Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Eot. Heavy snow-storms are reported throughout the Eastern States. Mrs. Catherine Branch, the oldest person in Massachusetts, died at Boston, in the 112th year of her age. A snow-storm of extraordinary duration and great volume prevailed over the Eastern seaboard, The snow was about fourteen inches deep in most of the Eastern States including Virginis. Trains were abandoned in many places, particularly in New England. Jersey City, N. J., was visited by a $200,000 fire. About 100 students of the Rochester University, most of whom were Seniors, created a great disturbance at Oscar Wilde’s lecture in that city. They occupied seats mostly in the gallery, and during the lecture they kept up a running fire of hisses, groans and bootings which compelled the lecturer to pause more than a dozen times. When the lecturer had proceeded about a quarter of an hour, an old darky dressed with a swal-low-tailed coat, one white kid glove, and a bouquet of flowers as big as a peck measure, walked down the central aisle with many antics and grimaces, a la Bunthome, and took a front seat The intervention of the police was im yoked, the students beat a hasty retreat, and the esthete concluded his lecture in the presence of a small audience. A collision on the Pennsylvania road, near Altoona, Pa., killed a conductor, an en> gineer and a fireman. Near Newburg, N. Y., two men were blown to atoms by an explosion of giant pow* der. West. Joseph Mahan, of Cleveland, found a handsome powder-horn on the knob of his hall door, and hung it about the neck of his little son. An explosion soon took place, two children losing their eyesight. It is thought that the horn was an infernal machine placed by some enemy. Three burglars were instantly killed at Tunnelton, Lawrence county, Ind., while attempting to rob the saloon of Thomas Clark. The names of the men slain were Nicholas Vaughan, Virgil Wilson and 8. Whitted. They were all hard characters. A confederate named Willoughby, who had agreed to participate, betrayed them, and men posted in the saloon shot them down. Judge Charles Fox, the oldest member of the bar of Cincinnati, is dead. South.. A stage with eight passengers attempted to cross the Mayo bridge over the James river into Richmond, Va., when a span seventy-five feet long fell thirty feet to the water without tilting, carrying the coach and its load safely down. A negro named James Luckey, employed on the farm of Mr. Thomas Collins, in Randolph county, W. Va., fell in love with Collins’ daughter, a beautiful girl of 20 years, and induced her to elope with and marry him. The father of the misguided girl visited the miserable cabin where the twain were enjoying their honeymoon, for the purpose of compelling his daughter to return home. A fight ensued between the two men, and during the struggle the colored man drew a revolver and shot Mr. Colhns dead Friends of Collins overpowered Luckey, took him to the woods in front of his cabin, and hanged him to the limb of a tree. William Neal, one of the murderers of the Gibbons family at Ashland, Ky., has been sentenced to be hanged April 14. Craft has been convicted, and will probably mount the same scaffold. John L. Sullivan, of Boston, and Paddy Ryan, of Albany, fought a mill at Mississippi City, Miss., for $3,500 a side and the championship of the United States. Nine rounds were fought in twenty-six minutes, Ryan falling sen seless at the conclusion. Ho was terribly punished about the head, his upper lip being cut through and his jaw broken. Sullivan showed no injuries, and ran to his quarters at a lively gait. Large sums of mono)' were wagered on the result. Maj. D. W. Washburn, a prominent railroad man, together with a Mr. Stall, his wife and little boy and two negroes, were riding upon a hand-car, near Waco, Texas, when they were run down by a freight train, and all of the party, with the exception of the negroes, crushed to death. Maj. Washburn was Chief Engineer of the Pacific Improvement Company, the International Construction Company and the Mexican Construction Company. He was, in short, at the head of the construction department of the Gould system in the Southwest. He was about 37 year 5 * old, and held the highest position in his line of service in the world. He was from Elmira, N. Y. The Virginia Senate passed a bill abolishing the whipping-post. Guy Powell, a colored member of the Virginia House of-Delegates, has introduced a bill in that body which provides that the issue of unlawful alliances shall be considi red the legal heir of the male offender, and shall take his name. The aim of the bill is to break up the system of white men keeping colored mistresses. ' ’ .. I : Lewis Powell, si white citizen of Lynchburg, Va., has been sentenced to 156 lashes on the bare back for housebreaking and robbery.

