Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

EASTERN. The Kiernan act, which virtually repeals the usury lawß, went Into effoct In New' York several months ago, and Is found to work to the disadvantage of legitimate traders, who are unable to compete with brokers in the money market Many recent failures are attributed to the operation of the new law, and the effect, it is claimed, will be to drive mercantile firms out of the State. Eleven great ice-houses, containing 6,C00 tons of ice, the runs, engines and engine houses, the store-houses, and the wharves of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, at Booth Bay, Me., were destroyed by fire. Total loss #150,OCO; insured for $33,000. The late Peter Cooper left an estate valued at #2,C00,0C0, which, with the excep tion of #IOO,OOO bequeathed to the Cooper Union and #500,000 in special bequests, is to be divided between his son, ex-Mayor Edward Cooper, and his daughter, the wife of Representative Abram 8. Hewitt, of New York. A mob assailed the house of Gannon, at Boston, whose daughter recently sued the Catholic Archbishop and a priest for taking away her paper images. Fires were made in front of the residence, which was pelted with sticks and stones. A collision occurred at Bound Brook, N. J., between a train of the Lehigh Talley railroad and one of the Philadelphia and Reading railtond trains. The rear car of the Philadelphia train was overturned and took flee, but all the passengers were extricated. A number of the passengers were seriously injured.

WESTERN. Independent troops are taking the field in Arizona against the Apache Indians, and threaten to send the whole tribe to the happy hunting grounds. Regarding the depredations of the copper-colored devils in Old Mexico, a recent telegram from Hermosillo says: “Ninety-three persons have been killed in the State since the Apache outbreak, of which twenty-seven are Americans. It is believed that many of the killed have not yet been reported. At Palmo ranch ten were killed last Tuesday. Two women were hung up by the hands, ripped open, and from one a child was taken and found mangled at the mother’s feet The bodies of the men were horribly mangled. ” After a trial extending over three months, which has caused more excitement and ill-feeling than anything ever before known in Lafayette, Ind., Mrs. Helen M. Gougar has been awarded a verdict for $5,000 damages from Capt H. F. Mandler, Chief of Police of Lafayette. Mrs. Gougar is a prominent prohibition and woman-suffrage advocate, and publfthes a temperance paper, which during the campaign of last fall took strong ground in favor of the election as State Senator of Mr. W. D. Wallace, who is also a prohibitionist and woman-suffragist Shortly after the election Mandler made the statement to Mayor McGinley that he and another person had seen Mrs. Gougar and Wallace enter the law-office of the latter at 8 o’clock one night and remain there until after midnight The story became public and Mrs. Gougar bi ought suit for slander, asking $lO,OCO. During the trial 200 witnesses were examined and the testimony was of the piost contradictory character.

Constable Mooney, of Chicago, was fatally shot by a drunker saloon-keeper while in the act of reading a warrant for the Jatter’s arrest on a charge of wife-beating. Small-pox has been practically Stamped out in Illinois. One man was killed and another seriously, if not fatally, wounded by a mob of riotous rolling-mill strikers at Springfield, 111 Section C of the Normal School at Normal, HL, undertook a mock funeral, in which Section A was supposed to be interred, and a row resulted between both factions, resulting in cut skulls, disfigured noses and shaded eyes. The conflict was short, but fierce. SOUTHERN. The Louisiana Supreme Court has refused a mandamus to compel New Orleans to levy a tax of $650,000 to pay interest on the consolidated bonds. The telegraph brings from Florida this bit of sporting gossip: “President Arthur, after putting off from Kissimmee City, went to the outlet of the lake, where he took Capt Rose’s dugout and cast a fly in Limel river, where a quick haul of trout was made. Engineer Kreamer, who was in charge of the boat, spied a six-foot alligator on shore 300 yards away, and, the attention of Secretary Phillips being called to it, he brought his Winchester at single shot and struck the reptile in the head, putting out both eyes. ” The upsetting of a lamp by a party of four negro tramps who were playing cards in a livery-stable at Westminster, Md., caused the destruction of $150,000 worth of property. On the Missouri Pacific road, near Beaker, Texas, a construction train backing struck a horse at a crossing. The train jumped the track, and Conductor Everett and four train hands were killed. At Amberson, Ala., a colored murderer was taken from prison and hanged by a negro mob. A large number of arrests were made last week in Barnwell county, S. C., for election frauds, and nearly fifty persons charged with violation of the election laws have been held for trial at Charleston. The President has commissioned ex-Congress-man Butterworth as special counsel to prosecute the cases. The elevator at Canton, Md., and a canal barge were destroyed by fire. . Loss, $ ICO,000; insured for $ .10,00 Kissimee (Fla.) telegram The President has pre-empted the wilderness, had a pow-wow with the Indians, caught a thir-teen-pound catfish and a.nine-pound trout, and tanned his white hands. He met Tom Tigertail, the son of the late Seminole chief. They had a very friendly time of it for a few minutes, the President sitting near Tigertail's squaw, and toddling the papooses, into whose dirty little hands, at parting, he I ressed a glistening quarter. Several squaws had accompanied Tigertail to the landing to salute the President All the savages were gaudily attired.”

