Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. Four colored men were drowned by the swamping of a boat near Layton’s Station, Pa. Sullivan, a mill operative at Dedham, near Boston, Mass., while intoxicated, brutally murdered his wife with a razor. Five men were killed by an explosion in a mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Arthur Chambers, the pugilist, has been sued for SIO,OOO damages for assault. With one blow he broke the nose and closed the eye of William E. Harding, the sporting editor of the Police Gazette. A boarding-house, kept by Mr. Nichol, at We.-t Ansonia, Conn., was destroyed by fire, and James and Eliot Bassett were burned to death. Several men and a lady and child leaped from a balcony. The paper mill of Richards & Co., Gardner, Me., burned. Loss, $50,000 ; insured for $32,000. Ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, has again been arrested in New York on charge of swindling. A member of the New Jersey Legislature was given SSOO to vote for the passage of a railroad bill. The affair will be investigated. West. The St Louis directory for 1882 contains nearly 19,000 more names than its predecessor. Great excitement was caused at Columbus, Ohio, by the discovery of the attempt to bribe members of the Legislature to vote away the canal at Cincinnati to a railroad company. John Laird, who was arrested near Independence, Mo., last fall, for complicity in the “Blue Cut” train robbery, near Glendale, on the Chicago and Alton railway, has made a full and complete confession of the ent : re affair, giving all the details and naming lira companions so far as he knew them. He confesses to having participated in the affair, which was managed and led by the James • boys. The greenhorns who aided them were left out entirely when it came to dividing the swag. On a train near Medora, Ind., an intoxicated maniac killed A C. Wingate, of Lexington, Ky., without provocation. The murderer then leaped from the train and drowned himself.

On a ranch about eight miles from Tombstone, Arizona, in a battle with cattie thieves, Deputy Sheriff Gillespie was killed, and the desperadoes sought were both fatally wounded. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road reports gross earnings for 1881 at $21,324,150, and a net income of $10,257,635. The funded debt is $59,122,725, and the miles of track 2,924. The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned on the 30th ult., nfter being eighty days in session, passing 310 bills and appropriating for State pu eposes $ 675,253. The Ohio Legislature has passed the Pond liquor bill, by which saloon-keepers must pay an annual tax of from SIOO to S3OO, and give bond in SI,OOO. The Governor of Missouri has paid over to H. H. Craig, of the Kansas City police, and J. R. Timberlake, Sheriff of Clay county, the reward of $5,000 offered for the capture of Clarance Hite, one of the Winston trainrobbers. At a point sixty miles west of San An tonio the El Paso stages bound east and west were robbed by two men. South. The distressing condition of affairs in the Southwest has caused the abandonment of the project to celebrate the anniversary of the discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi by La Salle. At Richmond, Va., flames broke out in the Petersburg railroad bridge, and tumbled 1 hat structure into the river, extending to the tobacco factories of T. M. Butherford <fc Co. R, A. Patterson & Co., T. C. Williams A Co., the stemmeries of J. A Hutchinson, C. R. <fc F. D. Barksdale, and Aborn & Edwards, the Vulcan Iron Workdf twenty tenement-houses, ten freight cars, and L. P. Smith’s grist mill, all of which were destroyed. At the Manchester end of the bridge the Virginia Kaoline Works were burned. The loss aggregates $500,090. Dan O’Leary was beaten by amateurs in a pedestrian contest at Galveston. Kate Sothern, the famous Georgia murderess, who killed her husband's paramour, has been pardoned by Gov. Colquitt Several persons were killed and. two churches demolished in the southeastern portion of Alabama by a cyclone. A negro woman was picked up and carried 200 yards. A tornado at Monroe, La., did great damage to property and caused some loss of life. Col. John A Pratt?, a veteran in the politics of Kentucky, has become, insane. A distracted mother killed two of her children and then drowned herself and her infant child, in Lincoln county, Ark. The Governor of Maryland signed a bill which fixes the punlslffdent of wifo-beatera at forty lashes. • ,

