Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Brookfield bank-robbers were surrounded m the woods northwest of Kirksville, Mo., and surrendered. Their names are Frank and Burt Ward, Winfield Allen and Ben Fox. They had recently rented the farm on which they were arrested, and their house contained sixty revolvers. Gov. Crittenden sent a complimentary telegram to Miss Carrie Scott, the brave lady employed in the bank. Michael Davitt, before embarking for New York, said the Irish cause was to be won by a strong appeal to justice. An incendiary fired Davies Castle, near Mallow. In one daj three farmers, in different sections of Ireland, were shot at and seriously wounded by ambushed assassins. The British Government has offered £2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderers ol Bourke and the dragoon near Gort. The new union depot at Hannibal, Mo., which cost $150,000, was opened by a banquet and balk Near Crawford, Ohio, was celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the burning at the stake of Col. Williams by the Delaware Indians. Fred W. Newburgh, who secured $20,000 from the Ohio State treasury by forgeries, pleaded guilty on two out of fiftytwo indictments, and was taken to the penitentiary for six years. The friends of the Hennepin canal are more confident of success than ever, the Senate Committee on Commerce having agreed to report a bill for $500,000 to begin the work. The House Committee on Judiciary has authorized Representative Humphrey, of Wisconsin, to report a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy.

John S. Prince, of Boston, rode a bicycle fifty miles in 2 hours, 59 minutes and 15 seconds, beating the American record. The Democrats of Ohio will hold their State Convention at Columbus on the 20th of July. Iron-workers in Pennsylvania are organizing fishing clubs to camp out for the summer.. The mills are undergoing repairs, and have sent their horses to pasture. Jarrett, President of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, was at Cincinnati last week, where he heard the statements of the strikers, and decided that they were bound to continue at work under their contract of last October. The Harmony mills, at Cohoes, N. Y./ have been closed for seven weeks, and will not resume business until September. Cotton for summer delivery has been ordered sold on arrival at New York. Last week’s business failures, 106 in number, were twenty-nine less than those recorded for the preceding week. James McHan, formerly of East Saginaw, Mich., killed John Graves in an affray at Pecos, N. M., and was soon afterward hanged to the railroad bridge by a party of forty men. Quirino Gaitan was executed- at Brownsville, Texas, in the presence of thousands of Mexicans, for the murder of Luiz Contreras at a fandango. Armstead Gray, colored, was hanged at Powhatan Court House, Va., for killing his son for stealing molasses out of a can. A negro named Daniel Lucky was executed for murder at Talequah, in the Choctaw Nation. At Perham, Minn., a crowd broke into the jail and dragged out John Tribbetts, the boy murderer. They took him to the railroad track, and, putting a rope around his neck, hung him to one of the rungs of a ladder placed against a telegraph-pole. Tribbetts was about 16 years of age. His crime, of which he made a full confession, was the double murder of Edward Washington, a surveyor, and a young German named Frederick Fehrback. A dispatch from Portland, Ore., says “ the average Republican majority on the State ticket is 1,800. George will have no less than 8,000 in the State, the largest majority ever given a candidate. Moody, for Governor, will have about 100 less. The Republicans have the Legislature by a certain majority of ten, which may be increased to thirteen. A Tbxas boy shot arabbit witha rifle. The ball passed through the animal, killed a sheep, struck a stone, and glanced 200 yards and buried itself in a negro’s leg.