Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. t East An explosion occurred in the Chapman Metallic Cap Company’s works at Suffield, Conn., which resulted in the injury of eight men, one ot whom will die. A drove of twenty-two ostriches has been placed in Central I’ark, New York, to await the selection of a suitable place in the South’for breeding. They are valued at $1,400 each, and white feathers command • 175 per pound. Thb international half-mile running ma'ch between W. G. George, of England, and Lawrence E. Myers, of New York, which took place at the New York polo grounds, was won by the latter in 1 minute and 56 3-5 seconda Several New York banks have been swindled by counterfeit bills printed from plates similar to those captured in the West in February, 188). It Is supposed that one of the men who then escaped arrest has a plate in his possession from which he has struck off a quantity of notea A great checker match was played at Boston between Wylie, the great Scotch player, -And Baker, the American expert Fifty games were played, each contestant winning one, while forty-eight were drawn. ' The people of New York State adopted free-canal amendment at the recent election. Diphtheria and scarlet fever are ’ causing great mortality among children at Birdsboro, i’a. West. Luke McCray, a prominent young politician, was run over and killed by a train near Indianapolis, his remains being scatteied along the track for a mile. A girl 12 years old, living with the family of a colored blacksmith, at Keokuk, lowa, he.s received an inheritance of $360,(W, and a large amount of diamonds and jewelry, by the death of her father in Spain. The blacksmith will get $68,000. Belmont and Simmerman, who committed the triple murder recently at Minden, Neb., were overtaken in Southwestern Kansas by Charles Fonts and Frank Martin, from whom they had stolen a horse, and Belmont was shot dead on refusing to surrender, while Simmerman was made prisoner, and lodged in jail at Lincoln. The puddlers at Terse Haute, Ind., Iron and Nail Works and at the Wabash Iron Company’s Works went out on a strike the other day, demanding $6 per ton until the Ist of next June. Four hundred cars of corn arrived at Kan: as City in two days, and the elevators are,unable to keep pace with the receipts. The" cereal is being shipped to Eastern markets as rapidly as possible. An earthquake shock was felt at Laramie City, W. T., Mid points westward on the evening of the 7th inst. Plastering fell from the walls of buildings at Rawlins and other points. South. Five business places at Shreveport, La., valued at SIO2,(MX), were swept away by. fire. The total expenditures of the National Board of Health at Pensacola, from the outbreak of the epidemic of yellow fever to Oct. 15, were $6,100. The total number of cases at Pensacola has been 2,079, with 172 deaths. At Brownsville there have been 1,977 cases and 114 deaths. The disease is gradually declining in the South. Ague is said to be increasing to an alarming extent In Brownsville. * “Dago Pete,” an Italian fruit-vender of New Orleans, inspired by jealous, killed his quadroon mistress and her mother with a razor. A dispatch from Hampton Court House, 8. 0., says that a negro named Jake Gantt collected about twenty colored men to prevent Policeman Beid from taking away his -(Gantt’s) pistol When the difficulty recommenced, Reid was killed by the negroes, and three white citizens were cut or be iten. A white man who started for help was stabbed in the thigh and left on the road. All the prisoners in the Prince G orge county (MJ.) jail escaped by burning lock from the door. Four negroes, charged with robbery nnd attempted murder, were taken from the Vienna (La.) jail by a mob. One escaped, another was given a chance for his life, and the o'.h ,r two were taken a short distance from town and riddled with bullets. Half the distillers of Kentucky have signed an agreement to reduce the production of whisky for the next five years. The gas in the New Orleans city offices, police stations, prison and in the streets was turned off by the gas company, and the entire city plunged into darkness. Due and unpaid gas bills are the cause.