WASHINGTON NOTES. At a meeting of the House Garfield auditing committee, last week, a communication was received from the doctors who attended the murdered President, saying they declined to set any value on their Ber\ - ices s . but' simply made a statement of their labors, and ’referred the matter of compensation to the discretion of Congress. The committee voted to adopt their view of the case, and will not require an itemized statement of their visits. The other expenses must be based ontitems. The physicians made no reference to the services and proper compensation of Dr. Boynton or Mrs. Edson. Rear Admiral Beaumont has been put upon the fist, after a service of forty years. *" ’ Thomas J. Durant, counsel on the part of the United States before the American and Spanish Claims Commission, is dead. The third of David Davis’ dinners was attended by Gen. Sherman, the Cabinet and Supreme Court and twenty Senators. Lieut. Danenhower and the other invalid members of the Jeannette survivprs in Siberia have been ordered home by the Secretary of the Navy. The Garfield 5-cent postage stamp will be issued March 1, and it is pronounced the truest likeness of the murdered President. The Hennepin canal project was advocated before the House Committee on Railways and Canals by ex-Gov. Carpenter, of lowa, and tha friends of the measure have

great hopes of favorable legislation. Capt. James B. Eads feels confident that the Senate committee will make a favorable report on the subject of his proposed Tehuantepec ship-railway scheme. If Congress, however, will not assist him in this way, he proposes to get foreign aid. His mail having been daily and duly dumped into the Potomac, and the visits of admirers stopped by authority of the Jail Warden, the assassin Guiteau is beginning to weaken. Floral tributes and requests for autographs being denied, the murderer has to fall back on the newspaper men, to whom he unburdens his soul as occasion may serve. A M. Soteldo, clerk of the Railroad Committee of the Senate, went with his brother to the editorial rooms of the Washington National Republican and demanded the publication of a manuscript explaining his connec tion with a disreputable affair, recently exposed in that paper. The managing editor, Clarence Barton, declined the manuscript, and immediately realized that he had a fight on his hands. Four pistol-shots were fired, and when the smoke had cleared away it was found that So" teldo was fatally wounded. Barton received two bullets in his body, but they inflicted only slight wounds.

FOREIGN NEWS. In a number of Russian interior towns obsolete statutes establishing Jewish residence quarters are being revived. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill inaugurating the scrutin de-liste system, and the Government will make its adoption a Cabinet question. Russia is accused, in spite of her assertions to the contrary, of having Inspired the Herzegovinian trouble by the Pan-81avic agitation in Bosnia and Herzgovina. France is purchasing a large number of repeating rifles from the Austrian smallarms manufactory. Coal containing dynamite having been smuggled into the Russian imperial palace, the Ozar has ordered the exclusive use of wood. The police of Dublin are inquiring into the source of a letter addressed to Secretary Forster, containing a damp substance which exploded on becoming dry. The British Parliament reassembled on the 7th inst. Lord Selborne read the Queen’s speech, which recommends the establishment of local self-government in English and Welsh counties, and the extension of municipal government over the whole metropolis of London. In the House of Commons, a motion by Sir Stafford Northcote was adopted that Bradlaugh be not allowed to take the oath, and the latter was ordi red to withdraw. Sexton gave notice of a bill to repeal the Coercion act. In the House of Lords, the Marquis of Salisbury made a violent attack on the Government. A further installment of details has been received regarding the cruise of the Jeannette in the Polar sea. The vessel drifted for twenty-one months along with her prison of ice, which at last closed in and crushed her hull like an egg-shell. Tho average winter temperature was 33 degrees below zero, and the coldest weather noted was 58 degrees below zero. By advice of her physician, Queen Victoria will next month go incognito to Mentone. During, the past year the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, Secretary of State for Ireland, received 400 threatening letters from Irish patriots. The death of Berthold Auerbach, the celebrated German novelist is announced. He was in his 70 th year. Mr. Stillman, formerly American Corsul in Crete, lately correspondent of the Times of London, was murdered in Albania.