Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1882 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. JBCast. President Arthur and party arrived außar Harbor, Me., on Sunday, the 10th inst ' A grand naval drill was given in the I,arbor in honor of the President and Secretary Chandler. The secret order known as the Sons of Columbia, claiming 88,000 members In the Hate of New York, is running a line of steam--1 <•;>!« on the Hudson, carrying passengers uj> to Poughkeepsie for 10 cents, in order to test the cost of water transportation and to settle the question of a monopoly of docks." Mrs. Charles S. Carter sues a Brooklyn saloon-keeper for $25,000 damages for < auftfagAer husband to become an- habitual drunkard. The latter received <17,000 for injuries received in the Ashtabula disaster, and has been on a spree four years. A daring mid-day burglary was commuted at the residence of Mr. McSorlay, at West Brighton, Staten island. The burglars stole <15,000 in railroad and Richmond county bonds, <BOO in gold and silver coin, a gold watch and some plate. No clew. The Presbytery of Allegheny, Pa,,, by n vote of eleven to fifteen, refused to penftit Rev. John Kerr to travel on Sunday to Natrona by rail to minister to a weak congregation, after holding service at Allegheny City.

The Superintendent of Police in New York has issued orders to close all reputed gnmipg-houses, lottery and policy offices, and instructed his Captains to visit such resorts at uncertain hours each day and night. A monument to the memory of Capt. William Morgan was unveiled at Batavia, N. Y., by the members of the National Christian Association. Jonathan Blanchard led the singing. Rev. B. T. Roberts prayed that the people might be emancipated from the evils of secret societies. Dr. Ray classed Morgan as a martyr, and Prof. C. A. Blanchard accused the Masons of murdering MorganA • ® Moses Williams, of Boston, who died nt the age of 92 years, leaves an estate valued at <3,555,000 . -.- Three survivors of the Jeannette exr pedition, Melville, Ninderman and Noros, accompanied by Lieut. Berry, of the relief sßpnmer Rodgers, arrived in New York last wdek, nnd were deluged with greetings. Tne’wacht Nellie capsized off Wolfboro, N. JI., by which fourteen persons were drowned. The puddlors of Pittsburgh held a mass-meeting the other day, and, after discussing the situation for several hours, decided to propose to the manufacturers a compromise scale of <5.75 per ton, t<| be r a4cepted within ten days. • .

West. John Brown, Jr., found the skeleton.of his brother Watson in the rooms of the Knights of Pythias at Martinsville, Ind., identifying it by a bullet hole in the backbone, and will inter it in the family cemetery at North Elba, N. Y. In the United States Circuit Court at Jefferson City, Mo., William P. Barnes and Finis E. Johnston, County Judges of Cass county, were committed to jail by an order, of Judge Krekel for refusing to make a levy on the county to satisfy a judgment obtained against Cass county to pay the bonds and interest issued by Cass county in aid of the Tebo and Neosho railroad. George Nesbitt, a ranchman, living in Tujerosa canon, New Mexico, started: for Las Cruces in a wagon, accompanied by his wife, Miss Woods and a stranger. The dead bodies of .the last three were subsequently found. It is’thought Nesbitt, who had been drinking, murdered them and then drove off, as he and the team have not been seen since. A dispatch from Albion, Neb., says: The bodies of William C. Griffith and his sons : Lester and Willie were found dead under the ruins of their sod house in Wheeler county, where they had lain for several days. They were probably killed instantly while The dispatch dogs not state how they Were •killed, but the supposition is that the house "fell on them. 7 During children’s mass at St. Thomas’ Church in Cincinnati flames ap- ■ peared near the altar. The little ones became panic-stricken, and trampled each Other under foot, but no lives were-losk An infected mattress thrown into the Mississippi river lodged on an island and carried the small-pox to a laborer named Hpiiter. He went to Prairie du Rocher, 111, where he died, and there are now five cases under treatment at that point. The widow of the late President Garfield has just paid <50,000 for a residence'on Prospect street, Cleveland. 11. M. Vaile, the star-router, deeded to his wife a residence at Independence, Ma, for a consideration of <22,000. Stamps and money to the amount of ‘ <2,000 were taken by burglars fr qm the postoflice at Huntingdon, Ind. ' , The Crescent mills and elevated at . Denver were destroyed by fire. Estimated loss, <225,000; fully insured. i A dispatch from? tUB West-etatds thasr “a band of 400 or 500 Indians in Beaver Creek, Kas., soutM of Dufidy county, and are stealing horses and .murderr ing the settlers. The ate in the same route followed by the Cheyennes when they escaped from Fort Sill some years ago. Intense excitement prevails.*' - • Eastern Kansas has been suffering from' a sihioom blowing from the Staked HUius in Indian Territory. The' wind was the hottest known in years, and wise is a pregnant forerunner of marttrial fevers. The thermometer rose as high as 107 at some places. ;!

