Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Three men were killed and several injured by a boiler explosion at Fairfield, Mau* Mrs. Canfield, eldest daughter of Gen. Lewis Cass, died recently in New York. Only one child of the General survives, Mrs. Henry Ledyard. Some miscreant adjusted a doublebarreled shot-gun at the residence of Dr. A. J. Erwin, Mansfield, Ohio, in such a manner as to discharge when the gate was swung. The doctor received nearly two hundred shot in his clothing, but was not fatally wounded. The forthcoming trial of the murderers of Jennie Cramer, the New Haven beauty, is destined to become a national sensation. Blanche Douglass has definitely concluded to give the full details of the butchery. Rev. Dr. H. W. Bellows, whose work in the Sanitary Commission during the war gave him high honors, died in New York, aged 68. Oscar L. Baldwin, the defaulting cashier of the Mechanics’ National Bank of Newark, N. J., pleaded guilty and sentenced to fifteen years in State prison. Heavy snow-storms are reported throughout tne Eastern States. Lockport, N. Y., was visited by a disastrous fire, which nearly destroyed the flourmills there. The loss is about $200,000. D. O. Mills paid 81,000,000 for a lot in Broad street, New York, and was erecting thereon a building to cost $2,000,000. The Building Commissioners found cracks in the brickwork and breaks in the stone lintels, and promptly condemned the structure. The Grand Jury at New York has indicted Conductor Hanford and Brakeman Mel uh for manslaughter in the fourth degree in causing the Spuyten Duyvil disaster. W eat. The aged wife of Gen. George P. Dorris was murdered near St Louis, Mo., by her grandson, Russell Brown, and a companion, Patrick McGlew. Brown made a full confession that they choked the old lady to death and stripped the rings from her fingers. Young Brown is the son of a prominent lawyer and Prosecuting Attorney of St Louis county. The affair creates a great deal of comment, on account of the position of the parties concerned. The Governor of Michigan has called an extra session of the Legislature for Feb. 23, to provide relief for the fire sufferers, and take action on Congressional apportionment and the report of the tax commission. An anti-Mormon meeting, which was well attended, was held in Milwaukee last evening. Resolutions were passed condemning polygamy in unmeasured terms. A fire on Lake street, Chicago, burned out C. R. Reynolds, dealer in paints, and Whitney & Johnson, crockery. Losses, $125,000 and $40,000. South. A whole family were poisoned at Corinth, Ky., by arsenic, which was put in the bread by mistake. It is believed that the damage by the late floods in Tennessee is not less than $500,600. George Williamson, a prominent citizen of Louisiana, and ex-Minister to Central America, is dead. At Broadway Depot, Va., three young ladies were drowned while attempting to cross the river in a frail boat , A mob of negroes in Union parish, La., took Alpb Davenport, a colored man, from his home and beat him to death with clubs and stones.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The small-pox has made its appearance in Washington. Senator David Davis gave the first of a series of dinners in Washington, among the guests being President Arthur, Speaker Keifer, ex-Secretary Blaine and Chief Justice Waite. The bill prepared by the Judiciary Committee of the Senate for the suppression of polygamy, which will be vigorously pushed to a vote, provides that no polygamist shall sit on juries, exercise the right of suffrage, or hold office. Cohabitation with more than one woman will be accepted as proof of polygamous marriage. Another section provides for the appointment of five Registrars of Election by the President. A Washington dispatch says that Guitdau is very much subdued, and says little except to his guards. District Attorney Corkhill has received from Cameron, Mo., a package of new rope with which to hang the assassin. Mr. Scoville has accepted a proposition from a manufacturer of refrigerators in Philadelphia to take Guiteau’s body immediately after death, preserve it, and exhibit it in all the principal cities of the United States and Europe, half the receipts to go to the relatives. By the order of Secretary Hunt, Lieut. Danenhower and a party of nine men, who are now at Irkutsk, will return to the United States, and Engineer Melville and party will continue the search for Lieut. De Long and his men so long as there is the slightest hope of

