Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. XC*st. . Crain, Rising & Co., a prominent Boston shoe house, have failed, the liabilities being estimated at about #200,000. Alexander Boyden, the inventor o malleable iron, who for many years has been in the almshouse at Foxboro, Mass., passed away at the age of 91. William F. Weld, for many years one of the most prominent merchants of Boston, and largely interested in the Alton, Burlington and other Western railroads, died at Philadelphia. He leaves #10,000,000 to a widow and four children. He built Weld Hall at Harvard College, at a cost of #IOO,OOO. William and Addison F. Burns have beeD convicted at Clarion, Pa., on the charge of uttering forged titles to Missouri lands. The Burns brothers are said to have been the most extensive dealers in fraudulent titles in the United States, and to have amassed #BOO,OOO by the transactions Their conviction was a difficult matter, because of then wealth and social position. Col. John W. Forney died of Bright’s disease of the kidneys at bisPinladelphia home. He was unconscious for two or three days preceding his demise. CoL Forney had passed his 64th year. South.. Three men were killed and several wounded by a collision near Hallsville, Texas. Frank Hall was hanged at Little Rock for the muidar of Paul Sanders, a negro. A Nashville ( feiin.) lawyer, J. J. Yertrees, shot State Senator Smith, because tbe latter had called him a liar in the Senate. WASHINGTON NOTES. President Arthur lias moved into the White House. It is said that John Davis is to be his private secretary. The wife of John Davis, the President’s Private Secretary, is to bo the lady of the White House. Sho is a daughter of Mr. Frelinghuysen, the future Secretary of State. The Senate Committee on Elections has asked to be discharged from the consideration of the case against Senator Miller, of New York, there being no basis for the allegation of irregularity or fraud. POLITICAL POINTS. Ten changes in the clerical force of the House of Kepresentatives have been made. B. W. Austin, of Tennessee, was made deputy doorkeeper ; J. B. Popham, an activo worker for Mahone, got the superintendency of the folding-room ; B. E. Hancock, of North Carolina, was appointed Superintendent of the document-room, and George McNar was advanced to the Assistant Post mastership. On the average, there are five applicants for each of the 300 Presidential postoffices now vacant. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The propeller Jane Miller, which sailed from Owen Sound, Ont., Nov. 25, was wrecked in Colpay’s bay, with twenty-five persons on board. Gen. Hugh Judsou Kilpatrick, United States Minister to Chili, died recently at Santiago. Archdeacon Parnell, clerical Secretary, of the Episcopal Synod of Canada, is a defaulter for #12,000, and has resigned. ' The Grand Trunk managers have built six monster locomotives and imported som e English engineers, and threaten to run trains from Montreal to Chicago at the rate of sixty miles per hour, including stoppages. Hugh Hayvern, who murdered a fel-low-convict in the pemteati rv at Montreal, named William Salter, aas executed inside the prison walls on Friday. He acknowledged his guilt and was resigned to his fate. FOREIGN NEWS. A crowd at Limerick, Ireland, stoned the carriage of Mrs. Considine, on whose property evictions recentlv occurred, severely injuring her. A farmer naru'ed Rooney was brutally beaten at Athlone for paying rent. The Russian Government has appointed a commission to investigate the auti-Jewish riots. The Inspector General of Police at Dublin has advert sed for 1,000 men for the constabulary for a limited period, half the expense to be borne by the localities in which they are placed. The first steamship of a new line bearing the Chinese- flag has reached the Thames with. 3.000 tans of tea. A horrible catastrophe occurred at Vienna, the Austrian cap tal. Just before the beginning of the opera the Bing Theater took fire through the falling of » ’amp on the stage. The house was pretty Well filled at the time, and the loss of life was very great. It is believed that 300 perished. Many persons were injured in jumping from the third-story windows, and others were trampled on during the stampede from the building. The cries of the unfortunate victims were heartrending in the extreme. A.) sidosion occurred in a Belgian colliery, a using the death of eixt« -•■x persons.