Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1882 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Kant. Capt. Webb, the famous English swimmer, accomplished the task of remaining 128% hoars in a tank of fresh water at New York, daring which time his weight decreased twenty-six pounds. A train on the New York Central railroad struck a carriage at Syracuse, N. Y.,' containing John D. Milonee aged 27, his wife aged 24, Mrs. H. B. Comstock and Mrs. Munro Burgess, two elderly ladies visiting from Marathon, N. Y. The three women were killed and the man seriously injured. Thomas A. McDevitt and Christian Price, the two star-route conspirators convicted at Philadelphia, have been sentenced respectively to twelve and six months in the penitentiary and to pay fines of <SOO and #IOO. Col. Bowen, special agent of the Department of Justice, who was accused by Foreman Dickson of attempting to bribe the star-route jurors, was arrested in Philadel'phia, at the instance of a hotel proprietor, for leaving the house without paying a board and wine bill of #54. He was held in S6OO bail by the magistrate. The constable who made the arrest found Bowen in conference with Attorney General Brewster. Pleuro-pneumonia has made its appearance in Lancaster county, Pa. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature of Vermont to provide that persons condemned to the gallows shall be rendered insensible before execution. President Arthur was at Princeton College last week, and addressed the students from the steps of Dr. McCosh’s residence. His son has entered the class of 1885. Frank Queen, proprietor of the New York Clipper , died at Philadelphia of paralysis of the brain, aged 63. A bill before the Legislature of Vermont imposes a flne-of #lO for offering a boy under 15 years of age a cigar or cigarette. James H. Corey, the Long Branch landlord who demanded #2,500 from his sick guests last summer, has been indicted for robbery, riot, extortion, assault and maintaining a nuisance. R. V. Storrs & Co., manufacturers of woolens at Dedham, Mass., have failed. Their liabilities are #43-',OOO, with nominal assets of #225,000. Marie Prescott, the actress, who sued President Tousey, of the American News Company, for criminal libel, by circulating a dramatic sheet containing a scurrilous attack on her, has obtained a verdict from the jury for #12.500 damaerea W eat. The Masonic Grand Lodge of California passed resolutions indorsing the refusal of the Grand Lodge of Utah to admit upholders of Mormonism. A desperate shooting affair occurred at Menden, Kearney county, Neb. Jack Woods, Sheriff of Hitchcock and Dundy counties, found at supper in a hotel throe men who had stolen horses, and tried to make an arrest The fellows’ pal, sitting across the table, then drew a revolver on Woods, who turned and was shot through the back, dropping dead. The two men and two more of their gang jumped up, and, in the melee, killed two citizens. The bandits then fled. Twenty Mormon elders have left Salt Lake for missionary work in the Southern Stat< s, and seventy-five for the European field. At Cincinnati William Saube, CO -ears old, after having quarreled with his eon, aged 3 ', lay in wait for him on their premises, shot him dead, and then went up in a barn loft and cut his throat with a razor. The younger Saube leaves a wife and several children. At San Carlos, A. T., Gen. Crook, in a conference with the head men of the Apaches, informed them that they would be counted every day, that they could not be permitted to leave the reservation, and if found outside its limits would be treated as hostiles. He prohibits the manufacture oi their favorite intoxicant John A. Cockerell, who killed Col. Slayback at St Louis, was bailed in #IO,OOO. The Grand Jury indicted him for murder in the second degree. A car of new corn from Parsons, Kansas, grading No. 2, sold at auction in Sc. Ljuis for 75 cents per busheL South. Two Texas desperadoes, named James and Edward Bean, were overtaken by a posse near Sunset, and James was killed and Edward mortally wounded. Hog cholera is playing havoc with the swine in the region of lowa City, lowaOne farmer lost over 400 head within a few days.

