Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Gen. Geo. E. Law, the defaulting County Treasurer At Portsmouth, N. EL, has been set at liberty, his defalcation of *20,976.51 having been made good. Charles Morris, after raising about *70,000 by forgeries, borrowing and raising money for suffirers of all kinds, has disappeared from Lynn, Mass., leaving a wife and children behind. Mrs. Nichols Smith, eldest daughter of the late Horace Greeley, died of diphtheria at her father’s homestead, Chappaqua, N. Y. She leaves three children, the youngest 4 weeks old. She was ill ouly one week. By a vote of 13 to 12 the Board of Harvard College declared its unwillingness to train female doctors in its medical school. The Connecticut House of Representatives has passed by a vote of 141 yeas to 24 nays a constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, except for medical purposes. John F. Slater, a wealthy citizen of Norwich, Conn., proposes to give *1,000,001 toward the education of the negroes of the Southern States. R. B. Hayes, Gov. Colquitt, William E. Dodge and others are to act as trustees of the fund. The Connecticut Legislature hits passed a law limiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors. Flames destroyed the carriage factory of R. W. Slivers, in New York city. Lobb, *150,000. Wart. A Kansas City dispatch says: “The State of Kansas, throughout its length and breadth, has been visited by heavy and greatly needed rains, unfortunately accompanied, however, in some sections by stornls reviving the recollections of the great cyclone of May 30, 1879, though not nearly so destructive. A welldefined cyclone started on the evening of the Bth, south of Kansas river, first making itself felt in Stafford county, one of the new and sparsely-settled counties. The little town of Stafford Center, of a few houses, was damaged, but it is not known exactly to what extent. The storm proceeded, as is usual, from southwest to northeast, crossing the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad a short distance east of Raymond.. A dozen telegraph poles were torn down, indicating the width of the cyclone at that point. The country being more thickly settled here, destruction began to mark the track of the storm. In Davis, Butler and Dickinson counties there was much destruction of valuable property, and several people were killed. Notwithstanding the damages as stated, the great rainfall has been worth countless millions to the State, and no brighter agricultural prospect has ever been known.” Tucker Basham, a former member of the Jesse James gang, was assassinated near Great Bend, Kas. Basham was one of the parties engaged in the robbery of the Chicago A Alton train at Glendale in 1879, and when arrested made a full confession, naming his accomplices and giving full details. He was convicted, however, and sent to the penitentiary for ten years, but when Bill Ryan, also a member of the Glendale gang, was arrested, Basham was pardoned by the Governor in order that he might be used as a prosecuting witness. Thomas Fishburn, a farmer near Grafton, Ohio, who had been immured in the insane asylum, killed his wife with a stick of wood and disappeared. Next morning he was found dead in a neighboring field, having slain himself with a knife.

8. H. Laflin, a eon of the powder manufacturer, shot himself in the breast, at St. Louis, because of unrequited affection. All but thirty miles of the new railway between Chicago and Buffalo has been laid, and the gap will be closed by May 15. The last work will be the completion of the two great viaducts at Cleveland. The personal effects and household goods of Jesse James, the dead outlaw, were sold at public auction in St. Joseph. Mo. About $lO worth of old rubbish brought almost S2OO. The outlaw’s dog, a very common animal, brought sls; the chair on which he was standing when shot, $5; five other plain cane chairs, $2 each; a half dozen stone china plates, $1 each; a half dozen saucers, 50 cents each; knives and forks, $1 each; an old wash basin, $4.75; the duster the outlaw was brushing off the picture with at the fatal moment, $5; a worthless jackknife, $4; an old sachel, s2l; a washstand, $11; a crippled revolver, sl7; a pair of old mits, $2. Many other articles brought similar prices. William A. Hulbert, President of the National League of Base Ball Clubs, and also President and active manager of the Chicago Base Ball Club, died in Chicago of heart disease. The Northern Pacific road has met with complete success in its experiments with artesian wells in Dakota. Water nearly as pure as that from Lake Superior flows thirty feet abeve the ground at Tower City.

South. A passenger train on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe road was robbed a few miles south of Cleburne, Texas. Six men, wearing masks and roughly dressed, entered the coaches. Two took position and guarded the doors at either end, the other two going through the car with cocked pistols. One carrying a pillow-slip ordered a missionary fund. All the passengers did as ordered. When they were about through with the passengers, the conductor entered the car, and, seeing what was up, rushed for the express oar. One of the robbers fired at him, but he escaped unhurt, the ball passing through the express-car door. All the robbers then jumped off and disappeared. The amount secured is not known. Several parties gave up large sums. The officers were notified at Fort Worth, and a posse with bloodhounds were put in pursuit. The residence of Gustav Burgess, of Madison county, Ark., was burned down during the absence of Mr. B. and his wife, and three interesting children perished in the flames. Southern farmers, as a general thing, are planting larger food crops and less cotton this yearthan ever before. At Wrightsville, Ark., a boiler explosion in a saw-mill killed three men. Mary Booth, aged 14, and colored, poisoned the family coffee of her employer, R. 0. Gray, in Surrey county, Va. Mrs. Gray and Travis E. Jones died of the poison. Dallas, Texas, was visited by a hailstorm that shattered every exposed window in the city. The haii-stones ranged in size from the dimensions of a walnut to a base-ball, and their falling sounded like the discharge of firearms. A jury at New Orleans awarded $ 20,000 damages to McNeil and wife for the death of their son on the Louisville and Nashville rood. The Texas Legislature has passed a bill reducing railroad fare to 3 cents per mile. The flood in the Lower Mississippi

