. The boarding-house keepers of New England met m convention at Boston, to organize for protection against beats. Ade’.ina Patti gave a concert in New York for the benefit of the Michigan sufferers, which realized $5,000 after all expenses were paid. West. At Scandia, Kan,, Dr. W. H. Woodward w as mortally shot by J. C. Humphrey, editor of the Telescope. The affray grew out of a local political contest. By the explosion of a battery of ten boilers in a sawmill at Zilwaukee,. Mich., four men were killed. There were no others in the mill at the time. Low water was the cause of the explosion, and the damage to the property amounts to about $25,000. The genial Nat, Goodwin and his uprightly wife, Eliza Weathersby, are the attractions at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, this week. The “ Member from Slocum,” an amusing comedy in three acts, adapted from the French, is the play in which thejrappear, and it constitutes a pleasing entertainment. They are supported by a first-class company. Small-pox prevails at South Bend, Ind., to a considerable extent, and many people are alarmed. The local pest-house is full, anil vaccination is being put in practice. There are twenty cases at Fort Wayne. Dubuque has a small-pox scare, and half the city has been vaccinated within a few days. 8. Loewenthal & Co., wholesale and retail dry-goods dealers, at Leavenworth, Kan., have suspended payment. A shock of earthquake at San Jose, Cal., was violent enough to upset a pile of sacked wheat in the railroad depot. The house of Jesse Baldwin, near Youngstown, Ohio, was entered at an early hour in tho morning by burglars, who took therefrom between $30,000 and $4.0,000 in gold. Baldwin is somewhat of a crank, and recently exchanged some of his Government bonds for coin. He is probably sorry now. ~,The burglars, five m number, belong to a gang who have been operating rather extensively in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. Tho Clark House, the principal hotel at Duluth, was swept away by fire, causing a loss of $50,000. A new kind of dattle disease, so far attended in each case with fatal results, has ap neared in Dubuque county, lowa. Western distillers held a meeting in Chicago, and formed the Western Export Association, tho object being to export the surplus of the liquor distilled. South. Atlanta is to be discontinued as a military post. The Fifth Artillery, which for two years has been stationed at McPherson barracks, took its departure the other day for New York, amid rounds of cheers. Through the carelessness of a second in loading a shotgun, a mock duel between Virginia negroes resulted in the death of John Jasper, of Norfolk county. Miss Lillian Duer, who shot Ella Hearn because tho latter wouldn’t marry her, has ju<t become the bride of a young man at Wilmington, Del. Gen. Sherman appeared as a Mexican veteran at the exposition at Atlanta, a city which seventeen years ago was reduced to ashes by his orders, and was most enthusiastically received. A gang of moonshiners, convicted in the United States court at Little Rock, were sentenced to fines and terms of imprisonment ranging from S3OO to SSOO, and from one to three years. Their operations dated back to 1877, and they were only captured after a pitched battle. James L. Ridgely, who since 1840 has been Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of the United States, died in Baltimore.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The President has given Frank Hatton’s postoffice at Burlington, lowa, to Jehu L. Waite. O. A. Hadley, Postmaster at Little Rock, has been suspended for dishonesty, and Inspector Cameron is in charge of the office. President Arthur has appointed Theodore 8. Case Postmaster at Kansas City, and William P. Jones at Nashville, Tenn. It is- said that an additional $40,000 has been found in Capt. Howgate’s grand totfJ of embezzlement, and he is to be indicted bi the Grand Jury. About 400 Jews, who fled from Russia to Spain last summer, arrived in New York. They are hardy agriculturists, and desire to settle in Louisiana or Texas. H. V. Redfield, the well-known newspaper correspondent, died at Washington of hemorrhage of the lungs. Secretary Folger assumed charge oi the Treasury Department on the 14th inst. The President accepted the resignation of Attorney General MacVeagh. It is reprrted that George C. Gorham will bo tendered tbe Assistant Secretaryship of tho Treasury, and that .Senator MaLono will bo offered a scat in the Cabinet. The Apportionment act passed by the Legislature of Minnesota provides for five Congressmen, and puts Minneapolis and St Paul in the same district

Cabinet gossip at Washington places Frelinghuysen in the State Department., Gen. Beale at the head of the navy, Timothy O. Howe in the Attorney General’s office, and exSenator Chaffee in the Interior Department. Robert T. Lincoln is to remain a member of the Cabinet, and Postmaster General James will finish the year.

FOREIGN NEWS. Snow in Central Russia impedes railway traffic, and prevents v’-s sowing of winter wheat. Forty persons were killed and fortyone wounded by an explosion of gas in a sulphur mine at Gessolungo, near Catanicetta, Italy. The cholera at Mecca swept away 884 pilgrims in one day. Au Irish farmer in County Kerry was dragged from his bed by a band of armed men, and, when he admitted having paid his rent, ho was fired at five, times, being severely wounded. A land-owner named Ourtin waa taken from his house at Mount Mary, beaten, and compelled to stop proceedings for the eviction of a tenant. A duel at Paris between Paul de Cassagnac and Adrien Montebello lasted twentyfive minutes. The latter, tho challenger, was wounded in the right arm. Diphtheria, scarlet fever and smallpox are creating great havoc in Central and Southern Russia, cutting off thousands. The ravages of the diseases are greater than any hitherto known. The experience of laud agents is that tho tenants of farms in tho northern counties of Ireland are, as a rule, paying their rents, while those in southern or central counties are more or less imbued with the “no-rent” doctrine. Gen. Meares, Deputy of West Meath, was fired at from behind a hedge by two miscreants. They missed their aim. The Emperor of Germany is desirous of a reconciliation between the Catholic church and the state. The Limerick Sub-Commission of the Irish Land Court has reduced the yearly rent of one farm from $3lO to $2lO, of another from S2OO to $125, and of a third from $245 to $142.50. ' • Gambetta has issued a note to the representatives of France in foreign countries assuring them that the change in the Ministry will not modify tho pacific tendency of France’s foreign policy. Cholera is raging in Arabia. Over 500 persons are dying daily in Mecca from the disease. Steamers from Djiddah refuse to embark returning pilgrims on account of the prevalence of the disease. Mr. John Walter, publisher of the London Times, who was recently traveling in the United States, is now giving his countrymen the whole truth about Uncle Sam’s farms. “ Apy Englishman,” he said, “who is a good judge of land, steady and industrious, might be certain of becoming wealthy and prosperous before he was 50 years old.” The native chiefs in the Transvaal have, risen against the Boers, and the whites aie floi.ing. (Some Irish miscreant cut off the tails

of over 100 cattle belonging to a farmer near Roscommon. The Nihilists have issued another number of their newspaper in St. Petersburg, in which tho assassination of President Garfield is condemned in the very strongest language, and the article was inclosed in motiving lines. Emperor William found himself unable to open the German Reichstag in person, and his speech was read by Bismarck. Its leading sentiment is a desire to bequeath to the fatherland new and lasting guarantees for continuous peace.