Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. The Massachusetts Medical Society had a stormy time over the question of admit - iug women physicians to membership. The proposition was sat down upon by the decisive vote of 104 nays to 60 yeas. Counterfeit $lO treasury notes, of the series of 1876, are afloat in Boston. Went. Wheat harvesting is in progress in Southern Kawas, where the berry grew to .inch an unusual size as to protrtide from the hull. The yield on a tract of 1,000 acres near Parsons is estimated at thirty-two bushels per acre. There was a triple hanging in Law* rence, Kan., a few nights ago. Shortly after midnight a masked mob of 100 appeared at the jail, demanded the keys, and, when refused, burst in the door and took from the cell Peter Vinegar, Isaac King and George Robertson. Tliey took them to the bridge and hung them. AU three were colored, and their crime was the murder of Daniel Hausman, a farmer from Ohio.

Denver, Col., was visited by one of the heaviest rain-storms ever experienced in that region. Thousands of dollars worth of property was destroyed, and five or six persons drowned. From nearly all points in the Northwest the reports as to wheat and other crops are in the highest degree favorable. The premature explosion of a blast in a mine at Virginia City, Nev., killed two men and fatally injured a third. A terrible murder and suicide occurred at Jackson, Mich. Franz Schumacher, a saloon keeper, got drunk and proceeded to whip his wife. He closed his saloon and in his fury seized a musket and, leveling it at his wife, fired. The ball struck her in the stomach, inflicting a death wound. Passers-by heard the firing and summoned the police. Three of them repaired to the place and broke in the door, where they found the wife weltering in blood. Schumacher picked up the musket and ran up stairs. Policeman Schweimer followed him, and when just at the head of the stairs Schumacher leveled the weapon, pulled the trigger, and a ball went crashing through the eye and brain of the officer, who fOll back mortally wounded. Schumacher then shot himself, dying m a few minutes. The tragedy produced wild excitement at Jackson.

A north-bound passenger train on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad met with a serious accident near Bedford, Ind. They were late and running fast to make up time. Nearing the White River bridge the rear coach jumped the track and rolled down a steep embankment, pulling the other coach, engine and tender, mail and baggage with it. The engine also Hew the track, but lodging about half way down the embankment. There were thirty-five or forty passengers on the train, all more or less injured. John Carmony, the engineer, was terribly scalded, and died in a few hours. The injuries of several of the passengers were of a serious nature. The Brookfield bank robbers pleaded guilty, and received sentences <sf twenty five years each in the Missouri Penitentiary. Their household effects were disposed of at auction at Kuksville, Mo., and brought enormous prices. George McMillen, of Canton, Ohio, killed his wife with a revolver as she lay in bed, then fired a shot in his own shoulder and called the police, to whom he stated that a strange woman did the shooting. A prize-fight was contested on the Pennsylvania and Ohio State line between Maloney and Weeden. Forty-one rounds were fought in seventy minutes, Weeden having the best of it throughout, when he proposed to call it a draw, on account of the dangerous condition of Maloney and the riotous disposition of his friends. Weeden’s only bruise is on the right eye,, while' his opponent was terribly battered. One man was killed and four fatally injured by an explosion of fire-damp in a coalpit near Wilkesbarro, Pa. The largest oil well in the world has Just been struck in the new oil region in Warren county, Pa. The yield is 100 barrels per hour. John Nelson, a dry-goods merchant of Red Wing, Minn., took his wife and child and a lady guest fishing on the Mississippi. In returning home the boat caught on the ferry cable, and Mrs. Nelson and Miss Bradley were drowned. Father Houck, Private Secretary to Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland, was ejected from the Leader editorial-rooms by E. Cowles in a manner so aggravating that the priest swore out a warrant for assault and battery. Ex-Gov. William Denison, known as the “War Governor of Ohio,” died at Columbus, aged 67. He was Governor of the State from 1860 to 1862, Postmaster General under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, Commissioner of the District of Columbia under President Grant, and prominent in other public positions. He had been sick for nearly a year.

South. \ Reports from Patrick county, Virginia, are to the effect that there are 5,000 persons in that county starving. The drought of the last year greatly curtailed the corn and other crops in that locality. In many portions of the county hundreds of people are crowding around the settlements imploring aid. Contributions have been taken up in different parts of the county, but they have not been sufficient to relieve the sufferings of the people. A dispatch from Winchester, Ky., says that ten negro men and one white man, employed on a railroad, and occupying a cabin in the bed of Two Mile creek, were drowned by the cabin being swept off by a swiftly-rising flood. A negro was hanged by a mob at Mount Sterling, Ky., for a criminal assault upon respectable white lady.

