Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. Hon. Zachariah Allen, long one of the leading men of Providence, B. L, died while silting in his chair, aged 87. A heavy short interest in quinine has developed in New York, the market being virtnally controlled by a syndicate having its head* quarters at London and Amsterdam. Small-pox is spreading through Lehigh and Berks counties in Pennsylvania. After having blown open the poetoffice safe at Needham, Mass., robbera set three buildings on fire, destroying property valued at 120,000. James Fox, a blacksmith’s helper in Troy, after driving in the head of a barrel with his fist, issued a challenge to John L. Sullivan to fight for $2,600 within six months. The cattle plague has reappeared in the vicinity of New York. A herd of thirty-one infected cows was recently exterminated in Putnam county. D. T. Lawson has successfully proved, by his experiments with boiler explosions near Pittsburgh, Pa., that they occur, not from low water, but by a sudden bursting of water into ■team. The tug-boat Henry C. Spratt exploded its boiler at the Philadelphia wharf f killing four men. George Scully, the Captain, was blown over the housetops in Water street. Immediately following . the explosion flames broke out in all directions. Pier No. 8, occupied as a passenger and freight station by the Philadelphia and Atlantic City railroad, took fire and was destroyed. The tug Ella, lying at the wharf below, also took fire, and sank after being well burned. .Windows were shattered in all directions for squares. Three dead bodies were found in the street. The front, of the ferry-house building was blown out, and tho watchman came near losing his life. The loss is $50,000. At a combination sale of trotting horses in New York, 107 were sold at an average price of $316.63 each. The Proctor House, at Kearsage mountain, New Hampshire, valued at $75,000, was swept away by flames.

West At Genoa, Nev., a great avalanche of snow buried three whites and fifteen Indians. . John Mott, telegraph operator and station agent at Glendale, Mo., has been arrested on a charge of participating in the Chicago and Alton express robbery at Blue Cut, Sept. 7, 1881. Two murderers were hanged by the outraged citizens of Dallas, Oregon. The body of Frank Stillwater, was found beside the railroad track near Tombstone, Arizona, riddled with rifle bullets and buckshot. He was a brother of the famous scout, Texas Jack. Barnes & McGill’s elevator at Hawley, Minn,, together with a large amount of wheat, were consumed by fire, involving a loss of $200,000. The Leavitt Street Congregational Church, of Chicago, has expcllod F. C. Rossiter, by a vote of 103 to 1, for making faces at the pastor during services. Ripon, Wis., has been visited by a disastrous fire, which destroyed all the buildings on the west side of the public square. The loss is estimated at from $125,000 to $150,000. In an affray near Emmetsburg, lowa, Charles Cornelian killed Fred Miller and committed suicide. A tragedy precisely similar occurred at St. Helena, Cal., the parties being Wm. Gans and J, O. Weinberger. The Wisconsin Legislature refused to pass a bill to restore capital punishment in the State. A loss of $75,000 was incurred at Leavenworth by a flour-dust explosion in the Novelty mills. Five men were seriously burned. South. A clerk in the mint of New Orleans gave to a stranger a negotiable receipt for $15,000 for two brass bricks with a thin covering of gold. An Englishman named C. D. Owens nearly killed a young lady of Tampa, Fla., with a knife. The citizens took him from jail and lynched him in full view of the United States Court. The Mayor and Sheriff had protested, and Lieut. Davis had ordered out the garrison, but too late. The oyster pirates captured not long since by the Governor of Virginia have been tried and sentenced each to one year in the penitentiary. Their vessels were confiscated. At a sale of the Montgomery White Sulphur springs, in Virginia, the porch of the hotel fell, killing one man and injuring twelve. Texas reports forty-one completed railroads, with a capital stock of $247,000,000. Elder Morgan, presiding elder of the Mormon church for the cotton States, has left Chattanooga for Salt Lake with nearly 200 converts.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Democrats of Rhode Island met in convention at Providence and nominated a full ticket for State officers, headed by H. A. Kimball for Governor. The Railroad Committee of the New York Assembly will report the Baker bill, which provides for three Commissioners with salaries of $6,000 each, to be appointed by the Governor. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Warden of the Washington jail reports that Gnitean has lost his appetite and had the sulks ever since he read an interview in which Scoville said he felt willing to have the assassin hanged, in order to draw attention to the need of legal reform in regard to insane criminals. Scoville says that he can get no counsel to attend to Guitean's case. The assassin is sure he will be released by the court in banc, in whioh case he proposes to leave for Europe, and, after “doing” the continent, return to the United States to leoture. Scoville thinks it would be better for the crank of the future that Guite&u should be hanged. It is now stated with considerable confidence, says a Washington correspondent, that Senator Teller, of Colorado, is to be Secretary of the Interior. The President said to-day to a friend that, now that the six mouths’ period of monrning is about to expire, the changes that he contemplates making will, follow in rapid succession, and that his friends who have been complaining of inaction will -, be satisfied. A Washington telegram says that Senator Ben Hill has improved so rapidly that he hopes soon to ride out His physicians think the cancer has been entirely removed. There is no truth whatever in the report telegraphed from Washington that the Georgia Senator was in a dying condition. Judge French, Assistant Secretary o!

