Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. A fire at Bridgeport, Ct., destroyed Watson's iron works and the factory of the Craighead & El well Company, the loss aggregating $55,000. The Pennsylvania Steel Association hci<l its annual session at Philadelphia The Becretary’s report showed that the production had been increased 1,618,804 tons in ten years. "West. Gen. Crook says that there is not now a hostile Apache in Arizona He has returned from a trip to the Magellan and White mountains and the San Carlos agency, and says that he had talks with all the disaffected Indians, and arrived at a thorough understanding with them. The only band from which we have to fear any trouble is that of the Chiricahuas, now in Mexico. A train on the Santa Fe road was boarded by robbers near Grenada, CoL Two men at Grenada mounted the engine with drawn revolvers, and compelled the engineer to run the train a mile and a half out of town, where fifteen men with revolvers took possession of the entire train. The only shots fired were at Conductor Dees, who had gone forward to learn the cause of the stopping of the train. The conductor ran back into the smoking-car, where a Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff from Raton, also the Sheriff from Las Vegas, were. They drew their revolvers, which saved the passengers from losing their valuables. The ruffians then robbed the express-car of 15,500 in money, ordered the engineer to pull out, got on their horses, which were hitched near by, and departed A safe in the rear car, containing SIO,OOO, was not molested At Fargo, J>. T., the wholesale grocery house of Raymond A Kingman was destroyed by fire. Loss, $38,000; insurance, s2s,<m By the accident to the Cannon-ball train at Salem, Kan., five persons were killed and four others severely injured, one of whom has Bince died. 'ldle bodies of the victims were so badly burned as to be scarcely recognizable. A granite monument, fifteen feet high, is being made at Muscatine, lowa, for Jesse James’ grave. A brilliant aerial phenomenon was witnessed at Dubuque the other evening, consisting of a luminous band spanning the whole heavens from northwest to southeast. It lasted half an hour, and then gradually faded away. . South. During the month of September there were 783 cases of yellow fever at Pensacola and seventy-eight deaths Richmond (Ya.) telegram: “Private Information received here is to the effect that the political riot at Lancaster, 8. C., was much more serious than represented It now I urns out that there were seven colored persons killed and some twenty-one wounded. None of the whites were seriously injured.” Two convict guards on a cotton plantation south of Houston, Tex., named Tower and Thompson, fought a duel with revolvers. Twelve shots were fired and both fell dead. James Rhodes was taken from jail at Charlottesville, Va., and hanged to a tree for the murder of the Massie family. He made a confession of his crime.

Robert T* Carruthers, of Lebanon Tenn., ex-Govemor and ex-member of Congress, is dead A party of lowa capitalists will immediately build another iron blast-furnace in the Birmingham district of Alabama. Judge Woods, late proprietor of the Denison (Texas) Democrat, but lately a citizen of the Indian Territory, where he has been engaged in getting out black walnut timber, had an altercation with one of his mill-hands named Slaughter, in which Slaughter was killed and Woods shot twico through the body, from the effects of which he died three days afterward At Carencro, La., Adolph Marceaux became offended about some imagined wrong, got up a party of friends in military fashion and marched to a hall where a festival was being held Arriving there, they opened fire on the assemblage, killing a girl named Domingue instantly and mortally wounding her brother. Isaac Carton and wife, at Goodwater, Ga, locked three children up in the house, which burned to the ground The children were cremated At Jacksonville, Ala., John Brooks, a negro, who had confessed to outraging a little girl, was taken from the Sheriff by a crowd and hanged in the outskirts of the city. .

