Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. ICMt. R. Porter Lee, the embezzling Buffalo Bank Preaident, received a ten years’ sentence | Among the business failures recorded are those of Graham <t Aitkin, dry-goods dealen in New York, with liabilities of 9 15-*,-OCO, and Dodge A Sinclair, rubber dealers, liabilities estimated at 9 ‘MI.OOQ. Gen. Daniel Tyler died at New York at'the age of 88. The Lackawanna steel-mills at Scranton, Pa., have shut down for an indefinite period « Hon. James S. Pike, of Maine, for many years an editorial associate of Horace Greeley, has passed away. The Hon. J. T. Updegraff, Congress-man-e’-eet from the Seventeenth Ohio district, died at Mount Pleasant, near Steubenville. His disease was stone in the bladder. He was treated for Bright’s disease, and his true ailment was only discovered by a postmortem. At the Coliseum Theater, Cincinnati, Frank "Trayne, in personating Si Slocum, in the play of the same name, shot Annie Ven Behren dead while attempting to shoot an apple from her head. He fired with his back turned to the victim, and it is claimed the accident was due to a defect in the rifle. Frayne was placed under arrest Samuel Remington, the rifle manufacturer, is de ’A The new penal code of New York, so far as it relates to the observance of Sunday, is being enforced in New York city. West.

Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, the temperance and woman-suffrage leader of Indiana, has'brought suit against the Chief of Police of Lafayette. The Coroner’s jury at Cincinnati; exonerated Frank Fra ne, the actor, from all bla r.c in killing Mi-s Von Behren. Owing, as is reported, to scarcity of orders the North Chic igo steel-rail mills have shut down. About I,BOJ men were thfown out of employment by this ac’.ion •The Joliet Iron ondSteel Company shut down a portion of their works at Joliet, leaving WO men idle. Two Mexicans stopped, a stage in the vicinity of lOTdsburg, New Mexico, disarmed the driver and took the mail pouch Two Chinese passengers were oi dered outside, robbed of their money and coolly shot deadFive thousand citizens and 150 policem n joined in An exciting hunt in Chicago for a black desperado who had fatally assaulted a fellow-African and then killed a policeman who was sent to arrest him. After lurking about the city several days the murderer’s place of concealment was discovered He again resialed arrest, snooting and dangerously wounding afiother officer, and ag un made his escape; He was finally hunted down and found hid n a coal-box. Without summonin < h'm to surrender, the police opened fire on the d sper tdo, and ri Idled his body with bulb ts. At- Durango, Col., Dr. Evetzker, whs publicly horsewhipped by two women for slandering them, and at night he went to his office, mortally shot his partner, Dr. If. A Olay, and then killed himself. Kreigh & Davies, grain and provision operators on ths Chicago Board of Trade, have suspended payment, with liabilities estimated as h gh as $.00,090. The steam-barge 8. B. Peters burned up on Lake Michigan, and went to the bottom with thirteen hands on board Routh. Congressman-elect Herron, from the Sixth Louidam district', died suddenly of heart di-ease nt Baton Rouge. The Grand Jury at New Orleans has found indictments against thirteen persons for election fraud*. David Lee (white) was lynched in front of'his house, at Start’s Landing; La., for hog-stealing. Capt. Allen May, aged 101, was married to a girl of 19 in Hardin county, Ky. At Edgefield, 8. C., Moses Lockhart, colored, was executed for the muider of Bincock, also colored Flames destroyed the international cotton-coriipress at Houston, Tex., with 8,0.0 bales of c tton, and three residences. Tlfeloes is estimated at $500,000. For insults offered in a court at Key West, C. B. Pendleton, an editor, horsewhipped Lieut. Gov. Bethel.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A negro crank calling himself Roscoe Conkling is in Washington, claiming to be Secretary of the Treasury. The Appropriations Committee of the House has practically completed the Indian bill, which calls for 167,000 less than was appropriated for the present year. The Bbard of Audit having charge of the claims for professional services rendered to the late President Garfield has reported a set of allowances for the physicians. Under this arrangement Dr. Bliss gets $(5,500; Drs. Agnew and Hamilton each $5,000; Drs. Reyhum. and Boynton each $4,000, and the nurse, Mrs. Dr Edson, $3,000. Rear Admiral Wyman, in command of the North Atlantic squadron, died in Washington of apoplexy. Clayton McMichael, proprietor of the Philadelphia North American, has been commissioned as United States Marshal for the Dis.rict of Columbia. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Quebec was visited by a firci which destroyed several factories and caused $201,000 damage. The steamship Cedar Grove, from Londoh, struck the rocks off Cape Canso, Nova Scotia, and sank in ten fathoms of water within an hour. Two boats with thirteen seamen reached the shore, but one was lost in the breakers with nineteen lives. Reports from eighteen New York examined since the burning of the Park Theater show that two only (and these the latest built) comply with the requirements of the law for the safety of the audience in case of fire. Of all the theaters in Chicago, McVicker’s alone is pronounced absolutely safe in case of fire. Stephen W. Dorsey has published a lengthy card to the public defending his ccnneotion with the star-route contracts, and offeils to pay SI,OOO for eve-y dollar it can b r shown he to?k from the ti easury. He denounces severely Ma :Veagh and James, as having viola*sd a promise made to himself and Ingersoll to keep s cret a document intrusted to the’r keeping detailing his (Dor ey’r) connection with the mail contract >rs, an I avers that a special inves igation ordered by Pr. sident Garfield was never inaugura'ed. The schooner Henry Folger, of Cape Vincent, went ashore on Salmon Point reef, Lake Ontario, and Capt J. W. McDonald and a crtw of eight men were lost POLITICAL POINTS. Washington dispatches state that Public Printer Rounds is “solid” with the President, and that there i< no truth in the rumor tl.at he was to be removed. The Alabama Legislature re elected John T. Mqrgan United St ; es Senator. Gov. McEnery, of Louisian t, refuse*, to i'sua a certificate of elec Jon o WP It lUfg*r,; qn’t-be grou »d of non-ro4dcn.e in UpSMfi.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Irish Government has taken cognizance ot Davit?* recent speech on the starvation issue. Gladstone stated in Parliament that the cost of the Egyptian campaignrggregated £3,500,100 up to Oct. 1, sin:e which date the expense has been borne by Egypt The Irish Privy Counci 1 , after a protracted meeting, decided to proclaim Dub. lin under the curlew section of the Repression act, which authorizes arrests on the streets during the great r part of the night The Council of the University of Russia has decided to expel forty-six students for participation in the late disturbances and place th Jr parents under police supervision. By the failure of the Municipal Bank at, Skopin, Rus ia, the whole town and thousau Js of families elsewhere have been financially ruined The liabilities ate over 12 (€(’,000 roubles. Sixty thousand applications have been made for relief under the Arrears-of-Rent act in Ireland A man named Martin, employed as n compositor in the Government ‘Printing Office at Dublin, 1 as been arrested for connection with the murder of Detective Cox. Arabi Pasha pleaded guilty to the charge of rebellion, and was senten? d to death. The Khedive commuted the sentence to exile for life, and it is believ’d that the defeated national leader will be permitted to retire to British territory. The Rt. Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, is d al.