WASHINGTON NOTES. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 11,266,003 pieces were coined by the United States mints, representing a value of #89,413,447, being nearly #11,000,000 greater than in any previous year. The silver purchased by the Government during the period abovementioned amounted to 23,627,229 ounces at a cost of #24,136,942. For the nine months ended Sept. 30, the value of domestic bseadstuffs exported was #134,512,779; same time last year, #177,452,638. Secretary Folger having ruled that gold ceitificates can only be procured at New York, Western bankers will be compelled to pay express charges both on their gold to that city and on the certificates upon their i etura. W. W. Corcoran and other citizens of Washington have incorporated an association wii.h a capital of #IOO,OOO to erect a monument to the memory of Thomas Jefferson. Secretary Folger has called in $15,000,000 in extended 5 per-cent, bonds, payable Jam 18 next Secretary Frelinghuysen received a note from the American Representative at London, containing the regrets of Earl Granvi.le, the British Foreign Minister, at the arrest of Henry George while in Ireland. The Secretary thereupon requested a personal interview vith Mr. George at his convenience. The President suspended Jonathan Diggs, Indian Agent at the Colorado River Agency, and appointed John W. Clark as his successor. Indian Agent McGillicuddy, of the Mesea ero agency, has tendered his resignation to the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary declined to accept the resignation pending the result of the investigation now in progresa Dr. Hamilton, of Now York, has presented to the Garfield board of audit a bill for #25,000 for professional services. POLITICAL POINTS. Cadet Whittaker has come out as a Democrat. The Prohibitionists of New Hampshire have nominated Josiah W. Fletcher for Governor. A Cincinnati dispatch says that “the election of Gen. Goff,' Republican, to Congress in the West Virginia First district is assured by about 1,590 ma’orty. In the Second district of that State the result Is not quits defin tely settled, although the latest returns make it almost cert lin that Wilson, Democrat, is elected over Mason, Republican, by about fiity majority.” In the United States “Circuit -Court at Portland, Ore., Judge Deadv called the attention of the Grand Jury to the law in regard to political assessment, and instructed the jury, if any violation of the law cou d bo found, that it was their duty to indict the offenders. Representatives of the colored people of Rhode Island, in convention at Newport, discussed their alleged wrongs at the hands of the Republican party, demanded a fair apportionment of the public office--, and determined to support that candidate for office who had most regard for their rights and feelings. FOREIGN NEWS. The Egyptian Ministry positively refuse to allow foreign counsel to defend Arabi Pasha and the other prisoners. A Paris cablegram announces the death of Count Napoleon Ney, a son of the famous Marshal, at the age of 70. England’s reply to Turkey’s note touching the evacuation of Egypt has raised the Sirltan’s ire and infuriated the fanatical party at Constantinople, who lay the blame on Su'd Pasha and demand his execution. Absolute ownership by a tenant in land he either created or purchased, and undisturbed occupancy, are, according to Michael Davitt, the only things that will bring peace to Ireland. Russian thieves murdered a mail postilion near Odessa, and secured a half million roubles from the letters. An appeal from Victor Hugo, deprecating the execution of Arabi Pasha, is published. There is great and increasing dissatisfaction among the German people, and large numbers are now preparing to emigrate to this country. The German ship Constantia came in collision with the steamer City of Antwerp fourteen miles off Eddystone lighthouse, and both vessels were sunk. No lives lost. The Irish National Conference assembled at Dublin on the 17th of October, Parnell presiding. The platform was occupied by a number of prominent men, including the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the extreme Irish members of Parliament Egan, Treasurer of the Land League, presented his report, and asked that be be relieved from office. Nearly £250,000 passed through his hands. Parnell presented the programme of the conference, which declares for home rule and- the right of tenant-farmers to become owners by purchase. He denied thatih°re had been any dictation from Iri h-Ameri-cans, asserting that if there had been, lie, at least, would have disobeyed it All the speakers united in declaring that the I .aid act was an utter failure. Micba il Davitt, whi e dissent ng from Parnell’s land-reform scheme, will co operate with him in effecting the abolition of landlordi-m. Fourteen of the crew of the steamer City of Antwerp, in collision in the English channel with the ship Constantia, were drowned. It was at first announced that no lives were lost by the disaster. The new Russian loan, £80,000,060, nominal 3-per-cent, bonds at 59, will Le issued immediately by Rothschild. It is evident, says a Dublin dispatch, that, if there is no actual schism in the Irish National party, there is so wide a difference in the lines of action advocated by Davitt and Parnell that it is hard y possible they can pull in the same harness. Turkey is now ready to do business with England looking to a final adjustment of the Egyptian complication, and notice to this effect has been given by the Porte to the Br tish Ambassador at Constantinople The committee of the National League has adopted an address to the* Irisii

people in substance as follows: “The landlords have combined with the purpose of breaking the spirits of the tenants. The dismay which the present scale of jud eial rents has created among the applicants to the land courts renders it more necessary than ever that the tenantry should be reunited in a vigilant and lawful association for the purpose of protecting themselves from injustice The inspiration of our struggles is to transfer all local power and patronage from privileged strangers to the hands of the people, and so fortify the people for the work of self-government” After having been asserted and denied and reasserted and redenied, times without number, that Arabi Bey, the leader of the Egyptian rebels, would be permitted to employ foreign counsel to defend him, the matter seems to have been settled at last, and that Broadley, Eve and Napier, three distinguished English barristers, wiU be intrusted with the defense of the great rebel. Bany Sullivan, the tragedian, has consented to be a Parliamentary candidate in Ireland on home-rule principles.