Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Republican State Committee of Illinois held a session at Chicago, and decided to hold the convention in Springfield June 28. They determined as the basis of representation one delegate for each 400 votes and fraction above 200 cast for Garfield and Arthur. Three or four inches of snow fell in Washington county, lowa, on the 12th of May. An excursion train conveying the Missouri Press Association to Galveston, over the Missouri Pacific road, collided with a runaway engine and caboose, near Oswego, Kan. The engineer and fireman leaped and saved their lives. Both locomotives were completely wrecked, but the journalistic party escaped unhurt Patsy Devine, the murderer of Aaron Goodfeliow, at Bloomington, 81., in August, 1879, found guilty at the end of two separato trials, was executed at Clinton, 111., on the 12th inst To the very last moment the condemned man protested his innocence of the murder, and asserted that if he had been given a chance he could have found tho man who killed Aaron Goodfeliow. He had led a life of continuous crime for seven years, and tho evidence given at his two trials left no room for doubt that he was concerned in the murder. The New York firm of Clark & Bothwell, dealers in mining stocks, has failed, and it is alleged the firm is defaulter to the extent of *60,000. Mr. Clark was formerly President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, while Bothwell is an old Chicago journalist. E. W. Kingsland, Treasurer of the Provident Savings Institution of Jersey City, shot himself fatally in the Trustees’ room. The deed was followed by a run by anxious depositors. The Treasurer’s aocounts are found to be correct. There were 117 business failures in the oountry for the week ending May 12, forty of which were in the West. The Ancient Order of Hibernians, in their national convention in Chicago, passed resolutions most indignantly denying the connection of their order with the Cavendish-Burke murder, which, “ on the contrary, they condemn and deplore.” The fourth trial of the suit brought by Cyrus H. McCormick against the Pennsylvania road, to recover damages for baggage burned in its depot at Chicago twenty years ago, has been ended in a New York oourt, judgment being given for *13,248. The litigation arose from Mr. McCormick’s refusal to pay $8 for extra baggage. He was first awarded $10,660, then $13,908, then 6 cents.

The Pension Appropriation bill has been completed. It sets aside $100,000,000 for the next fiscal year, of which nearly all is on army aocount. The bill provides that the income from the navy pension fund shall be devoted to the needs of that branch of the service, so far as it goes. Several English detectives have sailed for New York, and the force at Queenstown has been increased. Nangle was confronted at Dublin with the boatman who he said offered him £IOO to assist in the assassination, and was shown to be a liar. Fresh arrests are continually made. A Dublin dispatch says the “ police and people are beginning to discredit the theory that Irish- Americans were imported to commit the murder of Cavendish and Burke. This leads, further, to the deduction that some Ribbon lodge was implicated in the crime. The great hope is, the reward offered will induce some ..'.ember to become an informer. Parnell, O’Kelly and Davitt have gone to Paris to confer with Patrick Egan, Treasurer of the Land League.” Iroquois, the American racer in England, will be kept off the track a long time by reason of the rapture of a blood vessel.