Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Eaet. The figures of the nationality of New York’s population, just completed, show 200,C00 of Irish birth and 165,000 Germans—-one-third of the total population. William H. Vanderbilt purposes building a mausoleum on Staten island, which will cover an acre and a half, the building, which will be seventy feet high, to be seen twenty miles at sea on a clear day. The Rev. Samuel 0. Fessenden, Representative from Maine in the Thirty-seventh Congress, died at Forth.'id. The trial of the Malley boys and Blanche Douglas for the murder of Jennie Cramer was commenced at New Haven on the 18th of April Charles Francis Adams, Since his adventure with the bunko men, has given entire control of his business affairs to his son, John Quincy Adams. A cyclone which ravaged the northern portion of Fayette county, Pa., killed three persons, fatally injured six others, and destroyed property valued at nearly SIOO,OOO. The Governor of Maine has appointed Nathan Cleaves for Justice of the Supreme Court, in place of Artemus Libby. The Rhode Island General Assembly has elected George M. Carpenter Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, to take the place of the late Judge Potter. ♦ West. The distillery of Oscar Furst, located two miles south of Peoria, 111., and the bonded warehouse adjoining were destroyed by fire. The loss is $350,000, and the insurance $200,000. The institution will be speedily rebuilt A storm of unparalleled severity raged in the region of Deadwood for a week, almost destroying the telegraph lines. ’ A Chicago firm was fined SIOO and costs for manufacturing spurious Worcestershire sauce. Crop reports from Minnesota and Dakota show seeding well begun in most sections. Col. Ozro J. Dodds, of Cincinnati, exmember of Congress from Ohio, is dead. Six inches of snow fell in the region of Marquette, Mich., on the 19th of*April. Denver, Col., has a big sensation in a suit for separate maintenance, which has been instituted by Mrs. H. A. W. Tabor against her husband, Lieut. Gov. Tabor, of Colorado. The Legislature of Missouri has been convened in extra session for the purpose of redistricting the State. Arizona advices report an Indian outbreak at San Carlos agency. Chief Shreve, four bucks and thirty squaws and children left the'reservation. John Sterling, chief of the Indian po ice, was killed. Chief Laco, with thirty bucks (Warm Spring Indians), also left the reservation. There is a fine prospect for winter wheat in Wisconsin. Twenty-one counties in Kansas report crop prospects unsurpassed. Grass was never so promising, and cattle and sheep passed through the winter well. Capt. R ibert Baldwin, the oldest steamboat man on the Ohio river, died at New Albany, Ind. The annual report of the Santa Fe road shows gross earnings of $12,584,508 and a net income of $4,546,682. There were three cash dividends of 5X per cent, and a surplus remains of $1,132,071. South. A telegraph operator at Clyde, Texas, sent a message to the train-dispatcher to forward a doctor by a switch- engine, and then fell back dead at his table. The first of the election trials at Charleston, 8. C., resulted in a verdict of guilty. The jury was composed of six white men and six negroes. Three of the white men were Republicans. Two of the white jurors subsequently stated that they signed the verdict under threats. The trials are causing a good deal of excitement throughout the Palmetto State. A band of Arkansas convicts, encamped near Little Rock, made a dash for freedom. Eight passed the guards, but one' of them was shot dead, two were badly wounded, and five escaped to the woods. Capt. John W. Cannon, a veteran Mississippi steamboat man, and owner of the famous steamer Robert E. Lee, died at Lexington, Ky., aged 62. The prospects for fine crops in Arkansas and Texas were never so - favorable as this season. Gen. D. H. Hlil, a noted Confed-’ eratc leader, has resigned the Presidency of the Arkansas Industrial University. A Bohemian named Mosig has been arrested in Texas for having forged SIOO,OOO worth of bank paper in Austria two years ago. He will be extradited. At Tanner, Miss., a waterspout, which lasted twenty minutes, washed away cattle and did other damage. No lives were lost

