Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1882 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. (Cast. Gen.*' James D. Fessenden, a son of the late Senator from Maine, dropped dead in the street in Portland, The wife of Engineer Melville, having completely regained her sanity, has been released from the asylum at Norristown, Penn. Henry Draper, Professor of Analytic•af Chemistry in the University of New York, is dead. Daniel Ruffner, the Pennsylvania hermit, whose life was largely injured in graveyard insurance companies, wasfounl dead in his cabin near Reading, Pa. In excavating beneath the old church which so long seived New York for a po-t office, the workmen re tched two coffins wh ch < rumbled into dust, but a plate shows tthat the interment was made in 1813. Fire broke out in the Callender ’Building, at Providence, R. I, cutting off ,the egress of a number of male and fem le •employes of W. H. Robinson & Co., g Id chain makers, who were at work in the fourth story. Across a tifieen-foot alley was a two-story wooden structure, and to the roof of this many of the workpeople sp ang, suffering grievous inj ir.'es by the fall. Emma Gassett, Bessie Cobb and Thomas Mann fell between the build ngs; the two former were killed, and Mann had an arm and a leg broken. Mary McSorley fell on a picket-fence, and was shockingly mutilated. Another man bung from a telephone w re luntil rescued by a fireman. Five young ■women who jumped from the windows of ■the burning building to the roof below were fat lly injured. Col. William Henry McMahon, member of the Tariff Commission, died suddenly at his residence in New York. Capt. Nathan Appleton, of Boston, who has applied for a new charter for a Capo Cod Canal Company, states that Count <de Lesscps will be interested with him, as .also Gen. Turr, the Austrian engineer. The ■cut will require two years’ time and cost $8,000,0(0, and the estimated annual revenue therefrom is $250,003. West. Fred Diebblt, a rich and influential German saloon-keeper of (levela d, was convicted in ti e Police C< urt of viola ing the Hui d<y aw. Judge Solders I ned hi-m SIOO, and sentenced him to ten days in tue workhouse. George J. Reek, who killed James E. Anders n, at Eureka, Nev., a id was acquitted on the ground of se f-de en e, has brought suit for $25,000 damages against t io Enterprise, , beca .se, notw thstanding hs acquittal, it a j se te I he was a poltroon and a murderer. I. N. Collins served four hours in the Ohio penitentiary for illegal voting, when lie was liberated on a pardon from Gov. Foster

Douglas R. Halo and wife were arrested by the police at Milwaukee. MrsHale confessed to entering jewelry stores and purloining valuables. She is the exwife of the notorious Mike Weaver, now serving a term in the penitentiary. Hale at one time was manager of the Chicago Clearing House. The Northern Pacific road has closed a contract with a land syndicate for 300,000 acres cast of the Missouri at $4 per acre. There are 542 Odd Fellow lodges in Indiana, with a membership of 2,653. The amount expended for relief the past year was $37,738. The Grand Jury of the Third district of Utah found three indictments for polygamy under the Edmunds law, out of twenty cases presented to its notice. The District Attorney was unable to rid himself of two Mormons impaneling the jurors, and they are said to have given warning to witnesses. The systematic robbing of the mails between Denver and the East has been practice I for a long period, and the postoffi -e aut orities are at a loss as to where to locate the thefts. Drafts, cheeks and money orders to the amount of over $600,001 have disappeared, while the loss of money and valuables cannot be es'imated. Passenger fares over the Milwaukee arid St. Paul between Chicago and Rock Island were reduced the other day ,to 50 cents, and over the Rock Island road tickets were sold at $1 between Chicago and Albert Lea, Minn. A tierce war between these rival lines was what brought about the cut. The winter-wheat crop of Kansas is in excellent condition, and an immense yield is promised. South. W. H. Cunningham, a workman in the rolling-mills at Birmingham, Ala., leaped head foremost into the blast furnace, and was instantly consumed. A murderer in the Owensford (Ga.) jail, sentenced to hang, atta ke I and killed Jailer Bar on with an old chair, and then tied J.e w. s recaptured. A stage containing three passengers was sto ped near Campbellville, Ky., and the passengers and nrril bags robb d. At Somerville, Tenn., W. L. Sharpe killed his brother-in-law, James Burton, in a billiard hall with a shotgun. The crime was the npshot of a family dispute. Near Frostburg, Ky., a young man named Cook deliberately shot a Miss Austin, to whom he had been paying attentions. He jiext shot himself in the region of the heart and fell, but immediately sprung up again and tired twice through his head. Both died inside of five minutes. The Congressional committee appointed to investigate the needs of the Mis - sissippi river, smarting under the reproach of being a junketing party, declined a reception tendered by the people of New Orleans. The testimony of steamboat Captains and pilots before the committee was strongly in favor of Capt Cowden’s outlet •I p an of relief as aga nst the levee and jetty systems.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Tire new iron steamship H. J. Jewett lyade the run from Buffalo to Milwaukee, ' 850 rriiles, in two days fourteen hours and fifteen minutes, an average of nearly fourteen miles per hour. During the recent iron strikes the nail manufacturers of Wheeling set on foot a plan to dispense with the labor of over 5,000 puddlera Frank J. Herndon has now been sent to Pittsburgh to secure equipments for Bessemer works of the first class, and in time each nail mill will daily receive its allotment of steel plate, and puddled iron Will be largely a thing of the past. If th.e-.seheme succeeds, it will revolutionize . tfa® iron manufacturing business of the counts?Waflike preparations are being made by Brasil and the Argentine Republic, A

