Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1882 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. ' 1 But. The six days’ walking match in New York wu won by Hazael, the Englishman, who made 800 miles. Five other contestants made 600 miles and upward. Howell, the hitherto* invincible pedestrian, fell sick, and gave up on the fourth day of the contest Three railway employes were killed at Earlville, N. Y., by a collision of trains on the Syracuse and Chenango road. Ex-Gov. Milton S. Latham, of California, died in New York last week. Charles A Sweet & Co., of Boston, bankers, have suspended payment The liabilities are between #8,000,000 and #4,000,000. Magnin, Gnedin & Co., of Union Square, New York, importers of watches and jewelry, have made an assignment The liabilities of the firm are stated at #170,000, and the assets are #140,000. The Grand Jury at New York has* indicted Gen. N. M. Curtis, Special Agent of the Treasury, for soliciting campaign funds from Government officials. Dr. Pancoast, the eminent Philadelphia physician, is dead. At a Pittsburgh dog show 500 canines were on exhibition, rome of which were valued as high as #IO,OOO. A steamship agent at New York estimates the arrivals at Castle Garden from the present time to January at 600,000. Wish ' Forty Indian prisoners at Fort Lowell, who were implicated in the Cibicu outbreak, are to be escorted to San Carlos reservation and set at liberty. Their capture and detention cost #15,000, and no effort to punish them has been made. Imposing demonstrations against farther Chinese immigration took place in all the large towns iu California and Nevada, business having been suspended. The San Francisoo gathering was estimated at 30,000. Resolutions were adopted urging upon Congress the absolute necessity of speedy legislation, to make effective the treaty with China to restrict th« advent of her citizens on the Pacifio coast. The Grand Jury at Chicago has indicted a large number of gamblers, and several wealthy citizens who rent their property to gamblers. Two of Napoleon Bonaparte’s soldiers passed away last week—Nicholas Benny, at Xirkville, lowa, and Christian Schaefer, at Mineral Point, Wis. Benny was also a soldier of the United States in the war of 1812, and in the war of the Rebellion. At Las Lunas, New Mexico, Charles Shelton, John Redmond and Harry French were taken from the jail and hanged to the nearest tree by masked men. All three had been guilty of one ormore oold-blooded murders. The mob also took two negroes from jail, beat them unmercifully, and turned them loose. South. The steamer James D. Parker was wrecked on the rocks near Louisville, and then set on firo by tho overturning of a stove. The passengers were rescued, but a cargo valued at #IOO,OOO was lost. The Virginia Legislature convened in extra session March 7. The bar of Louisville mourns the death of Henry 0. Pindell, a veteran member. Mary Sigman, a disreputable woman, and her mother, Rhoda, were assassinated at Mount Vernon, Ky. Bichard 8. Fay, of Boston, an officer in half a dozen great corporations, committed suicide at Fortress Monroe.

POLITICAL POINTS. Both Houses of the lowa Legislature have agreed to the amendment to strike from the constitution the word “male.” A lively contest over the Chicago Pension Agency is going on at Washington. The leading candidates are Miss Ada Sweet daughter of the late Gen. B. J. Sweet, and present incumbent; Mrs. Mulligan, widow of • the late Gen. Mulligan, and Jonathan N. Hyde, a legless ex-soldier, of Dixon, IIL WASHINGTON NOTES. An important meeting of the friends of the Hennepin Canal was held in Washington last week. The attendance included the Congressional delegations of Illinois, lowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, maDy Southern Congressmen and the members of the House Committee on Railroads and canals. Resoluions declaring the work one of national importance which should be constructed by the General Government were adopted unanimously. The United States Supreme Court has decided that the dutiable quality of sugars is to be determined by their actual color, and not by their saccharine strength. This reverses the position taken by the Treasury Department. Attorney General Brewster believes that evidenoe was at the command of the Government that would secure the conviction of many if not all of the star-route conspirators. The Postmaster General has directed that after Jnly 1 no allowance will be made to Postmasters for advertising dead letters, unless authority is first obtained from the First Assist-' ant Postmaster General. A Western delegation appeared before he Ways and Means Committee last week and mada an argument against the bill which proposes to impose a tax upon glhoose. They claimed the only substantial opposition to glucose proceeds from the sugar refiners, and maintained that the glucose industry is a growing one in the West; that it affords a large market for the product of the country, and ought ‘to be encouraged and not discouraged. Thomas J. Brady, ex-Assistant Postmaster General, has been held by the Criminal Court at Washington in $20,000 bail in the matter of the numerous indictments against him fo* conspiracy to defraud the Government Bail was demanded from his fellow-oonspirators in amounts ranging from SI,OOO to $20,000.-,

FOREIGN NEWS. Hessie Helfmann, the Nihilist, who received a respite from execution for the murder of the Czar, died in childbirth at St. Petersburg. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, re tinned to Dublin. A large organized crowd of people hooted him at the Government depot as the train passed. Hazel, an ex-suspect, was arrested for supposed connection with the demonstration. A balloon which made an ascension fell in tho sea off Dover, England. The aeronauts perished. The passengers were CoL Brim, Royal Engineer, and Simmons, the aeronaut, who were attempting to cross the channel. Public opinion in England inclines to the belief that Mac Lean is a crank, and that he had no serious intention to kill the Queen. Ho stood 100 feet distant in a crowd, and merely fired his little toy-pistol in the direction of the Queen’s carriage. The ball did not go within a rod of her. In the British House of Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote carried a resolution that Brad laugh be not permitted to go through the form of repeating the words of the oath. The substance of the Russian Gen. Skobeleff’s speech to the Servian students, which has caused so much comment in Europe, was that a struggle between the Slav and Teuton was inevitable, for Russia would no longer consent to be held in check by the influence of Germany. When that struggle came it would be a long and sanguinary one, but the Slav would triumph. The words of the fiery warrior have greatly stirred np B ismarck and the Emperor, and set them to questioning Russia's intentions. Customs officers at Moscow found dynamite in cases of hats remaining unclaimed. A secret press was discovered at Odessa, and several Nihilists were arrested. A St. Petersburg dispatch to the London Times states that Skobeleff’s famous speech was a put-up job between him and Gen. Ignatieff for the benefit of the latter. The Pope is about to create seven new Cardinals, Rev. Dr. McCabe, of Ireland, the anti-Land Leaguer, being one of the number Twelve hundred persons were present at a bimetallic meeting in London, seven countries being represented. The Governor of the Bank of England advocated the free coinage of silver.

Thirty Jews, with an aggregate capital of 35,000 rubles, have left Russia to become farmers in Palestine. A Constantinople dispatch to the London Times says it is feared in official circles that war between Russia and Austria is inevitable. The question of calling out the reserve is being seriously discussed. Louis Falcon, of Antwerp, has suspended payment, with liabilities between £2,000,000 and £3,000,000.