Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

John W. Guiteau has left Washington. He says the assassin is very calm, and will go to the gallows with courage. Stories about doctoring the census statistics are pronounced false. D, W. Vandeihoff, first bookkeeper of the First National Bank of St. Paul, Minn, has been arrested for embezzlement of an amount variously estimated at from $20,000 to $30,000. At the residence of James Sweetman, on Michigan avenue, Chicago, George Robinson, employed as the driver of an ice-wagon, shot and mortally wounded Mary Beggan, who refused his attentions, and then blew out his own brains. The girl was serving as nurse for Mrs. Sweetman, upon whose enfeebled system the tragedy inflicted a terrible shock. Henry H. Hall was executed for murder at Tucson, Arizona. There is intense indignation at Berlin over the acquittal of a soldier who tired upon and killed two lads who were teasing him. Capt. Stone says Mr. Vanderbilt intends to make a road-horse of Maud 8. the coming sprite, Xid that she will never again trot against time. The report of the Mississippi River Commission shows that $144,000 have been expended for salaries, expenses] and preliminary surveys, while SIIO,OOO more will be required before June 30, and $400,000 for the succeeding fiscal year. This is asside from the $1,000,000 appropriated for actual improvements. The commission adheres to its plan of revetments, and approximately estimates the cost of the entire work at $35,000,000. Capt. Cowdon holds that it will reach $50,000,000. Sergeant Bush, of the Tenth cavalry, stationed in Texas, killed himself because he was reprimanded and sent to .the guard house. Jesse Barber, a negro, was executed at Winnsboro, 8. C., and Quirino Gaitau, a Mexican, at Brownsville, Texas. The surgeons at the University Hospital, in Philadelphia, removed from a lady a tnmor weighing 112 pounds. Hazing at Cornell is to be stopped, even if it results in the depopulation of the university; Several recent offenders have been expelled. The house of John Moreland, near Huntington, Ontario, burned a few nights ago. His wife, step-daughter and three children were bprned to decth, Simeon Rambaugh and Minard Huff, young men, were biuned so badly they will die. Too bashful —Mistress: “Bridget, I really can’t allow you to receive your sweetheart in the kitchen any longer.” Bridget : /‘Thank you kindly, mum, but he’js too bashful for the parlor, ”