Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ZTfSMS. Eaat F. J. Moses, formerly Governor of South Carolina, pleaded guilty to petty larceny in New York, and was sentenced to six months in the penitentiary. Wort. At Red Eye, Minn., were found the bodies of a surveyor named Washington and his companion, Fred Fetherbach, who are believed to have been murdered by John Tribbet, 15 years of age. Ma-ked highwaymen robbed the Brookfi Id (Mo.) bank of $6,000, in broad daylight There were four of the desperadoes, all masked. Three marched into the bank with drawn revolvers, while one stood at a convenient corner and held their horses. One of the three who entered the bank remained at the door to guard it, while the other two walked up to the cashier, John Ford, and his assistant, Miss Nettie Scott, and coolly requested the cashier to hand over what money he had in the bank. This the cashier declined to do, but was finally compelled to comply, and the robbers were soon in possession of nearly 16,000 of the bank’s funds. They lost no time in getting out of the bank, remounting, and dashing out of town, firing their revolvers in the air as they departed. The Marshal gathered a posse and started in pursuit in a very snort time after the gang had left the bank. At Sedalia, Mo., Mrs. Jesse James and her children, with a lecturer, attracted an audience of thirty-nine persons, three of whom were ladies. Two miners of San Bernardino, Cal., quarreled in the streets about some unknown matter, when one shot the other dead and then wounded himself.

South. A party of masked men took George Ellis from the jail at Catlettsburg, Ky., and hanged him to a tree. Ellis had just been sentenced to a life term in the penitentiary for participation in the murder of the Gibbons girls at Ashland, Ky., in December last. There is widespread indignation in Virginia over the proposal to remove the ashes of Thomas Jefferson to a cemetery in Washington, and legal steps have been taken in opposition to the project. A furious hail-storm in Virginia and North Carolina wrecked houses, leveled trees and fences and ruined crops. Two children were killed by falling debris, and railway travel Was retarded by the fallen timber. The reports from the Southwest show that the crop prospects are unusually fine. The Mississippi ovei flow is not so injurious as was supposed. The shipments of stock from the Southwest to New York are unusually large. A daring attempt was made to rob a train on the Missouri Pacific railroad near Denton, Texas. A north-bound passenger train was flagged and stopped in a deep cut, when four marked men sprang into the mail car, and were greeted with a lively volley. They then started for the timber, and were hotly pursued, one of the robbers being shot. At Denton a posse was put on the trail, who soon discovered a dead raider. A huge pile of logs was found at a point a few hundred yards from the place where the train was stopped. The dead robber was identified as 8. P. Spelton, the son of a farmer living fifty miles away. Another member of the gang surrendered. His name is Joseph Carter, and he has recently served two years in the Texas penitentiary for theft. He says the raid was planned by the men still at large, who are strangers to him. A distressing accident is reported from Florida, tn Orange county a man and his wife and twin children were drowned in a small lake. The accident was caused by a horse becoming frightened and running away. At Butlerville, Lonoke county, Ark., a little girl named Annie Bridges, aged 13 years, was outraged repeatedly »by three negroes, who left her and fled. The fiends were pursued, overtaken and placed in jail. A mob broke open the prison doors and hanged all three of the negroes to a tree.

Another of the bandits who tried te rob a Missouri Pacific train at Denton, Texas, was overtaken by a pursuing party and killed. The fourth highwaymen is still at large. During a tornado in Northampton, Va., hailstones fell a foot long and weighing a pound and a half. The boiler of the steamer Evansville burst while she lay at Calhoun, Ky. Two firemen received fatal injuries, and several others were badly scalded. Charles Gallino was put off a train on the Hot Springs railroad, last summer, because his excursion ticket had expired. A Jury at Little Rock awarded him damages of ♦4,000. Two New Orleans editors—E. A. Burke, of the Times-Democrat, and C. H. Parker, of the Picayune—fought a duel in St. Bernard parish. At the fifth shot Burke was wounded in the thigh, and the affair terminated.

