Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Gen. Streelnekoff, the public prosecutor of the Kief military tribunal, was shot through the head and instantly killed while riding on the boulevard at Odessa, Russia. Two of the assassins were stopped while fleeing from the scene in a carriage. They offered violent resistance with their revolvers and poniards, and wounded three persons, but were finally overpowered and conveyed to the police station. A third person escaped, and he was the actual assassin. The Czar ordered the commutation of the death sentence of the Nihilists recently convicted, except Lieut. Sucharoff, who wa s shot by soldiers. The new liquor law that has just passed the Legislature of Ohio imposes a license of S3OO for saloons in all cities of the first class, and requires heavy bonds. Pueblo, Col., has been the scene of a wholesale lynching affair. A mob of sixteen men quietly took from the county jail two notorious cattle-thieves, W. T. Phoebus and Jay W. McGreu, and hung them to a tree within 100 yards of the jail. The vigilantes did not end their work here, but struck out to dispose of the rest of the gang of cattle-thieves and treat them in the same manner. Proceeding to Chastine’s ranche, ten miles distant, they surrounded the house, and, after careful preparations, entered and captured three men, S. P. Chastine, Berry 'Chastine and Frank Owsby. With hands securely bound, the vigilantes on horseback drove the men to a thick patch of timber a short distance away, and without much further delay strung them up, waiting long enough to be sure that they were dead. Cyrus W. Field erected a monument to the British spy, Maj. Andre, whom Washington hung opposite to Tarrytown, N.Y. It has been an eyesore to divers and sundry greatgrandsons of Revolutionary sires, and one of them, a few weeks ago, defaced it, and has been sued for damages by Field. Somebody, the other day, concluded to settle the quarrel over the monument by laying a chunk of dynamite at its foot. The dynamite went off, and so did a big slice of the monument. Neither of them has been seen since. Minister Hurlbut writes to the Peruvian Investigating Committee that Alexander Cochet was always a French subject, and any rights he possessed descended to his sisters in France, as there is no evidence of the legitimatizing of his bastard son through whom the Peruvian Company claims title. The claim was decided adversely, in 1861, by a mixed commission of French and Peruvian citizens appointed under a treaty.