Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. P Sant. Two Chinamen were naturalized at Philadelphia last week. Pepper has been cornered in the New York and Boston markets, driving the price to 17 cents per pound. The syndicate holds in its grasp ali the cargoes to arrive up to October. Miss Annie Lionise Cary, the famous opera singer, was married at Portland, Me., to G. M Raymond. Several persons were killed or fatally injured, and twenty others hurt, by an accident on the Long Branch division of the New Jersey Central road, at the bridge at Parker’s creek. Gen. Grant was in the smoking-car, but escaped uninjured. William R. Garrison, a son of Commodore Garrison, was fatally injured. James L. Bradley, a wealthy New Yorker, was killed outright G. W. Demorest and James G. Mallory, of New York, and Charles M. Woodruff, of Newark, all prominent business men, ha vo since died. About 100 persons were wounded more or less seriously. The accident seems to have been due to the criminal carelessness of tho railroad company. The track had been altered to provide for the running of excursion trains, and a frog had been left unsettled by one of the laborers. Proper supervision and inspection would of course have resulted in the discovery of the defect and its cure ; but a parsimonious, shiftless management had not provided for such h chance. West. A frightful accident occurred on the Manitoba railroad, ninety miles from St. Paul. A construction train was thrown down an embankment in water eight feet deep, and the engineer and ten laborers wero killed and many others wounded. The locomotive and twentytwo oars were wrecked. Shying horses sent a coach over the bank of a turnpike near Fenton, Cal., killing three ladies and a gentleman from San Francisco and winding three boys. The accident on the Manitoba road, in Minnesota, proves to have been a more serious afTair than first accounts represented. The total death-roll mounts up to seventeen, with a prospect of a still-further increase. Some of the killed were literally broken to pieces. One poor fellow had an eye literally forced from its socket, a jawbone fractured in six places, three limbs broken and other wounds in different parts of the body. At Rising, Minn., during a storm a mass of ice or ponderous hailstone, weighing twenty-seven pounds, plowed its way through the roof and floor of a dwelling. A gambler named Bradley died at Raton, New Mexico, with a rope around his neck, placed there by his unappreciative neighbors. Owen’s embezzlement of the funds of the Third National Bank of St. Louis, according to the figuring of the Government Bank Examiner, will foot up §200,000; but the solidity of the bank will not be impaired. Crop reports from all over Minnesota agree that oorn is making up lost time. In Kansas and Dakota the wheat and corn prospect is gloriously encouraging, and Nebraska is figuring on tho biggest grain yield in her history. A horrible tragedy was enactedat Cincinnati. Henry C. Colo, a lawyer of some prominence, his wife, and their only child, a girl about 20 years of age, were discovered dead in their beds. Each one of them had been shot through the head, and the pillows and bodclothing were stiff with blood. The evidence went to show that Colo had first shot his wife through the temple with a 48-caliber revolver, when she was sleeping at his sido. Then he went into the adjoinmg room and shot his daughter, who had wakened and partly risen at the sound of the discharge that killed her mother. Seeing (hat both shots wero effectual, Cole then returned to his wife’s room and took his place in the bed at her side. Placing one of the dead woman’s arms about his neck, as though she wero sleeping with his ljoad on her shoulder, the man finished the terrible tragedy by placing the muzzle of the revolver at his own forehead and pulling the trigger. Cole was of a wealthy family who formerly lived in New York. A negro attempted to enter the house of Mrs. Howe, of Elizabethtown, 111., who was alone at tho timo, but sho screamed for assistance and the fellow slunk away. A posse started in pursuit, found a negro in the vicinity, and brutally beat and then hung him, though Mrs. Howe failed to identify him as her assailant The new town of Larrimore, Dakota, was swept by a conflagration that destroyed property of the estimated value of $50,000. One man lost his life, and another was badly burned. Half a dozen laboring men were drowned at Mandan, Dakota, while crossing the Missouri river in a small boat John McAulifF, once a noted labor agitator of Chioago, killed himself in his room at Denver, and the oorpse was not found for several days, South. The boiler at the St. Catherine gold mine, near Charlotte, N. C., exploded, killing three men. New Orleans has had a genuine case of yellow fever, accompanied by black vomit Extraordinary precautions are being t?g£en to prevent the spread of the terrible pestilence. At Frenchburg, Menifee county, Ky., a cloud burst and flooded the streets in some places to tne depth of eight to ten feet Three dwellings were swept away and six inmates drowned—Mrs. John Fox, Mrs. Byrne, and two grown daughters and two Misses Watkins. The postoffice and contents were washed away. Hail fell with such violence as to crush meu to the earth. POLITICAL POINTS. Gen. Rosecrans has been renominated for Congress by the Democrats in California. Gov. Plaisted was renominated by the Maine Democratic Convention. The following nominations for Congressional candidates were made: Samuel J. Anderson, First distrusts Daniel H. Thing, Second district; George W. Ladd, Third district; T. H. Murch, Fourth district The platform denounces the Tariff Commission, on the ground that it was organized in the interest of the protectionists. The Pennsylvania Democratic Convention indulged in a number of ballots before selecting a candidate for Governor. Robert E. Pattison, of Philadelphia, was finally chosen. The resolutions protest against the so-called “boss system,” denounce the spoils system, set down as odious State or Federal repudiation, say the Republican party is based on fraud, force and corruption and demand an equitable apportionment The Illinois Republican State Convention met at Springfield and nominated Gen. John O. Smith for Treasurer by 644 to 128. Charles T. Strattan, of Mount Vernon, was placed in the field for Superintendent of Public Instruction, The platform, among other things.

