Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Ekurt. Morrison’s extensive paper-mills at Tyrone, I’a., were destroyed by a fire due to spontaneous combustion. The loss is said to be fully $225,000. 4 Every seat in the Academy of Music at New York wan filled to hear an address by Michael Davitt, which was almost entirely of a personal character. The audience received him enthusiastically, and cheered until they were exhausted. There was an extensive conflagration at Brockport, N. Y. Johnson's harvester-works were destroyed. Loss, $500,000; insurance, $200,000. Michael Davitt had an audience of nearly 8,000 people in Boston, to whom he unfolded his theory of land tenure. The fifth great well in the Warren county (Pa.) oil-field was struck the other day, the yield being 1,600 barrels. One well caught fire, the flames rising to a height of fifty feet, and causing a loss of SI,OOO a day while it burned. Went. Tiie round-up in Dakota shows the cattfo to be found in the finest possible condition. The losses of the season will not exceed '£% per cent., and the crop of calves is over 90 per cent. Editor Cowles, of Cleveland, was fined the costs in the case for his assault upon the private secretary of Bishop Gilmour. The railway lines between Chicago and Omaha, which are working under a pool, have notified the Postmaster General that they cannot put on a fast mail. The cyclone which swept over lowa made two or three attempts at devastation in Nebraska, but fortunately in unsettled portions of the State only. Along the Platte river, in Butler county, is a stretch of country a mile long which was plowed up by the storm. Trees, grass, rocks and all else were torn up and scattered in every direction. Quite a number of cattle were killed. Their bodies were tossed into the air like feathers and torn to pieces by the fury of the storm. Two young men were drowned in Sangamon county, 111., while bathing, and two young men wore drowned the same day at Hastings, Minn., by falling overboard from an excursion boat. Advices from Indian Territory show that there are 71,000 head of cattle and 10,000 horses on the trail toward market. Hon. J. B. Grinnell appeared on the Chicago Board of Trade in behalf of the people of lowa made desolate and homeless by the recent cyclone. He was introduced by Mayor Harrison, all business was stopped, and promises of aid camo from all sides. After listening to bis touching recital of the devastation wrought by the tornado a committee was appointed to raise funds and supplies. John V. Farwell, the merchant prince, started the ball by subscribing SI,OOO. George Eddy, a well-known reporter of St' Louis. h»a "■ saloon i7vr and cut him slightly. The assailed man followed Eddy home, and fired three times through the door, inflicting mortal wounds upon Mrs. Eddy. By the explosion of a saw-mill boiler at Williamsfield, Ohio, four men were killed. At Danville, Hl., three young girls employed as servants in a boarding-house borrowed 26 rents of the landlady, purchased arsenic and poisoned themselves. The ages of the girls were 12, 14 and 17 respectively. On® of them, aged 17, was apparently actuated by the fact that her father was “living with a fancy woman,” as she expressed it in a note addressed to her little sister; and no reason is known for the suicidal decision arrived at by the other two girls. HoutH. The wheat crop in East Tennessee, the best for ten years, is nearly harvested. Three men were killed and two seriously injured by a bank of earth falling upon them in Baltimore county, Md. Nathan Lucid, a negro, charged with assaulting a white woman, was taken from the jail at Sardis, Miss., and hanged by a mob. The Kentucky Board of Agriculture estimates the wheat crop of that State as high as 13,000,000 bushels. Corn is in better condition than for years, and the acreage 10 to 15 per cent, greater than last year.

WASHINGTON NOTES. For the new Alabama Claims Commission provided for in the Geneva Award bill, President Arthur has selected ex-Benator Jas. Harlan, of lowa, and Judge Wells, a member of the former commission. At Washington, on June 19, Justice Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, to whom Guiteau’s counsel applied for a writ of habeas corpus, filed a denial of the application with the Clerk of the Court. Justice Bradley holds that the Court of the District of Columbia had full jurisdiction of the case, and that no reasons exist for granting the writ Envoy Trescott was again examined as a witness before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Shipherd Peru business. His testimony was unimportant This closed the investigation, and the committee will now prepare its report An elaborate addition to the Executive Mansion in Washington is contemplated. It is proposed to erect a new building directly south of the White House and connected with that structure by a corridor, the improvement to cost $300,000 to begin with. That amount has been appropriated by the Senate.

POLITICAL POINTS. ' The Canadian general elections took place June 20, and resulted in the choice as members of the Dominion Parliament of an increased majority of supporters of the national policy es the Premier, Sir John A. Macdonald. Rufus K. Garland has been nominated for Governor by the Greenbackers. The nominee is a brother of the United States Senator of that name, was a member of the Confederate Congress, and is a man of ability. Congressman Ladd has been renominated by the Greenbackers of Maine. The “regular” Republican Convention of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg. Judge Jessup urged the necessity of a new State Convention, empowered to take action for the success of the party, but was voted down. None of the 232 delegates bolted the State Convention, and Marriott Brosius, of Lancaster, was nominated for Congressman-at-Large. The Vermont Republicans have nominated John L. Barstow for Governor. The Democratic State Convention of Tennessee nominated Gen. William B. Bate for Governor. There was a split in the convention on the State-debt question. A portion of the delegates seceded and decided to call a second convention,

FOREIGN NEWS. The new Egyptian Cabinet has been announced, and of course includes Arabi Pasha. The latter, in presenting prizes in the Italian school, said public security would be guaranteed, but meanwhile has given orders for the purchase of a large amount of torpedoes. Mr. Gladstone stated in the House of Commons that the Interjiational Conference will deal with the condition of Egypt, and not With the The police of London found in a stable in Clerkenwell 100,000 rounds of ammunition, 400 rifles with bayonets, and twenty-five boxes of revolvers. A Nihilistic lodging was discovered by the Russian police on Vassila island, and fortynine persons were arrested and a large quantity of dynamite was seized. The New York Herald's London correspondent telegraphs : The Government and the English press are evidently on the eve of one of their chronic panics about Fenianism. False alarms are the order of the day. Extraordinary precautions have been adopted at the arsenals and forts against imaginary attacks. Whether this is due to a real conviction of danger, or merely to a political dodge, it is impossible to say. Among the Irish members the rumors of an intended rising in Ireland are regarded as utterly unfounded. The Government, however, seems convinced that preparations for armed resistance are actually in progress. The British House of Commons refused to limit the operation of the Alien act to one year, but agreed to apply it to the whole United Kingdom. The Under Foreign Secretary said there were still some American citizens imprisoned in Ireland. The trichinee scare is still kept up in Franco for the benefit of .domestic producers. A bill for regulation of American pork imports had been prepared by the Government and was advocated by M. Tirard, Minister of Commerce, but the Senate rejected the bill on the ground that it did not offer sufficient guarantees against trichiniasis.