Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1882 — LATEB NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATEB NEWS ITEMS.

“Polk’’Wells, one of the Missouri gang of desperadoes, a convict in the lowa State penitentiary at Fort Madison, who recently murdered a prison-guard while making his escape from that institution, has been tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. One of his fellow-convicts, implicated in the murder, met with a like fate, and another was convicted of ir nrder in the second degree. The bill for the repression of crime in Ireland passed to a second reading in the British House of Commons, May 19, by a vote of 983 to 45. Gladstone said the bill was not founded upon a panic, nor conceived in party spirit. It was intended to meet a great crisis in a spirit approved by all loyal citizens. Gladstone denied, also, that the bill was the outcome of English resentment He stated he had received 600 addresses from various public bodies expressing a hope that the murders would not hinder remedial legislation. An SBOO,OOO conflagration occurred in the city of Lyons, France. At Leadville, Col., a fire burned the Academy of Musio, the Windsor Hotel and several adjoining buildings. Loss, $200,000. It is believed that three or four persons were horned to death.

The will of ex-Gov. Washburn was filed at La Crosse the other day, and covers property valued at $2,500,000. Full details will not be given to the pnblio for several weeks, but it is known that $50,000 is set aside for a pnblio library-at La Crosse and $375,000 for an orphan and half-orphan asylum at Minneapolis, in memory of the mother of the testator. During, a tight-rope performance at Edwardsvilie, IIL, a chimney gave way, injuring six boys, two of them receiving fractures of the skulk 1 Immigrants continue to disembark at Castle Garden, N. Y., in enormous numbers. Shirt-makers from Havre say they have been earning less than 5 francs per week, while Scotch farm laborers report their wages at S7O per year and found. The steamship Alexandria brings several hundred Italian railroad builders, who have nothing but the clothes they wear. At Waxahatchie, Texas, flames swept away SIOO,OOO worth of property in tho business heart of the town. W. W. Rea was executed at Pulaski, Tenn., for the murder of J. T. Goodrum. A. D. Leighton, a negro, at New York, was hanged for the murder of Mary Dean. The noose caught under the chin, and he slowly strangled to death.