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A loss of $9.0,000 was incurred at Hochelaga, near Montreal, by the burning of the sash factory and lumber-yard of James Hawley A Hon and McLennan A Co.’s notion factory. The death of Adelaide Phillipps, for many years the leading contralto singer of America, is announced. Miss Phillipps about six months ago was compelled by illhealth to seek rest and change of air in Europe, and at the time of her death was sojourning at Carlsbad Springs in Germany. In Tacubaya, Mexico, twelve masked bandits entered the house of Frederic Hubbi, a tax collector, murdered him and his wife and stole $4,000. WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Folger lias issued a new set of rules for the government of Treasury Department employes, who must be at their desks hereafter from 9 o’clock until 3:30, with the exception of half an hour for lunch, and during that time tend strictly to laisiness, and refrain from smoking aud reading newspapers. Beside the foregoing, there are other important changes in the conduct of the department. Following is the monthly public-debt statement issued on the 2d inst: Interest-bearing debt — Extended (is .$ -3,693,200 Extended 5s 177.062,900 Four and one-half percents 25<)/tm,ooo Four per cents 738,916,250 Three per cents 237,233,200 Refunding certificates 435,8 io Navy pension l'und 14/100,000 Total Interest-bearing debt $1,421,341,350 Interest 12,219,712 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity— Principal $ 15,053,625 Interest 515,030 Debt bearing no interest— Legal tenders $ 346,740,501 Certificates of deposit 10,670,000 Gold and silver certificates 76,476,630 Fractional currency 15,401,012 Less amount estimated .lost or destroyed ($8,375,934)....! 7,028,075 Principal... $ 440,915,229 Unclaimed Pacific railway interest.. 5,339 Total debt'.....' $1,878,216,205 Total interest. 12,740,083 Total $1,890,956,288 Cash in treasury 246,836,064 Debt, less cash in treasury— Oct. 1, 1882 $1,614,120,223 Sept. 1, 1882 1,658,926,171 Decrease during month $ 14,805,948 Decrease since June 30, 1882 44,794,237 Current liabilities — Interest due and unpaid $ 1,532,344 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 15,959,623 Interest thereon 513,030 Gold and silver certificates 76,476,650 United States notes held for redemn- ' ; tion of certificates of deposit 10,670,000 Cash balance available Oct. 1 141^682,413 Total... $ 246,836,061 Available assets— Cash in treasury $ 246,836,064 . Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money— Principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 969,352 Interest paid by United States 55,344,682 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service $ 15,286,467 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings G 55,198 Balance of interest paid by United States... 39,403,015 The accumulation of business in the Pension Bureau is something enormous. A chemical examination of the boquet presented to the assassin Guiteau by Mrs. Scovillo on the day before the execution has developed the fact that one bud contained five grains of white arsenic, far in excess of a fatal dose, which, if taken, could have been defeated by emetics. District Attorney Corkliill is making efforts to discover who poisoned the flow era Secretary Teller ordered the opening of the Turtle Mountain country for settlement. Gen. Sutor, in charge of the Mississippi river improvements, shows in his annual reports that $389,254 were spent for that work, and estimates that $1,383,000 can be profitably spent this year. POLITICAL POINTS. A. B. Hepburn declines the nomination for Congressman-at-Large from New York, on the ground that a very large portion of the Republicans of the State are dissatisfied with the work of the convention. Secretary Folger has formally accepted the Republican nomination for Governor of New York. The Executive Committee of the AntiMonopoly League of New York has formally indorsed the Democratic nominees for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Alexander H. Stephens has been elected Governor of Georgia by a majority estimated at 40,000. All of the Democratic candidates for State officers were elected by about the same majority. The Delaware election resulted in a Democratic majority of- 2D5 for Inspectors and a Republican majority of 113 for Assessors. In the Wyoming Democratic Territorial Convention, which met at Green River, M. E. Post, the present Delegate to Congress, was renominated by acclamation. FOREIGN NEWS. E. Dwyer Gray has been ordered released by Judge Lawson on payment of his fine of £SOO. Col. Berdan has declined to enter the service of the Turkish Government. Two officers were killed and thirty seamen wounded by an explosion on a Russian ironclad at Odessa The Greek Minister has informed the Turkish Premier that Greece will not re-

nounce an inch of the territory ceded by Turkey. The latest diplomatic row at Oon’stantinople arose over the refusal of the Turks to permit the landing of laborers who bad been engaged with the British expedition to Egypt. They were allowed to pass the Dardanelles on the demand of Lord Dufferin, but armed police forced them to remain on Russian steamer which brought them from Port Said. A second effort by the British Minister was rewarded by the release of the laborers. Chili is selling Peruvian nitrate denosits. Mme. Hermance Sandria les Guillon, the authoress, is dead. Cholera is epidemic in Kotta Radja, Borneo, and in Atchin, Sumatra. An embassy from the Queen of Madagascar is about to visit America. The recent census shows the population of the Austrian empiro to be 23,144,244. The Porte has promised Greece it will order the Turks to evacuate all the ceded points of the frontier without delay. Anti- Jewish riots have been renewed at Magyabbel, in Hungary. Many persons have been injured and much property destroyed. Dublin dispatches announce the killing of Thomas Burne, a fanner of Castle Island, County Kerry, and of another farmer named Hunt, near Boyle, County Roscommon. Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,reports that the Irish people show signs of amelioration, though he found 4,000 holdings under £4 a year. He indirectly recommends emigration by the help of the Government. The bodies of two bailiffs named Huddy, thrown into the waters of Lough Mask, and recovered after great difficulty, have been again thrown into their former resting place. The Joyce family are believed to have been murdered for giving information that led to the first recovery of the corp -es. The energy shown by the Hungarian Prem’er in suppressing the anti-Jewish riots has elicited the thanks of the Austrian Emperor. The Sultan declares if Lord Dufferin docs not answer his note inquiring when the British will evacuate Egypt, he will appeal to the powers. Gen. Wolseley has issued a general order praising the troops in Egypt for their courage and gallantry. He thanks them in the Queen’s name for their valor and discipline. Four dissecting-knives, nine inches long, discolored by human blood, were found in a stable in Dublin used by a man named Kenny, who was recently deported for intimidation. It is believed that the weapons were those used in the murder of Cavendish and Burke, aud that Kenny was the driver ot' the car on which the assassins escaped. IVestgate, who made confession of his participa! ion in the tragedy, is at Kingston, Jamaica, and will not be sent to Europe for lack of evidence against him. It is stated in a dispatch from Cairo that Arab! Bey objects to being tried by a court-martial composed of Egyptians, saying that ho surrendered to the English, and not to his own countrymen, from whom he could expect no mercy. If he had supposed his fate was to be decided by any Egyptian tribunal lie would have escaped instead of surrendering. De Lesseps telegraphed the President of the court-martial that Arab! during the war did his utmost to protect apd maintain the neutrality of the Suez canal, and that _he preserved the lives and protected ihe interests of several Europeans. The Suez caual is to be enlarged and improved. The Afghan troops have revolted against the Ameer. Queen Victoria will soon visit the South of France