Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Eut Tlie rolling mills of Graff, Bennett & Co., at Bennett's Station, near Pittsburgh, employing upward of 1,000 mnn, were destroyed by what is believed to have been an incendiary fire. The loss is $300,000, and the insurance $150,000. Col John W. Forney died of Briglit’a disease of the kidneys at his Philadelphia home. He was unconscious for two or three days preceding his demise. Col Forney had passed his 64th year. Within three years New York has doubled her commerce with Southern ports. The Savannah line alone runs two passenger rnd four freight steamers each week. The creditors’ committee of the A. W. Sprague estate have published a statement showing the total liabilities to be $8,912,872, and the assets $5,242,431. The Board of Trade of New York has adopted resolutions favoring an appropriation by Congress for the Hennepin canaL The cordage manufactory of John F. Bailey A Co., covering a square of ground in Otsego street, Philadelphia, was swept away by fire. The loss is estimated at $200,000. The frigate Constitution has been finally put out of commission at the Brooklyn navy-yard. The State Capital Mutual Relief Association of Harrisburg, a Pennsylvania graveyard insurance company, has followed the Southern Association in asking the court to order its dissolution. During the past year it has done a business of over $15,000,000. The Directors have been indicted for conspiracy. West. Ex-Congressman Henry B. Banning, died at his homo near Cincinnati, of hemorrhage caused by a.gunshot wound received during the war. A frightful accident occurred in Pfester A Vogel’s tannery, Milwaukee. Five employes took their places on the elevator, when the iron rope slipped on tho drum and the elevator descended about forty feet at a frightful rate, striking on the floor with a thud that shook the entire building. Four of the unfortunate passengers were killed, the fifth miraculously escaping. The packing house of Rose & Brothers, in Kansas City, took firo from tho bursting of a lard tank and was entirely gutted, the loss being SBO,OOO. Two men, James Walker and Thomas Bogy, were killed and three others were wounded at Deadwood, Dak. Ter., by the falling of a shelf of cement in the Esmeralda. The Indians in tho Pembina mountains are said to be starving became their supplies aro cut off by the quarantine regulations. Richards Jennings, of Austin, Nev., who killed John A. Barrett in cold blood, was taken from jail by a party of masked men, and hung from the balcony. . The Garfield Monument Committee of Cleveland announces that residents of that city have subscribed over $51,000, and $25,000 have been forwarded from various sections of the country. The amount desired is $250,000. Statistics show that tho total number of families burned out Ly tho terrible Michigan fires last fall was 1,147. Tho insurance on dwellings, barns, stores and shops was $632,632. Amount of relief, including monoy, clothing, agricultural implements, seed wheat, eto., so far, is placed at $500,000. Tho total loss is stated at $2,846,000, and there were destroyed 1,138 dwellings, 130 stores and offices, 38 school houses, 16 hotels, 8 churches and 28 saw mills. Col. John T. Crisp, a well-known politician of Kansas City, who is known all over the West, has been indicted by the Grand Jury for stealing turkeys from a neighbor. Col. Crißp claims the whole thing is a plot of his political enemies to prejudice the case in Texas, whore he is under indictment for murder .committed during the war, tho victim being a soldier of Crisp’s command. Tho affair causes a great deal of comment throughout tho county. Mouth. Frank Hall was hanged at Little Rock for the murder of Paul ganders, a negro. A Nashville (Tenn.) lawyer, J. J: Vertrees, shot State Senator Smith, because the latter had called him a liar in tho Senate. Leonidas Triplett and Arthur Davis had a fight at Warrenton, Va. Davis got Triplett’s head under his arm and deliberately blew out his brains. Oscar A. Rice, the defaulting revenue collector at New Orleans, pleaded guilty to embezzlement. He was lined $10,304 and sentenced to two years at hard labor. Near Ei Paso, Texas, a band of robbers entered the express car of a Southern Pacific train, disabled Messenger Banvard with the butt of a revolver, and took from his safe $3,000 in cash and $12,000 in valuable property. As the train slowed up at Rogers Station the thieves dropped off, and doubtless crossed into Mexico. Dallas, Texas, is hereafter to be the headquarters of Gould’s system of Texas railroads. WASHINGTON NOTES. Old members of the House predict that the present session will be an extremely ong and interesting one. Charles W. Clisbee, of Michigan, whose sonorous voice filled the Exposition building at the Chicago Convention during tho monotonous roll-calls, has been appointed Reading Clerk of the House of Representatives. Warden Crocker, of the Washington Jail has received letters asking him to remove othor prisoners from the wing of the jail, where Guiteau is confined, as an attempt will be made to blow him up with dynamite. Senator David Davis has received a vast number of letters and telegrams complimenting him upon-tho patriotic sentiments and faultless diction of his recent address. George Scoville gave a lecture in Washington to a small but sympathetic audience, who parsed resolutions approving his course. He pictured the desire for vengeance permeating tho country ; called attention to the constant danger of tho assassination of Guiteau, and declared that the question of capital punishment was itself on trial. He said the prisoner’s mail was filled with threatening letters, and that no Christian minister had called upon him as a sane murderer to urge repentance. Mr. Hatton, acting Postmaster General, has ruled that no supplements containing advertisements will be admitted to second-class rates unless the publisher swears that the advertisers paid the same rates in the supplement as were charged in the main sheet Gen. U. S. Grant and Mrs. Grant will be the guests of the President during the month of January. Postmaster General James has sent his resignation to the President. He asks that the resignation take effeot about the

