Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]
LATER NEWS ITEMS.
The Minnesota Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, fouud Judge E. St. Ju iau Cox guilty of drunkenness and conduct unbecoming a Judge, after a trial lasting several weeks. The sentence is removal from office and disqualification for judicial office for three years. The Secretary of the Navy, at Washington, has received from Lieut. Melville, at Jakontsk, Husain, the details of the plan for the search of Lieut. DeLoug and companions. The search will Lo earried on by three parties each accompanied by two explorers with a dogsled and driver. The wilds of Northern Siberia are to be scoured in every dirSction. The country is impassable, except dur.ng the periods of intense cold, aud the programme undoubtedly ■ means the death of some of the explorers. Bat
little will be heard of the searching parties until this time next year. The hangman is through with William Heilwagon, who murdered his daughter-in-law at Hampton, Ill.; Frank and Henry Rnmbepger, of Uniontown, Pa., who killed Daniel Troutman; Edgar F. Small, of Pittsburgh, who shot Nicholas Jacoby ; Jonathan Mayer, of Middleburg, Pa., one of tho party who took the life of the Kintzlers; Jack Neverliug, of Clearfield, Pa., the murderer of Samuel Pen* nington, and John C. McCarthy, of Richburg, N. Y., for stabbing to death Patrick Markey. All seven of them were executed on Friday, March 24. A great meeting, attended by 1,500 representative citizens from every section and county of Ohio, was held at Columbus to urge upon the Legislature the enactment of a law suppressing the Sunday whisky traffic. W. P. South worth’s extensive grocery establishment, in Cleveland, and two adjoining Btores, were swept away by flames. Total loss about $270,000. Crow Dog, the Indian chief who killed Spotted Tail, has been convicted in the Federal court at Deadwood, and sentenced to death. The people of the Black Hills charge that the result was reached by perjured testimony, and they propose to appeal to the Supreme Court A most favorable impression has been produced by the telegram of the Czar to Emperor William of Germany. It is thought the effect of the Skobeleff incident has now almost wholly disappeared. The French Senate passed the Primary Education bill, as adopted by the Chamber of Deputies, after an exciting debate. Two barks were wrecked and fourteen persons drowned in a gale off the coast of Algeria. Rear Admiral Gustav us H. Scott, on the navy retired list, died in New York. Judge Neilson, of Brooklyn, decides that, suitable schools having Inen established for colored pupils, the latter cannot attend the public schools provided for white children. There were 115 business failures in this country during the third week of March, a considerable reduction as compared with corresponding periods for some time previous. Guiteau has received an offer from a St. Louis man named Cook of S2OO for the suit he wore when he shot the President, and $l5O for the clothes he wore through the trial
