Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEM 3. * X 1 f£nst« < Alter a conference at Pittsburgh of five hours',duration between the Executive Committee of the Iron Manufacturers and representatives of the Amalgamated Association, the $5.50 scale was signed. Burglars, with a powerful lever, tore the stonework from the vault of C. E. Smith 4 Co., manufacturers of jewelry at North Attleboro, Mass., and carried away goods and materials valued at $20,000. A trestle-work belonging to the West Branch railway atWilkesbarre, Pa.,gave way while twenty-seven loaded gondolas were standing upon it Six men were carried down fifteen feet, two of them receiving fatal injuries. Somebody in Wall street has written n letter declaring that Jay Gould has retired from active manipulation of the market, as he is wortii 5100,1X10,000, and is alxmt to take the Presidency- of the Western Union Telegraph Company. In the United States Circuit Court at Buffalo, John G. Bigelow filed a petition ior a writ of habeas corpus in Sergt. Mason’s ease, setting forth the non-jurisdietion of the court-martial to try Mason for a breach of the civil peace, the illegality of the order by w hich Mason was assigned to guard duty at tiie jail, and the reversal by Judge Advocate General Swaim of the findings of the tribunal by which Mason was tried and convicted. The petition was grafted bv Judge Coxe. Part of the Stewart store at the corner of Broadway and Ninth street, New York, will be occupied by a wholesale dry-goods firm in which two sons of Judge Hilton are junior partners. The remainder of the building will be used for retail trade by the former superintendent of the house. In the Fourth avenue tunnel in NewYork a New Haven train was delayed by an accident, when a Harlem train crashed into the dark chamber at a high rate of speed. Two persons were killed and nineteen injured. Six leading milliners of New York arrived home by the steamship France. A hint having been received by cable, the customs detectives found on the person of one woman silks and laces valued at 1,225 francs, while another carried dutiable goods to the amount of 3,<W francs. On a wager of SIOO, a Swiss residing at Stone Creek, Ohio, carried a barrel of flour three miles in fifty-five minutes. West. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, returned home the other day, after a six* weeks’ absence in Europe, and was accorded a big public reception His arrival was signalized by the booming of cannon and the firing of rockets, and he was escorted to his home by a long procession. Farmer Harden and son, living near Columbus, Ind., fired on a trio who were robbing their melon patch, and Thomas Kelly was instantly killed The new comet was seen on the 19th of September front Mount Tamelpais, on the Pacific Coast, by Prof. Davidson, of the Coast Survey. The director of Warner Observatory, at Rochester, is in receipt of messages from all sections of the American continent, claiming the honor of discovering the visitor.

The Army of the Cumberland held its annual reunion in Milwaukee, and was largely attended. Gen. Sheridan presided at the business meeting. Gen. Grosvenor, of Ohio, delivered the annual oration, and exGov. Cox, of Ohio, delivered a eulogy on Garfield. A feature of the reunion was >he gathering of 100 members of the Iron Brigrule, to whom Gen. Gibbon read an original poem and Miss Aubrey presented a silk guidon. Speeches were made by Gens. Bragg and Fairchild. The National Association of BurialCase Manufacturers held their annual meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, and the National Distillers’ Association met at Cincinnati. A party of Creek Indians who are opposed to the results of the late election in their nation, are killing and driving oat the adherents of Gov. Curtin. Two blocks of business houses at Susanville, Cal., were burned, causing a loss est mated at $l5O, CK O. South. Oklahoma Payne and eleven of his followers were taken by rail from Fort Beno to Fort Smith, under the escort of Lieut. Taylor of the Ninth cavalry. Payne refused logo overland through Indian Territory, for fear of being put to death by the reds On reaching Henrietta, Tex., he obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the District Court, but the Lieutenant refused to recognize it, andan order for the arrest of the latter was issued. The prisoners were packed in a ear and guarded, until the train left, the Lieutenant defying the courts. Presiding Ehler Dye, of the Searcy (Ark.) district, met Editor McCall, of the Record, on the street in that city and knocked him down and pummeled him, because of a bitter article by McCall against prohibition. Jack Chapman, colored, was executed at Bellevue, Louisiana, for the murder of John Williams. Oklahoma Payne and his followers, who had been brought prisoners to Fort Smith, were released by the United States Court. The demented daughter of James . Cleveland poisoned the whole family of six, •; except her mother, at Nashville, Tenn., Inputting strychnine in the coffee. Mr. Cleveland has died, and one of the daughters is in a precarious condition. At Hot Springs. Ark., in an affray growing out of a bitter newspaper controversy, Charles Matthews, editor of the Hornet, was shot dead cither by Col. Fordyce, Vice President of the Texas Nar-row-Gauge road, or Col Bugg, one of the proprietors of the Arlington Hotel. Thomas Dodd, of Covington, Ky., while standing in his doorway beside his young bride, was shot dead by Edward Welsh, who stood on the sidewalk w ith his wife only a few feet away. Dodd had been intimate with a daughter of Welsh, and declined'to marrv her.

