Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEM a Km*. In a colliery three miles from Shamokin, Pa, some sulphur exploded from contact with a safety-lamp, killing four miners. The week ending May 20 was the busiest ever known at Castle Garden, New York, 23,545 immigrants having landed. Previous to this the largest number of arrivals in one week was 20,178, during the second week of May, 1881. Moses Taylor, the Wall street banker, died in New York in his 77th year. He has been President of the City Bank since 1855, and was connected with the first Atlantic cable, the Lackawanna railroad and coal companies, and the Georgia Central road. He leaves to a widow, two sons and three daughters a fortune estimated at $50,000,000. An explosion in the Kohinoor colliery, at Shenandoah, Pa., killed eleven men. The victims presented a most sickening sight. The bodies wire beyond recognition. Several of them were brought to the surface headless, while others bad legs and arms blown off and their clothing burnt entirely off, then- flesh hanging in shreds from their bodies. Some joker climbed a pole of the Mutual Union telegraph, near Georgetown, Ct., tied a fine wire around each of the thirteen wires and run it to the ground, breaking communication between Boston and New York for two days.

The New York Senate passed a bill for the appointment by the next Governor of that State of a State Board of Railroad Commissioners. L. B. Frye, tkfe champion wheelsman of the United States, was thrown from his at Marlboro, Mass., and injured beyond recovery. The jury in the case of Gen. Curtis, Special Treasury Agent at New York, rendered a verdict of guilty on the first and eighth counts, Which charged the defendant with re-while-in the employ of the United Blates, money or other things of value for political purposes. A motion in arrest of judgment was made, and Juno 2 fixed for the argument. United States Senator John R. McPherson, of New Jersey, has. commenced suit against the Now York Herald to recover SIOO,000 damages for libel. The suit is based on the statement published by the Herald from its Philadelphia correspondent, charging the Senator with having been interested in Shiphcrd's Peruvian scheme.

Wert. Twenty-eight counties in the golden belt of Kansas report winter wheat in excellent condition, and farmers are confident of the greatest harvest for years. Corn has been injured somewhat by the cold weather. In the Chicago live-stock market there has been of late a steady and marked advance n prices. Live hogs last week were sold at $8.40 to $8.45 per hundred pounds. Mess pork for August delivery reached S2O Tier barrel on Change. Best grades of cattle are worth 8 cents per pound. A train on the Denver and Rio Grande road was thrown from the track in Marshall pass, and rested on the edge of a canyon 1,000 feet deep. Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, is said to be negotiating for the surrender of Frank James, whois now in Jackson county, and who desires to make the best terms possible. Cattle sold in Chicago last week at $8:70 per 100 pounds, being the highest figure obtained for several years. The highest price was paid for Colorado steers fed in Ifcwa. A Kansas City dispatch says that Mrs. Jesse James, widow of the late bandit, has signed a contract to furnish facts for a lecture on the life and adventures of her husband. She will accompany her lecturer, and, with her two children, sit upon the stage while the lectm? is being delivered. The funds so raised, it is stated, will be used to educate the children, one a boy named after his father and aged 7, and the other a girl aged 5. The Grant smelting works, at Leadville, Col., the largest in the world, were swept away by lire and 250 meh tin own out of employment Loss estimated at $400,000 ; insurance, $350,000. Fire at Tombstone, Arizona, destroyed a large number of buildings. The portion of the town destroyed comprises almost the entire business part of the place. The three principal hotels burned, and the office of the itaily Nugget was destroyed, and the Daily Epitaph office heavily damaged. The loss will probably reach $500,000 ; insurance, $250,000.

flkratb. Five thousand people witnessed the execution of Stephen G. Effter, a wife murderer, at Marion, N. C. It is stated upon unquestionable authority that Frank James and several of his most deVoted confederates are now in Texas, with headquarters at Dallas, and a point of rendezvous not many miles from that city. Eight members of Pinkerton’s detective force are said to be located in North Texas for the special purpose of capturing Frank and his friends. The monuments and headstones in the Jewish Cemetery at Columbia, S. C., were thrown down or demolished by unknown persons. Encouraging crop reports come from Missouri, Arkansas and Texas. In Tennessee the wheat yield will be 50 per cent above the usual average, countingthe increased acreage, and much of it has already been harvested in good condition. The outlook for corn, oats, cotton and crops in general in that State is better than for several years past at' this season. • Two desperadoes were lynched by masked men at Bolton, Texas. A vast section of territory below Helena, Ark., has again been overflowed by the Mississippi, and Commissioner Mangum solicits relief from the Government Senator Ben Hill’s physicians say his health has been greatly improved by drinking the waters of Eureka Springs, Ark., where he has been located for several weeks. If fie will not be permanently cored, his life will be prolonged. Portions of North and South Carolina enjoyed the rare phenomenon of a snow-storm on the 24th of May.. POLITICAL POINTS.' A friend who professes to know says Mr. Blaine will never go into the House again as a member, but that he will probably go abroad in July, to be absent about two months. The report that he would canvass Pennsylvania against the Camerons is emphatically denied. Hon. Thomas M. Marshall has declined the Republican nomination for Congress-man-at-Large in Pennsylvania. The Cabinet, at Washington, had a protracted session, May 28, devoted to the formation of the Tariff Commission, bat do