WASHING I ON. Judge Gresham, the newly-appointed Postmaster Genera], entered upon the duties of his office on the 10th inst. Secretary Folger has almost entirely recovered his health. The Postoffice Department lias placed Charles H. Rowan, representing the Excelsior Manufacturing Company, at Beaver Dam, Wie., and J. N. Williams, representing Mae Mystic Language, published in Detroit Mich., on the list of fraudulent concerns of the Postofflce Department Capt. Howgate, the fugitive ex-chief signal officer, is reported to have been seen on the streets of Washington. Judge Lilley has entered suit against ex-Senator Dorsey for #IO,OOO damages, alleged to have been sustained by hiro'as a result of an assault made upon hiin by Dorsey at the house of the la* ter. Commissioner MacFarland, of. the General Land Office, says that the Government has no remedy against the fraudulent combinations which 3:ave been formed for the purpose of acquiring pine and timber lands at nominal figures The law provides that lands offered at public sale and not taken become immediately open to private entry, and such being the cas§ even Con-

" ' ' ’ I1 '" gress is powerless to undo any frauds that may have been committed. In the star-route conspiracy trial at Washington, the defense concluded their direct testimony on the -12th Inst, and the prosecution began the examination of witnesses in rebuttal The end of tb« trial will probably be reached bv the end of the yean Eleven persons were drowned by the sinking of a steamboat in the Chattahoochee river, at Fort Gaines, Ga William M. Crockett, a murderer, was taken from jail at Wytheville, Ta, by a mob, and hanged to a beam in a mill on the outskirts of the town, after which his body was riddled with bullets. Stillwell H. Bussell, the defaulting United States Marshal for the Western district of Texas, has been sentenced ‘to two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary at Chester, IIL He was an appointee of President Hayea

POLITICAL,. A bill has been presented in the New York Legislature for submitting to the people the question of abolishing convict contract labor. Col. Enos, who represents Wisconsin on the National Republican Committee, believes Milwaukee could secure the National Convention by putting forth united efforts. The saloon-keepers of St. Louis are taking steps to contest the high-license dram-shop law passed by the Missouri Legislature, which will go into effect in July. Mr. John C. New, looks upon Judge Gresham, the new Postmaster General, as a likely candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1884 Mr. New thinks Senator Harrison’s Presidential aspirations were blighted by Judge Gresham’s appointment to a Cabinet office. Touching the recent Michigan election,a Detroit dispatch says: “The official canvass of the recent State election was made yesterday and to-day. From returns nearly complete it is rendered certain that the Fusion nominees for Judges of the Supreme Court and Regents of the University are all elected One Judge (Sherwood) is not likely to have over 1,000 majority. The other majorities range from 4,000 to 8,000.” Hon. William S. Holman, of Indiana, denies being a candidate for Speaker, and also announces himself favorable to Mr. Randall rather thar Mr. Carlisla

The Prohibitionists of Ohio are seeking to purchase the Associated Press franchise and the plant now in use in the publication of the Cincinnati Journal , for the purpose of giving the party a thoroughgoing orgaa Bills have been introduced in the Pennsylvania Senate to prevent the manufacture and sale of infernal machines, and to prohibit stage representations of any drama in which divinity figurea A proposed amendment to j;he State constitution prohibiting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was defeated in the lower house of the Connecticut Legislature. An error by an enrollment clerk has invalidated the Revenue bill passed at the late session of the Alabama Legislature The Georgia Democratic Convention nominated Henry D. McDaniel for Governor by acclaim, after a special committee had reported in his favor.