the Treasury, is to be succeeded by A G. Olmstead, of Potter county, Pa. The First Auditorahip is to be given to ex-Congressman O. W. Gillfillan. '• Gen. and Mrs. Grant were the guests of the President at the White House last week, and were quartered in their old rooms. The Senate Military Committee will report adversely on the bill to place Gen. Pleaaontou on the retired list. The wife of Sergt. Mason makes an appeal for aid for herself and ohildren, and expresses the belief that her husband has been sufficiently punished by six months’ imprisonment. The Connecticut House of Representatives refused to receive a resolution for Mason’s restoration to the army. A New York dispatch says that so far $2,000 have been collected for Mrs. Sergt. Mason and the baby, and it is estimated that the fund will reach $25,000, if not more. It is stated in Washington that Gen. Swaim, Judge Advocate General, will report to the Secretary of War that the court-martial which tried Sergt. Mason had no jurisdiction. A Washington telegram of March 23 •ays: The Secretary of War has ordered 300,OOOrations to be issued at New Orleans for the benefit of Louisiana flood sufferers, 200,000 at Memphis for Mississippi, 50,000 at Helena for Arkansas, and 10,000 each at Charleston, New Msdrid and Gayoso, for Arkansas. A large and influential meeting of the friends and advocates of the Hennepin ca * nal was held in Washington. Speeches showing the necessity of the work and its national character were delivered by Senator Windom. Congressman Frost of Missouri, Senator Logan, Speaker Keifer, ex-Congressman Hogan and Representative Van Horn of Missouri, Representative Russell of Massachusetts, Senator Allison, Clark E. Carr of Galesburg, HL, and others. A resolution was adopted to the effect that the great lakes and the Upper Mississippi river united would form the most extensive and complete internal water-route in the world, and that urgent demands of commerce require that all obstacles to tlieir union should be removed with the least possible doiay.

FOREIGN NEWS. While Emperor William was leaving the Academy in Berlin, hia foot slipped on the stairway and he fell, and his right elbow and knee were slightly contused. In the French Chamber of Deputies the Government introduced a bill allowing witnesses in law courts, instead of taking an oath before God, to promise on their honor and con science to speak the truth. A rent-collector of Clonmellon, Ireland, was mortally shot while driving to church with his family, and a police sub-inspector was fatally wounded in a disturbance in County Sligo. Some citizens of Ravenna, Italy, assembled to celebrate the anniversary of the Paris Commune. A conflict with the troops en_ sued, in which one soldier was killed and another wounded. Bismarck, being questioned on some subject relating to internal affairs, replied that his time and strength were folly occupied in preserving the peace of Europe. While Victor Hugo was entertaining some friends in Paris, a telegram was received from St. Petersburg announcing that the Czar had spared the lives of five Nihilists in whose behalf Victor Hugo had pleaded. On learning the newß Victor Hugo toasted the Czar. The ringleaders in the recent Corean rebellion were first quartered and then decapitated. In London, the Marquis of Huntley was twice arrested for swindling, and held to bail in £2,000 and £7,500 respectively. A fire near Northampton, England, swept away twenty-five houses. At Emod, Hungary, 350 buildings were burned, and nine ives were lost. A London journalist reports that Don Philippe de Bourbon is about to marry Miss Mackey, an American heiress. King Humbert, of Italy, told, the French Ambassador that he saw no cloud on the political horizon, and that his country desired peace. A daughter of Prince Pierre Bonaparte, of Paris, has wedded the Marquis de Pargemont An invitation to Moody and Sankey to spend a year in London in evangelical work has been signed by 800 persons of prominenoe in Great Britain. By a vote of 387 to 42 the British House of Commons granted to Prince Leopold an additional annuity of £IO,OOO, and a pension of £6,000 yearly for his widow In the event of his death.