Ist of January, and assigns Important and pressing private business as the reason for the resignation. The Secretary of tho Interior decides that the mere filing of a declaratory statement by an alleged pre-empter cannot be considered as, of itself, sufficient to defeat an entry prior to the settler who has failed to offer his final proof within the statutory period, but who, in all other resoects, has complied with the requirements of the law. The Mississippi River Commission has made public its annual report, telling in detail the work accomplished this year. An appropriation of $200,000 for next year is recommended. POLITICAL POINTS. Samuel A. Green, Republican, was elected Mayor of Boston, over Albert Palmer, Democrat, by 582 majority in a vote of 37,000. H. H. Riddleberger was nominated sor United States Senator by tho caucus of Readjuster members of the General Assembly, at Richmond, Ya. Ho received the unanimous vote. The Southern Republican Represcnta- * tives in Congrees aro said to bo “ solid ” for Frank Hatton, now Assistant Postmaster General, for tho Postmaster Generalship. Senator Cockrell, of tlie sub-committee appointed to investigate the manner of the expenditure of the contingent funds, says that the investigation will bo thorough, sweeping and impartial; that every fraud discovered will be made public, no malter whom it may hurt.

FOREIGN NEWS. An explosion occurred in a Belgian colliery, causing the death of sixty-six persons. in Silesia a cattle plague, said to resemblo that which recently raged in this country, has made its appearauco. A requiem, mass for the repose of the souls of the victims by the awful catastrophe at tho Ring Theater was solemnized at the Cathedral of Saint Stephen, Vienna. This magnificent Gothic building, one of the largest and grandest churches in the world, was filled with members of the imperial family, court officials and members of the Legislature. The congregation was largely composed of tho bereaved, whoso sobs echoed tho solemn chant of the officiating clergy. Gen. J. 11. Martindale, formerly Attorney General of New York, died recently at N ce, Franco. There was an earthquake on the north shore of the Island of Arran (in the Firth of Clydo, Scotland), which threw thousands of fish dead upon the beach. Italy is the only European power which refuses to acquiesce in the French occupation of Tunis. The Ministry has indorsed tho action of the Consul in protesting against the occupation, and has dispatched au Italian man-of-war to Susa. There is alarm in Dublin over tho disappearance of Lieut. Viscount Boyle, eldest son of Earl Shaunon. Kelly, the Town Counselor of Tralee, has been arrested for intimidation. The Dublin police seized the office of United Ireland, the Land-League paper, carted away 4,200 copies of tho paper to the Castle, and arrested the editor and clerk. Mrs. Langtry the English professiona beauty, made her debut in the Ilavmarket Theater in London and astonished tho oldest playgoers by her ease and grace. LATER NEWS ITEMS. Pierola has resigned the Presidency of Peru and embarked for Europe. Sarduy, the noted Cuban bandit, surrendered, unconditionally, with thirteen followers. Ireland is in a ferment. The LandLeaguers seem to bo unsubdued. United Ireland, the Land-League organ, has been suppressed in Dublin and Cork, and other parts of Ireland, but it threatens to come to life in London, and, if suppressed in London, the owners say it will be published from Paris. The Democratic police at the national Capitol havo been replaced by Republicans, W. S. Kearney, a former member of the Illinois Legislature, getting the Lieutenancy on the Senate side. In a lecture at Buffalo, George William Curtis welcomed President Arthur into the civil-service reform ranks, and tiusts that he will carry out the declarations of his message. Forty saloon-keepers of Omaha have taken out licenses at SI,OOO each under the Slocomb law. The Railroad Commissioners of Missouri havo sent a letter to Manager Gault, of tho Wabash road, declaring the center span of the St. Charles bridge unfit for the transportation of passengers with reasonable safety, and requiring its reconstruction of wroughtiron or steel. An assignment has been made by R. W. L. Basin A Co., manufacturers of fertilizers at Baltimore, whose liabilities are estimated at $500,000. G. Hos heimer A Son, clothiers at Norfolk, Va., have failed for $75,000. Mark Twain failed in his efforts to obtain a Canadian copyright, on the strength of a domicile in Montreal for two weeks. The authorities at Ottawa will decide that if he obtains a copyright in Great Britain it will extend to Canada. The total values of exports of domestic provisions for the eleven months ending Nov. 30 were $210,318,432, as compared with $257,231,045 for the corresponding eleven months of last year.

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