disp ited boundary is the cause of the impending trouble. The horse disease known as the glanders is spreading rapidly in Manitoba, and many cases have proved fa' at The Government will have all th 3 affected animals killed. A railroad car containing a number of laborers was thrown from the track at IndLn Pond, N. F., resulting in the instant dear®, of three men. Three others were fatally injured, and several were slightly bruised. The plaza in Monterey, Mexico, is lighted by electricity, and street cars have commenced running. An agreement for the exchange of money orders has been signed by the United States and Belgium, to go into effect Jan. 1. The Labor Congress, in session at Cleveland, voted to strike out the pro-tective-tariff plank from the platform. The tendency of some of the speeches was antagonistic to the Knights of Labor organization, and Socialistic organizations were denounced.

WASHINGTON NOTES. It has been rumored of late that Justice Bradley was to resign his seat on the Supreme bench to make room./or Secretary Folger, who in turn would leave a warm place for Conkling. Justice Bradley says there is no truth in the story as far as his intentions are concerned. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that during the month of October there arrived at the various ports of the United Sta'es 57,689 passengers, of whom 45,965 were immigrants, 8,367 citizens of the United States returned from abroad, and 3,357 aliens not intending to remain in the United States. Of this total number of immigrants there arrived from England and Wales, 7,659; Ireland, 3,415; Scotland; 1,055; Austria, 558; Belgium, 198; Bohemia, 481; Denmark, 596; France, 511; Germany, 17,693; Hungary, 963; Italy, 1,2.4; the Netherlands, 263; Norway, 1,161; Russia, 205; Folan I, 147; Sweden, 2,316; Switzerland, 859; Dominion of Canada, 6,4-16; and from all other countries, 215. The Judge Advocate General of the army decides that the failure of officers to pay their debts is not a violation of the 61st article of war. Congressman Hill, of New Jersey, expresses himself as certain that his bill reducing the postage from 3 to 2 cents will pass this session. An invention revolutionizing the envelope and stamp business has been ado. ted by th j Gove nment, and will be pit into practical use by the mid lie of January. It is nothing 1< ss than a letter-shc et, envelop and stamp combine 1, which can be closed together with a single “lick.” The public will be saved the price of envelope and per, as a contrivance, large enough for an Ordinary epistle, with stamp attache 1, will cost but Scents. There will a’so be is-ucd2 and 1 cent classes. Mr. Ehrlech, of Su Louis, is the inventor.