BUSINESS FAILURES. The “Famous” clothing house, Lawrence, Kas.; liabilities, $20,000. David Turk, clothing, Fort Worth and Jefferson, Tex.; liabilities, $50,000; assets, 25,000. A. K. & E. B. Yunt, bankers, Fort Collins, CoL Tilliston, Knight & Co., buckle and button manufacturers, New York; liabilities, $400,000. George Bain, the largest miller in St Louis, Mo. Michael Hoffman, living near Hillsboro, HL, set his house and barn on fire and then committed suicide. A Cleveland bucket shop, managed by T. Griffin; liabilities, $50,000. F. D. Barnum, jeweler, Louisville, Ky.; liabilities, $20,000. Babcock & Watrous, hat manufacturers, Middletown, N. Y. Tobin & Co., groceries, Montreal, Canada; liabilities, $30,000. Ives, Beecher & Co., South American importers, New York; liabilities, $556,000; assets, $350,000. The Greenwood Bolling Mill Company, Tamaqua, Pa. S. Fearn, miller, Madison, Ind.; Usabilities, $52,000; assets, $67,000. W. L. Murphy, miller, Louisville, Ky.; liabilities heavy. A. H. & G. A. Blood, wholesale grocers, Columbus, Ohio; liabilities, $27,000; assets, $25,000.

FOREIGN. Louis Yeuillot, the celebrated French author and journalist, is dead. Hugh Gladstone, a merchant, cousin of the Premier, committed suicide at Liverpool by strychnine. Conrad, who murdered his wife and four children, was beheaded at Berlin. He protested his innocence. Twenty-four persons were arrested in one day about Cork and Limerick. In consequence of Booth’s success in Vienna in the play of “King Lear,” his engagment in that city has been renewed. Bismarck has asked the opinions of the Prussian Ministry -upon the proposed revival of the Council of State, one of the functions of which was to pass upon all measures before they could be taken up by the Reichstag. European papers say the Austrian Emperor will soon visit the King of Italy at Rome, and negotiations are progressing for the latter to call upon the Emperor William at Berlin. O’Connor Power, member of Parliament for Mayo, offered a resolution in the House of Commons for the expenditure of #25,000,000 by the Government for the purpose of promoting what is styled “home colonization. ” It was opposed by the Government and promptly rejected by the House.

The Emperor pf Austria will soon pay a visit to the King of Italy, after which the latter will go to Berlin to seethe Emperor of Germany, all of which may be regarded as confirmatory of the alleged existence of a triple alliance for defense against French aggressions. The British House of Commons by a vote of 231 to 58 rejected Mr Healy’s resolution for the creation of a system of local self-government in Ireland. The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs says the triple alliance was made with a view of preserving the peace, and not with a spirit of hostility to France. The Irish National Land League has received £5,000 from Australia. Redmond says the Phoenix Park tragedy and its developments are hurting the cause In that country. Lord Alcester (Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour), speaking at a banquet given by the Lord Mayor of London, paid a high compliment to Rear Admiral Nloholson and the men of the American navy who were with him in the bay of Alexandria during the bombardment of the Egyptian metropolis last July. In testifying against Brady at Dublin, Carey, the informer, swore that he received the sacrament of the Euoharißt regularly In the Catholic church while plotting the murders, and that he had been promised pardon for himself and his brother if his testimony was given freely and was satisfactory to the authoritiea The examination of the dynamite conspirators In London was postponed after the prosecuting counsel had made a statement declaring that the Government had ample proof of the connection of all the men arrested with a plot originating In America and supported by funds contributed on this side of the Atlantia It was intimated that the charge against the prisoners would be changed from the minor one of unlawful possession of explosives to the graver one of consphacy, and possibly to treason-felony. A significant declaration was made by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, while explaining to the Parliament the alliance which has been entered Into between Italy, Austria and Germany. He said it was hoped that a way might be found for solving the Tunisian complication, but that Italy would not for a moment permit any single power to obtain an exclusive preponderance in the Mediterranean, nor would she allow the constitution of a great empire in Africa