Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. EmL Two hotels at Biddeford, Me., were swept sway by flames. At a sale of coins in New York a Confederate half dollar of 1861, of which only four were struck, brought tB7O. Nearly 200 citizens of South Bethlehem, Pa., are prostrate with small-pox, and the Board of Health ordered the burning •f forty tar-barrels in the streets. Dr. John P. Gray, Superintendent of the Luuatio Asylum at Utica, N. Y., while reading in his office, was shot through the left cheek by an assassin, who escaped in the darkness after firing twice at his pursuers. Henry Bemshaw, a full-fledged lunatic, armed with four revolvers, a knife, and a number of other formidable weapons, surrendered himself at the jail as an ambassador from heaven sent to kill the doctor. Dr. Gray will be remembered as one of the leading expert witnesses in the Guiteau trial. West, Chicago Tribune: From every part of the Northwest the reports are to the effect that winter wheat is in excellent condition. Indications are that the acreage of spring wheat will be largely increased. From Minnesota the reports in regard to wheat j are especially encouraging. There are now on hand 20,000," 000 bushels of.wheat, and it is exprcted that the crop for next year will be one-fourth larger than last year. Mrs. Winnifred Lally died in Chicago, the other day, at the ripe age of 108 years. Bhe was bom in County Galway, Ireland, in 1773, and settled m Chicago in 1839. A fire at Winnipeg consumed eleven frame stores, by which $100,600 was swept away. The residence of William Stewart, near Greensburg, Ind., was burned to the ground, and Mrs. Mary MoElroy, 106 years of age, perished in the flames. Samples of flour made from Hungarian wheat, shipped from Buda Pesth, Hungary, were exhibited on the Chicago Board of Trade, and the quality was pronounced superb. In the case of the man Armstrong, killed during the labor disturbances at Omaha, 'the Coroner’s jury decided that he came to his death at the hands of soldiers in the faithful discharge of their duties. All the labor anions tamed ont in procession at the funeral, and much feeling was manifested. Gordon Lord, of Lisbon, 111., is supposed to have murdered his wife and hidden her corpse. He killed an adopted child with an ax, and then made way with himself. A bill for the restoration of capital punishment was defeated by a close vote in tha Wisconsin Assembly. xwq deputy sheriffs of Milwaukee, armed with an attachment, threw the cashier at the Academy of Music over a steam heater and grabbed the funds belonging to the Alice Oatee company. Judge Small happened to be present, and secured the return of the money. * The Simms Automatic Car Company, of Columbus, Ohio, has made an assignment to cover liabilities of 4150,000. The court directed that the works bo kept in operation.

South. Journalistic circles in Knoxville, Tenn., were enlivened the other day by a street fight between the editors of rival papers, in the course of which two shots were fired but nobody killed. J. M. Davis, Deputy United States, Collector, who had made himself peculiarly obnoxious to manufacturers of crooked wUisky< was ambushed and shot to death by moonshiners near McMinnville, Tenn. Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, of Boston, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in the House of Correction for her swindling operations in connection with the Ladies’ Deposit Bank. Ex-Mayor Thurmond, of Dallas, Tex., was shot dead in the Connty Courtroom by Robert E. Cowart, a prominent attorney* The .Coroner’s jury found a verdict of selfdefense. Robbers fired the house of Josiah Hodges, near Llano, Tex., and Mrs. Benson and two gr&ndch ildren were burned to death Four school children were burned to death in the Indian Territory, near Fort Smith, Ark., by the burning of a mission school.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Democratic Congressional Committee at Washington has chosen Gen. W. 8. Bosecrans for its Chairman. A Republican House caucus at Washington resolved, first, to postpone action on the new rales for the present; secondly, to oppose the reduction of the taxes on whisky and tobacco ; thirdly, to urge the Tariff,,Commission bill at every favorable opportunity. The Republicans of Rhode Island have nominated Gov. Littlefield for reflection. WASHINGTON NOTES. The minority of the committee on the expenses incident to Gen. Garfield’s illness* ■ays a Washington dispatoh, will oppose the extravagant allowance to the physicians made by the majority. They will not recommend any specific amount, but will oppose anything like $25,000 for Bliss and others in proportion. It appears that the committee has had a stormy time over the consideration. At the last meet* ing Blackburn denounced the doctors and declared that it would be a burlesque and an insult to the intelligence of the century to pay a man $25,000 for treating a pus cavity for two months as a gunshot wound, and never discovering his mistake until the dissecting knife revealed it after the victim was dead. The nomination of John Russell Young as Minigter o China was made to please Gen. Grant, who has been asking this appointment for a long time for his friend. Jacob R. Shipherd appeared at Washington, before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the 15th inst., and was sworn. He at once raised a question as to what constituted a United States official, and the committee went into secret session to define the phrase.- The investigation was then postponed to the 18th, and Mr. Shipherd returned to New York to arrange his papers in accordance with the decision of the committee. Large numbers of petitions have been received at the White House for the pardon of Sergeant Mason. The House Committee on Railroads and Canals have agreed on an appropriation of $1,000,000 for the Hennepin canal, but a minority report against the project will be made. The tobacco manufacturers, in session at Washington, adopted a memorial to Congress protesting against the passage of, the leaf-tobacco bill, and asking that no change be made unlees tfee entire tax be iholfsbed. • ■fl.'l.Ti’* '

FOREIGN NEWS. At aYneeting the Council of the Austrian and Hungarian Ministers at Vienna the Minister of War gave assurances of a speedy termination of the trouble with Herzegovina. Very grave complaints have been made of late of the fraudulent packing of sand in American cotton bales, so much so that the American Consul at Manchester has made personal investigation and reports the charges proved. That Ashantee story telegraphed from London some time ago, that the King had massacred 200 maidens to mix their blood with the mortar of his new palace, is denied by his son. Dr. Lamson, principal of a boys’ seminary near London, after several days’ trial for the murder by poison of his relative, Percy John, was found guilty by the jury and sentenced to death. The London Times believes that war between Austria and Russia is always a possibility, but that there is no immediate likelihood of an outbreak between those powers. A memorial asking that greater leniency be shown the suspects in prison has been signed by fifty Liberal members of Parliament. , It is announced from Berlin that Austria has finally determined to annex Bosnia and, Herzegovina in dead earnest, and that Bismarck is urging the Porte to acquiesce. It is believed that the Czar has indirectly treated with the Nihilist leaders, they promising him immunity from assassination and he extending imperial clemency to the prisoners now under various sentences.