The Republican Congressional Committee organized by theelepfijn <jf Representative Hubbell, of Michigan, as Chairman. The committee was enlarged to fifteen members. Hon. A. G. Curtin, Pennsylvania’s war Governor, is named as the probable Democratic candidate for Governor of the Quaker State next fall. WASHINGTON NOTES, A recent Washington dispatch says : Guiteau has raised his rates for autographs and photographs. He has stuck up a card at the door of his cell, with this inscription: “ Hereafter my autographs will be sold for ♦2.50 per dozen, or 25 cents each. No ektra charge will be made for adding religious sentiments to them, such as *ln God we trust’ or something like that. My large-sized photographs, with autographs on them, will be furnished for $1 each, or $9 per dozen.” The report of J udge Advocate General Swaim in the case of Sergeant Mason is to the effect that the accused is illegally in the penitentiary, because the proceedings of the court-martial were not strictly in aoc«r§fnce with the law. The Ways and Means Committee at Washington has agreed on a bill whichjvill make an annual reduction of' $23,000,000 in the internal revenue. It proposes the abolijibn of the stamp tax on bank checks, matches, perfumery, etc., of the taxes on banking' capital and deposits, and makes material reduefams in the pf liquor and tobacco dealers, t

'resident Arthur held his first puoiic reception at the Executive Mansion last week. He was assisted by Geh. U. 8. and Mrs. Grant, the ladies of Cabinet officers and others. There was an enormous crowd of all sorts and conditions of citizens in Washington. Richard T. Merrick, the well-known •Democratic lawyer of Washington, has been Appointed by Attorney General Brewster as fecial assistant attorney to assist in the prose•ntionof the star-route thieves. Jacob W. Kerr, formerly paying teller a the Bank of the Republic, at Washington, dt hinlself through the heart, having lost money of others In stock speculations. The bill of exceptions in the Guiteau case will fill two quarto volumes of 1,000 pages each, and will be presented to the court April 24, the first day of the next term of the Crimnal Court of the District of Columbia.

———r ! FOREIGN NEWS. The English daily at Constantinople, the Levant Herald, has once more been suppressed. On the ground that a meeting at Rome would certainly offend the Pope, the Emperor of Austria has abandoned his intention to visit the King of Italy. At Havre, France, a life-boat, while | attempting to rescue the crew of a ship in dis- i tress, was capsized, and her crew of nine men ; drowned. An Irish and an English regiment are stationed at Galway, and are constantly at war. The pickets of the English organization were recently attacked by members of the other regiment, and several men were bayoneted. A newspaper correspondent named I Hofer was killed'in a duel at Pestb. Gambetta has gone into journalism. He is directing the ItepMique Francaise, and has also bought the France and the Petit Journal. The German Government will not permit German laborers to engage for work on ] the Panama canal because of the. unhealthy ' climattk • It is believed that the Nihilists are concentrating in Moscow, preparing for an •outbreak during the fair, which opens in a few weeks. American residents in London are making great efforts to save Dr. Lamson from the gallows, basing their claims upon the aleged insanity of the homicide, Dublin cablegrams announce that the residence.of the agent of Lord Clonbrook, in County Galway, was wrecked by dynamite. A shell was thrown into a house near Letterkenny, destroying two rooms. A desperate affray occurred at Cloghan, Kings cofinty, Ireland, between soldiers and “emergency men." The latter discharged their revolvers, and there were several arrests. The London Times calls our navy a phantom fleet. Spain, will permit no agitation for local self-government in Cuba. Two sloops and thirty persons were lost off the northeast coast of France. The French Chamber of Deputies has repealed the decree which prohibited the importation of American pork. Skobeleff is again to the front <m>behalf of the Slavs, and proposes to collect a find on behalf of the reunion chimera. Skobeleff, the pro-Slavic crank, has been named for a position which will take him away from Russia. Labo| riots, attended with destruction of properly, have occurred at Barcelona. An influential party in England are

opposed to the submarine tunnel, connecting the “ tight little island” with France. Nihilistic placards sentencing the Czar to death have been posted in St Petersburg. The Empress of Russia has quarreled with her husband. He was too attentive to a circus-rider. Emigrants are arriving at Winnipeg, Manitoba, at the rate of 1,000 a day. The man who defrauded Mr. Evans (the American dentist at Paris) out of 1,000,000 francs has been extradited from Brussels.