Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. XBMt. Three Swedes safe down to rest on a railroad track at Jamestown, N, Y. ( and two o f them were killed by a passing train In New York city there were 138 . deaths from heat in a period of twenty-fonr hours. The Reformed Roman Catholics, under the direction of Bishop McNamara, of New York, have been holding a camp-meeting at Atlantic Highlands, N. J. This is said to be the first Catholic camp-meeting ever held in the country. The flour-mills of Hecker & Co., Nos. 205 to 267 Cherry street, New York, and the spice-milis of Sawyer, Beers & Fisher, adjoining, were destroyed by fire, involving a loss of (1,250,000. During the progress of the conflagration several casualties occurred. Gen. Barstow, U. ft. A., retired, of Oakland, is dead. George Goodwin, the theatrical manager of Philadelphia, died at Boston recently. Forest fires of large proportions are ragingin the lower counties of New Jersey. While out riding, a party of pleasureseekers at Bar Harbor, Me., was robbed of (1,200 in cash and several gold watches by three highwaymea Wwt The assessment roll of Nebraska places tho value of property in tho State at (98,537,475. A petition bearing 200 names has been submitted to the Governor of Minnesota, asking him to pardon tho notorious Younger brothers ont of the penitentiary. The total number of deaths in Chicago last week was 371, an increase of 90 over the previous week. Cholera-infantum carried off nearly ono-third of tho victims. There are now stored in the Chicago elevators 3,698,004 bushels of grain. A whole family was drowned by a flood near Manchester, Ohio. A fight occurred at Phoenix, Arizona, between three cow-boys and effioors and citizens. One of tho lattor was killed and one wounded; and the cow-boys narrowly oscapea lynching at tho hands of the populaco. South. A negro named Isaac Turner was hanged at Lexington, Ky., for murdering Abo Bay, another colored man, in June, 1881. Fire at New Orleans destroyed four business buildings in Tchoupitoulas street and damaged three adjacent strncturcs, creating a loss estimated at (150,000. It is charged by inmates of the Soldiers’ Home, at Hampton, Va., that tho Supcrntendent, Gov. Woodfln, has within the last four years withheld over (50,000 of pension money paid to him in trust ; that he has in his employ an ex-rebel; and that in various ways his conduct is deserving of censure. Memorials embodying these accusations have been received by Congress. Col. Stephen R. Proctor, Assistant Adjutant General of the State of Louisiana, committed suicide. Tho death of his children, financial reverses and ill health impelled him to the deod. He was 65 years of age. Yellow fever has appeared in Brownsville, Tex., and the doath rate from the plague is on the increase at Matamoras. Nine persons were drowned in Mason county, Ky., by tho sudden overflow of a creek. Two Kentuckians named Emberton and Spoakman, who had outraged Mrs. J. B. Garrett, of Tompkinaville, while being taken to Glasgow for aafo-keeping, were shot to death. Yellow fever has again appeared at New Orleans. It still rages in a virulent form along the Rio Grande. Great alarm is felt in Texas over the spread of yellow fever, and a strict quarantine is kept up along the Rio Grande. It is also proposed to suspend communication with New Orleans.

POLITICAL POINTS. After casting 278 ballots the Democratic Congressional Convention of the Twelfth Illinois district, in session at Mount Sterling, Ang. 1, adjourned until, next morning. The final vote stood: Singleton, 26; Wike, 25; Withers.l2; Goodrich, 7. Col. Hugh S. Thompson was nominated for Governor of South Carolina by the Pemocratip Sift to Convention.