Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. A Louisville jewelry store was robbed of $5,000 worth of diamonds by three men who got a chance at the goods under the pretense of a wish to mike some purchase* A coalslide in the Dodson mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, caused an explosion of fire damp, killing one man and seriously burning four others. A fire in Philadelphia destroyed the nine-story sugar refinery of Harrison, Ilavemeyer & Co., causing a loss estimated at nearly' $1,000,000. One thousand men are thrown out of employment by the calamity, and two men are missing. A gallery of the Exposition building at Pittsburgh gave way, and precipitated to the floor beneath, a distance of thirty feet, many persons, two of whom were fatally injured. About the same time, outside the building, on a temporary shed, were a number of people intently watching a display of fireworks, when that also collapsed, causing the serious wounding of two of its occupants. Wellington & Co., the oldest dry goods firm in Boston, has made an assignment Their liabilities are placed at $500,000. Maltby, Stevens & Curtiss’ factory, at Birmingham, Ct, burned, causing a loss of $150,000. The insurance amounts to $58,000. A colored miser of Philadelphia, sporting the name of Rev. Joshua Provine Bond Eddy, died in a filthy hut, leaving SIOO,OOO to a brother. He was bom in Virginia in the last century, traveled a circuit in New Jersey, married a daughter of Bishop Allen, and became soured against humanity on learning of her infidelity. The Ford brothers, who killed Jesse James, are on exhibition at a museum in Brooklyn, where they claim to-have seen the wife of Frank James, heavily veiled, and grew quite excited over it. A Philadelphia dispatch says that at a meeting of the Keely Motor Company, the Trustee appointed by the court stated positively that the motor would be completed . and patents applied for by December. A fire at Emporium, Penn., destroyed seventeen of the principal business places, causing a loss of $150,000. W. G. Whittaker, residing at Paselialviile, a Philadelphia suburb, has been arrested for poisoning his wife and family and a boarder named Co jper, by putting arsenic in the water with which tea was made. A runaway accident at Albany, N. Y., caused the death of Mrs. Lewis liathbone, wife of a prominent retired manufacturer, and the fatal injuring of ex-Assemblyman Amasa I. Parker, Jr. Mrs. Parker and another lady were slightly injured W “st. The Chicago Tribune says 'There lias been a great deal of frost damage to late com upon low lands in Illinois. The Vorn upon high and well-drained lands lias had the double advantage of being further advanced and of being more lightly touched by frost ” The Western Hardware Company, of Atchison, Kansas, has closed its doors. Liabilities, $250,(00. The annual report of the Bt. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad for the year ended June 80 shows the earnings to.be $4,507,052.55, and the operating expenses $2,695,500.76. A shock of earthquake, lasting from fifteen to sixty seconds, was felt in the region between St. Louis and Springfield on the 27th of September. Five persons attempted to cross tli9 Miami river at Lebanon, Ohio, and during a playful struggle for the oars the craft capsized and four of the occupants were drowned. Gov. Murray’s appointments to fill vacancies in Utah, caused by a failure to hold an election in August, are nullified by the Mormons, who refuse to give up the positions in obedience to the orders of church officials.

William Dyniewicz, the publisher and editor of the Gazctta Polska, a Polish weekly of Chicago, shot and killed an unknown man, who was attempting to force an entrance into his residence and business place, and who in a drunken frenzy attacked Dyniewicz and his family with a heavy piece of timber and threatened to kill them r.IL A Chicago detective lias bagged the fourth confederate in the Kewaunee bank robbery The show-case of C. Oskamp, in the Cincinnati Exposition was coolly robbed of SO,OOO worth of diamonds by two men who had keys to the padlocks. Helm rich & Hansen, well-known wheat and note brokers of San Francisco, have failed, with liabilities of $160,000. The Pacific Bank caused the arrest of Hansen on a eharge of grand larceny, and he gave bail in $20,000. George Ames, while insane and attempting to escape capture by officers and physicians, jumped from the third story of a hotel at Richmond, Ind., and sustained fatal injuries. He is a grandson of Bishop Ames, and his mother is a sister of Senator Booth. A load of . new corn was hauled into Dos Moines, lowa, by a farmer on the 29th ult., and attracted a large crowd of spectators. Soiitli. The Baltimore National Bank was relieved of $12,000 in bonds in broad daylight by sneak-thieves. The sugar-cane crop in Louisiana is in splendid condition, and all advices are favorable for a large yield. Five convicts escaped from the Texas penitentiary by crawling through the sewer. One was killed, two captured and one wounded. George Hallenbeck and William Stratton quarreled fifteen years ago at Palmyra, N. Y., and again met the other day near Carrizo . Pass, Texas, went into a darkened room and fought a dueL Stratton was brought out a corxi.se, but Hallenbeck was uninjured Mrs. Bush and her five children were drowned at Heathsviile, Va., by their house being carried off by a flood During the session of the Baptist Association at Hampton Cross-Roads, two young men under the influence of liquor began a pistol combat in the church, causing a panic among the worshipers. Levi Bryson was fatally shot by Jerry Cox, but succeeded in fatally shooting Cox. Both died in the church. Many were injured by being trampled during the panic. At a political meeting at Lancaster, S. C., at which CoL Cash was the orator, a row broke out, resulting in indiscriminate shooting between whites and blaoks, one of