WASHIN&TON NOTES? Gen. Sherman has submitted to the Secretary of War the report of a board, of which Maj- J. C. Witcher, of the Pay Department, was President, appointed to investigate as to the number of people killed, property stolen, etc., during the recent Indian outbreak in Arizona. The people killed were forty-two persons, the wounded nine. The depredations committed, as reported by citizens, intotal loss of stock and other property of $30,250. Senator Windom’s investigating committee, at Washington, examined H. H. Shufeldt, President of the National Association of Distillers and Liquor-Dealers. He testified that he raised $4,000 from distillers in Kentucky to secure the passage of a bill to reduce the whisky tax to 50 cents per gaHon, none of which has been used. He deemed the extension of the bonded period an absolute necessity for distillers, as otherwise 34,000,000 gallons would in 1884 be unloaded on the market. Charles H. Reed’s last effort in behalf of the assassin Guiteau was an utter failure, the District Judges at Washington refusing to reopen the case for argument. It is said that Guiteau continues to cherish hope. It is rumored Reed will wait until the day set for execution before applying for a writ of habeas corpus to the Supreme Court, and thus delay the execution. Charles H. Reed appeared before Judge Wylie, in the Criminal Court at Washington, on the 6th inst, and asked to have the record in the Guiteau case corrected, especially the allegation that President Garfield died in the District of Columbia. The motion was denied, as the Judge had no personal knowledge of the record. It can now be stated upon authority, says a Washington correspondent, that Minister Lowell has neither resigned or been re-

called, and that the name of no one is under consideration as his successor. The Interior Department has recently issued a patent in favor of ex-President Harrison, for 160 acres of land in Southern Ohio, purchased in 1805, under the credit system. In response to a resolution recently introduced in the Senate by Mr. Plumb, Public Printer Rounds has addressed Acting Vice President Davis a letter to the effect that the worifof his office is in accord with the Typographical and Bookbinders’ Unions, and should he refuse to abide by their regulations a general strike would be ordered, involving loss of time, although he would act Congress might direct In the International Typographical Union, in session at St Louis, a telegram was received from the Washington Union, stating that Senator Plumb was fighting the union through the United States Senate because the union refused to allow one of his political followers to work in the Government printing office as proof-reader, as he was not a printer, and asking the convention to protest against Senator Plumb’s procedure. A resolution in accordance with this telegram was introduced and adopted. Mr. Varbec, who was summoned to Washington from Chicago as an expert to examine the bond-plate turned in by Felker in Doyle’s interest, declares that a scrap of plate shown him was genuine, but has no idea of the manner in which it came into the counterfeiters’ hands. Treasury officials maintain that the rumors of the existence of spurious bonds are utterly groundless.