conclusion was reached. The fact was brought qut in the discussion that ex-Secretary Kirkwood was not eligible to appointment owing to his election as Senator to the Congress which finally passed the bill. Alexander H. Stephens will not accept an independent nomination for Governor of Georgia, but would run as the regular Democratic candidate. The Independent Republican Convention met in Philadelphia and placed the following ticket in the field : For Governor, Senator John Stewart; Lieutenant Governor, Levi Bird Duff; Secretary of Internal Affairs, Maj. Merrick ; Congressman-at-Large, Col. William McMichael ; Judge of the Supreme Court, George Junkin. A resolution was adopted calling upon the Legislature to submit to the popular vote the proposed amendment to the State constitution, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the State. The Delaware Greenbackers have nominated John Jackson for Governor. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Grand Jnry at Washington has returned new presentments against Brady, the Dorseys, and their associates, for conspiracy to defraud the United States on star-route contracts. Senator Logan has arrived in Washton after his sojourn of several weeks at Hot Springs, Ark., and is said to be in excellent health. The Postmaster General has sent a letter to the House of Representatives recommending that postage on second-class matter (newspapers and magnzines) be abolished. He states that fourth-class matter (merchandise) is carried at a loss to the Government, and if the Government is to be taxed for the transportation of either class it should be for the second class. Senator Logan is again in his seat. He proposes to fight against Fitz John Porter with all his capacity, and to push forward the clause of the Army bill in regard to compu'sory retirement. Robert R. Hitt, ex-Assistant Secretary of State, appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and was examined touching matters connected with the Chilian-Peruvian investigation. Witness arranged an interview between Count De Montferrand, the representative of the Credit Industriel, and Secretary Blaine, at which witness was present. The Count unfolded the plans of his company, which embraced a protectorate by the United States. Sir. Elaine said he could do nothing and promise nothing. The Senate Finance Committee will probably report favorably the House Bank Charter bill with some slight amendments. The sum of $900,000 left by a Mr. Lewis, of New York, to reduce the public debt, has been placed at the disposal of the Secretary of the Treasury. Comptroller of the Currency Kuox made an argument before the Senate Finance Committee on the House bill renewing the charters of national banks. He favored the main provisions of the bill, but suggested some amendments. The reports from South America show that the Peruvian Government is still clinging to the hope that the United States will come to the front to prevent Chili swallowing that republc. Secretary Lincoln has information that Payne and twenty-nine other colonists while attempling to invade the Indian Territory were captured by troops sent out from Fort Reno, and taken back to Kansas. The authorities have not decided what disposition to make of them.

FOREIGN NEWS. In a ruction at Limerick between the police and people, the former charged with fixed bayonets, injuring several persons. Some one attached crape to the door of the residence of Cardinal McCabe in Dublin, and left on bis doorstep a slip of paper with a sketch of a coffin. Michael Davitt said to a meeting of Manchester Irishmen that if Gladstone was intent on suppressing agrarian crime in Ireland he should first remove landlordism, then raze Dublin Castle, and repose as much confidence in Ireland as he did in Canada. The anti-Austrian revolt in Dalmatia is ended, the insurgents having surrendered. A cable dispatch states that at a council of the Russian imperial family it was decided ’ to defer the coronation of the Czar for one year. The German Embassy at St. Petersburg has been warned that Crown Prince Frederick William will be in great danger should he attend the ceremonies. In the House of Commons, May 22, Mr. Gladstone said he bad seen the protest of the Irish Judges against snopression of trial by jnry, but could only say tlfkt the Repression bill contains the deliberate conclusions of tho Government Chief Secretary Trevelyan stated that O'Mahoney, the suspect is not an American citizen ; that he was not prevented from writing to the United States Minister, and that the Government has offered no American citizen money to leave the country. The Arrears bill passed to a second reading in the British House of Copmons. May 23. It was decided that the Repression bill and the debate on the Arrears of Rent bill should have precedence over all other business. The Egyptian Council of War has decided on active military preparations. All efforts at an understanding between the Consuls and the Ministry have failed. Michael Davitt’s ticket-of-leave will be revoked should he indulge in any inflammatory speeches. Home Secretary Harcourt so an-

nonneed in the British Parliament. Arabi Bey and the rebellious army officers positively refuse to quit Egypt. He maintains the country is with him, though the French Consul tried to disabuse him of. his error. In the debate on the Repression bill in the House of Commons, Gladstone severely denounced Dillon for indorsing the outrages by refusing to assist the Government in carrying the bilL Dillon declared he had always denounced the outrages. Gladstone replied thaj inciters to illegalities were responsible for the consequences. Dillon affirmed that Gladstone had declared “boycotting” legal. The evic' tions were more culpable than the outrages. Gladstone spoke with great passion. He said the Dish must confine themselves to agitating for changes in the Land law, or whatever they may desire, by means respecting the private judgment and the liberty of the people. The Official Messenger announces that the Russian Government is resolved to punish inexorably all outrages against the persons and property of the Jews. Kief, the ancient capital of Russia, has suffered devastation by fire. The flames raged fcr several days. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland said the other day that an improvement in the condition of the country was visible, and trusted it would become unnecessary to put in force the harsh powers oi the Repression bill. The Egyptian Chamber of Notables having declared that it is of interest to the country that Arabi Bey should depart and the Ministry resign, England and Fiance have sent an ultimatum to the President of the Cabinet slating it is their intention to exact the fulfillment of these conditions. They claim to have no other object than the maintenance of peace.