Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1883 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. * ffttMtai' 'Bast. Some one in a Boston fudience made a jeering' remark while the Ford brothers were exhibiting themselves, and the Missourians sprang from the platfoftn with their revolvers and made for the center of the halL The spectators disappeared like a flash, and the Fords were arrested by a stalwart policeman. The only sister of Nathaniel Hawthorne died at Beverly, Masa, aged 80 years. Breaker No. 10, of the Pennsylvania i Coal Company, near Pittsburgh, burned, casing a loss of f 150,000. I £be term, of Mayor Calley, cff Balem, Mass., expired, and he celebrated the event suicide by hanging. Whilo-cutting through high land to open a street at Auburn, N. C., three laborers were killed by the caving in of earth. Well-known capitalists have subscribed fr>,oookooo to bqijd a railway from ]j|gw York tb Hartford, to afford the New England road connection with the metropolis. A package from Arizona, containing over 100 loaded cartridges, was found in a mail-bag in the New York postoffice. West. The Friend building at Milwaukee, the largest mercantile block in that city, was swept away by Are. The total loss is #OOO,OOO, most of which was sustained by Friend Brothers, although the stocks of Landauer & Co. and Straw, Ellsworth & Co. suffered to a degree not exceeding 5 per cent of their value. v During 1882 Peoria’s production of whisky amounted to 12,000,000 gallons. Mrs. Stillwell, now dying of consumption at Mount Vernon, Ohio, confessed having poisoned her first husband, Benjamin Swigert, at Marysville, Mo., and a stranger, and having strangled her daughter at Rulo, Neb., beside making three attempts to kill her present husband, Jay V. Stillwell In the County Court at Denver, by agreement between the attorneys, Mrs. Tabor was given a divorce from the Lieutenant Governor, on the grounds of desertion, with #250,000 alimony. W. H. Hooper, formerly delegate in Congress from Utah, died at Salt Lake City, rj&eveu stores and a dwelling at Manistee, Mich., valued at #50,000, were swept away by fire. „ The elevator of E. L. Williams at Keokuk, valued at SIOO,OOO, was totally destroyed by fire. A number of frame dwellings, an unused elevator, the old passenger depot of the Hannibal and St Joseph railroad and several box and flat cfirs were destroyed by fire at St. Joseph, Mo. Loss, #IOO,OOO. Two boilers in a box factory at Muskegon, Mich., exploded, killing John Connors, engineer, and his sons John and Fred, aged 14 and 4 years; also seriously injuring John Hawk and Silas Blodgett, who are not expected to live. The buildings, engine, etc., are a total loss, estimated at #IO,OOO. . St. M iry’s Provincial School, at Knoxville, 111., the largest Episcopal institution for girls in the country, was destroyed by fire, the loss being #IOO,OOO. There were sixty scholars and twelve teachers in the building, and many reached the ground by means of ladders. Miss Gillette, of Buffalo, had a leg broken, and Miss Hogford, of Dull ilque, Was injured by a fall All wearing apparel and books were burned. The shipment of flour from San Francisco last year was 5,000,000 barrels. The Rev. John C. Smith, a pioneer of Indiaua Methodism, died at Indianapolis, aged 74. South.. A race riot at ‘Oconee, Ga., resulted in the killing of several white men Blu ord Smith, a colored man, who killed Charles Kenser, was taken from jail at Tazewell Court House, Ya., and riddled With bullets Dave Roberts, a negro, charged with Qptton stealing and murderous assault, was taken from the Abbeville (S. C.) jail by a mob and lynched. A flat containing thirty convicts and two guards was sunk on flie Turkaseegee river, in Jackson county, N. C., and nineteen Of tiie total number were drowned. The Convicts were mostly negroes. Flames which broke out in the furniture store of Rosenbaum & Ties, at Tine gluff, Ark., swept onward until property Yftlued at #125,000 was destroyed Plans are asked for a building for the eotton exposition at Louisville, to cover thirteen acres.