Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Dr. John T. Hodgen, an eminent surgeon of St Louis, is dead. Resolutions indorsing the action o! Gov. Crittenden in regard to Jesse James were introduced in the Missouri Honse, and ruled ont of order by the Speaker. The annual round-up of oattle is in progress in Indian Territory, and grass-fed stock will be placed in market a month earlier than usual. At Minneapolis, Minn., Frank McManus, a tramp, shockingly mutilated a little girl of 4 years, for which he was arrested and imprisoned. About midnight a party of seventy leading citizens assembled in the central part of the city and made arrangements for swift vengeance. They proceeded in small squads to the jail, where Sheriff Eustis was promptly made a prisoner. All the cells np to the third tier were examined, and the door of the fiend’s oell was smashed in with hammers. He was handcuffed and taken to the scene of his crime, where three women positively identified him. After he had made a full confession be was banged to a large tree on ihe corner of Fourth avenne and Grant street. An anti-Ohinese convention in San Francisco decided on measures looking to the speedy ejeotion of the Chinese from the Pacific coast, peaceably or otherwise. Dr. Mary Walker, the little woman who likes to dress in a gentlemanly manner, has been appointed to a clerkship in the Interior Department. President Arthur, with the Secretaries of War aqd the Navy, attended the graduating exercises of the United States Artillery School at Fortress Monroe. Investigations by the customs author-

ities at New Orleans and the Atlantic ports revealed the fact that the unprecedentedly large importations of oranges and lemons from Italy have been systematically entered at half their value. At Kingsville, S. 0., the United States steamer Marion, with a picnic party on board, exploded her boiler. One lady was killed, two others are supposed to be drowned and several others were severely injured. At Greenville, S. C., the hangman swung off three, negroes who had been convicted of arson. Each proclaimed his innocence, and prayed God to forgive the Judges, juries and witnesses. Dr. Lamson was executed in London on the 28th of ApriL He was so dejected and nervous that he could scarcely descend the steps of the prison, and was led with great difficulty over the sixty yards of space to the gallows. He dropped nine feet, expiring instantly, bnt his body remained hanging for an hoar. Dr. Lamson had been convicted of poisoning his brother-in-law that he might secure an inheritance of $17,000. He was born in America aad was 35 years of age.

Congressman Perry Belmont, who was so conspicuous in the cross-examination of Mr. Blaine in the Foreign Affairs Committee, is a very young man, having passed his thirtieth birthday only last December. He is the elder of August Belmont’s two sous. He has always been a hard student, and the time that most youug men of his class gave to the dissipations of fashionable life he has largely devoted to books. He is a lawyer by profession, and, considering his youth, his legal attainments are said to be very creditable. He has always had a taste for politics, and has contributed several articles on public questions to periodicals like the International Ilexnew. His mother was a daughter of Matthew Galbraith Perry, who opened the Chinese ports. There were 105 business failures last week in tho United States, being three less than for the corresponding week last year. Earl Cowper has resigned the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, and Earl Spenoer has been appointed nis successor.