valley, says a recent telegram from Helena, Ark., leaves behind a terrible picture of waste and ruin. The city in the overflowed district certainly shows signs of a terrible scourge having passed over it The suffering and unhappiness that have been experienced by the people of this region can never be imagined. The boiler of the steamer Planter exploded in Charleston harbor, killing a colored deck-hand and scalding the mate and engineer. WASHINGTON NOTES. Representative Allen, of Missouri, who has just died at the capital, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., Aug. 29, 1813. At 16 years of age he entered Union College and graduated in 1832. In October of the same year he went to New York and commenced the study of law. In 1834 he assumed the editorship of the Family Magazine, a position he held for two years. In 1835 he was admitted to the bar in New York. In 1837 he began the publication of the Madisonian, at -Washington, D. C., and was elected Public Printer. In the spring of the 1842 he took up his residence in St. Louis, where he married and has since resided. The House Committee on Education and Labor has ordered a bill drafted to appropriate *10,060,000 for schools throughout the United States in proportion to the prevailing illiteracy. In the star-route cases Judge Wylie decided the indictments sufficient. The re cognizance of Stephen W. Dorsey was declared forfeited and his arrest was ordered. Jail Warden Crocker says he has never seen Guiteau so enraged as since hearing of the move of his sister to have a Chicago court give her legal custody of his estate. Guiteau thinks all his sister wants to accomplish is to get tho profit of his book. He declares that, if he has to die, he will make a will which will keep her from getting a cent f|»m his estate. Scoville he positively rules out of ■the case, and Reed will hereafter have entire charge. Guiteau has obtained about *7OO from the sale of his pictures and autographs. His receipts average *lO daily. The assassin has issued the following “card :”

Mrs. Frances M. Scoville, according to newspaper report, has Impudently filed a petition in Chicago for a conservator of my estate. The absurdity of her pretension is apparent from the fact that I do not live in Illinois, and have not for nearly three years. Besides, lam not a lunatic. This was officially decided on my trial. I have lived in Washington for over a year, and this is my legal residence. The court had better dismiss the petition peremptorily. The Scovilles are nuisances, and I want nothing to do with them. Chaiii.es Guiteau. It is said the President will make the Fitz John Porter case the subject of a special communication to Congress at an early day. The Board of Managers of the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers has elected tho following officers for the ensuing year: President, Gen. W. B. Franklin ; First Vice President, Col. L. A. Harris ; Second Vice President, Col. J. A. Martin ; Secretary, Gen. McMahon. In order to mature a Chinese bill which would escape the objections urged against the vetoed measure, Senators Jones and Miller and Representative Page have been busily at work. They agreed to recommend the registration by American customs officers of every Celestial departing for home, and to fix the period for the suspension of immigra. tion at ten years. It is reported that Secretary Lincoln will be asked to retire from the War Department at an early day. Public Printer Rounds has reappointed Capt. T. H. Brian foreman of printing in the Government Printing Office—a position he held under Mr. Clapp. Bishop Brown, of the African M. E. church, accompanied by some of his ministers and the Hon. Fred Douglass, interviewed Attorney General Brewster with regard to the refusal of the United States Attorney of the Northern district of Florida to prosecute a railroad company who put Bishop Payne off the train at midnight, after the company had sold him a first-class ticket. Mr. Brewster promised to investigate the affair. For some months Capt. Howgate has lain in jail in Washington, being allowed by Marshal Henry to make an occasional visit to his family in charge of a bailiff. Deputy Williams managed to lose his prisoner the other day, and no traces of him have yet been discovered. POLITICAL POINTS. The Governor of Colorado has appointed George M. Chilcott, of Pueblo, as Senator to succeed Henry M. Teller. The appointee is a practicing lawyer, and was once a Delegate in Congress. He is a native of Pennsylvania, and had lived in lowa ana Nebraska previous to settling in Colorado.

FOREIGN NEWS. It is stated that the attacks upon the Jews in Southern Russia have recommenced. In one city the Jewish shops were set on fire with petroleum. Because of the activity of Nihilists of Moscow, the question of holding the coronation of the Czar elsewhere is being seriously discussed. After a diplomatic career of sixty years, and having for twenty-six years held the important post of Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Gortschakoff has, at his own request, been relieved of the duties of that office, and De Giers is made his successor Gortschakoff, however, remains Premier of the Russian Government, and retains the dignity of Imperial Chancellor and Member of the Council of the Empire. Parnell was released on parole for a week, to visit his sister in Paris, whose child has just died. Lord Macdonald undertook to evict twenty tenants on the Isle of Skye, but the process-server was warned away and the summonses burned. A London dispatch announces the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the famous poet and painter. Two thousand Jews were recently expelled from Moscow. France has addressed a note to the powers asking for a reopening of the monetary conference. The Czar of Russia is anxious to meet the Austrian Emperor, but circumstances prevent his naming the date. Ten Polish District Marshals have been appointed by the Czar, the first so declared for nineteen years, who will participate at the coronation. Jewels to the value of £20,000, belonging to the ladies of the imperial family of Brazil, have been stolen. Three persons perished ascending the Alps Ea-ster Sunday. The bodies were not recovered. The Minister of the Russian imperial household announces that the corouation of tho Czar will take place in Moscow in August. The festivities will last two weeks, and their expense will bo 10,000,000 roubles.