Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. * £Cub At Stafford, N. H., an invalid lady, named Waldron, killed her granddaughter herself with a razor. Went. Edward Maxwell, the bandit recently captured in Nebraska, was lynched by the citizens of Durand, Wis. People from the surrounding country flocked in by squads and beard the impudent wretch confess murdering the Coleman brothers. A rope was thrown over his neck in the court-room, and he was strangled' while being hauled down the aisle and stairway to the nearest tree, where his corpse was left to dangle nearly all the afternoon. At Alta, Wis., Mrs. Verrier induced her mother and brothsr to eat poisoned soup, and both died within a few hours. At Athens* Ohio, a mob broke into the jail, overpowered the Sheriff and lynched a mulatto named Davis, who was accused of outraging an elderly white woman. While a party of young people were skating on a pond at Columbia, Mo., the ice suddenly broke, and John Gath, Theodore Murphy and Maggie Buckner, all about 16 years old and members of well-known families, were drowned. Gen. John W. Reed, an old and wealthy citizen of Kansaß City, was killed near Lee’s Summit, Mo., by falling from a caboose on the Missouri Pacific road. Lewis Raabj a farmer near Perrys-Tnu-g, Ohio, lulled his wife and himself, leaving uiiie children to charity. JSoutbu The jail at McDonough, in Henry county, Ga., was destroyed by fire, and two of the fifteen prisoners perished in the flames. The others were in a senseless oondition when rescued. Many of the citizens of McDonough were injured while attempting to save the unfortunate inmates. In presence of his wife and five children, Henderson Lasater was murdered by five masked men, who broke down the doors of his residence at .Harrison, Ark. Osborn Pitts,of Columbus, Ga., drank a quart of whisky on a wager, and survived but an hour or so. The liquor-seller was arrested for murder. Six railroad employes were killed near Savannah, Ga , by a collision between a freigh and lumber train. POLITICAL POINTS. For the vacant Congressional seat from Ithodo Island Henry J. Spooner, Republican, had 3,617 votes, against 1,116 for Henry J. Sisson, Democrat. WASHINGTON NOTES. Frederick P. Lilly, late Deputy Auditor for the Postoffice Department, was arrested «t Washington on a warrant charging him with accepting SB,OOO for securing a mail contract in Louisiana. Bill Jones was arraigned in the Police Court at Washington for firing at Guiteau and waH jailed, in default of 5,000 bail. The police failed to identify him as the man who did tlio shooting, and, whether he is or is not the wonid-be avenger, there is little likelihood of his ever being punished for the act. Publio sentiment at Washington is all on his side. The pension rolls for the month ol December foot up $7,900,000. During the ten months ending Oct. 81', 1881, 114,789 emigrants sailed from Bremen, Germany, for the United States. The Grand Jury at Washington found six indictments against Capt. Howgate for forgery, and ono for embezzlement. A Washington dispatch of Nov. 23 says: “William Jones, who attempted Guiteau’s life on Saturday, was brought from jail, and arraigned in the Police Court on the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Jones, by his counsel, waived examination, the court fixing his bond at $5,000. Messrs. E. G. Wheeler and Ebastar Aman went on his bond in the amount named, and Jones was released. He left the court and mounted his sorrel steed, riding off amid the plaudits of the crowd. So far, S6OO has boen subscribed for his defense.” Mrs. Chnstiaucy created quite a sensation in Washington by running about the streets bareheaded aud barefooted, screaming wildly and scratching her face. She was secured and conveyed to her home in a carriage. It appears that Mrs. Cbristiancy has brooded over her troubles overmuch lately, particularly since some damaging testimony was given in the divorco suit, and it is feared that the unfortunate lady has become demented. Secretary Folger has ordered a computation to ascertain at what rate the Government can advantageously purchase i}{ snd 4» per-cent bonds, instead of calling in extended percents.

FOREIGN NEWS. The new French Cabinet favors the repeal of the decree prohibiting the importation of American pork and lard. Recent arrests in Ireland nnder the Coercion act "include the Secretary of the Land League, at Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, and a solicitor in County Limerick, who had been intimidating rent-payers. French troops report a brilliant victory over the Tunisian insurgents, the ohief being captured. The iron ship Culcean, while being towed to the Clyde from Dundee, Scotland, was wrecked and seventeen persons drowned. Asiatic cholera has appeared in Northern Egypt, and, worst of all, at Alexandria, thus threatening dissemination to the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. Baroness Burdett-Coutts has resigned her half interest in the Coutts Bank to satisfy, the demands of her relatives, who have never got over her mesalliance. Instead of the half share, sho will hereafter receive an annual pension from the bank. “ I have good news for you,” said old Buyerten, to a clerk in his olTice. “ Your uncle who died last week left his Ohio farm to your cousin Beu and you get gothing, ” The clerk laughed a Jou4

laugh of joyous relief. “By George,” he said, “that takes a load off me. Uncle Ezra was so angry at me the week before he died he swore he would leave me that farm. It has two tax titles and three mortgages on it, there is a flaw in the original patent, five families are fighting for it, and there is a stranger iu possession. Ben must have made the old man awful mad somehow.” — Hawk■ Eye.