Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

EASTERN. The steamer Nestorian, which arrived at Boston last week, brought 660 Irish men, women, and children,. whose passage money was paid by the British Government They were all In destitute circumstances. The action brought by Mrs. Mary E. Schenlay to obtain possession of wharf prop erty at Pittsburgh, Pa, of the value of nearly #2,000,000, has been nonsuited. At the Tewksbury investigation at Boston a witness swore that a Harvard student brought a negro’s skin to a ttnnery at Woburn to bemade into leather, and said the corpse originally came from Tewksbury. Pieces of the skin were exhibited to the committee. James Treglawn was executed at Morristown, N. J., for the murder of Minnie Chirgwln last June The centennial of thej cessation of hostilities between Great Britain and the United States was celebrated April 19 at Newburgh, N. Y., while at Lexington and Conooi-d the people gave due attention to the 108th anniversary of the battles at those places

r . WESTERN. A wind-storm did considerable damage to farm buildings in Otoe and Nemaha counties, Neb. Beveral persons were injured by the fall of houses they were occupying. A heavy gale at Anita and Adair, lowa, worked havoc with buildings, fences and crops At the former place people sought shelter in cellars and caves During a storm at East Tawas, Mich., hail-stones fell measuring three inches in circumference A heavy-snow storm prevailed in the region of Deadwood, Dak, on the 13th and 14th of April, blocking the railroad and stage lines and tearing down the telegraph wires Memorial services were held at Springfield, 111, on Sunday, April 15, which was the eighteenth anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln. Judge Highley, of Cincinnati, has decided that pigeon-shooting as commonly practiced in tests of skill In marksmanship comes within the purview of the law against cruelty to animals At Chicago, one Koman Nowaik, a cabinet-maker,' fatally wounded his divoroed wife and then saved the hangman a job by blowing out his own brains Drink was the cause of the tragedy. Gen. Cook, recognizing that regular troops are useless in warfare against the Apaches In the mountainous country on the border of Mexico, is arranging for the employment of Indian scouts against the hostiles The General has information that the Mexicans are not sparing either men, women or children of the Apaches The town of Sombero Falls, Minn., was struck by a tornado and badly shattered. Nobody killed, however. Rev. John Schenck, a Catholic priest, committed suicide at Long Prairie, Minn., by shooting himself. The Saratoga paper mills at Santa Clara, CaL, were reduced to ashes The loss is #75,000. Henry Emil Johnson and James Donnelly fought with knives at Stockton, CaL, about a wagon, and killed each other. The City Council of Minneapolis has advanced the rate of saloon-licenses from #IOO to #1,500. The “Model” Flouring Mill at Minneapolis, Minn, was destroyed by fire. Loss, #60,000; insurance, #54,000. The spread of small-pox at Indianapolis is causing anxiety to the health authorities and citizens generally. George Scheller, accused of setting fire to the Newhall House at Milwaukee, has been acquitted The auditors cheered lustily when the verdict was announced The report of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture Shows that the indications are that the Illinois wheat crop will fall 20,000,000 bushels short of what itwas last year, when it aggregated more than 50,000,000 bushels. In the southern grand division the condition of the crop is 42 per oent below what it was at this time last year; in the central grand division 81 per cent below, and In the northern 24 per cent This large falling off is due in part to the ravages of the Hessian fly last fall, and to the long, dry freeze in the great wheat belt in Southern and Central Illinois during March. The flooded condition of the Menominee river has caused great damage above and below Menominee, Wis., submerging dams and mills, carrying off structures and logs and destroying property. Rumors as to the condition of the winter wheat in California are to the effect that the damage from drought will be more than overcome by the Increased acreage planted, and that a full average crop may be anticipated. Throughout Illinois farming operations show great activity. Crop reports from lowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Dakota are of a glowing character. In order to test the constitutionality of the Scott liquor law, a case will be immediately made up for trial before the Supreme Court of Ohia The annual report of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, shows the present estimated length of the track to be 4,525 miles, and by the end of this year it will equal 5,000 milea The gross earnings of 1882 show an increase of #8,000,000 over the preceding year, and the net earnings show nearly #2,000,000 increase. The total earnings are about #20,000,000. Mexican troops claim to have killed most of the hostile Apaches in a series of running fights between' the towns of Ures and Gambles. A renegade white man, said to be a former Indian Agent, named L. N. Stretcher, was captured, a soldier who was wounded and left for dead during last year’s campaign Identifying him as having acted as chief of a band of Apaches.

