Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. ECaat. A tram on the Cuba extension of the Bradford, Eldred and Cuba railroad, while running at a high rate of speed, was derailed and thrown off the trestle, near Clarkville, Pa. The engine, tender, baggage-car and two passenger cars were hurled into the gorge thirty feet in depth. James France engineer, Charles Sterressey, fireman, and the baggage-master were killed. Several passengers were also killed. A large number were seriously injured. The engineer was trying to make up lost time. ""he Paine & Sackett woolen manufactory, of Providence, R L, has made an assignment The liabilities are estimated at ♦300,000. Two farm hands in the employ of Mrs. Barnum, at Hempstead, L. L, were found terribly mutilated and in a dying condition. It is supposed they fought until exhausted from loss of blood. Typhoid fever is epidemic at Provirtflpce, R L There are between 1,200 and 1,500 cases in the city, and great uneasiness prevails. Richard Hoffman, a resident of Somerset township, Pa., has for years been so badly paralyzed that he was compelled to use a wheel-chair. He states that while praying behind a barn he was ordered to rise and walk, and now goes about in the natural way. D. W. Coolidge, a grain commission merchant of Portland, Me., has suspended! with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. A company with a capital of $750,000 has been organized in Pittsburgh by prominent iron men to erect works for the manufacture of nails and spikes from steelsomething which has never before been done in the United States. A water tower in New York, designed for the use of the fire department, was overturned while being teste 1, by which two men were killed. The barge Signal and steamer City of Worcester collided in the East river, at Williamsburg, N. Y., and while the barge was being towed to the nearest point she sunk, carrying with her to the bottom seven persona West. Josiah B. Smith and wife, of Santa ’’W, OaL, became insane on religious subjects, and murdered their young son by cutting his throat, claiming that the sacrifice was ordered by the Lord. William McComber murdered Martin Wolf at Miller, D. T., and attempted to hide his crime by burning the body. When McComber was apprehended by the Sheriff he drew a revolver and shot himself dead. The Drumlumon gold and silver mine, near Helena, Montana, has been sold to a London syndicate for $1,500,000. Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks is improving so rapidly that all fears as to the result of his illness have been dissipated. The Knickerbocker block in Minneapolis, Minn., was burned. It was valued at $40,000, and the insurance on the structure is $20,000. Joe Hughes and Marker Davis were found murdered in the streets of St. Joseph, Mo. It is believed they were killed by a man named Harrington because they refused to return to him money which they had won from him at cards. A collison on the St. Paul and Omaha road, twelve miles from Hudson, Minn., caused the death of three cattle-men and the killing of a car-load of stock. Spots seen in the sun’s disk by telescopic observers at Keokuk, lowa, formed the figures “2” and “4,” or “24. ” Brave Bear, the Sioux Indian chief, Convicted of the murder of Joseph Johnson, was hanged at Yankton, Dakota. Stock in the Nicaragua Canal Company to the amount of SIOO,OOO has been quietly subscribed in the wholesale quarter of San Francisco. Steamboats on the Upper Mississippi are going into winter quarters, and navigation is virtually closed. The towns of Greenville, Vandalia, Collinsville, Salem, Centralia and Pana, in Illinois, were disturbed by earthquake shocks Tuesday evening, Nov. 14. The vibrations were distinctly felt, and in some instances' were accompanied by brilliant electrical discharges. South. In Frankfort, Ky., a negro tried to pitch hay and smoke his pipe at the same time. The result was the destruction of SBO,OOO worth of property. Amanda Watts, a Texan negress, killed the child of another negress through revenge. When locked up a child was bom to her, and she dashed the infant’s brains out against the wall It is stated that the Delaware and Maryland ship canal will be completed without Government aid by European capitalists. Yellow fever has disappeared from Pensacola and Brownsville. The steamer Hankow sailed from New Orleans for Liverpool with a cargo of 8,713 . bales of cotton, the largest that ever left that port Charles Hewey, Jr., an Arkansas merchant, quarreled with two brothers named Butler at Texarkana, and, when they followed him with deadly intent, shot them both dead. They were buried in one grava At Barnesville, Ga., Joseph Cole gave a circus elephant a chew of tobacco, which so enraged the bea-:t that it killed Cole by a blow with its trunk. Three sisters in Butler, Ky., named Phillips, were married at the same altar, in the presence of 100 guests. The sentence of Mary Booth, the 14-year-old negress, convicted of po'soning two persons in April last, was commuted by the Governor of Virginia to imprisonment for life. Richard Schumeyer died at Parkersburg, W. Va, at the ripe age of 110 years. Three negroes weta killed by an explosion in McGehee’s ginning mill, near Montgomery, Ala

WASHINGTON NOTES. A sample of the counterfeit Bland silver dollar which is being extensively circulated, especially in the West, has been received in Washington. The coin is very heavily plated, resists acid tests unless deeply cut before applied, has a ring similar to. the genuine, and is of the exact weight The officers of the Seeret Service Department consider the counterfeit one of the most dangerous that has yet appeared. S. W. Dorsey has arrived in Washington to be present at the commencement of his new trial. Ex-Senator Spencer, who is wanted as a Government witness in the star-route cases, cannot be found, and the counsel have addressed a second letter on the subject to President Arthur. Acting Secretary of the Interior Joslyn his decided that the statutes restrict a contest against a prior timber-culture entry to one who seeks to enter it under the Homestead and Timber-Culture laws. In the absence of atj application there is no