Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

* AMERICAN ITEMS. *. . East. Lightning struck a load of hay about Wliioh fiver persons were at work, at Worcester, Yt. One man was killed and the others were prostrated) and the wagon was set on fire. Twenty-five firemen went into a burning carriage factory at Pittsburgh, when the side wall and floor gave way. precipitating ten them to the floor beneath. All were injured, four of them being dangerously hurt by the fall .and the flying bricks and timbers. The failure of Hilgert, a sugar dealer of Philadelphia, for $500,000, has additional interest lent it by the discovery of the fact that the bankrupt has forged acceptances on customers throughout the country to the extent of $600,000. Two Philadelphia brokers got deeply interested in matching pennies, from which they changed to nickels and then to dollars, fyhen one had lost $1,500 his opponent gave him three chances to double or quit. The result was a loss of $12,000 in three matches. Sections of the New England States, New York and Pennsylvania were visited by tertrifle thunder and rain storms. Lightning struck and demolished churches, residences and barns, and severely shocked many citizens. Tho loss from all sources is very heavy. » A conflagration broke out at Gardner, Ho., in a planing-mill, and was only stayed when property valued at $200,000 had been destroyed. About twenty acres were burned over, including all tho factories on the lower dam. Two lives are reported to have been lost. r r Severe storms, accompanied by lightning, are reported in the East. At Stamford, Ct., lightning struck in several places, and in consequence the Presbyterian Church, two residences and a hat factory were destroyed by fire. Four men were killed and three badly injured. At Scranton, Pa., the Court House struck : at Easton, Pa., two buildings were struck; at Harrisburg, Pa., two barns ; at Long Branch, N. J., a summer-house, and a policeman fatally injured by the electrio current; and in numerous other places loss of life and property is roported. The Cumberland valley in Pennsylvania and Maryland suffered greatly from a terrific storm of wind and rain. The city of Chamborsburg, Pa., was literally inundated. A fire at Gardner, Me., swept away s2ot,*ooo worth of manufacturing property. Joseph Doelger, who began to brew lager beer in New York at the outbreak of the war, died of paralysis, leaving $1,000,000 to his heirs. Ten of tho jurors in the Jennie Cramer murder trial held a reunion at tho Malley homestead in West Haven, Conn. Tho wholesale price of matches at Philadelphia lias been advanced from 25 cents « *1.50 per gross. By a premature biasi explosion on the. West Shore railroad, near Cornwall, N. Y., four men were killed and several others badly latodWwt The Mutual Union and Western Union companies, through their representatives at Dayton, O.iio, are involved iulitigation over an interesting question relative to tho obligation Of a telegraph company in tho matter of the transmission of messages filed by a rival company. The Western Union refused to receive from tho Mutual Union dispatches addressed to places not reached by the lines of the latter . company, and suits have boen brought against the Wostern Union under a State law which imposes a" fine of SIOO for every refusal of the kind. Bright’s disease swept off Rear Admiral David S. McDougall, at Sau Francisco. The wife of Bishop Talbot died in Indianapolis, at the age of 72 years. The revised return of the Indiana wheat crop show it to be the largest ever raised by any State in the Union—47,ooo,ooo bushels being the figure stated. Tlie earnings of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company for the last fiscal year amounted to $23^685,000; profits, $5,378,000. Diedricli Peters, a Chicago cigarmaksr, shot and mortally wounded Frida Kreikmoier. A bullet intended for the unfortunate girl struck and wounded her friend. Frances Mans. Peters ended the tragedy by shooting and killing himself. A fire whjch broke out at Dwight, 111., destroyed a row of business houses on West street, valued at SIB,OOO. The Wabash depot at Jacksonville, IIL, which cost $28,000, was also swept away. In a suit brought by the Denver, Utah and Pacific Company against the Longmont road it is alleged that the latter is bonded for $444,000, when its total value is not over $90,000, and that the expenses of the concern are more than S3OO per day, while its receipts are not S3O. Trains have beer, discontinued. Victor Leseurc, one of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of Danville, 111, died of what is called genuine Asiatic cholera, after an illness of three days. The Burlington road refuses to pledge itself not to lay any more track in Colorado. It is quite evident that the Burlington is pushing toward a pass which will enable it to build to the Pacific coast. Administrators of five of the victims of the Scioto disaster hare begun suit against the Wheeling and Parkersburg Transportation Company for SIO,OOO in each case. Many more suits will follow. 4. Booth. Sandy Bynum, a prominent colored Republican, was shot dead at Huntsville, Ala., by ex-United States Deputy Marshal T. G. Hewlett. The assassin is under arrest. In Lafayette county, Ark., Constable Applegate and a posse went to the house of John Cox, who, with Will Agers, was suspected of murdering a negro named John Wesley. In the house were both the men wanted and two other#. *>.Xliliy resistod, killed Applegate and two of the j-osse, and escaped. Wesley, tie murdered negro, was a large land-owner in Lafayette couuty. Chas. A. Vogeler, a prominent citizen of" Baltimore, is dead. He was known as “ the greatest advertiser in the world.” The steamer Golddust, bound up the Mississippi river from Vicksburg to St. Louis, exploded her boilers within 200 yards after leaving the wharf at Hickman, Ky., killing seventeen persons outright and wounding fortyeight, many of whom cannot survive. The boat took five immediately after the explosion and, burned to the water’s edge. A Shreveport (La.) dispatch says a west-bouud train on the East Line railroad from- Jefferson, Texas, was wrecked near Whinsboro, Texas, killing Conductor Fowler, Mail Agent Charles Harper, Express Agent Ike Boas r aud a passenger named Fetro. Several others injured. The Health Officer of Texas has advis‘<l tlie,Governor that a yeltow-fever epidemic is impending at Brownsville.

