Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. l£a»t. Rev. Ralph Fothergill, a Methodist pastor of Fall Hirer, Mass., died of small-pox, leaving four cbiidren Ql with the same disease. He would permit neither himself nor his family to be vaccinated. John L. Sullivan the prize-fighter, was arraigned in the Police Court at Boston for knocking down Charles A. Bobbins in the street and fracturing his Jawbone. The pugilist was sentenced to three months in the Honse of Correction and gave bonds for an ap peal. Wert The city of St. Louis was visited by a terrific rain-storm, 1.56 inches of water falling in two hours. The main sewer of the city, known as Mill Creek sewer, became choked with debris, the surface gave way in several places, and a territory of thirty blocks of the southern portion of the city was inundated with six feet of water, rendering nearly 400 houses uninhabitable, and causing a damage of perhaps $260,000. A tornado swept through the streets of Cairo, 111. The colored Methodist Church and four other buildings were blown down, the gasometer and five loaded freight cars were overturned, and ten or more houses were unroofed. A destructive fire visited Lake City, Minn. The flames destroyed five solid squares of business buildings, leaving only three rows of buildings standing in the business portion of the town. The loss is roughly put at $400,000 and the insurance at $160,000. Flames broke out in Depere, Wis., and raged furiously among the wooden buildings until sixty were burned, on which the loss is estimated at SIIO,OOO. A Hollander lying in the stupor of drunkenness perished. Ohio’s new Sunday closing law went into effect Sunday the 22d of April. Nearly all the saloons in Cleveland remained closed throughout the day. The President of the Protective League was arrested for keeping his place open. Every liquor shop in Toledo and Columbus shut up at midnight on Saturday, and gave thorough obedience to the law. In Cincinnati about a third of the saloons kept open. Crop reports given by the Chicago Tribune from a large number of localities in the West present an almost uniformly gratifying and favorable showing. In the springwheat regions of Minnesota, Dakota, Wisconsin, lowa and Nebraska, seeding was begun, and is being pushed forward as actively as the weather will permit In Kansas a highly enencouraging outlook is reported, and the advices from Illinois points indicate that no very serious injury to winter wheat has resulted from the recent frosts.

Enu Claire, Wis., lias been visited by a disastrous conflagration, which resulted in the total destruction of no less than four blocks, located directly iu the heart of the business part of the city. Window, were blown out and smoko followed, which rendered it impossible to save any of the contents of many of the storeß. The total losses are variously estimated at from $150,000 to n 270,000. The Cincinnati Health Board reports 2,000 cases of small-pox there since January. At the comer of LaSalle and Randolph Btreets, Chicago, John A. Will, of Shelby, Ohio, put a bullet through the brain of Thomas Kelly, who had staggered against him. A man and a boy were killed in Chicago by the fall of a stone hoist or *' traveler,” and another man was severely injured. A man named Ed Murray tied his legs together at the ankles and jumped into the river from the St. Louis bridge. The tying converted his pantaloons into a life preserver, and he was buoyed by his breeches until rescued by a tugboat. The American Forestry Congress was organized at Cincinnati to encourage the planting and protection of trees. Hon. George B, Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, was chosen President, and D. D. Thompson, of Cincinnati, Secretary. The marital troubles of Congressman Clarke, of the Eleventh Missouri district, and his wife have been ended by a decree of divorce in favor of Gen. Clarke on the ground of “ incompatibility of temper.” One hundred masked men at Lake City, Col., took from jail George Betts and Jim Browning, the murderers of Sheriff Campbell, and banged them to a bridge. As the rope was being placed around his neck, Betts asked for a chew of tobacco. (Soutri.