demands fair elections and honest counts, the protection of American industries, and a reduction of taxation, and deplores the death of Garfield. The Prohibitionists of Michigan met at Jackson and nominated a full ticket, Daniel P. Sugendorph being selected for Governor, William G. Brown for lieutenant Governor, A EL Lowry for Secretary of State, E. L. Brewer for Treasurer, J. H. Tatem for Attorney General, A H. Osborne for Auditor General, W. H. Walbridge for Superintendent of Public Instruction, T. W. McKeenan for member of the State Board of Education, and E. C. Newell for State. Land Commissioner. The election in lowa on the prohibition amendment passed off quietly. ' The amendment has been carried by a majority estimated at 40,000 to 50,000. The Des Moines Register prints complete returns of the election on the prohibition amendment from all the counties in lowa except Allamakee, Dickinson, Hancock, Linn, Osceola, Plymouth and Sioux. In ninety-two counties reported tho aggregate mijority for the amendment is 47,451 and the aggregate of majorities against is 20,566. The net majority for the amendment is 26,888. The seven counties to bear from will increase the majority probably 1,000. A Washington dispatch says “the Old Guard medals, commemorative of the thirty-six ballots for Ulysses 8. Grant at Chicago, are ready for delivery. The first installment for any State to bo delivered was that for New York. President Arthur has received his. Each of the medals is about three inches in diameter, of bronze, weighs about six ounces, has a head of Grant encircled with the record of the thirty-six ballots on one side, and the commemorative inscription and name of the person to whom it is issued On the reverse.” WASHINGTON NOTES. The Cabinet at Washington made the case of the assassin Guiteau the occasion of a special meeting on Saturday, June 24, and it was unanimously voted that no reprieve should bo granted. The result was communicated to Guiteau by his spiritual advisor, Rev. Dr. Hicks. The announcement did not have a depressing effect upon him. The assassin afterward sent to Mr. Hicks the following s “Go and see Arthur and shake your fist in his face. Toll him 1 made him President by my inspiration, and ho must give me an unconditional pardon, and if ho does not God Almighty will blast him forever. I tell you, Brother •Hicks, I am God’s man, and God takes care of His own.” The House Committee on Ways and Means has directed Mr. Kolley, its Chairman, to prepare a joint resolution to bo submitted to the House providing for the issuance of §200,000,000 in United States bonds to bear interest at 2 per centum, exchangeable for bonds bearing a higher rate of interest than 2 per Cent. Robert M. A. Hawk, representing the Fifth Illiuois district in Congress, died of apoplexy in Washington. He Lad recently been homo to arrange for a renomination, leaving his family at Mount CarrolL

FOREIGN NEWS. At Armagh, Ireland, several hundred men marched through the streets in military order, singing disloyal songs and cursing the Queen. A constabulary pensioner, while sitting in the kitchen of a farmer’s lodge in County Meath, was fatally shot by disguised assassins. The land corporation organized by Irish noblemen has a subscribed capital of £750,000 and a guarantee fund of £125,000. In some cases the company intends to manage farms on short lease at low rent, giving the j owner a share of the profits. Three Greek “money-lenders were murdered in Cairo. The Captain of the United States steamer Galena has notified all American residents in* Egypt that he is ready to take them away. Ejectment decrees to the number of 250 have been obtained against small tenants in the Connemara district, Ireland. If enforced, 2,000 persons will be rendered homeless. Tbe Irish members violently attacked the new land corporation, instituted for working evicted farms, in the House of Commons. An appeal being made to the Government to bring about a truce in Ireland, Trevelyan replied no association of landlords or tenants would be interfered with so long as it acted within the bounds of the law. A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt, says: A Consular official has advised Englishmen who desire to remain here to take up their quarters in the Eastern telegraph office, as news might arrive at any moment from Constantinople which might cause a popular outbreak. Arabi Pasha declares that the natives implicated in the massacre in Alexandria the 11th inst. shall not be punished unless tho Europeans who fired upon the rioters are also punished. Cahill, a caretaker, wffs shot dead near Tralee, Ireland, evidently by several persons. Ireland has been mapped out into six military districts, under the provisions of the Repression tjjll, which will be controlled by magistrates with unusual authority. An interesting letter from one of the correspondents of the Paris Temps throws rather a new light on the events of June 11 at Alexandria. The Europeans, according to this letter, made a most desperate resistance, and succeeded in inflicting infinitely heavier losses on their Arab assailants thau, they themselves suffered. Acconfing to tfie official Egyptian figures the number of persons admitted to the hospitals reached 1,350, of which 1,146 were natives. But many more killed and wounded Arabs certainly disappeared. One Italian is said to have alone killed sixteen, and two Maltese, armed with carbines, and defended by a barricade, together shot fifty. The carnage in the Palace de Paible, where 200 armed. Italians and Greeks were assembled, was terrible. Preparations have been made at Woolwich, England, by which 40,000 British troops could be almost instantly embarked. A Constantinople dispatch says the conference regards speedy armed intervention as necessary, and that it is improbable any offer of Turkey to send troops will be accepted.