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A recent telegram from Washington B iys; James E. Anderson, the former Louisiana statesman, who vVent to “a warm climate” by way of Eureka, Nev., but not as a Consul, is well remembered here, where he achieved considerable notoriety as a witness before the Potter investigating committee. Eight or ten years ago he was an employe in the Government printing offica He left here and became a politician in Louisiana. He was the chief election officer of East Feliciana parish, in that State, in 1876, and, after making one rqj,uni favorable to Tilden, subsequently made another giving Hayes the parish. The election of the State turned upon Anderson and his return of the parish vote. The Returning Board counted his (Hayes’) return, and'Anderson afterward claimed the reward which he alleged had been promised him for making it As a witness before the Potter Committee, he produced certain correspondence between himself and Hon. Stanley Matthews. Among the letters was one that attracted much notice, recommending that Anderson be appointed to a “Consulship in a warm climate.” ■ Anderson won a notorious but unenviable reputation as a witness. He went to Nevada, and for a t me was connected with a paper at Gold Hll. Subsequently he went to Eureka, where he rounded up his career by dying “with his boots on. ” Rear Admiral Charles H. Poor died ■of apoplexy at Washington. The Mississippi River Commission has sent in its estimates of the sum needed for work during the next fiscal year. They ask for same sum appropriated by Con-

gross last year, being about $4,250,000 for the Mississippi alone. The estimates have not yet been acted upon by the Secretary ot War, but will probably be approved without change and forwarded to the Secretary ot the Treasury, who will send them to Congress. The rumor is revived that Postmaster General Howe will soon resign from the Cabinet, and that Assistant Postmaster General Hatton will succeed him. POLITICAL POINTS. Gov. Hoyt’s espousal of the independent cau-e in Pennsylvania led Col. M. 8. Quay, Secretary of the Commonwealth, to resign his office. President Arthur was accompanied by his brother to the poll-box at No. 402 Third avenue. New York, and voted the straight Republican ticket. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll attributes tha Republican defeat to their refusal to reduce taxation, reform the tariff, and the fight for office. He believes Gen. Sherman will be the next President, upon whom Republicans of all shades of opinion can unite. There will be one Republican in the next Delaware Legislatuie—a hold-over Senator. Gov. Long, it is said, will succeed to Air. Hoar’s seat in the United States Senate-, FOREIGN NEWS. Great distress prevails in County Clare, Ireland, on account of the failure-ot the potato crop and prevalence of an epidemic that killed neary all the hogs. Baron Treskow, the German Consul, has Ir en instructed to inform the Khedive that England’s policy regarding Egypt meets with the cordial approval of Bismarck. Enlistments at Cairo for the expedition against the False Prophet are progressing satisfactorily, and many Germans and amnestied officers have tendered their services. Herr Bebel, the German Socialist leader, adjudged guilty of abusing the Government through the press, has began to serve his three months’ sentence in a Leipsic jail The wandering Socialist paper, Die Frieheit, just now publishe I in Switzerland, is to be seized by the Swiss Government as a dangerous publication. Herr Most, the editor, thinks of resuming its publication in England, and has asked for the necessary permission. The weather at St. Petersburg is extremely cold and navigation is closed. The River Neva is blocked with ice. It is reported that Russia is urging the Sultan to send a commission to Egypt, with a naval demonstration. Admiral Seymour is now a member of the British peerage, with the title of Baron Alcester. There is great distress among the victims of incendiarism at Alexandria who are waiting to be paid indemnity, and they have been compelled to appeal to private charity in order to sustain themselves. Floods and tempest weather in England retard wheat sowing, and opinions are expressed that the acreage next year will be : greatly reduced. The peace negotiations in progress between Chili and Peru are said to have been finally broken off, and President Calderon has been sent into confinement by the Chilian-'. The Prince of Wales, in accepting the Chairmanship of the Longfellow Memorial Committee, expresses his great satisfaction at being afforded an oppot tunity to show bis high appreciation of Longfellow and his works. A project for building a network of railways in the German Eastern provinces for strategic purposes will be submitted at the next session of the Reichstag. A frightful explosion occurred in the Clay Cross mines in Derbyshire, England, by which thirty persons lost their lives, most of j whom were colliers. Buildings live miles distant from the scene of the horreff were shattered by the concussion. The American Consul at Dunkirk, France, writes that the imports of com have decreased because of heated cargoes, sent 'down the Mississippi in barges to New Orleans. Gladstone, in a speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet in London, expressed content at the improved condition of Ireland, and asserted that judicious leg slation would be the foundation of a greater harmony between the two countries. He lauded the work of the army in Egypt, and expressed belief that England’s glory would hold its place until the end of time.