Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1882 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Kart. Fire burned the Adirondack Hotel, Notette House and thirty buildings, comprising stores .and dwellings, at' Keeaville, N. Y. Loss, $11)0,000 ; insured. The main jn ills of the Syracuse (N. Y.) Iron Works were burned. Loss, $200,000; insurance, $54,000. Three hundred men are thrown out of work. Hon. A. W. Sawyer, formerly Justice of* the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, died in*the bands of a physician, who was giving him ether in or 3er to amputate his foot Little Brown Jug made four attempts at Poughkeepsie to beat his record of 2:11%, but could only make 2:18. A Coroner’s jury at Paterson, N. J., held James Kennedy for manslaughter, for locking his children in a garret when attacked by small-pox. «The Erie railroad elevator at Buffalo, va'ned at $700,000, took fire from an explosion of dust, and was destroyed. Five men were burned to death and another fatally injured. By the use of a magnetic rod, a mine locator bas found off the harbor of Erie the wreck of the schooner Vermillion, which was sunk in a storm nearly half a century ago, with 350 tons of copper on board, valued at $150,00ft * President Arthur, accompanied by a largo party of representative men, visited the torpedo station oft Newport last week; and was shJwn wonders in naval warfare until he grew weary. At a dinner given him by Cornelius Vanderbilt, the walls of the room were hidden from view by flowers, and at each plate were . twelve glasses and a $25 bouquet. . . Wart. Heavy yields of spring wheat to the acre are reported from the threshing-machines in the great grain fields of Dakota. A farmer near Aberdeen threshed 650 bushels from seventeen’and one-half acres, an average of thirty-seven bushels to the acre of No. I>wheat pounds to the bushel. Two sections of Coup’s circus train crashed together near New Burnside, 111. Four meh were killed in a car containing eighty sleeping showmen, and at least twelve others were ser.ously injured. No more horrible railroad-crossing cavity has been reported in seveial years than that which happened at Anoka, Minn. Four young people, two of each sex, were returning from a dance. The railroad and the wagon road run parallel with each other on the prairie, and yet the carriage holding the party was driven on the track at the crossing in front of a swift express train. The death of all in the vehicle ensued. A recent dispatch from Mount Pulaski, Logan county, 111., says: “Charles McMahon, who lived five miles east of the city, and who has boon missing for the past three days, was discovered this morning, with two young men who have been working for him, all three blindfolded and their throats cut from ear to ear.” Hon. G. A. Tucker, from New South Wales, who is inspecting jails and insane asylums, paid a visit to the mad-house at Salt Lake and expresses himself as deeply shocked by the sights ho witnessed. Among the patients are two sane persons, bound hand and foot. Joseph A. Shirk, one of the bestknown postal clerks in tlie West, was killed near Indianapolis by a lurch of the car, as he stood near the door, throwing him out against the beams of Eagle creek bridge. Houthu Texas dispatches report the yellow fever increasing {it Brownsville. There were 150 cases of fever and 2,003 destitute people in the town. The Governor issued an appeal to the people of Texas for aid in money and food tO-sUpport and clothe them. .A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, reports that two of Fargo & Co.’s messengers were killed by stage robbers, who got away with $5,000. Only two robbers were seen. They had breastworks alongside of the road, and commenced firing as soon as the express came in range. The National Board of Health do not think that the yellow fever now prevalentin the Bio Grande region is epidemic, or likely to be. The citizens of Butler, Ala., recently made the discovery that 400 negroes had organized a conspiracy, under the lead of Jack Turner, to massacre all the whites in that region between Oct. 15 and 17, Seven leaders of the plot were speedily placed in jail, whence Turner was taken and hanged to a tree on the chief business street of the town. At Lunenburg, Va., while Garland whittled a st ck in the court-room for fifteen minutes, the jury acquitted him of the murder of Addison in a duet POLITICAL POINTE. The Government Printing Office, Pen- . sion Office and Postoffice Department, says a Washington dispatch, have been thoroughly worked by a collector for the Congressional Campaign Committee, who found no one to protest

WASHINGTON NOTES? The members of the Washington Mopument Association are indignant over the proposition that the monument, when completed, is to be used as a signal station, or in connection with the Weather Bureau. They do not intend that any such use is to be made of , the monument, and, being the legal custodians, have the power to prevent it Some Washington ladies have formed a secret society with a view to exposing politircians who place abandoned women in the departments. lie report of the Commissioners of ihe General Land Office last year showed the disposal of land by cash sales to amount to 1,587,617 acres. Thia year’s report will show untftT.the same head 8,699,899 acres of agricultural lands alone, to which should be 'addedMies of 37,064 acres under the Mineral ‘Laud act, and 166,055 acres under the Desert 2 I<and act > . homestead entry last year converted 5,028,100 Hires, while for the fiscal year just closed there w. re taken under this act the enormous area of *7,847.729 acres.

Two of the three road-agents who robbed a United States mail coach near Globe, Arizona, and killed two of the passengers, were pursued, captured and hanged by citizens. The third robber is in jail. Gen. Martin D. Hardin has been detailed to relieve Col. Samuel D. Sturgis as Governor of the Soldiers’ Home in the District of Columbia. FOREIGN NEWS. Mr. Long, the American Consul at Alexandria, was attacked by a party of natives. The attack was induced by what the natives considered Long’s high-handed manner on a certain occasion when be rode over and severely injured several Egyptians. They characterize his conduct on that occasion as outrageous, and assert that the best thing he can do is to get out of Egypt, as if he remains his life will surely be taken. Long denies the outrage alleged by his assailants. Mr. Long was not injured. The officers and crew of the English steamer Eire, which went in search of the Jeannette something over a year ago, were picked up in Matolshkin Straits, Nova Zembla, on the 3d of August by the steamer Hope, which had been sent out to rescue them. The Eira had an experience similar to that of the Jeannette. She was caught and crushed in the ice and sunk near Cape Flora on the 21st of August, 1881, and abandoned by her crew, who built a hut of turf and stones on the land and remained there until the 21stof last June, when they set out in boats for Nova Zambia. Three men working on a boycotted farm near Boyle, Ireland, were fired at and one mortally wounded. Archbishop, Goold, of Melbourne, was shot at and slightly wounded by a man named O’Farrel, a-brother of the fellow who attempted the life of the Duke of Edinburgh at Sydney in 1868. A number of white horses being trained for use at the Osar’s coronation have been kilkd by Nihilists. Five young men, sons of farmers in the vicinity of Killarney, Ireland, have been arrested for the murder of Leahy. The killing was done in military style, the leader calling successively upon No. 1, No. 10 and No. 14 to fire on the unfortunate man. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, was well received, on his visit to Belfast, the Mayor greeting him with an address of welcome, and pledging him the support of the people. In his speech in reply Trevelyan laid down a policy rather more liberal than that hitherto observed in the government of Ireland. Ho announced the purpose of the Government to distinguish between political and criminal acts, to pay no attention to the former, but against outrages to wage undying and unrelenting war. A project is on foot in London for placing a bust of Henry W. Longfellow in Westminster Abbey. The English spinners are in a despondent state. Becent takings of stock by some companies show that no profits have been made. B. Wright & Son, worsted spinners of Bradford, England, have failed, with liabilities of SBOO,OOO.