Several thousand influential Republicans of Maine united in requesting James G. Blaine to be a candidate for Congressman-at-Large. He replied that, while he cannot turn aside from his private affairs, he will contribute to the campaign his full share of labor. Oregon held an election for State officers, Congressman and members of the Legislature on Monday, the sth inst. George, Republican candidate for Congress, was elected by a majority of 1,500 to 2,000. The Republican State ticket is also elected by about the same figures. The Legislature, at this writing, is in doubt. The Michigan Greenbackers will hold their State Convention at Grand Rapids on Wednesday, the 3d of August. The Republicans of Ohio met in State Convention at Columbus, and nominated Charles Townsend for Secretary of State; John 11. Doyle, of Toledo, for Judge of the Supreme Court; and C. A. Flickinger, of Defiance, for member of the Board of Public Works. The resolutions express approval of the course pursued by President Arthur, and cite the financial reforms brought about under the administration of Gov. Foster. It is urged that the liquor traffic should be made to bear its share of the public burden, making necessary the amendment of the State constitution at the earliest date allowed by law. The Greenback State Convention of Ohio was held at Columbus. A long series of resolutions opposing monopolies were adopted, and a ticket nominated: Secretary of State, George L. Hafer, Miami county: Supreme Judge, L. G. Tuttle, Lake county; member of the Board of Public Works, L. B. Stevens, Lucas county. A Greenback and Anti-Monopoly Convention met at Emporia, Kansas, and nominated D. J. Cole for Congress from the Third district, and S. H. Wood, of the Kansas State Journal, for Congressman-at-Large. The State Convention of the lowa Greenbackers, at Des Moines, was composed of nearly 600 delegates. The following State ticket was nominated: Treasurer of State, George Dorr, of Union county; Auditor of State, G. W. Wyant, of Ringgold; Attospey General, J. H. Rice, of Mahaska; Judge of the Supremo Court, M. H. Jones, of Mahaska; Clerk of the Supreme Court, E. M. Clark, of Allamakee; Reporter of the Supreme Court, J. H. Williamson, of Buchanan. After two days’ balloting, the Alabama Democratic State Convention nominated E. A. O’Neil for Governor. The Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois met at Springfield, and decided to hold the State Convention in that city September 7.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Sultan’s confidential agent in Egypt has established an understanding with the military party. The Sultan informed the French Ambassador that the Porte is able to remove the difficulties in Egypt without a conference. The Sultan said he expected his Commissioner to be obeyed. He felt quite confident of being able to restore Egypt to her normal state. The will of Gen. Garibaldi orders the cremation of his body and the preservation of the ashes in an urn near the tomb of his child at Caprera. Brennan, the Secretary of the Land League, after his release, addressed a large assemblage at Kilkenny. He said his real jailers were Gladstone, Bright, Chamberlain, and the whole crowd of pseudo humanitarians and renegade Republicans who composed the British Cabinet. He hoped that if the 800 suspects were called upon for real sacrifices they would be ready, if necessary, to die for their country. They had seen the Government acknowledge Michael Davitt as a conqueror. Much remained to be done. They must tear up the very roots of landlordism. For monuments to Garibaldi, the city of Verona appropriated 10,000 francs, Genoa subscribed 20,000 francs, and Rome voted 80,000 francs.

Michael Davitt, replying to a pam phlet issued by Arthur Arnold Foster (son of the ex-Irish Secretary), which inveighs against the methods employed by the Land League in Ireland, answers that the document is put forward as an instrument to engender hatred and foster ill-will between the two nations; and that it contains reports of alleged incendiary speeches and acts. The crops in the central counties of Ireland are in an excellent condition. Rents are being paid, and fair reductions are granted by the landlords. , Harcourt has consented to slight modifications in the Repression bill. Prompt trials of the accused, and the selection of the Judges of the commission by ballot, are among tho changes permitted. Intelligence from South America is to the effect that Ecuador is in the throes of revolution, Peru in anarchy and disorder, and Chili smitten by epidemics and cursed by brigandage. Michael Davitt, in a speech at Liverpool,' said the soil of Ireland could be purchased for tenants for £140,000,000 in Government bonds, payable in fifty years. Dublin Cas.le rule he denounced as a monstrous failure. In the debate on tire Repression bill, in the British House of Commons, Cowan asked the same treatment for Irish tenants as for English trades-unionists. Dillon declared that, but for boycotting, moonlight outrages would have begun a year earlier than they did, although he admitted that the system had been grossly abused to gratify private malice. J. R. Keene’s American horse Foxhall won the Ascot gold cup at the English races. The Austrian troops in Dalmatia suffered two defeats at the hands of the insurgents recently. About one hundred and twenty Austrians were killed. Bismarck’s influence decided the Sultan to send the pacificatory commission to Egypt. The German Chancellor was opposed to a resort to war. In debating the Repression bill in the Commons, Thomas Power O’Connor charged Gladstone’s Ministry with imbecility. Objection was made to the language, but the Chairman, amid some laughter, ruled that it was not unparliamentary. At Andrahan, Ireland, a landlord named Bourke was riding beside a dragoon escort, when both were killed by rifle shots from behind a walk Bourke had amassed a fortune in India, and owned estates at Curaleagh and Rahasane. He had several disputes with tenants, and recently left London to carry out evictions.