Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

EASTERN. A tow of thirty-seven coal barges broke from their moorings at Pittsburgh, Pa, and were swept rapidly down the river, colliding with several steamers, one of which was sank, and a number of other barges, which also sunk. The damage done is estimated at #50,000. The work of blasting ont Hell Gate has been stopped for want of appropriations. The chair manufactory of Harwood Brothers, of Leominster, Mass, was destroyed by fire Loss #100,000; insurance #75,OOtt Seventy-live hands are thrown out of employment P, T. Bamum, the veteran showman, and two others were arrested and held for trial in #3OO each, at New York, for permitting the performances of the Elliott ohildren on unioycles and bicycles The large leather-board mills of J . A Harwood, Leominster, Mass., were burned. Loss, #100,000; insured for #7l,ooft A fire at Jersey Shore, Pa., swept away #IOO,OOO worth of property. A prize-fight at Dubois, Jefferson county, Pa, resulted fatally to one of the combatants, a lad of 18, named Martin Sinsky. In the sixth round he fell accidentally, his chin striking against a toot, breaking his neck. Peter Cooper, the philanthropist, died at his home in New York, on the 4th Inst, at the ripe old age of 92. He was bom in New York city, and there spent almost his entire Hfe. Bom of poor parents, he was compelled at an early age to begin the battle for existence Energy and endurance enabled him to succeed, and years ago he was reckoned among the then few millionaires of his native city. His gift to the people of the metropolis—the Cooper Institute —will be a lasting monument to his broad and generous philanthropy. Three little girls were drowned in the Hudson, near Valatle, N. Y., while playing on the ice. Nathan S. Morle, business manager of the New York Daily News, committed suicide by shooting. Nancy Remsen, a colored cook of New York City, died at the age of 111 years Barnum’s elephant Pilot was killed at New York, as he had become intractable. Edward Sweetwood’s lodgings house in Jersey city was burned. One lodger was burned to death and another jumped from a window and broke both his legs John A. Wilson and his wife and two daughters were burned to death in a house three miles from Hartwick, Ostego county, and at Ellsburg, N. Y., three negro children were cremated.

WESTERN. A portion of the rolling-stock of the Burlington,Ccdax Bapids and Northern Kailroad Company has been seized at Albert Lea, Minn., at the suit of the Northwestern Fuel Company, which claims $1,251,550 damages for violation of contract Charles F. Kring, of St. Louis, the murderer of Droemser, has, by the decision of the United States Supreme Court, been granted a new trial, which will be his seventh. The crime was committed six years ago, and the murderer has been thrice sentenced to death. Kring’s imprisonment has broken down his health, and a few months since the jail officials, in order to give him more liberty and mental occupation, appointed him prison librarian. Fire at Eland, Wis., destroyed $50,OCO worth of property, principally belonging to Badger & Gould, of Oshkosh. Ex-Postmaster Wakle, of Cincinnati, who sued the Gazette of that city for $50,000 damages for libel, has been awarded $5 by a jury. Nearly 3,000 bricklayers wont on a strike in Chicago, their demand for an increase of wages from $3.50 to $4 per day having been refused by the employera The officers of the Government steamer Lily, which arrived at Cairo, 111, from a trip down the Ohio, report that $1,000,000 will not cover the loss sustained by the overflow between Louisville and Cairo. The report of the receiver of Brown, Bonnell & Co., the iron manufacturers of Youngstown, Ohio, who suspended a few months ago, shows an apparent surplus of assets over liabilities of over half a milk on dollars. Six of the crew of the tow-boat Polar Star, plying between Cairo and St Louis, lost their lives by the explosion of one of the boilers when opposite Belmont, Mo. Nine firemen were severely burned by an explosion of gas in the cellar of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, where a fire' had started. The Hon. Charles C. Trowbridge, of Detroit, who was prominent in the politics of Michigan half a century ago, died the other day, in the 84th year of his age. The lowa Grand Army Post was in session at Des Moines There are 157 posts in the State, with a membership of 4,701. Eighty-seven posts were formed in 1882. diief Spioche and his band of Creek Indians, who left the reservation recently, have gone into camp with the Cheyennes not far from the Sac and Fox reservation, and great trouble is apprehended. A Hastings (Neb!) mob took Ingham, Green and Babcock, accused of murdering Merchant Mlllett, from the officers, and hanged the two former from a railway bridge, but returned Babcock, who pleaded guilty, to the authoritiea Flames swept away several business houses in the thriving town of Greeley, CoL, involving a loss of $150,000t Ex-Senator Thurman .fell on the steps of his residence at Columbus, Ohio, and broke his arm. As a result of competition, the price of gas in St. Louis has been reduced from $250 to $1.50 per 1,000 cubio feet P. H. Tompkins, a banker of El Paso, 111, has made an assignment, with liabilities amounting to $150,000. The young woman who was charged with shooting “Lucky” Baldwin, at San Francisco, has been acquitted by a Jury on the ground of insanity existing at the time Of the assault Twenty business houses at Kentland, Ind, were destroyed by fire, involving a total loss of SIOO,OOO, on which the insurance wa3 only $50,000i At a meeting of the San Francisco triennial conclave committee, the committee on hotels reported every assurance that all visiting Knights Templar would be properly accommodated