discovering their whereabouts or ascertaining their fate. Coinage at the mints during January, $10,450,000, of which $2,300,000 were standard dollars. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue reports the quantity of spirits in distillery warehouses Jan. 1, 73,806,914 taxable gallons, which is about 40,000,000 gallons in excess of last year. The following is the public-debt statement for January: Six per cent bonds, extendeds 129,479,900 Five per cents, extended 401,5030)00 Four and one-half per cent bonds 250,000.000 Four ner cent bonds 738,788,700 Refunding certificates 559.100 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt 51,534,331,600 Matured debt 13,920,005 Legal tenderss 346,740,906 Certificates of deposit... 11,400,000 Gold and silver certificates 74,187,790 Fractional currency 7,069,493 Total without interest. 439,398,189 Total debt 51,987,649,794 Total interest 10,888,554 Cash in treasury 246,025,468 Debt less cash in treasurysl,7s2,sl2,Bßo Decrease during January 12,978,836 Decrease since June 30, 1881 88,085,931 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid.s 1,953,060 Debt on which interest has ceased 13,920,005 Interest thereon 662.949 Gold and silver certificates 74,187,790 United States notes held for redemption of certificated of deposit 11,400,000 Cash balance available Feb. 1, 143,901,663 Totals 246,025,468 Available assets— Cash in treasury.s 246,025,468 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstandings 64,623.512 Interest accrued and not yet paid. 323,117 Interest paid by United States 53,405,977 Interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid oy transportation of mails By cosh payments o o per cent, ot net 14,804,021 earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 37,946,756 A gentleman who has taken much interest in the matter—telegraphs a Washington correspondent—says he is satisfied, after careful inquiry, that the President does not intend to do anything in regard to the Fitz John Porter case, not even to the extent of granting him a pardon, which would restore him to full citizenship again John D. Defrees resigned the position of Public Printer by command of his physician, although asked by President Arthur to remain.

POLITICAL POINTS. The “half-breed” Republicans of New York have decided to make Collector Robertson their candidate for Governor, in the expectation that Conkling will head the stalwart ticket. The management of the National Republican has been changed. It is now an administration paper. The Tammany members of the New York Legislature united with the regular Democrats in electing C. E. Patterson Speaker, thus breaking the deadlock which had existed for six weeks.

FOREIGN NEWS. M. Rouzaud, the husband of Christine Nilsson, was one of the victims of the French financial panic. He became crazed by his losses, and is now confined in an asylum. A new French Cabinet was formed with De Freycinet at the head. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: “ The latest news from Irkutsk states that Engineer Melville has proceeded to the mouth of the River Lena to resume the search forLieutenent Commander De Long with the greatest energy, aided by the natives. The bodies of Huddy, the processserver, and his nephew, who recently disappeared from the neighborhood of Ballinrobe, County Mayo, Ireland, have been found in Lough Mask, in bags which had been sunk by means of large stones. The place where the bodies were found is near the house of a man named Carigan, who is now under arrest on suspicion. There is something of a business panic in Dublin and a number of failures are reported. The cause of the stringency is said to be the difficulty experienced by tradesmen in collecting amounts due them from landlords. Banking houses at Hamburg and Cologne have failed, and a Frankfort banker committed suicide on account of his losses. Richard Brinsley Knowles, the only surviving son of the dramatist, James Sheridan Knowles, is dead. The amount required to scatter the Jews of Russia over the United States and Canada is estimated by the London promoters of the enterprise at £1,000,000. A band of Herzegovinian insurgents under cover of night surprised and attacked ten Austrian gendarmes and massacred them with frightful ferocity. Six hundred fishermen perished at Astrakhan in a terrific gale. A reservoir burst at Calais, France, and the torrent destroyed a school house and two other buildings, occupied at the time. Few inmates escaped. The Swiss Legislature has passed a compulsory vaccination law, 89 to 23. Premier Gladstone, replying to a communication asking the release of the “suspects’ (prisoners under the coercion act), says he cannot do so until they have lost their power of encouraging disturbances in Ireland. The Austrians and Herzegovinians have had another desperate encounter at Bilck, in which twenty men were killed on each side. Thirty-five soldiers of a Dalmatian regiment went over to the enemy. Austria is providing for the of 30,000 men to South Dalmatian ports. A dispatch received at St. Petersburg from Lieut Dauenhauer at Irkutsk announces that the whereabouts of Lieut. De Long and party is now known, and that Dauenhauer proposes to remain in Siberia and undertake an expedition in search along the coast of Lieut. Chipp and party. A crowded meeting was held at the Mansion House, London, to protest against the persecution the Jews were suffering in itussia. Resolutions were passed expressive of the opinion that the Russian laws concerning the Jews tend to degrade that country in the eyes of Christendom. The corporation of London has subscribed £3OO to the fund in aid of the Russian Jews. The Rothschilds, of Paris and London, gave £5,000 each. Gambetta has resumed the editorship of his journal, Republique Francaise. The defalcation in the Taganrog Custom House, South Russia, amounts to $47,000,000. In the attempt to capture the murderers of Huddy and his nephew, the Irish constabulary seized nearly every person residing in a town on Lough Mask.