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

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. William Last, aged 12, employed in a Newark needle factory, was passing a coil of wire through, when a wire broke and coiled around him, cutting him in two. At a dinner of the Boston Merchants' Association, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., made a speech in favor of a national railroad commission and submitted Ibe draft of a bill therefor. He also nominated for the board Judge Cooley, Robert Harris and Gea Francis A. Walker. Henry W. Longfellow, on his 75th birtuday, was visited by numbers of friends and received forty letters of congratulation. The widow of the great Daniel Webster died a few days ago at New ltochelle, N. Y. She was bora in 1797. Heavy rains, followed by floods and w&shonts, are reported in the Eastern States and Southern Canada. Numerous railroad accidents, attended with some loss of life, are among the natural results. A freight train ran into a washout at Swanton, Vt, scalding the fireman to death and wrecking nine cars. A passenger train on the Ogdensburgh road was ditched at Mooers Forks, N. Y., killiug the engineer and fireman. Wert. Joseph W. Curtiss, a prominent citizen of Milwaukee, committed suicide through shamo at being airested on a criminal charge. William Studebuker, a wealthy German farmer living-twelve miles east of Council ' Bluffs, was fatally shot by masked burglars who entered his bouse. A desperado named Weldon was lynched at Hockberry, Arizona, for the murder of a peaceable citizen. D. J. Murphy, formerly Distric Attorney at Han Francisco, was shot through tho neck, in the Police Court of that city, by Policeman John Morony, who had been referred to as an Australian convict The Utter attempted to kilt himself while being taken to prison. The express office at the depot in Lima, Ohio, was robbed of a package containing $7,300. The money had beer seDt from Lafayette, Ind., for Mr. Thomas, paymaster of the Lake Erie and Western railway, to pay off the men on bis rolls. A monster Prohibition Convention is to be held at Chicago next August. Au Alton freight' car, loadod with brick, m w hich ten tramps had secreted thornselves, was ditched near Joliet. Two men were killed and the others terribly woundedThe bill taxing church property was defeated m tho Wisconsin Assembly. August Ash, United States Marshal for NtVada, shot himself through the heart at Virginia City, on account of financial troubles. A characteristic letter from Mrs. Scovi U, addressed to the Senate of tho United States, lias been given to the press. It is a protest against the appointment of Itoscoe Conkling to the Supreme bench, on the ground that he is morally responsible lor tho murder of Prtsi lent Gariicld. On opening the door of a school-house, one nnlo north of Salem, Adams county, Ind., a few mornings ago, the children discovered the teacher, Miss Emma Numbers, lying on the tl»or with one arm cut off, her tongue toin out and lying ou the boards beside her, and her neck pinned to the floor with a largo dirk knife. They ran home and gave tho alarm, and within a few minutes tho farmers gathered and began ft search for the perpetrators or the crime. A busty examination of her person showed that she had been outraged The fieuds had evidently entered the schoolhouse during -the night or early in the morning, and when she arrived before the pupils to build tho fire they caught her, violated her person and then, to prevent her from telling any tales, hacked her with an ax and stabbed her with a knife until her arm was chopped off, and her bowels ran out on the floor. Still fearing that she might tell on them, they cut hor tongue off, flung it down on the floor and left the knife sticking in . her neck, with the point driven through to the pilanka. Miss Numbers was 16 or 17 years old, and is described as being a beautiful girl. Repeated attempts have recently been made to wreck trains on the Chicago and Alton oad at Joliet, 11L The lowa Legislature has passed a resolution to submit to the people a constitutional amendment on the question of liquor prohibition. By a vote of 63 to 49, the Wisconsin Assembly refused to order to engrossment a prohibitive resolution. South. The wholesale dry goods house of Menken Bros., at Memphis, has made an assignment to cover liabilities of i 500,000. In Russell county, Va., two young men named Floyd and Elijah Smith, cousins, engaged in a fight, when Floyd drew a revolver and shot his antagonist through the abdomen. Elijah fell back with a groan, but suddenly straightened himself and wrenched the pistol from his cousin’s hand with a triumphant shout, placed it against Floyd’s abdomen, and sent a bullet into his stomach. Both men rolled from each other’s arms in the agony of death. A loss of nearly SIOO,OOO was recently inflicted upon the town of Conway, Ark., by lire. Catholic Bishop Lynch died at Charleston, 8. C., aged 63. Dr. Williford, of Memphis, mistook for a burglar a colored nurse in his employ, and fatally injured her by firing through a window. Five persons were overwhelmed by the rush of waters, caused by the breaking of tho Mississippi leveo near Concordia, La.