The rumor of an Indian invasion- of the southwestern of Nebraska, which wps rtarted in Dundy and telebroadcast over the country; proves to he entirely without foundation., Tnerstory was started by a frightened settler, who magnified a suiall party of peaceable Indiana ■ .into an army of hostiles. William J. Beck receriHy ttiarrieil -in Bartholomew county, Ind., but the bridesoon discovered that he hadmixbther wife, when he fled to Kansas. A numbe? of ladies in the latter State interested themselves in the case, and a Mrs. Buggies proceeded to Indianapolis and secured a requisition from Gov. Porter, went to Kansas, and brought him back to Bartholomew county in irons. I _ The Northern Pacific Directs Aiave, doctored a- scrip dividend amounting .to. ' $4,585,449 on the preferred in January to bear interest at the yats of 6 per cerit jperdmnin. j " JHwAithjy X - -* /There were yellow.fevdt Wd 426 new cases vhle for the week ending with Saturday

night, m&for the same-period eight deaths aqft thirty-'hi eases jif<f’«*Bacola Diqjjatolxes from Daiello, Texas, report the Rio Grande twenty-two feet high and stiff rising, submerging a great part of New Laredo on the opposite side of the rfver. Many houses were being swept off. < The debris floating with waters indicated great destruction of property further north. Fifty deaths have recently occurred from diphtheria in Pittsylvania county, Va., whole families having perished, and more than 100 persons are now ill with the Jis- ; A liesri’jr on the South Atßnticifeeebofcrd- lWw|n4 attained a ve- ! jfecity o/'flfty-fifeWilesflii hour, and several vessels were capsized and seamen drowned. The stage coach which runs between Seligman, on the St Louis and San Francisco railroad, and. Eureka Springs, Ark., was stopped by two npsked men, heavily armed, and the ten passengers in the stage were robbed of about S9OO and considerable jewelry. The mail pouch also was robbed of a registered letter. Reports received from the cotton belt indicate a largb crojp, but under certain conditions which exist' an early frost would be especially injurious. ‘DrertfeulwtestriKjtien was worked in Florida by a tornado. The cotton crop-suf-fered severely, and in some places was totally destroyed. Buildings were torn down, trees and fences leveled, and many persons were killed by the storm.

Whitley, the. Texas desperado, who literally butchered Laughlin at Palo Pinto for refusing to dr’lSk with him, was pursued twenty-five miles "by citizens and riddled with bullets. Afli important financial" institution known as the RiClunond Banking and Insurance Compfffiy, located at Richmond, Va., clfcsedAts doors and was placed in tile hands of a trustee. The concern was one of the two depositories for the funds of the State of Virginia, and had on deposit <300,000 of State money. * 1 A dispatch from Brownsville, Texas, says that the yellow-fever epidemic is suffering from inundation by “A rise In the Rio Grande. Many residents in the northern section of the city have been compelled to vacate their premises. The disease has appeared at Mier, Mexico, in a malignant form. Thirty buildings around the public ‘square at Crockett, Tex., valued at $125,000, were burned.

