Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The papers transferring the Hannibal and St Joseph railroad to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company were signed last week in New York. There were 182 business failures in thi - country during the seven days, ending on April 27, a decrease of 23 as compared with the preceding week. Henry De Bosny, a veteran of half a dozen wars, was hanged at Elizabethtown, N. J., for the murder of his wife. Frazier Copeland, who murdered W. J. Hunnicutt on Dec. 2, 1882, was executed at Walhalla, S. C. Henry Revels was hanged at Lake Providence, La, for the murder of Henry H. James in October, 1878. A nytro-glycerine factory has Been discovered at Northampton, Eng. Hartmann, the Nihilist, is reported to have crossed the Russian frontier, bound for Moscow. The jury at Dublin brought in a verdict of guilty in the case of Michael Fagan, charged with conspiracy to murder Lord Cavendish. The condemned man avowed himself a Fenian, bat protested his innocence of the crime charged against him. His execution is set for May 28. The London Times is dissatisfied with the fact that only so very few men. tried in Dublin have been condemned to death, and declares editorially that if juries will not agree (to convict) the accused be tried by a special court and without a jury. In the meantime informers are turning up on every hand, and additional arrests are being made by the score. The New York Legislature has passed a bill to retire and pension school teachers over 70 years of age. A most heart-rending affair is reported from Middletown, Ohio. A mother rushed into the river to rescue her little daughter from drowning, and her husband rushed in after her, and all three were drowned.

The convention concluded its labors on Friday, April 27, after having organized the Irish National League of America, with Alexander Sullivan, of Chicago, as President. and John J. Hynes, of Buffalo, as Secretary. A National Committee of one from each State and Territory was chosen, who selected an Executive Committee of seven, consisting of the Rev. Mr. McKenna, of Massachusetts; Dr. W. Wallace, of New York; James Reynolds, of Connecticut; M. V. Gannon, of Iowa; Judge J. G. Donnelly, of Wisconsin; John F. Armstrong, of Georgia; and United States Senator James Fair, of Nevada. The first hours of the day’s session were occupied with speeches .and the reading bf letters of sympathy from various persons. The platform of the organization was then submitted to the convention by the Committee on Resolutions. The resolutions start with a fierce arraignment of English government in Ireland, and declare that “there i no form of retaliation to which despair or madness may resort, tor which English cruelty in Ireland is not exclusively responsible.” Specifically, it is charged that English rule has annihilated liberty in Ireland; that landlordism has impoverished the people, while a selfish policy has not so much as permitted manufactures to obtain a foothold in the island; that England has not maintained peace and order in Ireland, but for 700 years has kept the country involved in bloodshed and anarchy; that the pretense of Irish representation in Parliament is a mockery of the shallowest sort, and that, while measures proposed in Parliament by members from England or Scotland receive polite consideration, the fact that a bill is introduced by an Irish member suffices tor its arrogant rejection. The resolutions then assert that the course of the English Government has deprived it of any right, if one ever existed, to rule Ireland; pledge material and moral support of the Irish in America in all efforts of their countrymen at home to recover the right of self-government; incidentally score Forster and praise Parnell; express sympathy for the farm laborers of Ireland, who are commended to the kindly consideration qf farmers; counsel Irishmen to buy nothing in England that can be procured from the United Statesexpress contempt for the Liberal Ministry of Great Britian; condemn the action of the English Government in sending impoverished Irish to these shores; thank American prelates for the aid they have secured for ’lrish emigrants, and indorse Mr. Egan's administration of the Land League finances. 'An attempt to discuss the resolutions seriatim was overwhelmingly defeated, though Congressman Finerty, of Chicago, entered a vigorous protest. At the closing, Mrs. Parnell, who was elected President of the Ladles’ Land League, made a short address, and, amid great enthusiasm, placed a wreath of laurel on a picture of Gen. Washington. The song, “God Save Ireland,” was sung by delegates and audience, and the convention was declared adjourned sine die.