Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Start. The new penal code of New York, so far as it relates to the observance of Sunday, is being enforced in New York city. The wild speculation in oil has led to The bankrupting of hundreds of hitherto prosperous business men in Western Penn- . Sylvania. The cotton unilte of C. S. & J. P. Jones, of Philadelphia, have been levied ujon to sa is y judgments for $389,941, while the firm owes $70,00) more. The buildings and stock are valued at $200,000. Samuel F. Worcester, a brother of the lexicographer, formerly a Judge and member br Congress from Ohio, died at Nashua, N. H., aged 67 years. The in t chine-shops of the Lackawanna load, at Kingsland, N. J., valued at $70,Oto, w< re destroyed by fire. Griv. Cornell has pardoned Joe Coburn. the pugilist, out of Sing Sing prison. VV eat. Two Mexicans stopped a stage in the vicinity of Lordsburg, New Mexico, disarmed the driver and took the mail pouch. Two Chinese passengers were ordered outside, robbed of their money and coolly shot deadFive thousand citizens and 150 policenv n jdfned 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 ’hirking about the city several days the murderer’s place of concealment was discovered. He again resisted arrest, shooting and dangerously wouhding another officer, and ag dn made Lis escape.- He was finally hnnted down and found hid n a coal-box. Without summoning h'm to surrender, the police opened fire on the desperado, and riddled his body with bulk ts. Th a raid on tho Chicago gambling d< ns by the police of that city, the other night, five houses were cleaned out, over a hundred gamesters arrested, : nd thousands of dollars’ worth of gamblers’ implements confiscated. Affairs at several Indian agencies around Salt Lake City are reported in very bad condition and needing immediate attention. The widow of Col. Alonzo W. Slayback, of St. Louis, has entered suit against Editor Cockerill, of the St. Louis and J)ir2>uti Ji , for $5,000 for killing her husband. Jewelry to (he amount of over $5,000 was taken from the residence of Col. W. H. Harris, in Cleveland, while the family were at the tea table. The Ohio Editorial Association held its annual meeting at Dayton on the Oth inst., elected T. F. Mack, of Sandusky, President, .were tendered a banquet in the evening, and ■started the following merning by special train ;or Florida. At a Mexican wedding at Saballo, N. M., a man named' N den, while drunk, shot and killed two bi others, and then went home and cut his wile’s ears off.

South. Flames destroyed the international cotton compress at Houston, Tex., with 8,- , Ovt) boles of cotton, and three residences. Tire loss is estimated at $500,000. For insults offered in a court at Key Vest, C. B. Pendleton, an editor, horsewhipped Lieut. Gov. Bethel. At Manleyville, Tenn., a young man named Forest beat out his mother-in-law’s brains and killed his crippled grandfather, who interfered. Col- W. H. H. Tilson, Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, was shot and. killed at Baldwin, Mi s. The pi ope’.lor Morning Star, plying between New Orleans and Magnolia Plantation, exploded its boiler near New Orleans, killing three persons instantly, blowing into the river and drowning a fireman and seven . roustabouts, end probably fatally scalding six others. Fire swept away fifteen buildings at Covington, Tejm. Loss, $50,000. A’t Arlsadelphia, Ark., Sallie Stokes was acquitted of the murder of Malinda Stephena