POLITICAL POINTS. . „one thousand civil-service ; reformers of Massachusetts have signed,.a manifesto declaring their intention to Vote sot no man • who is not a consistent and aggressive supporter of, tbie movement in they are . enlisted. : ! v •' i .An election was field in Maine oh ’Monday,'Sept-11 T for Governor arid other State officers, .members ot Congress, and ’ membets of the State Legislature? Returns 'reoeived to indicate that the Republicans elected their entire State ticket .by a majority of not less than 7,000, all four and gained sißVerti nftflilJffi - of leading Georgians :Gtov - to appoint Bea 11. Hill, Jr.'/fa fill :the .term of. hisfather.j. ■ nftwspa- ■ per iato h<B been fjoriiutoted by the for Delegate in ingress ‘ H. Hill, Jr., sayis g SeaF in the United States Senate is beyond his aspira- . tions,’ and that he .would decline the appointment if-tendered‘him by.fthe Governor of Geoigia/ .. Gen ;5.^ ‘.wieay^r’• Twas; unani-. mouMy noinlrtated fot’iSoftgress by .the Sixth district £reenhwk GfeAvqnUOn of lowa , • 77 it’ —■ \ .' notes’. ■; ; ; The Utah Commission, in a formal i-epbrt ‘to the' Department, represents Wat 10,000 voters pf the class deprived of suffrage ■ by the act of will not Titteiiipt to register. Hifiuentiil Gqntilep oppose the holding of n' fegftlifi? election for delegate in Congress, arid leading Mormons .demand that the commission shall declare illegal A Washington dispatch says that payments have already bqen made on account of .expenses ip the .the 1 ' route cases as follows: 8..1L Brewster, tor services and expenses bet ore hi<?apsoint■ffefcr :» VV A. $0.70?/ Ctebrge Bliss, <6,251; W. W. mauM of thetrial will be <200,000.

It-is denied by Acting Secretary of State Davis that Stephen J. Meany, the newspaper correspondent arrested in Ireland, has received any instructions from the State Department at Washington as to his course in reference to the surrender of his recognizances. A registered 3 per cent, bond for <5,000 was stolen, from the office of the Register of the Treasury ten days ago, and the secret-service force has thus far failed to secure any trace of it.

FOREIGN NEWS. Bismarck, acting under medical advice, will abstain from the transaction of public business for the present It is repoi-fed that the King of Corea has iieen reinstated by the Chinese troops and whips. Samuel Claye, the railway-car builder at Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England, has failed, with liabilities of $1,000,000. One hundred British men-of-war and transports passed through the Suez canal in a space of three weeks, the tolls being £96,000. The first person tried, convicted and sentenced to death under the Repression of Crime act, lately passed by Parliament, was executed at Limerick on the 11th of Septemtember. The man upon whom the death penalty was executed was Francis Hynes, who was charged with the murder of a herdsman named Doloughty. It was of the jury that convicted Hynes that it was alleged in the Freeman's Journal, of which E. Dwyer Gray is the editor, that the jury was packed, and that the jurors were drunk when they agreed upon the verdict of guilty, and for the publication of which statement Gray was committed to jail by Justice Lawson, and is still incarcerated. The Russian actress Feyghite shot herself in the apartments of the Due de Morny, at Paris, and inflicted, it is feared, a fatal wound The proposed coronation of the Czar of Russia, which has kept the world on a broad grin for the past twelvemonth, has been postponed to next year. The cable brings advices of the death of Emile Plantamour, the Swiss astronomer. Four women were decapitated at Dublin by the falling of a buttress of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It is announced that Parnell, Davitt, Dillon and Brennan have decided to hold a conference at an early day in order to inaugurate a national movement in which the various movements will he consolidated upon the platform of national self-govern-ment, the abolition of landlordism, the promotion of home industries, the rights of laborers, and a paid representation in Parliament.