Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

* The county elections in Yirginia show a decided falling off in the strength of the Readjuster or Mahone party, its candidates having been defeated in several counties where such a result was not even hoped for by the Democrats. Nansemond county, which gave the Mahone candidates 1,000 majority last year, now by 500 majority. With a view of keeping the Indians on their respective reservations, and also of reducing the expenses of the Indian service, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs has issued a circular to agents of non-treaty Indian agencies, directing them to discontinue supplying Indians with coffee, tea, sugar and tobacco, except as a compensation for labor performed. 9> Advices from Mexica are to the effect that a desperate battle was fought in the Sierra Madres, between Gen. Crook’s command and the fugitive Apachea The sqouts were first caught in an ambuscade, and several are said to have been killed. The entire command then advanced and engaged ihe hostiles, of whom thirty were killed, the remainder taking to flight, with the troops in pursuit

Lieut. Col. Ilges has telegraphed to the Adjutant General withdrawing his resignation, saying he prefers being tried by a court-martial The offense with which CoL Ilges is charged is duplicating Day accounta The total loss from the recent storm on Lake Michigan includes the destruction of #200,000 worth of property in ships and cargoes, the drowning of eighteen persons, and fifteen vessels lost and damaged Ihe most serious accident was that which befel the Wells Burt, the entire crew of eleven men being drowned, and the loss to vessel and cargo footing up #40,000. The other boats cast away were mainly schooners. Four legal hangings occurred in the South on Friday; May 25 At Richmond, Ark., Joseph Young, a negro, was hanged for outraging a white woman. John Taylor* the murderer of CoL Ingraham, of Clarendon, Ark., paid the penalty of his crime at that place. Jack Hinton was hanged at Helena, Ark., for murder, and Leander Coleman (colored) suffered death for a similar offense at Bellevue, Bossier parish, La A mob of about sixty mounted and masked men from Menifee county, Ky., led by the Sheriff of the county, appeared before the Montgomery county jail at Mount Sterling, and demanded the surrender of eleven men, comprising what is known as the Barnett gang, who have been at war with the Hilton family for some time, the intention of the mob being to hang the prisoners. The prison guard warned them away, but they advanced to attack and were fired upon, the leader being dangerously wounded. The mob fired several hundred shots at the jail, butwithout effect, while a second volley from the guards wounded another of the attacking party, who thereupon withdrew and returned to their own county. Fifty houses at Yars, France, a town of about 25,000 inhabitants, were destroyed by fire, several persons being burned to death. At a public meeting held in Cork, #1,200 were subscribed to the Parnell testimonial. The action of Mr. Parnell and the Philadelphia Convention were approved unanimously. Two distinguished authors have just died in Europe, the most famous being Edouard Rene Lefebvre L ibonlaye, the French jurist and writei on law, and the other Philipn'’ F A. T. Heuschling, the Belgian w ' on political economy. Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania vetoed a hill passed by the State Legislature bestowing pensions npon survivors of the Mexican war and upon the widows of soldiers and Sailors of that war.