Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

At Hampton, Pa., while William Cork was dying of small-pox, bis wife placed a lighted candle in his hands and knelt beside the bed in prayer. She instantly succumbed to ex* haustion, the bedding was set on fire, and she and her child were overcome by smoke. The neighbors saw the situation, but only one dared to enter the house. The flesh was burned from Cork's bones, and his wife and daughter will not recover. Important tidings relative to the crew of the Jeannette are given in a dispatch from' Engineer Melville, at Irkutsk, to the United States Secretary of the Navy. It seems that Melville has returned to the Arctic ocean, and that his search has been rewarded by the discovery of the log-books, instruments and four records left by Lieut De Long. He had obtained no tidings of the fate of that portion of the Jeannette’s crew which left the wreck in the second cutter, in command of Lieut. Chipp. The Cossack command?ant at Irkutsk, by direction of Gen. Tschirnieff, will continue the search during the winter. Melville requests orders to remain with two men and renew the search in March. One man was killed, three fatally injured and four badly wounded by the explosion of a saw-mill boiler at East Liberty, Ohio. Michael Mooney was hanged at Franklin, Idaho, for the murder of Huyckley, agent of the Union Pacific railroad. At Ironton, Ohio, one of the murderers of Dr. Joseph Beggs (who was killed near the Etna Iron Works two months ago) was taken from the county jail by a band of men and lynched. Another of the murderers confessed that money was the incentive of the killing. A detective from Chicago has for some time been at work about the Asylum for FeebleMinded Youth at Columbus, Ohio, and has fina’ly traced to Elmer E. Gwynn and David Gcodrich the crime of firing the institution in November, by which the State lost $400,000. The National Board of Health has declared the small-pox epidemic throughout the United States. A mercantile agency of New York reports 177 failures for the week, caused largely by the clog in sales and collections arising from the unseasonable weather. The surgeons who attended President Garfield have presented no bills for their services, and it is understood that they intend to rely upon the generosity of Congress. But the House committee will insist upon being furnished with bills covering the service rendered, and only such claims will be allowed as could be successfully prosecuted against the estate of the deceased. Anderson Jones, colored, was hanged at Augusta, Ga., for the murder of John D. Haralson. Deacon W. W. Ellis, of Providence, R. 1., cut his hand while opening a bottle of communion wine, and has been seized with lockjaw. The Governor of Kilmainham jail has served notice on Parnell, O’Kelly and O’Brien that they have been remanded for ninety days. Mrs. McCormack, of the Ladies’ Land League of Dublin, has been sent to prison for one month. It is said that Postmaster Pearson, of New York, who is a son-in-law of Postmaster General James, will shortly bo removed. His interference with some of the President’s friends who had been given berths in the office is reported to be at the bottom of the trouble.