Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Nlut. The Catholic clergy of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pa., will hereafter refuse priestly absolution to members of the secret benevolent order of Knights of Labor. The Rev. Enoch Pond, President of Bangor (Me.) Theological Seminary, and connected for sixty years with that institution of earning, has just died at the age of 91. Tom Ballard, the famous counterfeiter, now in the penitentiary at Albany, N. Y., under a thirty years’ sentence, offers to give the Government a secret for making bank-note paper which will preclude all counterfeiting of notes and bonds, if the Government will grant him a pardon. Mrs. Judith Twombly died at Lowell, Mass., aged 103. Nearly fifty years ago she took a razor and removed from her side a cancer which extended to the bone and weighed twenty pounds. A ladle of molten metal overturning in Wallace H. Brink <fc Co.’s foundry at Burlington, Vt., the building was gutted, and Patrick Donnelly, Benjamin Wright, Thomas Crowley and James Hayden were fatally injured. A loss of $150,000 was incurred by the burning of the office of the Lancaster (Pa.) Inquirer and two adjoining buildings. Wert. Robert 0. Bailey, a teacher in a public school near the town of Redbud, Monroe county, IIL, was kilted by one of his pupils named Emmet Mcßride. The teacher undertook to chastise Mcßride for disobedience of the rules. The latter resisted. A struggle ensued, during which Bailey was stabbed to the heart and killed. One man was killed and two fatally injured by the premature explosion of a blast in a stone quarry at Joliet, HL In an interview in the Indianapolis Times W. H. English acknowledges that $30,000 slipped out of his ban-el iu the campaign of 1880. lowa has 17,714 special taxpayers, of which number 4,309 are liquor dealers, 12,779 tobacco dealers, and 566 brewers and distillers. A controlling interest in the St. Louis and San Francisco railway has been purchased from Messrs. Seligman by Jay Gould and C, P. Huntington. A bill has been introduced into the Wisconsin Legislature, imposing a tax of 15 cents on every 1,000 feet of logs run out of the State to foreign markets. John L. Kaiser, a steamboat clerk of Bt. Louis, was rendered insane by witnessing the execution' of Kotovsky and Ellis, and di<nl in the asylum. The house of Henry Cleer, of Des Moines, took fire in the absence of his wife, and two small boys were burned beyond recognition. Mrs. Catherine Brearton, a native of Ireland, who vividly remembered the scenes of the revolution of 1798, died in Cincinnati at the age of 102 years. The open winter is causing much in jury to the logging interests of Michigan, Wi« cousin and Minnesota. Five hundred citizens of Dakota, representing twenty-three counties, gathered at Sioux Falls to urge the admission of the southern half of the Territory as a State. A committee of 134 was selected to visit Washington. South. A man named John Nelson, while plowing on the farm of Robert Hicks, in Boono county, Ark., plowed up an iron box containing over $1,400 in gold coin. A lire which originated in the candy factory of F. E. Black, at Atlanta, Ga., destroyed seven buildings, on which the loss is estimated at $500,000. , Neal, one of the murderers of the Gibbons family at Ashland, Ky., has been sentenced to death. H. C. Caldwell, District Judge at Little Rock, Arie. threw into the grate a small package of white powder which he found on the mantel. A terrific explosion followed, in which, the Judge was blown across the room, the flesh torn from his arms, and his hair and whiskers scorched off.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A Washington telegram says the treasury investigation has practically reached an end. The majority report will not refleo upon Secretary Sherman, but will recommend that all purchases made from the contingent fund of the treasury shall be itemized. The Adjutant General has decided that all soldiers enlisted between June 22, 1861, and Aug. 6,1861, are entitled to a bounty. A number of citizens of Utah are in Washington endeavoring to secure a form of government for that Territory something simiar to that of the District of Columbia. For the first time since the nominal resumption of specie payments we are seriously threatened with an outflow of gold to Europe. Six survivors of the expedition sent out by Gen. O. M. Mitchell, in 1862, to destroy the Georgia State railroad, petition Congress to grant them a pension. A delegation from the recent National Tariff Convention, headed by John Roach, was before the House Committee on Postoffices and Post-roads, urging Government subsidies and the opening of new routes. The project for the creation of a commission to investigate the traffic in alcoholic liquors will be favorably reported to Congress as the special committee having the subject in charge have agreed to recommend the passage of the bill.

Gen. Robert B. Mitchell, of Kansas, formerly a member of Congress, died at Wash, ington after a brief illness. FOREIGN NEWS. Burlington Smith, the American ViceConsul at Bristol, England, died suddenly of heart disease. The Irish Land Court has before it no less than 70,060 applications for fair rents. The revolt against Austrian rule in Herzegovina and Bosnia is spreading fast. The rising seems to have been simultaneously planned and is not without organization. The position of isolated Austrian posts in Upper Herzegovina is very precarious, despite the feverish activity of the military authorities in dispatching reinforcements. Italy will not consent to armed intervention in Egypt by France and England, bolding that if force becomes necessary Turkey should supply the troops. The German Governmenthas presented a proposition to the Landtag for the purchase of six railways at present belonging to private companies. They will cost $119,000,000. By the explosion of a dynamite factory at Port Vendres, France, sixteen persons were killed. It is announced that France and England have arrived at a complete understanding in regard to their collective action, and will so inform the Porte. «■ The Russian peasantry are riotously resisting the taking of the imperial census. The political and financial complications in Europe have demoralized all the markets •VJholera has made its appearance i.mong the pilgrims in Allahabad, one of the Hindoo sacred cities of Northern India. An old man, aged 80 years, steward on the estate of Mrs. Morony, at Milltown, County Clare, Ireland, was shot dead by unknown assassins. The situation in Herzegovina is represented as extremely grave. The insurgents are concentrating their forces in an absolutely unassailable position which commands all the principal mountain passes and threatens important lines of communication. By a vote of 305 to 117 the French Chamber of Deputies rejected the Government bill for the revision of the constitution. M. Gambetta thereupon handed to President Grevy the resignation of himself and his entire Cabinet.