Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. John Roach, the famous Pennsylvania ■hip-builder, testified before the Senate Committee on Labor and Education that at one time he was a tramp on the prairies of Illinois, without a dollar in his pocket He now employs over 1,500 men. A boat modeled after the Maid of the Mist, with no one on board, was sent through the rapids of Niagara river and reached Lewiston in safety. The experiment was witnessed by 40,000 persons on the banks. Flames broke out in a rag and paper warehouse on Walnut street Cincinnati, and spread with such speed as to cut off the escape of the employes, several of whom lost their lives. The composingroom of the Timex-Star was destroyed. The total loss is #IOO,OOO, John Swinton, of New York,appeared as a witness before the Senate Sub-Com-mittee on Labor and Education, sitting in that city. He recommended the revival of the income tax. as originally in force; the establishment of a National Board of Industry empowered to collect labor statistics of every descitptlon, and including power to enforce the Eight-Hour law; the establishment of effectual Boards of Health, Education and Public Works ;industrlal schools and colleges on the French system; the Belgium system of freedom from patents; postal banks under the B tish system; land laws which will prevent the holding by private individuals of great tracts of land; public ownership of coal, iron, gold and other mines, and all oil wells Every one of these measures has been put in practice in one country or another, and they were all capable of enforcement by legislation, and have in every instance proved successful Witness maintained that industrial schools, such as exist in nearly all European countries, should be instituted here and be under the control of the Government Working railroads and telegraph lines by the Government in Berlin showed conclusively it should be adopted in this country. He thought the Legislature had the power to do this. He was also of the Opinion that the Government should institute postal banks, where the poorer classes could make deposita Ex-President John Jarrett, of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers was also before the pommittee He favored the establishment of a Bureau of Labor Statistics, the enforcement of the Eight-Hour law, and prevention of strikes by arbitration. There should be a national law, he thought, incorporating trades unions. He believed in the organization of capitalists as well as workingmen. The witness said there was a tendency to lower wages by the employment of Bohemians to do unskilled labor, and this tendency is encouraged by the constant introduction of labor-saving machines. Steel manufacturers have imported workmen for the purpose of lowering wage& Mrs. Julia P. Smith, the well-known novelist, was killed at her summer residence at New Hartford, CL She was driving with her husband when the horse ran away. G. F. Batchelder, a hotel-keeper at Nahant, Mass., while out after mackerel, claims to have seen on top of the water a serpent nearly 200 feet long, with a head as large as a barrel The Elkhorn tannery,at Stroudsburg, Pa, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $l. r 0,(X;0. In a base-ball game at Philadelphia the umpire neglected to ma k himself and was struck in the face by a ball and taken away in an unconscious condition. The farm of Horace Greeley in Westchester county, N. Y., widely known as Chappaqua, on which over #70,000 was expended, was sold by the trustee, last week, in accordance with the will Mrs. Gabrielle Greeley secured the estate for SIO,OOO, no one bidding against her.

WESTERN.

The Cincinnati Exposition was opened on the sth inst by a procession which came up the Ohio river on ten decorated steamers, marching to the building amidst salutes by artillery, whistles and bells. The Chicago show quietly opened its doors on the same day to tens of thousands in a manner becoming an American city. Near Waldron’s station, on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St Louis and Chicago railroad, one freight train ran into another, and also broke through a bridge. A brakesman already wounded and a brakeman on |duty were killed. Two chums in San Francisco had a prolonged spree last week. One of them, named Thomas Mullen, put the mu<zle of a Revolver in his mouth and urged his friend to pull the trigger. The drunken fellow ’did as requested, and his partner went off jto join his ancestors. Frank James was acquitted at Gallatin, Mo., of the murder of Frank McMillan and participation i i the Winston train robbery. Yells and cheers greeted the yerdict of the jury, and the entire town tehouted itself hoarse for an hour afterward. At Riverton, near Springfield, 111., Mrs. Hoyland, aged 65, and two grand--children, 3 years and 6 months old, respectively, were burned to death in a frame cotjtage. ■ The Chief Magistrate of the nation jwas most royally entertained by the Chl|cagoans, and, from all indications, had a jjolly good time in the Garden City. The presence of tne distinguished visitor in the 'city was so extensively advertised by the local press that there was a feverish excitement and constant anticipation by people who wanted to see a real live President The first evening of his stay he accepted a personal invitation from the veteran comedian and manager. J. H. McVicker, to attend his theater. When the party, consisting of President Arthur, Secretary Lincoln, Gen. Sheridan and others, entered the theater, file rose and applauded. The play was the “Hunchback,” and Miss Mather the star. At the end of the third act, when Miss

