Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. JECaet. A temperance worker at Augusta, Me., secured a warrant against the officers of an express company for bringing liquors to the city. 1 The Deputy Sheriff broke the locks of the storehouse and seized sixty-two cases of beer. As it was being loaded upon the wagons the crowd drove away the drivers and carried off about half the cases, several persons being seriously hurt. Martha and Flora Crosley and Minnie Peddick, aged respectively 14, 11 and 12 years, were drowned in the Juniata river, near Huntingdon, Pa. The reports of the mine inspectors of the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania show that during the past year 237 miners were killed, and over 1,000 injured. President Allen, of Girard College, is dead. Tug Wilson has returned to England. Flames swept away SIOO,OOO worth of property at Haverhill, Mass. One hundred and eleven Russian refugees were sent back to Liverpool from Philadelphia. A mysterious fever is raging among the operatives of the knitting-mills at Little Falls, N. Y. The failure is announced of R. & H. Adams, of New York, manufacturers of silk ribbons and nettings. H. Wallenstein sold a seat in the New Yvrk Stock Exchange for $32,000. The Reading Railroad and Coal Companies have executed a joint mortgage for $160,000,000 to secure the payment of their 5 per cent, consols.

West. The legality of the prohibitory amendment to the lowa constitution adopted June 27 is to be tested in an agreed case, wherein a brewery firm sues a saloonkeeper to recover the value of beer furnished the first two weeks in August. The defendant admits the purchase of the beer, but denies the right of the plaintiffs to recover in a suit at law for the reason that at the time of the purchase the plaintiffs were engaged in the business of brewing and selling beer, contrary to the amended constitution. The case is to be carried through the highest courts. The Hocking Valley Manufacturing Company’s works at Lancaster, Ohio, burned, causing a loss of $135,000. ' Thirteen Indians who were engaged in the recent rebellion in the Creek nation were given a formal trial at Muscogee and punished with 100 lashes each on the bare back. The British Government has two officers in Cincinnati buying mules for shipment to Egypt. W. C. Depauw, of New Allltmy, Ind., offers to give $1,000,000 to Asbury University on condition that a like sum be raised by the other Methodists of the State. Richard Weeks, a veteran Methodist of Indianapolis, who for years has been bent with rheumatism, walked upright into a revival meeting and announced his cure by faith and anointing of Evangelist Barnes. A snow-storm raged for twelve hours at Leadville, Aug. 30-31. The Utah Commissioners, in appointing Registers for twenty-four counties, have selected seven Gentiles, nine apostate Mormons, and eight Mormons. The Porter Guards, of Memphis, took the firstprize of SI,OOO at the Dubuque.military encampment, and the Branch Guards, of St, Louis, were awarded the second prize, SSOO.

South. A desperate leap for liberty was taken by a noted burglar of North Carolina, who, handcuffed and tied, sprang out of a car window and went, down a precipice of eighty feet, where he disappeared. The poet Tennyson indorses the project to place a bust of Longfellow in Westminster The prevalence of yellow fever at Pensacola has necessitated the transfer of the garrison of Fort Barancas to Mobile. The greater part of the business portion of Farmersville, La., was burned. The loss is estimated at SBO,OOO. Texas dispatches state that the bodies of nearly two hundred persons drowned during the recent floods in the vicinity of Fort Concho have been recovered On one ranch thirty-one and on another twenty-one persons were drowned. It is supposed now that nearly two hundred persons were drownedYellow fever is spreading to the ranches above Matamoras, on the Rio Grande. ’ Confederate, bonds are being purchased by brokers at Richmond, Ya., therato being $7.50 per SI,OOO.

POLITICAL POINTS. Fulkerson, who failed to get the Readjuster Congressional nomination in the Ninth Virginia district, has declared war against Senator Mabone, and will run as an Independent It is well understood in Washington that Secretary Teller will be elected to his old seat in the Senate, and he will readily accept it.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Dr. D. W. Bliss has written a letter to the Board of Audit appointed to settle the expenses of the illness of the late President, in which he sets forth in detail his claim to remuneration. He asserts his receipts from his practice at the time he was called to attend the late President were about $1,500 a month; that this practice was to a great extent broken up by the engrossing nature of his duties at the Executive Mansion, and that the direct pecuniary loss resulting therefrom, and from subsequent ill health caused by the longcontinued nervous strain and over-exertion, amounted to about $15,000. He thinks he should receive as compensation for his losses and services to the late President the sum of $25,000. Dr. Reyburn-puts in a claim for SB,OOO. The Postcffice Department, beside being self-sustaining the past year, will have $1,000,000 surplus to put into the treasury. The Treasury Department with an appropriation of $50,000 is about to establish at the chief Atlantic seaports quarantine stations for imported cattle. • In the case of Sergt. Mason, Jndge Advocate General Swaim has decided that 4>he proceedings of the court-martial were Irregular, and that imprisonment under the sentence is illegal. The Acting Secretary of the Interior has granted a lease for ten years of a certain portion of the Yellowstone Park to a company which proposes to build hotels and supply guides, transportation and telegraph facilities. The scale of prices to be charged will remain subject to the approval of the Secretary. The War Department was informed by Gen. Pope that Oklahoma Payne and six of his followers are under arrest at Fort Reno.

FOREIGN NEWS. Six sub-constables who are supposed ■ to have originated the agitation among the I Irish constabulary were ordered transferred I to northern counties, whereupon they resigned. The Government forbade the use of the telegraph for communication between members of the force, and the entire constabulary of Limerick held a public meeting to protest. Details of the outbreak at the capital of Corea show that the life of the King was spared, but the mob murdered the Queen, her son and his affianced bride, and thirteen Ministers of State. It is said that Japan will exact the most rigid reparation for the outrages, and, if this is denied, will declare war ! and avenge this outrage on her representatives with bloody reprisals. A fleet has been dispatched to the port nearest the capital of j Corea. Calcutta dispatches report fearful ! rioting between Hindoos and Mohammedans at Salem, India Men, women and children were beheaded and their corpses thrown into the drinking water. The city of Manila, in the Philippine islands, reports 300 deaths from cholera in a single day. Within twenty days, at Yokohama, there were 572 deaths from cholera. The death rate from the disease at Tokio is about fifty daily. One hundred members of the Irish constabulary petitioned the Lord Lieutenant to reinstate the men dismissed, threatening a strike if he refused. The ousted constables, , however, give notice that on no condition i will they resume duty. The appearance of the dreaded plague in European Russia has caused much alarm. The Corporation of Cork passed resolutions demanding the release of E. Dwyer Grey, and conferring upon him the freedom of the city. It is officially stated that 531 persons perished of cholera at Manila, in the Philippine islands. The crops in Hungary have been so productive that there will be a surplus of 15,i 450,000 centals of wheat and rye after deducting the amount necessary for consump- ! tion.