In the United States court at Charleston, 8. 0., the canvassers of Sumter county pleaded guilty to refusing to count the votes of three precincts. Judge Bond announced that the Government only desired the vindication of the law, and therefore allowed the prisoners to go without sentence. A tornado near Selma, Ala., swept away houses, fences and trees for a length of twelve miles. Five lives are already known to have been lost. A negro woman was found in a cotton field pierced through the heart by a piece of plank. Fuller reports of the damage wrought by the tornado at Montioello, Miss., place the killed at fifteen and the wounded at thirty, several of whom cannot recover. One of the Texas and Pacific trainrobbers has been captured by rangers, and is mortally wounded. His father, a reputable farmer, divulged his whereabouts, and requested his arrest and imprisonment Eight miles from the soeno of the recent raid rails were removed from a high trestle, but the engineer saved tne train from a plunge into the Brasoe canon. The aooounts of Gov. Churchill, of Arkansas, while serving as State Treasurer, are found to be short about f 125,000. Dr. John P. Lipscomb and his father-in-law, Sterling E. Edmunds, quarreled at the breakfast-table, concerning the former’s treat, ment of his wife. Both drew revolvers and fired almost simultaneously. Lipscomb fell dead, but Edmunds escaped uninjured. The affair occurred at Danville, Va*, where both parties to the tragedy occupied a high socia position. At a log-rolling near Fairview, Ky., William and Bradford Courts (brothers) quarreled with James and John Smith about the shooting of Mrs. Smith’s cow. A fight resulted, in which James Smith was killed. The Courts brothers were jailed, but a mob took them out and hanged them to a tree. At Uvalde, Texas, John Mitchell was tied to a tree and unmercifully flogged, and his two sons shot dead. The crime was perpetrated by two neighbors. WASHINGTON NOTES. Persons intimate with Capt Howgate say be is in the mountains of Pennsylvania, and that be will not return fofr trial until be desires to, and that, in the meantime, he will

be supported by those who are connected with Wm in the frauds in the Weather Bureau, who are very anxious to keep the trial from taking place until after the adjournment of Congress, or the passage of a oertain bill m which they are interested. There is general surprise expressed at the verdict rendered in the Kilboome case. The prevailing opinion is that it is excessive and ought to beset aside. There is some sharp criticism of the manner in which the Government interests in this case have been defended, at, rather, been neglected. There are those who openly express the opinion that the Government case was given away, or allowed pretty much to go by default Guiteau received a letter from John B. Reynolds, of San Frandsoo, offering him SBOO for the clothes he will wear on the day he is to hang. The writer adds : “If yon won’t sell me or any one else your clothes, I’ll give S6O for your hat” Guiteau was very mad when he received the letter, and tore it ap. He bad previously had a quarrel with his sister, Mrs. Scoville, whom he drove from his oelldoor. In the Gnitean case, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia gave Charles H. Reed two weeks to prepare his argument m the bill of exceptions, and the hearing was set for May 8. Only that portion of Bcoville’s letter announcing his withdrawal from the ease was read.

POLITICAL POINTS/ Four hundred delegates attended an Anti-Monopoly Convention at Albany, N. Y. The resolutions ask that transportation charges be based upon the cost and risk of service ( denounce construction companies, urge the establishment of a State Railroad Commission, rod declare for free oanals. iAt Nashville, Tenn., the State Republican Convention commended President Arthur and renominated Gov. Hawkins for re-election to the Governorship.

FOREIGN NEWS. V* The dreaded Asiatic plague has appeared in Persian Kurdistan. Dorris, late Assistant Secretary of the Land League, has been released from Dundalk jail, with proper warnings. One thousand Jews have been expelled from Moscow. In the city of Kamenetz, Russia, hav ing a population of 22,000, the shops and th houses of all the Jews were destroyed by incendiary fires, the total loss being 600,000 roubles. In the Honse of Commons, says a London dispatch, great amazement was created by a formal statement on Irish affairs made by Mr. Gladstone. He announced that he would soon introduce a bill respecting arrears of rent in Ireland, making them a gift and not a loan to the tenant. He said this was necessary; the Government must do it- The Government must also, the. Premier said, make compensation to the landlords for losses ensuing to them from this policy from the ohurch fund. The remains of Charles Robert Darwin, the great philosopher and scientist, were interred in Westminster Abbey by the side of the select few of England’s distinguished dead who have gone before. Thc pall-bearers were United States Minister James Russell Lowell, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Derby, Prof. Huxley, Sir Joseph -Hooker, Sir John Lubbock, Alfred Bussell Wallace and William Spottiswoode, and there was present a large and notable collection of the eminent men of the day. An outbreak of the Zulus is feared in South Africa. The Russian Jews are being urged by the Nihilists to join them. The nuptials of Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria's youngest son, and the Princess Helena of Waldeok oocurred at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, on the 27th nit., the Archbishop of Canterbury tying the royal knot, The city was decorated, shops were closed and salutes were fired.