Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

One Owen, receiving teller of the Third National Bank of St. Louis —who was also engaged in the commission business—has been arrested for embezzling|slso,ooo of the bank’s funds. The bank’s officers give assurance that the stability of the institution is in no danger. James Fitzgerald, who played a bunko game on Charles Francis Adams, has been sentenced to five years in the Massachusetts penitentiary. Two murderers, a man and a woman, and two incendiaries, all colored, were hanged from the same scaffold at Kingston, 8. O. All died firm in the belief that they were “on the road to glory.” Luke Blackburn, Governor of Kentucky, is said to have succumbed to the appeals of Barnes, the mountain evangelist, and has become a member of the Episcopal church. J. Wilson Glover and his two children were killed by lightning near Charleston, 8. C. They were in their house on John’s island. George A. Woods was hanged at Durango, Col., for the murder of M. G. Buchanan. Large herds of cattle are arriving at Dodge City, Kan., and it is estimated that within a space of sixty miles there are 85,000 head. Mrs. Henrietta Randall, aged 33, hanged herself in the yard of her residence, at Springfield, Mo. By the uttering of a maledictioh years ago she believed the curse of God was upon her. Thomas J. Foster, editor and proprietor of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Evening Herald, shot himself through the head. The Coroner’s jury rendered a verdict of temporary insanity, superinduced by alcoholism. A wave nearly twelve feet high swept along the shore of Lake Erie, from Painesville to Cleveland, accompanied by a roar like thunder, the wind shifting from south to north. The undertow did great damage at Cleveland. A lot of steel rails weighing twenty tons were thrown back ten feet, and one man was swept out into the lake and drowned. The eight-inch hawser on the steamer Northwest was snapped like a thread. Five important firms in Moscow have organized to promote the cultivation of cotton in Central Asia, and will engage American superintendents. Fifty Irish peasants, drilling in the

County Roscommon, were surprised by the police, and eight of the number were arrested, three of them being released suspects. In the House of Commons, John Bright said the condition of Ireland was made greatly worse by subscriptions from America, and that those subjects of the Queen who took part in the Chicago convention were traitors to the crown. Arabi Pasha informed an English correspondent that he will resist to the death any nterference with the affairs of Egypt by her enemies, and can regard no settlement as satisfactory until the fleets are withdrawn. He stated that he had no thought of ruling without the Khedive. Sixty thousand Chinese laborers who have finished a contract in Cuba applied for permission to go through the United States on then: way home. Secretary Folger placed the matter before the Cabinet, which decided that the request could not be granted, and the coolies will be compelled to return by way of England. The lowa Republican State Convention, to nominate candidates for State officers to be voted for in October, is called to meet at Des Moines, Aug. 2. The Michigan State Democratic Central Committee has issued a call for a State Convention, to be held at Jackson, Aug. 23, to place in nomination a State ticket. There is a noticeable falling off of late in the number of business failures throughout the country. Gen. Stoneman was nominated by the Democratic Convention of California for Governor. The platform denounces the Chinese, now in the State as an unmixed curse, and demands that the Democratic party, when it attains the power, shall take prompt steps fqr the removal of every Mongolian in the country.