Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1883 — EATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Harper High-License hill passed the Illinois Hons® of Representatives by a rote of 79 Ayes to 55 noea Four Republican members voted in the negative, and ten Democrats recorded themselves as in favor of the measure. It imposes upon saloonkeepers selling whisky an annual license fee of #SOO, while those confining themselves to the sale of beer and wine will be required to pay #l5O per annum.

The Sheriff at Independence, lowa, becoming alarmed for the safety of the two desperadoes, the Barber brothers, whom he had received from the Sheriff of Waverly as a matter of accommodation, declined to longer keep them, as the mutterings of the public seemed to indicate that an illegal “neck-tie” festival was on the tapis. lie therefore returned them to the Sheriff at Waverly, who placed them in jail at that place About midnight the jail was attacked by a large crowd of men, armed with axes, crowbars and beams, whose demand for the surrender of the desperadoes had been refused by the jailer. An entrance was forced, when the murderers were seized and taken half a mile from the Court House, where they were hanged to a tree. The mob was composed of men from Fayette county and Germans near where the Barbers killed Kersting. They were led by Bheperd, a brother of the one killed last fall The Sheriff refused to give up the keys, so they battered down the doors with sledge-hammers, and, after a short delay, came out with ropes around the boys’ necka Some of the best citizens tried to use reason and get them to desist, but it was of no use. They were perfectly orderly and talked calmly, but said they were determined to have the prisonera The boys stood up under it all the way through without flinching, and never asked a word of mercy during the entire proceedinga

The business failures during the week ending June 9, numbered 178 as against 151 the previous week, an inorease of 22. The distribution of failures was as follows: New England States, 23; Middle, 22; Western, 56; Southern, 26; Pacific States and Territories, 17; New York city, 10; Canada, Ift Lord Randolph Churchill made a bitter attack upon the Gladstone Ministry in the House of Commons for its course in the late war in Egypt The poorer class of the Russian peasantry are to be relieved of the poll-tax, and the rest of the people are to be granted a reduction of one-half in the same tax. A powder magazine at Scutari, Albania, was exploded by lightning, and many persons were killed Sheriff Donckley and T. W. "Waller fought a horseback duel near Patrick Court House, Ya. Waller was fatally wounded He was an opponent to Donokley at the last election. Elbert M. Stephenson was hanged at Lawrenceville, Ga., for murdering his aunt, for which crime he was arrested while preparing to attend a camp-meeting. He asked that a band be engaged to play “The Golden Slippers” at the gallows, but his request was refused A bill incorporating the Cape Cod Ship Canal Company, has passed the Massachusetts Senate. The Massachusetts Board of Charities having elected a Superintendent of the Tewksbury Almshouse, Gov. Butler has notified them that their action is invalid, as the right of nomination belongs to the executive. Eliphalet Clark, the oldest homeopatic physician in Maine and one of the founders of the American Institute of Homeopathy, died at Portland, aged 82 years. The Turkish Government has virtually raised the duties on liquor by compelling its storage at Smyrna, and intends, when the treaty of commerce expires, March 18 next, to stop the importation of American meats, lard, oil, eta Gen. Wallace has entered a protest