Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Brown Pierce, a farmer living near Richardson, Texas,going from a field to dinner, found his wife hanging from a door-knob and his three children lying dead on the floor, side by side. The supposition is that Mrs. Pierce strangled the children and then took a strong dose of laudanum and bluestone, after which she hanged herself. In the case of Hallet Kilbourne against John G. Thompson, to recover damages for imprisonment ordered by the House of Representatives while Thompson was Sergeant-at-Arms of that body, the jury returned a verdict for SIOO,OOO in favor of the plaintiff. The case rested upon the decision of the Supreme Court that Congress has no right to imprison a witness for refusal to answer a question. Thompson under this ruling had no defense. Upon him devolved the duty of executing the decree of the House, and in suing him Kilbourne virtually made the House a defendant to the action. The jury were instructed to bring in a verdict for the plaintiff and to regulate the amoupt gs damages iu due proportion to the

suffering sustained by his feelings, person and property on account of the imprisonment. Gen. W. L. Burt died at Saratoga of paralysis. He was President of ’the Hoosac Tunnel road and one of the most active rail" road builders in the country. He graduated a Harvard, was Judge Advocate General of Massachusetts under Gov. Andrew, and Postmaster of Boston under President Grant. The Republicans of Oregon nominated F. R. Moody for Governor and M. C. George for Congressman. The platform demands the abrogation of the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty, and condemns the attitude of the President in regard to the Chinese bill. Gov. Tabor and others have sold the Henriette mine at Leadville to a party of French and English capitalists for $1,500,000. Rev. Dr. Leroy M. Lee, a noted Methodist writer of Virginia, died at Richmond. Reynolds, one of the party who robbed the Hatton Garden postoffice in London, is a native of Chicago. Fitz-John Porter, claiming that his acts saved the Union army from disaster on the 29th of August, 1862, has made a fresh appeal to the president to remit the unexecuted portion of the sentence of the court-martial and carry ihto effect the recommendation of the Advisory Board. Four executions under authority of law took place on Friday, April 21, in different parts of the country. The persons upon whom the extreme penalty was visited were William Sindram, in New York city ; Bent Taylor, at Corning, Ark.; W. W. Ray, at Pulaski, Teno.; George B shannon, at Rolla, Mo. The bill to place Gen. Grant on the retired list has stirred the friends of Gens. Averill and Pleasoiiton to insist upon the same honor. Gen. Averill, the famous cavalry leader, is said to be in almost destitute circumstances.