Mather was called before the curtain with Mr. Levick, she had a bank of flowers in the center of which in violets were the words, “To the President, from Margaret Mather. ” She handed this to him, and he bowed in return while the house applauded. At the end of the fourth act the President asked to be presented to Miss Mather, and she was accompanied to his box by her manager, Mr. HUI The President thanked her personally and said he had been delighted by her acting. Miss Mather replied briefly and gracefully, thanking the President for the honor he had bestowed upon her by his presence The party sat the play out, and when it'was over- the audience halted on the stairway and sidewalk while the President passed out, and cheered him as he was driven away. The next day the President visited the Board of Trade, made a short speech, and devoted an hour or so watching the wild antics of the bulls and bears. A dense crowd assembled to see the distinguished visitors. The President was next driven to the rooms of the League Club, where a line lunch was served. In the evening two hours were devoted to a public reception at the Grand Pacific Hotel, and thnnsands of citizens availed themselves of this opportunity to see the nation’s ruler. The President left at midnight, expressing himself highly pleased at his sojourn in the Western metropolis. The Toledo Produce Exchange has indorsed the project for the construction by the Government of postal-telegraph lines on the basis of the proposed bill of Senator Edmunds. Rev. T. H. Oakley, a delivery clerk in the Cleveland postoffice, has been arrested for selling stamps which he had removed from packages delivered, and has confessed his crime. He is 70 years of age, and pleads poverty, as he received only S7OO a year, A Chicago dispatch of the 10th inst. says: “Advices representative points in the corn belt make it positive that frost has wrought great destruction. Michigan seems to have fared badly, nearly everything in the vegetable line having been killed at Battle Creek and Saugatuck. Tobacco in Dane and Rock counties, Wis., was ruined with the corn, and cranberries at Sturgeon Bay got nipped. Light frosts* are reported at Des Moines, Atlantic and Burlington, lowa, and ice at Dubuque. Vegetables were injured at Elkhart and Huntngtion, Ind. Ice formed at Macomb, HL, and frost was quite general throughout the central part of the State, but the dry atmosphere saved corn at some points. Reports from Northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota and Ohio are to the effect that the standing corn has been irreparably damaged. In some sections on the lowlands corn is alu ost entirely destroyed. On higher ground the frost was not so serious, and less injury was inflicted.” A Des Moines dispatch says: “Reports from different parts of the State to-night Indicate that the damage to the corn crop of lowa has been almost wholly eonfined to the lowlands and has been slight.” A dispatch from Sioux Falls, Dakota, reports: “Another heavy frost last night has left no room to doubt the ruin of the corn crop of this section.” The completion of the Northern Pacific railroad was formally effected forty miles west of Helena, Montana, on the Bth of September. Jay Cooke, the man that began, and Henry Villard, the man that finished the work, were accorded the honor of driving the golden spike. Two serious railroad accidents accurred at Kenosha mountain, CoL, on the South Park railroad, by which three men were injured, it is feared, fatally, and four others seriously. The accidents were caused by a heavy train getting the mastery over the engine in descending the steep grade

SOUTHERN.

Samqel Bulger, a negro, was hanged at Maysville, Ky., for a criminal assault upon a young white girl. When lying in jail he was protected by the Emmet Rities from being lynched. J. Proctor Knott was inaugurated Governor of Kentucky at Frankfort, in the presence of a large assemblage. Blackburn, the retiring, executive, made excuses for his numerous pardons of criminals; but Mr. Knott promised his hearers that no clemency would be shown offenders unless he was satisfied that they had been unjustly convicted, At Edwards, Miss., two negroe, accused and proven guilty by their own confession of robbing the grave of Mrs. Howell, were attacked by a mob. One of the negroes was riddled with bullets. The Sheriff was finally overpowered and the other negro was hanged. The prisoners claimed that they needed an arm-bone of a human being in their business as conjurors. Incendiaries have so exhausted the patience of the people of Lynchburg, Va., that a vigilance committee is now trying to catch somebody for an exemplary hanging. A reign of terror exists Henry Dickenson, colored, was hanged at Plaquemine, La., for the murder of Henry Steele. Frank Shelton, a negro, was executed at Greensboro, Ala., for killing his wife.