POLITICAL POINTS. William E. Chandler, Secretary of the Navy, is said to be a candidate for the United States Senate, to succeed E 11. Rollins, the present incumbent. WASHINGTON NOTES. Gen. B‘. F. Butler his been retained to defend the Dorseys in the next star-route trial. The suspension of two internal revenue Collectors in Alabama is announced. Morgan, of Mobile, has been superseded by I*. D. Joseph, and Rapier, of Montgomery, gives place to William Youngblood. The contributions toward the Garfield Hospital at Washington amount to $8 >,OOO. FOREIGN NEWS. With the exception of those suspects in the Irish jails who can be brought to trial speedily, the remainder will be soon discharged. Twenty persons lost their lives by an explosion of fire-damp in a mine near Dartmund, Westphalia. Eord Dillon has received no rent from his estates in Ireland for three years, and has therefore caused the posting of I,<XX) ejectment decrees at the Court House at Swineford. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, has arrived at Lisbon. An offensive and defensive alliance has been concluded between Russia and Montenegro. A Catholic priest lias been fined for libel in criticizing Bismarck’s attitude toward the Kulturkampf. A flood in the Austrian Tyrol swept away four towns, and drowned between forty anil fifty people. The last of the Irish suspects were released from Kilmainham jail Sept.. 22. It is now stated the Russian Emperor’s visit to Moscow is owing to a desire to view the Exposition. For deserting the Italian army to serve with Arabi Pasha a court-martial at Rome has condemned Lieut Paolucci to two years’ imprisonment and dismissal from service. A cablegram from 'Trieste states th it Overdank and twenty deserters from the Austrian army drew kits to determine who would throw bombs at .the Emperor during the recent reception The explosives were made by a Russian at Kieff. Heavy snow-storms in Switzerland buried the crops a foot deep. The Exposition building at Sydney, N. S. W., with all it contained, was destroyed by tire, entailing a loss of $2,5 HI, 000. The recent speech of the Governor of Kieff against the Jews is believed by the peasants and others to be a signal for a re newal of outrages on that unhappy people. E. Dwyer Gray, the imprisoned Dublin editor, advises an exposition in 188.1, in order to further the sale of Irish manufactures. He also suggests that an Irish exposition be held in the United States, and that the Government modify it- tariff in favor o ' Irish productions. The Russian Czar and his imperial consort returned to St. Petersburg from Moscow. While a passenger ami baggage train was crossing the River Dravc, in Austria, part of the bridge fell in an 1 the engine and baggage cars pitched into the river, dragging with them some of th;- passenger cars containing a number of Hussars on furlough. Fifteen soldiers were drowned and th rty injured. Gen. Wolseley and Admiral Seymour, it is officially announced at London, will be raised to the Peerage because of the r brilliant services in Egypt.