Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The business failures throughout the country for the seven days ending April 15, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co.’s mercantile agency, number 122, as follows: Southern States, 38; Western, 34; Middle, 19; Eastern, 22; Pacific and Territories, 8; New York city, 6. 'The Poughkeepsie Iron and Steel Company suspended, as also the New York tfnd Boston Manufacturing Company. Other failures in the city unimportant. It is announced that the well-known firm of A. T. Stewart & Co. have determined to discontinue their dry-goods and manufacturing business, and that they offer for sale their entire stock of merchandise and all their mill properties. The announcement will cause general surprise in the mercantile world, although it has been known for some time that the sales of the firm were not as Urge as when Mr. Stewart was at the head of the Abuse which he founded. •

Two negroes who, by their own confession, were implicated in the murder of J. B. Weisinper, near Selma, Ala., last December, were seized, the other day, and lynched by forty masked men. A fire at Titusville, Pa., destroyed the Hotel Brunswick, the Parshall Opera House and hotel, and the Watson stables, on which the loss is estimated at $250,000. A fireman was fatally burned, and a colored cook probably lost her life. In the suit for libel brought in the New York courts by Rev. Samuel D. Hinman against Bishop William H. Hare, the jury rendered a verdict of SIO,OOO for the plaintiff. Counsel for Bishop have moved for a new tnal. On the first ballot by the jury ten voted in favor of $25,000 for plaintiff and two voted for a ver diet for defendant. Next morning they compromised on SIO,OOO for the plaintiff. Scoville lectured on the Guiteau trial to three policemen, eight reporters and twenty others in Jersey City, N. J. John Land, the Blue Cut (Mo.) train robber, has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for psrjury. At Sedalia, Mo., fellow-soldiers -with Jesse James in the Confederate service have raised $250 for his widow and children. Eighteen Nihilists have escaped from Siberia. Among them is Mikaloff, one of the assassins of Gen. Miezenthoff. Ben Halliday’s famous claim has been approved by the Senate Committee on Claimsit amounts to $380,000, and has been before Congress for ten years. The Senate Committee on Territories will report Mr. Butler’s bill to create a Territorial Government in Alaska, the present officers to constitute a Legislative Council. The Canadian Senate has passed a bin legalizing marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. Its opponents give notice that they will appeal to the Governor General for a veto or to the Queen to disallow the bill.