WASHINGTON.

The Treasury Department is given much trouble by the attempts of importers to evade the Tariff laws. Col. D. P. Holloway, who was Commissioner of Patents under President Lincoln, died last week in Washington. A register of the Interior Department at Washington has been prepared for the blue book. There are l‘,O?l persons on the rolls, of whom 621 are women, and 201 negroes. Seventy-one clerks receive salaries ranging from $720 to $l,BlO, one lady from Illinois drawing $1,600.

POLITICAL.

Paul Vandervoort, Chief Clerk of the Railway Mail service at Omaha, has teen dismissed by Postmaster General Gresham, for absence from duty while acting as Command er-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. It is said, that Supervising Architect Hill is preparing to resign and engage in private business. The New York State Greenbackers, Convention was held at Rochester. Thos. K. Beecher was nominated for Secretary of State, Louis A Post for Attorney General,

CL L Halsey for Comptroller, Julian Winne for Treasurer, and Edward A Stillman for Engineer. The Republican Invincibles, the old* eat and moat prominent political organization in Philadelphia has nominated Robert T. Lincoln, of Dlinoia, for President in 1881 Judge Devens refuses to be the Republican candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. The Utah Commission has agreed to recommend the enactment of a marriage law which will provide that all marriages in the Temto y shall be null and void unless solemnized publicly before witnesses The witnesses and those who officiate and the contracting parties shall make affidavit in every case that they are not polygamists. Every marriage and the circumstances connected with it, the names of witnesses, contracting parties, eta, shall be made a matter of public record. A heaVy penalty is proposed for violators of this projected law. CoL Godfrey, of the Commission, is sanguine as to the adoption of this law and as to its efficacy after adoption. The Democratic bolters of Cincinnati held a convention, and placed a new ticket in the field, headed by Thomas Sherlock for Treasurer. The State platform and ticket received hearty indorsement

FOREIGN.

Fifteen thousand Chinese troops are said to have entered the territory of Tonquin and marched forward to meet the French forces The Chinese Legation in Paris states that possibly China has reinforced her troops on the frontier because of the treaty imposed on Anam by France. Minister Lowell unveiled a bust of Fielding, the dramatist and novelist, at Taunlon, England, before an assemblage of a literary character. Mr. Lowell, in dafending Fielding's compositions, said they were wiitten in the spirit of the age in which he lived. Official dispatches to the Dutch Government says the town of Telokbelong was totally destroyed by the recent volcanic disturbances in the Malay archipelago. Tjeringine was wiped out by a tidal wave, and 10,000 persons drowned. Pere Hyacinthe will soon visit America again. An immense shortage is reported in the French wheat crop. Count de Chambord left 60,000,000 francs to be divided between the Duke of Parma and the Count of Bardi. The cholera quarantine has been removed from the Suez Canal, and traffic has re-umed its usual course. Prof. Falb, of London.who has made a special study of volcanic eruptions, predicts that another earthquake will occur at Ischia on Oct 15. The Viceroy of Southern China says no troops have been ordered to cross the frontier of Tonquin, but declares that China will never sanction the Hue treaty, and that France must make a proper arrangement the Marquis of Tseng or accept war. The Zulus are reported to be waging a war of mutual extermination. A statue of Lafayette was unveiled at La Puy, France. A vast assemblage witnessed the ceremony. Addresses were delivered by Messrs. Morton and Sargent, the American Ministers to France and Germany. Terrible distress prevails in the isl and of Java A telegram from Batavia says that famine is completing the havoc there. China formally demands that France shall withdraw from the treaty of Hua Fran e formally refuses. The cattle plague still rages furiously in Russia, where within the past four yean its victims number over a million. Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, who started out very independently, has been brought to a state of abject vassalage by Russia Recent territorial trades seem to have put his “situation” in jeopardy. He will possibly soon give way to a Russian Departmental Commander. A London dispatch says that Parnell's speech at the Dublin meeting of the Irish National League was the great political event'of the week. It has been subjected to the widest discusson by the English and Irish press. All admit that it was able and statesmanlike. It has produced an excellent effect in political circles, and has paved the way to further important concessions. The Dish Tories 'are in a state of abject alarm. Tennyson took his medicine. The

