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

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

Over 300 enthusiastic Democrats gathered at the Palmer House, in Chicago, to partake of the second annual banquet given by the Iroquois Club and to lit ten to the flood of oratory which followed the feed. The principal speakers were Senator Bayard, of Delaware; CoL William F. Vilas, of Wisconsin; James 0. Brodhead, of Missouri; William Henry Huribert, of New York; Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois; W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky; E. P. Wheeler, President of the New York Free-trade Club, and Mayor Harrison. Several of the more prominent invited guests were not present

The Delaware Legislature has enacted a new law concerning murderers. If found insane, they will be confined in a jail or asylum. If their sanity is regained, they will be liable to trial or sentence A proposed prohibitory amendment was defeated in the lower house of the Michigan Legislatnra Robert Massey was banged in the jail-yard at Fcrt Smith, Ark., for the murder of Edwin P. Clark, in the Indian Territory, in December, 1881. At Carrollton, Misa, James E. Robinson was executed for the murder of William Adair, in May, 1881. Sam Walker (colored), who was to have been hanged at Columbia, St C., cheated the gallows by dying in his cell A negro was hanged by a mob at Winston, N. C., for outraging a little girL A silver mine, the ore of which assays $35 per ton, has been discovered in the mountains of East Tennessee. In Grant county., Ark., the residence of a negro'named Daniel Pratt was burned down, and three children perished in the flames. Norristown, Tenn., has been depopulated by small-pox Five hundred people attended a funeral of two men who died of what was supposed to be measles and many people were stricken with the scourge. A shocking tragedy was enacted near Earlville, Delaware county, lowa Charles Smith, a prosperous farmer, while laboring as is supposed under a temporary fit of insanity, murdered his wife and two boys, aged 13 and 9 years, using an ax to accomplish the horrible deed, and then committed suicide by cutting his throat with a butcher-knife. Two daughters made their escape by fleeing from the house while the maniac father was dispatching their mother. f Fowler Brothers, who own and operate a very large packing establishment, employing several hundred men, in Kansas City, have issued an order that all employes, wh le either on or off duty, must abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors, and must not visit gambiing-housea

The trial of Joe Brady, the first of the Phoenix Park arsossins arraigned, was concluded at Dublin on the 13th of April The jury, after an absence of forty minutes, returned a verdict of guilty. Counsel for the defense immediately made a motion for arrest of judgment, which was denied, and Brady was sentenced to die on the 14th of Muy. He protested with vehemence that hewas innocent, Hong Kong dispatches report the probability of a war between China and France, growing out of the Tonquin affair. China expects the assistance of gome European power,