the latter being killed and many on both sides being wounded [The quality of the tobacco crop in North Carolina is of high quality and the yield is very abundant The acreage is larger than usual, and curing is now in progress. Two young women of New Orleans fought with butcher-knives on account of the attentions of a man. Melissa Power was killed by a thrust in the breast, while Addie Johnson is in a critical condition.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Anti-Monopolists of Nebraska, held a State Convention at Hastings and nominated E. P. Ingersoli, President of . the State Farmers’ Alliance, for Governor. There were 400 delegates present. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the encroachments of railroad and other monopolies, and calling for a reduction of the tariff. The Democratic Territorial Convention in Dakota nominated W. R. Steele, of Dead wood, for Congress. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines became a member of the Women’s National*. Labor League at Washington, and announced a determination to labor unceasingly to secure the ballot to women. James Oakley, who formerly represented Queens county in the New York Senate, stages that Blaine’s friends offered him SIO,OOO and his campaign expenses to run against Terry Belmont for’ Congress, with SIO,OOO additional if the latter be defeated. The California Prohibitionists met in conv< ntion at San Francisco and nominated for Governor, R. 11. McDonald, of San Francisco, and for Lieutenant Governor, William Sims, of Yolo county. WASHINGTON NOTES. Juryman McCarthy, who voted for the conviction of all the star-route conspirators, Las been appointed to a position at the Government A-ylum for the Insane. McCarthy was simply an honest cobbler before lie got on the jury. Secretary Teller has decided to reopen for settlement a tract of 10,000,090 acres of agricultural land in Northern Dakota which was withdrawn by Secretary Schurz to await a decision on the claims of the Turtle Mountain Indiana One of the first acts of Gen. Sherman as acting Secretary of War was to sign tiie acceptance of the resignation of Gen. George Stopeman as Colonel on the retire'd list of the army. Gen. Stoneman is the Democratic candidate for Governor of California. The value of imports of merchandise into the United States during the twelve months ended Aug. 31, 1882, was $741,983,917; for the preceding twelve months, $(443,248,555. The value of exports for the twelve months ended Aug. 31, 1882, was $737,(38,772; preceding twelve months, $894,717,454. Gross receipts at the Postoilice Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, have been $11,265,317.10, against $36,217,511.55 the previous year. Receipts from the sale of postage stamps, postal-cards and envelopes, $39,533,317, against $34,678,812 the previous year. The is*ue of Rtamps, etc., for 1872, amounted to $40,078,053, an increase over the previous year of $6,352,617. FOREIGN NEWS. Dillon will retire from Parliament on account of ill-health. The representatives of 20,000 English miners met at Rotherham and voted to demand an advance of 15 per cent, in wages. The military and police of the County Mayo evicted fifty families in the barony of Erris, and the people were ordered not to shelter them. A scheme is propounded by Davitfc for the formation of a gigantic organization whose leading object shall bo the improvement of the social and political condition of the Irish and the prevention of emigration by obtaining profitable employment tor laborers and evicted tenants. The schema will be discussed at the convention of the Irish Nationalists, soon to be held in Dublin. Parnell refuses to sanction the project on the ground that the formation of such an organization would be impossib’e under tbe existing Coercion act. Egan, Dillon, Brennan and Kettle desire a. discussion of the subject. Cetewayo, the Zulu King, arrived at Cape Town. Emperor Franz Josef lias contributed 100,000 florins to aid the sufferers by the floods in the Tyrol. Three members of the Salvation Army were arrested at Calcutta, as their street preaching had occasioned disorders, and rioting was imminent. A grand reception was given by the Khedive at Cairo, nearly 1,000 representatives from the different villages being present. He refused to receive many persons implicated in the recent troubles, and warned the Ulemas that they would be severely punished if they relapsed into disloyalty. An Alexandria dispatch says; The Khedive has decided to grant amnesty to all officers from Captain downward, except those who participated in the riots or donned uniforms Bince the campaign commenced. Th* Minister* have framed decrees for a

special commission to prosecute all acts of rebellion, a court-martial at Cairo to try cases for the- commission, and another at Alexandria to act upon cases submitted* by tribunals. The powers expect to be solicited by England to express their views on the situation in Egypt Lorillard’s Aranza won the Great Eastern Railway handicap at Newmarket by six lengths. The betting against her was twenty to one. Minister Wallace has procured from the Sultan the release of several Greeks, arrested last year at Janina for engaging in a political demonstration against Turkey. Fawcett, the British Postmaster General, “speaking at Hackney, said England had no selfish object. Her chief concern is to secure to the Egyptians the best government and the greatest amount of liberty possible. The abuse connected with the late control well be avoided in the future. The Egyptians will not have to submit to the injustice of an unduly large part of their revenues being appropriated by foreign officials. A train from Benlia had just arrived at Cairo with the Sixtieth Rilies on board, when an ammunition wagon in the station exploded, killing several persons. The flames which arose soon destroyed the train, the depot and a large amount of commissariat stores, the loss being £IOO,OOO. The Porte has thanked England for re establishing order in Egypt, and hopes the friendship of the two countries will not be disturbed. A Vienna newspaper publishes a story in effect that the Emperor and Empress were secretly crowned during their recent visit to Moscow. There are indications of further trouble in Europe. The Turkish Government has ordered the hasty manufacture of 200 Berdan torpedoes, and Russian officials arc taking. soundings at Ivilia, near the mouth of the Danube, notwithstanding a remonstrance by the International Commission. A farmer named Hickey, in Tipperary county, Ireland, has been murdered for paying his rent in violation of the local Land League and for assisting in the defense of some men employed in gathering crops on the farm Of an evicted tenant named Carroll. Tile Carroll family have been arrested. The British have decided to keep 12,000 men in Egypt to hold the Khedive in power. Advices from Presbarg report antiJewish riots there. The mol) broke the windows of many houses occupied by the Jews. The military finally restored order after making forty arrests. The military were confined in the barracks. The floods in the Austrian Tyrol reduced hunclre Is of wealthy land-owners to poverty. The laboring classes are in terrible distress, and the approach of winter .greatly aggravates tiie situation.