bard of Balaklava has written a memorial poem on John Brown, the gillie The Irish League has arranged the platform of its campaign for the coining autumn and winter. There are to be successive demonstrations at all the centers, and Mr. Dillon has postponed bis trip to Colorado ty attend the meeting at Tipperary. The platform will insist on an extension of the Land act and salaries for Members of Parliament. The landlords and private influences in Ireland are trying to induce the Government to forbid the league demonstrations.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Treasury Commission appointed te investigate the conduct of Architect Hill have submitted their report to Secretary Folger. They find the office which he held guilty of official favoritism, which* in its consequences entailed great loss upon the Goxernment The firm of Bartlett, Bobbins & Co., of Baltimore, were paid $19,500 for simply drafting the plans for the heating apparatus of four buildings In one case an outsider’s shatters were rejected because they were too good rather than exactly of the quality advertised for. Mismanagement, robbery, inefficiency, and many other kinds of rascality are stated to have been prevalent all around Architect Hill, but he personally is not found to have been corrupt The Agricultural Department at Washington has issued its September report on the cotton crop, the average of.which is now reduced to 74, while at the same time in 1882 it waa 93 per cent. Drought has had this Shad effect in almost every State, and rust, caterpillars, and the boll worm are prevalent in many districts 'At a colored celebration at Beaufort county, 8. Cl, boiled shrimps were freely dispensed Three negroes have died from their effects, and seven others are not expected, to live. A boy of 16 and a boy of 17 fought a duel at Richmond, Va The difficulty was caused by a miss of 15. The difficulty was anmothed over after a miss on both sides. Tbefleadly toy pistol did not figure in the hffair. Edward D. Cowan, city editor of the Leadville Herald, was attacked by Aiderman Joy, who knocked him down and jumped on his face with heavy boots, keeping the crowd at bay with a revolver. Joy fled to the mountains. Cowan will hardly survive his wounds. Mr. Blaine is said to have told certain Democratic leaders in Maine that, in his opinion, if Ben Butler can again secure the Governorship of Massachusetts, he will inevitably be nominated and elected President. Mr. Blaine also told them that he himself was out of politics. A Cincinnati telegram says: “The Democratic squabble in Hamilton county has greatly increased in violence since the holding of the Reform Convention. It is war now to the end. The Enquirer has attacked Pendleton with shocking violence two successive mornings. It has cast him out of the party and trampled upon his political career in a most severe way. This has excited his friends, and they have been rushing around with fight written all over their countenances.” Since the death of Chief Detective Heins, of Philadelphia, two letters written by the abductors of Charlie Ross to his father have been given to the public, and Mr. Ross has only just learned of their existence They demanded $20,000 on pain of murdering the lad. The money was to be paid in New York, Nov. 24, 1874. At Danville, Yell county, Ark., a mob forcibly entered the jail, seized John Coker and D. Flood, took them to the iron bridge across the Pettit Jean river, and hung them from the center span crossbeam. Coker was accused of leading into ambuscade the Sheriff’s party in search of the Daniels outlaws several weeks ago, in which two men were killed. Flood was accused of harboring the outlaws Coker begged to be shot, but was told he must hang. Harry Hill, the stakeholder for Slade and Mitchell, decides that the fight must take place Oct 28, within 100 miles of New Orleans. The Apaches, under a flag of truce, have sold to the Mexicans the jewelry which they secured by the assassination of Judge McComas and his wife H. L. Benjamin, a carriage-dealer of Milwaukee, has made an assignment, his assets and liabilities being each about $60,000.