Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Paul Strobach, appointed United States Marshal of the Southern and Mid Ila districts cf Alabama a short time since, has been indicted at Montgomery for fraud in his accounts during 1880, while acting as Deputy Marshal Strobach alleges it Is a plot on the part of some Republicans to get him out of office. The Supreme Court of Colorado has declared unconstitutional the law under which Packer, the cannibal, and a number of other murder.ers were convicted. The criminals will therefore be liberated. The explosion of the boiler in Guyer's saw-mill, near Mapanee, Elkhart county Ind, killed two men and injured four others (including the owner of the mill) so badly that they will probably die. Sitting Bull and his band of Sioux from Forb Randall arrived at Standing Rock rgency. The company are all in excellent health, and the old chief expresses himself as well pleased with his treatment as a prisoner, professing peacable intentions and an industrious inclination.

Amasa Stone, the millionaire, of Cleveland, Ohio, shot himself through the heart in his bath-room. He had for some time been troubled with insomnia, and became despondent, believing himself to be incurably affected. Recently he has complained of a pain in his head, and his friends believe that at the moment of his suicide he was out of his mind. He leaves a fortune of several millions of dollars The descendants of an English Colonel of Hessians in the war of the Revolution, who reside on a farm on Rideau lake, Ontario, claim to have title to 150 acres in the heart of the city of Philadelphia which belonged to their ancestor, and which would make each of the nine claimants millionaires several times over. A lawyer has been found to carry the claim into court Business failures in the United States for the week ending May 11 numbered 149, an excess over the previous week of 17, and 31 more than in the corresponding period of 1882. Five legal executions occurred in the United States on Friday, May 11. Sylvester K. Mackinson was hanged at Cambridge, Henry county, HL, for the murder of Mrs.- Maggie Copeland Aug. 22, 1882. Angelo Cornettt, who killed Daniel Cash, a fellow-convict in Sing Sing prison Dec. 31, 1881, was hanged in the prison yard. John W. Jackson, the murderer of S. L Hull, suffered at Jackson, Ohio; Jerry Blalock, who kLled Thomas Brandenburg, at Jacksonport, Ark.; an l Henry Revels, who murdered Henry Hyams, five years ago, at East Providence, La., complete the list.

Lewin Mozley, money-broker, - of Lombaid street, London, has failed, with jiabi ities amounting to £532,000. The Right Hon. George J. Dodson, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, introduced a bill in the House of Commons by which agricultural tenants will be entitled to receive, when their tenancies expire, compensation from landlords for any improvements they may have made to lands they occupied. This will be the principal measure brought before the House during the session. By it the landlord’s right of distress will be limit id to a sum equivalent to one year’s rent ..All meQ who were arrested in Lendos for the .unawl'ul possession of nitro--4^y3erihs/ with toe exception of O’Connor, alias Dalton, and the informer Lynch, were committed for trial at Bow street, on a charge of treason-felony. Lynch was committed for misdemeanor, and O’Connor was rearreSted and taken to Liverpool O’Herlihy and Featherstone, who were arrested at feerk* on a similar charge, were again remanded. Three more men were committed for trial ih Dublin for conspiracy to murder. convicts in a South Carolina convict camp attempted to escape and were Bred upon by toe guard, three of them being killed. Of the others, four escaped.