Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

On the application of Judge Brown, the Governor of Kentucky ordered the McCreary Guards and the Lexington and Mays villc companies to report for ten days’ duty in guarding the Gibbons murderers. The Legislature passed a special act to allow the Circuit Court of Boyd county to hold a special session to try the prisoners. An unsuccessful attempt was made the other day to capture Jesse James, Ed Miller and Jim Cummings, three notorious members of the James gang. Word was received in Kansas City that the desperadoes were in Bay county, and a special train on the Wabash railroad carried a largo party of officers well armed; but the gang had in some manner received an intimation of the raid, and when the officers arrived at their supposed hiding-place they had disappeared. The inaugural message of Gov. Cameron was submitted to the Virginia Legislature on the 6th inst. His recommendations on the subject of the State debt are in accord with tho measure known as the Biddleberger bilk E. W, Keyes, the noted Republican politician of Wisconsin, has applied for a divorce, on the ground of intemperate use of liquor by his wife. Two murderers —Joseph M. Katovsky and Charles Ellis (colored) —were executed at Bt. Louis. Katovsky killed Augusta Simons because she refused to marry him, and Ellis slew his victim, a negro sport named Sanders, in a gambling-house affray. Martin Kankowski was hanged at Jersey City for tho murder and robbery of Mrs. Nina Muller. Joseph Abbott was strung up at Elmira, N. Y., for killing a fellow-convict in the New York State prison. John A. Phelps was executed at Marshall, Mo., for the murder of Elijah Kenton. Two black murderers, Terence Achille and Sterling Ben, were hanged at Franklin, La, The exodus of the colored people from the South has been resumed, and the newspapers of South Carolina say that 2,500 have left that State within a month and that ns many more are making preparations to leave. The business of fire insurance in Chicago during the year 1881 waa not, on the whole, a profitable one. The companies fell about $200,000 short of making both ends meet. Gambetta has made overtures to England looking to a reopening of tiie negotiations for a commercial treaty. The English press is still harping on Blaine’s policy. The commercial failures throughout the country were 146 for the first week in January, a material reduction as compared with the corresponding week in 1881. It is said that a bill will be introduced in Congress to divide the Territory of Utah, attaching a portion to Colorado and Nevada, bringing a portion of tho Mormon people within the laws of tho two Stato«. James H. Hildebrand, a jewelry mer’chant at Mercer, Ta., has absconded, leaving creditors in the lurch to tho amount of about $20,000.