At a local election at Frankfort, Ky., a negro named Edward McElroy fired a dou-ble-barreled shotgun into the crowd at the polls, and then shot at Sanford Egbert Pistols were then drawn by about twenty persons, and the colored man was soon dispatched. A party of young ladies from Virginia and Maryland have arrived at Mount Airy, N. C., fully equipped for a pedestrian tour of the mountains. Their trip will extend over seven hundred miles of rich scenery, aud consume two months. Mexican section hands on the Southern Pacific road attacked Chinese laborers at Yesta and drove them to El Paso, inflicting serious wounds upon some of them. By an arrangement with the widow of William Euston, the city of Charleston has come in possession of a portion of $500,000 left by him to found a refuge for aged poor people, flight acres of ground have been purchased on which to erect neat cottages. At a meeting of the Stock-dealers’ Association of Maryland, Dr. W. H. Rose, of the United States Agricultural Association, said pleuro-pneumonia was on the increase in Maryland, and great care shonld be taken to prevent its further spread. Albert Lower, a traveling salesman for a Detroit firm, was murdered by burglars at Columbus, Ky. POLITICAL POINTS. A Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch says : The election for Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Superintendent of Education, Treasurer, Auditor and members of the General Assembly was held to-day (Aug. 7). So far no disturbance is reported. The election was very quiet. Democratic success conceded. Very few Republicans were running for the Legislature. A Louisville (Ky.) telegram says: From returns received from the State election held to-day (Aug. 7), the Democrats have elected one Judge of the Court of Appeals —Gen. Joseph H. Lewis, present inoumbeut; also, three Judges of the Superior Court—Bowdon, Richards and Ried— and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Capt. Thomas J. Henry. Joseph E. McDonald has been elected Chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Indiana, and J. Riley was chosen Secretary. Ex-Congressman J. M. Leach, of North Carolina, publishes an open letter withdrawing from the Democratic party. Congressional conventions were held in many districts, on tho 9th inst. The Republicans of the Sixth district of Virginia nominated David I. Woodfin for Congress. Tho Democrats of the Tenth Ohio district placed Hon. Frank Hurd in tho liold. Gen. Janies 8. Robinson was re nominated in the Ninth district of Ohio by the Republicans. The Democrats of the Nineteenth Illinois district renominated Hon. II chard Townshend. The remaikable contest in the Twelfth Illinois district, in which the Democratic Convention spent two days at Mount Stirling and throe days at Beardstown, closed by llio nomination of James M. Riggs, of Scott county, a dark horse, on the 1,521-t ballot. In the E'gliteenth Oiiio distrct the Republicans nominated William McKinley,, Jr. A. M. Scales was renominated at Raleigh, N. C., by the Democrats, who will also return J. 11. Blount from the Sixth district of Georgia, and J. C. Clements from Ihe Seventh The Nebraska Democratic State Convention is set for Sent. 14, at Omaha. At a meeting of the Anti-Prohibition League of Indiana the following resolutions weropassid: Resolved, That at the election in November next we will support the Democratic party. liesolved, That we request all independent voters who caro more for the welfaro of our country than for party to stand by us in the battle for personal liberty. This action was takon after the proceedings of the Republican Stato Convention. Stewart, independent Republican candidate for Governor in Pennsylvania, has invited Gon. Beaver, the regular nomineo, and Pa’tison, the Democratic candidate, to discuss with him in public the political matters of the State. WASHINGTON NOTES. The appointment of Gen. Grant and William H. Trescott to be Commissioners to negotiate a commercial treaty with Mexico is made in accordance with an amendment to one of the Appropriation bills, which makes provision for the payment of the expenses of the commission. Secretary Lincoln says there will be no difference in the disbursements of river and harbor appropriations from the policy pursued last year. The Bureau of Statistics-has sent out a statement of the number of immigrants arrived in the United States for the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 1882, as compared with the preceding year. Tho figures are as follows : Countries 1882. 1881. Increase. England and Wales... 85,175 66,204 18,971 Ireland. 