SOUTHERN. One of the great plagues of the South, the buffalo gnats, are doing an immense amount of damage in the counties of Arkansas bordering on the Mississippi river. A body of twenty-three missionaries from Utah have arrived at Chattanooga, Tenn., and are about to enter upon a campaign of proselytism. At. White Oak, Ark., a number of houses were blown down and three persons fatally injured. The destruction by them of mules and horses has been so great as to cause grave apprehension as to how the crops are to be worked. Two children were burned to death in a large box at Portsmouth, Texas, while at play. William Dorsey, of Montgomery, Ala, mistook his wife for a burglar and shot * her dead. A burglar entered a room in the Arlington Hotel, at Palestine, Texas, chloroformed Mr. Reynolds, frightened his wife into silence by a pistol, and walked off with *3,ooft A recent dispatch from Fort Worth, Texas, reports that "between 200 and 300 cowboys on ranches in the Pan-Handle are on a strike, asking that wages be increased from #BO to 450 per month and board. - Great uneasiness exists on the ranches near those on which the strikers are located. The strikers have sent committees to the men at work ordering them to join the strikers, quit work, or suffer the consequences, which means to be shot” AtMcDade, Texas, a young man Pfeiffer killed bis 16-year-old cousin.

D 1 fairdt. jaIgJrSggJBTJE'SJ A treasury eommJesfcm has been appointed to examine the charges preferred .gain The work of the United Stateß and Spanish Claims has bS#n corn* pleted The claims prejjjMAgm«ttnto*M the Grand Jury of the District of against William Pitt Kellogg, former SdniHr and now Cdngresaman-eJect fr«m Lguisiaffi, and Thomas J. Bnady, late Bj|eond Postmaster Genial Each fndictuMnfc cdP tains five counts, charging Kellogg and Brady with receiving five separate amounts of *1,500 each for securing the of mail cdntracta g The taking of testimony present star-route trials closed on the 18th of April, having lasted five codnsel proceeded to lare tte-patSn| jurors with windy speeches

BUSINESS FAILURES. I« James Marshall & Co. , gaMp-pipe manufacturers, Pittsburgh; liaWiljfes, #l,500,000; assets *^ tl |Pfß> o f| LJ William Schmidt 11 $4, J'i°lesale Roy & Clulre, ton, Ky.; liabilities, #35,000, Jttd Newell & Wright, oil cloths, Ml York; liabilities, J. H. Chapiq^Kgi^gwhoMaTe jewelers, NdwYorS;' Jacob White, wholesale confectioner, , Terre Haute, Ind. Holman, Coffin &Co books, Aw lanta, Ga ' /Atl VOUMSZE | * President next year, IvfwSJ»h-tarlfl material aid frail the irSF IwßmiSPin Virginia and other Southern States. So say tta« Washington correspondent®. j The Supreme Court of Mississkng has decided that, the Secretary of Ss4E! having declared Manning elei&tedljto Congress from the Second cfesfafct, pie Martha., no jurisdiction of The fuiir of ©henna ers for a writ of mandamus and that the question as to whe.ther Manning ft Chalmers was legally elected must be divided by Congress The Scott bill taxing each liquordealer in the State #2OO per year, and those selling only beer and wine #IOO, has beoome a law in Ohio. The Delaware House of Representatives indefinitely postponed the Senate resolution providing for the submission of a prohibitory constitutional amendment. A similar measure proposed in the Connecticut Senate failed to receivS# the necessary two-thirds vote. * Chauncey I. Filley, a leading politician and once a wealthy merchant of Ste Louis, who was recently for the position of Postmaster General J|a*|iccepted. from the Mayor of -thahmiff. position of Assessor and Collector of Water Rates. ,1-; ~ It has been discovered that the Legislative enactment creating. the Dakota Capital Commission conflicts with the act organizing the Territory and therefore they have no power to remove ihe capital The Ohio Democratic Convention will meet at Columbus, June 21, for the nomination of candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Judge of the Supreme Court, Treasurer, Attorney General, and member of the Board of Public Works. The election occurs Oct 9. Woman suffragists met in State Convention in Troy, N. Y., elected Lttfffl Devereaux Blake President, and cial order could • be ,/lßO®d and maintained by the eo-operatioh ft women., It was also decided that it was the duty of women to interpret the Scripture for themselves, trusting no longer to maslculine views. j * •**

■ iFoiptar. The Irish National Land League ]halT received £5,000 from Australia says the Phoenix Park tragedy and its developments are hurling the'cause hi thatv country. « ft i The Marquis,of i»obably* succeed the Maz«|tis of Ripog iflfceroy of Queen VicloH? , TSr ,, to 1 stand for any trains to the progress, the Russian press tt. ferbidden to make mention. s . Twenty thbusarld doffiL laborers arc on a strike 'at ManetttSi, ffilrbusiness is much Impeded in -—riTimn The Queen of Madagascar has accepted the terms of settlement offered by France . ,r , A renewal of the strike among the Boyulfth* Constabulary is threatened, the

neglect of the Government to redress their toxtfgga The offers a Curley, and he will bang on a few rafnutes. The prisoner was a<ked ’if >e . pronounced out a Norbnrr or a He was a memberpf the Invlncibles, but was not in PJnmJ* fttk oifttfUßvenlnlf the wire natted.. fee lovsfthte o^Onijty«MqPElilenfa. fdr m— I— jij c'eath, twado and the fckwentiy years’ impris6fl’nlilT 0 T WK De ca P ital sentences