POLITICAL POINTS. Governor-elect Pattison, of Pennsylvania, deprecates any pageantry or demonstration on the day of his inauguration, and is determined, as far as lies in his power, to take the oath and assume his duties without any expenditure on the part of the State or its citizens. J. R. Chalmers filed a mandamus to compel Secretary of State Myers of Mississippi to credit him with the votes cast for “J. R. Chambliss” in Tate county. The Election Commissioners have sent an amended return, showing the ballots were cast for Qhalmers, and not for Chambliss. Senator Riddleburger, of Virginia, has been interviewed. “I shall,” he said, “act independently in all matters of legislation. I shall not tie myself to any party. I shall vote and demean myself in the Senate ■ so as to, in my judgment, best subserve my country, regardless of party or factions. My greatest desire is to see a united, happy and prosperous people. I have no enemies to punish or friends to reward. I belong to faction, and shall not hamper mysel. by joining in the disputes and differences of either party, but, remarked a while ago, exercise my own judgment on all questions, and vote accord ugly. ” The Brooklyn Republican General Committee parsed resolutions declaring that the administration had been rebuked by the electors for interfering n the po itics of the State and perpetrating frauds at th: Saratoga Convention. The prohibitive amendment in the Vermont Legislature failed to pass, receiving 118 votes, when 119 were necessary. Ihe S nate rejected th : House bill prohibiting the sale of cigars, cigaret es or tobacco. It is announced that Senator David Davis will not be a candidate for re-el ction. He is credited with Saying that he will retire to private life after his term expires.

FOREIGN NEWS. As the troops ordered from Egypt to the Soudan are deserting in large parties, orders have been issued to forward the arms and ammunition separately from the soldiers. The relations between Prussia and the Vatican have become strained by the nomination of Herr Henschke as a member of the superior ecclesiastical tribunal. It is taken as an indication that Germany intends to greatly reduce her concessions. The proposal to abolish the embassy to the Vatican was' rejected in the French Chamber of Deputies. The Portuguese Government has asked England to join in a protest against the French acquisition of the Congo river. ' One Sanders, a lunatic, was arraigned at London for send ng a letter to Premier Gladstone threatening his life. The case was continued. Broadley has withdrawn from the defense of Arabi Pasha, as he believes the commission is turning the trial into a farce, and has also violated the agreements made with him. Gladstone, in a letter, says he wants to s e more workingme i in Parliament and hopes they will be brought forward at ev ry opportunity. A meeting of the Irish National League was held atTu'lagb, Ireland, 10,000 people being p esent Sullivan and O’Kelly, m< mbers of Parliam nt. were the principal sp akers. O’Kelly in’i na'e* tha Ddvitt was endeavoring to dismember the Irish party and was v rtually stabbing the country in t e back. He would resign his seat in Par iam mt, he said, if the people wavered in their all glance to Parnell Ten years’ penal servitude is the sentence of William Brook-haw, who sent a threatening le ter to the Prince of Wale<. The appearance of the Emperor and Empre s of Russia In an open sledge in the

streets of St Petersburg caused much enthus asim among the populace. Wolseley and Seymour, respectively the mill ary and n val heroes of the 1 gyptian camp ign, are g zetted for the Br.tis'i peerage as a reward for their eminent s rvi-rea. Queen Victoria personally presented 370 decorations to officers and soldiers who distinguished themselves in Egypt. N arly all the me nbers of the royal family witnessed the ceremony. The steamer Wearmouth, from Quebec for Loudon, was wrecked during a snowstorm on Magdalen islan I. In attempting to reach the shore sixteen men were drowned. Seven persons have now been sentenced to death at Dublin for the murder of the Joyce fam ly. Four of the accu-ed pleaded guilty last week, with the expectation of receiving sentences of life imprisonment, but Judge Barry imposed the death penalty, and they will be hanged Dec. 15. The steamer Winton, with grain, from the Black sea, foundered off the coast of France, and thirty persons were drowned. The Egyptian Public Prosecutor has summarized and submitted to the Khedive the charges against Arabi, and they have been approved. They will be presented to Lord Dufferin, and the British Government will decide whether the evidence is sufficient to warrant a trial. x The German Government has prohibited the importation of American pork. Italy is moving for a new European conference to settle the Egyptian question The Spanish Cabinet will investigate the demand made by the United States for, indemnification of losses suffered by Americans during the Cuban insurrection, and will offer a just settlement. In the British House of Commons Glads one denied that the Airears of Rent bill had proven at' ilure. To full benefits of its provision-, Le sad, ha 1 not yet been ascertained. The Gov rnment did not intend to in’reduce a bill to extend the period for the payme tof the rent of 1881. He desired the decision of the Government to lie universally known. The procedure rul : was carried by a large majority.