76,43! 72,342 4,090 Scotland 18,937 15,158 3,769 Austria 16,770 21,109 *4,339 Germany 249,505 210,485 39,021 Norway 29,10(1 22,705 6,395 Sweden 61,607 49,750 14,846 Dominion of Canada. 98,308 125,391 *27,083 China 39,579 11,890 27,6^9 All other countries.. .110,590 74,377 36,213 Total 789,003 669,431 119,572 •Decrease. President Arthur has been invited to visit the West this summer, and it is understood, if business will permit, he will make the trip about the beginning of September. The President and some members of the Cabinet, a Washington dispatch reports, have planned an excursion on the Tallapoosa to the navy yards along the Atlantic coast. Postmaster Genbral Howe is to spend several weeks in Wisconsin. Secretary Lincoln, on account of the death of his mother, has abandoned his trip with Gen. Sheridan through the Yellowstone, and will take a vacation at Rye Beach. Attorney General Brewster and Secre tary Frelinghuysen will rusticate at Long Branch and Capo May. The committee appointed to inquire into the decline of American shipping is as follows : Page, of California ; Candler, of Massachusetts ; Robeson, of New Jersey; Dinglev, of Maine ; McLane, of Maryland, and Cox, of New York, on the part of the House, and Miler, of New York ; Conger, of Michigan, and Vest, of Missouri, on the part of the Senate. The number of printed columns occupied in the Congressional Record by the proceedings of the House during the session is 9,223, and the Senate 6,038, The select committee of the House to examine the contracts for the application of the appropriation for work, etc., for the improvement of the Mississippi river, organized and agreed to meet in Cairo early in November and proceed with the work. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has forwarded to the Receiver and Register at Duluth, Minn., printed proclamatious, announcing an offering of lands at pnbhesale, to be made at Duluth on Dec. 4 next. TU© crop returns up to Aug. 1, just

compiled by'the Department of Agriculture at Washington, show an improvement in cotton as compared with one month ago, and, while the plant has suffered from unfavorable conditions in many parts of the South, a large number of the returns indicate an unusually heavy yield for the country as a whole. The spriDg-wheat average is higher than for several years, and the total product of winter and spring wheat for 1882 is estimated at 503,000,000 bushels. Corn averages higher in condition than at the same time last year, but is nevertheless very low in the States of largest acreage. Oats, rye, barley, buckwheat and potatoes all average unusually high iu condition. The report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics for the year ending Jane 30 shows the total of trade between this country aud the rest of the world was $1,566,859,456. The disappointed women who failed to get appointments in the Washington departments have formed a “ woman’s labor organization,” and adopted a series of resolutions bitterly denouncing Secretaries Lincoln aud Teller.

FOREIGN NEWS. The united opinion of the Irish members of Parliament is said to be that the proceedings of the English Government in Egypt are most unwarranted aud brutal. Parnell says the present operations iu Alexandria are apparently the outgrowth of a long series of plans of Government agents in the East Eighty square kilometers of crops were destroyed by a conflagration in a Russian Caucasus province. • An event unknown for 200 years was the presentation at the Court of St James of Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, as a prelate of the Roman Catholic church. The British imports for July, as compared with the same month in 1881, increased £2,500,000. Ihe comparative increase of exports is £945,000. A German organ of Bismarck asserts that England, whose traffic so preponderates on the Suez canal, cannot be expected to be satisfied with placing that great water-way under the control of a mixed commission. The Greek Government has appointed a commission to proceed to England and contract for the construction of powerful war vessels. The steamer Mosel, from Bremen for New York, with over 600 passengers and a cargo which includes French jewelry valued at 91,500 francs, struck on Lizard point in a dense fog. Nine boats were launched, and all the passengers were landed at Penzance, Wales. A great anti-Christian excitement is reported among the Mohammedans of Beyroui Syria, Decause of the death of a Moslem, as is alleged, at the hands of a Christian. Many of the Christian residents fled to the mountains for safety.