The State Convention of Greenbackers in -Tennessee assembled at Nashville and nominated J. R. Beasley for Governor. The platform of 1880, adopted at Chicago, was reaffirmed. The Maine Republicans in State Convention nominated the Hon. Frederick Robie for Governor and Thomas B. Reed, Nelson Dingley, Charles A. Boutelle and Seth D. Milliken for Congress. The Rhode Island .Legislature reelected Henry B. Anthony to the United States Senate. Gen. Rosecrans was interviewed, at Washington, in regard to the letters from Gen. Garfield to Secretary Chase, recently published. He stated that his information of the actual incidents connected with the conference between Stanton and Garfield at Louisville came from Gen. Anson Stager, who was present, who says that Garfield literally reversed fire facts of the interview. r The Greenbaokers o£ the Eleventh Indiana district held their Congressional Qon-

-vention at Kokomo and nominated Evan Thompson, a fanner, of Huntington county, for Congress, by acclamation. The Republican State Convention of North Carolina indorsed the nominees of the Liberal movement, and passed a resolution requesting members of the Legislature to vote against prohibitory liquor laws. WASHINGTON NOTES. Hon. W. A. Wheeler declined to serve on the Tariff Commission on account of ill health. Secretary Folger states his belief that the bond plate submitted to him by Detective Felker is not a genuine one. By order of the Attorney General, < Charles Brockway, the counterfeiter, was released from custody. Present indications do not point to an early adjournment of Congress, and the nearest date now fixed, in view of the amount of legislation yet to be considered, is July IS. Mr. Blaine was again befoie the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week, but contributed nothing new or interesting in regard to the Chili-Peru affair, under investigation. W. H. Trescott, the Chmmissioner sent down to South America along with Mr. Blaine’s son, was also examined by the committee. He said, in general terms, that the object of his mission was to attempt to bring the belligerent states of Chili, Peru and Bolivia together, and,, if possible, make peace. The witness knew nothing whatever of the correspondence of Shipherd; never saw him but once, and none of his papers ever came into his (witness’) hands. He had no knowledge that any Minister of the United States was corruptly influenced in connection with the Credit Industriel, or any other com-, pany; never saw or heard anything to indicate that the late Minister Hurlbut was in any way corruptly influenced. The Chilian Secretary of Foreign Affairs told the witness that the Chilian Government had no charge whatever to make against Minister Hurlbut.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Irish Bishops have issued an address offering support to the people in peaceful agitation, and appealing to them to oppose secret societies as hostile to religion and to freedom. Evictions are pronounced permanently provocative of crime. Soldiers aud police to the number of SCO have been drafted in the district where Bourke, the Irish landlord, was murdered. For five hours on Sunday, June 11, there were bloody conflicts in the streets of Alexandria between Egyptians and Europeans. Twenty persons were killed and a number of houses destroyed. The police were slow to interfere. Some of the wounded foreigners were taken to the French consulate, where riotous demonstrations soon took place. The English Consul received a gunshot wound, and the engineer of the British man-of-war Supurb was killed. The military at last dispersed the rioters. The Greek Consul and Italian Vice Consul received serious injuries. A British vessel landed 200 men to protect the consulate. The mob sacked the shops of Europeans. In the British House of Lords, the second reading of the bill legalizing marriage with a dead wife’s sister was rejected—l 32 to 128. The number of suspects still imprisoned in Ireland is 263. Secretary Trevelyan stated in the House of Commons that John Gannon refused to accept release on condition that he go to the United States. In the riot at Alexandria no less than sixty-seven Europeans are reported to have been*killed. Pillage appears to have been the main object with the Levantines and Arabs. The European colonies have appealed to their respective governments for squadrons for protection. *

Crop reports from France, Holland and Germany are highly favorable. The Russian Emperor favors the founding of a bank to aid his peasants in acquiring land. Forty-four lives were lost during the recent flood at Versicz, in Hungary. The German Parliament, after a lively discussion, in which Bismarck spoke for over two hours, rejected the Tobacco Monopoly bill. Europeans are fleeing from Egypt like rats from a sinking ship, and European transportation companies are sending all available vessels to their aid. An exodus from Egypt has set in among the resident Europeans, amounting almost to a panic. Many persons are leaving valuable property behind, and all classes are begging for passage. The soldiery openly demand the deposition of the Khedive, and even declare, if it becomes necessary, they will oppose the Sultan himself. It is stated the French Consul General informed his countrymen that he could not guarantee them security. The number of Europeans killed in the riot at Alexandria is now believed to be 250. The Khedive says 430 ringleaders in the riot have been arrested, and will be kept on board a ship in the harbor, and he hopes that a force of 18,000 Turks will shortly start for Egypt Admiral Seymour seized the steamer Marengo to carry British fugitives from Alexandria. An incident occurred in Dublin, which, if correctly reported, places Earl Spencer, the new Irish Lord Lieutenant, in an unenviable light. As he was riding, he was approached by Miss Anna Parnell and questioned as to the truth of the report that the authorities had again stopped the erection in

County Limerick of huts for the shelter of evicted tenants. Earl Spencer pretended not to hear the lady, and told her she must call at the Castle if she wished to speak with him. Miss Parnell was justified in the conclusion that the Lord Lieutenant did not want to hear her humane appeal, and that the subject was extremely embarrassing and distasteful to him