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Board 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 a' rangcment Dr. Bliss gets £6,500; Drs. Agnew and Hamilton each £5,000; Drs. Rayburn and Boynton each £4,000, and the nurse, Mis. Dr Edson, £3,C00. 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. Judge Wylie, in charging the Grand Jury of the District of Columbia, referred in cutting terms to the damr.ge accomplished by the publication of malicious and lying statements in news} a ers. If the public, he said, ceased to patronize such journals the prof< ssional libeler would soon find his occupation gone. ’ The Utah Commission recommends the annulment of the Territorial law giving women the .light of suffrage, and urges the enactment by Congress of a marriage law. In the Criminal Court at Washington, Col Ingersoll submitted amotion for the continuance of the case of Brady, Dorsey an others, on the ground of the illness of Dorsey. A long affidavit signed by all the defendants was read, setting out that they cou’.d not safely go to trial at the present term, becauAe. of the acts of the officers of Government in endeavoring to influence opinion aga net them, an 1 to intimidate and coerce witnesses, jurors and officers of the court, reciting the arrest of Dickson, the removal from office of Henry A ngcr et al., for the- avowed reason that they were in sympathy with the defendants, and expressing the belief that in the selection of talesmen inttuenc prejudicial to the defendants was set at v orf4ja£kl that the appointment of Mcidichael, was port of that scheme. The affidav.t also claimed that Ju Iga Wylie was sobered and pr judiced against the defendants that he could not fairly and impartial yAdmini-ter the law, and concluded by requesting a continuance of the c *se to the next term. udge Wylie pronounced the insult to the court, and promptly overr ed the motion. The W’.ys and Means Committee has de idol to proc ed at once to the consi l< rate n t lie ijepdrt o.' thr Tariff Commission, ami to f ame » new schedule of customs Clntiea.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The schooner Henry Folger, of Cape Vincent, went ashore on Salmon Point reef, Lake Ontario, and Capt J. W. McDonald and a crew of eight men were lost Ex-Delegate Cannon, of Utah, says the Edmunds Polygamy law will be strongly resisted by the Mormons by all legal methods, that eminent lawyers, including J udge Jere Black, pronounce it unconstitutional, and that it will prove a flat failure. Twenty-two ostriches, which had been sojourning In Central Park, New York, were blindfolded with stockings and placed in a car for California, where they will have a. farm of 800 acres to roam over. The transportation cost $2,000. The Western Iron Association held a meeting at Pittsburgh last week. Orders for 200,00<; tons of steel rails have been given since the decrease in price, and there appears to have been no ground for the recent f< ars of a total suspension of business by the iron works. The report of the Tariff Commi sion was discussed, and dissatisfaction at its i ecommendations expressed. A horrible Indian massacre is reported from Chihuahua, Mexico. A band of Apaches, numbering 500, crossed the border, descended upon the little town of Casa Grande, and began a massacre, fully seventyfive persons falling victims. Several girls and women were carried oft by the savages, and a large quantity of stock and other property’ stolen. The houses of the unfortunate Mexicans were burned. The dead bodies were stripped of their clothing and jewelry. The murdered persons were among the wealthiest class, and several of the most prominent families are among the victims.

POLITICAL POINTS. The South Carolina Legislature has re-elected M. C. Butler United States Senator. Gov. McEnery, of Louisiana, has issued a certificate of election to Senator Kellogg as Congressman from third Louisiana district. FOREIGN NEWS. Sixty thousand applications have been made for relief under the Arrears-of-llcnt act in Ireland. A man named Martin, employed as a compositor in the Government Printing Office at Dublin, has been arrested for connection With the murder of Detective Cox. Arabi Pasha pleaded guilty to the charge of reliellion, and was sentenc-d to death The Khedive commuted the sentence to exile for life, and it is believed that the defeated national leader will be permitted to retire to British territory. Tiie Ik. Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, is dead. Socialistic agents are busily sowing the seeds of discord and anarchy among the lower classes of Spain. The threatened danger from the Anarchist conspiracy in France has entirely disappeared for the present. At a home-rule demonstration at Sanford, England, a resolution. passed condemning the Government for its determination to prosecute Davitt and Healy, and congratulating “these true patriots” on their refusal to enter into terms for bail. Kenney, in an address, declared if the Government imprisoned Davitt and Healy, it must face the task of arresting the whole Irish Parliamentary party. A Paris paper sneers at the feebleness of the navy of the United States, declaring that the war vessels of France could demolish every American seaport without serious resistance. ~Arabi Pasha has penned a note of thanks for the interposition of England in his behalf. He expresses a desire to live in Damascus or London, and says his misfortune has secured for his country the liberty and prosperity it deserves. Louis Blanc, the French Radical, died at Cannes, aged 69. Von Flotow, the operatic composer, has become blind from cataract of the eye. Ten persons were drowned by the foundering of a coal-carrier off Berwick-on-Tweed. The British ship Fiona was lost at sea with all on board. The permanent Presidency of the Egyptian Debt Commission, which is to have the management of the revenues, has been hindered to France by England, but will be declined. Three Pashas were arraigned in Cairo for participation in the Egyptian revolt. They pleaded guilty and were sentenced to death, but the Khedive promptly commuted their sent, nces to exile for life. Europeans in Alexandria threatened to lynch the prisoners. Just after the audience had retired, the other night, the Royal Alhambra Theater in London was utterly destroyed by fire. Loss, $759,000. The Hungarian Government, surpri ed at the great tide of emigration to America from the mountain districts, has requestc 1 the Austri .n authorities to stop all pc; sons unprovided with passports. A female Nihilist, lately banished to Siberia, killed the Governor of the Territory-