Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Violent gales caused great destruction of property throughout New England on the 27th and 28th ult. Three persons were injured at Pittsfield, Mass., and a church steeple was blown down. Extensive brick buildings were toppled over at North Adams. A four-story shoe factory at Nashua, N. H., was moved two feet out of line, stampeding 200 workmen. A building filled with carriages was overturned at Rochester, N. H. The roof of the gas house at Rockland, Me., was destroyed. Three buildings at Burlington, Vt, were robbed of coverings, and the ice was swept out of the bay in almost an instant. Two negroes were executed in Louisiana on Friday, Jan. 27 —August Davis at New Orleans And Ed Belton at Mansfield. A negro named John Morris was hanged at Shelby, N. C. Wash Roberts shot his wife to death and then committed suicide at Memphis. Jealousy. Speaker Keifer is a candidate for United States Senator. The National Distillers’ Association has a lobby in Congress in the interest of a bill reducing the tax on whisky to 50 cents per gallon. Mr. Blaine will deliver the eulogy upon the late President Garfield, before Congress, Feb. 27. The Russian authorities are assisting Melville, of the Jeannette crew, in his search for the missing men. Several large failures have occurred on the London Stock Exchange, due to the panicky condition of the Paris Bourse. An informer has revealed to the authorities the existence of a widespread and dangerous conspiracy in Clare, Limerick and Cork counties, Ireland. Austrian gens d’armes (police) are deserting on account of the atrocities committed by the Herzegovinian rebels on their Austrian prisoners. Six Mormon elders undertook to hold a street meeting at King’s Cross, London, but a large crowd made a raid upon them, severa 1 persons being hurt in the struggle. It is feared that the Utes, Piutes and Navajos are getting ready to go on the warpath in the spring. The Oklahoma warfare between Gen. Pope and Capt. Payne and his party of invaders is to be renewed in the courts. Payne has brought suit against Pope for 325,000 damages sustained by reason of having been arrested, imprisoned and finally ejected from the Indian Territory. Died in Cambridge, Mass., Theophilus Parsons, the celebrated law writer, in the 86th year of his age. Eastern furniture dealers in convention have decided to advance prices 10 per cent.