POLITICAL POINTS. The General Assembly of Virginia elected the five Judges of the Supreme Court nominated by the Readjuster caucus. The Democratic Representatives in Congress held a caucus last weok. Mr. House resigned the Chairmanship of the caucus, refusing a re-election, and Gen. Rosccrans was chosen his successor, it was decided that each State with Democratic representation should have a member in the Congressional Campaign Committee, to be selected by the State delegations.. Bancus, Democrat, has been chosen State Senator in New York to succeed the late Webster Wagner. His competitor was a Conklaig Repub'ic in. Senator Wagner was elected by a majority of 7,000.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Grand Jury at Washington has found tw< nly-nine indictments its the postoffice Straw -bond oases, mak ng thirty-two m all The first proof of the new 6-ceat post*

age stamp, containing the vignette of President Garfield, is ready to be forwarded to Queen Victoria. It baa been inclosed in a costly frame of ebony, with a matting of silver and border of gold. A duplicate will probably be sent to Mrs. Garfield. The Washington Post publishes the following: “To the editor of the Post: There is a man in this town who authorizes me to inform you or the authorities in case Guiteau is not reprieved, or his sentence commuted but is sure to be hanged, that he will be glad to take bis place. His name is Benjamin F. Courtney. There is no nonsense about this, as I know him well. J. R. Canfill, editor Effort. Turaersville, Texas, Feb. IS, 1882.” Attorney General Brewster, in reply to questions asked by the Secretary of the Treasury, has given bis opinion that national banks organized under the act of Feb. 25,1863, for a period of less than twenty years from the date of the act cannot by amending their articles extend their period of existence to twenty years from that date. Gen. Sherman and Maj. Gen. Hancock gave the House Committee ou Military Affairs the benefit of their views in regard to the retirement of army officers. Both of the distinguished soldiers pronounced emphatically in favor of a “young” army, and suggested a system of retirement graded according to the rank of officers.

Gen. Skobeleff, en route to St. Peters 3 , burg, interviewed by a journalist in Vienna, expressed surprise that so much stir had been occasioned by his speech, because such sentiments were written and spoken by Russians generally. The following is the regular monthly debt statement, issued on the Ist inst.: Extended 6’s 129,473,900 Extended s’s 401,50 ,900 four and one-half per cent, bonds 205,000.000 Four per cents, extended 738,801,350 Refunding certificates 548.450 Navy jieiiston fund 14,000,000 Total Interest-bearing debt $1,534,325,600 Matured debt $ 10,037,925 Legal tenders 346,740,831 Certificates of deposit ... 11,550,000 Cold and silver certificates. 73,862,600 Fractional currency 7,065,877 Total without interest. 439,219,368 Total debt $1,983,58.’,893 Total interest 11,764,123 Cash in treasury 267,617,648 Debt less cash In treasury... $1,742,729,369 Decrease during February 9,783,511 Decrease since June 30, 1881 97,869,442 Current liabilities—luteresi due and unpaid t 1,408,663 Debt on which interest has ceased 10,037,925 Interest thereon ei 1,120 Gold arid silver certificates 73,862,600 United States notes held for redemption ol ce tificates of deposit. 11,550,000 Cash balance available Feb. 1, 155,146, j3B Total * 252,617,648 Available assets— Cash in treasury .$ 252,617,648 Bonds Issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in iawful money, principal outstanding f 64,623.512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 646,235 Interest paid by United States 53,405,977 Interest repaid by companies—15v transportation service 14,841,656 By cash payments of o per cent, ot net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 87.909,121 President Arthur has nominated Cornelius A Logan, of Illinois, to be Minister to Chili.

FOREIGN NEWS. A well-known London physician has beon arrested for complicity in the theft of Earl Crawford’s body. The death is announced of Victor Theodore Junod, the celebrated Swiss physician and medical writer. It is reported from Berlin that Germany and Austria have ordered the strengthening of t he Eastern fortresses. Austrian troops had a battle lasting nine hours with a force of 1,000 insurgents, and defeated them. Reports are current in Europe that the Czar will abdicate after his coronation, unless tho condition of Russia improves, and that Gen. Skobeleff wdl be ordered to reside on his estate. Of the Nihilists on trial at St. Petersburg, ten have been condemned to death, and eleven will be sentenced to various terms of penal servitude. The election of Davitt, the Irish patriot, as a member of tho House of Commons was declared by that body null and void by a vote of 208 to 20. Gen. Sherman has left Washington on a tour of inspection of the military posts on tho Mexican frontier. China is preparing for hostilities with Japan on the Loochoo issue. Representatives of thousands of unemployed persons in London waited on the Lord Mayor to ask his advice in regard to emigration. They were urged to confer with Sir Alexander Galt, the Canadian Commissioner. A great sensation was produced throughout Great Britain by an attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria, She was fired at as she was leaving the Great Western railroad station, in Loudon, for Windsor Castle. A miserably dressed man named Roderick Mac Lain, a native of Southsea, and insane, was the assassin. The Queen did not know tho shot had been fired, and suffered no ill consequences. But for the intervention of the police the crank would have been roughly handled by tho people. During Queen Victoria’s reign of forty-four years this is the seventh personal attack made upon her.