Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. EJant. By the burning of the stores, Nos. 14, 1C and 18 Crosby st reset, New York, A. & E. Wallache, dry-goods dealers, loat $250,000, and Dessor Brothers A Co., clothiers, $50,000. Dr. Hayes, the famous Arctic explorer, died suddenly in Now Yolk. John Ingram, a miner residing at Mount Union, Fa., placed a small quantity of dynamite on the stove to melt tlio ice. Almost instantly there was an explosion like an earthquake. Four children were blown to atoms, and tho father and mother were fatally injured. Rendered insane by jealousy, a German carpenter, of New York, named Menzel Felix, a confirmed invalid, beat out his wife’s brains with a mallet and killed himself with a razor. George G. Sickles, 92 years of age, a resident of Now York, with a fortune of $12,000,000, was married in that city to Mrs. Sawyer, aged 40. He is the father of Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. Judge Devens, Attorney General under President Hayes, has been appointed to Bucoeod Chief Justico Gray as head of the Supremo Court of Massachusetts. West. At Caldwell, Kan., several cow-boys raided the town, riding up and down the principal streets—hooting, yelling and firing their revolvers indiscriminately. Thoy killed Mike Meagher, ex-Mayor of the city and one of the most intrepid men on the frontier. The citizens rallied, armed themselves and pursued tho dosperadoos, killing two of thorn, the remainder escaping into the Indian Territory. Mouth. A feud in Ashley county, Ark., culminated in the assassination of Col. Edward Files, a prominent citizen. The bodies of three Mexican thieves were found hanging to a treo near Ban Antonio, Texa». They were hanged by German farmers. Gov. Churchill, of Arkansas, who was State Treasurer for tix years, is charged with a shortage of $75,000 in las accounts. A committee appointed by the Legislature lias been investigating the matter for noarly nine months. The Governor claims that he can square accounts when ho receives credit for certain bonds destroyed. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Senate Appropriations Committee, in its investigation inlotbo management of the Treasury Department by John Sboiman, took the testimony of Custodian Fitiuy last week. He stated that SBOO worth oi stationery was taken from the department to furnirh tho Sherman committee rooms in the 'last campaign, and that the lunch given at that time was paid from the treasury funds on vouchers for candles. Gen. Reynolds, of Chicago, one of the witnesses in the Guiteau case, says the assassin’s memory was something remarkable. He never knew but one man like bim, and that was R. G. Crawford, a sergeant in his regiment during the war, who is now serving under the banner of the Crescent with the title of “ Pasha.” The sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations having in charge what is known as “ the Sherman investigation’’ has decided to make its inquiry with closed doors. The police of Washington have been informed that James Uteiy left O’Neill City, Neb., with the intention of killing George Scoville, and that a crank narnod Foster had armed himself at Pittsburgh and set out to kill Guiteau. A package addressed to the assassin was opened and found to contain a piece of rope. The Washington Monument Commission will ask Congress for $200,000 to complete the work. Guiteau was called upon at the jail in Washington by his divorced wife and her husband and little girl, to say good-by. Mrs. Dunmire was affected to tears. Clark Mills and his son induced Guiteau to have his beard removed and to submit to the taking of a plaster cast of his head, Mr. Lambert Tree, father of Judga Lambert Treo, of Chicago, died at Washington at the rather advanced ago of 83. He became connected with the postal service in Washington during the administration of President Monroe, and was fifty-eight years in active service. Most of the Western Senators and It prosentatives are opposed to any measure which would interfere with the Silver act of February, 1878, and some of them go to the extent of proposing measures to further the coinage of silver and the issuance of silver c. r i.icatcs. It is not likely, however, that any of these measures will become a law, as the President will probably interpose his veto. Assistant Postmaster General Hatton has decided that advertising, insurance and other sheets of a similar character shall not b« admitted lo tho mails as second class matter. The Guiteau jurymen, in a body, attended the funeral of tho deceased wife of Mr. Hobbs, one of their number. The Legislature of Virginia elected n. H. Li Idloberger to the United States Senate. Ho goes unpledged to either party. The Navy Department thinks it impracticable to send the steamer Rogers in search of the missing crew of the Jeannette until spring. The Russian Government will be requested to aid the survivors with funds and facilities to reach home. POLITICAL POINTS. The Greenbackers in Congress are determined to join any party or element in the House that will oppose the restriction of the Mlver coinage. Representative Ladd said,

in a conversation, the other day: “If the Democrats take a sensible stand on this question they can carry the next Congress. The East as well as the West is opposed to the restriction of silver coinage and tho administration has made a big mistake in recommending it * Every Greenback member will vote against it”

TOREIGN NEWS. The rapidity with which France is increasing her armament creates some excitement in Europe, The works at St. Denis are to be doubled, and 900 new cannon have boon ordered for the navy. Tho Chambers have passed heavy appropriations for ordnance. It is reported at Berlin that another Nihilistic mine-assasßination plot has been di*covorcd at the Czar’s palace, Gatchina. Tho official list of the victims of the Vie nna theater 'horror places the number at 791, of whom 144 were legally identified, the remainder being burned beyond recognition. At Dublin the officers of the Government made an important discovery of arms, ammunition and explodentn, and a list of officers belonging to an old Fenian organization. Four persons were arrested in connection with the affair. By the bursting of a dam at Perejaux, Algeria, 400 persons were drowned. An explosion in the Orrell coal shaft, in Lancashire, England, resulted in the loss of 180 lives in that and an adjoining mine. A Cairo (Egypt) dispatch reports an insurrection in Soudan. A false prophet, with a following of 1,500 men, has put to flight the Egyptian forces of 350, and killed the Governor. The movement against the payment of rent is extending in Ireland. It is regarded in Land-League circles as a crime to apply even to the Land Court. Lists of persons suspected of having paid rent are posted on the chapels anu other places whore they are likely to bo seen. No sooner are such notices torn down by the police than they are again posted up. United Ireland, the Land-League organ, will bo published from London. The very interesting intelligence comes by way of St. Petersburg and London of the discovery of the greater portion of the crew of (he steamer Jeannetto, which sailed from San Francisco two years and * half ago upon an Arctic exploring expedition. It appears that on tho 14th of September some natives of Oulonov, near Cape Barhav, in Northern Siberia, discovered a boat containing eleven men of the Jeannette’s crew, who had made their way in an open boat from the Jeannetto, which was crushed in the ioe on tho 23d of last June in latitude 77 north, longitude 157 east. The crew left the ship in three boats, but were separated by winds and fogs. One of the boats arrived at the eastern mouth of the Lena river, and another boat succeeded in reaching tho same spot, but it is not clear from the dispatches that the third portion of the crew in boat No. 2 have been heard from. The Jeannette is a wreak, a considerable number of her officers and men havo very likely perished, tho North polo is as far from discovery as ever, and the Northwest passage, if there is such a thing, still remains a sealed mystery. A bill to confer the suffrage on all who can read and write has passed both branches of the Italian Legislature.