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Committee on Education and Labor of the House gs Representatives has agreed to report favorably the bill of the Hon. John C. Sherwin proposing Government aid for the education of the people. A lot of old furniture, some of it dating back to President Jackson’s time, was sold from the White House the other day. The appointment of C. 0. Rockwell as Deputy Collector of the port of New York has been approved by Secretary Folger. Secretary Chandler took the oath of office as Secretary on the 17th inst, and at once entered upon the discharge of his new duties. John W. Guiteau reappeared in Washington last week for the purpose of obtaining from his brother a power of attorney. At an interview in the jail the assassin became furious in bis denunciations of his relatives. Scoville persists in remaining in the case, although Reed has been given sole charge. Secretary Teller took possession of the Interior Department, and attended his first Cabinet Council. 8. W. Dorsey made his appearance in the Criminal Court at Washington the other day in the star-route oases, and the forfeiture of his recognizance was erased from the record. He entered a plea of not guilty. President Arthur will probably sign the bill which parsed the House of Representatives restricting Chinese immigration, as it does not contain the provisions objected to by him in the other bill.

POLITICALPOINTS.' 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 and Nebraska previous to settling in Colorado. The State Republican Executive Committee of North Carolina favors an alliance with the Liberal movement, and has called a State Convention for June 14. The Prohibitionists met in State Convention at Hartford, Conn., and nominated George P. Rogers for Governor. A delegation from New Albany called upon James G. Blaine and asked him to deliver an oration on Decoration day. He replied that bo expected to be in Europe before that time. FOREIGN NEWS. Garibaldi has returned to his island home, Caprera. Spain is suffering from an unusually long drought. The Government is helping the Andalusian peasants with work. Gen. Melikoff has been summoned to St. Petersburg to advise measures for securing the personal safety of the Czar during his coronation. In response to the request of President Arthur, Queen Victoria has respited Dr. Lamson to April 28, to await the arrival of documents from the United States. The Prefect of Police at St. Petersburg received a casket of eggs emptied of their natural contents and filled with dynamite. The expense of administering the Land act thus far is £90,000. Reductions of rent made by the Land Commissioners estimated at £30,000. Advices from Siberia are to the effect that the steamer Rodgers, which went in search of the survivors of the Jeannette, has been burned and sunk, and that Lieut. Berry and his officers and crew, numbering thirty-six, are near Cape Serdge. At Sunderland, England, an explosion in a coal mine caused the death of thirty-five persons.

Russia says we needn’t protest against her exclusion of the Jews, as we are playing the same game ourselves with the Chinese. A bailiff in the service of the Emergency Committee was killed while going from Limerick to Kiltealy. Forty tenants on the estate of Lord Clancarry, in County Limerick, have been evicted. There was a riot at the Camborne mines, Cornwall, England, caused by ill-feeling between the Cornishmen and the Irish miners. The former wrecked the Catholic Church and the houses of the Irishmen. The trial of McLain, the man who fired at Queen Victoria, was held at Reading, Berks (near Windsor Castle). Lord Chief Justice Coleridge presided, and Mr. Montague Williams defended the prisoner and pleaded insanity for him. The jury returned a verdict of “ not guilty, on the ground of insanity.” Bismarck caused the suspension for two years of a comic paper of Berlin, and the imprisonment of another journalist for inserting a blasphemous letter in regard to Gambetta. The French Cabinet Council has approved the scheme of De Lesseps to fill up the Desert of Sahara with salt water, and separate Tunis and Algeria from Tripoli. An American colt, Passaic, won the City and Suburban Handicap, an important English turf event. The King of Burmah has had another attack of delirium tremens, and the wholesale slaughter of relatives who have incurred his ill will is reported. One of his wives, two halfsisters, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and fifty relatives of these people have already been massacred by order of Thebaw. An angry debate occurred in the British House of Commons concerning the Government’s circular in the case of Clifford Lloyd, whose opposition to the no-rent movement has earned him the deadly animosity of the Land Leaguers. In the heated discussion that ensued Redmond denounced Forster as dishonest, and was punished by suspension by a vote of 207 yeas to 12 nays.