Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The three Indian scQuts —Dead-Shot, Dandy Jim and Slippy—who gave the signal for the onslaught on Gen. Carr’s command, were executed at Fort Grant, Arizona. Robert Jones, a white man, and William Miller, colored, were hanged at Aberdeen, Misa., for the murder of three brothers, named Walker, in November last. Mac Lean, who fired upon Queen Victoria, was examined by the Windsor borough Justices. On his person was found a letter written before the shooting, in whioh he said he was compelled to commit crime against the blooded aristocracy becanse of the insufficient relief offered him. Policemen testified that he aimed straight at the royal carriage, which was thirty paces distant. After a search of an hour the bullet was found imbedded in the ground. When the carriage containing the prisoner left the Town Hall, twenty men endeavored to overturn it. The discovery has been made that Mac Lean was discharged from the Wells Asylum last September, and has until recently been an inmate of the asylum at Weston-Super-Mare. Sympathetic messages have been received by the Queen from all nations.

Gen. John C. Fremont has filed a petition in the Senate asking that the Court of Claims adjudteate his claim to Bird island, in the Bay of San Francisco, which he claims to have .purchased in 1847, and which the Government afterward unlawfully squatted upon. Many people in the lowlands of the Lower Mississippi valley were compelled to seek refuge in trees from the flood. Failures in the United States for the week ending March 4 numbered 152. A half-dollar of 1796 brought $23.50 at an auction sale in New York. One of the year following went off at $46.50. The trunk-line pool has ordered an advance in east-bonnd freights from Chicago, the rate on seventh-class being 30 eents per 100 pounds. Crop reports for the West and Northwest are unanimous’y good. At Portland, Ore., Annie Murray, a notorious woman, killed Henry O. Prang, and then inflicted fatal wounds upon herself. In the details of the first voyage of the English to India, in 1591, we find rliinocerous horns monopolized by the native sorcerers on account of their reputed virtues in detecting the presence of poison,