Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. XCMt. At Rondout, N. Y., two men were killed and two were seriously injured by the caving in of a quarry. The death is announced of Dr. John Bacon, for many years Professor of Chemistry at Harvard College. Went, Wm. Redlieffer, partner in a wholesale grocory.-house at Kansas City, killed him. self with a revolver rather tfcan be placed in a lunatic asylum. The propellers Lake Erie and Northern Queen were wrecked in Manistique bay, on tho north shore of Lake Michigan. The crews had to walk a hundred miles over rough country to get to a railroad. The Chicago Times has made a compilation of statistics of tho lumber product ol the Northwestern States, from which it appears that the amount manufactured was one-eighth greater than last year, and that Chicago handles one-third of the total production. * Bouth. James P. Holland, an accessory in the murder of Burgess Jones, was lynched at Dardanelle, Ark., the officers making no resistance. Three Sons of J. P. Walker/ of Russell county, Ala., while traveling toward Arkansas with an acquaintance, were murdered near Aberdeen, Miss. The supposed perpetrator of the butchery was caught at Corinth. The heads of the murdered youths were split open with an ax while they were sleeping in the opou air. A fire at Augusta, Ark., destroyed over forty business houses, beside the schools and churches, inflicting a loss of $300,000. Several persons were injured by flames or falling walls. Incendiaries burned the Court Houso at Decatur, Tex., destroying all its records, and inflicting a loss of if 155,000. By the explosion of the boiler of the Yazoo oil works, at Yazoo, MiRS., seven colored men were badly injured, four it is feared fatally. It generally takes but one man to rob the mail coach in Texas. In the latest instance the solitary highwayman, who plundered the Laverna stage, was well repaid by a number of valuable parcels in the mail bag. Two negroes, Jordan and Craig, who murdered Robert Catlin, near Hunts field. Miss., confessed the crime, and were hanged by a mob. John Bodio and Sbadrach Hester, both colored, charged with the murder of T. M. Lynch, near Raleigh, N. C., wero taken from jail by a masked party of 100 men, and hanged. The victims made a full confession of their crime. WASHINGTON NOTES. During* tho twelve months ending Oot, 81, 1881, tho value of goods exported from tho United States exceeded the value of tho goods imported by $217,887,358, ns compared with an excess of $155,576,327 during the previous twelve months. The public debt, less the cash in the treasury, is $1,778,285,340. The decrease for November was $7,249,126. The coin certificates in circulation amount to $71,871,750. A marble tablet has been placed in the ladies’ waiting-room of the Baltimore and Potomac depot at Washington, to mark tho spot where President Garfield was shot.

The tender of support made by Minister Hurlbut to President Calderon, of Peru, causes a vast amount of gossip at Washington. Should it be decided to sustain our Minister to Peru in his radical course, some use may be found for seven American war vessels now cruising in that region. The State Department has sent out J. A. Trescott and Walker Blaine to investigate tho complication. POLITICAL POINTS. Speaker Randall says that a 3-per-ccnt. refunding bill will shortly bo introduced into tho House. The Democratic members of the Kentucky Legislature held a Senatorial caucus, at which there was no candidate but Mr. Beck, who returned thanks for the honor of his selection.

FOREIGN NEWS. As Sara Bernhardt was driving home from the theater at Odessa, Russia, hor carriage was stoned by an anti-Jewish mob, who attacked the hotel and finally stopped the performance at the theater. Several outrages have occurred in the County Wexfprd, Ireland, which, until recently, was quiet and orderly. A dispatch from St. Petersburg announces that last year a Jewish resident war denounced by some enemy and taken into custody, when it was soon discovered that he was a leader among the Nihilists. He turned traitor to his comrades on condition that he be pardoni d, that bis death be proclaimed, and that he he given 20,000 rubles to leave for the United States. He pointed out over sixty of bis accomplices, two of whom were hanged last month. The Nihilists have ODly recently discovered that the Hebrew’s funeral was a sham, and that he has escaped their vengeance. A steamer for South Africa foundered in St. George’s ohannel during a heavy gale and |en persons were drowned.

.Owing to recent developments in Ireland, Secretary Forster has decided to remain in Dublin throughout the winter. Lefroy, who murdered a London merchant in a railway coach, was executed at London. Marwood, the famous hangman, used a scaffold of a new pattern, by which the condemned man stood on a level wdh the spectators, on a hinged trap over a cavity fifteen feet deep. Over 300 fishing-boats were wrecked off the Scotch coast during the recent gales, and the nets of the fishermen were washed ashhre. Bismarck stated yesterday in the Reichstag that the German Government contemplated the appointment of a representative to the Vatican should tne interest of the state require it, and, in reply to the taunts of the Liberals, said that he had been forced into his present position because his former allies had deserted him. Opposition to rent-paying in Ireland seems to be on the increase. Three tenants of the Earl of Kenmare, who paid rent, have been shot at and wounded. One thousand tenants in Roscommon refuse to pay rent. The strike against rent in Limerick county' is said to be general, and the Sheriff of that connty holds writs for 300 evictions. The Ladies’ Laud League is being extended, notwithstanding police surveil lance. The Reichstag administered a very severe rebuff to Bismarck by tho rejection of the item for the expenses of the Economical Council by a vote of 169 to 83. Bismarck said the council was absolutely necessary, and appealed to the Reichstag to make tho appropriation. Two hundred cattle on a grazing farm at Carrowgull, Ireland, havo been mutilated. A farmer nnmod Hogan was shot near Tipperary for paying rent, and another near Angharas was assaulted by armed men and given twelve wounds. The corpse of the Earl of Crawford, who died a year ago, lias been stolen from the mortuary chapel at Aberdeen, Scotland.