SOUTHERN. The Governor of South Carolina refuses to call an extra session of the Legislature to appropriate funds to meet the legal expenses of those persons arrested for participation in election frauds. John Jackson, a negro who had committed several assaults upon women, was hanged by a mob at Moscow, Texas By the explosion of a boiler in a mill at Mods Point, Miss., nine men were killed and ten seriously injured, B. C. O. Benjamin, of Charlottesville, Va, is the first person of color to apply for a license to practice at the bar In Yirginia, The license has been granted him. A. L. Crawford, Deputy United States Marshal, was arrested at Atlanta, Ga, for making fraudulent returns, but escaped from the officer. A lighted match thrown into the manhole of a sewer in Baltimore, by a boy, caused an explosion that killed two children and did damage to property to the extent of #20,0001

Brig. Gen. Joseph K. Barnes, retired, late Surgeon General of the United States army, died at his residence in the national capital of Blight’s disease. WASHINGTON. Following is a recapitulation of the last monthly national-debt statement: Bunds at 6, continued at 85$ per cent # 60,648,000 Four and one-half per cents - 250,000,000 Four per cents 787J5544C0 Three per 0ente....... 300,526,500 Refunding certificates 884.460 Navy pension fund. 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt $1,353,113,050 Matured debt 10,575,195 Legal-tender notes. 846,740,101 Certificates of deposit 9,715.001 Gold and silver certificates 152,595,031 Fractional currency 7,010,878 Total without interest $616,06),730 Total debt {principal) ,$1,879.743,976 Total interest $ 14,21T.»5 Total cash in treasury 815,034,983 Debt, less cash in treasury. 1,576,931,283 Decrease during March 9,344,826 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1882. 111,988,172 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid $ 1,606,257 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 10,575.196 Interest thereon 386,453 Gold and silver certificates 162,596,061 U. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 9,715,000 Cash balance available April 1,1883.. 140,197,026 Total '. $315,034,983 Available assets— Cafchin treasury. 815,034,983 Bonds Issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money— PTtncinal outstanding 64,023,541 Interest accrued, not yet oaid 969,362 Interest paid by United States 97,283,388 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. 16,436,332 By cash payments, 6 per ocnt. net earnings. 656,198 Balanoe of interest paid by United States 40.191.865 The President has appointed Judge Walter Q. Gresham, of Indiana, Postmaster General, vice Hon. T. O. Howe, deceased. Judge Gresham is a stalwart Republican and a friend of Gen. Grant He is-a native of Indiana and 50 years of age.

POLITICAL. An election was held in Michigan on Monday, April 2, for two Judges of the Supreme Court and two Begents of the State University. Two tickets were in the field —one nominated by the Republicans and the other nominated by the Democrats and Greenbackers combined Returns at this writing indicate that the Fusion candidates are elected. The biennial municipal election in Chicagp resulted in the election of the entire Democratic ticket, headed by Carter H. Harrison, by majorities ranging from 4,000 to 12,000. This makes the third term for Harrison. At Springfield, 111., the Citizens’ municipal ticket, framed in the interest of high liquor license, was elected by a decisive ma_ jority. A large number of other Western cities held municipal elections, the results of which are recorded below: Cincinnati elected a Democratic Mayor and Connell, the Republicans securing two or three minor city offices. In Cleveland, Ohio, the Democrats elected John H. Farley Mayor, by nearly 4,000 •majority, the whole city ticket, fourteen out of eighteen Councilmen, and seven out of nine members of the Board of Education. In Toledo, Ohio, the Republicans elected the Mayor and Police Clerk by 75 majority, the Democrats capturing all the other municipal offices by majorities ranging from 200 to 1,000. At Columbus, Ohio, Walcott, Republican, was chosen Mayor by about 500 majority. Mansfield, Dayton and Steubenville, Ohio, elected Republican May ora Grand Rapids, Mich., elected the Demo-Greenback city ticket; Lansing, Mich., the Republican ticket, and Bay City, Mich, the Democratic ticket for local officers The Republicans carried their city ticket through in Battle Creek, and the Democrats swept the field at Adrian, Mich. At Keokuk, lowa, the Republican municipal ticket triumphed, and at Dubuque the Democrats carried the day. At Champaign, HL, the fight was between the Temperance and License parties, the former winning. The Citizens’ ticket, composed equally of Democrats and Republicans, was chosen at Hartford, Ct At Bismarck, Dak., the Citizens’ Independent ticket was successful All of thej (Democratic candidates for local offices were chosen at Evansville, Ind. The city elections in Milwaukee, Madison, Oshkosh, Watertown and Eau Claire. Wis., resulted in the success of the Democratic candidates. Leavenworth, Kansas, elected the Democratic ticket At Topeka and Wichita the fight was between the Prohibitionists and Anti-Prohibitionists, and in both cities the Anti candidates were elected. The Prohibition ticket was elected in Clinton, lowa At Omaha and Lincoln, Neb., the Republicans carried the day. In St Louis, Mo., the Democrats swept the day. Denver, CoL, elected ex-Gov. Routt Mayor and the entire Republican ticket At Charleston, W. Va., the Greenbackers of the Third Congressional district nominated Samuel B. Hawver, of Greenbrier county, for Congressman. The President has made the following appointments: A. W. Sheldon, of Maryland, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, vi*B W. W. Hoover, suspended; S. E. Snyder, Agent of the Indians at Fort Peck Agency, M. T.; William W. Carter, Collector Internal Revenue, Seventh district of Indiana Anti-Monopolists held a conference at Indianapolis and decided to call a mass convention to assemble in that city June 6. The Ohio Legislature decided to submit two constitutional amendments on the liquor question, one providing for prohibition, and the other for legislative oontroL The gubernatorial election in Rhode Island resulted in the defeat of Sprague., Bourn, the Republican nominee, being elected by about 2,200 majority. The Assembly is strongly Republican. The Pennsylvania Legislature has rejected the bill exempting those who observe the seventh day of the week from the penalties of the Sunday laws.

