Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The colored Republican Club ofWashington serenanded S. W. Dorsey the other 'evening. Acknowledging the compliment, Mr. Doreey thanked the members of the club for their courage in paying such an honor to one whom the Government had been bending all its power to min, and compared the trial just closed to the impeachment of Warren Hastings. Mr. Dorsey has written an extremely caustic letter to the Secretary of the Republican National Committee, in which his past services to the party and the reward' he has received are alluded to with bittemesa The Illinois Democratic State Central Committee, recently in session at Springfield, authorized the Hon. John H. Oberly, its Chairman, to appoint a committee of four to act in conjunction with himself and Mr. Goudy, the member for Illinois of the National Committee, to secure the selection of Chicago as the place to hold the next National Democratic Convention. The business failures during the seven days ending June 16, as reported to R G. Dun & Co., numbered 186, as against 173 the preceding week. Of these the New England States contributed 24; Middle States, 26; Western, 53; Southern, 35; Pacific States, 18; New York city, 11; and Canada, 19.

A negro named Till Warner, who had brutally outraged a little girl named Nettie Lyons, was hanged by a mob of 500 infuriated people at Cheboygan, Mich. “Everthing was conducted so quietly,” says an account of the affair, “that very little was known about it until the next morning, but there was no surprise on learning the result, as the town had been greatly excited ever since the crime was committed. The evidence against Warner was very strong, as he could not account for Himself on the . night the outrage was perpetrated, and made false statements in many waysThis had the effect of arousing the citizens, and large crowds gathered on the streets and wended their way toward the jail. A few masked men, with blackened faces, sheets and other disguises, walked up the steps am d applause from the immense throng outside. The Sheriff opened the door of his residence, connected with the jail, and was seized by several, masked men, who demanded the key. They unlocked the jail> opened the iron cell and took the prisoner out A rope was placed around his neok and he was token to a railroad-crossing sign, where he was pulled up and then let down to see if he would confess, but he said the only harm he had ever done was to himself in spending all of his earnings for liquor, and that he was not the guilty man. He was pulled up repeatedly, but he still pleaded his innocence. He was finally hauled up and left hanging. ” Jordan Corbin, who murdered Benjamin Carden, and seriously wounded his wife and son, for the purpose of outraging Carden's daughter, in Coosa county, Ala, was captured by citizens and put in jail Within a few hours he was taken from the jail by a crowd of SCO and hung. The crime was the most horrible and exasperating conceivable. Two colored, men named William Harde and Solomon Hewett, were privately executed at Conway, a C. Last October they murdered Jeremiah Stalvey, a country storekeeper, for *25. A month ago they made their escape from jail after killing a prisoner who would not join them. The fugitives were followed by hands of armed men and bloodhounds, and ten days later were captured. They then narrowly escaped lynching.

The Allen Steamship Company is said to have offered its business and vessels for sale for *10,000,000. China is purchasing munitions of war in the United States upon a large scale, presumably in view of the probability of war with France growing out of the Tonquin difficulty