right of contest. Mr. Roeser, of the General Land Office, has prepared a map of the United States which shows over 4,000 places in the West not heretofore appearing. A glazier at Washington, in whose putty-box lodged one of the bullets fired at President Garfield by Guiteau, has petitioned the Board of Audit to give him a position as watchman. POLITICAL POINTS. Through the political patronage of Louisiana William Pitt Kellogg hopes to be nominated Vice President in 1884. Frank Hurd and other leading Democrats of Ohio have arranged for a tariff and labor banquet at Columbus, Jan. 8, when Thurman, McDonald, Watterson and others will respond to toasts. A strong opposition to Senator Plumb’s re-election is developing in Kansas. The election of Gen. Francis A. Walker as Senator from Massachusetts is warmly urged by Charles Francis Adams, Jr. The Democrats of Dallas, Texas, paid SI,OOO in 1876 for a challenge banner, which was awarded ta Georgia for the largest majority. In 188 J it was taken by Texas, and it is now in possession of James B. 8 mpson, of Dallas, who will doubtless be instructed to forward it to New York. Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, has been elected United States Senator for the long term Pope Barrow was chosen as Ben Hill’s successor, defeating the dead Senator’s son by seven votes. Mr. Dibble, a Democratic Congressman from South Carolina, who was u seated at the last session by the Republicans of the House, has sent the following sarcastic greeting to John Paul, the Mahone Congressman who was re-elected in the Seventh Virginia district by a majority of only about 250: To Hon. John Paul, Harrisonburg, Va.; I have been re-elected by 5,000 majority. Hope to meet you in Washington this winter and return compliments. Dibble. Dibble was unseated last session by Mr. Paul’s vote. As that gentleman’s seat In the next House will be contested by Judge O’Ferral, Democrat, Mr. Dibble expects to return the compliment to Paul. Congressman Kasson says the fight for the Speakership will be of the Kilkenny kind, and Carlisle stands the best show. Hon. W. D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, called upon President Arthur the other day, and urged him to advocate in his message a sweeping reduction in internal-revenue taxes. He also visited Commissioner Raum and discussed the propriety of abolishing the Internal Revenue Bureau. The following telegram was sent to Gov. Butler, on the authority of Chalmers, by the editor of the Grenada (Miss) Sentinel: “To Ben Butler: Fort Pillow Chalmers to Beast Butler, greeting. Both in. Shake.” FOREIGN NEWS. A daughter made her appearance in the royal household at Madrid. Gladstone has declared his desire for local self-government for Ireland. The defeat of the Republicans in this country is regarded by the English as a refutation of Herbert Spencer’s assertions in regard to “bossism.” Lord Granville has assured the French Government that the French control in Egypt will be continued in a position to examine the finances. Russia, profiting by the bombardment of Alexandria, has ordered the construction of nine new war vessels and the strengthening of the defenses of Cronstadt Two ocean disasters of appalling proportions are reported by cable from London. The steamer Angelica, plying between Hull and Gifla, foundered in the North Sea, and forty persons were drowned. Still more awful in its possibilities is a catastrophe which occurred near Portsmouth, England. The Westphalia, which sailed Nov. 2 from New York for Hamburg, via Plymouth, collided in dense darkness with an unknown steamer, and the latter sank at once with all on board. The Westphalia was badly damaged, but by working her pumps kept afloat and landed ninety passengers. A boat with an officer and six sailors, sent from the Westphalia to ascertain the fate of the unknowß steamer, has not since been hoard

from, and it is supposed the seven men were drowned. Thirty-three persons were badly injured by an explosion in a mine In Saxony. A proposal is under consideration at Rome to establish Catholic colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, to prepare students for the universities . In the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone stated that Arabi Pasha would certainly not be put to death unless the British Government was consulted. Sergt. Ballentine, the well-known English lawyer, is coming to the United States on a lecturing tour. The Parliamentary committee investigating the imprisonment for contempt of E. Dwyer Grey, the Dublin editor, reported that Judge Lawson simply did his duty. During a performance of Tennyson’s new drama in a London theater the Marquis of Queensbury twice ar os 3 and pretested against a travesty on the sentiments of freethinkers. The report of the Irish Land Commission says agreements for fair rents between landlord and tenant are increasing, while an indisposition to purchase holdings is evident, although many landowners are willing to sell The arrears clause of the act is not being taken advantage of by tenants to any considerable extent In the trial of Arabi Pasha, at Cairo, Suleiman Daoud confessed to having ordered the burning of Alexandria on a peremptory command of Arabi who afterward sent instructions to fire more places, and also ordered him to take soldiers to Rami eh Palace and kill the Khedive. The jury at Dublin in the case of Patrick Joyce, tried for the murder of the Joyce family, returned a verdict of guilty, and Judge Barry sentenced the prisoner to be hanged Dec. 15. Kossuth denounces anti-Jewish agitation in Hungary as a shame and disgrace to democratic principles. The Russian newspapers have been forbidden to make any allusion regarding the construction of military railroads, or the movement of troops near the Russo-Turkish frontier. » Mr. Gladstone hinted in the House of Commons that the Government would propose a grant of money to the naval and military forces which participated in the war in Egypt. The printing business has been paralyzed in Vienna owing to a strike of the compositors, who demanded an advance of 30 per cent yj Eighteen leading establishments refused the demand and closed their offices.