BUSINESS FAILURES.

C. S. Short, banker, Marion, N. Y.; liabilities, $25,000 to sso,ooft David Forcheimer & Co., hatters. New York; liabilities, SIOO,OOO. R. C. M. Lowell, coal dealer, Covington, Ky.'; liabilities, SIOB,OOO. The Brilliant Glass Works, at Steubenville, Ohio; liabilities, $27,0001 P, H. Tompkins, banker, El Paso, HI; liabilities, slso,ooft

latton equalized to New York city,, would would produce 80, San Francisco would pro--155 and Philadelphia would have only 8L The Iron Association held a very important meeting in Pittsburgh last week. A plan for the revision of the soales was presented. This contemplates a reduction in wages of from 10 to 30 per cent The manufacturers throw the onus of the decrease on the reduoed protection afforded by the revised tariff, and also on the depressed condition of the trade. The date of the annnal meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland has been changed from Sept 19 and 30 to Oct 24 and 25, at Cincinnati. The Indians who have recently been committing depredations in Arizona and New Mexico have escaped across the Bio Grande. There axe apprehensions of an outbreak of the San Carlos reservation IndiansA fire at Iqnique, Peru, dn the 10th of last March, news of which has just reached this country, destroyed 1,000 buildings, valued, with their contents, at #lO,000,000. Rioting is reported on the Panama canal works, between Jamaicans and Carthaginians, and some twenty of the former have been murdered. The Government is powerless to maintain order. The Chicago syndicate, composed of Messrs C. B. Farwell, John V. Farwell, Abner Taylor and CoL A. G. Babcock, who a year ago bought from the State of Texas for #1,500,000 what is known as the Pan-Handle of that State, have transferred their claim to a party of Londoners for #10,000,000. The property amounts to 3,000,000 acres, or some 5,C00 square miles, and is marvelously rich in arable and growing lands, watered and timbered to a high degree.

FOREIGN. Herr Yollman, a Socialist member of the German Parliament, has been arrested for denouncing Bismarck. A treaty of commerce between Germany and Spain has been agreed upon. A thirty-days’ secret session of German Socialists has been held at Copenhagen. It was determined to oppose Bismarck’s social programme and to force the fight against capital. The question of the triple alliance has resulted in attacks on the Frenoh republic by the Italian press The trial of the prisoners charged with the Phoenix Park assassinations has been postponed because of the lack of funds to pay counsel for the defense. The National Theater, at Berlin, burned, together with all the wardrobes, scenery and properties it contained. There was no loss of life. Michael Davitt writes from prison to the Young Ireland Society, of Glasgow, condemning the dynamite policy as only exasperating the democracy of England, and playing into the hands of Ireland’s enemies Four members of the German Reich-, stag on the way home from the Copenhagen Congress were arrested at KieL The Danish authorities made a descent upon the Socialist Congress at Copenhagen, and the foreign delegates were ordered to leave the country.

It has been definitely decided that neither Parnell nor any of the other members of the Irish Parliamentary party will attend the convention at Philadelphia. Peter Carey, a brother of James Carey, has followed the example of the latter and turned Queen’s evidence in the Phoenix Park conspiracy case The sentry in the Newry (Ireland) barracks who was guarding the powder magazine fired at a man who was scaling the wall, for the purpose, it is alleged, of blowing up the place An explosion of a powder depot at Passo Correse, Italy, being used in conducting engineering operations, killed forty persons and wounded many more The Birmingham (Eng.) police arrested an alleged Irish-American named Whitehead, who is said to have maintained a nitro-glycerine factory in Birmingham, and four others alleged to be associated with him. It is believed that Whitehead was at the bottom of the dynamite plots, and the police say they have now got a clew which will enable them to break up the whole business.